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Amazon practically is Alibaba at this point, or Aliexpress really. Half the results on any given product I search point straight back to Alibaba if I image sea
by BoorishBears 6y ago
Amazon practically is Alibaba at this point, or Aliexpress really.
Half the results on any given product I search point straight back to Alibaba if I image search.
Sometimes I check if Aliexpress has it too, and if I'm not in a hurry I get it there for a huge savings.
- maccard 6y agoWith two major differences - 1-2 day delivery (vs 1-2 week) and an almost guaranteed no-questions-asked returns policy (Ive never, in 15 years of using amazon, been denied a refund) They combination is what differentiates them
- lrem 6y agoI've ordered non-prime items on the local Amazon, where I'd first receive a "sorry, this is taking longer than expected, please hang with us" and then the package would come _way_ later straight from China.
- maccard 6y agoThat sucks - I'm in the UK so my experience might be different, but with the exception of something going wrong with delivery (Which I'd estimate is ~5-10% of the time, but that's not exclusive to Amazon), packages are here within 48 hours.
- melomal 6y agoExactly, it's a shit pit of affiliate marketers pumping anything for that <2% referral fee they get. As a side hustle they probably drop ship everything they are selling via Amazon affiliate links too.