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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Randy B. Singer" data-source="post: 1915141" data-attributes="member: 190607">I find AliExpress to be fascinating!  They aren't just one store, but rather they are sort of a store-front for a large number of other stores.AliExpress is really fun to browse through because they have all sorts of interesting goods, mostly at ridiculously low prices.  I've purchased stuff from AliExpress that seemed too good to be true, but it turned out to be simply a stunning-good buy.  For instance, I've purchased electric razors from them that looked exactly like a $150 (in the U.S.) Norelco razor, for about $14, and the razor showed up and it was every bit as good as a Norelco razor.  (Who knows, it may have been made by the same factory that actually makes Norelco razors.)I've purchased personal electronics, small appliances, watches, jewelry for my wife, high-tech LED flashlights, even motorcycle accessories, from AliExpress, and it has almost always worked out wonderfully.If I see something advertised very late at night on television on an infomercial, I can almost always go to AliExpress and find exactly the same product there for a fraction of the price.  (It's likely that the infomercial folks got the product from the same source.)But one has to be extremely careful shopping with them.  There is lots of stuff advertised on their Web site that is clearly of very low quality, stuff that is highly questionable, and some things that are obvious scams.  As you say, I'd be incredibly reticent to purchase a computer storage drive from them.  Though I suspect that with a fair amount of searching you might be able to find RDHD's from the same exact factory that makes them for the brand-name companies who sell them.  The problem would be knowing that is the case.  They won't tell you.</blockquote>

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