PSA: If you're in Europe and frequently buy things from AliExpress, and there is an Action store near you (https://www.action.com/), check if they have the things you need first.
There's a lot of overlap in type of products and pricing levels, it can save a bunch of transport emissions (depending on how you travel there), and it's frequently cheaper too.
@joepie91@pixie.town I'm gonna be honest not much of what they're selling comes into our mind when we think of buying something from China
@natty Ah yeah, you're probably not going to find that sort of thing at Action. Usually, anyway...
At one point I got two cheap 'mechanical 3D puzzles' there that were clearly just a few sheets of lasercut plywood, and it definitely felt like someone's hobby project had gotten out of hand and somehow ended up on the shelves
@joepie91@pixie.town Yeah we usually don't get the "cheap trinkets" kind of stuff people would buy since our autistic ass usually knows what exactly we wanna buy at all times
@natty The thing I've seen more and more people do is getting basic household things (think scrubbing sponges, dishcloths, flashlights, cheap tools, stationery, etc.) off AliExpress or Amazon, because "the local stores are so expensive for this stuff", and that's more the thing I was thinking of with this PSA
@joepie91@pixie.town We've actually never ordered on AliExpress 
But in the past, on other websites, mainly sketchy DIY electronics