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benjojo posted 13 Aug 2026 14:57 +0000

I'm popping in to AliExpress, Does anybody need anything?

A photo from outside a shop front on a high Street that says AliExpress, complete with website accurate branding

erincandescent@akko... replied 13 Aug 2026 14:59 +0000
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@benjojo what on earth

benjojo replied 13 Aug 2026 15:03 +0000
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@erincandescent My assumption is that Andorra does not give a single shit about trademark infringement, or this is some galaxy brain play by actual AliExpress for some tax/import reason, and it means they need some kind of store front to make it work

erincandescent@akko... replied 13 Aug 2026 15:05 +0000
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@benjojo apparently they're experimenting with physical stores?

Anyway can you pick me up some MeanWell DIN rail PSUs?

eta@gotosocial.i.eta.. replied 13 Aug 2026 15:18 +0000
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@benjojo @erincandescent no, this is a real thing; I visited one in Barcelona with @unlobito and @Ninji in 2024

The entrance to an "AliExpress PLAZA" in a large Spanish shopping centre.

nblr@chaos.social replied 13 Aug 2026 14:59 +0000
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@benjojo It's just not the same if you can take the stuff home rather than wondering what two-weeks-ago-you ordered, once the gray bags arrive in the mail.

froztbyte@mastodon.s.. replied 13 Aug 2026 15:05 +0000
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@nblr @benjojo My record this side of the world is 5mo (although SAPO had a hand in that)

dee@social.treehouse.. replied 13 Aug 2026 15:00 +0000
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@benjojo yeah, some thigh-highs, a couple of ESP32s in weird format, and a cheap and questionable UPS please... did I mention thigh-highs?

0x00string@infosec.e.. replied 13 Aug 2026 15:03 +0000
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@benjojo i need 10000 inductors

halcy@icosahedron.we.. replied 13 Aug 2026 15:04 +0000
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@benjojo yeah can i get a thermal print head but this time one for which a pinout actually exists

helle@tacobelllabs.n.. replied 13 Aug 2026 15:05 +0000
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@benjojo The only way to buy from AliExpress without 3 euro tax per item type. (The EU really did not ubderstand what they where doing there) — Violet

aliceif@mkultra.x27... replied 13 Aug 2026 15:08 +0000
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@benjojo@benjojo.co.uk do they have some of that JUHOR anime DDR4 RAM?

ozzelot@mstdn.social replied 13 Aug 2026 15:09 +0000
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@benjojo I'll take a ribbon cable for a 20 year old DSLR, a knockoff plush amogus, and apparently a soda

sleepybisexual@mk.ab.. replied 13 Aug 2026 15:18 +0000
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