Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon
Looks like I'm spoiled for choice. Temu has exactly the same for 11.29. Not that I'd be purchasing from either place; it's just another example of Amazon's enshittification.
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Don't use Temu, lol. Good ol' AliExpress has proven it's quality over a long period of time. Also, there are many trusted stores that were proven to be of high-quality. Just Google some reddit posts asking for the good ones.
My wife uses Temu for disposable party items, but that's it. I'm of an age where I unironically ask for socka for Christmas, so I'm already beyond Temu's target audience.
Oddly enough, I've had better luck with temu than with aliexpress.
In general they have a lot of the same products, but AE has a much larger selection. However, the AE interface is pure garbage. If you apply a price sort, everything just dissapears. Trying to narrow a search means looking through pages of items, most of which aren't related to what I seached for. Temu, at least, has a preety good search function, filters, and sorts. Plus temu doesnt have the annoying minimum for free shipping.
I'm not a shill for temu. They are a shitty company with low quality chinese crap. But if all I need is low quality chinese crap, it's actually the most effective marketplace I've found to get it.
Dunno.. As I said, what I like in AliExpress is that there are many trusted sellers that are proven to sell high-quality stuff. It's just a matter of finding them.
I don't get why multiple people in this post are recommending AliExpress over Amazon. Like yeah it's cheaper and more from the direct source...but not everyone wants to wait a month to receive the item they want to buy. I've seen some items on AliExpress advertise that they now have "faster shipping", but it's still very very slow in comparison....still taking multiple weeks in my experience.
There is a reason why Amazon got big over other online retailers. Even the online shops for many brick and mortar stores end up making you pay more for the item, make you pay a sizeable fee for the shipping, and make you wait 1-2 weeks all on top of that. Not to mention that if your order does get fucked up or you do get scammed on Amazon, they are very quick to give you your money back because they know it helps with customer satisfaction.
I had an issue with an online order from Samsung before. And despite also being a massive company with shittons of money, they gave me a hard time and I really had to fight to rectify their own mistake.
I get Amazon is evil and all but there's a reason why they are the most used shopping platform. If no one else comes even remotely close to what they do, they aren't going to gain much of a foothold.
but not everyone want to wait a month
There are different options with different delivery times. You can just search for "Choice" option (IIRC) and get products that will get delivered to you in 2 weeks. Also, AliExpress has a lot of stores that ship from Europe. So, for example my lab power supply and router for woodworking got delivered to me in 5 days from Poland.
With an online order from Samsung
You learned your lesson. Don't buy stuff directly from the brands. Buy them on markets that have good reputation in following their policies.
In the nutshell, I never had problems with AliExpress and will recommend it to everyone for everything - from electronic components to.. anything else.
I mean, AliExpress is great, but for many things I'm really just not interested in waiting 2 weeks for my item.
You said don't buy directly from brands, but that's the main thing others in this post are recommending lol.
Thing is if I bought that item from Amazon instead of Samsung, they would have immediately rectified the mistake instead of making me fight for it. And the item would have come sooner. So it's still a win for Amazon.
I still do get why people don't want to use Amazon for moral reasons, but again, they simply provide a massively superior experience than literally any other retailer I've used.