AliExpress for products from China

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Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：10/06/2018 01:07:36Copy HTML

Not tried Aliexpress but I have bought at least a dozen Chinese thongs and bikini briefs off eBay. I've been impressed by the quality, low prices, and speed of shipping to the UK,

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：10/31/2018 06:07:09Copy HTML

11/11 Sales on Chinese sites like AliExpress - I posted this to my FB page. Then thought I would post the same for you folks, to let you know about 11/11 sales. 

Every year AliExpress.com runs specials on November 11th - from most of the vendors. This is the equivalent to the black-friday sales in the USA. The one day discounts are sometimes just 5 or 10% but sometimes as deep as 30 to 50%.

My kind friends say I am thrifty, my ex probably says I am cheap. Either way I do like to hunt down bargains. I am a LONG time ebay buyer, with more than 2,220 transactions and a 100% positive feedback. Not to boast, but to show I know a bit about buying things online. As most of you know I now use AliExpress.com a LOT !! 

Like all web stores that sell products from multiple vendors you have to be a bit selective. First because a lot of the clothing products are described in good English, but the SIZING is Chinese. So you have to size up SEVERAL SIZES.

A second problem with AliExpress is you can't sort by "price and shipping", only by price. So some vendors discount the price, but bump the shipping. Therefore when sorting by price the first one may not be the least expensive. Look at several.
Use the "Add to Cart" function to gather up alternatives of the same product from different vendors, then go into your cart and you can view each offering, and where the price is now shown with shipping. Pay the vendor with the lowest price and remove the rest from your cart.

China to US postal rates for small packages are very low, so even items less than $1 often come with free shipping. Many items like small lightweight parts or light cloths have free shipping. Sometimes if you get 1 the shipping is free, but if you get 2 there is shipping charge, so multiple orders of 1 at a time are sometimes less cost than doing one order for several.

Some of the current deals for 11/11 are pre-order deals, you pay a deposit now and then the rest on 11/11 locking in the availability of the item and price. Means you don't have to be up at 3AM when the 11/11 deals start rolling in China.

I get A LOT of thongs and other clothing from AliExpress. In addition to thongs I get things like bike lights, USB cables, shorts, tools and other parts that are all made in China.

However shipments can take up to a month. If you place orders now, or even better reserve orders for 11/11 when many things go on sale you will probably get them by mid december, but with the Christmas postal rush they may come later. 

TIP: When an AliExpress order arrives ALWAYS go to "Confirm Delivery" for that order. That way you can later filter the "My Orders" list to just show those orders still "Awaiting Delivery". This helps when you have a number of orders in the pipeline. If you later find the product defective you can still open a dispute after confirming delivery.

If you are thinking about jumping on the 11/11 sailes you may want to browse AliExpress now, and make an initial small order, or 11/11/ reservation payment, just to get setup.  I have had my card on file with AliExpress for a couple of years without a problem. AliExpress handles the money and pays the Chinese vendors, so your details are not exposed to the vendors.

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：01/09/2019 03:13:29Copy HTML

Hello!
Anyone bought this item?
https://aliexpress.com/item/2015-TM-sexy-men-underwear-gay-thongs-Gay-Penis-Pouch-Thongs-And-G-Strings-Lingerie-Men/32472413883.html

I do not really understand how this thong arranged, since there is no photos in the customer reviews. If you have this model - share your photo please!

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：01/10/2019 03:50:17Copy HTML

Kawaiski — I have one of these (but no photo yet). When laying flat, the front is about 14cm curving very slightly down, and then angles back for about 7.5cm, slightly arching up, until it meet the crotch strap. Sort of like a hawk's beak. 

When worn, the crotch strap starts just below the bottom of the shaft, and splits the middle of the scrotum, and is balls out. The front is a triangle, of fabric that is thin and opaque,  that tapers down to the tip of the shaft, almost like one of those "tanning sheaths", except that it does not go snug around the base. The end result is an arrow pointing downwards, with the tip of the shatft at the point:

The fabric is quite stretchy, and can be pulled down and back to cover the balls if desired, but it's not as sexy that way, although it still shows a lot of your contour.

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：01/10/2019 07:07:51Copy HTML

J_R_365, thanks! I hope you publish a photo:)

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：01/11/2019 01:34:32Copy HTML

As soon as I loose weight!

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：01/11/2019 07:49:01Copy HTML

J_R_365, Does weight matter? :) The photo is clearer than the description, besides, English is not my native language. You can crop the photo and show only the pouch.

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：01/24/2019 03:12:46Copy HTML

Sometimes the underwear makes good outdoor thongs.  
Today I am going to be wearing this when pressure cleaning the boat.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Mens-Sexy-G-String-Thongs-Bikini-Gay-Men-Underwear-Men-T-Back-Thong-Homme-Jockstrap-Men/32922511178.html

I don't like the ones trimmed in white, looks too much like underwear, but the yellow trimmed in blue is bright and fun.

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：01/27/2019 03:58:32Copy HTML

A few of my favorite AliExpress thong things... to 'miss'-quote Julie Andrews from the 'Sound of Music':

Although some prudes might object to pulling an American 
flag themed thong between your cheeks, these will set your thong 
experience 'on-fire':

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/JAYCOSIN-Newly-2018-Fashion-Mens-Flag-Sexy-Striped-Underwear-Men-s-Briefs-Shorts-Underpants-panties-man/32885177983.html

Yeah, these are awesome too, and will get your flag/pole 'at attention':

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Three-Colour-Printed-string-transparent-homme-Men-Sexy-Underwear-Shorts-Underpants-Bulge-Pouch-Briefs-Panties-Funny/32850149745.html

I have a 34 odd inch waist and typically order XL... from AliExpress.

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：02/02/2019 12:48:30Copy HTML

If you are thinking about ordering what you think is a bargain on a name brand product from Aliexpress, I suggest that you go down to ITEM SPECIFICS and see if it truly is that brand. Often they will post a picture of a high end, name brand product (like TM) but go down to Item Specifics and here's what you'll see: Brand Name: PYONGRANS which in my opinion is cheap, throw-away junk compared with the genuine article. I speak from experience. That is why Aliexpress states that they are "not responsible for authenticity".

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：03/16/2019 07:09:06Copy HTML

This post is to let members know about a VERY POSITIVE experience with one of my recent orders via AliExpress. Seldom do I find a product that I can highly recommend to Board members.

This is for a men's "Rope Belt Thong", which is an adjustable-front g-string with twisted cords forming the waistband/belt.  This "suit" is 95% polyamide (no stretch polyester-like pouch) and 5% elastane (extremely stretchy spandex-like waistband) and has NO Chinese characters (garments with characters seem to have a cotton pouch).

One click is worth many words. I purchased FLL-038 at I-TRENDY Store:
        https://www.aliexpress.com/store/4470042
or
        https://www.aliexpress.com/store/4470042/search?SearchText=FLL-038
At the time of my purchase, I ordered two at $3.02 with a $1.00 discount off $5.00.
Other vendors have product numbers F-E032-2, E-032bs, AYC-E-038, F-E038.

The size chart says: M 27-30", L 30-32", XL 33-35", XXL 35-38".  But the XL should be sized closer to 32"-48" (it REALLY stretches from 24" laying "flat").  So, this is one Asian product for which you will want to order the same or smaller than your US size!  The store owner recommended the XL for my 40" waist, but the L might have worked!

The front is adjustable from about 1.5" to 8".  It's about 8" from the top of the front down to the point the under-strap is connected.  The top back of the under-strap wraps loosely around the waistband. There is about 1/4" coverage along the waist line, and being a g-string, no coverage for the buttocks.

The "navy blue" is opaque when dry and has only a slight hint of see-through when wet, and I suspect this is true of any of the dark colors. I think these "suits" will be great for sunbathers and at public beaches that allow g-strings and thongs.  The "yellow" is essentially see-through when dry and clearly see-through when wet so I'd avoid the use of lighter colors at public or non-nude beaches.

The last suit of this style that made me happy was purchased from Dore, so you can see why I was happy to find this product, especially for such an affordable price.

Danny

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：04/11/2019 01:31:11Copy HTML

AliExpress TIPS:  PART I

After posting on another thread that I have purchased a LOT of things from AliExpress, several people have asked me for guidance or information on using AliExpress, and how it works.

First, AliExpress does not list items for sale. Like ebay it is a platform that allows others, mostly Chinese companies, to list things for sale. 

For each item there is the name of the seller, often something odd like "Qingwu Store".  This is the seller. Each seller has their own feedback rating. 

Because AliExpress is a platform for many sellers to list items, the same item is often available from many sellers. That's why when you search for items you see many of the same thing.

To figure out which seller is offering the best deal use the Sort by Price option. Clicking once sorts low to high, clicking again will sort high to low. 

If searching for "Thong" note the list of categories on the left.  Some thongs will be under "Sports and Entertainment", "Underwear and Sleepwears","Women's Clothing" and below you see a gray click down "See All xx Categories".  You may have to click this to even see the category "Men's Clothing". 

Unlike ebay, where thongs are mostly in the Women's or Men's clothing category, on AliExpress they are all over the place, and this appears to be getting worse as they try to get sellers to list under the "Sports and Entertainment" category for swimwear and in the new "Underwear and Sleepwears" category for underwear.  
I am speculating, but think this is because some of the more conservative nations are a little appalled at the amount of nearly naked bodies modeling underwear that appear in the clothing listings. By pushing swimwear, underwear and thongs to one of these categories it would allow a filtered interface for more conservative nations. However at this time, they are listed all over the site, with little rime or reason. You can probably find thongs listings in the car accessories section. 

