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AliExpress

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Launched in April 2010, AliExpress (www.aliexpress.com) is a leading global e-marketplace made up of small business sellers that offer a wide variety of consumer products with good value for money. It is dedicated to bringing unique products in more than 20 major product categories to its millions of registered buyers in more than 220 countries and regions.

AliExpress is a business within Alibaba Group.

For any customer service issues, please visit http://www.aliexpress.com/help/newContactUs.htm.


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San Mateo, CA, United States
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AliExpress Reviews Summary

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
1,672
value
1,571
shipping
1,615
returns
1,450
quality
1,509
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Massachusetts
2 reviews
4 helpful votes
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They laugh at you
January 9, 2018

Customer service (chat) seems respectful and listening,
But after a while you realize that they actually
Have no respect and deride you instead

Date of experience: January 9, 2018
India
2 reviews
5 helpful votes
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Go-To Shopping Site
January 10, 2018

Aliexpress has wide range of products. I made couple of orders and got delivered to me at the expected date. You can find all the latest trends and fashion. I just love shopping from this site.

Date of experience: January 9, 2018
Greece
4 reviews
23 helpful votes
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I make an order for iLife vacuum cleaner and when the seller send with different carrier from different warehouse, I needed to pay extra feeds, they didn't refund me the extra cost I paid, after a 60days waiting of them to negotiate with the seller

Date of experience: January 9, 2018
Portugal
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Shopping at AliExpress
January 9, 2018

I have been shopping at AliExpress since February 2015 and since then I have ordered so many products. I keep buying from them because the products have good quality and are sold at low prices. The speed of delivery varies, sometimes is fast but sometimes takes a bit longer. Until now the service provided is excellent, when not received the material I was refunded. I recommended it to all.

Date of experience: January 8, 2018
Canada
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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I've bought a ton of stuff from Ali over the past years, and admittedly its becoming less and less due to how long shipping takes now compared to a year or two ago. But they are by-far not a scammer website, if you know exactly what you're looking for you can find pretty good deals. Additionally, in all the times I have escalated an issue Aliexpress sides with the customers and you do recieve a full refund eventually.

Date of experience: January 8, 2018
AE
2 reviews
7 helpful votes
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Too long to deliver
January 8, 2018

It takes 2 months to deliver but the product s are good and of suitable to the price quality, I recommend it

Date of experience: January 7, 2018
Shipment i. AliExpress Rep
over a year old

Hi Joley,

May I have your order number, please? We think you are talking about the main site Aliexpress to as as an agent which our business is independent of Aliexpress.

Best regards
Aliexpress Agent

Turkiye
1 review
6 helpful votes
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THIEF ALIEXPRESS
January 7, 2018

Aliexpress continues to fraud. The buyers are getting their reward coins from their hands. It fakes with counterfeit and high priced products. They also distribute them as gifts only to their relatives.

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Date of experience: January 7, 2018
Australia
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Absolutely hopeless
January 7, 2018

Took them a month to refund my money for an item that turned out to not be in stock and still kept $20 to cover their expenses, when it was me who had to do everything and take hours off work.

Date of experience: January 7, 2018
Canada
2 reviews
9 helpful votes
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I have bought so many stuff and never receive it! I will never buy anything from this company again. It is not legit. Dont waste your time.

Date of experience: January 5, 2018
Canada
1 review
1 helpful vote
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1(one) of 5 (five) of NUMEN WORLD WIFI smart HD cameras, my son and I bought from you, not working any more; 2 stop working after 6 months (winter in Canada),
1was defective upon receipt (I throw it away) and, 1 I just received in Dec/2017 shuts off when ever configuration is been initiated. I have 2 indoor cameras purchased from you and these 2 work fine as well as 1 outdoor with no problem at all
Could you comment on this issues with your respective suggestions.
Terrebonne, Quebec, Canada. Regards Paul

Date of experience: January 4, 2018
Utah
2 reviews
5 helpful votes
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No matter how enticing the price, you will get totally screwed. Product arrives, wrong sizes, you have to pay to return, false tracking numbers, lies, lies, lies, continually asking for the same information. Dispute process is a total dishonesty and they eventually just quit responding. Don't use PayPal as they leave you hanging out without a refund or product.

Date of experience: January 3, 2018
GB
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Please stear well clear of this company. The products and customer service is about as bad as it can get. Thousands of disgruntled customers speaks volumes for this lot.

