Comment by ryukoposting
5 days ago
There's a different cost vs. shipping tradeoff between the two. I use Temu for little electronic things (OLED panels with breakout header pins, microcontroller boards, breadboards, etc). For that purpose, Temu's prices are much better than any domestic seller, for a product that is exactly the same for my purposes. And, unlike Aliexpress, it won't take a fiscal quarter for your stuff to arrive.
AliExpress shipping has gotten noticeably faster even over the five years that I've been using it. Just about everything arrives within a week now.
I'm having the same experience. On one of my packages, the sender address was a local warehouse. I suspect Ali is warehousing outside of China.
They do and they tell you where it's shipped from on the checkout page
I have ordered loads of stuff off Aliexpress, in the exact category you described. Never taken more than ~1 week to reach. Aliexpress shipping is actually quicker than Amazon if you don't have Prime.
AliExpress stuff arrives within a week nowadays. I am in the EU and often it even ships from a warehouse in the EU.
When was the last time you used it? It was definitely true a few years ago.