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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
1,622
value
1,524
shipping
1,565
returns
1,404
quality
1,464
This company responds to reviews on average within 2 days
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Pakistan
5 reviews
3 helpful votes
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Got my luxury speakers
January 28, 2019

Was looking for the bluetooth speakers having glowing lights but never found one. One of my friend suggested me this site and luckily on the very first visit i found it here and price was reasonable. The reason for giving 4 star is that my shipment reached 1 day late but overall it was good using AliExpress

Date of experience: January 27, 2019
GB
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Fraud scammers
July 14, 2019

Aliexpress partner with scammers, Aliexpress takes money from your account and dont pay sellers until you get it. But when it comes to you finding out the seller is a scammer, You cant cancel until the sellers agree!. Aliexpress wont give you your money back no matter how many times you have chatted to customer service, They wont help instead they feed you lies that they will take it up to management and you will receive an email from them soon. All lies.

I have been waiting for 15 days for this scammer seller to cancel my order. They keep reading my messages but no reply. Even though aliexpress has my money, They wont give me back until scammer sends me the fake phone... Awful Service.

Date of experience: July 14, 2019
GB
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Spent 60 quid there on shoes that are a British size 4 they sent me US size 6.5 now I'm responsible to pay the return God knows how much I'm disgusted the buyer protection is a big fat zero if truth be told

Date of experience: May 11, 2017
Iowa
2 reviews
14 helpful votes
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I bought a silicon doll from them. Instead of the face/head that was in the picture on the listing site I received a generic and not so attractive head. Their site says we would 100% guarantee get the same head that is in the picture.
It's been over a month now and I still haven't received the correct head. They keep stalling and giving me excuses that it is still in production, etc.
Their site also says that you're protected and that they don't collect your funds until you receive your item and you enter an approved or satisfied comment. They lie about that. The money was drawn from my credit card the day I ordered it. Very angry about this. Such a trivial reason to irritate the customer.
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Date of experience: December 20, 2017
Texas
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I have ordered several times from AliExpress and it's products and services are so bad that I have decided no more buys with this bad company. My purchase items came to me as damaged, missing part, defective, used item and broken sent to me as new, late late arrival, etc. the time has come no more no more AliExpress. The last encounter was defective item was refused to refund. See the picture as attached here. I buy no more from AliExpress and that is my recommendation. Btw. The AliExpress seller is Smart 3C Storage store, I have warn them that I will tell this seller to the world.

Date of experience: July 17, 2023
Australia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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If the item sent matches the item advertised there are few problems. Around 20% of the time the seller is dishonest in some respect and after your money, products are very low quality or do not match description - AliExpress does little to help customer.

Example: item purchased was not fit for purpose, provided photographic evidence and evidence of other purchasers stating the identical issue. The seller was dishonest and provided non genuine assistance, I opened a dispute to resolve & aliexpress provided assistance to the seller, resulting in full payment for a useless product being authorized and no action available to me. Dishonest seller and very little support

Date of experience: November 5, 2016
California
3 reviews
5 helpful votes
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While the prices are a bargin make sure you are going to keep the item,trying to return/refund is impossible it's like they make it so inconvenient they want you to give up,also descriptions are not always accurate, they will advertise 2 bicycle tires send you one but picture shows 2 and says tires,they said they show 2 tire to show they have 2 sizes,BS! Just recently I tried to give them another chance I ordered a tube guitar bass overdrive, while it sounds fantastic on guitar on bass the bottom end is completely sucked out, advertised as guitar bass overdrive but useless on bass,sent a message but so far no reply I think I'll stick to Amazon,Ebay and other U.S.based supplier's.

Date of experience: June 10, 2023
New Hampshire
1 review
37 helpful votes
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STAY FAR AWAY!
September 30, 2023

I was scammed out of $400 - I ordered a piece of professional sound equipment and was shipped a tiny plastic astronaut in bubble wrap. I reached out to the seller with no reply - then to AliExpress - after their process they said I was due a refund but then "froze" the order so I can no longer access any correspondence (Thankfully I took screenshots of everything before it disappeared. I am now hoping PayPal can refund my money but it has been over a month now.
Horrible communication and rife with scammers!

Date of experience: September 30, 2023
Canada
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Ordered a bathing suit 3 months ago, it said the order was complete and delivered but it never showed up and no refund was given. Do NOT use this site! It's a scam. The things I could say! Not happy at all!

