 Hey guys, welcome back to my youtube channel Daniel Rosal here today's video is a bout ordering from Aliexpress to Israel And specifically how long you can expect that to take based on my experience now Israel has emerged as one of the world's largest consumers of Aliexpress and that's a large factor. I think a few dynamics really one is that the Domestic market is quite small stuff in Israel tends to be very expensive and the product selection on Aliexpress Is second to none so Aliexpress has become actually massively popular in Israel to the extent that a small country like Israel has emerged as one of Aliexpress Aliexpress is leading buyers. It's quite funny. You'll commonly be browsing on Aliexpress for products And you'll see stuff like you know customized doormats for instance and some of the product photos are in Hebrew because Those are the ones that their customers have ordered that they're using to demo now regarding the question of how long Aliexpress Takes to come so firstly. I've been ordering from Aliexpress for more than seven years I'm a platinum member and my order count is embarrassingly high I will just say that it's in the thousands. I order literally everything from Aliexpress the LED light that is lighting me with this remote control is from Aliexpress my little Box for keeping breath mints is from Aliexpress What else is from Aliexpress my? No, that's not from Aliexpress the mouse map But anyway, I order a hell of a lot of stuff from Aliexpress a lot of tech gear a lot of camera gear and you know It's got its pros and cons as a platform But generally I find it quite good now the major con by the way just because I don't want to make this video by Chipping times, but the major con is that the customer service is really bad There is no real such thing as human customer service on Ali you get through to bots if stuff arrives broken or whatever It's a dispute process versus Amazon. It's a far far inferior Purchasing experience as a buyer. Let's focus today on shipping or transit time So in my experience buying from Aliexpress it really really depends now. There's a few times when Shipping can be particularly slow. The average is around. I would say 30 days in my experience ordering stuff to Jerusalem However, I have had outliers. I've had freak orders that arrived in less than two weeks I've had one that arrived my record was eight days I have no idea how an untracked Ali express parcel made it from China to Israel in seven days But it can happen. It's very rare. However, when Ali express is running fast I would say it's probably in two to three weeks There's a lot of things that can affect the transit time between China and Israel one of those is the stuff getting out of China Now that can be slowed down due to a few factors One of them is the Chinese Spring Festival or Lunar New Year So check it when that's on that is a period when it's actually the world's biggest internal migration very interesting stuff Chinese families go home and you'll start getting messages from your Ali express shops or suppliers saying, you know, hi dear They always say hi dear we're gone home for Lunar New Year. So expected late in your order So that's the time when You can expect stuff to be delayed because of the pandemic right now. There's apparently a There's a there is a delays on the Chinese side at the moment due to COVID-19 Restrictions so that's an unusual situation because hopefully the pandemic won't be forever, but that can affect transit times as well Then on the Israeli side. Okay, so we have two sides to the logistics chain here on the Israeli side Basically this ready postal system was just not Designed to deal with the massive influx of Ali express packages stuff It's the best my knowledge tends to get sorted in a huge sorting center in Modi in and you'll often see on traffic That there's a bottleneck in Modi in your stuff will get stuck there It'll like get from China to Israel pretty quickly and then it'll just sit in Modi in now Somewhat recently Ali express started doing something called consolidated orders If you search my YouTube channel or search YouTube in general you might find my video about that and that's when Ali express Suppliers if you're a regular buyer like me They'll bundle different orders together now What will happen is that they use these things called consolidation warehouses on the Chinese side your stuff will arrive to a Consolidated warehouse then they'll use an expedited shipping method to get your stuff from China to Israel So it's a weird system and you'll end up with these like big boxes Again, I did a video a while back on them from a tax and customs point. That's technically could be problematic Because the order values being increased against your will But I haven't had issues with it so far. So Consolidated orders. I think it probably works out about the same transit time because of the fact that Yeah, you're gonna wait for stuff to arrive to the consolidation warehouse But then they're going to use expedited shipping to get it from the consolidated warehouse over here to Israel So I find about the same transit time. Now. This is all talking about on track So you get to Modi in on the final thing that can affect the transit time is delays on the Israeli side if it's a Israeli Jewish holiday if it's the ha if it's a hageem, etc. So you've got to think about Chinese holidays Jewish holidays