I placed a lot of orders on AliExpress over several years, including the NanoVNA, TinySA, etc. Most of the time it worked fine. Until recently! AliExpress sent my last three orders through a little bad logistics company called BlueExpress, that doesn't serve my area, and these orders never arrived. The tracking says "delivery attempt failed", and in e-mail communication with that logistics company they told me that they are holding the parcels, and want me to travel to a distant city to pick them up!
I complained to AliExpress, requesting refunds, and they refused, falsely claiming that the parcels are waiting in my local post office. Of course they are NOT there, and after asking BlueExpress by e-mail, they told me that they do not deliver to post offices. I forwarded that e-mail to AliExpress, and then they judged that it was all my fault, and closed the case with no refund, and no further appeal possible. I lost my money and my time.
So AliExpress is no longer an option for me.
It would be good for sellers in China to offer their goods on more places. Too many just concentrate on AliExpress. But AliExpress is giving trouble to too many people lately. We need sales sites that give the buyer and seller options for shipping, that allow choosing the actual company that will do the shipping. For me the postal service works fine, but AliExpress doesn't offer that anymore. Just "Standard" or "Economy" shipping, and AliExpress chooses which shipping company to use - and for my last three orders they chose one that can't deliver to me!
Sorry to let my steam off here in the forum - but I think the matter is of interest to possible future buyers of NanoVNAs, and certainly to the maker!
