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AliExpress

Overview

The overall reputation of the company reflects significant customer dissatisfaction, primarily due to pervasive issues with order fulfillment, delayed deliveries, and inadequate customer service. Many customers report difficulties in receiving refunds and resolving disputes, often feeling ignored or misled by the company's support channels. Positive aspects, such as product variety and competitive pricing, are overshadowed by complaints regarding fraudulent sellers and the lack of buyer protection. This trend indicates a pressing need for the company to enhance its customer service protocols and ensure accountability among its sellers to rebuild trust with consumers.

This summary is generated by AI, based on text from customer reviews

service
1,629
value
1,530
shipping
1,572
returns
1,410
quality
1,470
This company responds to reviews on average within 2 days
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Lithuania
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Shopping site number one
November 25, 2018

I started using this site for shopping in this autumn and never had any issues. The quality of goods is very good. Of course, you have to choose wisely by yourself, look into description and feedback of a certain good you want to buy and everything will be ok.

Date of experience: November 24, 2018
Florida
1 review
1 helpful vote
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NO CUSTOMER SERVICE
February 8, 2021

The company has no customer service department that you can a hold of. No phone number, No email, No life person, NADA. I will never do business with Ali Express and will no recommend them. I bought two lamps and they came damage and incomplete with no shades. I have been talking with manufacture for several month to no resolution. The company is till selling the shades with the lamps but will not ship the shades to me.

Date of experience: February 8, 2021
New Jersey
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I've done a lot of business here and I've been receiving damaged, broken, non- working items. When I go to dispute and provide pictures they refuse to refund you unless s it's under $2.00. I've lost a lot of hard working money because of these issues! I was forced to fight then thru my credit card company! I highly recommend you don't buy a thing from here!

Date of experience: June 12, 2023
Albania
1 review
5 helpful votes
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I have ordered mostly electronics on AliExpress, tablets and cables. I have received most of them, but they were not as described, I bet that they were fake. I asked for refund but they decided that I should send the product back and replace, and with the shipping cost, it was more convenient to me to keep the garbage and not spend more money. I will never shop at AliExpress nor do business with any chinese company or individual. They are cheaters.

Date of experience: February 2, 2015
Japan
2 reviews
9 helpful votes
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I didn't bought anything from this website yet. But I intend to bought a dress from this site. The sales is very high. But I see so many horrible shopping experience here. Well, I just a little confused, If the website cheated on so many customers, how could it be still exist. And the sale reaches even thousands. Does they even create fake sale?
Let me know!

Date of experience: September 26, 2014
California
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Do not use this site!
December 20, 2015

I ordered clothing from this site not realizing that it was chinese based. All sizes are way too small. I ordered an XL it was not even equivalent to an american size small. I asked for a refund they said no and I had to go through a lengthy process and after being persistent they only refunded me $10. It was a joke, it is not where we need to be shopping. Do some research merchandise is cheap and there are no returns.

Date of experience: December 20, 2015
Australia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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SCAM!
November 21, 2021

They do okay on some orders to get your confidence in them up. They say free return for any reason is guaranteed. Then you request to return an item that doesn't fit its description. They approve your return. They keep the item AND your money. AVOID!

Date of experience: November 21, 2021
Poland
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I bought electricity saving boxes and turned out as fake. I find out about this fact when time to open dispute passed. I wrote to Aliexpress a few times about this but without any reply. Fake item on the top of the attached picture without condenser.

Date of experience: July 8, 2019
Texas
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Aliexpress takes no responsibility of its vendors. They are free to do what they want to the unsuspecting public. Customer service is useless. The vendors hardly can communicate in English. And when they do, they will use the entire Britannica of the curse words in their reviews and comments. This is a legitimate website with illegitimate products promoted in it. Federal Trade Commission should be all over this website.

Date of experience: January 4, 2012
France
1 review
8 helpful votes
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I have never had a shopping experience where it was obvious the seller was in the wrong, but I ended up on the losing end. I talked to Ali and the only resolution was to send the product back (shipping on me) and that was their protocol. Whatever happened to a company investigating and making a TRUE decision. I sent several photos. The product was totally damaged upon arrival, but I had to pay MORE than half of what I actually paid for the product to send it back. Rip off. They said they would give me a full refund, but is that really a full refund? No... Now I understand why they don't use paypal.

