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Get your Aliexpress and Banggood orders in ASAP!

by pravda 7y ago

monksy 7y ago
Whatever you do, do not order from gearbest. (See r/gearbest for the horror stories)
- NikolaeVarius 7y ago
  Its 50/50 in my experience..
- Mountain_Skies 7y ago
  Wonder if they get flagged for fraud or charge backs a lot. I ordered an item from them about a year ago. The second I hit the submit button on the order form, my phone rang (it was somewhat creepy how quick the phone call came). It was my bank checking to make sure it was a valid transaction. I've never had them call me to verify a transaction before. This was from an automated system but I received a follow up call the next day from a human double checking that it was a valid transaction. It was for maybe about $50 and everything went smoothly but it is interesting that they were instantly tagged for a fraud alert.
  - monksy 7y ago
    They get chargebacks a lot because they don't ship in a reasonable amount of time. See the subreddit for other horror stories. You're much better at buying from a random Aliexpress seller. EDIT: You also see it with places like Eurorail pass. They often times don't deliver. I rarely ever get fraud alerts. Which is suprising (I'll outright buy a flight ticket out of the country in a different currency without notification to the CC).
irrational 7y ago
I've never shopped on these sites. What are people typically buying? Is there something I should be stocking up on?
- gnulinux 7y ago
  Every electronics I ever tried to buy cheap from China (e.g. from dhgate.com) has been broken. I have literally never seen an electronics that is remotely close to working from this source. I do believe that you can get something if you're lucky; but even after reading reviews and seeing good ones I got USBs that are not working (I tried to buy them out of curiosity, I just spent $10 or something).
- pravda 7y ago
  Oh gosh. Head over to banggood.com and see what you've been missing.
  - mistermann 7y ago
    Are any such companies like this listed on a US stock exchange? I'm thinking this has got to hit some companies with serious risk to sales or profit?
    - knd775 7y ago
      Alibaba is on NYSE as BABA (AliExpress is the internationally facing version of Alibaba/Taobao)
- ars 7y ago
  Basically every single thing you buy in a store, is also available, at around 1/10 the price, at these sites. The next time you need a kitchen gadget, tool, measuring cup, belt, socks, pencil. Anything. Buy it on aliexpress and save a ton, in exchange for very long shipping times, and you pretty much can't return anything (you can get refunds for defective stuff, but not for wrong size/color etc). And it's not just a Chinese clone of the item, it's the exact same item, with a different name printed on it.

Get your Aliexpress and Banggood orders in ASAP!

by pravda 7y ago

Get your Aliexpress and Banggood orders in ASAP!

monksy 7y ago

Whatever you do, do not order from gearbest. (See r/gearbest for the horror stories)

NikolaeVarius 7y ago
Its 50/50 in my experience..
Mountain_Skies 7y ago
Wonder if they get flagged for fraud or charge backs a lot. I ordered an item from them about a year ago. The second I hit the submit button on the order form, my phone rang (it was somewhat creepy how quick the phone call came). It was my bank checking to make sure it was a valid transaction. I've never had them call me to verify a transaction before. This was from an automated system but I received a follow up call the next day from a human double checking that it was a valid transaction. It was for maybe about $50 and everything went smoothly but it is interesting that they were instantly tagged for a fraud alert.
- monksy 7y ago
  They get chargebacks a lot because they don't ship in a reasonable amount of time. See the subreddit for other horror stories. You're much better at buying from a random Aliexpress seller. EDIT: You also see it with places like Eurorail pass. They often times don't deliver. I rarely ever get fraud alerts. Which is suprising (I'll outright buy a flight ticket out of the country in a different currency without notification to the CC).

irrational 7y ago

I've never shopped on these sites. What are people typically buying? Is there something I should be stocking up on?

gnulinux 7y ago
Every electronics I ever tried to buy cheap from China (e.g. from dhgate.com) has been broken. I have literally never seen an electronics that is remotely close to working from this source. I do believe that you can get something if you're lucky; but even after reading reviews and seeing good ones I got USBs that are not working (I tried to buy them out of curiosity, I just spent $10 or something).
pravda 7y ago
Oh gosh. Head over to banggood.com and see what you've been missing.
- mistermann 7y ago
  Are any such companies like this listed on a US stock exchange? I'm thinking this has got to hit some companies with serious risk to sales or profit?
  - knd775 7y ago
    Alibaba is on NYSE as BABA (AliExpress is the internationally facing version of Alibaba/Taobao)
ars 7y ago
Basically every single thing you buy in a store, is also available, at around 1/10 the price, at these sites. The next time you need a kitchen gadget, tool, measuring cup, belt, socks, pencil. Anything. Buy it on aliexpress and save a ton, in exchange for very long shipping times, and you pretty much can't return anything (you can get refunds for defective stuff, but not for wrong size/color etc). And it's not just a Chinese clone of the item, it's the exact same item, with a different name printed on it.