After starting a search you can "Search Within Results", this does not do as adverted, but just adds the word to your search. So searching for "Thong" and then 'Searching within results' for "Ice" is exactly the same thing as putting in the words "Thong Ice" in the initial search box. 

On ebay to search for Thongs that are not RED you could use "Thong -Red"  but on AliExpress this will give you results that include both Thong and Red. The Boolean search options in ebay are completely non-existant on AliExpress. 

Once you have results you need to sort them by price to figure out the best deal. Every time you change your search or select a sub-category the price search will need to be clicked again. Clicking once sorts low to high, clicking again will sort high to low. 

Unfortunately you can only sort by listing price, NOT by price and shipping. Therefore you need to be a little weary. At this point I am sure you are asking how you figure out which seller has the best deal if you can't sort by price and shipping. 

While you can see if the item has free shipping, you can't easily compare one vendors price with another. Here is where the shopping cart comes to the rescue. When items are in the shopping cart it shows total price, price and shipping for that vendor. So select the same item from several vendors and add them all to your shopping cart. Once you have selected several of the likely lower cost vendors go to your shopping cart.  Here you can quickly look down the list and select the vendor with the lowest total cost. 

You can park up to 100 items in the shopping cart. I use it to figure out which vendor has the best deal, and park things that I am interested in but don't want to pull the trigger on today. 

Some vendors offer more than one option for 'Ship From'. Shipping from China is a lot cheaper, often free.  However everything from China takes weeks or months to arrive. More in part II >>

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：04/11/2019 01:34:37Copy HTML

Part II

1)  First thing to do is create an account.  This way your items will stay in your shopping cart, and if you do order you can track your orders.
2)  Second is to find one item and purchse it just to see how the system works.

Once you have one or more orders in process there is another set of menu options to understand.  Under the "My AliExpress" menu there is a "My Orders".
The My Orders screen has a few useful but not obvious options. At the top is an option to select "Awating Delivery". This is useful to filter out all the past transactions that have already arrived.  If you have pages of orders just seeing the outstanding ones is very useful. 

When an order arrives go select the item, then the "View Detail" option to the right of the order number. Here you will see the tracking number. However it is more than likely the tracking number on the outside of your package is NOT the one listed. Most items get tracked when picked up in China, but then a new lable and tracking number is put on top during shipment. Mabe because they go through Hong Kong to get lower postage rates so they can offer free shipping. (This is just guess).

Once the item has arrived proptly jeck them off and CONFIRM GOODS RECIEVED.  Even if their are problems, if you got the pakage confirm recipt. You can still sort out problems you find after opening the package. As you migh guess this removes the item from the Awaiting Delivery filter. 

As my list of things previously ordered, shipped and arrvied grows, I find it is VERY inportant to accurtaly identify what has arrived and mark the correct item as Confirmed Goods Recieved. If I have ordered similar items from several diffrent vendors, I might even peal off ths top shipping lable to try and read the number from the orignal. Just to make sure I am checking in the right shipment.

Once you have ordered there will be a status showing something like "Your order will be closed in: XX days YY hours". Since shipping from China can take weeks keep an eye on this. If the package has not arrived and the days left are less than seven days, you can easily extend the buyer protection. To keep the item open and extend buyer protection go to "View Detail" for that transaction and near the top of the page is a line that reads "2. To extend the Buyer Protection for this order, please 'click here'  and follow the directions. 

Most of the time your package should contain what you ordered. If it does not you can sort that out later in the item listing using the "Open Dispute" option. You have up to 15 days after confirming delivery. 

Now here is a word of warning.... Don't be a dick.  
If you ordered a size large and it is too small it is not there problem, you just did not understand Chinese sizing. Just order another in a larger size, or hang it sideways in a closit, with a 10lb weight on the other side, and leave it there for a few months for the waist to ease up. 

When it says just order your regular size don't be fooled. Read the size chart for every item. When the same item is availbe from several vendors trust the chart that indicates you need the larger size.  If it is too small give it away, resell on ebay and then just order a larger one. And unless you are realy REALY skinny, don't order anything where it says "one size".  This will normally be Chinese small. 

Resonable disputes are "wrong item shipped", or "wrong color" when you ordered blue and they sent red. 

Most times resonable and demonstratable errors are quickly resolved, with a refund issued, normally WITHOUT having to mail back the wrong item. In this regard AliExpress is way ahead of ebay. Once you have submitted the dispute, resoutions are generally fast and easy.  

You can also select to suggest a partial refund. If an item cost $5 but they sent the wrong collor, you can suggest keeping the item but getting a $2 refund. This normally speeds up refunds no end. 

I do computer counsulting. Often clients ask me if the computers they purchesed from a prior vendor were good value. I ask them "Did you ask them for the maximum proformace or did you ask them how cheaply can this be done?" 

Will everything order be perfect every time? .... Having selected the lowest cost item from the lowest cost vendor in the lowest cost country, you may not be thrilled with every item. However, on adverage, I am happy with the deals. 

Sometimes thongs arrive that are too long in the rear strap, or too tight in the waist, are not the shade of color I expected, or that don't make me as attractive as the model in the picture. Others are just what I expected. On the whole, I am happy with most of the cheep thongs, and just put the disapointing ones aside. On adverage they are still a good deal. 

Manage your expectations, check in packages with the "Confirm Goods Recieved", and only use the "Open Dispute" when there is a real problem, like wrong item or wrong color, not when you are just unhappy with shade of pink, the fit or the the quality.

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：04/12/2019 01:36:21Copy HTML

With AliExpress as JM Runs says, it is worth taking a bit of time to find and think about your purchases.  It is worth sorting the items by rating because you may find reviews from prior customers with photos on a particular item.  That will give you a better idea of what you are buying - much more real life than the listing itself.

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：08/08/2019 07:04:07Copy HTML

Any recommendations for gstrings with non-adjustable pouch?

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：08/08/2019 07:09:00Copy HTML

I like the jafstik brand. I bought several a few years ago. I will retire one this season. They are cheap so they're cheap. Find your fit and order several.

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：10/28/2019 09:57:48Copy HTML

In the USA we have "Black Friday" and "Cyber Monday".  In China they have 11-11 sales. Sales on the 11th of November.

If you add things to your AliExpress shopping cart you can see:

(a) Price with shipping, which gives you a way to directly compare the same product, from different vendors, at different prices and shipping rates.
(You can sort by price but not price+shipping)

(b) IF the vendor is going to be offering more discount for the 11-11 sale.  
Sometimes the discount is only a few cents, some times it is many dollars. 
I have one item in my cart that is currently $22 but which will be only $10.50 in the 11-11 sale. 

Smart AliExpress customers use the shopping chart to compare total prices, and then just order from the vendor they select.

It is also used by people like me to track things I am interested in, but maybe don't want to buy today.
From personal experience I can tell you there is a maximum number of items you can have in your cart.
AliExpress seems to vary this, but currently it is about 80 to 100.  You get an error adding an item to the cart if you are maxed out. 

The shopping cart acts like your ebay watch list, except there is no upcoming auction date.
You don't have to buy anything in your cart, it is just to collect things you might buy. 
From there you do individual transactions for an item, or a group of items from one vendor. 

LOOK OUT for the Red Boxes by your shopping cart items showing the II-II symbol. 
Look to see if there are any significant discounts lined up for the 11-11 sale. 

BUT don't wait if the difference is only a few cents, because the item may go out of stock.  
Just get it now if there is no significant discount for waiting two weeks till 11/11/2019

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：11/02/2019 03:47:47Copy HTML

One issue I have with AliExpress is that the order tracking is hit or miss (mostly miss). Not just with clothing, but other goods as well. Often, when I click on Track Order, it will show "In transit at country of origin" with no change, until one day the order shows up at my door. Things always arrive in three weeks or less; I've even had some delivered in less than a week.

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：11/03/2019 03:05:59Copy HTML

A good number of products shipped from China are routed via a third country to lower postage costs.  This often results in a second label being applied over the top of the first one, and the second label has different numbers. Even when you get the package the number on the second label is unlikely to match the vendor supplied number given to AliExpress.  

This problem is for all products mailed from China, not just products ordered through AliExpress, but for most products ordered from China, through Ali, ebay or similar sites, where the vendor is shipping via postal mail. 

If you pay extra, for product being shipped from the US instead of China, you are more likely to get more consistent tracking numbers, BUT you also pay a lot more, and even then, unless paying extra for tracking, you are still likely to only know when it was sent and arrives, but no intermediate tracking. 

The basic US mail postal system is NOT a fully tracked system like UPS or Fedex.  You put things in at one end and you don't know where it is until it pops up in your mail box at the other end. Letters have always been like this. Only if you pay a lot more for tracked packages, in special envelopes or boxes, does the US mail postal system track packages.  

At one time the un-tracked and almost anonymous US mail system protected your privacy. However this is not so today: In a little known move after 9/11, ostensibly to help trace terrorists, the US postal system was reorganized to consolidate sorting hubs.  

Now mail that you might send across town does not go across town, but in many cases is trucked many miles away, to a computerized sorting center where every item that can be digitally identified is sorted and recorded. 

For example: If I sent a letter from Fort Lauderdale to the county court house a few counties away, in the old days it was sorted in Fort Lauderdale main sorting facility, put on a truck going through that county, and then in that county sorted into the drivers route for local delivery.  

Now the same letter is tucked South to Miami, sorted and recorded there, then trucked 350 miles North, all the way to Jacksonville at the other end of the state, and then trucked back to the county in question, before being sorted for the correct delivery route.  

