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AliExpress - Shopping App

Alibaba Mobile · 16,298,721 ratings · ★ 4.4

4.4
★★★★★
16,298,721 ratings
5 ★
11,855,655 (73%)
4 ★
1,917,637 (12%)
3 ★
627,111 (4%)
2 ★
293,422 (2%)
1 ★
1,604,796 (10%)
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Top complaints - extracted from 71 negative reviews

Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.

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"items"
17 negative reviews mention this · 24% of all complaints
★★★★ "🇿🇦South Africans Read This First: I bought some items last month & the shipping was quite fast BUT AliExpress's couriers (for SA-deliveries) charge a FORTUNE!! They do this because if your order arrives in SA, they know you will pay anyth…" - Johan Bli
2
"aliexpress"
13 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★ "🇿🇦South Africans Read This First: I bought some items last month & the shipping was quite fast BUT AliExpress's couriers (for SA-deliveries) charge a FORTUNE!! They do this because if your order arrives in SA, they know you will pay anyth…" - Johan Bli
3
"item"
13 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★ "🇿🇦South Africans Read This First: I bought some items last month & the shipping was quite fast BUT AliExpress's couriers (for SA-deliveries) charge a FORTUNE!! They do this because if your order arrives in SA, they know you will pay anyth…" - Johan Bli
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"scam"
13 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★ "they scammed us a couple of times. we paid and never received our item. there is not any customer service. dont trust this app anymore. they should shut down" - Raha Saba
5
"money"
11 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★ "Everything on here Tik Tok Temu,is all rubbish,save your money." - Wayn Hillier
6
"received"
9 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★ "they scammed us a couple of times. we paid and never received our item. there is not any customer service. dont trust this app anymore. they should shut down" - Raha Saba
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"service"
9 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★ "they scammed us a couple of times. we paid and never received our item. there is not any customer service. dont trust this app anymore. they should shut down" - Raha Saba
8
"refund"
8 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★ "Items stolen in transit. Seller won't refund. AliExpress won't refund." - Aaron Claussen
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"sellers"
8 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★ "having real bad experience three different bike sellers in each and every one claims delivered, have yet to receive a single one yet! And always fake tracking!!!!" - John Ware

📋 All 71 negative reviews

Every 1-2★ review we fetched. Use the copy button to grab them all for your own analysis (paste into ChatGPT/Claude with a prompt like "summarize core user problems, group by theme, ignore bugs, focus on missing features").

