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Canada
1 review
11 helpful votes
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Do not buy from this website. Counterfeit products. Poor service. No guarantees of refunds. Save your money and buy from reputable suppliers.
Caveat Emptor"

Date of experience: September 19, 2014
New Jersey
1 review
1 helpful vote
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When I discovered this site I thought I hit the lotto! So I went crazy and spent a few hundred dollars on shirts and some electronics. The first shirt arrived very fast, perfect fitting, I was very happy. But then everything came late. Many of the shirts need to be altered because they are too big and colors are wrong. Nothing was slim fit then I realized they pinned the shirts on the mannequins. What a lie! So I went back and forth with the seller, got $5 refund on one shirt, some shirts I could not wear.

The infrared binoculars don't work at night and they don't focus right in day time. The seller ignored me. The other HD camera didn't work at night at all, so I went back and forth with the seller and got nasty treats. I opened a dispute and escalated it, Aliexpress completely ignored me and determined $0 refund and closed the dispute.

Be very careful of what you are buying from this site, stay away from expensive items especially electronics, they are not like Amazon with refund guarantee. This site it operated in China, they can get away with murder.

I'll still shop from this site on cheap clothing, hope to get something ideal. I believe there are good vendors, although it's a gamble.

Date of experience: September 20, 2013
Washington
1 review
0 helpful votes
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ALIEXPRESS CHARGING STATE TAX ILLEGALLY SINCE OCT 1
November 27, 2018

Aliexpress (not vendor) cheats and charges my local state tax when they of course are NOT PAYING tax in America

They lie and say it is customs but I have never been charged customs duty in over 200 orders- SO EVERY SINGLE SALE IS ALMOST 10% OVER PRICED

Date of experience: November 26, 2018
New Zealand
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Never order through Aliexpress they steel my money have placed two orders from (Clara Au) I never received them once she told me the items return to us broken we will resend them second order she told me We are sorry for this issue.
If you don't receive the item, we will resend the item to you but I didn't received any thing Aliexrpess took my money away shame on this site

Date of experience: October 31, 2013
Illinois
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Absolutely terrible experience. Ordered a dress. It never arrived. Refusing to offer refund. Customer service is a joke. Nowhere to leave feedback for seller.

Date of experience: December 16, 2017
RU
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Ok
November 2, 2018

Everything is great and wonderful. Almost everything can be purchased at a reasonable cost. If any problems with the product that solved everything quickly.

Date of experience: October 31, 2018
District of Columbia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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BUYER BEWARE
February 11, 2020

Buyer Beware. You may or may not get order. Delivery estimates are bogus. Dispute process is extended. Customer service useless. Refund process total hassle!

Date of experience: February 8, 2020
Czechia
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I am very disappointed about Ali Express Customer Service! My phone which I paid for and I have 2 years garantees never worked. After I complained I was told I have to repair it on my own! They cheeted on me sending me a broken phone! Such a terrible customer service they offer! I asked for sending the funtional device or return me the money! I regret I ever order any phone from Ali Express. The answer from seller was " repair your device on your own" after getting paid! How horrible! Never order any mobiles from them. You loose the money and get the broken phone. Eva Adamova from Prague, Czech Republic

Date of experience: April 25, 2017
Belgium
5 reviews
21 helpful votes
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Don't buy from this seller! They send their goods in poor packaging and when they are damaged you do NOT get a full refund. Some time ago I ordered 2 items (as gifts for a friend), both of them were damaged. When I contacted the seller, they offered me a 20% refund. When I said I didn't want a 20% refund as I would have to go and buy my friend a brand new birthday present, they then offered me 50% refund... obviously they do NOT understand English because I had already explained this was a gift and I would need to go and get a brand new gift... whereas they could have just simply replaced the broken item (which was only 1 drawer in a storage box). When I opened the dispute on Aliexpress, things got worse because now Aliexpress got involved and they offered me 2 options: return goods and get a full refund (which would have cost me 63 euro and the item value was 27 euro) or an 11 euro refund. At that point in time you get only a few days to accept or reject the options by Aliexpress. If you reject, you are totally screwed because the dispute is closed and you get nothing. So I needed to accept the best of the 2 bad deals... the11 euro... In Europe this is a violation of legal buyer rights, at Aliexpress this is called ' customer service' and whilst I am a diamond member of Aliexpress (and never really had issues before).

Date of experience: April 30, 2019
Japan
2 reviews
24 helpful votes
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Sellers send you bad items or mismatch one, even their customer service are scammers, they dont refund anytime back, instead they close your account, so you dont get your refunded.

Date of experience: July 19, 2018
Netherlands
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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Very good comunication and good service of aliexpress team for many years now, i allready did more than 100 orders now over the year. Very trusted sellers on the site and if needed refunds are allways bin payed. Very happy. I wanna say to the team of alliexpress, go on with the good work

Date of experience: December 25, 2016
Belgium
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Awfull plateform, I ordered a phone and the seller sent me a default product.
I sent it back but the seller pretend the parcel never arrived. I uploaded all the shipping proofs including tracking number but Aliexpress decided in favor of the seller... $189 lost. This site is a scamming plateform, Don't buy there!

Date of experience: November 7, 2013
RU
1 review
0 helpful votes
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FANTACY TECHNOLOGY
April 22, 2014

FANTACY TECHNOLOGY

Very good company
With me for a chat and a second phone book, so I had to buy it, yet in stock. First sent quicker and track pretty quickly become processed. Work, gentlemen, we are happy to use your services again.

Date of experience: April 22, 2014
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Ali express buyer protection is FALSE!
Fake tracking numbers, excuses, " I will resend your products" so as to avoid the refund/ open dispute. This site has no complaints department which any company worth there salt would have SCAM SCAM SCAM!

Date of experience: October 18, 2013
Norway
1 review
3 helpful votes
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DONT BUY FROM ALIEXPRESS
September 20, 2018

I bought a faulty camera product in June 2018 worth $900US, its now September and no refund or result dispute case. Aliexpress only looks after sellers and not customers.

Date of experience: September 20, 2018
South Africa
1 review
3 helpful votes
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No response after product delivered. They DO NOT WORRY ABOUTGETTING YOUR MONEY BACK. No customer protection. You cannot come into contact with the right people even though I followed every step after lodging a dispute. Its like sending an SOS into deep space and hoping that someone will respond.

Date of experience: October 20, 2013
Canada
1 review
5 helpful votes
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NEVER ORDER FROM THIS PLACE
September 20, 2016

I ordered multiple head peace Sept 9,2016 for a wedding and had everything cancel 5 days before the wedding... worst site ever cant get ahold of any customer service representatives. DO NOT USE THIS SITE

Date of experience: September 20, 2016
Switzerland
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Great Service
April 15, 2019

Very nice detailed product. Most important is the excellent aftersales support. We had a small transport damage, the seller responded instantly and sent us spare. Great!

Date of experience: April 15, 2019
New Jersey
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Ripoffs
September 27, 2023

They will string you along with false tracking information. No response to your inquiries. Item never arrived. They are total ripoffs. Don't order from them under any circumstances.

Date of experience: September 27, 2023
Thailand
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Perfect support
May 11, 2019

Although it was a small purchase, they sent superquick and gave great support finding the parcel as it got lost by Thai postal service.
I strongly suggest this shop!

Date of experience: May 10, 2019

Overview

AliExpress has a rating of 2 stars from 8,019 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
1,616
value
1,519
shipping
1,559
returns
1,399
quality
1,460
This company responds to reviews on average within 3 days
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