AliExpress

“you can get directly from the source with Aliexpress and other over border stores”

“centralized sellers like Amazon and AliExpress make it easy to not be ripped off”

“For me small things are generally cheaper on Aliexpress.”

“If they go to the lengths shown in this article to side-channel fingerprinting, imagine what they do when they have native privs.”

“AliExpress and Temu would refund you if you complained about a delivery. Zero risk.”

“what it has going for itself is customer support. They'll return you money pretty much in every single case.”

“They used to give 5-10 bucks of credit to new users a few years ago. Real credits”

“I did not have that experience at all, ordered there dozens of times.”

“You just have to press the right link on the site and you get the tracking page (despite saying you need the app).”

“They hire a mobile dev team to create an app to give you a way to hand over data that you otherwise wouldn't”

“most aliexpress sales are fake and are better thought of as the normal price”

“about half the time the final delivery is through a Chinese gig delivery company that must pay practically nothing to the driver”

“Seems to be mostly stuff designed to get you to open the app daily and browse their offers”

“if aliexpress is opened in one tab in chrome, and switching to a tab with youtube opened, audio don't play in this tab”

“aliexpress wakes up my audio card if nothing plays, which results in a very faint "pop" sound every time I open the tab”

“Opening the Aliexpress webpage causes a silent audio stream keeping the PC>headphone link active blocking my phone audio.”

“4 of the exact same item from AliExpress cost me about £4 including shipping.”

“China has amazing prices for genuine electronics components from every manufacturer.”

“AliExpress rarely takes longer than 2 weeks from china these days”

“Aliexpress used to ship almost exclusively from China, so your package took 4-6 weeks in a best case scenario.”

“you can find it for a fraction of the price without the middleman”

“They gave me a USPS return label with a domestic address that Google Maps showed as some generic office building.”

“their failure to police these obvious scams is a blot on their record”

“Thankfully there's Taobao and AliExpress for the rest of us.”

“unregulated chinese made products following no safety standards of the EU on temu, shein, aliexpress”

“Until you learn the hard way that they are not up to the standard advertised, if they happen to be rated in the first place.”

“I can buy 3 from the local store or a BAG OF ONE HUNDRED from Aliexpress.”

“when you can buy about 500 of them from Aliexpress for the same price”

“I've bought both from AliExpress before and they were fine.”

“It is in general more awful, i will give you that, but atleast the search there is more likely to give something relevant”

“Buying motors and batteries from Aliexpress you can probably get under $15K-$10K even”

“often it's really solid, and you can find things you can't find elsewhere”

“I've never received something other than what I've ordered.”

“It reminds me of AliExpress in that sense. Lack of specs, lack of manuals, lack of details about any product.”

“Chinese-owned firms are known to be transferring EU citizens' data to China in violation of GDPR”

“AliExpress sells them, too, which is much more accessible for anyone living in the EU.”

“Surprisingly, the number of products that needed such a return was extremely low.”

“You can find 99% of the junk on amazon on aliexpress for a lower price”

“AliExpress for the custom parts like brushes etc at 1/5th of the price.”

“there's still plenty of 99 cent crap available from AE”