Orientdig costs, priced against each other
This board exists to set options side by side, and this page does the same for money. Below, each charge is laid out with the alternatives it competes against: the marketplace price against other sellers of the same goods, the domestic hop against nothing much, freight against other lines, Orientdig's service fee against what other agents charge for the same work, and duty against your country's threshold. Everything is comparative, because a figure without a comparison tells you nothing.
← Back to overviewFive charges, each with a rival
Marketplace price, domestic hop, freight, service fee, duty. For each, there is something to compare it to — which is why rates are not printed here.
- Marketplace pricecompares against other sellers of the same or similar goods
- Domestic hopcompares against nothing — it is small everywhere
- Freightcompares against other lines, and this is where the money is
- Dutycompares against your threshold, and crossing it changes the maths entirely
Orientdig revises fees, storage terms and policy. Its published pages are final.
Unlimited images: use them comparatively
Orientdig does not cap warehouse photography, which changes how you should use it. Instead of glancing at one set, request what you need: colour against the listing, visible faults, the size tag, seam work, variant, and — where it matters — a side-by-side with something else you are considering.
- · Colour, against the listing rather than the seller's render
- · Damage you can see — marks, pulls, scuffs, faulty fittings
- · The size tag, which you can check against your own tape
- · Stitch and seam alignment at the points that fail first
- · That the variant and colourway shipped are the ones ordered
- · How many units, when the order is more than one
- · Hand feel, drape and weight — comparison does not help here either
- · Odour, which no photograph and no comparison will reveal
- · Whether fastenings and elastic last
- · Shade in daylight rather than under warehouse light
- · Fit — comparing two tags still does not tell you which fits
What images settle, and what comparing them still will not.
- Request comparative shots.With no cap on images, two options photographed side by side is a reasonable ask.
- Use the long storage window deliberately.Extra holding time is the cheapest way to improve a freight comparison.
- Speak up while the goods are still in the warehouse.Inside the warehouse it costs nothing; after dispatch it costs freight.
- Keep everything you approved.A comparison is only useful if you can still see both sides.
Freight as a comparison problem
Line selection follows inspection, and on a board built for comparison the sensible move is to price several lines before choosing. Orientdig's lines differ on cost, transit time and accepted cargo, and chargeable weight — the greater of actual and volumetric — is what turns a comparison into a decision.
The same box can be priced very differently by two carriers. Model both.
Holding goods lets you wait for a better lane rather than taking the first.
A slightly larger parcel can move into a different tax band entirely.
Batteries, liquids and aerosols each get their own answer per route.
Border processing falls outside any quoted range.
Coverage terms vary as much as rates.
Every charge, and what it competes with
Five components, plus extras, each with an alternative worth checking:
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Rates are unprinted deliberately — item, line and country determine them. Take live figures from Orientdig's estimator and treat Orientdig's pages as final.
Fees, line by line
Model two scenarios at once
Enter marketplace price, domestic hop, packed weight, international rate, Orientdig's service fee and the exchange rate — then change one figure and watch the total move. That sensitivity is what makes comparison useful.
Planning guidance. Chargeable weight, destination, customs classification and carrier pricing all move the real amount, and Orientdig's estimator may quote differently at checkout.
Returns, refunds and Orientdig's prohibited list
Orientdig publishes after-sales terms and a prohibited list. Read the clause covering your category before ordering — restricted goods cannot be forwarded from the warehouse.
Orientdig's own pages
We compare; Orientdig decides. Its help pages: