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I still like to buy my cheap and esoteric Chinese stuff from Amazon. It's a good balance of not-too-slow-delivery and not-too-expensive for very specific stuff.
by lysace 8mo ago
I still like to buy my cheap and esoteric Chinese stuff from Amazon. It's a good balance of not-too-slow-delivery and not-too-expensive for very specific stuff. And it's easy to return if it doesn't work.
Example last purchase: An optical SPDIF/TOSLINK to 3.5 mm DAC box (5V/USB-powered) to put behind the TV with a broken/very low quality audio output. It was about $15 including 25% VAT. Probably like $5 on Aliexpress, but I didn't want to wait 6-8 weeks.
Never really buy anything for more than $50 from them though. And never anything containing Li-Ion batteries.
- homarp 8mo agoIn Europe, most of Aliexpress delivery is 10 days (except during Chinese New Year).
- lysace 8mo agoI think that varies a lot by country/national post service?
- brunoarueira 8mo agoI guess so, in Brazil some deliveries arrives after 15 days, but it's that after the government increased taxes on products wanting any company which delivers to be legal compliant.
- pyreko 8mo agoIt's a bit longer in Canada (probably 3-4 weeks is what I usually see), but interestingly sometimes they're faster than Amazon-shipped stuff despite the former shipping from China.