Market

Buyer beware is true no mater the location, the company, whatever….

Amazon and AliExpress are exactly the same types of companies which provide a virtual mall where many merchants can sell items.

In fact, many merchants in the U.S. for example sell the same exact items which You can get on AliExpress or Amazon for much more money. Are you willing to pay much more for the same item just so you can say you bought it at this particular place? Whatever floats your boat.

It is a fact that much of what we buy non-foods wise come from China. So anyone who suggests that you’ll get sick by buying not from them? Buyer beware of seller!

In another example: Have you read or seen the actual fast food you buy looks like before it is cooked? Are you willing eat pink slime or meat with tiny maggots just because it comes from a name-brand fast food store?

AliExpress has just as many good toys as well as thousands of other products as any store such as Amazon or a brick ’n mortar store do. Which means they also have just as many bad toys as Amazon or a brick ’n mortar store do!

So buyer beware is a blanket suggestion.

I’d much rather discover a bad toy and have paid little for it on AliExpress versus having paid a premium amount at a brick ’n mortar store or Amazon and have to go through the displeasure of having to return it or find out that I can’t return it.

The great thing about online shopping is that you can compare many places and many products and also the same products to determine who has the best price for what you want. Today, the majority of people have to make due with less money. So that means making better more calculated decisions on what and where we spend.

Quite frankly, I’ve saved a ton with AliExpress and my experience has been no different. You learn what is safe to buy by comparing and looking for apples to apples rather than apples to grapes (try to find the exact same thing that you or other reviewers tell you are good buys). I’ve have found so much that I could have bought in my own country on AliExpress (apples to apples). But with AliExpress and more often than not free shipping, I have saved literally thousands of dollars over the years. Which means that the same products where purchased from China by merchants in my own country, only to be sold at much higher prices had I bought them from these merchants rather than the ones in China on AliExpress. Same too goes for Amazon but I will have payed more on Amazon than AliExpress for the same exact item.

If you are not good at researching a product before you buy, then of course you will pay much more over time for far far far less by buying from those who have huge markups on items other people buy for a fraction of the cost. And this is expected in a country where everything is costly. So you see, that local merchant is trying to make money by buying where it costs less (China) if they can get the same product their competition is selling there.

Often you’ll buy product that is re-branded so that you do not know it came from China. Thanks to the lies of Marketing it is always Buyer Beware now days!! There are many good merchants in China who have a quality mind and do not generally sell bad products to anyone. Its true you won’t know who are good and who are bad but you will learn over time who not to buy from as you would anywhere be it local or long distance.