★★★★ Johan Bli 5/9/2026 v8.159.2
🇿🇦South Africans Read This First: I bought some items last month & the shipping was quite fast BUT AliExpress's couriers (for SA-deliveries) charge a FORTUNE!! They do this because if your order arrives in SA, they know you will pay anything they charge just to get your items delivered. I bought the exact same item through TEMU & paid R270 customs&tax -- while AliExpress's courier (Meili/SpeedAF) Charged me R675!!! ABSOLUTE DAYLIGHT ROBBERY!!! AliExpress, your couriers are too Greedy!!!
★★★★ Aaron Claussen 5/9/2026 v8.159.2
Items stolen in transit. Seller won't refund. AliExpress won't refund.
★★★★ John Ware 5/9/2026 v8.159.2
having real bad experience three different bike sellers in each and every one claims delivered, have yet to receive a single one yet! And always fake tracking!!!!
★★★★ Raha Saba 5/9/2026 v8.159.2
they scammed us a couple of times. we paid and never received our item. there is not any customer service. dont trust this app anymore. they should shut down
★★★★ Maria Dance 5/8/2026 v8.159.2
The 43 EUR coupon exchange is a scam. At 00:00 you can't use the exchange feature, it gives you an error and you can access it only after the stock of the 43 EUR is "gone". I wasted 60 days to get the 500.000 diamonds/crystals and since 3 days I try to exchange them for the 43 EUR coupon and without luck.... SCAM
★★★★ Paul 5/8/2026 v8.104.5
fake products, long delivery and no customer support
★★★★ Whitu Davoren 5/8/2026 v8.147.2
scam i went to buy an item for a 1 dollar but when I checked out it changed the price of the item to 20 dollars il never use aliexpress again
★★★★ DENNIS.K MAAMU 5/8/2026 v8.158.2
FAKE DELIVERY POOR MANAGEMENT
★★★★ Carter Davies 5/8/2026 v8.159.2
Ive orded b2 super battle droids and these people mixed the address up and delivered it to a work house now I'm never gonna get my package
★★★★ Md Aiwub Hossin 5/8/2026
Not good service very slow 👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎😡
★★★★ Jesse 5/8/2026
Going out of my way to review. The app needs work. Clicking back will take you back to the home screen sometimes, instead of just back one stwp to the search page. Meaning if you have scrolled through 200 items, you lose that spot. If you want to continue searching from the 200 spot, you will have to scroll to that spot again. Also needs to show the navigation menu on the bottom while searching. I want to be able to compare what I am seeing in the search page to what I already have in my cart.
★★★★ Mo Bert 5/8/2026 v8.159.2
Werbung über Benachrichtigungen obwohl beim Onboarding extra "nur Bestellupdates" bei den Benachrichtigungen gewählt wurde.
★★★★ Wayn Hillier 5/8/2026
Everything on here Tik Tok Temu,is all rubbish,save your money.
★★★★ Anton Ku 5/8/2026 v8.159.2
some idiots update buy button, good luck
★★★★ Ilaria Yeboah 5/8/2026 v8.159.2
⚠️SCAM seller (Tewjig Store - Hong Kong China)sent wrong lengths for all of the wigs I ordered and claimed that they were the right length. When I asked for a full refund, she gave me an excuse. When I filed for a dispute, she asked me if I would accept a $5 refund and then $15. The process is so long and depressing, no chance of getting the money back. She then proceeded to beg me to cancel the dispute and agreed on a $30 refund if I wrote a 5☆ positive review. Customer service did not help
★★★★ Gediminas Vitas 5/8/2026 v8.159.2
Used this app from the start, now they want to verify and my ID, never using this app again until you do something about verify.
★★★★ Eric Kings 5/8/2026
please I have deleted this app from my phone but the ads is still running even when I am not using the phone please what should I do
★★★★ Adi Pratama Putra 5/8/2026
Why doesn't AliExpress support Indonesia region? Please do your best to help us, because there are many products we want to buy.
★★★★ Günther Zwegat 5/8/2026 v8.159.2
It became unusable, they put "special offers" on certain listings one is interested in, and then they only allow you to buy it by itself immediately without anything else. So if it's a small product for a few bucks you can't combine it, you either pay more for shipping than for the product itself or you don't get what you want. Simple as that. What a joke
★★★★ Grega Stor 5/8/2026 v8.159.2
Total scam! They merge several different orders into one, under one tracking number and even if only half of items get delivered, all are considered delivered, since it is all under one tracking number. No appeal, dispute helps! And they want evidence that the order has not been received,.. how?? Just pure scam!
★★★★ Christine Lang 5/8/2026 v8.159.2
u stole my money 😭😭😭😭😭
★★★★ s m 5/8/2026 v8.159.2
its not cheap plus you bay tex and delivery
★★★★ AI Translator 5/8/2026 v8.159.2
your ads on my security device is very annoying invasive and forces open web pages which are unsafe
★★★★ Ratihr 5/8/2026 v8.159.2
i cant find indonesia on the regions
★★★★ naomi way 5/8/2026 v8.159.2
it's my first time downloading the app and when I went to get 3 things for 99 cent as a new shopper it keeps telling me that it's more than that after I try to pay the price would go back to 20 dollars even I try to change my items it won't let me I don't find that fair this is a scam
★★★★ Michelle Palmer 5/8/2026 v8.135.6
so I've had two packages show delivered at my house but I never received them. I do not trust them now and I will not use them again because they said there was an issue with giving me my refund since it showed it was delivered. beware I think they're coming to the address taking the picture so it shows it's delivered and then taking the package because this is happening to me on multiple occasions and I have yet to get any money back.
★★★★ Castiel Kirkman 5/8/2026 v8.159.2
Sellers will mark items as shipped and provide a tracking number. But when asked why tracking isn't updating, the seller admits they didn't ship it to begin with and the product is "presale" and won't ship for another month or longer, despite the listing showing it released already and the seller marking it as shipped. AliExpress customer service refused to help me because the item is marked as "shipped" despite the seller saying admitting they never shipped it. absolute scam platform
