ESP8266 Community Forum

- Wed Dec 10, 2014 6:05 pm #4532 I think I have read that admin is selling modules from the US, so that would probably be fastest for you.

I bought mine at www.electrodragon.com, delivery was 2-3 weeks.

- Thu Dec 11, 2014 4:37 pm #4610 I ordered some from several different eBay vendors, arrived in France after a few weeks (not only ESPs, but many other parts, over 100 shipments, not a single item got lost)
eBay with PayPal offers some guarantee, vendors are eager to keep a good rating, so they usually try to fix when there are issues (I had a couple items damaged which were refunded).
There are a handful that come on top price wise, and so far they've been reliable for me...
Greg

- Thu Dec 11, 2014 8:45 pm #4621 Aliexpress order are automatically protected by Escrow. Until you click and say the order is complete the vendor doesn't have your money, Alibaba has it. If there is a problem open a dispute. So far for the couple of disputes I have opened I have won all of them. It is not a fair playing field, the customer will usually wins even if they are wrong. Just don't be dumb and say the package never arrived after signing for it or something like that. But you need to be prepared to send everything back to China (on your own dime) sometimes to win.

It is common for packages from Aliexpress to take four weeks to arrive. I ordered a 1,000 SD Cards one time and they took 2.5 months to come. Some idiot in US customs opened about 100 of the packages apparently looking for copyrighted material (the cards were blank). This is not the vendor's fault, it the fault of the Post Offices involved. If you want the package in five days pay for DHL. If they offer ePacket that usually comes in about 10 days.

Where I get my modules