If you buy from Taobao, 1688 or US sites and want it shipped here, ezbuy shipping is usually the cheapest mass-market option, but only if you read the fee print. The headline most people quote is ezbuy Prime: a flat S$2.99 per check-out, any weight, on Prime-tagged items, for members who pay S$39 a year. Everything outside Prime is billed per 500g by sea or air, and every order, Prime included, can add a home-delivery fee and 9% GST. This guide pins down each of those numbers, with ezbuy's freight rates and Prime price re-checked on 14 October 2026 and its delivery fees on 13 October 2026, shows where ezbuy genuinely undercuts vPost and Buyandship, and flags the traps (volumetric weight, self-collection, per-payment delivery charges) that quietly inflate the bill.
ezbuy is a Singapore-based forwarder and concierge buyer. Its ezShop arm buys items for you from overseas merchants; its ezShip arm gives you an overseas warehouse address (China, Taiwan, USA and others) where you ship your own purchases, then ezbuy consolidates and forwards everything to Singapore. You pay ezbuy for the freight leg, not the merchant. Consolidation is free, and ezbuy repacks the items it buys for you to cut their chargeable weight, which is the main reason it stays cheap versus parcel-by-parcel courier rates. It does not repack China or Taiwan ezShip parcels.
Two pricing worlds run side by side. Prime items ship at a flat S$2.99 international fee regardless of weight. Non-Prime items and anything you self-ship into the warehouse are charged by ezbuy's standard sea or air freight rates. Mixing the two up is the single most common reason a quote looks wrong. The same merchant rules apply whether you are running a Taobao haul or forwarding a US-only release.
Update, 14 October 2026: ezbuy's own Prime page lists one plan, S$39 for a year, not the S$99 12-month, S$69 6-month and S$9.90 trial prices this guide gave, and the S$2.99 fee is charged per check-out, not per parcel. Prime is a paid membership, about S$3.25 a month. The benefit is a flat S$2.99 net international shipping fee per check-out on Prime-eligible items, no matter the weight, size or quantity, plus free insurance up to S$2,000 per parcel against loss or damage and monthly Prime-only vouchers. ezbuy says more than 90% of Prime items move by air, so delivery is fast. You cannot cancel or transfer a membership, and ezbuy refunds the fee only if you have used no Prime benefit since you paid it.
The catch is eligibility. Prime only applies to items tagged "Prime" on the product page; the cheapest, most obscure Taobao listings often are not tagged. The S$2.99 is also not refunded unless every item in a parcel is cancelled. Run the maths on your spending: work out what standard shipping would cost on a typical order, take off the S$2.99, and divide S$39 by what is left. That is how many Prime check-outs a year it takes to cover the fee. Our savings goal calculator is a quick way to sanity-check whether the annual fee pays for itself against your actual order frequency.
Update, 14 October 2026: the sea rates this guide gave (S$0.90 to S$1.80 per 0.01 CBM) came from ezship.sg, another forwarder's site. The rates below are ezbuy's own, charged by weight. Outside Prime, ezbuy bills by sea or air for every 500g, so 700g bills as 1kg. Sea is cheap and slow; air is faster. The figures are ezbuy's published rates from its Guangzhou warehouse, read on 14 October 2026, and they depend on whether ezbuy buys the item for you or you ship your own purchases into its warehouse through ezShip. Treat them as "from" prices: ezbuy runs promotions and the rate card moves, so confirm at checkout before you commit.
On items ezbuy buys for you, sea freight costs S$0.70 per 500g up to 30kg, capped at S$35, then S$40 flat up to 80kg and S$80 flat up to 160kg, and takes about 8 to 15 working days. Economy air is S$1.69 per 500g (3 to 7 working days) and express air S$3.99 (2 to 3). Through ezShip, sea is S$0.90 per 500g up to 30kg, then S$55 and S$110 flat, and economy air is S$2.99 per 500g. Sea is the cheap route for furniture, bulk household goods or anything heavy and non-urgent. Every rate uses chargeable weight: 1.1 times the heavier of the actual weight and the volumetric weight, which is length x width x height in cm divided by 6,000 for China orders and 5,000 for US orders. A big pillow can "weigh" 3kg on paper even if it is 600g on the scale.
| Mode | From-rate | Delivery time | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sea | S$0.70 per 500g if ezbuy buys, S$0.90 via ezShip, up to 30kg | About 8-15 working days | Heavy, bulky, non-urgent goods |
| Air | From S$1.69 per 500g if ezbuy buys, S$2.99 via ezShip | About 2-7 working days | Light, urgent items |
| Prime item | Flat S$2.99 per check-out | Fast (90%+ by air) | Anyone ordering often, on tagged items |
Freight is not the final bill. Self-collection is free at ezbuy's neighbourhood pick-up points for parcels under 25kg and at its MRT points for parcels under 8kg, and that is how the service stays cheap. Home delivery is a separate charge based on chargeable weight: S$3 up to 2kg, S$6 above 2kg up to 30kg, S$12 up to 80kg, and S$24 up to 160kg, unchanged when we checked on 13 October 2026. Delivery is billed per payment reference, so two parcels paid separately get charged twice even if they arrive together. Pay for orders together where you can. On items ezbuy buys for you (ezShop orders) there is also a service fee of 8% of the product price plus international shipping, or 6% for VIP and 4% for SVIP members.
