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I always hear stories about the dangers of buying from WIsh.com, Aliexpress, and recently Temu. I've jokingly called them "buyer beware" sites even. Yet people still use them, and there's just as many positive results as negative. But I've also heard about unexplained card charges, data hacks, pyramid-scheme-like behavior, etc. So which of those sites, or other similar sites, is the "safest" if I DID wanna shop there?

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago

AliExpress is completely fine, nothing sketchy about it in principle. You can find trash on it since it's a very open marketplace, making it the same as Amazon or eBay.

Except that unlike Amazon, AX doesn't copy their sellers' products just to sell them under their own brand and kick the sellers out, nor does it sign monopolistic pacts with Apple. Workers treatment is about the same I guess... So correction, less sketchy than Amazon or eBay.

Wish specialises in dogshit and review manipulation though. Not good for anything more than a phone case, and I'd rather buy those on AX anyway.