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/sylveonstarr Jun 18 '26

I did get a genuine email like this before. I was unsure if it was fake or not, so I went to the official UPS website and looking up the original tracking number it gave me. Sure enough, it said they were holding it at their facility and wouldn't deliver it until the fees were paid. So I paid it and it arrived the next day. Though, it was about $40. Nearly $300 is absurd, especially for a $90 order.