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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.
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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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!
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
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?
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
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.
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!
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!
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.
AliExpress is one of the best shopping websites for me. Delivery time product quality is cool.
I really recommend this site for everything
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Stinks. The worst. Don't buy from this junk company.
If you do, then you get what you deserve, a rip-off.
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
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
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..
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.
Answer: No customer service. Some sellers are dishonest. No way to recoup your money for items never sent. Bogus tracking information since no custom number unavailable. Sellers asking for your your PayPal account to make a refund when they are suppose tp use Alipay. Clean up dishonest sellers like co-co fashion store. I have ordered tother items thru Aliexpress without a problem but you should get rid of the bad ones. I am reluctant to use Aliexpress again after this bad experience.
Answer: In my opinion. NO. I had to jump through hoops and make reports and threaten to make reports, it didn't help. I got my order, but couldve gotten the same thing from ebay faster and easier.
Answer: You are taking a very big chance by ordering anything from them... you will never get your money back and chances are you won't even receive the item you want. BUYER BEWARE
Answer: I purchased 3 pair of van's brand shoes via different companies on aliexppress and all were true to size. The off brands are not, so you need larger than you wear. But, ask and ali will usually provide a size comparison chart for you to use.
Answer: There is no customer service what so ever so be very careful when buying on AliExpress. Buyer protection is a load of BS and if problems arise with your order they will always side with the seller. I would suggest using a shop that someone that you know has already used to purchase hair.
Answer: Omigod, they're not just knockoffs, they're knockoffs that are produced in someone's ill-lit basement by captive chimpanzees that are blind, malnourished, and suffering closed head injuries. Seriously, you'd get better value from your money if you used it to wipe your bum. Don't buy from this group of criminals and ripoff artists!
Answer: I had this issue several times. The issue is that they only allow a certain number of characters ( Letters and numbers) in the description of the problem. So you will need shorten the number of words in the description and re-send until it goes through.
Answer: From my experience, there are as responsible sellers and is not responsible sellers. Second worse then have to raise a dispute. If this does not help, then raise a dispute above, and then as they say it all depends on You. As far as your arguments are strong. Almost always get a refund in the amount of shipping cost or part cost of the goods, if the goods were not received appropriate quality. Less full price. The full value is returned when the order didn't come at all. Also when you have paid but you did not send an order for a certain time. But again, it all depends on your arguments and facts provided by the seller or, to the Commission on the proceedings of the claims. But it is also necessary to take into account all the items from the seller, this is what guarantees he gives, product reviews buyers. And his overall rating. Never be lazy to write a review about the product from a particular seller, you will be the same customers as You. There is also an important factor, which I would say is pretty negative. It if the product was defective and not as described on the website. The seller has the punkt Returns accepted if product not as described, buyer pays return shipping; or keep the product & agree refund with seller.) 1. If the seller accepts returns, and the buyer also wants to return their purchase, simply follow the seller's sets of Returns on who will pay the return shipping fee. If the seller will pay the fee, communicate with them in advance about the payment method and the logistics service. 2. If a seller sets no return necessary or you want to keep the product, simply agree the refund amount directly and ignore the return shipping fee. It turns out that if you decide to return, it will often more expensive than the product itself and the meaning of no turning back, because when you return the money, only for the goods excluding the cost of shipping there and back. Therefore, I can not sell brand quality products, and will only return part of the money for the goods. That financial will have a negative impact but only You. Which means be careful, cock all the "pros" and "cons". You are not forced to buy it personally, Your decision. The more You provide facts that you have been deceived, the more chances and money You have spent, You will return. For all the time of purchase, the money is returned in full or in part. The Commission for the analysis of complex situations works, but is considering the case for a long time, so don't despair if You didn't reply, just "keep abreast" and you will not lose anything Sorry my bad English :)
Answer: Do not buy from aliexpress the quality is terrible and lots of sellers never send the items. Also they sell counterfeit designs too which is illegal to purchase.

