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Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


tater_salad posted:

That means I reject offer right.

I mean they said 'if you have to ship back to China I'll sell you 1 panel and send you 2' but then it's a gentlemen's agreement with someone across the world.

Yeah, you going to get screwed over if you agree to their gentlemans agreements.

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By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!


Can confirm: AE sellers are not gentlemen.
:mad:

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day
Is there no honor among online sellers???

By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!


None whatsoever.
I gave in to a couple of sob stories but no more!:tfrxmas:

Hirayuki
Mar 28, 2010


Same here. When a pair of earrings didn't arrive, the seller convinced me to order a new pair (which I would have done anyway; I like the drat things) that they wouldn't charge me for. Surprise: They charged me for them. And those didn't arrive either. After I started a dispute, the seller messaged me, begging me to please, friend, ask the local delivery office, the package is in the country!! I replied with a screenshot of the post office tracking page doing a big :shrug: about my tracking number, which the P.O. had never heard of. It took two rounds of rejecting the seller's rejection of my refund request before Ali stepped in and gave me my money back.

All over $3 earrings, smdh. I fully expect both packages to turn up wedged next to a seatbelt buckle stem when some mail carrier's cleaning out their Jeep upon retirement. Funnily enough, the freebie that convinced me to buy another pair got here just fine. :iiam:

HELLOMYNAMEIS___
Dec 30, 2007

Some time ago, I got a rotating platform for photography. However, when I was trying to take a video of a statue that weighs about 2kg, it would stall and not rotate smoothly. So, I ordered this new platform, which at least promises to work with items up to 10 kg. It pretty much looks the same, but at least now, I have their promise of the capacity, so I can dispute if it does not deliver in this regard.

Just a heads-up for anyone in search of such a device: there are differences. I've seen turntables promising capacities up to 100 kg.

everdave
Nov 14, 2005
Been getting a lot of earbuds and small things all good, got some specialized items for vehicles and of course they are a month late and Ali is being a bitch 24 more hours after waiting forever or should default and give me a refund but poo poo…don’t relay on poo poo from
Ali

Ethics_Gradient
May 5, 2015

Common misconception that; that fun is relaxing. If it is, you're not doing it right.

By popular demand posted:

None whatsoever.
I gave in to a couple of sob stories but no more!:tfrxmas:

eBay, but I ordered a fancy 3 minute sand timer from India for like AUD$45 (at least half of it was shipping, IIRC). It showed up and... only went for two minutes. I opened a dispute saying "It only would have taken you 3 2 minutes to check this for its one and only function" and got a sob story back and felt kinda crummy so accepted a refund that didn't include the shipping. In hindsight I kinda wish I'd played hardball as it really was a very basic and easy to catch thing (and inconvenienced me a fair bit waiting for another one to come from a different seller), but ah well.

I wound up opening it up and pouring out half the sand to make it a one minute timer (which I use for my Aeropress), so not a total loss I guess.

tater_salad
Sep 15, 2007


how do I get ali involved? Seller keeps proposing return and refund.. which is bullshit. USPS says 44.75 to ship back $90 worth of product so i can turn around and buy it again and pay $10 for shipping on top of the cost of another one. I proposed to meet them 1/2 way and said out of the 3 panels I technically can use 1 so I'll accept a refund on 1 that was broken in transit. and 1 that was not as described.

tater_salad fucked around with this message at 11:45 on Sep 8, 2022

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
Just keep contesting.

Hirayuki
Mar 28, 2010


Yeah, keep rejecting the seller's offer and eventually Ali will step in and rule in your favor. (Has Ali ever sided with the seller in this situation?)

norp
Jan 20, 2004

TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP

let's invade New Zealand, they have oil

Hirayuki posted:

Yeah, keep rejecting the seller's offer and eventually Ali will step in and rule in your favor. (Has Ali ever sided with the seller in this situation?)

