Show me a single example. Not to mention aliexpress shipping usually takes about 6-8 weeks.

There are no items where it’s 5 times as much for the same item with the same speed to your door.

I buy things in aliexpress all the time. You’re paying in unavailability. Much of the time orders are actually batched

Not quite 5x, but if you try to buy a HDMI cable off aliexpress, it takes about 2 months to get here. It's about half the price of similar length cable on amazon.

I was trying to buy a Flexi brand dog lead on Amazon yesterday, and despite my search including the brand name, and me filtering the results by brand "Flexi", more than half the results were sponsored listings for Chinese knockoffs that people are drop-shipping from Ali. I gave up and went to a shop.

If it can deliver in 2 days, it's not "drop shipping".

How do you know they were dropshipped from alirxpress