/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

Pretty angry/confused. A few weeks ago I had asked around for a simple velvet dress because two separate sellers off aliexpress flat out didn't respond and more orders with them timed out. Strange. Never had an order rejected, and my card was fine. I had to get the money refunded, in fact.

So I turn to taobao. I order three dresses this time, all a similar simple velvet. Then a lot of tights and socks from another shop. It's enough to make the order worth it. I'm not spending a lot for little, right?

Taobaoring puts in my order for the dresses (which are all in stock according to the sellers), and then a week later marks them unreceived because the sellers never responded, uses part of the remaining money to ship the tights and refunds me the rest.

It's literally pic related. A ton of shops have these. I can't have somehow hit up shops that were drawing from the same place every time. Are they fucking toxic or something? Am *I* toxic?