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 What did it for me is that they have a money-back guarantee. I bought some Dallas DS12887A real time clock / battery backed RAM chips, so I could replace an original DS1287A from 1992 in my 1U VAX, as people are wont to do.
What I received didn’t work at all. It wasn’t as though the battery was dead - it was as if the chip didn’t exist. More than one did the same thing.
I tried to return them. The sellers told me they couldn’t make a mailing label because they couldn’t “process” my address - the one they shipped to! I updated the address half a dozen times, and each time got the same error. Because of this, I had to pay for return shipping. Then they said they never received the return.
Of course it’s a scam. Grrr…
Emily Velasco
Bitslingers-R-Us