On Wed, 22 Feb 2017 04:20:12 -0500, rickman wrote:

On 2/22/2017 1:21 AM, Spehro Pefhany wrote:
On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 22:33:12 +0000 (UTC), the renowned root
wrote:


I could not disagree more with your assertions about AliExpress. If you
receive goods which were either defective or not as represented you
can get your money back but only if you ship the items back to
the sender at your expense. On a recent $105 order with AliExpress,
the shipping cost to return the item was $48. It took weeks of
email exchanges with the sender before they were even willing
to take back the item. My experience with Amazon is the exact
opposite.


Amazon seems to police their vendors, almost to a fault. It would be
interesting to know from the vendor side how it feels to deal with a
bad buyer (eg. broke the product, tells lies, etc.)

Ali- rather less so and as you say the shipping cost back works in
favor of a bad seller- you *have* to use a method with tracking so not
cheap. Sometimes you can get partial (maybe half) the money back
without sending it back. 8-(

Does Amazon have a way to ask vendors questions about the product? I
know I have looked many, many times and not found a link. I know where
the eBay link is. With Aliexpress communications is often not very
useful as I don't get answers that show an understanding of my question.
I've just never gotten a warm fuzzy feeling from Amazon.

Amazon has a place to ask quesitons. Usually they're answered by
other purchasers but some sellers (and even manufacturers) use it as a
suport channel. I make two or three Amazon orders a month but haven't
bought from eBay for five or six years (and never AliEx).
n