Ordering from Aliexpress - advice

NeVeR

Hi All.

I'm looking to get a good Android smartphone and wanted to give Aliexpress a try.

I want to keep my spend under €150 ( including shipping )

Can anyone recommend a good phone for this price.

I'd like 3G / Wifi and maybe quad core.. but Dual core is fine if the €150 budget can't afford it.

I also want something that wan't get stopped by customs as a fake/copy etc.

thanks.

Gran Hermano

Aliexpress is a marketplace (like Ebay) rather than just one individual seller/shop.
Make sure you look for feedback on the particular seller.

(Apols if you already know the above).

NeVeR

Thanks.

I did know that. I know there is a feedback thing and I do look at it.. it's more the Phone quality and customs thing I was talking about.

thanks for the reply.

nedd

I bought a tablet from a seller on Ali Express. It was on the Bargain Alert page here. A lot of people ordered it and use DHL as the courier, they were all hit with customs. I went for regular postage and it got through fine.

NeVeR

When you say hit with customs do you mean they where charged extra or that customs took them and destroyed them ?


I don't mind paying the extra,, I just don't want them taking the product and calling it a fake / copy of something else.

nedd

People were just charged €20 for the tablet I got. But you need to be careful that whatever you are ordering is not a copy of a Samsung phone. There have been instances of phones made to look like Samsungs only cheaper being destroyed.

NeVeR

thats what i mean.

I wanted people to link me to phones they bought that are good.. and are not fakes.

I don't understand all the spec/tech talk when it comes to phones.

I don't know what chipsets are good and what are bad.

I don't know is a phone has bad touch screen etc.

It's info like that that would be great.