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Buying stuff from online shopping malls in China

I've come across these two online stores based in mainland China.

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first one can work without having to open an account and email verification and also works with paypal. Second one need an account, like amazon & need account verification via email, but doesn't work with paypal.

I'm pretty sure

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is legit and has been around for a while, but I'm not comfortable punching in credit card details into their 'secure' web page(doesn't work with paypal) It's apparently a subsidiary
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which works for retail+wholesale quick purchases. If that's the case, I'm not sure about the reason for not supporting paypal!!!

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supports paypal, but seems too easy overall and can't find any reviews on internet about their legitimacy. Even though it looks like a UK online shopping mall, it's actually based in Beijing, China. It claims delivery via DHL in 3-5 working days, which sounds too good to be true. Their prices beat
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by a good percentage.

Can you guys please advice me whether these two sites(especially

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) is legit or not?!

I'm about to place couple of orders via them, which are not too cheap and I would love to hear the experience of usenet monkeys out there with these two websites and more.

BTW, I'm purchaing some electronic gear, which includes Lead acid battery analyzers(namely MST A600, MST 8000+ , etc etc).

Thanks

Reply to
Damian
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I've used aliexpress, and their parent alibaba, for some years, buying electronic bits and pieces and car parts, and have had no problems with them, but it is definitely caveat emptor, make sure that what you /think/ you are buying is what is being sold! Example: the use of the word "chrome" does not necessarily mean the part is chromed steel.

I've also used Taobao via taobaofocus to get stuff from China, very cheap, but again, you have to be sure of what you are ordering, very heavy on Chinglish!

NFI about carsets.

Cheers, Gary B-)

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Reply to
Gary R. Schmidt

Thanks. carsets.co.uk appears to be somewhat dodgy. They say, if it sounds too good to be true, it usually ain't. That may be the case with them.

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Damian

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