I've had very little issues with chinese sellers personally. The two times I did they quickly resolved the issue to my satisfaction. That's more than I can say for all the times I had issues with American sellers.

[–] Clent@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

Same. I've had several refunds. No request to return. Just full money back.

I don't think people recognize how often a purchase made to Amazon or some similar seller platform is actually coming straight from China; always with a 2x or more mark up.

I've taken to always searching on ali to see if I can get the same thing for 1/10 the price. They don't try to hide the shipping information like Amazon does. Where as Amazon won't report anything until it's in country and passed customs.

[–] michael_palmer@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

That's because Aliexpress refund system works good. But some time ago, several chinese seller tried to fool me in direct messaging saying "close the appelation and I'll return money to your PayPal". Also I had bad expirience with chinese software. It's always proprietary, contain bugs and rarely get fixes.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

All of that stuff happens in international retail with any country, and with software coming from any country.

I think you’re just being bigoted.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 5 points 8 months ago

But some time ago, several chinese seller tried to fool me in direct messaging saying “close the appelation and I’ll return money to your PayPal”

I've had American sellers do the same thing on Amazon. I've had them lie about a product being new on their listing and refuse to correct the mistake only to try to bribe me to take my bad review of them down (even then their offer wasn't sufficient to fix my problem). It's not about nationality, it's just scumbags being scumbags and those come from all nations.