I haven't purchased anything from aliexpress from about a year, and boy howdy, have they made the interface much more deliberately confusing.

The listed prices are often sale prices that I'm not qualified for, and are drastically different than the actual price. Items get lumped into these bundle deals and dollar express categories instead of just going into my shopping cart.

What an annoying mess.

@MLE_online that's all insane and feels intentionally bad; but the thing that will never make sense to my western brain is that they tell you how much the thing will be when it goes on sale in two days. Why?! What possible benefit could that have to them?