AliExpress: "Buy Now" vs "Add to Cart"

Pumpkin_rrr on 05/01/2025 - 13:37
Last edited 05/01/2025 - 14:24 by 1 other user

G'day!
New to Ali and have been searching for answer to this problem.
It looks to me that prices for "Buy Now" are much higher than "Add to Cart". Why is that?
But I dont like to check-out one item at a time via "Buy Now".

Found some old article to have shortcut to bypass this, but would lose point, but I still cant get my head around it.
Hope someone can help me. Otherwise I'd just go back to Temu and FaceBook!

Thank you so much.

P/s- I only do "Free Shipping" so it's not shipping cost.
Also the difference is nearly double, much higher than GST.

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  DashCam AKA Rolts on 05/01/2025 - 14:07

  Shipping?
  Buy now = item price with shipping
  Add to cart = item price, shipping added at check out?

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    Pumpkin_rrr on 05/01/2025 - 14:23

    No sorry I should add, I only buy items with "Free Shipping"

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  Daabido on 05/01/2025 - 14:15

  GST?

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    Pumpkin_rrr on 05/01/2025 - 14:23

    GST is added when "Buy Now".
    But the difference between "Buy Now" and "Add to Cart" is a lot higher than GSt.

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  CodeXD on 05/01/2025 - 14:23

  Link to the item? Should be the same price from what I've seen.

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    Pumpkin_rrr on 05/01/2025 - 14:34

    I have tried many items and the same thing happen…
    Here's one example.
    https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007335341706.html?spm=a2…
    I wonder whether tit's something to do with the CashReward thing… I signed into Ali via CR….

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      CodeXD on 05/01/2025 - 15:02

      +1

      Both "Buy Now" and "Add to Cart" are same price for me

      I'm not going through any other links, and using a clean version of it

      https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007335341706.html

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        Pumpkin_rrr on 05/01/2025 - 15:36

        I have tried again and have saved the screenshots..
        The price is more than doubled!
        So strange….. Thanks for trying.

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          Bruceflix on 05/01/2025 - 16:41

          @Pumpkin_rrr: Same price for me as well.

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  plmko on 05/01/2025 - 16:47

  The answer is because it's a Choice item. You need to add to cart to activate the minimum spend bundle discount. It's disingenuous because the single item exceeds the minimum spend. There shouldn't be a buy it now option and if there is you are bypassing the Choice discount.