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Aliexpress is just a treasure trove for ordering so many different kind of useful and often useless novelty items. Unfortunately my country has now forever ban
by superasn 5y ago
Aliexpress is just a treasure trove for ordering so many different kind of useful and often useless novelty items.
Unfortunately my country has now forever banned it and now I have to pay anywhere from 10 to 20 times for these same chinese items on Amazon and other sites (which I believe are still shipped through china but through a proxy country just so the shipping label doesn't say china).
- sen 5y agoAliExpress helped me cut my addiction to buying random crap off them, by banning any account that used a VPN and putting you permanently behind a captcha trap even if you later turn the VPN off. I guess I should thank them but I do miss those 2am purchases of lighty uppy stuff I don’t need.
- dtgriscom 5y agoWhich country, may I ask?
- superasn 5y agoIndia, over security concerns and maybe to teach China a lesson over recent border disputes (1). I am not in favor or against it personally since I don't understand economics or politics, but god do i miss ordering random stuff from this website for few bucks. (1) https://indianexpress.com/article/india/china-apps-banned-in-india-6482079/ https://indianexpress.com/article/india/china-apps-banned-in...
- bluecatswim 5y agoIsn't that just the app being banned? The website works for me.
- superasn 5y agoNo it will refuse to accept payments and even if you somehow pay for it, it will forever be stuck at customs. The trick some sellers are doing is routing packages via Kenya etc so it doesn't look it's coming from China.
- bluecatswim 5y agoDang, that sucks. Thanks for the response.