Goods from China: worth the risk

My Chinese experiment

So check check! In just a few days I nazakazyval whole bunch junk necessary things from China:

• smartphone,
• Case for an old smartphone,
• masks for sleeping (2 pieces)
• points
• clicker (that is, - below).

Free shipping

When people learn about free shipping, they do not believe. What is the "MAZ" deliver Case for smartphone priced at 50 rubles for free? Is not this a loss?

Unprofitable. But the thing is that the Chinese government is subsidizing their producers and takes postage themselves.

For all my goods delivery was free. Although there are exceptions. Carefully study the product:

speed of delivery

Let's start with the fact that everything has come. A speed estimating yourself:

• Smartphone - 13 days
• clicker - 19 days
• other goods - 23-28 days.

The speed with which came the smartphone, just amazed. Knowledgeable people say, though, that we were a bit lucky. Usually you have to wait longer. Well, so be it.

In general, all goods without exception, met the seller the agreed deadlines. I must say that on

AliExpress is the forecast delivery period, as well as the time period after which, if the parcel has not arrived, you can claim compensation.

Incidentally, all these terms ...

... You can track online!

For a more or less large purchases, you get a special tracking code.

Using it, you can watch as your package travels. Do not laugh, but it is most convenient for package tracking application from the "Mail of Russia". here here I even made it a review.

Tracking code is necessary to ask the seller in personal correspondence.

I ordered and it was

The most important product - smartphone - arrived in good condition. Wife for a month and enjoyed happy as an elephant. That is very smart:

I ordered a couple of cheap masks for sleep. I want to try. Kind of like anatomy:

Silicone cheholchik for my LG G2 sat like a native. Good buy for 80 cents.

Friend Dima came to cool the clicker:

The fact that this - more below.

And, finally, the problem goods - glasses. In this purchase has its own history. Eighteen months ago, I spent the winter in Thailand and bought here there are points for 280 rubles.

They liked me terribly and are still. Our opticians couple thousand cheaper glasses do not find. Besides all that dull and boring.

I thought, "How in Thailand glasses?! Probably from China "After some searching, I came across this article:

Stylish. Fashionable. YOUTH. And just $ 1.21. Wrap!

It is, however, not quite what I expected:

Firstly, dark glasses, not black and blue, as in the picture. Second, poor quality of painting: somewhere uneven, somewhere has got hair. Frankly, I do not pay so much attention.

But the third point - the distortion of the image. Especially in the corners. Wear can not be in principle.

In short, I asked for a refund.

Refund or goods

When it comes to penny goods, the Chinese sellers to easily return the money or sent to a new product. You just need to attach a photo and explain why. Previously, of course, it is necessary to click on "Open a dispute."

I returned the money on your card for a couple of days. By the way, the moderator of the dispute - he AliExpress. Your money after paying kept at it and get to the seller only when you press the "confirm receipt of goods."

And what to do with expensive goods?

And give me my more experienced friends, will have to send the goods back at his own expense. It was only after reading the breakage or you will be sent a new smartphone, for example, or money back.

However, the refund - an extreme case. Are you with him, maybe not never encounter, if you choose a good seller ...

How to choose a reliable Seller

Learn his ratings and read reviews, especially the negative ones.

There is another sign: the more sales volume seller, the faster it will send your order. Therefore, look more and volumes.

If you buy electronics that keep life hacking: buy it through the sites of joint purchases.

How do the sites of joint purchases

Is a large group of people together and submits an application for the purchase of any device. A large group gives us a discount. For example, when buying a smartphone, I saved 26 dollars, or 14%.

The main advantage - in the list for the purchase of goods are only tested. For example, smart phones, which work in our frequencies and are connected to our 4G-Internet. There is a risk of running into a "not" less at times!

In case of problems you can always refer to the moderator of the group, which already solves the problem with the seller. In addition, the theme of every purchase you can ask other customers about the prices, to consult if there is a problem, and get a pretty quick response.

Here is a list of sites of joint procurement, which I could find:

• uberdeal.ru,
• togetho.ru,
• groupb.ru,
• enjoint.ru,
• mychinabuy.ru,
• unite4buy.ru,
• imhotech.ru.

You register on this site, you select the product and get a special code that will have to specify on the site AliExpress. That is no monetary affairs from the procurement site you do not have.

For me, these sites - a guarantee that I will not buy some garbage is not understood. Because at the same time with me to buy hundreds of items geeks and dealers, by which the mouse does not slip. :)

How to save more

To quote two of my friends, experienced buyers.

1. Pay attention to the third-tier manufacturers such as Elephone and so on. Only there you can still capture the really big profits. Cheat for the brand does not go, the iron, in general, is the same, but the quality has tightened.

2. Check for specials on the main page.

So how much do I save?

If we talk about penny goods, it's probably hundreds of percent. But, frankly, I do not even want to consider.

Let's count save money when buying a smartphone. Our smartphone worth 8200 rubles.

The model we have chosen, - Xiaomi Red Rice - differs from the standard presence of 2 GB of memory. I was looking for a similar device in the Russian Internet stores and found only one sentence - 9486 rubles for a smartphone, and 590 rubles for delivery. Total: 10 076 rubles.

Savings at this stage - 1876 rubles, or 19%.

Now let us compare with the proposals in local computer stores. I made a screenshot of the site Ufa store on the day when I got the package. I asked characteristics that interested me: 4G, RAM, camera and others. And that's what I suggested to the search engine:

As you can see, the options are many. toothy prices. When compared to the cheapest "Chinese" (12 990 rubles) savings already 4790 rubles, or 37%.

Although, of course, in this case, the comparison is not quite correct.

How to register on AliExpress

I will not write about it. So it is simple: you are registered, you add a credit card, an address, choose the product and click "Buy." Nothing complicated, and no different from the registration in any other online store.

"Heshelme beshelme, nasyalnika"

Many people are afraid not so much of Chinese goods, many characters. And this has a reason.

For example, our smartphone came entirely in Chinese. However, translated into Russian it was easy. Just over three minutes. Plus another 20 minutes took the setting letter spacing. The solution found in one of the thematic forums, dedicated machine.

And another problem - correspondence with tech support. For example, a fascinating dialogue about a refund for the glasses.

The third problem - the description of the goods in Russian. But all this is achieved by clicking on the "View name in English."

English description is not as funny.

saving of time

Chinese goods - all the "MAZ" in the money? No, it is often more important time savings.

I'll tell you a little story. My friend Dima was given the task of leadership: in connection with the opening of the new cafe is necessary to measure the permeability (how many people pass by this or any other place).

To cope with this problem, Dima needed a special device - a clicker. Its essence is simple: a person passes, Dima presses the clicker button and the number on the counter is incremented. All this is good in theory, but in practice clicker has been very difficult to obtain. Dima unsuccessfully traveled half-Ufa.

As you might imagine, easily found a clicker in China. Attendance was measured.

How much time could save Dima, if immediately placed an order in China? Lot!

in total

I always thought that buying in China - a lot of geeks. they just seemed to me to have been able to separate the wheat from the chaff and find the good things in the trash heap.

But, to my surprise, it was not so. China - a fast, easy and... cheap, of course. You only need to understand a little bit.

And you had a "Chinese" experience? Are you satisfied?