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Electronic commerce in Mexico grew 23% in 2022.
Digital sales represented 13.4% of total retail sales in the country.
Technology continues to be one of the best windows of communication and a tool for people’s daily lives. This is the case of an e-commerce buyer who told the story of him ordering a toolbox through AliExpress and when he received it, he realized that he received a printed photo of the product.
After the Covid-19 pandemic, e-commerce sales became popular all over the world, and an eMarketer study reports that in 2020, global retail sales were projected to amount to around 31.7 trillion US dollars.
Meanwhile, in 2021, the global brick-and-mortar retail channel generated approximately US$19.1 trillion in online and offline retail sales. By 2025, the value of e-commerce retail sales is estimated to reach US$8.5 trillion, according to the Tech and Media Outlook 2022.
Buy on AliExpress and that’s how it ends
Through a video on the TikTok social network, an Internet user shared how her father’s request for a toolbox became a viral case due to its peculiarity.
The netizen identified as @marialegazzz, narrated that her father ordered the product in the Chinese e-commerce store and upon receiving it, he only received a paper print of the toolbox.
@marialegazzz #greenscreen F for my father #aliexpress #thisiswhatiwanted #fail ♬ OG THE PASTELS – Kneely_Knight
“When my father is scammed by AliExpress”, can be read in the description of the video shared by the tiktoker.
In the video you can see that a toolbox for car repair appears on the AliExpress page and that photograph was the same one that came to the client’s home.
The young woman did not explain if she complained to the Chinese store or what her father’s action was for receiving this product in this way.
In this sense, the recording went viral because of how peculiar it is, receiving thousands of comments on the social network.
“I imagined that I had sent him the same thing in a mini version, but the paper thing is already going too far,” reads one of the comments.
“At least they printed it in color,” read one comment.
“My dad bought a drill for 15 dollars and they sent him a sign of the drill HAHAHAHAHA,” another netizen wrote.
“That’s why you always have to read the reviews with photos included hahahahaha,” explained another Internet user.
“Didn’t read the reviews? I do not buy if it does not have reviews with images ”, can be read in one of the comments.
It is increasingly normal for consumers to go to social networks to share their stories making purchases in e-commerce, such as the case of a client who waited five years to receive a Harry Potter keychain that he ordered from AliExpress, one of the online shopping platforms. most important e-commerce in the current market.
In conclusion, digital platforms have come to help us, but many peculiar cases like these can arise and go viral throughout the world.
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