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Baoer, Jinhao and Hero pens can be found with ease, but brands like Wing Sung, Moonman etc are almost impossible to find. I really want to get a Wing Sung 699 and a Moonman M100, but the price of shipping is more than one and a half times the pen itself.

 

Please suggest me sources from which I could buy Chinese pens for a reasonable price.

 

 

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Due to current COVID-19 restrictions most of the sellers at Aliexpress have either stopped shipping to India or they are using premium express shipping services which is not affordable at all. Earlier they used reasonable Aliexpress standard shipping under $4 or  free china airmal or other slow but reasonable priced like $1 or $2 shipping services.

Hope they will start the cheap airmail shipping service again to India.

 

For chinese pens I prefer Aliexpress to any other eCommerce website

 

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Largely no free shipping to Australia when buying pens on AliExpress these days, either, unless the pens are priced so relatively highly (e.g. some listings have the HongDian 1850 at ~US$15, and others have them at less than US$7) that effectively you're paying a large chunk in shipping but those listings get to show up favourably as offering 'free shipping'.

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10 hours ago, sciumbasci said:

No free shipping to India from China with Ebay or Aliexpress? 

Not since I started looking for a Wing Sung. As bk123 said, Covid has disrupted everything. I will have to wait until shipping improves.

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AFAIK, Indian Post is now only offering surface freight and post and even that many freight is restricted , so the only working option is through Courier provider like Fedex and DHL , and their price shown ... until the situation improve there's simply no way around it

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On 12/5/2020 at 11:07 PM, bk123 said:

Due to current COVID-19 restrictions most of the sellers at Aliexpress have either stopped shipping to India or they are using premium express shipping services which is not affordable at all. Earlier they used reasonable Aliexpress standard shipping under $4 or  free china airmal or other slow but reasonable priced like $1 or $2 shipping services.

Hope they will start the cheap airmail shipping service again to India.

 

For chinese pens I prefer Aliexpress to any other eCommerce website

 

Isn't Aliexpress banned in India ? Every time I try to visit the site , it does not load. I was looking forward to order a hongdian and delike , could you suggest any source in India from where I can get these pen?

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On 12/5/2020 at 7:42 PM, HartGummi said:

Baoer, Jinhao and Hero pens can be found with ease, but brands like Wing Sung, Moonman etc are almost impossible to find. I really want to get a Wing Sung 699 and a Moonman M100, but the price of shipping is more than one and a half times the pen itself.

 

Please suggest me sources from which I could buy Chinese pens for a reasonable price.

 

 

 

Some of moonman pens you can find on thepenworld, but a lot of them are OOS.

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On 5/18/2021 at 1:29 PM, smruthib said:

 

Some of moonman pens you can find on thepenworld, but a lot of them are OOS.

do you know any made in China fountain pen dealer in India?

 

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3 hours ago, zerodayttk said:

do you know any made in China fountain pen dealer in India?

 

 

I don't think you will find any exclusive dealer of Chinese FP in India. In my opinion, your best bet to buy it either locally in case it is available in your area or buy online at Amazon, Flipkart and so on. ThePenWorld has some good collection of Chinese FP. You can also contact AsaPens. They used to have some decent Jinaho collections.Once Govt. Of India rollbacks ban of Aliexpress (don't know when), then there is no better place to buy your chinese FPs than Aliexpress.

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On 5/22/2021 at 10:54 PM, HartGummi said:

I got my WS 699 and Kaigelu from eBay. Free shipping which took a month.

which kaigelu did you order?

 

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On 5/28/2021 at 4:57 AM, zerodayttk said:

which kaigelu did you order?

 

Kaigelu 316. Cost $  20.99

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11 hours ago, HartGummi said:

Kaigelu 316. Cost $  20.99

I have another question.

 

How much import duty do you have to pay when ordering from ebay?

(of course depending upon the price)

like after what price is import duty applicable.

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On 6/3/2021 at 3:07 AM, zerodayttk said:

I have another question.

 

How much import duty do you have to pay when ordering from ebay?

(of course depending upon the price)

like after what price is import duty applicable.

If the pen is fairly inexpensive (< $ 40) then there is no duty.

1 Wingsung 699, 1 Kaigelu 316, 2 Wingsung 601, 2 Hero 565, 1 Moonman T1. 

 

All my pens were shipped separately and none of them were charged import duties.

 

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Another good alternative I've found is buying from etsy. The retailer esybuy has a large collection of fps from the like of wingsung, moonman, jinhao and at reasonable prices.

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