Then there is tax. ezbuy charges GST on every shipment order, Prime included: on the product cost, shipping and insurance for items it buys for you, and on the declared value, shipping, insurance and delivery fees for ezShip parcels. That follows IRAS's rules, under which GST-registered sellers, marketplaces and redeliverers have charged GST on low-value goods brought in by air or post (S$400 or less before shipping) since 1 January 2023, at 9% since 1 January 2024. Sea shipments and anything above S$400 pay GST on import. If the term is new to you, our GST glossary entry explains how the rate works.
Consolidation is free, which is where ezbuy quietly saves you money: ship ten Taobao orders into the warehouse, have them merged into one box, and you pay one freight charge plus one delivery fee instead of ten. The discipline that helps most is the same one behind any monthly budget: decide your spend ceiling before the cart tempts you, because free consolidation makes it very easy to over-order.
For US-to-Singapore forwarding, ezbuy's standard air rate has long undercut the alternatives on a like-for-like 1kg parcel. DollarsAndSense's comparison put ezbuy's 1kg air parcel at roughly S$9.98 against vPost at about S$19.40 and Buyandship at about S$20. The price gap is real, but it buys you a different experience.
The trade-offs decide it. ezbuy is cheapest and best for high-volume China hauls, but its customer service draws steady complaints and self-collection is the default. vPost (SingPost) and Buyandship cost more per kilogram but offer cleaner tracking, more predictable handling and stronger support. If your parcel is a one-off, fragile or high-value item, the few extra dollars on vPost or Buyandship can be cheaper than a lost-parcel saga. For routine bulk buying where you self-collect anyway, ezbuy wins on raw cost.
| Service | 1kg air, from | Strength | Weakness |
|---|---|---|---|
| ezbuy | About S$9.98 | Lowest cost, free consolidation | Service complaints, self-collect default |
| vPost (SingPost) | About S$19.40 | Reliable tracking, local brand | Higher per-kg cost |
| Buyandship | About S$20 | Multi-country warehouses | Higher per-kg cost |
Pick ezbuy if you buy often from China, you are happy to self-collect, and your orders are Prime-tagged or heavy enough that sea freight makes sense. The economics are hard to beat once consolidation and the S$2.99 Prime fee are in play. If you have an Amazon habit instead, compare against the local options in our note on Amazon Singapore free delivery before forwarding anything.
Skip ezbuy if the item is fragile, urgent and one-off, or if you need responsive support, because the per-parcel saving can vanish the moment something goes wrong. And always add the full stack before deciding: freight, the service fee on ezShop orders, the home-delivery fee if you are not collecting, and 9% GST on the goods and shipping. A bargain on freight is not a bargain if the all-in number beats buying the same thing locally.
Prime items ship at a flat S$2.99 per check-out, for members paying S$39 a year as of October 2026. Non-Prime items are billed per 500g of chargeable weight: from S$0.70 by sea and S$1.69 by economy air on items ezbuy buys for you, or S$0.90 and S$2.99 through ezShip, plus an 8% service fee on items ezbuy buys for you, a home-delivery fee if you do not self-collect, and 9% GST.
Prime costs S$39 for 12 months (October 2026) and gives a flat S$2.99 shipping fee per check-out plus free insurance to S$2,000 per parcel. Whether it pays depends on how often you check out Prime-tagged items: divide S$39 by what each check-out saves you over standard shipping, and that is how many Prime check-outs a year cover the fee.
ezbuy quotes 2 to 3 working days for express air from China, 3 to 7 for economy air and 8 to 15 for sea, and most Prime items move by air. From the US, standard air takes 4 to 9 working days and economy 8 to 11. Those times start once your items reach ezbuy's warehouse, which ezbuy says usually takes 2 to 5 days in China and 3 to 8 days in the US.
Yes. ezbuy charges GST on every shipment order, Prime included, on the goods plus shipping and insurance, and on delivery fees too for ezShip parcels. Under IRAS's rules, GST-registered sellers, marketplaces and redeliverers have charged GST on goods of S$400 or less shipped by air or post since 1 January 2023, at 9% since 2024, and sea shipments and anything above S$400 pay GST on import.
This is general financial information for Singapore, not personal financial advice. Figures change, so verify current rates against the official sources above before acting. See our full disclaimer.
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