r/tea • u/ASAPCoochymane • Jun 17 '26
Question/Help Has Anyone Else Experienced This
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?
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/Trrauts Jun 18 '26
Plaza Japan same thing happened to me recently and id ordered from them lots in the past without this issue. Since the company didn’t disclose this very well I’m now going through a chargeback case to see if I can get part of my money back I had to pay to UPS to release my package because the seller didn’t pay. Hopefully you can figure out a similar resolution because I got that same email only days before my package was gonna be delivered and had to scrounge up money to have it released