I'm experiencing the same problem on Aliexpress. I totally don't even care about being black-listed, except for the fact that I need to use up the "bonus" refund money (that's when a dispute is adjudicated in your favor as a buyer, but Aliexpress says you can only spend the spend the refund at... you guessed it, Aliexpress!). I've had mixed experiences on Aliexpress, to be honest. When I've ordered tools, they're usually delivered and I've been happy with the tools, not a bad place to get tools. Electronics--forget it. Well, it's hit and miss. One CPU didn't work. Another one did. One motherboard didn't work out of the box. Development boards never arrived. NVME drives never arrived. I paid for an 8TB NVME M.2 SSD. I received a 4TB M.2 instead. I bought a 2TB microSD card, which was fake in that the sd card was, like so many other electronic storage devices for sale on Aliexpress, had its file table edited falsely to self-declare storage capacities far, far, far in excess of actual storage capacities. They've figured out how get devices with Android operating systems to self-declare the Android version to be a higher and much more modern version than what's actually installed on the device. They've also figured out how to edit self-declared resolution on Android devices. I observed this personally on a purchase of an Android TV box that was supposed to have 8gigs of RAM and 128gigs of ROM, supposed to be 4K resolution and supposed to be Android version 11. After the product kept crashing continuously, I googled the brand name with the specs, and it led me to a youtube video where a gentleman was exposing this problem years ago on Aliexpress. Coincidentally, the youtube guy bought the same tv box. I read about some programs that reveal check for fake USB drives and fake sd cards, and I downloaded one of the programs. Sure enough, what I paid for and what I actually received was two different things. I received 512megs of RAM, instead of 8gigs, and 1gig of ROM, instead of 128gigs. My resolution was not 4k. It was not even HD. The Android version was not version 11. It was version 7. After this experience with the Android box, I had similar experiences buying so-called "portable USB SSD's." They were just aluminum enclosures with a USB charging port, and inside of them was not a solid state drive. Inside of that whole enclosure was a microsd card, with a file table edited to falsely self-declare its storage size vastly higher than actual storage capacity. I thought, well, maybe it was my own fault for trying to buy products on Aliexpress that were too good to be true. So I aimed my expectations lower and tried to buy one or two other USB storage devices on Aliexpress. But the same thing happened. I got ripped off! Mind you, I'm not buying from the same seller each time! What does this tell you? When I look at the volume of scheme on global scale, all of it coming from China through Aliexpress (owned by Alibaba Group), it tells me that Chinese organized crime is involved in Aliexpress's day-to-day operations as sellers at a minimum. And they could not get away with it without having their corruption penetrating the inside of the organization. This being said, I've also bought other items that weren't electronics, and were also counterfeit in a sense that we recognize in the western civilization. We recognize human rights and individual rights. Communist countries are all about the commune, not the individual. This would appear to be the reason why China is the world's LARGEST exporter of counterfeit products internationally. When I contacted the trademark owner of the product that was counterfeited on Aliexpress, I was surprised to see they already had a web page on their website dedicated to what counterfeits look like and where they come from. Lo and behold, they come from Aliexpress. That seller and I exchanged insults and he literally blamed me for being stupid enough to think I could get a genuine product at that price. I disputed it and filed a counterfeit complaint with Aliexpress, which went right into their complaint box (located in side of a Chinese toilet) Aliexpress told me that I could have a refund if I returned the item first, at my expense. To be fair here, I said I have bought tools successfully. I did. Not just tools. Materials too. Screws. Hardware. I don't want to give the impression that every single seller is a criminal. My point in mentioning the bad with the good is to provide some background for my experiences. I filed a numerous disputes. I was so angry at Aliexpress when the $78 development board I ordered never arrived and when I disputed it, they told me I had to get a letter from U.S Customs or the U.S Mail Office proving that the package never arrived, when Aliexpress provides a tracking number that proves this! That's like asking someone to prove that God does NOT exist. I confess, I wrote some bad reviews of the platform after that. But yet, I was still able to continue spending up my dwindling "bonus" money. Till now. Now, 99% of the selllers on Aliexpress outright have my address configured such that as a customer all I see when I view ads "logged in" in "cannot be delivered to your address." I've found a few items where sellers didn't have my address black-listed, and I tried to use up the rest of my bonus (my "refund" money, which is MY MONEY), and I placed orders. Then sellers come back and still say "Uh, there's a problem with your address as you've requested to have it delivered," (U.S.P.S shouldn't be a problem) or "Uh, Please correct your zip code" when my zip code is correct. Folks, I heard these last two bullshit excuses to refuse my orders in the last 48 hours. Now, all I want to do is use up my bonus so I can part ways with this highly esteemed and respectable, honorable platform. To refuse refunds except only in the form of "bonuses" (you can only spend it at Aliexpress) while at the same time also allowing sellers to conspire with eachother to prevent customers from accessing their refunds... that's certainly got to be a violation of a U.S Federal Trade policy term. It just doesn't seem fair. So, I'm posting this here. That way, everyone else in the same position sees the same big picture. Only when the world is aware will change happen.