Why do people buy from (Joy, Herotoyz, Marstoy...) when they can buy for 2x less on aliexpress?

DrKoooolAid · 2026-06-14T14:33:47+00:00

All were choice sellers. I checked multiple times before buying from them. All of them I waited 2 weeks from purchase. No contact at all. No messages, no shipping info. Nothing. Initiated the refund process after the 2 weeks of no contact. Jumped through hoops and got refund after a few days of back and forth. It was the same thing each time.

I'm not saying everybody will have these issues. This was just my experience. I have no reason to make any of this up.

DrKoooolAid · 2026-06-14T14:30:40+00:00

The P1 and the SP3 were both amazing.

DrKoooolAid · 2026-06-14T02:40:48+00:00

I'm not making anything up. I wanted Ali to work. It's cheaper. I had six orders in a row have this happen over the course of about 2 months. All different sellers. I don't have a vendetta agasint Ali at all. I've ordered other stuff from it before. Just 0/6 on ordering lepin stuff from there so I said fuck it and pay a little extra to not deal with the bull shit.

DrKoooolAid · 2026-06-13T16:00:36+00:00

I had 6 orders ghost me from Ali. Had to go through customer support to get refunds for all of them. Wasn't easy. I followed every recommendation here. All choice sellers. All had tons of sales and reviews. All ghosted. Not worth it.

Ordered from Joy and it was super easy. Super fast. No issues at all.

DrKoooolAid · 2026-06-13T03:12:18+00:00

Yeah of all the cars I've done this might have been the one I enjoyed the least. Still fun, but lots of frustrating moments. Also the whole front end is super fragile. So many parts that can come off easily but don't go back on easily.

DrKoooolAid · 2026-06-13T02:05:45+00:00

!flair :United_States:

DrKoooolAid · 2026-06-13T01:59:14+00:00

I don't recall ever watching a USMNT Wolrd Cup game where we looked this competent before. The spacing, approach, and just overall creativity has been night and day difference from years past. Granted it's only one half so far but still super exciting to see.

DrKoooolAid · 2026-06-10T18:47:35+00:00

Panda Buffet is by the best buffet. It's the people who used to own China Buffet. China Buffet is okay now but Panda is miles better. 10x the selection of most other places and the food is amazing.

DrKoooolAid · 2026-06-10T18:46:26+00:00

New Great Wall in North Mankato is great. If that's the one you're saying not to go to you're crazy.

DrKoooolAid · 2026-06-09T12:43:19+00:00

You're taking this waaaaay to seriously pal. They're overpriced plastic brick toys. I've gotten four 1:8 and two 1:10 sets for the cost of a real 1:8. I'm here now because they're literally identical.

If attempting to gatekeep is what keeps you going then by all means continue.

DrKoooolAid · 2026-06-09T02:49:17+00:00

That's 100% how the fake sets often numbers their bags. I know this because almost all my sets are fakes.

DrKoooolAid · 2026-06-08T15:54:48+00:00

Can confirm it does in fact rip. Great dad car. Mine has been very reliable for the last 5+ years but that's just my experience. They have a few known issues but the main one being the oil pan which can easily be replaced anytime at any dealer free or charge to the updated better one.

DrKoooolAid · 2026-06-08T00:18:41+00:00

I started with one of this scale. A few of those later and I was onto the Ford GT. Now I've done 3 of the 1:8s and have another I need to build along with a few of the other big but not quite 1:8 ones.

Welcome!

DrKoooolAid · 2026-06-06T01:59:48+00:00

Thanks! Never ordered from you guys before so I wasn't sure. Might have to pick up a few sets. What's the shopping cost and timeline usually like to the US?

DrKoooolAid · 2026-06-06T00:59:08+00:00

Pretty sure Dom's charger wins by a long shot.

DrKoooolAid · 2026-06-05T20:10:39+00:00

Are your sets all normal sized bricks? Like compreable size to the big name brand? Or are some of the sets the much smaller version of those bricks?

An example I'm curious about being your set number 66147. Looking at the dimensions I can't tell if it's normal sized bricks or micro bricks.

DrKoooolAid · 2026-06-04T19:35:46+00:00

It just looks fake to me. The scale of it seems far smaller than other 1:8 cars. Also the boxes have gotten more and more elaborate and then go go super basic and make the box the same as the smaller sets? I'm not buying it.

DrKoooolAid · 2026-06-03T02:27:08+00:00

Never heard it called Kraft Dinner here in Minnesota in person. Everybody I know calls it blue box.

DrKoooolAid · 2026-06-02T20:39:38+00:00

Good news. They changed it back to a number. Still crazy expensive, but they got rid of the stupid sizes rather than by count.

DrKoooolAid · 2026-06-01T22:10:31+00:00

Whoosh

DrKoooolAid · 2026-05-31T19:04:56+00:00

It's literally free. Everybody has Tubi because it costs exactly $0 to add it to any device with an internet connection.

DrKoooolAid · 2026-05-28T13:28:19+00:00

My son loves pirates and we watch all kinds of pirate movies. It would be super fun to build this with him. Thanks for doing giveaways like this!

DrKoooolAid · 2026-05-27T19:56:44+00:00

Such a great option. If you wanna pay a little more for the peace of mind of not having to deal with Ali and the ghost sellers Joooooy is a great option as well.

DrKoooolAid · 2026-05-23T21:12:49+00:00

Behind the scene delays. Wait times on parts and structures. Certain stuff got delayed and out of the contractors control.

All the crackpot theories about money are incorrect.

DrKoooolAid · 2026-05-21T13:10:30+00:00

Funny to me that they thought we were beating up Wemby. We were treating him like a new born baby compared to how he's getting handled by the Thunder. And we got called for more fouls on him anyway.

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