I've had Ali side with the seller but I think it was that I asked for a partial refund for a missing charger plug from a xaiomi android box and asked for the cost of buying one separately because they opened the loving packet and took it out.
My offer was $15 or something for the cost of buying one of a similar quality but Ali sided with them for the cost of a bargain basement one of like $3

yoloer420
May 19, 2006
Just keep rejecting. My very first order was some pretty expensive chemical reagents that were near impossible to get locally.

They sent me sugar. They wanted it back, AliExpress staff felt that was silly. I got my money back no issues.

Just make sure that your dispute is very simple to understand, very direct, and that you include images. I find that including a screenshot of what the page showed, next to the actual thing, with text on the image explaining the difference is the best way to go.

yoloer420 fucked around with this message at 13:33 on Sep 8, 2022

tater_salad
Sep 15, 2007


Okay I'll see if I can add to my dispute and screenshot the page.

Looks like I can't update dispute (at least not on mobile) but did take a screenshot.

Basically this would cost me $15 to return and reorder+ 10 weeks.

Return Shipping to China is 44 bucks for $90 in product. Then I'd need to re order 1 with the promise of getting 2

tater_salad fucked around with this message at 14:10 on Sep 8, 2022

Unperson_47
Oct 14, 2007



Hirayuki posted:

Yeah, keep rejecting the seller's offer and eventually Ali will step in and rule in your favor. (Has Ali ever sided with the seller in this situation?)

A few months ago, AliEx sided with a seller over me in my first and only dispute over some $7 bluetooth headphones even when I supplied tracking info that said the item was seized for counterfeit postage and I supplied further proof from USPS that the shipment didn't exist.

Unperson_47
Oct 14, 2007



Anyone in the market for a durable plastic dinosaur for 20 bux?

https://i.imgur.com/EyCgLCX.mp4

By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!


Now I think that we were lied too about that whole extinction thing, nothing seems to hurt it.

Vlaphor
Dec 18, 2005

Lipstick Apathy

Did not know I needed a dinosaur themed reboot of Mr Bill...

DRINK ME
Jul 31, 2006
i cant fix avs like this because idk the bbcode - HTML IS BS MAN
Goddamn that’s a tough and beautiful dinosaur. Music is pretty great for it too.

This popped up in the feed, I thought with the motor all the interlinked cogs would turn and that’s be neat. Turns out only the entire ball turns, none of the cogs.

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day

Vlaphor posted:

Did not know I needed a dinosaur themed reboot of Mr Bill...

OH NO MR REX

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

DRINK ME posted:

Goddamn that’s a tough and beautiful dinosaur. Music is pretty great for it too.

This popped up in the feed, I thought with the motor all the interlinked cogs would turn and that’s be neat. Turns out only the entire ball turns, none of the cogs.


Legowned.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
This seems like an aliexpress type of product

VictualSquid
Feb 29, 2012

Gently enveloping the target with indiscriminate love.
e: wrong thread

By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!


mobby_6kl posted:

This seems like an aliexpress type of product

The problem here is that you'd probably only figure out that it supposed to be a masturbation tool once you picked it up and then you'd feel how heavy it is with gold and jewels.
Hide your valuables in a used cat litter box, ain't nobody checking that for hidden gold.:vomarine:

Bored
Jul 26, 2007

Dude, ix-nay on the oice-vay.

mobby_6kl posted:

This seems like an aliexpress type of product

So its a fake fleshlight for you to store weed, cocaine, whatever? Because they figure even cops wont want to touch your fleshlight?