★★★★ Lance Levers 5/8/2026 v8.159.2
very disappointing not receiving all Items at once. I demand an explanation refunding my money
★★★★ David Hargreaves 5/7/2026 v8.159.2
cheap products wuth zero customer service if things go wrong. UK couriers are Evri which only adds to problems
★★★★ Rin 5/7/2026 v8.159.2
They use SpeedX, GoFo Express, UniUni, etc, the worst shipping companies that steals, damages, loses, and never delivers your packages. The cost of items increased drastically. I can't order small acrylic standees without them being $10 or more.
★★★★ Thomas Bruwer 5/7/2026 v8.159.2
if ordered a item and still waiting for it it's 2 month's now I did not received it until now
★★★★ CC DD 5/7/2026 v8.159.2
If you cancel an order, they dont process it, still charge and ship, then you're stuck with it and a whole other process to return and hope they refund it. Plus that is a huge waste of fuel. Messages with sellers seem to disappear during a dispute. They also really need to Crack down on sellers which sell products that just break, are literal garbage or do not match description. It is massively wasteful and is just plain untrustworthy.
★★★★ Lynn Oberem 5/7/2026 v8.159.2
terrible no parcel received yet 😡😡😡
★★★★ Hellen Ricky 5/7/2026
the worst app ever😡,i swear someone who is working there is taking people's numbers and scamming them, definitely an inside job please DO NOT PURCHASE from here, they fool you. i was recently scammed, I was sent a link to pay customs 1st time it was fine.. however the wnd link i got yesterday was a fraudulent link, I had paid my customs previously but since the items were coming on seperate days I assumed I had to pay for the other item...so I used the 2nd and they tried stole R500 my money
★★★★ Molongo Daniel 5/7/2026 v8.157.9
very poor. I have placed an order and paid and not received and can't get concrete details or phone numbers I can call to report my worry
★★★★ Jay Houston 5/7/2026 v8.159.2
a store named "VoltEagle" store! Buyer beware! Do not shop with this seller!!
★★★★ Masta Male 5/7/2026 v8.159.2
Don't fall victim to their scam promotions or $1 coupons as they cannot be used with any other coupons. items frequently DO NOT ship and especially during a promotion. So often what is thought of as a good deal is NOT, it's a scam. UPDATE: they responded, but I was already told they cannot do anything per their policy, you know the policy AliExpress wrote. AliExpress is a Scam
★★★★ AB1 5/7/2026 v8.159.2
awful slow shipping 55days until I got my package
★★★★ Jason Riley 5/7/2026 v8.159.2
"Alley Express". Like walking down an alley of shady vendors. And ALiExpress is the guy charging them to set up in his alley. Prices are cheap... because they stuff everything into a plastic bag and throw it through the postal service. Things break and they give you the first two refunds like an honest company would. Then you buy more. Tracking numbers that go to other names/addresses. Clearly wrong items. Clearly mis-packaged items destroyed. Items missing. It's a scam!
★★★★ jak yt 5/7/2026
rubbish of an app Will not load and absolutely slow cannot login in
★★★★ Own It G 5/7/2026
I absolutely hate this app and their sellers. the app has no dark mode. and the sellers are just as deceitful as the owners of this website and the customer service team.... very bad customer service and product. I ordered something and received a.cheap discontinued item.. don't waste your time and money here. try temu or joom...
★★★★ Nicolas Chirac 5/7/2026
buna ziua, sper ca aveti o zi foarte cacacioasa pentru ca unchiu ciobi mi a luat un motor cu 5 lei de la voi si a venit o figurina de bebelusi va rog trimitetimi acum una reala ca daca il suparati pe unchiu ciobi va face urat. multumesk , zi urata!
★★★★ Laurence Molloy 5/7/2026 v8.159.2
Very unsafe company to purchase from.
★★★★ Scott Henderson 5/7/2026 v8.159.2
Abysmal service
★★★★ El Che 5/7/2026 v8.159.2
BEWARE: The green coupon codes are scam! You will never be able to claim the coupons! There is no way to claim it. Im trying for months and nothing. Playing these games for "money" is pure scam! Aliexpress became the worst type of scum!
★★★★ Ashuk Ahmed 5/7/2026 v8.159.2
First time use AliExpress to purchase 2 items and having issues with both. Sellers use the platform sent faulty item and will not take return or refund easily. Will make every excuse not to replace the faulty item of give refund. Never again will use this shopping platform.
★★★★ Julian Munsayac 5/7/2026
THIS APP IS LITERALLY LIKE A VIRUS! Everytime a random ad for Aliexpress plays whenever I play different games, it always automatically opens the app for me regardless of whether or not I have any attention of buying anything. I found this so annoying that I literally uninstalled the app, but even that didn't stop them from bothering me. So now, when a random ad from Aliexpress plays, it instead just opens a tab from my web browser, which is honestly way more annoying if you have a 99 tab limit.
★★★★ Anton Krylov 5/7/2026
To aggressive ads inside and outside the app
★★★★ Nelfox Gineah 5/7/2026 v8.159.2
FIX THE DO NOT DISTURB EVERYTIME I PUT DO NOT DISTURB? THE SLLELLER STILL MESSAGES ME AND I STILL GET NOTIFICATIONS TRASH FIX THAT NOW!!!
★★★★ Benita Hodges 5/7/2026 v8.159.2
I GOT SCAMMED I got to pick an item for $1 from their list. The item I picked normally cost $80 so I thought that's amazing. No I never received the item they kept messaging saying my address was incorrect while showing my address as correct. I rang the post office and they never received my item and all of a sudden it's disappeared from my order history.Don't use this site please it's a SCAM or they will scam you if they can.

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Sentiment summary

85%
Positive (4-5★)
4%
Neutral (3★)
12%
Negative (1-2★)

✓ Strong positive sentiment - clone path is harder, users like the existing app.