With drop shipping you never know where the product you're ordering originates from. The seller you pay isn't even in the same country with the item and it ships separately from them often from a wholesaler or manufacturer overseas. It's misleading to begin with.

My suspicions are always high when I see mixed reviews online about a company. Some prolific user review sites rate AliExpress highly while it couldn't be rated lower on others. Also I would assume that pretty much anything I ordered from that site at some point originated in China. That's where all our stuff is made anyway so why should it be a shock that if you go back far enough most things at some point were sent here from China.

I personally think AliExpress is a shady company and won't be doing business with them again after a bad experience a few years ago. I ordered a necklace and had no problem getting it. It was when I tried to place a second order that I had trouble. The site kept canceling my order and sent insulting messages to me accusing me of being a scammer or something. I could not find any phone customer service to complain to and even when I wrote to them the answer was unintelligible and worth nothing. Even after creating an entire new account I could not order from them and never got a satisfactory explanation. I even switched credit cards. And I have never had that kind of trouble with any other site.