I was looking through recommendations to see if i could find the 3 lens sunglasses that were recommended the other day, but saw this first

US $5.33 25%OFF | Snoop Dogg Christmas Elf Doll Toys Crafts Resin DIY Ornaments Toys Home Aesthetic Decoration Doll Gifts For Children
https://a.aliexpress.com/_mNq4QF6

Bored fucked around with this message at 18:26 on Sep 9, 2022

Squish
Nov 22, 2007

Unrelenting.
Lipstick Apathy

It's almost like they have one, specific customer in mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn9sWJ14mOE

Beartaco
Apr 10, 2007

by sebmojo
I'm looking to buy a digital knockoff watch that tells Swatch Internet Time. I figure this is the best place to ask, I can't find one elsewhere and I think I might have to build one myself.

r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

maybe you could get an old pebble watch off ebay, there's still a beats watch face for it on rebble
http://store-beta.rebble.io/app/557b16c5936283feeb000053

the real adventure would be replacing the battery which is almost certainly dead after 8 years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84MS964scQI

r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

ok i made myself curious about that whole rebble thing so i rummaged through my basement until i found my old pebble that i hadn't used since 2015 to see if the service actually still works



not looking too promising but i left it on the charger for a couple hours....

it lives!


sideloaded the app on a old lovely android tablet, annnd....


but more importantly


a finer watch was never made

r u ready to WALK fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Sep 10, 2022

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day

r u ready to WALK posted:

ok i made myself curious about that whole rebble thing so i rummaged through my basement until i found my old pebble that i hadn't used since 2015 to see if the service actually still works



not looking too promising but i left it on the charger for a couple hours....

it lives!


sideloaded the app on a old lovely android tablet, annnd....


but more importantly


a finer watch was never made

that is sick as hell

DRINK ME
Jul 31, 2006
i cant fix avs like this because idk the bbcode - HTML IS BS MAN
I don’t wear watches but that’s pretty cool. I really liked the swatch beat / Internet time idea, I did look at buying a swatch on eBay but they were too expensive for something I wasn’t going to wear. I’ve never seen them on Ali.

I have a few different time apps including @beats on iphone but never really found a good way to use widgets that didn’t feel like wasted screen space, so they’re just all stuck on a page I don’t really use

MarcusSA
Sep 23, 2007

Cross posting this from another thread.

Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:

It's been a while since we've seen a good old fashioned Ali Express Special:

https://twitter.com/VideoCardz/status/1569064638196727811

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3256804105639443.html?gatewayAdapt=4itemAdapt

$190 for the 6600M (a laptop GPU) that's been slapped onto a PCIe card. These have nearly the same specs as the desktop 6600, but the power limit is lower. You can manipulate that by +20% it looks like (to 120W instead of the desktop's 132W), and undervolting may possibly help improve performance more. The normal AMD drivers should work just fine with it, but who knows what odd issues you may run into from having a laptop GPU in your desktop. And good luck importing it from China.

edit: these also look like they use an almost identical cooler design to the terrible Biostar 6600 XT Hardware Unboxed looked at, but the video that VideoCardz linked to claimed that the card is actually quiet, so who knows.

It’s actually a really good deal lol. About $70 cheaper vs the real card here in the US.

ante
Apr 9, 2005

SUNSHINE AND RAINBOWS
Are you crossposting that to laugh?


Because :lol:

MarcusSA
Sep 23, 2007

ante posted:

Are you crossposting that to laugh?


Because :lol:

Na it’s actually kinda cool.

I’d buy one if I was in the market for a sub $200 GPU

Tad Naff
Jul 8, 2004

I told you you'd be sorry buying an emoticon, but no, you were hung over. Well look at you now. It's not catching on at all!
:backtowork:
Cripe

Only registered members can see post attachments!

Vlaphor
Dec 18, 2005

Lipstick Apathy
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3256804193693018.html

I question the need for the voice over...

https://video.aliexpress-media.com/play/u/ae_sg_item/2214241437092/p/1/e/6/t/10301/1100045640452.mp4

KDdidit
Mar 2, 2007



Grimey Drawer
If I ordered a stainless steel necklace from Ali would it probably not be stainless steel and would it likely cause a rash or no?

Killingyouguy!
Sep 8, 2014

KDdidit posted:

If I ordered a stainless steel necklace from Ali would it probably not be stainless steel and would it likely cause a rash or no?

I have ordered many such necklaces from ali and would not recommend using them as chew toys but i have yet to get a rash

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KDdidit
Mar 2, 2007



Grimey Drawer
Good enough for me, thanks!

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