Date of experience: June 22, 2015
Serbia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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There are problems with refund. I had 3 orders for which seller didn't sent product at all. After 100 days no refund at all. Support is lying that it is sent but my bank don't have any details. After few emails aliexpress start to ignore my emails. Also on all orders there is guaranteed money back after x days. In few orders that day passed and they refused to refund. A lot more for compliant and it ts really bad experience.

Date of experience: November 11, 2013
New Zealand
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Fraud company
June 13, 2018

Do not know why I purchased goods from here, they are a fraud. Thank God I only spent 3 dollars but what a waste of money! Never ever buying from here again. Don't get tempted, you wont receive your goods from them.

Date of experience: June 13, 2018
Switzerland
10 reviews
8 helpful votes
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I bought the fake Lenovo phone here, although the seller was guaranteeing the originality of the phone. After my several asks to consider that buy I still got no reply. Wish there would be an option to grade them with 0 stars.

Date of experience: May 15, 2016
Malta
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Very good seller +++
June 17, 2019

I had a very bad experience on a mobile from Black view company because the send me a default mobile, even the small refund that AliExpress gave me are still haven't receive it after 3 weeks. So be very care full pls.

Date of experience: June 17, 2019
New Zealand
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Conned by Aliexpress, be caution!
September 5, 2023

First time to shop on Aliexpress, spent $56 and being sent a defective product, after hours and days to provide videos, proofs etc and then being instructed to pay more than the item cost $87 to ship it back and wait for months for a refund, but the seller refused to refund the shipping fee, after more houes and days chatting AliExpress issued me $87 coupon with great redemption restrictions. Finally they are successful to force me spending more to buy some useless stuff on their site, what a greedy company! Be caution on this site.

Date of experience: September 5, 2023
Netherlands
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Paint fiaring
December 28, 2018

In the beginning, fine contact with the seller.
Everything painted to my liking.
Then it remained QUIET.
Several times tried to get contact
But no reaction at all.
Therefore, very dissatisfied with this seller

Date of experience: December 28, 2018
New York
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I bought few Shirts and jackets and they are all of bad quality and not as seen in the picture plus the sizes are complete fraud made just to rip you of all wrong sizes. I use Large and ordered XL for all, but they are like size small to me... Don't know why they do this...
And one seller was so rude and annoying in responses and I had the dispute open for 10 days or more with no help or place to report this bad attitude (stealing basically) from AliExpress... I will never use this rip of service at all and especially for clothing... It's a scam service.
At the end of those bad experiences I am left with useless clothes which I am ashamed of giving them to others even

Date of experience: December 20, 2015
Florida
5 reviews
8 helpful votes
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Scammed
July 11, 2015

Bought a wig for $167 in March, wig was different from what i ordered and could not be worn. I was told to send back and i would be refunded, cost me $42 to send back, now i am told package was not received even though post office said it was delivered so does the tracking. Despite numerous complaints left on Ali express nothing has been done to assist me in getting a replacement or my money back. I would not recommend this site to anyone.

Date of experience: July 11, 2015
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Order lost
March 23, 2024

Never got my order and will not get any refund. SCAM Postal service said they try to delivery. I have video recorded doorbell and no one ever try to deliver. No possible way to contact the shipping company they use

Date of experience: March 23, 2024
AliExpress C. AliExpress Rep
over a year old

Dear Customer,
We are very sorry to have caused you an unpleasant shopping experience.
If you encounter any problems during the shopping process, please contact the AliExpress Help Center and we will be more than happy to help you deal with the problem.
Sincerely,
AliExpress Customer Service Team

Nebraska
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Never received items. I opened a dispute and keep getting told to wait 10 days. It's been over 3 months. They still refuse to do anything about it. The items come from China, shipping takes several weeks. The site says they'll step in to solve the dispute, but they don't; just keep saying wait 10 days. Then when the 10 days are up, they say wait 10 more days. They just keep doing that. Very fraudulent site. Do not buy from them.

Date of experience: November 10, 2020
Australia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I have many different products from AliExpress over the years but don't expect any service if there is a problem with an order. I have had two problems and will never deal with them again. The first was for an item that never arrived and when I let AliExpress know about the problem, they sent me a copy of the delivery document which did not even have my name on it and no signature. Their comment, "We have looked into the evidence and the case is closed". The second was a faulty pair of gloves, I was asked to send photographs and a video and even asked if I could fix the problem myself. It was finally agreed that I return the gloves and the seller agreed to refund the $33.75. I returned the gloves and did receive the purchase price but the seller nor AliExpress will refund the $33.75. All I received from AliExpress was, "The case is closed and don't reply to this email".

Date of experience: October 12, 2023