It doesn't include any other costs like shipping fee, proxy-handling fee, tax and so on.
Yeah, they're readily available on taobao, which might seem more attractive than ordering here due to the lower price (since the sets are already in China = fewer costs). However, after the fees mentioned above it would definitely end up more expensive than purchasing here.
Pho - is your friend willing to ship direct from China to Malaysia? That would make so much sense for me. That would have reduce the shipping cost from UK to Malaysia.
As I've said before, I'm getting these sets for less than they're selling elsewhere, in order to make this more affordable. This is partly because the supplier won't have to ship out individual orders. So, I can't offer shipping individual sets direct from China. However, if you can gather a few people ordering from Malaysia, I can arrange for all your sets to be sent to one person. Then you can distribute them among yourselves.