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Aliexpress shopping11/19/2023 Even if you manage to provide evidence, it doesn't mean you will be successful as sometimes you will be asked to deal with the seller directly. As they mostly use Evri for local deliveries, this is virtually impossible as they never have anyone to talk to. Firstly, you will be asked to provide proof that you have not received it in the form of a letter or email from the delivery company. Their information page makes it sound like your money is 100% safe. However, occasionally something will go wrong like a non delivery, and when it does, do not expect Ali Express to sort it out and automatically give you a refund. On the whole, Ali Express is a great place to get items cheaply, some of which you would not get elsewhere. The site sellers and Aliexpress itself will lead you to believe that the product is protected with free return shipping, life time guarantees and other false information to entice you into making a purchase but all of it is just an illusion. This process will tie up your money and time for weeks possibly longer. or C: You ultimately will end up going to your bank or PayPal to get your money back for resolution. A dispute will be opened to be either A: you get an embarrassing partial refund or coupon "maybe" a 3rd of what you paid or B: you will have to pay the shipping back to China for a mistake actually made by the seller. You will also be communicating with cultural differences. If you have an issue with a product ex: (sent wrong item) you will need to open a lengthy dispute process through a confusing maze in the website platform that in my experience is a waste of time for consumers. (size,color.) It seems that the more expensive heavier items have more serious issues. Some of the item pictures are cleverly taken to deceive the buyer. I have purchased many products but most of the successful purchases were small cheap products that aren't intended to last. Shipping takes weeks given its shipping from over seas that's acceptable. This website and app has appealing shopping for a shmorgishborg of cheap to more expensive products of all kinds for great prices but it lacks extensively in several areas such as product protection and especially return/ exchange. They need to "stick to the knitting" and match valid sellers and buyers, with well-described, and fairly priced products, and reasonable shipping. They are too plugged into the social media frenzy of endless promotion and fake excitement. Like many, AliExpress has lost their ways. AliExpress floods me with endless SCAM PROMOS for cheap products with HUGE SHIPPING CHARGES ($6 shipping charges sneakily added during checkout, for a $1 product). AliExpress floods my inbox with useless shipping "updates" to tell me my ordered item has been moved from one side of a warehouse in China to the other side of the warehouse. Search results are useless, yielding about 10 bogus hits for every valid one. Too many SCAM VENDORS with poorly described JUNK. Delivery in 12 days! Overall very much recommended!! And it's nothing that can't be remedied with some sanding. The grips are a bit rough to the touch but I'm driving gloved so it's a non-issue for me. Weight: 827 g for the GTE 458 wheel vs 298 g for this CF wheel. Haven't mounted and used the wheel yet so I'll come back to that in the follow up review. One other thing that might be of concern is that the small spring, bottom right of the Ferrari logo, touches an unpainted part of the original steel wheel, so that suggests the original wheel acts like some sore of ground. All holes lign up perfectly! Small design flaws: there are no mounting holes for the 2 small mounting screws (see red arrow in pic) in the back, so the plate only attached to the hub by the 6 screws in the centre. Awesome! Even though the description doesn't mention it, this wheel fits the Thrustmaster GTE 458 wheel because the hub is (basically) the same.
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