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Why does AliExpress and Chinese ads signify all of Chinese culture? They have the second largest population in the world. You've chosen scams run by fractions of a percent of the population of China and decided that the entire culture is defined by lying and cheating?
Easy on the casual racism my dude.
This is incredibly racist. So I really hope this is a troll post.
Tiktok was caught spying on American journalists. Where is the racism here?
You taking your experience with a few AliExpress sellers & Tiktok owners and generalizing it to Chinese culture is the definition of racism.
Gotta source?
Are you shitposting, I can't tell
I have been screwed a time or two, but honestly, most of the time I've had a pretty good experience dealing with Chinese sellers. Of course that's partly because I choose who I buy from carefully, as yeah there are a lot of scanners out there. I've also been scammed by local people and I think it's important to not immediately judge people based on where they are from.
I'm pretty sure the reason there are so many scammers in china, is because of the amount of poor and desperate people there, and the fact that the situation has been like that for so long, is the reason it seems to have now been ingrained in their culture. There's a huge amount of scammers in other poor countries like india as well.
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I've had very little issues with chinese sellers personally. The two times I did they quickly resolved the issue to my satisfaction. That's more than I can say for all the times I had issues with American sellers.
That's because Aliexpress refund system works good. But some time ago, several chinese seller tried to fool me in direct messaging saying "close the appelation and I'll return money to your PayPal". Also I had bad expirience with chinese software. It's always proprietary, contain bugs and rarely get fixes.
All of that stuff happens in international retail with any country, and with software coming from any country.
I think you’re just being bigoted.
I've had American sellers do the same thing on Amazon. I've had them lie about a product being new on their listing and refuse to correct the mistake only to try to bribe me to take my bad review of them down (even then their offer wasn't sufficient to fix my problem). It's not about nationality, it's just scumbags being scumbags and those come from all nations.
Same. I've had several refunds. No request to return. Just full money back.
I don't think people recognize how often a purchase made to Amazon or some similar seller platform is actually coming straight from China; always with a 2x or more mark up.
I've taken to always searching on ali to see if I can get the same thing for 1/10 the price. They don't try to hide the shipping information like Amazon does. Where as Amazon won't report anything until it's in country and passed customs.