
We order from AliExpress weekly, and shipping costs have changed significantly over the past two years. Free shipping used to be automatic on most items. Now sellers charge for it more often, sometimes $3-5 on a $2 item. The methods below are what we actually use to avoid those fees. Use the free shipping filter…

We place pending payment orders on AliExpress about 10-15 times per month, mostly when negotiating bulk discounts or locking in flash sale prices before our payment card clears. The method works reliably, but AliExpress does not offer a direct button for it. You have to use a workaround. How to create a pending payment order…

Your tracking updated yesterday: “Arrived at US Customs.” You refresh it today—still “US Customs.” You check again tomorrow, the day after, five days later—nothing changes. The tracking is frozen. Your $87 order is somewhere in the United States, allegedly, but you have no idea if it’s being inspected, held for duties, or sitting in a…

You clicked “5 stars” the moment the package arrived. The wireless earbuds looked perfect in the box—sleek case, matching charging cable, everything you expected. Three weeks later, the left earbud stopped charging. Battery life dropped from “8 hours advertised” to 90 minutes actual. Now your glowing 5-star review sits at the top of the product…

You’re about to checkout with $140 worth of items in your cart. Your finger hovers over “Place Order”—then a red error box appears: “Your account has been temporarily disabled for security reasons.” No explanation. No timeline. No access to your pending orders or $23 in account credits you’d been saving. One of our team members…

You’re ready to checkout. The product looks perfect, the price is right, but wait—there’s a small crown next to the seller’s name, a lightning bolt on the listing, and a shield icon you’ve never noticed before. Do you trust it? Do you click? Or do you open five browser tabs trying to decode what these…

You are trying to log in to AliExpress or apply a coupon, and instead you get an error — “Service is unavailable,” “For security reasons this process cannot be continued,” or the coupon simply refuses to apply at checkout. These errors are more common than you might think, and almost all of them have a…

Your card expired, you got a new one from your bank, or you simply want to use a different card for future purchases. AliExpress does not let you edit a saved card directly — the interface does not have an “Edit” option. Instead, you remove the old card and add the new one. This sounds…

After weeks of watching your AliExpress package travel across sorting centers, airports, and customs, seeing “Arrival at the Delivery Office” is genuinely exciting. This status means your package is in your city, at the post office or courier branch closest to your address, and delivery is typically 1 to 3 business days away. Here is…

Choosing a shipping method on AliExpress used to be straightforward for US buyers — almost everything came in under the $800 duty-free threshold and arrived reasonably quickly via Standard Shipping. In 2026, the landscape has changed. The de minimis exemption for Chinese goods was eliminated in August 2025, meaning every package from China now faces…