The whole truth about discounts on AliExpress

We love AliExpress for a large selection and humane prices. Even with the sky-high dollar rate, many things are more profitable to buy there than in offline. Especially if you get a discount. You can do it on sales, through coupons and mobile application, as well as looking in the section “Last Products”. But Chinese sellers are often cunning. So let’s put everything in order.

Last minute items

So the section on AliExpress is called, where things are exhibited with discounts up to 70%. Clothing, electronics, household goods and other offers from the “Molla” and from Chinese vendors at really tasty prices.

Why such generosity? It is profitable for merchants to carry out similar actions from the point of view of marketing. But this is ideal. In reality, sometimes sell illiquid goods or make discounts on things with a pre-inflated price (more on this later).

The section “Burning Goods” is updated three times a week (Monday, Wednesday, Friday) at 10 am Moscow time.

The stock of the goods is limited. But the sold items remain on the stock page, they can be bought at a regular price.

Almost for free

The last tab in the “Burning Goods” section is called “Nearly Free” (appears shortly before the start of the round). There discounts are even greater: 90% and higher.

If you are lucky, the thing will get to you really almost for nothing. The key phrase is “if you’re lucky.” New lots in the “Almost for Nothing” tab appear half an hour before the start of the next round of the “Burning Goods” campaign. But with the start are sold out in seconds.

How is this possible? The fact is that lovers of freebies arrange a real hunt for “free” goods and go to a lot of tweaks to place the order first.

Almost for nothing, they take everything without looking at the seller’s rating and reviews about the product. As they say, it’s a sin not to buy a 500-pound case for iPhone 10 times cheaper, even if it’s your fifth.

The most common lifhak: a few minutes before the start of the action, constantly updating the page with the goods, please click the “Buy” button. A window will appear with the selection of the goods parameters (size, color, etc.) and the “Confirm” button. Clicking on it, you will see an error: “Unfortunately, now there are no available units for the order” or “This product is sold. Contact the seller. ” But this is not an excuse to close the page. It is only necessary to follow the timer and for half a minute before the start of the action to begin updating it. At the hour of X you will only need to enter the captcha and quickly place an order.

Even more advanced users, to save time on the selection of order parameters and immediately go to Captcha, change the page code class = "buy-def buy-coming" coming on now.

It is worth noting that after a number of updates AliExpress hunters for freebies became more difficult. Earlier, if you were late, you will not make a purchase. Now you can buy even the sold goods, but at a normal price. In the heat of excitement many users do not notice that they make out an order without a discount. Then you have to cancel it.

Buy something almost free gift is very difficult. Especially expensive brand things. But you can snatch a small thing. If you want to try your luck, use the following tips.

1. Update the page with the timer as often as possible. Especially if there is less than a minute left before the action begins.
2. Decide on the purchase in advance. To find out how much of the product you are interested in will be put up for sale, open the page with it and replace the word group with the word gaga in the address bar.
3. Check the reliability of the seller. To do this quickly help sites for fans of Ali-shopping, where goods are exhibited from the category “Almost for free” and you can quickly check the risk of buying, or special extensions for the browser: Aliexpress Seller Check and others.

Exchange coins for goods or coupons can be in the same section – “Mobile bonuses.” To receive the goods, you must pay the specified number of coins plus one cent. New coupons appear hourly and are valid for the next seven days, with a month you can get only one coupon of each type.

Coins AliExpress – it’s fun, easy and profitable. Then why are many users disappointed in them?

First, goods in coins are very expensive. The best lots at affordable prices parse all the same hunters for free in a matter of seconds. The same picture with coupons. In an hour there is only one coupon for an 8-dollar discount. Try to exchange!

Secondly, the likelihood of multiplying coins in games tends to zero. And thirdly, coins have become a bait for scammers who promise to wind up a meter, which is technically impossible.

Coupons

Coupons for discounts – this is perhaps the most profitable way to save on AliExpress. Coupons can be from AliExpress itself and from sellers, since Ali is not a single store, but a trading platform that unites thousands of retailers. The first applies to all goods (or categories of goods) from all sellers. The latter work only in a particular store.

Coupons have:

• the nominal (which part of the purchase price is covered – 1 dollar, 5 and so on);
• the validity period (which date to use);
• the minimum purchase amount (how much you need to buy in order to use the coupon).

Coupons are activated when placing an order in the last step.

Coupons from AliExpress are massively distributed on the eve of or during sales. They can also be exchanged for coins (see above).

Coupons from shops can be obtained for free in several ways. If you buy a lot and often from the same seller, then he can put in one of the parcels a card with a coupon, so that you continue in the same spirit.

Also, stores constantly conduct domestic promotions and offer various coupons. All of them are collected here.

You can see the availability of a coupon in your favorite store or look for a thing as usual. But pay attention not only to the seller’s rating and the number of orders, but also on offers to use the coupon on the product page.

Finally, you can find the coupon or promotional code on the sites that work with the AliExpress affiliate.

You can control coupons through the personal cabinet, the tab “My coupons”. There are active and inactive coupons from sellers and from Ali. There is a section with special coupons that are distributed on special occasions, such as 11.11.

Clearance

Grandiose! Incredible! Incredible! All this about sales on AliExpress. Recently, they are so actively advertised that it’s simply impossible to pass by.

Sale on AliExpress can be conditionally divided into thematic and seasonal. The first include actions on the occasion of Halloween, New Year, including Chinese, Valentine’s Day, March 8 and other big holidays. Especially among them is the birthday of AliExpress (for Russia this is April 10 – the day when the company entered the country’s market). But festivals in the form of censuses and special offers begin in March.

Seasonal sales are World Shopping Day 11 November (another name is Bachelor Day), “Black Friday” and “Cyber ​​Monday”. The last pass also in late November, but every year in different numbers.

Perhaps, the greatest excitement is the sale of 11.11. In 2016, the revenue of AliExpress on that day exceeded $ 18 billion. The average check of Russians was 11.3 dollars. As a rule, they bought not one, but several goods.

But even more than orders, there were discussions: what is the sale on AliExpress – an attraction of unprecedented generosity or scam?

In fact, everything is simple. There are three categories of sellers.

1. Conscientious, who do not profit for the sake of, and advertising for lower prices for quality and demanded things in their stores. They are few, but they are.
2. Sellers who inflate prices before selling out, but quite a bit, so that people still get a discount. A trifle, but nice. There are many more.
3. Greedy to profit, which is deliberately inflated before the sale, that the goods are more expensive at a discount than without. At the same time, the seller can shamelessly sell the same product in his store at a normal, inactive price. There are a lot of such people too.

Understand who is who and identify fake discounts will help browser extensions and add-ons that track the dynamics of prices: AliExpress Advisor, AliExpress Shopping und Cashback, AliExpress Assistant, AliExpress Tools.