Cheap purchases in dollars are over: AliExpress blocked payment using Qiwi

Since Aliexpress introduced its own dollar exchange rate for goods, which is sharply different from the state one, Qiwi has been

payment system with the ability to paythe Chinese goods directly in dollars, removed from the application. But craftsmen for a long time used old versions of the application, where this payment was and worked. Today, the Chinese marketplace seems to have done away with this and persistently forces enthusiasts to buy at the rate of $1 = 67 rubles instead of 59. Discuss

Aliexpress could not block the Qiwi payment process itself (which is built into the functionality of older versions of Android applications), but acted more gracefully:

  • You pay for the goods through Qiwi

  • After a few minutes, Aliexpress cancels ALL orders for this payment with the wording "for account security."

  • Technical support is trying to convince you that you have registered several accounts (which is prohibited by the service), or “scammed with coupons”. Even if you did not use coupons in this purchase at all.

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No one will tell you “we don’t want you to pay at the rate of 59 rubles per dollar instead of 67”, the wording is more accurate

  • You are left with the message that "money in the accountyou will be returned sometime later, in 3-20 days. That is, the Chinese from online stores are not against your dollars, Qiwi also sent dollars to Aliexpress, and Aliexpress already canceled orders in dollars after the fact and temporarily froze your funds.

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This is what the status of your items looks like if you bought them in dollars on June 20, 2022.

By the way, if immediately after that you again throw the same products with the same coupons into the basket and pay for them in rubles, then no “account security breach” will occur and the order will not be canceled.

What are we talking about?

For those who do not understand, we explain in order:

  • Until the spring of 2022, the Aliexpress app had the ability to pay for orders using a Qiwi wallet

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Application with the ability to pay for goods using Qiwi

Then this possibility was hastily removed and left just a field for entering bank card data:

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And this is how you have to enter data for payment in new versions of the application

Why would he need at all?The fact is that it was the only way to pay for goods in dollars directly. But if you entered the data of a dollar card, then Aliexpress billed you anyway in rubles. Therefore, a conversion took place and the purchase turned out to be even less profitable than in a simple ruble card.

Why not pay immediately in ruble cards? The fact is that Aliexpress, as a Chinese company, very freely interprets the dollar to ruble exchange rate. You can see the details here.

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While Aliexpress believes that you should pay 67 rubles for a dollar…

And, of course, to all smartphone owners, the applicationAliexpress has been updated to the latest version so that smart guys don't pay in bucks. But on Android, after all, you can simply download the old version from the Internet, slap it instead of the new one and pay in Qiwi in dollars! And so they did. Up to this day. But now, when the method has been banned, the ruble, which has strengthened against the dollar, can no longer be used in its favor.

Dissatisfied amateurs to buy computercheap components have already run to put one star and bring down the rating of the Aliexpress application on Google Play, but it will only be possible to bring down the mood of the company's programmers - the decision to block payment in dollars, as you understand, was made by people of much higher positions, who, to the discontent of the Russians (and the Russians will not they won’t get away, which other foreign marketplace will allow you to pay for goods with a MIR card?) they won’t respond.