Anyone still waiting for stuff from China?

Think Ive run into a problem, bought two items on Aliexpress from the same seller April 5th. Im pretty sure it was listed as being in a German warehouse which is why I purchased and the order does say Germany on it. So 40 days later no sign of it (iirc it said 21-28 days shipping). Tried to contact Aliexpress CS but its a bot telling me to contact the seller, the seller response is a bot wishing me a happy life and nothng else, it donest respond further. Looked at the order again and it says tracking DHL_DE with LVXXXXXXXCN as the number which would suggest China. Put that number into DHL both Irish and German sites and it is saying invalid.

Whats my options, is it too late to do a bank charge back? Doesnt look likely I'll get my products and sounds very like a scam. Its only 25 quid but would charge back if I can seeing as the seller is just a bot that does nothing.

Try this tracking site...https://parcelsapp.com/en

seems to be Cainiao I think from the global tracking website. Item is worth just under €4 so with the admin charge it’s more than it’s worth.

Cainio is delivered by An Post

Since I stopped using fedex, my suppliers create An Post delivery labels with tracking numbers (ending in IE) that can be tracked on the An Post website once they land here. VAT is paid to Ali Express and An Post simply delivers them and I have never been caught for double VAT.

Your problem might be because of an incorrect declaration.

Probably in the Indian Ocean on a ship. The Ali tracking no. is an IE one. If you plug it into an international tracking site, it just shows as not yet scanned in Ireland, there is no record of the Chinese leg, I presume because Ali just bulk ship stuff bound for the EU/Ireland, no individual scanning until the the 'cage' is open, though they should have a manifest for it's contents. As you say, the tracking is a fantasy.

My tracker says my parcel is on transport to the country of destination.

How long would it usually take for my parcel to arrive based on that?

Thank you kindly for the reply. 😊

I thought that was just me. I had something delivered by Fastway yesterday that would normally be delivered by the postman

Surely could. Their delivery date has not been exceeded.

while packages are literally flying in from China at the minute, I've also noticed that fastway are delivering some of postnl stuff, which leads me to a missing package. On Thursday 2 items showing out for delivery, cainio and postnl tracking number for both of them.

fastway fella drops off a package but no sign of the second one, check the tracking and Both show delivered at the same time.

I get on to fastway with both the tracking numbers and they say they don't know anything about it, neither shows on their system. I noticed on the package that did deliver it has 1 of the reference numbers that shows as cainio tracking, and then a fastway specific number.

so fastway take in the package, assign a new label and tracking number to it, but according to customer service they cant check it off the reference number, only a fastway tracking number, which the seller doesn't have as they sent via cainio/postnl. Anyone else had a similar problem or any ideas?

I was expecting a package from Ali Express through PostNL and got it on time by Fastway. It was a different shape to normal and on opening it discovered it wasn't the product I ordered.

I could make out the address underneath the PostNL sticker and travelled 30 minutes there in the hopes that we could exchange packages. Unfortunately, we couldn't, although I gave him the package I got. The address under the PostNL sticker on his package was Lisbon, Portugal.

Not for the first time, PostNL f***ed up.

When did that happen? I had the same problem at the beginning of March.

Stuff from China often never arrives or if it does it is so long after that it isn't needed anymore.