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How to buy safely in Aliexpress

Did you ever heard about Aliexpress? If you are online shopper you should know about this. Aliexpres is famous online retailer based on china. It connect many sellers to buyers. Aliexpress is part of Alibaba and this is biggest online shop in china. If america has e bay and amazon, china has alibaba and Aliexpress. But many review tells us that buying from aliexpress is not recommended because it is not save and vulnerable to fraud. If you are talking about quality, most sellers in aliexpress are selling chinese manufactured stuffs. That's why you will find many cheap stuffs here. So How to buy in Aliexpress safely to minimize the fraud?

Buying stuffs in aliexpress is very tricky things. Because many sellers in here are not telling the truth about their stuffs. In the other hands, you can also find many-many good/trusted sellers. Actually, Aliexpress is providing buyer protection feature. If your stuff came to home in broken condition or the stuff never come to your home. You can open the dispute to aliexpress and your money will back. But, it will cost you a lot of time.
How to buy safely in Aliexpress

Here is few tips how to buy and find good/trusted sellers in aliexpress:

- Check the "user reviews": Every stuff sell by sellers has "user reviews" section. In here you could find the users opinion about the stuff. If most of the reviewers says good or any positive feedbacks with 5 stars rate. Check also how many the stuff has being sold. If the stuff has sold many with hundreds of positive comments, This possibly a good stuff.

- A good seller usually have diamonds mark. Choose the seller that have minimal 1 diamond mark/icon. Diamond mark usually indicates that the sellers is trusted and have sold many stuffs with many positive reviews from buyers.

- A good seller is always communicate with the buyer. If you are asking question about your stuff to the seller via chat, and the seller always responds to your question fast and clearly. 

- Always make pre-agreement with seller before you deal. About buyer protection, Shipping method, Estimation time of arrival and warrant of your stuff.

- About Credit card and ID Verification (if Asked). Sometimes, Aliexpress will asking you, especially if you are first time buyer to verifying  your identity by send them your scanned ID card and credit card. This is for prevent buyer to using stolen credit card. But, be careful when scanning your credit card, cover your number (but not the last 4 number) and CVV with black tape or something.

Ok that's the few tips before you deal in aliexpress. Always make sure you find a good seller, and always be careful about stuff before you dealing.

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