Sunday, March 22, 2020

Success and Failure Buying Not Lego on Aliexpress in 2019, Part 2



 I made this website to let you know about the latest Lego alternate, knock off and bootleg sets that I find on Aliexpress.  I also want to share with you my personal experiences that I've in using the Aliexpress shopping platform and hope that you find this information useful and helpful.

So I get a lot of questions in my comment section about finding reputable fake Lego sellers on Aliexpress and what I can say is that it's really fluid.  There are some shops/sellers that give great prices and service, only to disappear after a few months.  Then I've had well known fraudster stores that actually shipped me ridiculously cheap bootlego sets, then try to shaft me on the next order.

In this second of two parts blog post, I'm going to share with you, my personal success and failures in dealing with the various sellers and stores I had in the past for July through December of 2019.   

Ok, let's continue!

July 2019 stores - Success


Bicky Toy, Pleasure Shopping, Annaa Store, XingSheng Toy store

July 2019 stores - Failure


None!

August 2019 stores - Success


Buildmoc, Age Of Innocence store, Funtiming store, Dream Toys, Shop4403001, Morefun, Kacuu, Shop4616029, Dhp store

August 2019 stores - Failure


None!

September 2019 stores - Success


Buildmoc, Shop4616029 store, Transing store, Morefun

September 2019 stores - Failure


None!

October 2019 stores - Success


Hero Block, King Bear, Gikids

October 2019 stores - Failure


None!

November 2019 stores - Success


SuperGalio, Moc Bricks, Pengyuyan Store, Jjjkkk store,

November 2019 stores - Failure


Taiyang - never sent
SuperGalio - never sent

December 2019 stores - Success


Hero Block, Baby Cutes store, Changan store, Morefun, Shop5498092, Minifigures Toy store, Toy World store

December 2019 stores - Failure


Dream Toys - item not received
Luckk Toy - item never sent
Varus Store - item never sent

Final Word


In summary, you will find that I had a very small percentage of items that were never shipped or never received.  I received a full refund from Aliexpress after raising a dispute within the allotted timeframe.  The most egregious Aliexpress sellers are the ones that pretend to ship you an item and then give you a fake tracking number which never works.  In those cases, I definitely leave those stores negative feedback so that others can be more wary of dealing with them.

Don't let one or two bad apples on Aliexpress deter you from finding those great not Lego deals.    Hopefully, by me listing out those offending stores and also highlighting the good ones, you'll feel more confident about which stores to deal with.

How about you?  What successes and failures have you had buying not Lego on Aliexpress?  Did you get your money back or did you have lots of problems?  Please share your experiences in the comment box below.  Hope all your Aliexpress transactions are successful!   Don't forget to check out my latest not Lego reviews on my Its-Not-Lego blog and latest minifigure and MOC reviews on my BricksandFigs blog.   And please follow and like my Instagram @itsnotlego!   Bye for now!

Sunday, March 15, 2020

Success and Failure Buying Not Lego on Aliexpress, Part 1



I made this website to let you know about the latest Lego alternate, knock off and bootleg sets that I find on Aliexpress.  I also want to share with you my personal experiences that I've in using the Aliexpress shopping platform and hope that you find this information useful and helpful.

Firstly I want to say that it makes me really happy to see all the great comments on my blog.  Thank you so much guys!

So I get a lot of questions in my comment section about finding reputable fake Lego sellers on Aliexpress and what I can say is that it's really fluid.  There are some shops/sellers that give great prices and service, only to disappear after a few months.  Then I've had well known fraudster stores that actually shipped me ridiculously cheap bootlego sets, then try to shaft me on the next order. Yeah, I'm talking about you Super Galio store!

In this blog post, I'm going to share with you, my personal success and failures in dealing with the various sellers and stores I had in the past year of 2019.   In part 1 of this post, I'll look at the purchases I made between January and June 2019.  I'll make a follow-up post for July through December of last year (aka, part 2), coming soon!

Here we go!

January 2019 stores - Success


Hunting Fun, H&H Block, Goldtoys, Jile Blocks, Morefun, Bricks Minifigs, Yuwan Toys, MilkMilk, Bawelo

January 2019 stores - Failure


Shop368008 - did not ship

February 2019 stores - Success


Jjbxin, Museum, Meoa, Stzhou, Kacuu, Shop4380041, Morefun

February 2019 stores - Failure


Timerobot - cancelled

March 2019 stores - Success


Heroblocks, Eurobricks, GiftedMonkey, Selina, LpgoToy, Bricks Artwork, Morefun, Jile Blocks, Lixiang Toys, Bricks Minifigure, Toynbee

March 2019 stores - Failure


Aliexpress 2.0 - item not received
9886Bai - item not received
Hero Blocks - item not received

April 2019 stores - Success


Puzzles and Toys, Shop4403001, Selina

April 2019 stores - Failure


Hero Blocks - item not received

May 2019 stores - Success


Chinatown store, Puzzles and Toys, Jile Blocks, Buildmoc Store, Shop4397045, Beoutdoor, Baktoy, Irtoys, Shop3616098

May 2019 stores - Failure


Nin Blocks - item not received
Lpgo Toys - item not received

June 2019 stores - Success


City Toy, Buildmoc store, Dream Toys, Beoutdoor, Big Cabbage, Shop4403001, Toynbee Store, Bicky Toy, Iloveblock, Moc Bricks

June 2019 stores - Failure


Dream Toys - wrong colour sent

Final Word


As you can see, I've dealt with quite a few stores on Aliexpress, and there are some that I can say are pretty good like BuildMoc, Jile Blocks, Morefun and Puzzles and Toys, just to name a few.  I've also had mixed results with Hero Blocks, Dream Toys, and Lpgo Toys.  Will that stop me from using them again?  Probably not, because I did have some success with them at one point and maybe the item got lost in transit, we'll never know.

Just wanted to say in all the failed cases above where the item was not sent, not received or wrong item, I received a full refund from Aliexpress after raising a dispute within the allotted timeframe.  It takes awhile, but with persistence, you do get your money back.

How about you?  What successes and failures have you had buying not Lego on Aliexpress?  Did you get your money back or did you have lots of problems?  Please share your experiences in the comment box below.  Hope all your Aliexpress transactions are successful!   Don't forget to check out my latest not Lego reviews on my Its-Not-Lego blog and latest minifigure and MOC reviews on my BricksandFigs blog.   And please follow and like my Instagram @itsnotlego!   Bye for now!

Latest update:  I've had people contact me requesting links to the stores I mentioned, so here they are in no particular order:

BuildMoc store

Morefun store

Big Cabbage

Puzzles and Toys

Jile Blocks