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Croatia
1 review
3 helpful votes
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When you order something and if you are lucky to receive it take pictures immediately for evidence if there is something wrong. Site is full of bad sellers that either do not send goods or send them wrong. I guess many of them calculate that you will forget about that 2 usd item you ordered and the time for dispute will end. Personally I am very dissapointed with them, it is not worth the nerves and life spent for arguing with them. Now I order locally or via amazon and some of other EU shops.

Date of experience: July 27, 2017
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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TERRIBLE
July 3, 2020

Do not order from here. I have waited more than 35 days for my order and I have still not received it. When I went to apply for a refund they said my time was up to apply for it. So I guess I lost my money and I don't get my order, terrible. Also the customer service is terrible and I can't even find a good way to contact them. I DO NOT recommend this website. Be smart and save your money. Do not order from here, you will regret it.

Date of experience: June 3, 2020
South Carolina
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Stay away from this site unless there is a return shipping label. They are scam artist. I did not recieve what I ordered and when I tried to return the item it cost over 200.00 us dollars to return an item that weighed less than a pound and when I responded back to their request I got no response to this date and they would only refund 25.00 us dollars on an item that cost 175.00 dollars.

Date of experience: June 28, 2014
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Never order anything even if it's a few dollars less than Ebay as they are crooks. I bought 1 android tablet on June 27 and have not received it yet and the seller does not answer my email so I bought another one on Ebay last week and it is arrived in Canada this morning. I lost 107.00$ with Aliexpress and will never buy anything again as they do not accept Paypal anymore and never credit anything and their ESCOW customer protection only protects their sellers.

Date of experience: July 31, 2012
Tennessee
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Worst site ever
December 2, 2015

DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT order from this site! It's like a 20% chance your order will go through good. I ordered a overboard on Oct 21,2015 it came in on Nov 4,2015. Looked great at first but then the technical difficulties began. So I contacted the seller and they arranged for me to send the board off for repair. I sent it off on Nov 12,2015 and the repair company received it on Nov 17,2015. Since then, I have not heard from the seller. Aliexpress is horrible. They're not trying to help do anything about it. I don't even see anywhere on the site where I can contact Aliexpress, only the seller. Now the seller has deleted their page so basically I'm out of my $300+ I spent. Aliexpress does not care! They have it set up to where you can't even contact them! I wouldn't recommend my worst enemy to shop on Aliexpress! Choose Alibaba! Much better customer service and people who actually care about fulfilling customer needs!

Date of experience: December 2, 2015
Nevada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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DO NOT BUY FROM HERE!
January 24, 2022

We ordered two Zorb balls from an AliExpress seller in Hong Kong, for a total of more than $1,800. Both balls arrived with holes in them. The seller offered $100 instead of sending what we paid for. We opened a dispute with PayPal, but they said we had to mail the balls back on our dime for a full refund. The balls are 85 lbs each so it would have been $1,100 to mail them both back. We would have been out $1,100 for nothing. We are keeping the balls and will have to patch them. For over $900 per ball, I wouldn't have expected having to repair them right out of the box. Also, you can only open a dispute with AliExpress within 15 days or leave feedback within 30 days. They know their sellers are selling crap and they don't want people to warn others. So here's our warning: don't buy from AliExpress sellers. Especially not Top Inflatable_Zone Store.

Date of experience: January 24, 2022
New York
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I have ordered, a very cute sweater for my friend. Because it was her birthday. And I thought she would like it. I have wasted 35$ on that sweater. And I Checked the shipping, turns out it was shipped to somewhere else. In Maryland. When I live in New York. I contacted the seller. She swore it was delivered to me. And I took a picture of the shipping it was delivered somewhere else. I checked her store rating and it was a 1/2 1. I waited and waited and still no return of money. Do not buy anything from that site

Date of experience: August 26, 2013
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Stay away!
October 7, 2013

Stay away! I made a few orders and came ok. Recently, I ordered an item, never received, they gave me a wrong tracking number. Never received a refund. Gave a second try, the same thing happened. No customer service, no support, no phone number, no email. The 2 sellers, just ignored my emails> Beware of the risk of being scammed!

Date of experience: October 6, 2013
KR
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Small deceleration motor
February 22, 2019

A plastic type decelerating motor with a plastic case Today I take a test and check it. When I connect a 3v aa size motor, it works well, but it generates more noise than I thought. There is no other problem.

Date of experience: February 22, 2019
GB
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Delivery
January 12, 2016

Don't buy anything from hear I ordered goods that didn't arrive, after 2mths of disputes they paid the seller, ie they wanted evidence, otherwords they wanted you to sit at airport with a camera to see if your goods were on plane or follow postman I lost over £450, its a scam and they always go with the seller buyer protection don't exist

Date of experience: January 12, 2016
RU
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Not ok
February 27, 2019

Thats all i want to say most.
Is is not possible to exclude unrelevant search lots by using "-" sign in search phrase, sorting by "price + delivery is unavailable", also it is very annoying that site always opens in Russian language using translator. It is not possible to turn off Russian one time and forgot about bad strange translations.