As a result, even with high speed automation, mail often takes longer because of the extra truck millage to route everything through the massive consolidated mail screening and recording centers, setup by the US postal service and US intelligence services. 

Did you really think that after using CPU cycles to do high speed optical character recognition on every mail item they were just going to throw all that signals intelligence away? The same government trying to capture all the metadata from every US phone call, and content of international calls?

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：11/03/2019 03:57:31Copy HTML

Anyone else having trouble shopping from the Aliexpress app?

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：11/09/2019 01:18:11Copy HTML

Last year I placed an order for about eight different styles of thongs and very short shorts from AliExpress. Some of them were hit in some a miss but the ones below were definitely a hit and I’m considering another order for some of them very soon.  My normal jeans or dress pant waist size is 33-34 inch and the sizes listed below fit well.

THONGS
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32858525105.html?shortkey=UZvqaIJj&addresstype=600 This thong has a shiny-pleathery type finish, fits very well in front and is comfortable to wear all day. I’ve used it on the beach and paddle boarding as well and is comfortable for both. It has a smaller pouch and keeps everything together well and shows off a great profile. I’m definitely getting more of these. I have the blue and the coral red colors.  Great deal at under $3 each.  My size  XL

I also bought from the same store their  JORIONMIA brand name cotton thongs also with and without the two little “racing” stripes on the right front strap.  They are also great for everyday wear and comfortable. 
This is one.  https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32949332907.html?spm=2114.12010612.8148356.21.54b36543idB0cDI see a new one listed that I will purchase.  May be wearable for the beach too since it is spandex.  Also under $3!https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000347036819.html?shortkey=7ZZZVjEB&addresstype=600
SHORTS
 This year I have started paddle boarding SUP on the lakes and at the beach. I am using some of these nylon short shorts as a cover-up while putting my gear together and walking down to the launch site. After that it’s either stripping them off before getting on or paddling out 50 yards to clear that launch area and all the extra people. They are super comfortable and have a couple different fits to them but I would recommend both of them as they are also great to wear to and from the water and home and I’ve even gone into the grocery store several times and wear them around the house as I clean up my gear in the front yard and the rest of the evening at home with the family. I do get a wisecrack from my 19-year-old daughter every once in a while but she has seen me in these and very small bikinis for a couple years now and we’re all good with it.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32798943231.html?shortkey=NnE7VVRV&addresstype=600 
This one is very-very formfitting in front and in back. If you’re wearing a thong, or nothing, it will ride up along the backside crack along with it. It is definitely my favorite.  I have it in the navy blue and will probably get the black as well.  It I would say the inseam fits like a 1” an the bottom part covers just the back curves of your butt. Top-bottom on the side is 9” with a 3/4” slit on the side. The front has a liner sewn into it well and is not in the way.  I have not cut it out but you could. 
$8.  Size XXL with no pockets 

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32810741652.html?shortkey=YnMFzyyU&addresstype=600 This one is not as formfitting as the first and allows a little bit of breathing room inside. Not much though. Again very comfortable and will show off your overall shape and appears to cover your butt a little bit more than the first one since it’s not as formfitting.  It has a 2” inseam, a small pocket, and a liner that I cut out. bottom part covers just the back curves of your butt. Top-bottom on the side is 9.5” with a 1” slit on the side.
$7.  SIZE XL. I have both Blue and Navy Blue

Have fun all!

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：11/09/2019 02:27:23Copy HTML

CKWonderer, thanks for the detailed reviews and identification of lower cost vendors.

You might be interested in these:
 https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32889669069.html 
 https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32914810449.html 

Rather thin nylon/spandex and a close fitting, so go with a dark color on the pouch and larger sizes.

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：11/09/2019 05:44:22Copy HTML

CKWonderer, I have tried to see the thongs and shorts you are referring to because I have many on both from Ali Express.  But trying to copy your links or search in the Ali app gives me no results.  JM Runs links work and take me directly the items. I have also tried to link Ali items in discussions on here but I couldn't make the links work either.  JM Runs, can you give lessons on how to make working links?

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：11/10/2019 02:07:10Copy HTML

I have updated the links in my post above    somehow they even show up as a live hyperlink...

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：11/10/2019 02:52:58Copy HTML

Thank you CK Wonderer.  Those are nice shorts. They easily pass as swimsuits and in my opinion could be worn anywhere especially in a beach town.

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：11/11/2019 01:46:05Copy HTML

TODAY is 11/11 or as you may see it on AliExpress II/II

Most vendors on Ali have some form of discount for just today. This is the Chinese equivlent of black Friday and Cyber Monday all rolled into one. 

Sometimes the discount is just a few cents, and not worth the incentive to buy. 

If you really wanted it you would have bought already, and the fact that it is lingering in your you have not yet committed means you probably don't really need it. 

However some discounts are as much as 50%, and if the item has free shipping that's significant.

If you are like me, a little addicted to the good deals on Ali, and have a bunch of things stored in your shopping-cart, that you might, or might not buy, today is the day to take the plunge on items with significant, 11/11 one day extra discounts.

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：11/12/2019 06:57:43Copy HTML

Thanks JM for the reminder.
  I've had 7 items in my cart waiting and forgot about the date.  Just got the order in today thanks to you..

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：01/03/2020 01:44:03Copy HTML

Its been almost 2 months and I'm having trouble getting one of the items.  The tracking says it got on the plane on Nov 14.
When I opened the dispute, the rep in China said it was still in the sorting center in China. 
Communication with them is horrible when a problem.
I've probably been stiffed.  Not the first time this has happened.

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：01/03/2020 12:08:39Copy HTML

Beachstrapguy,
Send an email to AliExpress. They stand behind their vendors. I had the same problem with a lost order last year. The vendor wanted me to order another and he was going to send me 2 for the price of one. We went back and forth a few weeks and the day after I sent an e-mail to AliExpress he apologized and issued a refund.
Stay on them, you will get it.

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：01/04/2020 10:20:15Copy HTML

You should NOT have to email AliExpress: The website has a built in dispute resolution system. 

Look at the expected due date window. Don't start making a fuss until the buyer protection is coming to an end.  Often the product is still in the mail.

If you don't get the product and the end of the buyer protection is coming up in a few days 

FIRST:  Open My Orders, select the VIEW DETAIL for that order and look for the words saying:
"To extend the Buyer Protection for this order, please click here"
I normally request another 30 days, and most sellers will respond within a couple of days expanding the time instead of issuing a refund.  This gives extra time for the package to arrive. Normally they are just slow. 

Note that while most products have tracking, many only track in China, so the last entry may be accepted by china post and sent for international shipping. Once on the boat or plane there may be no more tracking.  In this case the next event is arrival in your mailbox several weeks later.
 
If the seller will not expand the time, and the product is over due, you can still open a dispute with the OPEN DISPUTE link.  

Explain you have asked to expand the delivery / buyer protection time, and package has still not arrived. 100% of the time I have received a full refund.  

If the product does arrive but is NOT the one in the listing, open a dispute and upload a picture.  

When a product is not right sometimes the seller will offer a partial refund. This is often a good solution, with you keeping the product. 

Don't open disputes just because your item was too small. In this case  you failed to take other members advice to order the largest size available, or failed to read the items size guide and size up anyway. Chinese sizing runs VERY SMALL !!

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：01/13/2020 10:21:04Copy HTML

If you don't already have an account with AliExpress please follow this link, they are running a promotion where new users get $19 in free coupons:
Follow this link:  https://a.aliexpress.com/rVZJWWOk
I don't know if the coupons can be used on anything you purchase, or only some vendors.  Try out the link and let us know.

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：01/15/2020 01:39:00Copy HTML

JM_Runs,

$19 is nothing to sneeze at. Alas, I already have an account. 

I'm curious what their affiliate program pays for referring others.  I'm thinking it might pay for some much needed cheap undies/swimwear for me to try it out.

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：04/18/2020 09:38:21Copy HTML

I am finding my orders from AliExpress are still coming through fine. This shutdown in the US gives us all time to stock up on next summers thongs.

I am finding trying to sort by price is not working, it knocks out half or more of the items that match the search. 

Also sometimes, when the shipping is free, it is better to order one at a time, over a number of days, than three on one order. Because then each one gets a separate tracking number and you know you are going to get 3 items and not two. Also some items that have free shipping for one item, charge shipping if your order is for two or more of the same thing, but not one-of-one and one-of-another. Very odd, but something to watch for. 

Remember to use the shopping cart as a temporary storage of similar items from different vendors. I makes it easy to go back and select the one with the lowest combined price for cost + shipping. 

Remember, unless it says otherwise, most thongs and underwear are Chinese sizes, so XL will generally fit someone with a waist between 30 and 33 inches. 

Do look at reviews. Comments like way to small probably mean the item sizing is off. 

I would go for thongs you can wear in public, at the beach or around your neighborhood, rather than thongs that belong in the bedroom.

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：04/19/2020 02:33:40Copy HTML

On Ali-express  I generally look for reviews with photos, as my expectations on how I might look wearing something is  supported by how real people (as opposed to models) look, while wearing the product. 

It is my opinion that many thongs on ali-express are worn along with padding to accentuate the 'male-ness' of the wearer. Some vendors actually sell the enhancement padding, noting I find their use by sellers (or buyers) to be rather deceptive.

There are enough sellers of Cheap Chinese (underwear) Products, or more generically Cheap Chinese Products (CCPs?), that for a modest expenditure -any- curious man (or woman) can buy a selection of assorted styles to find what looks best on themselves... No need to 'fix' one's appearance with padding...

