Please share your online shopping experiences at sites like Shopee and Lazada

[True Believer]

I had the misfortune of purchasing counterfeit or poor quality products from sites like Shopee, Lazada, Shein etc. in the past. Their outrageous claims were often downright lies or gross overpromises that failed to deliver any real quality or benefit. Please share your experiences.

 

[laksaboy]

Shopee and Shein are purely trashy Tiong online shopping sites. You need to boycott them, especially Shopee with all its cringe ads released over the years.

Lazada is mostly Tiong owned after 2017, but it's a lesser of an evil compared to the previous two. It's great if you want to buy cheap gadgets or accessories.

For all other things, shop at the official online stores. Clothes, shoes and watches, buy them at the actual retail stores.

 

[True Believer]

Online sites like Shopee and Lazada often use images of authentic products to sell discounted goods, but the item that is delivered often doesn't look like the photos used in the online catalogue.

 

[Sideswipe]

if the price is too cheap to be true, better think twice before purchase. unrealistic low prices are always a red flag.

 

[True Believer]

if the price is too cheap to be true, better think twice before purchase. unrealistic low prices are always a red flag.

Many of the goods are sold at prices 20-30% less than the original, so these are used to make it look like a good deal, as opposed to "too good to be true" offers.

 

[True Believer]

There are many sellers on Shopee and Lazada who swear blue in the face that they are selling the "real deal" even when I feedback that the brand logo looks out of shape and the material is of an extremely low grade.

 

[Sideswipe]

Many of the goods are sold at prices 20-30% less than the original, so these are used to make it look like a good deal, as opposed to "too good to be true" offers.

20-30% off the usual price is tempting. read the reviews ? I usually will not buy from sellers with no or few reviews.

 

[True Believer]

20-30% off the usual price is tempting. read the reviews ? I usually will not buy from sellers with no or few reviews.

I notice that many of the positive reviews are fake because they normally flood in after a spate of negative reviews.