@DeusEx Could you please share more details about what happened? That'll help with awareness about potential loopholes in the aliexpress/alipay customer protection system.
I would keep it as short as possible, but this was my Worst experience!
-So I bought a phone from HK UNIQUE COMPANY, one of the oldest seller on Aliexpress
-He Shipped the Phone, I received it and all was smooth till i received it
-The phone i received was having a problem, The Back and Home button( Physical Buttons ) both were not working..
-I contacted the seller i said him the problem, Made a video took some photos and sent him..
-The main problem was that i was not able have a good conversation with him, as that ****ing moron seller, used to copy and paste some messages again and again...
Eg:
I said him that i have so and so problem with the phone..
He said Ok he will help me..
Then after 3 to 4 messages he started copy pasting long messages..
Then i had to explain him again the whole condition and then again after a day or so he starts copy pasting..
AND this goes again and again and ****ing again...
-So atlast after 15 days or so we came to conclusion, He said i may repair it locally and he will give me repair cost...( This wud be done in 2 days but as i said above it took me so long to explain him everytime again )
-Now i went to my phone repairer, he opened the phone and showed me up the motherboard of the phone,
The motherboard was full of Jumpers and Repaired in worst conditions( I know it is refurbished, but this stuff was moronic, Pics attached)
The repairer said me i will have to change the motherboard( But this phones motherboard was not sold in india, and even if i bought it from aliexpress it costed around same price of that of the phone )
- So i again contacted seller, and after copy pasting phase, it took 10 days to come to a conclusion that i should open a dispute to send the goods back for a full refund..
- So i opened the dispute..
- Then he messaged me that i will have to only send it by postal service..( i was like ok no problem )
- Now i was unaware of that , the postal service( indiapost ) do not accept electronics...
- So contacted him back and again after copy pasted phase it took 5 days for him to say me that....
His words were as follows..
" If you ship it by courier, then we may have to pay custom fees in our country and if it happens so then you will have to pay that charges"
- Now i was surprised, like wtf should i do now..
- I tried convincing him, but all in vain...
- Till now the dispute time was over to enter the tracking details, and the dispute was finished in sellers proposal..
- I tried contacting Aliexpress customer support, but still they have not resolved the problem..
- Bitter stuff abut this order, was conversation, he has some type of messages written in advance which suites different conditions..
So he copy paste's the stuff according to condition( See pic attached )
That was the worst experience i ever had on aliexpress..