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Whats the verdict on temu vs aliExpress. I still find things %30 cheaper on AE while most of my orders are delivered within 6 days.

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I get so much Temu spam that I finally gave up and decided to check them up. I compared 3 random items that the spam in Instagram was about - exact same items were 3x - 10x cheaper on AliExpress than Temu (~0.50 on Ali, ~5.0 on Temu, ~10 on Amazon). I haven't looked further but my impression was that they just ship stuff from AliExpress with a X price multiplier?

How do you go about finding stuff on AliExpress that isn't (too) shit when it turns up? Or is that just the risk?

Sort by number of orders.

It's a bit crass but you can accept a few duds and still come out ahead. In my experience even the duds are good for a year or two.

Out of curiosity, what types of goods do you get from those websites?

Chinese knockoffs and other junk products

> Chinese knockoffs and other junk products

As if most of the originals aren't made in the very same factory in China.

For real

Smart home stuff, keyboards are cheap and pretty good on Ali Express.

When I wanted to build my own mech keeb, the components were available only on AE. On AMZ they were much more expensive.

My experience with keyboard components on Amazon in Canada is that they’re beyond prohibitively expensive. It’s absolutely insane. I could never wrap my head around why… Who’s buying it? I suppose impulse purchases because so many of them are hard to find otherwise, or you have to wait a while for batches?

There's a ton of amazon.com stuff machine-reposted on amazon.ca (plus a $$$ Fedex/UPS fee to get it to you quickly after they receive it themselves in USA).

lots of electronic components, modules, tools, etc... Things you get on Amazon for $10-15 range is basically $2-4 on AliExpress.

If It's a big or $75+ item, usually prices are same as Amazon.

A 16" 4K USB-C OLED display (with a touch sensor even). It works exactly as advertised and looks really nice but is rather useless for me, to be honest.

Could you share a link to this please? I could definitely use this.

I'd be interested as well

It's this one: https://aliexpress.com/item/1005004110616192.html

This sounds extremely useful to me! I’m building out a home assistant dashboard and would like a nice crisp display with touch.

Why did you get it if it’s useless for you? Not being critical at all, more so curious how it turned out to be a bad fit.

I would guess it's something like this

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005670832686.html

[Edit] Ah no, it says 4k in the title but the description is 1080p.

Try this

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006407747752.html

It's https://aliexpress.com/item/1005004110616192.html I think a regular IPS display would be way less susceptible to burn-in when used as a dashboard display, though. As for why I don't use it much: I thought it would be nice to have a second portable screen for my laptop instead of a proper desktop setup, but it's just mildly inconvenient to carry around and set up/pack away every time, and it offers way less usable screen area than a regular-sized display (unsurprisingly).

Anything where you're actually ok with all the NEUVWY branded junk on Amazon but want it much cheaper in exchange for possibly slightly slower delivery and a horrible browsing experience.

Or free if you're willing to put up with REALLY slower delivery. I ordered a 20kmAH battery with fold out solar panels off wish. 4 months later with it undelivered and tracking no longer active I requested and got a full refund. Two months later it finally arrived having gone the long way around the planet and held by Azerbaijani customs for several months.

sounds like you got a free battery ;)

did that with a showerhead, $80 on amazon, $30 on aliexpress, and it's actually quite well made (real metal) and seems to be great so far after a year. I'm sure there are a lot of duds though and it's caveat emptor, do at least a little research if you can find anything.

Great, cheap flashlights with so many options for customization (Convoy).

As well as Convoy, quite a few others also have official stores on AliExpress, like Sofirn, Lumintop, and Maxtoch.

I fond them to have the same prices and mostly the same items but temu often doesnt have the really nice version of a thing thats basically from a “brand” in china

Here is today’s random example: https://a.aliexpress.com/_mr2D3Y4

Couldn’t find anything like that on temu

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