Yeah, the pricing on Ali-express is really beginning to irritate me. Most product searches ordered by price seem to key off the listing's lowest price, which nearly all vendors miss-represent IMO.
Many products have one (frequently tiny) size for one mundane style/colour at a price about 1/2 or lower the price charged for all the other products in a listing. Shipping fees are generally ignored when sorting products too, and should you not live in the 'states' additional shipping to places like Canada-eh! can be onerous...

MBareAs

Men's underwear prices from China have also increase by about %100 in the last few years, on average too... 

Well that's it from me today. I have listed favorite aliexpress thongs in past postings, but sellers come and go, so I wouldn't get too excited about looking any of them up.
Ebay has had some enticing prices for men's thongs too - though I seldom use the platform.

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：04/20/2020 04:39:45Copy HTML

I made an order from them about three months ago before the Chinese new year and Covid19 issues.  Really wasn't impressed with the quality and fit of what I bought.  Sizing was all over the place and I ended up throwing out everything I bought.  Never again.

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：04/21/2020 01:07:06Copy HTML

Understand that AliExpress features items from a variety of vendors or companies.  It is like going to a flea market or buying small business or even  home-made stuff on eBay.   Even Amazon has a lot of suppliers.  So you should expect differences in quality, sizing issues, lack of follow up, not getting the right items, etc.

Go to eBay or Amazon and you will find some vendors who have almost all bad reviews.  The same is true for AliExpress.

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：04/21/2020 05:36:26Copy HTML

It is (I believe) an accepted statistic that if one person has a bad experience (s)he will tell ten others, but if they have a good one they will tell 2 or 3 other people...
So, some percentage have bad experiences with aliexpress, and they broadcast that to the masses... Fewer have better experiences and step up to tell others, as JM and I have done.
Yes, I will agree that there are many 'cheap'/substandard products sold via aliexpress and I have effectively discarded my not insubstantial share of those items that I paid a small amount for.

I firmly believe there is a significant (if perhaps smaller) percentage of aliexpress products that represent substantially better value for the price then 20-30 dollar thongs -most- people on this board -may- be buying from non Chinese producers (or at least sellers)...

At the end of the day 'value' is king (in my opinion,) and IF we on the board can identify our successful aliexpress purchases, then as a group - more will benefit.

It is also my strong feeling that when someone pays top dollar for a product, they are much more likely to praise its virtues irregardless of its actual 'value', i.e. benefit to price ratio... 
If your financial resources are limitless (or at least exceed the norm), and your time limited, then you are more likely to praise an expensive thong that might fall apart after a few wearings in a chlorinated pool, then to praise the cheaper Chinese thong that took some effort to find and five weeks to ship half way around the world.

Just saying...

A favorite quote came via a speech Ronald Regan once made. As I recall, he stated he only wanted to utilize one armed economists, because he never wanted any advice from someone who could say 'on the other hand'...

MBareAs

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：04/21/2020 11:40:04Copy HTML

Hi everyone ! Im in Ft Lauderdale on lock down. I have bought many thongs from Aliexpress and most have been great. There have been a few so small I could barely get them up over my hips im a size medium and I always order large or extra large just to be safe. Im not bragging but the pouches most times are to small.

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：05/22/2020 12:22:30Copy HTML

I have noticed that thong vendors selling through AliExpress have become more numerous and prices have been slowly edging down. Thongs I paid $7 a few years ago are now often $3 to $4 with shipping. 

The search engine is annoyingly defective, because it still can't sort by price and shipping, and often when you try to sort by price the list of items vanishes, goes to zero, or the number of items reduces. 

However when one finds the right thing most vendors are quite good about getting the product off the shelf and shipped within a couple of days. It then takes forever for the mail systems in various countries to get the products into my mailbox, but that's ok, I expect the delay. I constantly have a few things on order, in the pipeline, so each day's mail is an opportunity for small random gifts to myself, sent from some time in the past. 

The only thing you have to watch out for is packages that have not yet arrived but the time for delivery and buyer protection is running out. 
Go to My Orders - Select the "Awaiting Delivery" from the options along the top of the My Orders screen. 
Look at the number of days left before expected delivery.  If the time left is 5 days or left open the item and select the link for "To extend the Buyer Protection for this order, please click here" - I normally request another 30 or 40 days. 
If the seller agrees, which they normally do, this moves out the time for delivery and buyer protection, and often the package arrives eventually. 

If the seller does not agree to expand the time for buyer protection then when time clocks down to one day or has passed,  I file a dispute. Almost all the disputes have been judged in my favor and I got full refunds. I think requesting expansion of time at least once, and then if that then expires providing the correct information for dispute resolution helps. 

AliExpress keeps my payment details, and does not send them to the sellers. 
For the most part my card is not even charged until the seller informs AliExpress that the item is shipped, and if there has been a dispute, normally because the package never arrived or the item arrived broken, the refund is prompt. 

The money I am not spending on meals out and beer at bars is expanding my thong collection.

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：05/22/2020 10:38:33Copy HTML

I get most of my thongs on Aliexpress and only a few times have i been disappointed. Its usually just a sizing thing. I am a US medium. for Ali i sometimes have to jump to XL. Id rather it be loose then to tight and i always need a bigger pouch.

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：05/22/2020 10:59:01Copy HTML

I recently tried it.  I ordered two items from the same vendor- shipping included.  So I wait and track and the package arrives - guess what only one item.  I message them and they said they didn't notice I'd ordered two items- well they got paid for two items- it's not a case of a second non tracked shipment they admit that.  I said I wanted a refund for the missing item, they said apply for a refund.  So I do and it's denied.  I appeal , it's denied.  I'm messaging the seller and they say "this is wrong" but they apparently aren't or can't affect the refund- so I'm screwed!

Moral is only buy one item at a time then this won't happen and everything is tracked.

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：05/23/2020 04:03:54Copy HTML

Concerning non-delivery: I've always had refund from AliExpress when a product did not arrive. I think it's important for "Shipping" to include the phrase "via AliExpress".  Here's what you get when you file a dispute for an order using this method:

"Because your order was sent by AliExpress Shipping, your refund request will be automatically handled by us instead of the seller... Please note that if this request is determined to be unrelated to logistics, we will hand over the refund request to the seller..."

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：05/23/2020 08:35:14Copy HTML

Ironically that's exactly my issue- I purposely used AliExpress Shipping and have gotten that message.  I think the seller is talking out of both sides of his mouth-literally- admitting to me he shortchanged me then telling AliExpress he sent the second item.

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：05/24/2020 12:11:36Copy HTML

I order thongs and g's from AliExpress, inexpensive and one at a time.  The items turn up eventually, or if they don't it's only a few bucks.  I don't sweat it.

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：07/03/2020 09:35:57Copy HTML

Just a non-update on Aliexpress.

I ordered a Desmiit swim thong on 2nd June and got it about 14 days later - I could follow it on the order tracking and everything went really well.

Ordered another type on that same day, and then found that the tracking shows 'shipment cancelled' - have contacted seller who says it is on it's way and has offered to shop another - will have to wait and see.

Ordered two more items on 12th June and the shipping tracking seems to show very little movement except that both should be with the airline and may or may not be in uk.

I guess I was really optimistic when the Desmiit one came so quickly and all of the shipping tracking was spot on.

BTW the Desmiit is a black and white striped swim thong - it really pops.

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：07/03/2020 10:41:50Copy HTML

Tiggerix, I have ordered quite a few things (and thongs) from AliExpress. Maybe the shipping conditions are different between Sweden and the UK, but most of my stuff has arrived after about two months. And once with the wrong item, and once with a few extra items of which I'm not sure if they were meant as free gifts or added by mistake. But I expect anything and everything when I order :)

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：07/03/2020 02:57:37Copy HTML

"Expect anything and everything"  !! Good comment. 

I have found shipping is MUCH delayed. Maybe because of delays at the seller's end but most things are shipped within a week or two so it seems the delays are in the transit. Maybe because of Covid-19 and customs clearance at our end. Who knows.

One thing I always do when items are delayed and the expected time is running out is to go into the "View Detail" and then select the link that says:
"To extend the Buyer Protection for this order, please click here."

I ask for 30 or 40 days more. This allows time for the missing items to finally arrive without needing to open a dispute. I find most things do finally arrive in the end.

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：07/07/2020 01:41:29Copy HTML

@Lycrafool - I rechecked the order tracking for the four orders I have made recently.  The first was a Desmiit thong that came within about 2 weeks - this was shipped by Aliexpress and seems to use air mail. 

My other three orders are on Cainiao Super Saver - one of the orders seems to have made it to Kazakhstan and I guess it is coming by train.  I hadn't really checked what the shipping was before waiting for these orders, so I think I am in for a long wait.  Even longer for the one that is marked 'shipment cancelled'  ...

In future I will try to check the shipping more closely!

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：07/08/2020 06:55:45Copy HTML

Haha 😂 But this is the price we pay for not paying the price! Anyway, in the future (long term) I think the tables may have  turned, and we are sewing the products for the Asian market. Am I right or just drunk, or both?

Re：AliExpress for products from China

Date Posted：07/09/2020 10:57:02Copy HTML

@Lycrafool - yes, you are right and just drunk...

There are some styles that are so cheap that I guess it is worth the wait - especially with some silly high prices in Europe, but I think I prefer to get my stuff more quickly than 2 months.  Checked again today - some stuff may still be in Kazakhstan...

Might try Crazy Bikini in Ukraine..