Logistics, so there's a lot of moving parts that can break but generally about a month now Let me just show you guys a couple of Things so here's something I just walked from Ali express typical small order of stuff I couldn't be bothered finding locally. So I source it from Ali bookmarks, right? Everyone needs bookmarks if you read books. So I said, okay lovely 30 bookmarks I'm always losing bookmarks or bookmarks or running short of bookmarks I'll get myself a little pack of 30 bookmarks. Now you see here free shipping to Israel Now most people will just click on free shipping or they'll click on buy now And they'll never see this button here. Hang on. I need to make myself a little bit smaller. Oh No, I don't sorry. Okay, they'll never see this button here that says my options And when you click on that option, you'll get yourself a variety of different Shipping methods starting with your basic free shipping via can I don't I never know what to pronounce this? But this is like the basic Basic Ali express shipping method and it's saying it's going to be combined delivery now On the when stuff gets here to Israel is it'll either be delivered by Israel post or sometimes it'll write via cheetah That doesn't in my experience. I've ordered a lot of stuff with this basic free shipping option Some of it's come as a small packages to the through the post network Other stuff has come to you through an Israeli career last mile career like cheetah So there seems to be no rhyme or reason for how it works It's just how Israel the Israeli postal system automatically sorts it But if you do want to go for better ordering, there is there are better. There are better ordering options For instance, if we just pay 85 cents We can get trapping we can get a tracked Logistics method and you can see here estimated delivery July 17th 18th That's not really any quicker, but at least you should be able to see where it is through the supply chain We've got another another method here via standard Ali express This is Ali express standard shipping. This is Ali express saver shipping. Then we have here Ali express selection super economy global and if we go down a little bit further, we're going to get the Better shipping options now. These will become very expensive or not very expensive But you know clearly to state the obvious it would not make any sense to order a $1 You know a bundle of bookmarks and then pay $56 to have them shipped via EMS or $60 via FedEx Now when it comes to Israel's tax The the cost of the shipping and handling is not supposed to be is not included for tax purposes But I've heard stories of people being charged Release fees from customs from DHL. So when these shipping options would make sense I have used them in a couple of times so you can see UPS expedited and you're getting The very best option we can get is almost a hundred dollars for DHL and that's getting our delivery down to eight days So very quickly when there's then when this would make sense if you're saving a lot of money Versus if you find a real bargain than Ali express versus, you know buying something locally here in Israel It might actually be worth it to pay that one hundred dollars or eighty dollars To get stuff to move very quickly from China to Israel via something like EMS or DHL or UPS shipping So that's basically the skinny on how it was it wasn't so skinny in the end But it was a skinny as I can make it how long it takes for orders to arrive from Ali express to Israel The summary is as I said in general, I would say about 30 days I've had freak orders arrive in as little as seven days And don't forget that there is that more shipping options button so that if you want to pay you can often pay a little bit more For something called e-tracking. I forget the shipping method There's a slightly better one and if you're ordering anything of value You know not these you know these these one dollar bookmarks, but anything of some value I think it's really worth paying a few extra books Just to get some proper tracking for yourself. Oh, and there was one more thing that I wanted to show you guys excuse the chaotic The chaotic nature of this video. Here's a website called parcel app comm so you can track your stuff via the Ali express Interface by going into my orders clicking on tracking, but then you need to log into Ali express What you can do is go on to this website parcels parcels app comm I'm just going to type it up here. So Parcels app comm And what you can do is you can put in your tracking number then click on track package And now what this will do is it'll pull in the tracking data from Ali express But what you can then do it'll give you unique URL a unique web page So you can then bookmark that and have it in your tracking folder So that you don't have to log into Ali express every set every single time just to track an important item And you can label it like I don't know my new microphone or whatever There's other apps for tracking Ali express products But this is the one that I find very useful and whenever I'm ordering something of you know value like Maybe a microphone or a phone or a tablet I will bookmark that so that I can keep an eye on it if there's any unexpected delays and That finishes up my spiel. So I hope this video is useful Thank you guys as ever for watching and to get more videos for me click on the subscribe button. Thank you for watching