cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/63264641

Gennadiy Tsygan knows how expensive it is to build a home in the United States. That’s why he imported almost everything for his dream house from China.

Most of his home fixtures were imported directly from over two dozen factories, and Tsygan — an engineer in Baltimore — flew halfway around the world in 2024 to choose some of those products.

  • zelahdieliekeis@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    9·
    7 days ago

    I have gotten a couple cheap, good items from Aliexpress, but htf do I work around:

    • absolutely no respect for search terms. All search results are the equivalent of searching for each word in my search alone, mixing the results together, and randomly choosing one to overprioritize. Quotes and minuses ignored.
    • I will click on an item and it will take me to a blank page saying no such item exists or it’s not available or something, I don’t quite remember. But after a couple successful purchases this started happening for every single item before I stopped using it because this was blocking me from buying stuff.
    • Raiderkev@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      6 days ago

      You can reverse image search an Amazon listing and specify AliExpress as the site. That’s really all I’ve got. You kinda have to go into it knowing it’s less convenient and shittier lol, but it’s the chance you take to save a few bucks.

      • zelahdieliekeis@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        I have done text searches on search engines with site:aliexpress.com which return all dead listings, but I have not tried the image search method. Could work, thank you.