Lycrathong1	#101
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：10/06/2018 01:07:36Copy HTML Not tried Aliexpress but I have bought at least a dozen Chinese thongs and bikini briefs off eBay. I've been impressed by the quality, low prices, and speed of shipping to the UK,
JM_Runs	#102
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：10/31/2018 06:07:09Copy HTML 11/11 Sales on Chinese sites like AliExpress - I posted this to my FB page. Then thought I would post the same for you folks, to let you know about 11/11 sales. Every year AliExpress.com runs specials on November 11th - from most of the vendors. This is the equivalent to the black-friday sales in the USA. The one day discounts are sometimes just 5 or 10% but sometimes as deep as 30 to 50%. My kind friends say I am thrifty, my ex probably says I am cheap. Either way I do like to hunt down bargains. I am a LONG time ebay buyer, with more than 2,220 transactions and a 100% positive feedback. Not to boast, but to show I know a bit about buying things online. As most of you know I now use AliExpress.com a LOT !! Like all web stores that sell products from multiple vendors you have to be a bit selective. First because a lot of the clothing products are described in good English, but the SIZING is Chinese. So you have to size up SEVERAL SIZES. A second problem with AliExpress is you can't sort by "price and shipping", only by price. So some vendors discount the price, but bump the shipping. Therefore when sorting by price the first one may not be the least expensive. Look at several. Use the "Add to Cart" function to gather up alternatives of the same product from different vendors, then go into your cart and you can view each offering, and where the price is now shown with shipping. Pay the vendor with the lowest price and remove the rest from your cart. China to US postal rates for small packages are very low, so even items less than $1 often come with free shipping. Many items like small lightweight parts or light cloths have free shipping. Sometimes if you get 1 the shipping is free, but if you get 2 there is shipping charge, so multiple orders of 1 at a time are sometimes less cost than doing one order for several. Some of the current deals for 11/11 are pre-order deals, you pay a deposit now and then the rest on 11/11 locking in the availability of the item and price. Means you don't have to be up at 3AM when the 11/11 deals start rolling in China. I get A LOT of thongs and other clothing from AliExpress. In addition to thongs I get things like bike lights, USB cables, shorts, tools and other parts that are all made in China. However shipments can take up to a month. If you place orders now, or even better reserve orders for 11/11 when many things go on sale you will probably get them by mid december, but with the Christmas postal rush they may come later. TIP: When an AliExpress order arrives ALWAYS go to "Confirm Delivery" for that order. That way you can later filter the "My Orders" list to just show those orders still "Awaiting Delivery". This helps when you have a number of orders in the pipeline. If you later find the product defective you can still open a dispute after confirming delivery. If you are thinking about jumping on the 11/11 sailes you may want to browse AliExpress now, and make an initial small order, or 11/11/ reservation payment, just to get setup. I have had my card on file with AliExpress for a couple of years without a problem. AliExpress handles the money and pays the Chinese vendors, so your details are not exposed to the vendors.
kawaiski	#103
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：01/09/2019 03:13:29Copy HTML Hello! Anyone bought this item? https://aliexpress.com/item/2015-TM-sexy-men-underwear-gay-thongs-Gay-Penis-Pouch-Thongs-And-G-Strings-Lingerie-Men/32472413883.html I do not really understand how this thong arranged, since there is no photos in the customer reviews. If you have this model - share your photo please!
J_R_365	#104
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：01/10/2019 03:50:17Copy HTML Kawaiski — I have one of these (but no photo yet). When laying flat, the front is about 14cm curving very slightly down, and then angles back for about 7.5cm, slightly arching up, until it meet the crotch strap. Sort of like a hawk's beak. When worn, the crotch strap starts just below the bottom of the shaft, and splits the middle of the scrotum, and is balls out. The front is a triangle, of fabric that is thin and opaque, that tapers down to the tip of the shaft, almost like one of those "tanning sheaths", except that it does not go snug around the base. The end result is an arrow pointing downwards, with the tip of the shatft at the point: The fabric is quite stretchy, and can be pulled down and back to cover the balls if desired, but it's not as sexy that way, although it still shows a lot of your contour.
kawaiski	#105
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：01/10/2019 07:07:51Copy HTML J_R_365, thanks! I hope you publish a photo:)
J_R_365	#106
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：01/11/2019 01:34:32Copy HTML As soon as I loose weight!
kawaiski	#107
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：01/11/2019 07:49:01Copy HTML J_R_365, Does weight matter? :) The photo is clearer than the description, besides, English is not my native language. You can crop the photo and show only the pouch.
JM_Runs	#108
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：01/24/2019 03:12:46Copy HTML Sometimes the underwear makes good outdoor thongs. Today I am going to be wearing this when pressure cleaning the boat. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Mens-Sexy-G-String-Thongs-Bikini-Gay-Men-Underwear-Men-T-Back-Thong-Homme-Jockstrap-Men/32922511178.html I don't like the ones trimmed in white, looks too much like underwear, but the yellow trimmed in blue is bright and fun.
MBareAs	#109
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：01/27/2019 03:58:32Copy HTML A few of my favorite AliExpress thong things... to 'miss'-quote Julie Andrews from the 'Sound of Music': Although some prudes might object to pulling an American flag themed thong between your cheeks, these will set your thong experience 'on-fire': https://www.aliexpress.com/item/JAYCOSIN-Newly-2018-Fashion-Mens-Flag-Sexy-Striped-Underwear-Men-s-Briefs-Shorts-Underpants-panties-man/32885177983.html Yeah, these are awesome too, and will get your flag/pole 'at attention': https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Three-Colour-Printed-string-transparent-homme-Men-Sexy-Underwear-Shorts-Underpants-Bulge-Pouch-Briefs-Panties-Funny/32850149745.html I have a 34 odd inch waist and typically order XL... from AliExpress.
bmillerw	#110
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：02/02/2019 12:48:30Copy HTML If you are thinking about ordering what you think is a bargain on a name brand product from Aliexpress, I suggest that you go down to ITEM SPECIFICS and see if it truly is that brand. Often they will post a picture of a high end, name brand product (like TM) but go down to Item Specifics and here's what you'll see: Brand Name: PYONGRANS which in my opinion is cheap, throw-away junk compared with the genuine article. I speak from experience. That is why Aliexpress states that they are "not responsible for authenticity".
itanng	#111
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：03/16/2019 07:09:06Copy HTML This post is to let members know about a VERY POSITIVE experience with one of my recent orders via AliExpress. Seldom do I find a product that I can highly recommend to Board members. This is for a men's "Rope Belt Thong", which is an adjustable-front g-string with twisted cords forming the waistband/belt. This "suit" is 95% polyamide (no stretch polyester-like pouch) and 5% elastane (extremely stretchy spandex-like waistband) and has NO Chinese characters (garments with characters seem to have a cotton pouch). One click is worth many words. I purchased FLL-038 at I-TRENDY Store: https://www.aliexpress.com/store/4470042 or https://www.aliexpress.com/store/4470042/search?SearchText=FLL-038 At the time of my purchase, I ordered two at $3.02 with a $1.00 discount off $5.00. Other vendors have product numbers F-E032-2, E-032bs, AYC-E-038, F-E038. The size chart says: M 27-30", L 30-32", XL 33-35", XXL 35-38". But the XL should be sized closer to 32"-48" (it REALLY stretches from 24" laying "flat"). So, this is one Asian product for which you will want to order the same or smaller than your US size! The store owner recommended the XL for my 40" waist, but the L might have worked! The front is adjustable from about 1.5" to 8". It's about 8" from the top of the front down to the point the under-strap is connected. The top back of the under-strap wraps loosely around the waistband. There is about 1/4" coverage along the waist line, and being a g-string, no coverage for the buttocks. The "navy blue" is opaque when dry and has only a slight hint of see-through when wet, and I suspect this is true of any of the dark colors. I think these "suits" will be great for sunbathers and at public beaches that allow g-strings and thongs. The "yellow" is essentially see-through when dry and clearly see-through when wet so I'd avoid the use of lighter colors at public or non-nude beaches. The last suit of this style that made me happy was purchased from Dore, so you can see why I was happy to find this product, especially for such an affordable price. Danny
JM_Runs	#112
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：04/11/2019 01:31:11Copy HTML AliExpress TIPS: PART I After posting on another thread that I have purchased a LOT of things from AliExpress, several people have asked me for guidance or information on using AliExpress, and how it works. First, AliExpress does not list items for sale. Like ebay it is a platform that allows others, mostly Chinese companies, to list things for sale. For each item there is the name of the seller, often something odd like "Qingwu Store". This is the seller. Each seller has their own feedback rating. Because AliExpress is a platform for many sellers to list items, the same item is often available from many sellers. That's why when you search for items you see many of the same thing. To figure out which seller is offering the best deal use the Sort by Price option. Clicking once sorts low to high, clicking again will sort high to low. If searching for "Thong" note the list of categories on the left. Some thongs will be under "Sports and Entertainment", "Underwear and Sleepwears","Women's Clothing" and below you see a gray click down "See All xx Categories". You may have to click this to even see the category "Men's Clothing". Unlike ebay, where thongs are mostly in the Women's or Men's clothing category, on AliExpress they are all over the place, and this appears to be getting worse as they try to get sellers to list under the "Sports and Entertainment" category for swimwear and in the new "Underwear and Sleepwears" category for underwear. I am speculating, but think this is because some of the more conservative nations are a little appalled at the amount of nearly naked bodies modeling underwear that appear in the clothing listings. By pushing swimwear, underwear and thongs to one of these categories it would allow a filtered interface for more conservative nations. However at this time, they are listed all over the site, with little rime or reason. You can probably find thongs listings in the car accessories section. After starting a search you can "Search Within Results", this does not do as adverted, but just adds the word to your search. So searching for "Thong" and then 'Searching within results' for "Ice" is exactly the same thing as putting in the words "Thong Ice" in the initial search box. On ebay to search for Thongs that are not RED you could use "Thong -Red" but on AliExpress this will give you results that include both Thong and Red. The Boolean search options in ebay are completely non-existant on AliExpress. Once you have results you need to sort them by price to figure out the best deal. Every time you change your search or select a sub-category the price search will need to be clicked again. Clicking once sorts low to high, clicking again will sort high to low. Unfortunately you can only sort by listing price, NOT by price and shipping. Therefore you need to be a little weary. At this point I am sure you are asking how you figure out which seller has the best deal if you can't sort by price and shipping. While you can see if the item has free shipping, you can't easily compare one vendors price with another. Here is where the shopping cart comes to the rescue. When items are in the shopping cart it shows total price, price and shipping for that vendor. So select the same item from several vendors and add them all to your shopping cart. Once you have selected several of the likely lower cost vendors go to your shopping cart. Here you can quickly look down the list and select the vendor with the lowest total cost. You can park up to 100 items in the shopping cart. I use it to figure out which vendor has the best deal, and park things that I am interested in but don't want to pull the trigger on today. Some vendors offer more than one option for 'Ship From'. Shipping from China is a lot cheaper, often free. However everything from China takes weeks or months to arrive. More in part II >>
