I've have very good service from Chinese vendors on eBay. A few items were damaged in transit (with obvious damage to the package exterior) and a couple times the count was short and in every case they just refunded the money or sent a replacement letting me keep the broken parts. About 1/3rd of them send a followup email. I've done many transactions and every week there is a steady flow of parts in the mailbox most under $5 per order. Yes sometimes their English is odd but that is usually because of automatic translation. These same vendors are shipping to Europe, the middle east, Russia and Latin America so you can't expect them to know French, Arabic, Russian and English too. No. They use Google Translate which is very good but not perfect.
One good thing about eBay and China is their e-packet delivery system. Ebay, China Post and the US Postal service actually worked to together to integrate their data systems. The end result is dirt cheap and reasonably fast delivery for very small packages. On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 8:19 AM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday 16 November 2016 09:55:08 John Thornton wrote: > > > I made a claim with aliexpress once when I didn't get the shipment and > > I got a refund. IIRC it is done on your orders page not a suppliers > > page. > > > > JT > > The page I started from in trying, was the emailed link asking me to > confirm receipt. That page had an open dispute link, and that page > failed to work. I tried it 3 days running. I searched their site > diligently for an email link that actually gets to a human, but > everything they will show me is send to me only, with incoming > presumably sent to /dev/null. > > IMNSHO, I got screwed and didn't even get kissed. And thats the third > purchase I've made thru ali*, getting poor quality stuff, very long > delivery times. So scrooo'em, and the camel that rode in on them. I'm > done. > > I may pay more for the same thing from a stateside firm, but its worth it > to have them accessable without a $20 minute trans-pacific phone call, > that will cost me $150 while they round up someone who speaks some > semblance of English. But if my experience with the call centers in the > middle east is any indicator, they only understand "yes". Saying > anything else to them is nolo comprendi. I just hang up. > > > On 11/15/2016 9:29 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > And when I tried to open a dispute, with the target being getting a > > > good o-pi, their dispute form will not take the button clicks to > > > enable the submission. I even went to the trouble of making a 220 > > > megabyte video, as the page requested, showing the defective video, > > > but the submit button, while responding to the click, does not feed > > > it back to aliexpress/alibaba so I can open the dispute. It's only > > > $44.47, and that will not affect the height of my ladder against the > > > side of the hog. But this list will recall I bitched about them once > > > before. But it will NOT happen again, they are now on my shitheads > > > list. I just checked with my bank, and they can't protest it either. > > > I like the idea of the o-pi, and may even see if I can find one on > > > this side of the pond I can buy as it will shrink the control > > > structure by quite a few feet of wire, and the nominally 1 cubic > > > foot of the dell computer. Cheers, Gene Heskett > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