Date of experience: January 25, 2016
Canada
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Creepy money stealing
January 12, 2018

I received something I don't even know what it is. I could not create a dispute during the guarantee period because their website didn't work. The customer service told me to log the complaint to the seller thru email on their website instead. Now 2 months has passed, I did not received anything. I asked for a refund, they said no because I did not create a dispute during the guarantee period. However my complaints are still there on their site, just that they are not in the form of a dispute. I did exactly what the customer service told me.

I spent many hours with customer service since I received the box. They made me do this, do that and promised it will be resolved. Now they turned their back.

Lost money, wasted so much time, feel cheated!

Date of experience: January 12, 2018
California
1 review
3 helpful votes
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No customer protection
January 10, 2016

I ordered clothing and jewelry from Aliexpress for almost two years. I had some problems from some sellers but, in the past, they were always corrected with a refund. I ordered an item just recently 4 months ago and never received it. I expected the same customer protection from Aliexpress.com but, did'nt receive it. Instead I got the run around and no refund. I would not recommend this site for buyers.

Date of experience: January 10, 2016
Canada
1 review
22 helpful votes
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I used a coupon AliExpress provided and bought multiple Christmas gift for my family. AliExpress closed all the orders and refused to provide a reason after I posted the screenshot and proved I used their coupon account to the conditions. When I tried to talk to an agent, they simple disconnect the chat to avoid answering questions. I still see no refund, I spent about 150 dollars, do not trust this app!

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Date of experience: December 24, 2019
Texas
1 review
5 helpful votes
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I ordered for good which never came and the delivery said it was delivered to me in person, perhaps in my formal live cause I never saw it never happened in this life. Aliexpress never made effort to know where the item was but they told mW to provide proof I never got it, just very annoying and my money was lost. Avoid this site as they will only take your money with nothing in return. Just a waste of time and resources.

Date of experience: July 26, 2018
Sweden
3 reviews
24 helpful votes
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It was a great website few years ago. I bought many good things there. But now it creates a lot of problems with payments. It's very stupid when you bought something a moment ago, and not able to buy another thing using the same card. Support tells me that this is the bank decline payments, but the bank tells that it is their site does not accept payments. Due to this reason I'm using other websites at the moment.

Date of experience: March 26, 2020
Luxembourg
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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I bought an IPTV subscription for 12 months which I thought it was genuine, but I think I was scammed by the seller. The service stopped working after 5 days. I contact the seller but he did not want to give me a refund. I then open a dispute but unfortunately Aliexpress did not even read my comments. All they said in their email something about a remote control not working which I never mentioned because I never bought a remote control from aliexpress. I contacted them through the chat 3 times and all their agents promised to solve the problem, but they never did. Too much time consuming to try to get my money but they never gave it back to me. This is appalling considering I was a customer but aliexpress does not care about customer. They care only about sellers as they get percentage for everything they sell.

Date of experience: April 5, 2021
Nigeria
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I never received any of my two items from AliExpress. After many months of ordering a flash drive and a wrist watch from two different sellers, nobody contacted me for delivery and the items were not delivered but they were marked as delivered. This is my first time of buying on this platform. Unfortunately, I had a very sad experience. However, my happiness is that I didn't lose much to the fraudsters out there who call themselves AliExpress. Patronise them only if you want to lose your hard-earned money to these bunch of criminals masquerading as sellers. Order numbers are ************** and the **************.

Edit: I received the two items after five months. But both of them arrived earlier than that. One arrived after about one month of ordering it while the other arrived after two months. The screen of the wrist watch is also broken. So, I think the shipping company is to blame for late delivery. It isn't my duty though to get things right out there.

Date of experience: May 5, 2022
Spain
1 review
6 helpful votes
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I ordered my wedding rings from here. The product never arrived and aliexpress would not refund them. So I have no wedding rings and an empty pocket. The customer service is robotic it is impossible to deal with a person. Therefore if your refund request does not fit the headings on the web page it will not be refunded. I am disgusted!

Date of experience: July 18, 2017
Wisconsin
1 review
4 helpful votes
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SUCKS!
February 5, 2018

I ordered an item just to see how the service was. Never received item called a couple of times. Now when I call the number doesn't even ring and all of sudden busy tone!
When I talked to somebody before they said they would be sending item well it's been over a year now so I don't think it will be coming.

Date of experience: February 5, 2018
New York
1 review
1 helpful vote
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If they obligated a return to get your money back, it's unfare. You see for those companies to ship items over here is dirt cheap. For you to send back is a price. For 60 dollars or less, a large portion of what you spent would get eaten up in the return shipping. The only dispute that may be fare is the few cases that the item was decided that they'd just give a refund.

Date of experience: January 12, 2022