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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.


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.

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

service
1,672
value
1,571
shipping
1,615
returns
1,449
quality
1,508
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Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Bought over 50 items from these idiots roughly 300.00 I received 2 items and they were not even the items I ordered! Do not by from these chinks! You will get taken!

Date of experience: May 24, 2020
Botswana
3 reviews
25 helpful votes
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From using Aliexpresss for over 2 years now i haven't encountered any problems. The online store is wonderful. If by any chance your product doesn't get to you, they give you your money back guaranteed

Date of experience: May 24, 2020
California
4 reviews
7 helpful votes
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Fair
May 23, 2020

Fair pricing with a nice website. No complaints really! Some things of course that are far more cheaper can come with lower quality, but what do you expect?

Date of experience: May 22, 2020
Germany
1 review
10 helpful votes
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Well. This is BIG
June 21, 2020

Well. This is BIG BLACK Chinese HOLE! You can find anything that you want, but sometimes you can wait very long for shipping, sometimes you can received poor quality product, sometimes you can received product as not in the description, sometimes you can`t take your refund. And many many many "sometimes". Chinese lottery

Date of experience: May 21, 2020
Pakistan
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Z390 motherboard
May 22, 2020

One of the best site to purchase anything that u want to. Not fake
So real. I buy motherboard from this web site and it's excellent.
They also abroad things to other countries... one the best site for online shopping.

Date of experience: May 21, 2020
Germany
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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THIEVES! THUGS! AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE!
These people are thieves! I bought some masks from a Chinese fella which he did not send. He sent me a fake tracking number for a package that was delivered in Madrid while I live in Granada! I opened a dispute, sent them the proof they asked for which was delivered by the Spanish postal service CORREOS and nothing! This is a ROBERRY! DO NOT BUY FROM THESE THIEVES! I have asked Paypal to intervene as a last resort. AVOID THESE CHINESE THUGS LIKE THE PLAGUE!
Aliexpress and 3C Digital World Store ARE A BUNCH OF CRIMINALS!

Date of experience: May 20, 2020
District of Columbia
1 review
19 helpful votes
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Extremely Dangerous
June 18, 2020

It has been six months since the site states that a refund is in progress. Yet, I have not received a refund and no customer service to reach. I find AliExpress to be a very dangerous site to shop on. I gave them 1 star as there is nothing lower than that.
I would never buy anything from them and I would never advise anybody to shop there based on my experience.
Beware, unless you're looking for a headache!

Date of experience: May 18, 2020
Spain
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Two months ago, I bought 10 ffp3 masks for 90 euros After one moth without reception, I open a dispute resolved positively for the chinese supplier; they said that the item had arrived to Spain; I investigated, and the tracking of Correos Express Spain showed that the item was delivered 630 kilometers away of my home. I appealed Stela Ye, the recent director for Italy, Spain and Portugal of AE and, after several days, I received some masks shown in the enclosed pic: they had very poor quality, manufactured in a country of cirilic language (not in china), without any type of homologation and providing very litle confidence on protection against Covid19 (they are not even ffp1). I told Stela Ye and I got a complete silence. Then, if you do not want to be robbed, do not purchase any item in AliExpress. For them, a customer is only an oportunity to cheat.

Date of experience: May 18, 2020
Georgia
2 reviews
8 helpful votes
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AliExpress is one of the best shopping websites for me. Delivery time product quality is cool.
I really recommend this site for everything

Date of experience: May 18, 2020
Portugal
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Run away
June 17, 2020

After using it for many orders, I think I can tell you how it works.
At first, if you want to buy something from sellers that ship from your country (france, spain, poland, italy, etc) or near your country, not only you will pay a bit more pricy, but also, the item will be sent from... China! Yes, 90% of the seller shipping from spain for example, send the item from China, and hide the delevery details.
So, then you open a dispute because the item never arrives in time, and then the seller extends the delivery period (called customer garantee time or something like this for you to believe it's good for you :) ), then, you have nothing to do, but to wait. The worst is, if you have a problem with the item sent from spain (so, in reality from China), you have to return it to... China of course. And all this is happening openly, with no sanctions from Aliexpress. Ali could easily identify this sellers because when they ship from spain to spain, and the delivery delay is about 3 weeks, you can easily understand there is some kind of trouble in the air...
Another thing: Many sellers let you pay, and then 5 days after, tell you "sorry my friend, my dear, the product is out of stock, so please cancel the order, but in the cancel reason, select "personal reason". That way, the seller won't have any sanction from Ali. And if you refuse, and decide to select another reason (like seller is out of stock), then the seller is able to reject your cancelation demand. And he will do it many times, untill your are tired of doing it. Moreover, if, like me, you buy in a foreign change (not euro) and you pay in euros, the refund will alway be less than the amount you pay (yes, it's like when you exchange money, the rate is different wether you buy or you get refund). This happened to me so much times... And when I tell it to this fu... sellers, they reply "no my friend, you will be refund the same"! The best quality of chinese sellers, is that they make you fool, acting like stupid persons, but they are not stupid, they know this things better than you.

