AliExpress Choice November & Singles Day Sales?

LTeflonBrain on 31/10/2024 - 09:24

Apparently AliExpress are doing an almost month-long series of sales:

1 Nov - 7 Nov: Choice Day sales

11 Nov - 17 Nov: Singles Day sales

end of Nov: Black Friday / Cyber Monday sales

I've read on reddit that the Singles Day sales are supposed to be the biggest of the year, i.e. bigger than Black Friday / Cyber Monday, or Boxing Day. Good timing for me, as I have a bunch of parts to buy and for a range of them they seem to be already much cheaper from Ali Express, without the further sale discounts.

Any Ozbargainers take advantage of these sales last year for pc components? Got any tips? Warnings?

I've already noticed there's some odd behaviour with the way they charge GST - currently you're charged GST on the full price, even if you actually pay much less due to discounts / coupons. Apparently they have an Australian team looking into it, but very skeptical of anything changing this side of the sales. At least the commercial entity you pay as an Australian is a Melbourne-based ABN so can always chase them directly for any GST overcharge refund.

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  • brendanm on 31/10/2024 - 09:38
    +1

    AliExpress for PC components, hard pass.

    • c64 on 31/10/2024 - 10:19
      +3

      i bought a ryzen 7 7700 for AUD$260. works fine. around $470 locally

      • brendanm on 31/10/2024 - 10:25
        -6

        It's probably an "AMO Rizen 7700 completely genuine trust me bro".

        • freefall101 on 31/10/2024 - 11:27
          +2

          They're just regular OEM chips bought in volume. They work fine and there's tonnes of posts on them here.

          I wouldn't trust a no-name GPU, but CPUs are fine.

          • brendanm on 31/10/2024 - 11:40
            -2

            @freefall101: I wouldn't trust any of them, if there are any warranty issues, what do you do then?

            • freefall101 on 31/10/2024 - 12:03
              +1

              @brendanm: Return it to the seller, AE returns are like ebay in my experience, if you bought from a dodgy seller with no reviews you're going to have a bad time. A big one, they tend to just process it as normal.

              Considering the savings, it's worth the risk. I have had one dodgy CPU in my life and when I returned it to the store they didn't believe me, because CPUs are never the problem (they put it in their testbed and reproduced it though, so I got a replacement). Read the one star reviews though on any particular seller to see the issues.

      • c64 on 31/10/2024 - 10:29

        it was a tray CPU. the local price does include an OEM fan, but it is pretty useless

  • Davo1111 on 31/10/2024 - 10:01

    You don't buy PC components on ali. The shipping takes too long and you've got no warranty.

    Pay the marginal markup and buy local.

    • Clear on 31/10/2024 - 11:39

      You don't buy PC components on ali. The shipping takes too long and you've got no warranty.

      Agreed 7 business days is outrageously slow af for China /s

    • altomic on 31/10/2024 - 16:06

      The shipping takes too long

      you obviously haven't bought anything from Aliexpress in the last 6 months

      • Clear on 31/10/2024 - 17:09

        More than 12 months id say.

      • Davo1111 on 31/10/2024 - 19:35

        I take advantage of the 10 day shipping. But I think it's like Amazon where not everything is part of that? (Ali choice).

    • TeflonBrain on 01/11/2024 - 00:31

      Shipping is pretty fast actually (5-10 days) and the markup locally is far from marginal. Some examples:

      $100 AUD more for a Ryzen 7500F

      $170 AUD more for a B650i motherboard

  • n3ck3ntry8bort0rgasm on 31/10/2024 - 16:04

    yeah in the past Singles Day always had the lowest prices/best deals with coupons. but don't know about now I stopped shopping on Aliespress around 2 years ago when all the prices of cheap stuff went up and never came back down.

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