A working way to arrive by Christmas is to order a gift

You're not late, you can order from a Chinese store, and chances are you'll arrive!

For my favorite Chinese store, the European market is of paramount importance. As a result, serious investments were made on our continent in 2017, thanks to which they already have warehouses in several European countries.

Anyone who has already ordered from China knows that in peacetime, that is, not during the Christmas shopping fever, it is 3-4 weeks before the ordered goods arrive. Now, however, the holidays are coming and envelopes that repeat the madness of the end of last year, and plenty of packages will not arrive on time or perhaps never reach the recipient. I spoke today to a postal employee who said that the packages should be taken out by an internal instruction no later than the 23rd, but the problem is that there are so many people not delivering the packages that there was a case last year when the account manager strangled with packages. So there will be no problem with the attitude of the workers this year either, I will raise my hat in front of them, but with the lack of people they will not know what to do.

However, there is a loophole that many do not know and the key word is the EU warehouse. European warehouses have two very big advantages. One is that they are indeed geographically within the Union, which results in the distributor already paying the customs duty and the sales tax in force in that country for the products in the warehouse. As a result, if we order from them as private individuals, we no longer have to reckon with the additional costs we pay at the checkout will be the total purchase price. An additional benefit of this advantage is that you do not have to place the ordered product under a customs procedure at home, which certainly speeds up delivery by at least a week.

The other big advantage is distance. If we order a more expensive product, the system of large courier companies networking the EU will deliver the ordered goods to us in a matter of days, but if we expect a smaller value package that we have entrusted to the post office, our chances of the gift arriving on time will increase.

This is where GearBest comes in, from where I ordered the gifts last year. The company opened many new warehouses on the mainland this year, most recently in just a week in the Czech Republic. This means a significant increase in the number of products we can already obtain from EU warehouses. It should be noted that goods in EU warehouses are more expensive than those in Chinese warehouses, but the reason for this is clear, GearBest pays the duty and VAT and this means some surcharge for us.

How do you know you are ordering from a European warehouse? I'll tell you in-store tablets taking as an example.

If you open a range of products, you can filter the range of visible tablets by many in the left bar. One of the filters facilitates the choice between warehouses. Here you have to put the tick in the warehouses called EU and you can already see what you can choose from.

The other method is to monitor the flags under the product. If you see the EU flag, the product can be found in a European warehouse.

With these two methods, you can choose the products you can still safely order, chances are they will be in your hands on time!

I hope I helped a little for those who were late for cheap Chinese prices. The Black Friday promotion is coming soon, so that’s why it’s worth watching the products in EU warehouses!

You can find the common starting page for EU warehouses here: GearBest European warehouses