This is the Aliexpress world, their rules, a world where seller is king, and buyer is some kind of "dear" trash.

Date of experience: May 17, 2020
Ohio
1 review
0 helpful votes
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The items I purchased were not even remotely like the ad. To get a refund, I had to ship it to friggin China. The return shipping was more than the cost of the item. Aliexpress agreed that the item I received was not the item I purchased, but still said I had to mail it back to get a refund. The vendor was lying trash and aliexpress backed the trash vendor. Complete human garbage, hope they get the virus, one and all.

Date of experience: May 17, 2020
Pakistan
4 reviews
12 helpful votes
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Loved it
May 18, 2020

Excellent experience. I love the quality of product and its beauty. It took 35 day to deliver but it is amazing. Aliexpress
Is great

Date of experience: May 17, 2020
Canada
1 review
39 helpful votes
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SCAMMED! I did not receive my item from Ali Express/Sunrise Warm Store!

Ali Express is absolutely insane to deal with. Even getting to chat or email is incredibly difficult. When you do get in contact, they are not helpful at all. Multiple times, the chat representatives would say "You'll definitely get your money back", then the dispute result would come back saying "The item was delivered. You will not get your money back".

I will never purchase from Ali Express again.

Date of experience: May 16, 2020
Ireland
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I Received my refund I am happy. I just wish you could talk to a real person or the emailed or messaged you to confirm your refund

Date of experience: May 15, 2020
NL
3 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Great service!
May 16, 2020

AliExpress has been a great service during this Covid period. In the beginning it was slow and almost hopeless. Shipments lost and held back in the countries. Somehow Aliexpress manage to overcome that shipping obstacle and manage to get back on track delivering to the world. Good job AliExpress.

Date of experience: May 15, 2020
Missouri
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Deliveries
June 13, 2020

Stinks. The worst. Don't buy from this junk company.
If you do, then you get what you deserve, a rip-off.

Date of experience: May 14, 2020
Florida
1 review
12 helpful votes
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So I've made four purchases with AliExpress vendors of course Ally express it's just a middleman the vendors keep your money promise that it's items been shipped the item never shows up and three months later you may or may not get a refund meanwhile they have thousands of peoples money think about it they use the money and some people don't complain hundred percent profit some people too tired and aggravated to try to get their money back hundred percent profit meanwhile AliExpress gets paid

Date of experience: May 13, 2020
GB
1 review
23 helpful votes
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Worst Online Shopping Company. That's the reason they don't use PayPal. Second, the customer service is horrible. Anything goes wrong. There are totally NO chance to get your money back! Or exchange! Items didn't deliver. Contact customer service and they provide me prove of delivery with unknow recipient and diffent address(85miles away) but they just don't bother to go further investigation and close the case! Due to the items only £70 which means I'm covered by the Section 75 credit card laws

Date of experience: May 13, 2020
Pennsylvania
1 review
0 helpful votes
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DECEPTIVE LIES:

I use to purchase items from Aliepress and now they are totally unreliable, deceptive, cunning, lack of communication skills all together, my complaint have been ignored a million time for example: my 2 orders never recieved its been 4 months, refund was ignored, checked their tracking numbers for shipments my orders were never delivered so was delayed but never got thur the flight.
Their customer service is really very unreliable and response time is so poor, they stole my money the items I order and got away with it.
Most of their products are counterfits and not reliable especially in electronics and clothing... so beware consumers be careful what you buy or lose all your money from this company... I learn my lesson..

Date of experience: May 12, 2020
Utah
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Add a coupon code. All is well until checkout when they remove the code and charge you full price. Select paypal as a payment method and they charge you extra. Switch back to credit card and they charge you the paypal penalty. There is NO reason to ever use this site, there are hundreds of sites that treat you honestly and don't try to trick you.

Date of experience: May 12, 2020