There are usually 3 payment steps for PGS Group Orders:
- 1st Payment: You pay the item(s) cost (including 4.5% international transaction fee) + Any Domestic Shipping cost within Korea or Japan + Service Fee
- 2nd Payment: International shipping charges based on the weight of the item(s)/shipment
- 3rd Payment-a: Any custom duties & taxes that incurs on shipment
- 3rd Payment-b: TCS Delivery Charges within Pakistan
1st Payment:
You have to complete the 1st payment within given deadline of each Group Order (GO) to secure the item(s). 1st payment is the actual cost of the item including international transaction fee i.e usually around 4.5% of the amount. There’s also domestic shipping fee from stores to our warehouse in Korea or Japan that will be included in the 1st payment if applicable. Also 1st payment include our service charges that is utilized to pay our supplier’s & warehouse charges and buying packaging material and other expenses.
2nd Payment:
International shipping is weight based. There are two type of weight based shipping charges.
- Actual weight
- Dimensional/Volumetric weight (size of the items/box)
- Shipping carriers like DHL & Fedex charges Volumetric weight if it’s more than the actual weight of the items/box. For example, total actual weight of the items is 8 KG but the Volumetric weight based on size is 15 KGs, So the shipping rate will be based on 15 KGs.
- EMS shipping rate is usually based on the actual weight instead of considering the dimensional/volumetric weight.
- EMS shipping from Japan is based on the actual weight of the items.
- EMS shipping from Korea is currently not available, Only DHL & Fedex is shipping to Pakistan.
3rd Payment:
Any goods purchased from abroad, physical or online stores, is considered as an IMPORT. There are Customs duties/charges & other government taxes applicable on almost all imports in Pakistan. Customs duties are calculated based on the actual cost of the items and other Govt. taxes criteria is not that clear unfortunately. Therefore, each shipment incurs different customs duties & taxes each time.
When goods/shipment arrive in Pakistan then the orders are sent to your address via TCS courier. TCS charges are also weight based.
TCS flat charges for upto 1kg package= 300 pkr
Additional charges incur when the weight exceeds 1kg.