Printful shipping rates

[Affiliate3750]

Hello guys ,
Recently I was playing around with Shopify and printful ( print on demand )

man’s I noticed something really confusing,
The shipping rates for certain countries is very high, is that standard or anybody know something that I don’t know maybe ?

 

[OrganicBriefcase]

Shipping is very expensive overall, especially overseas. Are you shipping to customers outside the US/EU/UK?

 

[Affiliate3750]

Shipping is very expensive overall, especially overseas. Are you shipping to customers outside the US/EU/UK?

Yes , exactly ,
Middle East mostly

 

[OrganicBriefcase]

Yes , exactly ,
Middle East mostly

Might have to bite the bullet and accept that if you want to stick with Printful, they only ship from EU and US and their policies from what I remember are quite stringent. Are you selling high value products? Any way you could pass on the cost to the consumer?

Alternatively, if you know the product is going to sell, you can use another service that's cheaper (Alibaba seller for instance), produce it, warehouse somewhere in ME, and ship it directly from the region, however your risk will also be significantly higher if things go wrong this way.