JM_Runs	#113
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：04/11/2019 01:34:37Copy HTML Part II 1) First thing to do is create an account. This way your items will stay in your shopping cart, and if you do order you can track your orders. 2) Second is to find one item and purchse it just to see how the system works. Once you have one or more orders in process there is another set of menu options to understand. Under the "My AliExpress" menu there is a "My Orders". The My Orders screen has a few useful but not obvious options. At the top is an option to select "Awating Delivery". This is useful to filter out all the past transactions that have already arrived. If you have pages of orders just seeing the outstanding ones is very useful. When an order arrives go select the item, then the "View Detail" option to the right of the order number. Here you will see the tracking number. However it is more than likely the tracking number on the outside of your package is NOT the one listed. Most items get tracked when picked up in China, but then a new lable and tracking number is put on top during shipment. Mabe because they go through Hong Kong to get lower postage rates so they can offer free shipping. (This is just guess). Once the item has arrived proptly jeck them off and CONFIRM GOODS RECIEVED. Even if their are problems, if you got the pakage confirm recipt. You can still sort out problems you find after opening the package. As you migh guess this removes the item from the Awaiting Delivery filter. As my list of things previously ordered, shipped and arrvied grows, I find it is VERY inportant to accurtaly identify what has arrived and mark the correct item as Confirmed Goods Recieved. If I have ordered similar items from several diffrent vendors, I might even peal off ths top shipping lable to try and read the number from the orignal. Just to make sure I am checking in the right shipment. Once you have ordered there will be a status showing something like "Your order will be closed in: XX days YY hours". Since shipping from China can take weeks keep an eye on this. If the package has not arrived and the days left are less than seven days, you can easily extend the buyer protection. To keep the item open and extend buyer protection go to "View Detail" for that transaction and near the top of the page is a line that reads "2. To extend the Buyer Protection for this order, please 'click here' and follow the directions. Most of the time your package should contain what you ordered. If it does not you can sort that out later in the item listing using the "Open Dispute" option. You have up to 15 days after confirming delivery. Now here is a word of warning.... Don't be a dick. If you ordered a size large and it is too small it is not there problem, you just did not understand Chinese sizing. Just order another in a larger size, or hang it sideways in a closit, with a 10lb weight on the other side, and leave it there for a few months for the waist to ease up. When it says just order your regular size don't be fooled. Read the size chart for every item. When the same item is availbe from several vendors trust the chart that indicates you need the larger size. If it is too small give it away, resell on ebay and then just order a larger one. And unless you are realy REALY skinny, don't order anything where it says "one size". This will normally be Chinese small. Resonable disputes are "wrong item shipped", or "wrong color" when you ordered blue and they sent red. Most times resonable and demonstratable errors are quickly resolved, with a refund issued, normally WITHOUT having to mail back the wrong item. In this regard AliExpress is way ahead of ebay. Once you have submitted the dispute, resoutions are generally fast and easy. You can also select to suggest a partial refund. If an item cost $5 but they sent the wrong collor, you can suggest keeping the item but getting a $2 refund. This normally speeds up refunds no end. I do computer counsulting. Often clients ask me if the computers they purchesed from a prior vendor were good value. I ask them "Did you ask them for the maximum proformace or did you ask them how cheaply can this be done?" Will everything order be perfect every time? .... Having selected the lowest cost item from the lowest cost vendor in the lowest cost country, you may not be thrilled with every item. However, on adverage, I am happy with the deals. Sometimes thongs arrive that are too long in the rear strap, or too tight in the waist, are not the shade of color I expected, or that don't make me as attractive as the model in the picture. Others are just what I expected. On the whole, I am happy with most of the cheep thongs, and just put the disapointing ones aside. On adverage they are still a good deal. Manage your expectations, check in packages with the "Confirm Goods Recieved", and only use the "Open Dispute" when there is a real problem, like wrong item or wrong color, not when you are just unhappy with shade of pink, the fit or the the quality.
tiggerix	#114
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：04/12/2019 01:36:21Copy HTML With AliExpress as JM Runs says, it is worth taking a bit of time to find and think about your purchases. It is worth sorting the items by rating because you may find reviews from prior customers with photos on a particular item. That will give you a better idea of what you are buying - much more real life than the listing itself.
nick12341234	#115
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：08/08/2019 07:04:07Copy HTML Any recommendations for gstrings with non-adjustable pouch?
String_guy	#116
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：08/08/2019 07:09:00Copy HTML I like the jafstik brand. I bought several a few years ago. I will retire one this season. They are cheap so they're cheap. Find your fit and order several.
JM_Runs	#117
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：10/28/2019 09:57:48Copy HTML In the USA we have "Black Friday" and "Cyber Monday". In China they have 11-11 sales. Sales on the 11th of November. If you add things to your AliExpress shopping cart you can see: (a) Price with shipping, which gives you a way to directly compare the same product, from different vendors, at different prices and shipping rates. (You can sort by price but not price+shipping) (b) IF the vendor is going to be offering more discount for the 11-11 sale. Sometimes the discount is only a few cents, some times it is many dollars. I have one item in my cart that is currently $22 but which will be only $10.50 in the 11-11 sale. Smart AliExpress customers use the shopping chart to compare total prices, and then just order from the vendor they select. It is also used by people like me to track things I am interested in, but maybe don't want to buy today. From personal experience I can tell you there is a maximum number of items you can have in your cart. AliExpress seems to vary this, but currently it is about 80 to 100. You get an error adding an item to the cart if you are maxed out. The shopping cart acts like your ebay watch list, except there is no upcoming auction date. You don't have to buy anything in your cart, it is just to collect things you might buy. From there you do individual transactions for an item, or a group of items from one vendor. LOOK OUT for the Red Boxes by your shopping cart items showing the II-II symbol. Look to see if there are any significant discounts lined up for the 11-11 sale. BUT don't wait if the difference is only a few cents, because the item may go out of stock. Just get it now if there is no significant discount for waiting two weeks till 11/11/2019
J_R_365	#118
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：11/02/2019 03:47:47Copy HTML One issue I have with AliExpress is that the order tracking is hit or miss (mostly miss). Not just with clothing, but other goods as well. Often, when I click on Track Order, it will show "In transit at country of origin" with no change, until one day the order shows up at my door. Things always arrive in three weeks or less; I've even had some delivered in less than a week.
JM_Runs	#119
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：11/03/2019 03:05:59Copy HTML A good number of products shipped from China are routed via a third country to lower postage costs. This often results in a second label being applied over the top of the first one, and the second label has different numbers. Even when you get the package the number on the second label is unlikely to match the vendor supplied number given to AliExpress. This problem is for all products mailed from China, not just products ordered through AliExpress, but for most products ordered from China, through Ali, ebay or similar sites, where the vendor is shipping via postal mail. If you pay extra, for product being shipped from the US instead of China, you are more likely to get more consistent tracking numbers, BUT you also pay a lot more, and even then, unless paying extra for tracking, you are still likely to only know when it was sent and arrives, but no intermediate tracking. The basic US mail postal system is NOT a fully tracked system like UPS or Fedex. You put things in at one end and you don't know where it is until it pops up in your mail box at the other end. Letters have always been like this. Only if you pay a lot more for tracked packages, in special envelopes or boxes, does the US mail postal system track packages. At one time the un-tracked and almost anonymous US mail system protected your privacy. However this is not so today: In a little known move after 9/11, ostensibly to help trace terrorists, the US postal system was reorganized to consolidate sorting hubs. Now mail that you might send across town does not go across town, but in many cases is trucked many miles away, to a computerized sorting center where every item that can be digitally identified is sorted and recorded. For example: If I sent a letter from Fort Lauderdale to the county court house a few counties away, in the old days it was sorted in Fort Lauderdale main sorting facility, put on a truck going through that county, and then in that county sorted into the drivers route for local delivery. Now the same letter is tucked South to Miami, sorted and recorded there, then trucked 350 miles North, all the way to Jacksonville at the other end of the state, and then trucked back to the county in question, before being sorted for the correct delivery route. As a result, even with high speed automation, mail often takes longer because of the extra truck millage to route everything through the massive consolidated mail screening and recording centers, setup by the US postal service and US intelligence services. Did you really think that after using CPU cycles to do high speed optical character recognition on every mail item they were just going to throw all that signals intelligence away? The same government trying to capture all the metadata from every US phone call, and content of international calls?
