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Amazon is AliExpress crap marked way up. Temu is AliExpress crap marked up just a little. The real question is: why don't people just use AliExpress?
by cosmojg 3y ago
Amazon is AliExpress crap marked way up. Temu is AliExpress crap marked up just a little.
The real question is: why don't people just use AliExpress?
- RankingMember 3y agoOne data point: I used to buy stuff occasionally on AliExpress, but got sick of waiting 4-6 weeks and occasionally having stuff never even show up. Temu has been burning money to gain market share, which equated to coupons that made things cheaper than AliExpress for a time, combined with 10-day-or-less shipping. They even credited me $5 on a $10 order when they were 1 day late for shipping. I've since noticed Temu starting to tighten their purse strings a little, as the free shipping minimum is now $20 instead of $10. AliExpress has also responded to the competition and seem to be using stateside warehousing for popular items (or some other magic) to match Temu's ~10 day shipping times, so I've gone back to AliExpress for the most part. AliExpress has a wider swath of product too owing, I presume, to their many years of additional time in the marketplace.
- mlrtime 3y agoAliexpress is competing here and now offering "guaranteed" 14 day shipping. It's a little faster but not 2-3 days.
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