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Basically every single thing you buy in a store, is also available, at around 1/10 the price, at these sites.

The next time you need a kitchen gadget, tool, measuring cup, belt, socks, pencil. Anything. Buy it on aliexpress and save a ton, in exchange for very long shipping times, and you pretty much can't return anything (you can get refunds for defective stuff, but not for wrong size/color etc).

And it's not just a Chinese clone of the item, it's the exact same item, with a different name printed on it.

Oh gosh.

Head over to banggood.com and see what you've been missing.

Are any such companies like this listed on a US stock exchange? I'm thinking this has got to hit some companies with serious risk to sales or profit?

Alibaba is on NYSE as BABA (AliExpress is the internationally facing version of Alibaba/Taobao)

Every electronics I ever tried to buy cheap from China (e.g. from dhgate.com) has been broken. I have literally never seen an electronics that is remotely close to working from this source. I do believe that you can get something if you're lucky; but even after reading reviews and seeing good ones I got USBs that are not working (I tried to buy them out of curiosity, I just spent $10 or something).