String_guy	#120
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：11/03/2019 03:57:31Copy HTML Anyone else having trouble shopping from the Aliexpress app?
CKWonderer	#121
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：11/09/2019 01:18:11Copy HTML Last year I placed an order for about eight different styles of thongs and very short shorts from AliExpress. Some of them were hit in some a miss but the ones below were definitely a hit and I’m considering another order for some of them very soon. My normal jeans or dress pant waist size is 33-34 inch and the sizes listed below fit well. THONGS https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32858525105.html?shortkey=UZvqaIJj&addresstype=600 This thong has a shiny-pleathery type finish, fits very well in front and is comfortable to wear all day. I’ve used it on the beach and paddle boarding as well and is comfortable for both. It has a smaller pouch and keeps everything together well and shows off a great profile. I’m definitely getting more of these. I have the blue and the coral red colors. Great deal at under $3 each. My size XL I also bought from the same store their JORIONMIA brand name cotton thongs also with and without the two little “racing” stripes on the right front strap. They are also great for everyday wear and comfortable. This is one. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32949332907.html?spm=2114.12010612.8148356.21.54b36543idB0cDI see a new one listed that I will purchase. May be wearable for the beach too since it is spandex. Also under $3!https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000347036819.html?shortkey=7ZZZVjEB&addresstype=600 SHORTS This year I have started paddle boarding SUP on the lakes and at the beach. I am using some of these nylon short shorts as a cover-up while putting my gear together and walking down to the launch site. After that it’s either stripping them off before getting on or paddling out 50 yards to clear that launch area and all the extra people. They are super comfortable and have a couple different fits to them but I would recommend both of them as they are also great to wear to and from the water and home and I’ve even gone into the grocery store several times and wear them around the house as I clean up my gear in the front yard and the rest of the evening at home with the family. I do get a wisecrack from my 19-year-old daughter every once in a while but she has seen me in these and very small bikinis for a couple years now and we’re all good with it. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32798943231.html?shortkey=NnE7VVRV&addresstype=600 This one is very-very formfitting in front and in back. If you’re wearing a thong, or nothing, it will ride up along the backside crack along with it. It is definitely my favorite. I have it in the navy blue and will probably get the black as well. It I would say the inseam fits like a 1” an the bottom part covers just the back curves of your butt. Top-bottom on the side is 9” with a 3/4” slit on the side. The front has a liner sewn into it well and is not in the way. I have not cut it out but you could. $8. Size XXL with no pockets https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32810741652.html?shortkey=YnMFzyyU&addresstype=600 This one is not as formfitting as the first and allows a little bit of breathing room inside. Not much though. Again very comfortable and will show off your overall shape and appears to cover your butt a little bit more than the first one since it’s not as formfitting. It has a 2” inseam, a small pocket, and a liner that I cut out. bottom part covers just the back curves of your butt. Top-bottom on the side is 9.5” with a 1” slit on the side. $7. SIZE XL. I have both Blue and Navy Blue Have fun all!
JM_Runs	#122
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：11/09/2019 02:27:23Copy HTML CKWonderer, thanks for the detailed reviews and identification of lower cost vendors. You might be interested in these: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32889669069.html https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32914810449.html Rather thin nylon/spandex and a close fitting, so go with a dark color on the pouch and larger sizes.
curiousfun	#123
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：11/09/2019 05:44:22Copy HTML CKWonderer, I have tried to see the thongs and shorts you are referring to because I have many on both from Ali Express. But trying to copy your links or search in the Ali app gives me no results. JM Runs links work and take me directly the items. I have also tried to link Ali items in discussions on here but I couldn't make the links work either. JM Runs, can you give lessons on how to make working links?
CKWonderer	#124
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：11/10/2019 02:07:10Copy HTML I have updated the links in my post above somehow they even show up as a live hyperlink...
curiousfun	#125
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：11/10/2019 02:52:58Copy HTML Thank you CK Wonderer. Those are nice shorts. They easily pass as swimsuits and in my opinion could be worn anywhere especially in a beach town.
JM_Runs	#126
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：11/11/2019 01:46:05Copy HTML TODAY is 11/11 or as you may see it on AliExpress II/II Most vendors on Ali have some form of discount for just today. This is the Chinese equivlent of black Friday and Cyber Monday all rolled into one. Sometimes the discount is just a few cents, and not worth the incentive to buy. If you really wanted it you would have bought already, and the fact that it is lingering in your you have not yet committed means you probably don't really need it. However some discounts are as much as 50%, and if the item has free shipping that's significant. If you are like me, a little addicted to the good deals on Ali, and have a bunch of things stored in your shopping-cart, that you might, or might not buy, today is the day to take the plunge on items with significant, 11/11 one day extra discounts.
beachstrapguy	#127
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：11/12/2019 06:57:43Copy HTML Thanks JM for the reminder. I've had 7 items in my cart waiting and forgot about the date. Just got the order in today thanks to you..
beachstrapguy	#128
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：01/03/2020 01:44:03Copy HTML Its been almost 2 months and I'm having trouble getting one of the items. The tracking says it got on the plane on Nov 14. When I opened the dispute, the rep in China said it was still in the sorting center in China. Communication with them is horrible when a problem. I've probably been stiffed. Not the first time this has happened.
csnipwb	#129
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：01/03/2020 12:08:39Copy HTML Beachstrapguy, Send an email to AliExpress. They stand behind their vendors. I had the same problem with a lost order last year. The vendor wanted me to order another and he was going to send me 2 for the price of one. We went back and forth a few weeks and the day after I sent an e-mail to AliExpress he apologized and issued a refund. Stay on them, you will get it.
JM_Runs	#130
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：01/04/2020 10:20:15Copy HTML You should NOT have to email AliExpress: The website has a built in dispute resolution system. Look at the expected due date window. Don't start making a fuss until the buyer protection is coming to an end. Often the product is still in the mail. If you don't get the product and the end of the buyer protection is coming up in a few days FIRST: Open My Orders, select the VIEW DETAIL for that order and look for the words saying: "To extend the Buyer Protection for this order, please click here" I normally request another 30 days, and most sellers will respond within a couple of days expanding the time instead of issuing a refund. This gives extra time for the package to arrive. Normally they are just slow. Note that while most products have tracking, many only track in China, so the last entry may be accepted by china post and sent for international shipping. Once on the boat or plane there may be no more tracking. In this case the next event is arrival in your mailbox several weeks later. If the seller will not expand the time, and the product is over due, you can still open a dispute with the OPEN DISPUTE link. Explain you have asked to expand the delivery / buyer protection time, and package has still not arrived. 100% of the time I have received a full refund. If the product does arrive but is NOT the one in the listing, open a dispute and upload a picture. When a product is not right sometimes the seller will offer a partial refund. This is often a good solution, with you keeping the product. Don't open disputes just because your item was too small. In this case you failed to take other members advice to order the largest size available, or failed to read the items size guide and size up anyway. Chinese sizing runs VERY SMALL !!
JM_Runs	#131
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：01/13/2020 10:21:04Copy HTML If you don't already have an account with AliExpress please follow this link, they are running a promotion where new users get $19 in free coupons: Follow this link: https://a.aliexpress.com/rVZJWWOk I don't know if the coupons can be used on anything you purchase, or only some vendors. Try out the link and let us know.
JayByrd	#132
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：01/15/2020 01:39:00Copy HTML JM_Runs, $19 is nothing to sneeze at. Alas, I already have an account. I'm curious what their affiliate program pays for referring others. I'm thinking it might pay for some much needed cheap undies/swimwear for me to try it out.
JM_Runs	#133
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：04/18/2020 09:38:21Copy HTML I am finding my orders from AliExpress are still coming through fine. This shutdown in the US gives us all time to stock up on next summers thongs. I am finding trying to sort by price is not working, it knocks out half or more of the items that match the search. Also sometimes, when the shipping is free, it is better to order one at a time, over a number of days, than three on one order. Because then each one gets a separate tracking number and you know you are going to get 3 items and not two. Also some items that have free shipping for one item, charge shipping if your order is for two or more of the same thing, but not one-of-one and one-of-another. Very odd, but something to watch for. Remember to use the shopping cart as a temporary storage of similar items from different vendors. I makes it easy to go back and select the one with the lowest combined price for cost + shipping. Remember, unless it says otherwise, most thongs and underwear are Chinese sizes, so XL will generally fit someone with a waist between 30 and 33 inches. Do look at reviews. Comments like way to small probably mean the item sizing is off. I would go for thongs you can wear in public, at the beach or around your neighborhood, rather than thongs that belong in the bedroom.
MBareAs	#134
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：04/19/2020 02:33:40Copy HTML On Ali-express I generally look for reviews with photos, as my expectations on how I might look wearing something is supported by how real people (as opposed to models) look, while wearing the product. It is my opinion that many thongs on ali-express are worn along with padding to accentuate the 'male-ness' of the wearer. Some vendors actually sell the enhancement padding, noting I find their use by sellers (or buyers) to be rather deceptive. There are enough sellers of Cheap Chinese (underwear) Products, or more generically Cheap Chinese Products (CCPs?), that for a modest expenditure -any- curious man (or woman) can buy a selection of assorted styles to find what looks best on themselves... No need to 'fix' one's appearance with padding... Yeah, the pricing on Ali-express is really beginning to irritate me. Most product searches ordered by price seem to key off the listing's lowest price, which nearly all vendors miss-represent IMO. Many products have one (frequently tiny) size for one mundane style/colour at a price about 1/2 or lower the price charged for all the other products in a listing. Shipping fees are generally ignored when sorting products too, and should you not live in the 'states' additional shipping to places like Canada-eh! can be onerous... MBareAs Men's underwear prices from China have also increase by about %100 in the last few years, on average too... Well that's it from me today. I have listed favorite aliexpress thongs in past postings, but sellers come and go, so I wouldn't get too excited about looking any of them up. Ebay has had some enticing prices for men's thongs too - though I seldom use the platform.
