It is possible that, when looking for a product, more than once you have come across Aliexpress. It is one of the best-known shopping websites, along with Amazon. However, there are still many people who are reluctant to buy from it. Are you wondering if Aliexpress is reliable?
If you have never bought before, or have had bad experiences and you consider that it is not worth it, then we want to comment with you on the good and the bad of Aliexpress so that you can know if it is reliable or not and, above all, so that if you launch To buy you always do it with a guarantee in between. Shall we start?
What is Aliexpress
Aliexpress was founded as an online sales platform in 2010 by Jack Ma, his founder. The goal was for small companies in China, and elsewhere, to have a presence on the Internet and to be able to offer their products to both domestic and international buyers. The headquarters is located in Hangzhou, People's Republic of China, and belongs to the Alibaba Group.
In October 2019, Aliexpress announced that it had 1000 billion products for sale on its online platform, and over the years that have passed it is more than likely that that number has increased much more.
Also, in case you don't know, right now Aliexpress has a physical point of sale in Spain. It is not only the first in Spain, but in Europe. It is located in Madrid, specifically in the Shopping Resort, the Int Xanadú Shopping Center. You can go there if you live in or around Madrid and see the products they have for sale, or you can even buy other products from their online store there.
Aliexpress, is it reliable?
After what we have told you about Aliexpress, there is no doubt that it is reliable. But there are always nuances that you must take into account. And is that Aliexpress is not a store in itself, but a place where a lot of sellers are included. It is similar to when you buy from a third-party Amazon seller, only, in this case, all of them (or almost all) are like that.
This implies that you can find good and reliable sellers, or you can meet others who do not send you the product. Or they give you bargain prices for what you want and then ask you to cancel because they made a mistake.
Generally speaking, we can tell you that Aliexpress is trustworthy. It has its strengths, as is the price of the products, much cheaper in most of them, and in variety; but also its negative points, such as the wait, which is sometimes quite long, or the lack of guarantees on technological products (especially if you have to send them to China or another country to be reviewed).
You also have the Aliexpress guarantee. And it is that until you give the notice that you have received the product in Aliexpress they do not release the payment for the sellers, and if there has been a problem they usually take responsibility for the problem and then settle accounts with the seller, but once They have solved everything for you.
So yes, shopping on Aliexpress is safe. But to do it right, you have to carry out a small "selection" and a few tricks to ensure that what you buy is not of poor quality, nor is it false, nor is it wrong. Do you want to know how?
Buy on Aliexpress safely
If we have already told you before that Aliexpress is reliable, now we have to warn you that you cannot go lightly when buying; much less if it is something of great value.
As "buyers" on Aliexpress, the tricks that have worked for us to avoid problems, and if we have solved them as best as possible for ourselves, we have the following:
Do not stay with the first product that appears in the search engine
When you go to look for a product on Aliexpress, if it is something fashionable and that people demand, you will get dozens of sellers with those products (and beware, many sellers are the same, only they have different stores). That means there are lots of different prices.
Our recommendation is that put the search engine to list the products from cheapest to most expensive (without shipping). Next, select a few sellers that you can consider to have the cheapest prices.
Check the opinions
Once you have selected the sellers, it is time to analyze them. They don't really have a physical store, but a virtual one, so you should be governed by the opinions they have. In this sense, be guided by the stars. One that has two stars is not the same as another that has 5. Nor do we tell you that you always choose the one with five, but one that is close to that figure and has enough sales made (whenever possible).
Why? Well because there will be opinions of other buyers who have purchased the products. So you will have to read a little to see if the product that arrives is adequate or not, if it is of quality, if it is worth it ...
When paying, bet on PayPal
If you have Paypal, and you can pay with it, all the better. We recommend it because it is an extra guarantee. Not only do you have Aliexpress as reliable, but you also have PayPal in between, and if in two months (or before) you have not received the payment, you can claim both Paypal and Aliexpress.
In this way, on the one hand or on the other, they will solve your problem and you will get your money back in most cases (of course, you have to justify why you want your money back and show that the product or not you received, or it was not what you wanted).
Sometimes it's tempting luck
We can't help reminding you. Aliexpress is reliable, yes, but sometimes you have to take a risk to buy a product. The risk is that you do not know the quality of what you buy, at least until it reaches you; And you are also buying something that may take a month or more to arrive, and you want it not when it is enough money it can scare you a little.
But for that there is the guarantee, and by making sure to apply it before the deadline (either on Aliexpress or on PayPal if you use it) nothing should happen.
Now you just have to make your first order and try the experience if you have not already done so. Do you have more questions that we can solve for you? Ask us!