Date of experience: January 1, 2018
GB
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Don't bother
December 30, 2017

Don't bother - if you see a good price they won't honour it and then they send you a fake tracking number, you have been warned!

Date of experience: December 30, 2017
Michigan
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Their website is full of bugs and always takes a long time for it to load. Furthermore, there are many untrustworthy vendors and opening a dispute usually results in unsatisfactory results. Be very careful when buying from this site because if you buy an item and receive a defective product, they will require you to pay for return shipping which often cost more than the product itself.

Date of experience: December 29, 2017
Germany
2 reviews
4 helpful votes
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Your company is just making full to the customer.

- I ordered a tablet **************). It arrived. But with defect. When asked for repair. No proper place to communicate.
- We sent to warranty group. (service request *******) For first 4 months - they said -they did not received. After than they said, they received and can not repair. So, I can buy another thing like dolls etc. When asked to give tablet itself. After several weeks. I received email saying. I can choose a product from aliexpress website. I choosed same tablet (order number- **************).
- They said, they have sent me by post. I never received the tablet. After several email, they said, they have sent and I should check in my nearest post office. (shipment tracking number-LP*******0611) I checked 5-6 post office near my zip code and around. Not received.
- Do not make fool to the customer.

Date of experience: December 29, 2017
Louisiana
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Don't trust them.
Don't trust them.
Don't trust them.
Don't trust them.
Don't trust them.
Don't trust them.
Scam.
Scam.
Scam.
Scam.
Scam.

Date of experience: December 28, 2017
New Zealand
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I was hoping aliexpress will help with seller sending me faulty item but it they wont help please dont use aliexpress use ebay or amazon you might get your money back but not with aliexpress

Date of experience: December 28, 2017
California
1 review
4 helpful votes
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STAY AWAY!
December 27, 2017

They don't deliver your items. It is a waste of money & time. STAY AWAY! Donate your money instead of giving it to them!

Date of experience: December 26, 2017
Bahrain
2 reviews
4 helpful votes
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The website looks appealing and the big variety of items and the competitive prices are a guaranteed way to grab your attention but don't be fooled, because once you need them they will make you hate the day you purchased from them.

There was and error processing a payment for an order i placed and i thought i would give their chat service a try. The result was that i spent 3 hours talking to 9 different representatives and still no one could help me. They all seemed to be very unprofessional and every representative kept redirecting me to another representative or another department.

I was a new Ali Express customer placing my first order of 200$ and i still was not taken seriously! I wasn't even offered any kind of remorse or compensation for the hassle frustration and time wasted.

Wait, it gets worse than this. That failed attempt of a customer service chat system is probably the worse i ever experienced in my life. It is A JOKE! And here is why:

1- The conversation between you and the rep 'Self Destructs' in 3 minutes if no one typed anything. Its is basically their way in getting rid of you nicely. Especially when they ask you to hold while they 'check' your problem or ask you to try doing something in your account like (deleting and re entering your card). Which all consumes more than 3 minutes and results in disconnection, then you find yourself introducing yourself and repeating your story to another representative who has no idea what's going on. Irritating!

2- In the chat box where you type, you can type as much as you want with no limits but as soon as you press 'enter' to send your well thought and carefully typed wise words, you find that it gave you an error for exceeding the 'character limits'. WAIT! WHAT? Yes. Good luck with remembering what you wrote! I can't believe it either. They expect a customer to lose paragraphs and then rethink rewrite and rephrase his problem to one lines that don't exceed 115 characters at a time. Inconvenient!

3- Besides the helpless reps that would reply you with emojis and irrelevant sympathies mostly because they are out of words. They end up transferring you from a rep to another in the middle of the conversation without waiting for your reply. Which results in...!? " Hi I'm XYZ how can i help you today :) ?"
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

Would i trust a platform that treats their customers like that? NEVER

Would i purchase from them again? I'd happily pay double the price somewhere else that respects me and treats me well for giving them my hard earned money.

*I will not be emphasizing on how shady the sellers and their pages and their duplicated products are. I will leave that to someone else.

Hope this helps,

Tony.

Date of experience: December 25, 2017
Portugal
2 reviews
10 helpful votes
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After purchasing a new power inverter ou found out it didnt provide any voltage, i opened a dispute w/ a video showing power coming in, but 0volts/0amps coming out.
Aliexpress interviened since the seller didnt respond and they requested a new video.
The case was closed the same day w/o giving the oportunity to submit the video. Tried an appeal and i was mocked saying that i had to respect the rules of disputes.

Date of experience: December 25, 2017