I just ordered a 3ds from AliExpress - Wish me luck.
I just ordered a 3ds from AliExpress - Wish me luck.
I hope this isn't perceived as advertising.. I'm quite apprehensive about making this purchase and will absolutely update with my progress if/when the console arrives.
In the meantime, if anyone out there has any experience buying through AliExpress I would love to hear from you. This is my first purchase and I feel like it's a total gamble.
If this is somehow perceived as advertising, mods please delete immediately. I do not want to violate any rules. This community is too awesome to lose!
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I don't trust AliEx any more after I took the loss of 3 orders for ~$60 in 2020. When I called, they hung up on me at random every time. After the 3rd try I washed my hands and walked away. Stealing from me once is on them, twice would be my own fault. Prior to that experience I spent a few thousand dollars on the platform for odds and ends.
I expect something like this to be an emulator and nowhere near the quality of a real Nintendo product, but I could be wrong. I would buy used or a homebrew project that is well documented and might cost a little more.
Did you charge it back through your bank? Very easy to do in the UK at least
No, but it is complicated because I'm disabled and don't keep much of a digital financial presence. Banks here in the USA are a "product" aka a scam unless you have a substantial amount of funds on hand. I have some, but not consistent input/output, so I just integrate with my fam because I can't really go anywhere anyways. I find it demeaning to get asked a bunch of questions about it and treated in a certain way. Plus that still wouldn't alter the moral/philosophical paradigm of dishonesty. To be fair, the issue was likely due to the covid Chinese shipping nightmare. If I forced the issue further, it probably would have trickled down to some poor Chinese person taking the hit at an even harder time when they were totally locked down. There are no winners in that fight. I don't mind the loss, I am bothered by them hanging up on me when I had a legitimate problem. That shouldn't have happened.
In fairness, I very much doubt a chargeback would even get so far as a human.
From what I've seen with other companies across different continents, a chargeback triggers an automatic account ban with whichever retailer and that's that.