AliExpress Vendors Started Cheating on Shipping about six months ago Most merchants lately charge a base price, usually very low to catch your eye, and then block standard shipping and force you to pay their own special (exorbitant) shipping price and worse yet, per item! - even if its a 2 gramm item delivered in the same package. Some sellers are still honorable but they are the exception now. With AliExpress allowing this manipulation it is so much harder now to find a decent deal. I submitted to them the following request: I am requesting that AliExpress stop the features that allow sellers to manipulate shipping prices. Most of them started playing the "shipping game", post the item at a low nominal and then charge arbitrary, often exorbitant, shipping charges and charge shipping per item even if the item is small and several fit into a low cost shipping delivery. At the same time the standard AliExpress shipping is not available on these items. This is unethical, wastes people's time and turns people off. I have reduced my purchases or limited them