MotorsportFanWear.net is a China-based supplier that quotes teamwear freight per order, by weight and destination, instead of burying it in the unit price. The garment ladder is published at $10, $9 and $8 per piece; freight is a separate line on the Proforma Invoice. Send your team list to +86 181 7757 2115.
What does per-order freight pricing by weight actually mean?
Every Proforma Invoice from MotorsportFanWear.net shows two separate money blocks: what the garments cost, and what the shipment costs. The freight block is built per order from the packed weight of that specific shipment and the delivery address, not from a flat rate table and not as a percentage of the goods value.
So a 60-piece order to Texas and a 60-piece order to Bavaria are the same goods and two different freight numbers. Goods prices come off a published ladder; freight is a live figure attached to one address.
Why is freight quoted separately instead of inside the unit price?
Bundling freight into the unit price hides the one number buyers negotiate hardest, and it makes the goods price look worse than it is. Keeping the two apart means the tiers are the same for every buyer whether the parcel is going to Los Angeles or Lagos, and you can see exactly what you are paying to move it.
It also lets the tier do its job. The price tier follows total order volume: $10 per piece at 10-49 pieces, $9 at 50-99, $8 at 100 and above for short-sleeve styles, with long versions at $16, $15 and $14. Freight sits outside those numbers and cannot distort them.
Practically, you can ask for the goods figure and the freight figure independently, add them up yourself, and audit the arithmetic. Ask on +86 181 7757 2115 and both numbers come back broken out.
How does weight decide what a shipment costs?
Couriers price on chargeable weight, which is the greater of the actual weight and the volumetric weight - the space the carton occupies. Teamwear is light for its bulk, so a carton of 100 shirts normally prices on volume rather than on the scale.
- Piece count and style drive the carton count. Long versions and heavier cuts take more room per piece than a short-sleeve crew neck.
- Decoration adds almost nothing. The $2 per piece name and number charge is applied by heat press, not by added material.
- Cartons drive volumetric weight, and that measured figure is what the carrier bills on.
- Destination is the other half of the calculation and sits outside anyone's control.
The useful takeaway: adding pieces to an order that is already shipping often raises the freight far less than the per-piece rate suggests, because the carton was travelling anyway.
When does it pay to combine several designs into one shipment?
Almost always, and the MOQ structure is built for it. MOQ is 10 pieces per design, and 22 teams can be mixed inside one order - teams, styles, seasons and sizes. Ten pieces of ten different designs is one 100-piece order and lands on the $8 tier, exactly like a single design at 100 pieces.
Freight follows the same logic. One consolidated shipment of 100 pieces costs less to move than two shipments of 50, and it is one clearance instead of two. If you are testing four clubs at ten pieces each, ship them together.
The deliberate exception is a sample. A single piece is its own small parcel and pays small-parcel freight, which is a cost you choose rather than one that happens to you.
What do you need to send to get a freight number?
Three things: the design list with quantities, the delivery address including the postcode, and whether you want DHL door-to-door or FedEx or UPS instead. DHL is the default carrier and covers 5-12 days door-to-door.
Send those to +86 181 7757 2115 on WhatsApp and the Proforma Invoice comes back with goods and freight as separate lines. Quotes hold for 14 days, which matters more for freight than for garments, because freight moves.
If the freight number is higher than you expected, the usual answer is more pieces in the same carton rather than a different carrier. Ask what the next carton break looks like before you trim the order.