• Dave@lemmy.nz
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    25 days ago

    Buying on Ali Express:

    • Buy for $2
    • Click on item
    • $75 shipping cost
    • No way to sort by total cost
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      25 days ago

      Buying on Ali Express/Temu/Ebay

      • Item I want is listed for $20

      • Click item

      • It’s actually a 15cm USB-C cable for $20, the actual item which is ‘color B’ is $75

        • Vinstaal0@lemmy.world
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          24 days ago

          Same in Europe when buying from North America stores. Listed price is 100 USD so I assume it will be 100 EUR, by the time I received the item I have paid close to 160 EUR and often you need to spend going through filling in your information before it gives you that total price and sometimes they unfairly compete with their prices before tax with other stores with prices after tax. Which is illegal, but hey/

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      25 days ago

      No way to sort by total cost

      But you can filter by free shipping.

      Anyway, yeah, what an irrational decision the OP discovered.