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Martin72:
Hi,

Banggood...One of the biggest seller with the greatest number of offers because it comes from china - what you can´t get from china, you´ll get it nowhere...So I thought about it all the years.
But when you use the searchfunction...
For example searching for LCR Meter...
Try it out...13 Results ?! Are they kidding me ?!
Did I something wrong ?

Here the results:

https://de.banggood.com/search/lcr-meter.html?from=nav

Do they really offer so less....

Martin

ataradov:
BG is good for consumer goods and other junk like that. It is not great for test equipment.

What they have is basically what "low cost" manufacturers have for LCR meters. AliExpress has a bit more (notably they have Uni-T stuff, which has a chance of being usable), but basically it is the same selection.

tooki:
Banggood has a much smaller selection than AliExpress. But both of their search functions are miserable, so don’t expect miracles. (And they’re even worse in non-Chinese languages other than English, and even that requires understanding the curious AliExpress dialect of English, where long-lead LEDs are “long hair LED” and dice for games are “resin deciders”.)

I rarely use banggood because it’s usually more expensive. But for some things (like kits) they’re easier to navigate.

My long-term strategy with AliExpress is to search for the thing I want, look in the results for items similar to what I want, and then click some of those to try and identify vendors who specialize in the category of item. Then I browse and/or search the specific vendor for the thing I want. (Searching within a vendor works fairly well; searching all of AliExpress is borderline useless.) I make sure to save the vendors who have wide or interesting selections.

janoc:
Apples to oranges comparison when comparing with AliExpress.

AliExpress is more like eBay - a marketplace, where anyone can come and sell their gadget or gizmo.

Banggood operates more like a consumer goods chain - they pick whatever they think will sell from the Chinese marketplace and then offer it on their store. They also pre-position the larger/heavier/more expensive items that are likely to be popular to their local warehouses around the world.

By consequence Banggood is unlikely to carry a lot of things that appeal only to niche markets.

However, if you need something that they actually stock in a local warehouse (e.g. 3D printers, some tools, etc.), then you can get a really good deal and have it at your doorstep within a few days, unlike with AliExpress. Ali has also warehouses now but most of the interesting items are not locally stocked and have to ship from China.


My problem with the search on these places is mainly that it, frankly, sucks. It is trivially gamed by various keyword salads, it is almost impossible to filter the results and even when you somewhat get what you want the ordering is not based on your criteria but which vendor paid for ads (AliExpress) or what the store wants to push (Banggood).


--- Quote from: tooki on July 18, 2022, 03:36:48 pm ---And they’re even worse in non-Chinese languages other than English, and even that requires understanding the curious AliExpress dialect of English, where long-lead LEDs are “long hair LED” and dice for games are “resin deciders”.)

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That's because all of it is machine translated from Chinese/English. They translate even reviews, so you get complete gibberish.  I do wish there was a way to permanently disable that BS, switching the language back to English is the first thing I am doing every time I use the website.

wraper:

--- Quote from: janoc on July 18, 2022, 04:13:11 pm ---However, if you need something that they actually stock in a local warehouse (e.g. 3D printers, some tools, etc.), then you can get a really good deal and have it at your doorstep within a few days, unlike with AliExpress. Ali has also warehouses now but most of the interesting items are not locally stocked and have to ship from China.


My problem with the search on these places is mainly that it, frankly, sucks. It is trivially gamed by various keyword salads, it is almost impossible to filter the results and even when you somewhat get what you want the ordering is not based on your criteria but which vendor paid for ads (AliExpress) or what the store wants to push (Banggood).

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Many sellers at Aliexpress have their goods at several warehouses, including EU, so you can get them in a few days too if find such seller and select a proper option.

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