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The original was posted on /r/sbcgaming by /u/crownpuff on 2025-06-01 13:26:23+00:00.

Updating the spreadsheet was pretty painful especially the Ship from China section. The short summary is this: aside from a few exceptions who primarily ship via Yunexpress, the majority of Ship from China devices for US customers is no longer viable. Aliexpress has baked in the cost of tariffs into the item cost now. Previously it was just choice items but they’ve combined tariff costs into non choice items over the past few days. As always, if you’re here just for the data, scroll to the bottom.

Spreadsheet link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x_PmVHiQNHyw5t05peEDG1DcCKDCvH_UPd3p7yCw4xg/edit?usp=sharing

Coupon codes are located near the top of my spreadsheet, the coupon code tab, or on my subreddit r/crownpuffdeals here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/crownpuffdeals/comments/1l0od75/aliexpress_june_choice_sale_coupon_codes/

After not having a choice sale for May, choice sales have returned for June. This does not really matter for US customers as every single choice item I have checked has shipped from China. Thus, the prices are heavily inflated. In fact, it’s just easier to pretend the “Ship from China” section uses the Australian Dollar instead of the US Dollar. That’s how inflated the “Ship from China” section is for US customers. 1 USD = 1.55 AUD

Here’s an example of the cheapest RG505 I found shipping from a China warehouse to the US versus Australia. As you can see, despite a huge difference in the value of AUD vs USD, the prices are practically the same in their respective currencies.

Ship from China RG505 to Australia

Ship from China RG505 to the U.S.

There are a few viable options including the RP5 and Flip 2 from Ampown. I have a detailed post breakdown but essentially if you stack discounts with coins and coupons, you can get the Flip 2 for as low as $216 pretax or the RP5 for $203 pretax.

More information on that here: https://www.reddit.com/r/crownpuffdeals/comments/1l078ik/205_rp5225_rp_flip_2_or_with_coins_super_discount/

The one saving grace for US customers are the “Ship from US” deals which have reasonable prices. These aren’t earth shattering deals but compared with the “Ship from China” section, they look like bargains. For example, post coupon pricing includes:

$53 CubeXX

$48 35XXSP

$52 Trimui Brick

$52 Trimui Smart Pro

$225 RG557

A month or two ago, I probably wouldn’t have even mentioned any of these deals as notable. But with these tariffs, “Ship from China” is essentially dead for US residents unless the postal carrier is Yunexpress. I’ve seen Retroid, Ampown, Anbernic, and recently even Powkiddy using this carrier. Powkiddy uses it for their V90S and nothing else which is hilarious.

For non US residents, pricing is going to vary wildly in the Ship from China section because my prices have tariffs rolled into the total cost. Unironically I would just say to non US shoppers to imagine the Ship from China prices are not in USD but rather AUD or CAD. It would probably be a much closer conversion to the local prices in your region.

To summarize, if you’re not from the US, it’s business as usual in the Ship from China section. If you’re from the US, it’s either a seller that ships via Yunexpress or a Ship from US listing.

Finally as always, in the interest of transparency, I am providing two spreadsheets. The first spreadsheet is the regular spreadsheet with both affiliate and non affiliate links. For each affiliate link, there should be a corresponding non affiliate link. The second spreadsheet is the first spreadsheet but with all affiliate links completely removed.

Ship from China Devices

Ship from China devices

Ship from US devices