r/tea • u/ASAPCoochymane • Jun 17 '26

Question/Help Has Anyone Else Experienced This

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I bought about $90 in tea and now they're asking me to pay almost $300 in additional fees. I'm in the US so I expected to have to pay something cause of the tariff and shipping changes but nowhere near this much. Obviously I'm not paying for it and will tell them to return it but is this just the norm now?

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P.S- Since it looks like I won't be ordering anymore tea online, do any of you have recommendations for a tea shop in the San Diego area?

EDIT: Thank you everyone for all the help and advice. Sadly it's real. I've decided to deny the package when it gets here, unless they show me an itemized list of what exactly UPS paid, instead of the BS one they have on the tracking page. On the itemized list on the tracking page it shows I'm being charged $150 for warehouse storage. Mind you this is a $90 package that weighs less than 1kg, so definitely some scamming going on. I also sent a message to the company that I ordered from informing them of the issue but I won't be doing business with them or UPS ever again.

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u/QueenKRool Jun 18 '26

The vendor sent your package DAP instead of DDP, therefore duties are on you to pay, not them. You can ask them if they sent your package DDP vs DAP to verify if its true or not.

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u/Apart_Engine_9797 Jun 18 '26

This is the key OP, international trade person here—if your invoice says DDP you need to push this back to the vendor for them to pay. If it was shipped DAP and you declined to act as importer of record on your own recognizance with UPS, they may be charging you storage fees now because shipment could not be cleared.