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ordering stuff online (lemmy.world)
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In the top panel, Drake rejects a $25 product with $5 shipping. In the bottom panel, he approves of a $30 product with free shipping.
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[–] 64 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Buying on Ali Express:

  • Buy for $2
  • Click on item
  • $75 shipping cost
  • No way to sort by total cost
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  • [–] 55 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Buying on Ali Express/Temu/Ebay

    • Item I want is listed for $20

    • Click item

    • It's actually a 15cm USB-C cable for $20, the actual item which is 'color B' is $75

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    In brazil: 400 reais item clicks it Actually 700 with taxes.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Same in Europe when buying from North America stores. Listed price is 100 USD so I assume it will be 100 EUR, by the time I received the item I have paid close to 160 EUR and often you need to spend going through filling in your information before it gives you that total price and sometimes they unfairly compete with their prices before tax with other stores with prices after tax. Which is illegal, but hey/

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I've found the Lowe's site/app is even worse, you can sort by cost but it will "categorize" them so it shows the more expensive items first then lists the next set in cost order. I would rather just not have the option.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    That sounds terrible 😐

    Imagine, some website developer got asked to spend hours designing a complicated sort that made for a worse experience than a basic search.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    This has not been my experience at all, delivery is almost always free for purchases over something like $20.

    You can forget entirely about returns though, zero chance to get one of those to work

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    There's not even anything-close to a 100% chance you will even get your items.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I have ordered many things from Ali express, and sometimes the sellers cancel the order because they can't fulfill it but I've never been charged for something that didn't arrive. I've also never bought something expensive enough that it would be a problem if it doesn't arrive, as I know it's just a marketplace where I'm sure scammers exist.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    We must be shopping for different kinds of things, though I have exaggerated the shipping costs, I find it hard to work out what the cheapest item is. I have also commonly found what someone else mentioned, that they have different items for each "colour", and have something cheap on one colour and the thing you actually want for a lot more on another colour. You search for the thing you want, and it comes up in the search showing the price for the thing you don't want because the system things they are different colours of the same thing when it's not.

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