AliExpress Alibaba Temu Oberlo

Comes with a lot of errors with limited functionality and is more expensive than other Shopify dropshipping tools like Dsers, which are the most popular than AliDrop.

I was looking for apps with POD and also Dropshipping. Since the beginning of August, I wrote several emails asking whether they offered musical products and which ones had warehouses in Europe or faster delivery mechanisms. However, the only reply I received was that I should install the app myself, search for the products, and check them one by one.

So, I installed the app on August 14th. On that very same day, I verified that the product prices were the same—or even higher—than the prices these same merchants were selling directly to end customers in Europe. In other words, a producer was directly competing with the retailer. This is called unfair competition and should not be allowed on Shopify.

I come from a family of entrepreneurs, going back to my great-grandfather. People who traded internationally. My father planned and built one of the country’s largest chemical industries, and he always had different prices for end consumers and retailers—sometimes as low as 1% of the retail price. Everyone benefited. He sold to retailers almost at cost price. For example, he could sell a product at €0.01/liter, and then retailers (all of them) would sell to end consumers at €5/liter. Everyone had their role. Each person did what they knew best.

When someone wants to capture everything for themselves, besides being legally considered “unfair competition,” it is simply unethical. In my opinion, such an app should not be on a platform alongside other sellers. Shopify should evaluate what is best for the sellers, always aiming at the greater good, for society, for healthy balance.

I also learned this from my mother. Once, I asked her why she never shopped at the same place (supermarket or elsewhere), and she answered: “To distribute the money among everyone.” That is the role, above all, of people who are truly rich—in spirit.

Although I immediately uninstalled the app, I later saw in my bank statement that they still charged me. I also received an email with a “shady business offer,” giving me two options where they would not refund my money, but instead tried to push me into continuing business with them. I am not interested—neither now nor ever. People without honor do not deserve trust. I only lose €100 once.

Perhaps this is the very reason why TEMU cannot establish itself in the market: lack of trust.

My mistake was installing an app that claimed to represent the strongest Chinese companies. I believe they are as much retailers as I am on Shopify. Therefore, I also believe that their only goal is to profit from the app fees, not to actually do business.

Interestingly, I have just read that the app was developed in Dubai. That would explain a lot…

I've been using AliDrop for a week now, it seems some products are fairly priced but there's also a lot of overpriced items. It's expected to spend some time browsing before pushing items to your store, which is normal anyway. Your subscription starts with a 7 day free trial, for some reason I read 30 days and forgot my payment was due, if the payment isn't collected at the first attempt they cancel your subscription and your orders won't fulfil.

There should really be an option to retry the payment once or twice before they cancel the subscription, just like Netflix or or other subscription based services. subscription payment system is quite glitchy, when I tried to make the payment and resume my subscription there was an error in the details so the system blocks you from retrying a payment for about 24h. This a very frustrating feature, having your whole store on hold for 24h is a major issue. Their support team was quite useless about this too.

All in all, I no longer feel confident in AliDrop and might have to search for a different provider, which is disappointing after spending so many days editing every listing.