Heed my words. Aliexpress was faster, more pleasant experience back in 2010 than it is now, both as a website, and a service.
A lot of their features were copied almost 1-to-1 by Amazon, just for them to later be deleted on Aliexpress.
Most famous, being the inventoryless fulfilment (vs. inventory carrying fulfilment used at the time by Amazon.) They dropped it around 2013-2014 in most markets, and Amazons started rolling it out at around 2015.
I notice that everyone puts all product details in the title of their product because the filters are next to useless. It's like going into a supermarket where all of the products are now on one giant shelf and you have to manually search through the entire shelf because the store doesn't put any effort into putting them into effective aisles, or mandate that the sellers put them in the appropriate aisle.
I search in vain a memory of mom and pop store, where I did not have to spend inordinate amount of time to resolve any issue.
Amazon was successful, because it filled a need that Bezos noticed that it could be better.