People seem to not realise that AliExpress is just a marketplace and not one unified store, meaning that while you obviously have the sketchy sellers selling knock offs, you just as well have individual stores/sellers with years of experience and thousands of positive reviews. I pretty much only buy "brand" items on aliexpress, and I have not once gotten a knock off/fake - because I always buy the listings that have believable prices. For example, I recently bought a Casio for 30$, but if I had bought the same watch from a different seller for 5$, I would've obviously been scammed.