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Anyone who has ordered frequently from AliExpress (or Temu, Wish, ..) will tell you that line is not unnecessary.

He did pre-shipping inspection, worked with the factory etc, donuts not at all like temu or aliexpress

Rather, it's exactly like approximately everything anyone here owns, because almost every physical good available to buy locally arrives from China in a container, in more-less the fashion described in the article.

But did he order from AliExpress, Temu or Wish?

Well it suggests the main topic will be discussion of what he received and that it may not have been as expected.

Without that, maybe the topic is about something like the customs and payment process.

Sadly it was neither of those things, he bought, and received exactly what was expected, the headline was simply click bait.

I only clicked through as I expected something unusually-interesting, but read it anyway because electrified big-kid toys.

It’s not even that—he worked with a factory to modify some of their excavators for US customers. So he knew exactly what he was getting because he helped design them.