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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.


aliexpress.com
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.

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service
1,674
value
1,573
shipping
1,617
returns
1,451
quality
1,510
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California
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I recently purchased a pair of shoes from Increasing Shoes and was more than pleased with the selection and service. I want to say first that the website was easy to use and the online catalog provided me with plenty of choices. After I finally settled on one, the checkout was a breeze and my shoes arrived on time as well. The fit was perfect and I’ve been wearing them ever since.

Date of experience: March 16, 2014
India
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I have made about 8 purchases, including jewellery and clothes, have also recived refunds twice, once for a fake seller, once due ot item being out of stock.

We just need to make sure that the seller we are picking our products have veery good feedback and have been trading for at least 4 months on the site. This can be found on the " visit seller site " on the right hand side of the product page and then " feedback" on the seller"s site...

Free shipping: If you are a consumer, ensure you always pick the option: Free shipping and one pice only and seller rating to get the best results.
Amazing site. Huge discounts and amazing prices..

Date of experience: March 16, 2014
California
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I have been though a horrible experience with aliexpress.com.
I place an order on Jan 29 2014 with 4 different items.
One of the phone cable dead on arrival ($5.99).
They refused to send me a replacement.
Second, I should get a $5 discount if an order over $25 but they charge me a full amount.
No $5 deduct from this order. Third, one of the item hasn't receive yet but the ignore to issue me the information.
I email them couple time no response. My next step will contact my visa to dispute this charge.
I will continuing to flight until they slove this issue. They don't really care about the customer service.
You will be the next victim if you order from aliexpress.com

Date of experience: March 15, 2014
Washington
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I had ordered a wig in which it was supposed to look just like the picture! And it looked nothing like the picture not even remotely close so I disputed the product and now I have escalated the dispute and have yet to hear back from aliexpress even though thy said that they would be in contact. The wig cost me $180! I sent back the wig which has cost me another $36.24 and the guy from Fashion Pretty Hair Kevin Liu wanted me to cancel the dispute! I said NO rrefund my money then I will do that until then I am not cancelling anything! He said he was "Losing Money" I said I have lost money! So far $180 for the wig another $25 to have it sent from vegas to bellevue, wa and then another $36.24! This site is a JOKE! Do not partake in business there unless you want to get scammed! STAY AWAY!

Date of experience: March 14, 2014
Texas
2 reviews
3 helpful votes
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I give this site a big "0" of of 5 stars. I just got scammed for the second time on a order. First one was a block erupter for Bitcoin mining. They froze the order due to the person having what they call unsafe trading activities. It took me 14 days to get my money back! I tried it again 7 days ago. I get another notice on another seller. The order is frozen due to unsafe trading activities. I was buying Bitcoin miners. Here is the big kicker! It makes me look bad on eBay when I have to tell the customer. I have to give them there money back because the supplier left me on hook! So now they have to wait for their money. I look bad! It can cause all kinds of trouble. Reputation is everything when it comes to a seller. Now I got to wait probably another 7 to 10 days to get my money back! PEOPLE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! DO NOT BUY ANYTHING FROM ALIEXPRESS OR ALIBABA.COM OR ANY OF IT'S ENTITIES EVER! IT'S NOT WORTH YOUR REP AS A SELLER ON EBAY OR ANY SITE!

Date of experience: March 14, 2014
KR
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Boots are great
March 13, 2014

Boots are great- very cute, correct size. Shipping was extremely slow- over 40days, but this it is far from CHINA, so i'm sure it would be faster if it is near. Cute shoes though.

Date of experience: March 13, 2014
Hong Kong
1 review
3 helpful votes
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The wig is so so Beautiful. The hair is soft and good quality. I am in love with my unit. Alex the seller is honest and great on AliExpress. He does his very best to assure 100% customer satisfaction. I highly recommend this seller and will definitely do more business with him. Thank You Alex and all your team!

Date of experience: March 12, 2014
China
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I ordered one fur outerwear for my wife in this shop. But they never send me the goods.It is a cheater. I lost more than USD1200. Some shops are really very bad. You should be much carefully.And i think the most important things is that before you buy things, you should view the feedback of the store. Then you will know if it is a cheater. Some shops are very good.As a wholesaler I have bought many things from aliexpress. Their price is very good. That is why they attract me. Wish we could share with good and bad things together.

Date of experience: March 12, 2014
Kansas
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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I bought a coat from this site and received it sooner than expected. It was also very cheap considering it was a novelty type coat.

Date of experience: March 11, 2014
Illinois
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I ordered basketball shoes 1 month ago and still not delivered. I should've done research into this site first. I received a confirmation email on my order but never a tracking # from the seller. THIS IS A SCAM!

Date of experience: March 11, 2014
Hong Kong
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I tried on the control pants body shaper. It does appear to provide some shaping and tummy trimming, but not as much as I expected. The material is lighterweight than I expected. But, I really liked the fact that the top of it comes really high above the waist, it stops just below the breast area preventing rolling of the shaper and buldging at the waistline. I'll try to give an update after I actually wear it for a full day.

