Aliexpress is a middle man organization in e-trade for primarily Chinese companies selling to customers in China and other countries. Not all of the sellers are equal in the quality of their products or their policies. Aliexpress itself has its own vested interests, some you can only guess at. Like with gambling don’t risk more than you can afford to lose (or have to fight like h___ to get back.) For several months I have enjoyed buying primarily jewelry, jewelry findings, and natural stone beads. Most of it is purported to be of 925 Sterling silver, plated, semi-precious gems if of low quality, and or natural stone. I am pleased with about 2/3 of it. Recently I had 9 orders brought together into a consolidated shipment. At this point I believe a mistake was made and the wrong address was placed on the large package containing the nine orders from nine different sellers. Most likely another customer’s name and address was used. When I said something about the error being made by someone in China I was censored! The package was delivered to someone in a town 300 miles away from me. Reading here I know others had this happen to them. I had to deal with nine different sellers who all said they shipped my orders to my address and they had documentation. A couple of sellers refunded my payment including for the most expensive order. The others either fought me or deferred to the Aliexpress arbiter. One told me their shipping insurance would only pay off if the arbiter ruled against them. The arbiter maintained this was a local delivery problem and I should talk to the people at the local post office. I have mixed feelings about the sellers there but the fun has gone out of shopping there. There is nothing there I cannot live without.