Two Kakobuy bills compared, plus thirteen lines priced for one box
All Kakobuy prices start in yuan; other currencies are a display layer. This page sets out what each counter charges for, how the currency display behaves and what thirteen outbound lines cost for one weight and one country on one day.
Freight, a per-parcel fee and optional extras make a transfer total
Help article 6 is the whole price list for international transit, and it is short. Total cost equals international freight, plus a warehouse fee, plus value-added service fees if you choose any. Freight is calculated from the weight of your goods, the transport mode and the delivery region. The next line reads "Packing fee: 8 yuan/parcel", which is the same charge the formula calls a warehouse fee. Value-added services are priced elsewhere in the help centre.
Two things are missing, and both are on purpose. The goods do not appear because you paid the seller yourself. The domestic postage from the seller to Xiamen does not appear because the seller charged it at your checkout. If a seller offers free shipping within China, that saving is yours on a transfer order.
The capture below is the article as it read on November 10, 2026. The double space before "fee" in the formula is in the original.
A bought item's total starts with its price and China postage
For goods Kakobuy buys, help article 74 breaks the total down: what the goods cost, international freight, a packaging fee, and value-added services if you pick any. Commodity cost is the item's selling price plus the freight from the seller's location to Kakobuy. The article prints the packaging consumables fee as 8 yuan.
Help article 63 (read October 10, 2026), which explains agent-service charges, says no handling fee is added to item cost and shipping. It also mentions a customs declaration charge, generally 8 yuan per parcel. That is a separate article describing a separate item, and this site lists it apart from the 8 yuan packaging fee rather than adding the two together, because the help centre does not say they are charged together.
The difference between the two bills is the goods and their China postage. Everything after the warehouse door costs the same way on either counter.
Yuan underneath, your currency on top
Kakobuy's header switcher offers 12 currencies, from CNY, USD, GBP and EUR to PLN, NZD, AUD, CAD, SGD, CHF, CZK and NOK. The yuan figure is the base; the others are Kakobuy's display conversions. On November 10, 2026 we read the same estimator twice, a minute apart, once in yuan and once in dollars. The UPS Duty-Free (No Batteries) line showed ¥357 in one view and $57.98 in the other.
That pairing tells you Kakobuy's display exchange rate at that moment and nothing more. It is not a quote for tomorrow, and it may differ from what your card or PayPal account charges when you pay. When you compare a seller's yuan price with a Kakobuy total, compare yuan with yuan.
The payment screen in Kakobuy's video, captured below at 0:56, lists card channels, PayPal, CoinPal, Trustly and Skrill alongside a balance option. That is the video's screen from October 2025; the methods offered on your account today are the ones on your own checkout.
Thirteen estimator lines for a two-kilo US box
Freight is where a transfer bill is decided, and Kakobuy's estimator under Estimate on its header shows it before you buy anything. We set it to the United States, 2,000 g and ordinary goods and read thirteen lines. Two kilos was picked as a mid-sized box for a reading; your own box will weigh what it weighs.
| Line, as Kakobuy names it | CNY | Transit time shown | USD shown |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPS Duty-Free (No Batteries) | ¥357 | 2-6 days | $57.98 |
| HK UPS | ¥406.5 | 2-6 days | $66.02 |
| CN-EMS duty-free route | ¥414.76 | 5-17 days | $67.36 |
| EUB (Batteries and Perfume Not Allowed) | ¥423 | 15-25 days | $68.70 |
| Cosmetics Air Express(Battery,Liquid) | ¥427.2 | 11-17 days | $69.38 |
| USPS Tax-Free Line (Battery Accepted) | ¥431.27 | 7-13 days | $70.04 |
| EMS duty-free route | ¥443.1 | 5-17 days | $71.96 |
| ups-Tariffless Line-electrified | ¥446 | 2-6 days | $72.44 |
| USPS Special Line (Duty Free Route) | ¥463.4 | 7-13 days | $75.26 |
| US Tax-Free (Actual Weight) | ¥467.32 | 8-15 days | $75.90 |
| KR-EMS | ¥503.95 | 5-17 days | $81.85 |
| KR-EMS (Actual Weight) | ¥516 | 5-17 days | $83.80 |
| US Tax-Free (Actual Weight)-electrified | ¥520.36 | 8-15 days | $84.51 |
Four things on that screen are worth reading slowly. Line names carry the rules: "No Batteries", "Battery Accepted", "Batteries and Perfume Not Allowed" and "(Battery,Liquid)" tell you which goods each line will take. Each result also carries the note "parcel length, width, and height information is needed", meaning the price can move once the box is measured.
The EUB card sets a 2 kg actual limit, while estimates up to 2,150 g may still be submitted, so a two-kilo box sits right on its edge. And the two UPS lines show a transit time of 2-6 days, while the notes on those very cards read "Delivery time is 10-15 working days". Both statements are on the same card; we print both.
Above the results, Kakobuy warns that third-party carriers set the price of every line it does not run itself, and change it as the market moves.
Duty, and the warning on Kakobuy's own tariff table
Import duty is charged by the destination country, not by Kakobuy, and the help centre's article 69 lists a duty-free threshold for a number of countries. It ends with a sentence that matters more than any figure in the table: "The above information is collected from the Internet data, only for your reference, cannot be the standard guidance." No date appears anywhere on that table, so treat its figures as history rather than current thresholds.
Some lines are sold as duty-free or tax-free, and Kakobuy's announcements on November 10, 2026 included a note on tax-free routes for American users. Declare goods by their real name and real value on every waybill, whichever line you pick.