Date of experience: March 11, 2014
California
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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WAITING 6 MONTHS FOR 10 BATTIERES. They said delivery was delayed so I waited and the told me to give it 2-3 weeks more I waited then they said wait 2 more weeks I waited. Then after three more weeks I asked for a valid tracking number. The they ask me if I confiscated the product. Really I said they could not give me a valid tracking number and they accused me of stealing and now its to late to have the credit card company to dispute it. LESSON LEARND don't wait and don't be patient.

Date of experience: March 10, 2014
Canada
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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I order off this site a solar hot water heater got the shipping number but come to find out the number was for some else I went on live chat to get some help they told me that the company is being investaged for fraud and there was nothing they could do I am 1600. 00 and now there not answering my calls I have the chat record if anyone would like to see it/They say this is a save site all over but if you don't get you goods your not getting your money back

Date of experience: March 10, 2014
Alabama
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I ordered an item with a specified 3-7 day shipping time. The company sent me an email saying because of a holiday the shipment would be delayed. I gave my OK because doing the math this would only put me behind by a week. I received the item just shy of 5 weeks after I placed the order and just shy of 3 weeks after the "new" shipping date because of the holiday. DESPITE multiple emails requesting shipping notification, NONE could be given. So finally I asked to cancel the order when I found it on another website but the Aliexpress company told me it could not be cancelled. Ironically the other company's item arrived the same day as my first order (even though the second order was placed 30 days after the first). Now the company is threatening me with lawyers. AND YOU CAN"T GET ANYONE ON ALIEXPRESS to whom to complain to. This website is a TOTAL SHAM and should be avoided at all costs.

Date of experience: March 9, 2014
Latvia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I ordered 2 Desigual coats, one was fake-still waiting(1months 79dollars) for sellers adress to send it back, no customer service... yes ok one ir genuie, but still... it is gambling and 70 % is fake... I also ordered racoon parkas jacket and received junk-uneployeds in usa and eu wears better, i sent it back but still no refund(1month 58 dollars)... one leopard jacket too small, but thank god not expensive, seller did not agreed refund... not with sadness I am waiting my canadian goose jacket. For 94 dollars... i I am so afraid... discusting... I could better send this money to africa, to people who really needs it... but I think this site needs to be forbidden to EU and USA by law!

Date of experience: March 7, 2014
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Bought a product based on great feedback - it had 525 five start "reviews". It appears that all these reviews are fake. The product was extremely low quality. When I looked back at these reviews again - they were all very similar - normally just said "Excellent" or "Great" and they were all from Russian buyers. It really looks like they paid a Russian company to write these reviews.

Date of experience: March 7, 2014
Virginia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I ordered from this website and hoping that our items will be here before my husband comes home from deployment. I was wrong. I ordered 9 items and yet to get any. No one will answer my emails. I spent over $160 to make my husband homecoming special and well it wasn't. If I'm not getting my items I would like the money that was wasted..

Date of experience: March 5, 2014
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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PLEASE be aware of Queen Fashion Hair Co., LTD aka Grace Wang. I purhcased a heavy or 180% density unprocessed brazilian virgin hair lace front wig. I received a 130% density wig, I'm not sure what type of hair. Grace assured me she would take care of my concern if I returned the unit. When I asked for mailing instructing she decided instead of me mailing the unit she would send additional hair bundles if I gave her site a good rating, which I did before gettng the bundles. What a ruse. I received the unit in Dec. 2013, I have not received the bundles as promised. Grace Wang will not reply to my emails. The unit I received was a waste of money. I have order from another supplier Bliss Wig, no complaints. Stay away for Grace Wang aka Queen Fashion Hair Co LTD.

Date of experience: March 4, 2014
Indonesia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I bought a Xiaomi smartphone from ALIEXPRESS.com, as a first time buyer I felt very happy, received the phone yesterday, the shipment almost took a month, and turn out to be a fake one. It is functioning but the specifications are way below the original (bad AnTuTu Benchmark score, app crash, can't download nothing, bad camera, etc). I hope that I can get my refund. This is my first time experience buying from ALIEXPRESS.com and I got scammed.

The link is here: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/In-Stock-Original-Xiaomi-Red-Rice-WCDMA-Quad-Core-MTK6589T-1-5GHz-MIUI-V5-Xiaomi-Hongmi/*******119.html

And my order is here: http://www.aliexpress.com/snapshot/*******.html

I don't know what to do but to expect having my refund (I am still waiting the reply from the seller). And spreading the word, tell people about this ali express site so that what happened to me will not happen to other people.

Be careful again if you want to buy stuffs online. I just wanna say NEVER BUY ANYTHING FROM ALIEXPRESS.com.

It cost me USD 210. Not that much, but I just feel so sad that I didn't get my original favorite phone.

I hope no more people get scammed by ALIEXPRESS.com.
It's just sad.

Date of experience: March 3, 2014
Brazil
3 reviews
1 helpful vote
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É um bom site
March 3, 2014

É um bom site. Agora tem que saber com quem comprar, o problema do Aliexpress é em relação ao serviço de atendimento ao cliente.

Date of experience: March 3, 2014