DMK99	#135
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：04/20/2020 04:39:45Copy HTML I made an order from them about three months ago before the Chinese new year and Covid19 issues. Really wasn't impressed with the quality and fit of what I bought. Sizing was all over the place and I ended up throwing out everything I bought. Never again.
ohiothonger	#136
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：04/21/2020 01:07:06Copy HTML Understand that AliExpress features items from a variety of vendors or companies. It is like going to a flea market or buying small business or even home-made stuff on eBay. Even Amazon has a lot of suppliers. So you should expect differences in quality, sizing issues, lack of follow up, not getting the right items, etc. Go to eBay or Amazon and you will find some vendors who have almost all bad reviews. The same is true for AliExpress.
MBareAs	#137
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：04/21/2020 05:36:26Copy HTML It is (I believe) an accepted statistic that if one person has a bad experience (s)he will tell ten others, but if they have a good one they will tell 2 or 3 other people... So, some percentage have bad experiences with aliexpress, and they broadcast that to the masses... Fewer have better experiences and step up to tell others, as JM and I have done. Yes, I will agree that there are many 'cheap'/substandard products sold via aliexpress and I have effectively discarded my not insubstantial share of those items that I paid a small amount for. I firmly believe there is a significant (if perhaps smaller) percentage of aliexpress products that represent substantially better value for the price then 20-30 dollar thongs -most- people on this board -may- be buying from non Chinese producers (or at least sellers)... At the end of the day 'value' is king (in my opinion,) and IF we on the board can identify our successful aliexpress purchases, then as a group - more will benefit. It is also my strong feeling that when someone pays top dollar for a product, they are much more likely to praise its virtues irregardless of its actual 'value', i.e. benefit to price ratio... If your financial resources are limitless (or at least exceed the norm), and your time limited, then you are more likely to praise an expensive thong that might fall apart after a few wearings in a chlorinated pool, then to praise the cheaper Chinese thong that took some effort to find and five weeks to ship half way around the world. Just saying... A favorite quote came via a speech Ronald Regan once made. As I recall, he stated he only wanted to utilize one armed economists, because he never wanted any advice from someone who could say 'on the other hand'... MBareAs
ftlaudthonger	#138
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：04/21/2020 11:40:04Copy HTML Hi everyone ! Im in Ft Lauderdale on lock down. I have bought many thongs from Aliexpress and most have been great. There have been a few so small I could barely get them up over my hips im a size medium and I always order large or extra large just to be safe. Im not bragging but the pouches most times are to small.
JM_Runs	#139
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：05/22/2020 12:22:30Copy HTML I have noticed that thong vendors selling through AliExpress have become more numerous and prices have been slowly edging down. Thongs I paid $7 a few years ago are now often $3 to $4 with shipping. The search engine is annoyingly defective, because it still can't sort by price and shipping, and often when you try to sort by price the list of items vanishes, goes to zero, or the number of items reduces. However when one finds the right thing most vendors are quite good about getting the product off the shelf and shipped within a couple of days. It then takes forever for the mail systems in various countries to get the products into my mailbox, but that's ok, I expect the delay. I constantly have a few things on order, in the pipeline, so each day's mail is an opportunity for small random gifts to myself, sent from some time in the past. The only thing you have to watch out for is packages that have not yet arrived but the time for delivery and buyer protection is running out. Go to My Orders - Select the "Awaiting Delivery" from the options along the top of the My Orders screen. Look at the number of days left before expected delivery. If the time left is 5 days or left open the item and select the link for "To extend the Buyer Protection for this order, please click here" - I normally request another 30 or 40 days. If the seller agrees, which they normally do, this moves out the time for delivery and buyer protection, and often the package arrives eventually. If the seller does not agree to expand the time for buyer protection then when time clocks down to one day or has passed, I file a dispute. Almost all the disputes have been judged in my favor and I got full refunds. I think requesting expansion of time at least once, and then if that then expires providing the correct information for dispute resolution helps. AliExpress keeps my payment details, and does not send them to the sellers. For the most part my card is not even charged until the seller informs AliExpress that the item is shipped, and if there has been a dispute, normally because the package never arrived or the item arrived broken, the refund is prompt. The money I am not spending on meals out and beer at bars is expanding my thong collection.
ftlaudthonger	#140
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：05/22/2020 10:38:33Copy HTML I get most of my thongs on Aliexpress and only a few times have i been disappointed. Its usually just a sizing thing. I am a US medium. for Ali i sometimes have to jump to XL. Id rather it be loose then to tight and i always need a bigger pouch.
sailor250	#141
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：05/22/2020 10:59:01Copy HTML I recently tried it. I ordered two items from the same vendor- shipping included. So I wait and track and the package arrives - guess what only one item. I message them and they said they didn't notice I'd ordered two items- well they got paid for two items- it's not a case of a second non tracked shipment they admit that. I said I wanted a refund for the missing item, they said apply for a refund. So I do and it's denied. I appeal , it's denied. I'm messaging the seller and they say "this is wrong" but they apparently aren't or can't affect the refund- so I'm screwed! Moral is only buy one item at a time then this won't happen and everything is tracked.
itanng	#142
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：05/23/2020 04:03:54Copy HTML Concerning non-delivery: I've always had refund from AliExpress when a product did not arrive. I think it's important for "Shipping" to include the phrase "via AliExpress". Here's what you get when you file a dispute for an order using this method: "Because your order was sent by AliExpress Shipping, your refund request will be automatically handled by us instead of the seller... Please note that if this request is determined to be unrelated to logistics, we will hand over the refund request to the seller..."
sailor250	#143
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：05/23/2020 08:35:14Copy HTML Ironically that's exactly my issue- I purposely used AliExpress Shipping and have gotten that message. I think the seller is talking out of both sides of his mouth-literally- admitting to me he shortchanged me then telling AliExpress he sent the second item.
XChip	#144
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：05/24/2020 12:11:36Copy HTML I order thongs and g's from AliExpress, inexpensive and one at a time. The items turn up eventually, or if they don't it's only a few bucks. I don't sweat it.
tiggerix	#145
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：07/03/2020 09:35:57Copy HTML Just a non-update on Aliexpress. I ordered a Desmiit swim thong on 2nd June and got it about 14 days later - I could follow it on the order tracking and everything went really well. Ordered another type on that same day, and then found that the tracking shows 'shipment cancelled' - have contacted seller who says it is on it's way and has offered to shop another - will have to wait and see. Ordered two more items on 12th June and the shipping tracking seems to show very little movement except that both should be with the airline and may or may not be in uk. I guess I was really optimistic when the Desmiit one came so quickly and all of the shipping tracking was spot on. BTW the Desmiit is a black and white striped swim thong - it really pops.
Lycrafool	#146
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：07/03/2020 10:41:50Copy HTML Tiggerix, I have ordered quite a few things (and thongs) from AliExpress. Maybe the shipping conditions are different between Sweden and the UK, but most of my stuff has arrived after about two months. And once with the wrong item, and once with a few extra items of which I'm not sure if they were meant as free gifts or added by mistake. But I expect anything and everything when I order :)
JM_Runs	#147
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：07/03/2020 02:57:37Copy HTML "Expect anything and everything" !! Good comment. I have found shipping is MUCH delayed. Maybe because of delays at the seller's end but most things are shipped within a week or two so it seems the delays are in the transit. Maybe because of Covid-19 and customs clearance at our end. Who knows. One thing I always do when items are delayed and the expected time is running out is to go into the "View Detail" and then select the link that says: "To extend the Buyer Protection for this order, please click here." I ask for 30 or 40 days more. This allows time for the missing items to finally arrive without needing to open a dispute. I find most things do finally arrive in the end.
tiggerix	#148
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：07/07/2020 01:41:29Copy HTML @Lycrafool - I rechecked the order tracking for the four orders I have made recently. The first was a Desmiit thong that came within about 2 weeks - this was shipped by Aliexpress and seems to use air mail. My other three orders are on Cainiao Super Saver - one of the orders seems to have made it to Kazakhstan and I guess it is coming by train. I hadn't really checked what the shipping was before waiting for these orders, so I think I am in for a long wait. Even longer for the one that is marked 'shipment cancelled' ... In future I will try to check the shipping more closely!
Lycrafool	#149
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：07/08/2020 06:55:45Copy HTML Haha 😂 But this is the price we pay for not paying the price! Anyway, in the future (long term) I think the tables may have turned, and we are sewing the products for the Asian market. Am I right or just drunk, or both?
tiggerix	#150
	Re：AliExpress for products from China Date Posted：07/09/2020 10:57:02Copy HTML @Lycrafool - yes, you are right and just drunk... There are some styles that are so cheap that I guess it is worth the wait - especially with some silly high prices in Europe, but I think I prefer to get my stuff more quickly than 2 months. Checked again today - some stuff may still be in Kazakhstan... Might try Crazy Bikini in Ukraine..