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Re:Alibaba hits nearly $18B in ‘Singles Day’ orders in 12 hours by rorykoehler on Saturday November 11, 2017 @05:32AM (#15675770)
China quality is fairly meaningless considering iphones etc are also manufactured in China. Overall I've never been disappointed with what I have purchased from China. Always does what it says on the tin.
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Re:Alibaba hits nearly $18B in ‘Singles Day’ orders in 12 hours by pwneror on Saturday November 11, 2017 @08:19AM (#15676230)
The stuff you order from sites like aliexpress has no quality control.
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Re:Alibaba hits nearly $18B in ‘Singles Day’ orders in 12 hours by duckwheat on Saturday November 11, 2017 @10:04AM (#15676603)
It is a ridiculous and overly broad statement to say that of the tens or hundreds of thousands of companies selling on these sites, none have a QC process in place.
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Re:Alibaba hits nearly $18B in ‘Singles Day’ orders in 12 hours by code_duck on Saturday November 11, 2017 @10:16AM (#15676651)
I think the intent is to say that there are no site-wide quality standards.
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Re:Alibaba hits nearly $18B in ‘Singles Day’ orders in 12 hours by dmoy on Saturday November 11, 2017 @11:16AM (#15676874)
Sure but then by that measure neither does Amazon. I bought a metal plant off of Amazon stand that literally had half the nuts and bolts with no threading. There's no way that passes any kind of QC.
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Re:Alibaba hits nearly $18B in ‘Singles Day’ orders in 12 hours by disiplus on Saturday November 11, 2017 @01:57PM (#15677562)
that not true, i ordered a tv box that is clearly not as described ( i provided a prof ) , the only thing that is saving me is paypal from geekbuying. they are offering only part of the refund and shipping it back is to expensive for them.

on amazon if something is not described ( i ordered anker dongle for my macbook that did not work on the 2016 model) i get a refund right away and the shipping covered.

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Re:Alibaba hits nearly $18B in ‘Singles Day’ orders in 12 hours by remus on Saturday November 11, 2017 @06:40PM (#15678815)
Thats not QC, thats customer service.
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Re:Alibaba hits nearly $18B in ‘Singles Day’ orders in 12 hours by coldtea on Sunday November 12, 2017 @10:10AM (#15681095)
>that not true, i ordered a tv box that is clearly not as described ( i provided a prof )

Err, that proves the parent's point -- if Amazon did some quality control they wouldn't sell it.

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Re:Alibaba hits nearly $18B in ‘Singles Day’ orders in 12 hours by rorykoehler on Saturday November 11, 2017 @09:37PM (#15679377)
Read the reviews and do some external research to make sure the reviews aren't bought. Exactly like on Amazon. Amazon has the same level of quality control as AliExpress. Same process applies.
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Re:Alibaba hits nearly $18B in ‘Singles Day’ orders in 12 hours by coldtea on Sunday November 12, 2017 @10:09AM (#15681091)
The same holds true for Amazon. Read the horror stories. So it's not like it's unique to aliexpress.
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