I have had some purchases with ali express. Some average orders for which I left 3 star feedback as their product descriptions can be misleading. Now I receive emails from the sellers sooking about my feedback saying it is not fair and will cost them money. F-me. I bought 5 garage remotes that won’t work. Can’t get my money back and the seller is afraid of losing business.
I asked for variable mhz cloning remotes set to 433.92 mhz and was sent fixed remotes at 433.92 mhz that won’t clone my 433.92 mhz remotes. I thought if they don’t work I can try them on other remotes that have different mhz. I asked the seller if they were adjustble frequencies and he said yes but when he posted my order he messaged me saying he sent me remotes fixed at 433.92. Lost in translation ecetera. No offer of refund, partial refund, credit. Seller didn’t even offer me to return them. I even bought two more remotes off him that should work at full price.
Moral to this story is ali express won’t back you. Read all descriptions carefully and ask questions and clarify what you will be getting. Majority purchases have been good but most sellers don’t use paypal so there is little recourse. Their live help is a robot and will admit to being a robot too.
Sorry to say this, but buying flash memory from china is a no go, its big NO.
EDIT. As Sashix already said in a post below, flash memory nowadays is drit cheap and there is no reason to buy from dubious chinese sellers and risk your money.
99.9% will be fake!
Now a days, at least here in Spain, you can buy in computer shop a true, 32 GB flash (Kingston, Sandisk, Patriot… and not chinese crap) for about 17-19 Euros ($21-24). They are quite slow, 5-10 Mb/s write speed and about 20 Mb/s read speed. Very cheap, IMHO.
I bought an XM-L T6 C8 off ebay not so long ago, but when it arrived it was actually a XR-E Q5. I contacted the seller who offered me either a 50% discount to keep it, or to pay for return postage in advance of a full refund. He actually seemed genuinely sorry, and asked me some questions about how to tell the difference. I obliged with some detailed information, at which point he vowed to contact his supplier for clarification. I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of people (included eBay sellers) have ultimately been scammed by the same Alibaba supplier.
I bought what I thought was “BRAND NEW” Microsoft mouse from aliexpress and got jacked. The mouse had hand turd inside the grooves and was beat to hell. See the pics below.
Also bought a ASUS video card and it ended up being totally bootleg fake version. Im tired of being ripped off by these people, never again aliexpress/alibaba.
Not to mention I asked the seller to send as gift before buying it, later found out the seller didnt, had to pay another $60 dollars in tax to customs for their mistake.
Could of got a real ASUS card after all the costs.
Ali Baba (Arabic: علي بابا ʿAlī Bābā ) is a character from medieval Arabic literature. He is described in the adventure tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (علي بابا والأربعين حرامي).
Some concepts seem to have made the transition from fantasy tale to business model.
I’d use a candle in a jam can before I’d buy a flashlight from AliBaba/Express.
I’d tried a few sellers, maybe I’m lucky so far, all items been good & correct.
Alibaba
some 10AWG R/C use power cables, okay.
Aliexpress
A123 26650, 18650, Li-ion 18650 batteries, all from same seller, all good
bench power supply, adjustable temp soldering + hot air gun repair station (Baku 878L), so far so good.
led signal relay, also so far so good
2-3 multitools, 3-4 foldable knives, also fine.
My first order come with wrong item, but similar shaped, mp3 player speaker.
Got refund about half of the price, and gifted the speaker to my sister.
Second order was a solar charger. it was stated 11000mah, but inside there is 4x2200mah battery.
Solar charging was not working, and it melted on the sun when trying to charge it.
If you can find same product on ebay, don’t try Aliexpress.
And what pisses me off is when I do a search for something on Google and all that comes up is Aliexpress. I have to do a -aliexpress -alibaba to keep sane.
Howly mowly, that mouse looks 10 times worse than my 8 years old wireless Logitec I had to retire a few years ago B*tches
On the other hand, who pays 25 bucks for a wired optical (not laser) mouse? :bigsmile: You have plenty of them at Amazon, for example.
B*tches 