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name: Aliexpress description: "Navigate Aliexpress as buyer, seller, or dropshipper with vendor evaluation, price comparison, and scam detection."

When to Use

User needs help with Aliexpress purchases, selling, or sourcing. Agent handles vendor evaluation, price analysis, dispute guidance, and dropshipping workflows.

Quick Reference

Topic	File
Vendor signals	vendors.md
Dropshipping	dropshipping.md

Core Rules

1. Vendor Evaluation Beyond Stars

Stars alone are misleading. Check these signals in order:

Signal	Red Flag	Green Flag
Store age	<1 year	>3 years
Followers	<1000	>10,000
Response rate	<80%	>95%
Positive feedback	<95%	>98%
Photo reviews	Stock photos only	Real customer photos

If user asks "is this seller trustworthy?" — require ALL five signals.

2. Real Cost Calculation

Aliexpress price ≠ landed cost. Always compute:

Landed Cost = Item Price + Shipping + Import Tax (if >$150) + Payment Fee (2-3%)

• Shipping varies 3-40 days depending on method
• "Free shipping" often means 40-60 day wait
• ePacket/AliExpress Standard = 15-25 days typical

3. Same Product Different Vendors

Before recommending a purchase, search same product across vendors:

• Price can vary 50-200% for identical items
• Check if dropshipping from same factory (similar photos)
• Lower price + low reviews = test batch risk

4. Dispute Timing

Aliexpress dispute window rules:

• Open dispute before buyer protection expires
• Wait 10+ days past delivery estimate before "not received"
• Document everything with screenshots
• Partial refund often better than full dispute loss

5. Dropshipping Specifics

See dropshipping.md for margin calculation and supplier vetting.

Key rule: Never source from vendors with <98% positive and <2 years history.

6. Scam Detection Patterns

Common scams to warn about:

• Price too good (>50% below others) = bait and switch
• "Ships from local warehouse" but no proof = fake
• Brand names at 90% discount = counterfeit
• Empty box scam = always request tracking with photos

Common Traps

• Recommending based on star rating alone → check store metrics, photo reviews, response rate
• Ignoring shipping time → "free shipping" can mean 60 days
• Calculating margins without landed cost → shipping + fees eat profit
• Opening disputes too early → wait until protection window
• Trusting "Top Brand" badge → verify independently

OpenClaw Skills Marketplace For Claude

This repository is an automatic conversion of openclaw/skills into the Claude Skills marketplace format so the skills can be installed and used directly in Claude.

It takes the OpenClaw skill corpus and rewrites it into a Claude-compatible marketplace with:

• a root marketplace manifest at .claude-plugin/marketplace.json
• one Claude plugin per OpenClaw skill under plugins/
• a generation report at reports/generate-marketplace.json

Use In Claude

Add this marketplace in Claude with:

/plugin marketplace add dvcrn/openclaw-skills-marketplace

Then install any generated plugin from the marketplace:

/plugin install <plugin-name>@openclaw-skills

Example:

/plugin install 0x-professor--agentic-mcp-server-builder@openclaw-skills

What This Repo Does

The generator reads canonical OpenClaw source skills from:

openclaw-skills/skills/<owner>/<slug>/

Each source skill is expected to contain:

• _meta.json
• SKILL.md or lowercase skill.md

The conversion process:

• maps each OpenClaw skill to one Claude plugin
• normalizes lowercase skill.md to SKILL.md
• extracts Claude plugin root assets like agents/, hooks/, .mcp.json, .lsp.json, and settings.json
• preserves nested skills/ trees when a source package already behaves like a multi-skill plugin
• skips malformed inputs and records them in reports/generate-marketplace.json

Regenerate The Entire Marketplace

To rebuild the full marketplace from the openclaw-skills submodule:

mise run generate

That regenerates:

• .claude-plugin/marketplace.json
• plugins/<plugin-id>/...
• reports/generate-marketplace.json

The generator replaces previous generated output under .claude-plugin/, plugins/, and reports/ on each run.

If you want the explicit underlying task name, this still works too:

mise run generate_marketplace

For small development runs:

python3 scripts/generate_marketplace.py --source openclaw-skills/skills --output . --limit 10

Validate And Test

Run the generator tests:

mise run test

Validate the generated marketplace:

claude plugin validate .

Notes

• Plugin ids are generated as <owner>--<slug> after sanitization.
• Nested source skills/ directories are preserved as plugin content rather than treated as separate top-level source skills.
• The upstream OpenClaw source is included as the openclaw-skills submodule.