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New Zealand
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I have used Aliexpress for year. Great for small electronics and cheap.
Unfortunately I ordered a refurbished samsung S5 cost me $240 NZD.
Phone wouldn't connect to computer. So I wanted refund. Meaning I had to send it back. Cost $45 NZD.
Conclusion: Don't spend more than $50, bigger items buy local

Date of experience: November 18, 2016
Texas
1 review
3 helpful votes
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HORRIBLE
February 27, 2016

I ordered a lot of hair from this site. They closed my order and have refused to contact me or refund the money. I am a broke college student and spent over $500 on this site. I am beyond appealed and will never come her again. (*******@gmail.com)

Date of experience: February 27, 2016
Ireland
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I ordered two pairs of shoes for my daughter in November for Christmas. They were dispatched separately but I was only given one tracking number. In mid January one pair arrived and the buyer marked off the order as being delivered. I uploaded a photo with the order number and the weight of the package and the value of one pair clearly printed and yet the dispute team said I did not have any evidence and awarded full payment for both pairs to the seller. The website is designed to frustrate you and prevent you from making a complaint. The Live Chat was also time consuming, frustrating and a wasted of time. All in all very bad service, none of the agreed time frames were adhered to and very dishonest business acumen. Buyer Beware!

Date of experience: February 4, 2017
Belgium
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I placed an order 3 months ago and i still haven t received anything. It didn t say it had long waiting times for it to arrive and when i contact customer service (which is a chatbot) theyalways come up with new excuses. This is unacceptable.
I suggest that you think twice or more before ordering from this website

Date of experience: June 25, 2017
Ireland
2 reviews
11 helpful votes
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Buyer Beware!
October 26, 2015

I bought an iPhone 5s from that ali, I spent 365 euros, it came in good time, at least for China and was well packaged. I didn't use it immediately as I had no cover to protect it, after a week I started to use the phone and noticed that most of the time I had no cellular/network coverage. I messaged the seller to ask if they could help, I was told to restore the phone and I did so through iTunes, long story short the iPhone no longer works as it wont reactivate through the apple servers. And because I'm outside of the 15 day window to open a dispute, I am left with a very expensive brick.

I would not purchase anything costing more than 5 euro from this site

Date of experience: October 26, 2015
GB
2 reviews
3 helpful votes
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Thieves
June 17, 2019

These guys are theives. Do not trust them. I ordered a phone that was damaged. They asked me to retturn it. While the item was in transit they proposed an offer of $0 refund effectviely stealing my £450 and giving it to the vendor.

Date of experience: June 17, 2019
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Cheap and easy
July 5, 2019

The products where well made and cheap to buy, I expected worse when I saw how cheap it was. I only bought jewelry and nick nack items so far, I will most likely look into buying clothes as well. So far AliExpress has earned a good review.

Date of experience: July 5, 2019
Massachusetts
12 reviews
35 helpful votes
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Not so good
December 14, 2018

I ordered quite a bit of items. Took well over a month to get and they then blocked me from using my card asking to email them an ID and other items if I wish to order and use the same card again. HELLOO... Thats very rude and what the heck do they need my ID with personal info for? To scam or hack me? I think NOT. Just order with another card but DO NOT send them ID info.It is cheap China items you can buy on other sites without sending info. They have rude customer service as well.

Date of experience: December 14, 2018
Albania
4 reviews
16 helpful votes
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I ordered a lot of stuff like smartphones, lcd's for smartphones. I had problem, either they didnt work on arrival or stop working within a week.

If im gonna be you for a second i would think again before ordering tech products from Ali Express. They customer service will not protect you.
Find something that accepts payments with paypal, at least you will be covered!

Date of experience: October 4, 2018
Turkey
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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My watch has gone
November 22, 2018

The watch that I bought has gone and now it is neither working nor charging. The seller does not respond my messages and the customer service does not help as well. They only say we are here for you, we are behind of you and bla bla bla. They do not find a solution for this problem. I think from aliexpress do not buy anything that is valuable for you. For me 100 dollar is a good money and i will not buy anything from them that is exceeding 20 dollars. Shame of you aliexpress, you are not covering your customer.

Date of experience: November 22, 2018

Overview

AliExpress has a rating of 2 stars from 7,705 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
1,613
value
1,516
shipping
1,556
returns
1,396
quality
1,457
This company responds to reviews on average within 3 days
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