AliExpress

[PaulWarning]

ordered a Lekato WS-70 wireless unit from AliExpress, under £16, what had I got to lose? I got to the checkout and the price was £8.30, I thought I'd got a new customer discount.

The unit arrived today and its a HOHIYO A8, very flimsy but it works, but very dodgy practices, the original picture shows a Lekato but the check out picture (I've just checked) shows the Hohiyo, I shall complain but I'm not holding my breath

[tauzero]

13 hours ago, PaulWarning said:

ordered a Lekato WS-70 wireless unit from AliExpress, under £16, what had I got to lose? I got to the checkout and the price was £8.30, I thought I'd got a new customer discount.

The unit arrived today and its a HOHIYO A8, very flimsy but it works, but very dodgy practices, the original picture shows a Lekato but the check out picture (I've just checked) shows the Hohiyo, I shall complain but I'm not holding my breath

 

You have to watch out for that. If you go back to the original item, you'll probably find there's a selection of wirelesses and the most attractive is shown as the default but the cheapest is the one autoselected for you. I fell foul of this when I finished up with a couple of Amplug type things when I wanted something else.

[PaulWarning]

5 minutes ago, tauzero said:

 

You have to watch out for that. If you go back to the original item, you'll probably find there's a selection of wirelesses and the most attractive is shown as the default but the cheapest is the one autoselected for you. I fell foul of this when I finished up with a couple of Amplug type things when I wanted something else.

When I checked, in the basket,the unit was still described as a Lekato WS-70 but the picture had changed to the Honiyo unit, I really can't be bothered to send it back for the sake of 8 quid, that's probably what they rely on, and it does work, haven't really tested out the quality yet, might be ok for home use

[Wombat]

Aye, I was trying to buy a M-VAVE chocolate midi foot controller- just to have a bit of (cheap) fun seeing how midi works. But I ended up with just the wireless midi bit! Going back in I saw what they did - give you a pick of the foot controller with several options, with the cheapest being ‘not what you thought you bought’ (the wireless dongle on its own in this case). I did think I was going to have a fight over it and have the hassle of returning it but they just refunded my £10. Turns out if I want the foot pedal that’s another £27. And now I have a wireless midi dongle and no way to use it 🤷‍♀️😂.

Edited 15 hours ago by Wombat

[PaulWarning]

just tested it, even I can notice the latency and it sucks the top end out resulting in lower volume than a cable, so all in all, bloody useless

[Wombat]

I ended up using a PC to contact them to start with. Whilst the contact button appeared on my phone and iPad it didn’t do anything.

The contact took me to a ‘chat’ and a real person came on quite quickly. But although it suggested I was chatting with the vendor you could tell that it was an ‘Aliexpress’ person. I just said I hadn’t received what I thought I should and they raised a ‘return’ for me but I didn’t have to send anything back and I got emails about a refund that day and the money a couple of days later.

There is a return/refund button so you can do it yourself. I just needed to upload a photo. I did this with the packaging in the shot as it was obviously too small to have the pedal in it. For you you have a product that is different to what you (thought you) bought. You can show a screenshot of what you bought.  For me the description constantly showed ‘chocolate pedal AND wireless’.

I did buy my KZ earbuds from Ali and that went fine. But although I got my money back pretty easily - the chat person said ‘so I can buy the right thing’ - I’m not enthused to buy anything else from there.

[miles'tone]

I ordered a tenor ukulele from Aliexpress. Came with a gigbag and strap.

When it arrived I had the gigbag and strap but no bloody ukulele!

It cost me half of the original total to return it but I sucked it up just out of principle.

As soon as I gave the tracking number I did get a refund immediately but not for the return shipping.

Oh, and 7 months later my returned package of items arrived at my door for a second time. It had gone all the way to China and then back again! Maybe the return address was bogus?

 

Never again.

 

 

 

 

[tauzero]

AliExpress returns are (in my recent experience) to a UK address with a prepaid label. Also, for cheap stuff, they may not even want it sent back. Most recent thing I sent back was a USB audio interface that was very noisy, no quibble, got a return label, posted it back and was refunded when I posted it. So @PaulWarning, you might as well do a return if you don't mind dropping it off at a post office.

[Supernaut]

Welcome to the actual Amazon. The Western Amazon is Ali but at double the price. 😁