Amazon? eBay? Temu? AliExpress?... which one are you using the most?

Klondike Mike said:

I am finding that I am ordering more from Amazon these days. Not necessarily radio gear but other stuff. Getting product that I need, good pricing in my currency ($CA), free shipping or low cost and usually quick shipping. Amazon was a third or fourth choice for me for many years. eBay got most of my business, no longer. Teemu is becoming my #2.

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I looked at temu yesterday for the first time, and it had me spinning a wheel for free stuff. That seems kinda sketchy to me and I feel like I am asking to get hacked just looking at it. I am reassured by everyone around that it's legit and not a scam, but my spidey senses are tingling.

Aliexpress. Amazon, ebay too expensive for the same gear.
Mike

For tech stuff cheap, +1 for AliExpress. I restore game consoles and that's where I get all my PSX/PS2 laser/carriage assemblies from. While the assembly itself is a hit/miss, had a few arrive with busted or stripped gears, the laser unit alone is all I am after and they always work well after biasing correctly.

I was an EBAY guy for over two decades. But their switch to AI robot customer service screwed me out of over 100 bucks from a seller who didn't send me what his photos showed. Wouldn't let me talk to a human service rep. So good-bye Ebay. . . now I'm with Amazon 100%. My wife got taken by TEMU too. Misrepresentation - ADs showed one thing, what she got was 1/4 the size.

Living in Colombia - Trump's tariffs don't bother us.

Probably will be using ALIBABA and ALIEXPRESS more now that I'm done with EBAY.

Only Amazon Caveat: Be careful if the seller is a company in INDIA. They can't count. Ordered 50 pieces got 46. Their shipping takes forever too. I'm a PRIME buyer, so Amazon says 5 days to Colombia door -to- door. 2nd (and my last) buy from an India Company took 23 days.

J.J. 399

You have to be very careful on TEMU. My wife has been getting a lot of fake items lured by the low costs. Recently some of those fake silver bars and jewelry.
ebay has pretty much shut me out as I run a VPN and they want verification methods that I cannot provide, after 27 years of the bay I'm also done. I bought from alibaba or aliexpress one of the 2, and got a stereo switch, amp or speaker, that the left and right channel was crossed over internally...drove me nuts.
Amazon has some issues, but with Prime the free shipping and free returns make it a better option for us. I resisted Amazon for a long time and used them sparingly, but they seem the better option these days.
As far as India, I just don't trust too much from them. Weren't they responsible for the fake eye-drops that killed a bunch of people? I saw a documentary about them making backyard, back alley fake pharmaceuticals. And their metal is terrible as well...saw motor shafts tear apart on fan motors etc.
You have to be diligent these days as we, the US of A, seem to have become a dumping ground with seemingly less and less control on whats coming in. There are a ton of fake products in the marketplace. We the people are the controls, the litmus test, when we get hurt, then we pay attention.
Just sayin.

Amazon gets about two thirds here. The free shipping and Prime Video is nice. And like AudioShockwav said, the easy returns makes it more appealing as well. I've had a few issues in the past and once, before I could get the item boxed up and sent back, I already received the replacement. I have noticed that we're not ordering as much as we once did. We took a look at our history before renewing this last time and for the past three years our ordering is trending down quite a bit. If it wasn't for the Prime Video, we probably wouldn't have renewed.

I've pretty much given up completely on Ebay.

I go to Amazon first, find my product and then do a good search to find the product from other companies. I have saved several hundreds of $$ by bypassing eBay and Amazon, especially on sales tax.

For instance; I purchase a Thermal rifle scope this year through a on line company, I save $204 by not buying it through Amazon.

Amazon for most of my stuff but I still use eBay a lot as well.

Amazon First! You can't beat the next day delivery.