Date of experience: February 27, 2019
Australia
2 reviews
15 helpful votes
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Is AliExpress.com safe? Look at the statistics here, Trust Pilot and on Product Review. The question is answered.
On 20th June 2023 I purchased a set of Chinese Textbooks advertised as:
"2021 Newest Hot HSK Standard Course."
What I got is the old textbooks printed in 2016, a set of which I have on my bookshelve. I paid $350.37 for these so-called "Newest" textbooks. I paid for them by PayPal. They were less than no help. So I cancelled my PayPal account.
This is very deceptive advertising that AliExpress.com should not permit on its platform.
There is nothing Newest and Hot about these textbooks. And why did the advertisement state the year as being 2021? That is the year the New HSK Textbooks were announced by the Ministry of Education.
AliExpress.com can keep my money. I now know they permit deceptive buyers to advertise on their platform

Date of experience: July 17, 2023
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Horrible shipping service. Never received the product 3 months after placing the order. Not even money back on my order even after chatting 10hrs with their $#*!ty customer service. They never care about their customers. Never seen such bad customer service in my entire life! No product, no money back and they don't care about that.

Date of experience: December 27, 2023
RU
1 review
2 helpful votes
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LOW BUYER SUPPORT
March 14, 2019

Very often sellers send bad/defect items, and very often item is not as declared, but return back real garbage back and for at one's own expense shipping fee it is crazy! Who will to it?! So in this case you is a "lucky" owner of garbage!
Very short protection time - 15 days to check item, but if it is too many and if you have no free time this is unreal to check it all, especially if it is high-end technology device.
In any way site takes fee 3-7% from each paid item, so ALI is financial interested in do not moneyback

Date of experience: March 14, 2019
Wisconsin
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Incompetence
October 25, 2017

AliExpress has at least two US-based credit card charge processing centers. However, AliExpress processed some of my credit card charges in three foreign countries, China, Great Britain, and Luxembourg. My credit card company charged me extra foreign transaction fees, since AliExpress informed my credit card company that I used my credit card in those three foreign countries. The only communication channel is online chat with their customer service. When it happened the first time, they said it would be fixed. Happened multiple times again. Contacted with them. They said it would be fixed. However, it happened again. The third time, their online customer service basically disconnected online chat with me.

Date of experience: October 25, 2017
AE
1 review
4 helpful votes
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We placed 5 orders and none of them waz delivered. Buy tracking my orders it shows delivered. Opened a dispute and surprisengly they are asking me to provide a proof of not receiving the orders. I sent them show me anything that i have signed to prove i received the items but they closed my ticked saying dispute rejected!
My sincere advise is never pay this company or any unknown sites unless they deliver first.

Date of experience: April 14, 2018
Florida
2 reviews
9 helpful votes
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I ordered a dress and a lot zumba pants from different sellers around the same time. The dress was a standard size 12. I received a dress that was not proportionate at all to the standard measurement. I filed a complaint and never received a resolution or an correspondence from Aliexpress. I requested a refund over a year ago and I'm still waiting for it.
I added a lot of 10 zumba pants, they sent me 6. Filed a complaint and still no resolve.

Date of experience: October 2, 2015
New Mexico
1 review
7 helpful votes
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I ordered 3 items from them, I got the first one, but never received the other 2 items. I could not get them to understand what a "cluster" mailbox is so I got no refund on the items I didn't received. I opened a dispute, and they expected me to get all kinds of documentation from the mail service and to check with all of my neighbors to see if they received it. HA. I finally filed a dispute with my credit card company and had my money back within 24 hours, and my dispute is still open with these scam artists.

Date of experience: July 1, 2017
Bulgaria
1 review
11 helpful votes
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AliExpress Buyer Protection?
Such thing does not exist.

Here are some excerpts from their website:

This is a LIE:

2. Payment Protection
Your payment is only released to the seller after you confirm* satisfactory condition of your purchase. You can also track the progress of your delivery at anytime.

This is also a LIE:

3. Delivery Protection
If you do not receive your purchase within the stated delivery time** (60 days maximum), a full refund will be offered.

The support does literally NOTHING - only polite smalltalk. The dispute system is tragic.

Here is a screenshot showing my 17 days old report being still in "waiting process" status:
http://postimg.org/image/jb3xnzm4b/

Date of experience: June 2, 2016
Florida
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Scammers
February 18, 2023

It was my first time ordering on AliExpress and there was a new users deal so I tried to place an order then they closed my order for "security" and they stole my money. I never got my money back either

Date of experience: February 18, 2023

Overview

AliExpress has a rating of 2 stars from 8,012 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with AliExpress most frequently mention customer service, tracking number and credit card. AliExpress ranks 383rd among Wholesale sites.

service
1,614
value
1,516
shipping
1,557
returns
1,396
quality
1,457
This company responds to reviews on average within 3 days
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