About

Buying cheap is easy. Buying cheap without buying rubbish is a lot harder.

You probably know the situation.

You're looking for a product.

You find it for €39 on a French website.

Then €21 somewhere else.

And suddenly, there it is for €8.74 on AliExpress.

Hmmmm.

Is it the same thing?

Why is it four times cheaper?

Can I trust the seller?

Am I actually going to receive anything?

What if the product is terrible?

And most importantly…

Why does this one cost €8 when another seller is offering what looks like exactly the same thing for €17?

Welcome to my daily life.

I can spend far too much time comparing two products that look absolutely identical.

My wife would probably call that a flaw.

I call it saving money.

It all started long before Que-Dalle

I didn't discover online shopping through Temu or TikTok.

I was already shopping online in the early 2000s.

Back then, ordering from a foreign website felt like a bit of an adventure.

Some online shops looked awful.

The translations were questionable.

Tracking a parcel sometimes felt like fortune-telling.

And receiving your package several weeks later could almost come as a surprise.

Then everything changed.

eBay exploded. Amazon became impossible to ignore. AliExpress arrived. Wish had its moment. Then Temu came along.

More recently, I've also become very interested in Whatnot.

I've bought.

I've sold.

I've tested.

I've found some genuinely great deals.

And, of course, I've made some mistakes too.

Because let's be clear:

when you buy a lot of stuff online, you're bound to make a few stupid purchases eventually.

For a long time, I thought price was all that mattered

At first, my method was pretty simple.

I'd search.

I'd sort by price.

I'd pick the cheapest one.

That was it.

An extremely sophisticated scientific method.

Over time, I realised that the cheapest product isn't necessarily the best deal.

A seller with 81% positive feedback?

I'll pass.

A product with three suspiciously enthusiastic reviews?

I'm wary.

A gorgeous product photo that appears on fifteen different sellers' pages?

I start digging.

A price so low it seems impossible?

I want to know why.

When you've been buying online for long enough, you develop certain habits.

You read reviews differently.

You compare customer photos.

You check how long the seller has been around.

You look for the same product elsewhere.

And sometimes, you discover something rather interesting.

The same product can cost three times more somewhere else

That's probably one of the things that made me want to create Que-Dalle.

I regularly came across products sold by French or European shops that I'd already seen elsewhere.

Same shape.

Same colour.

Same specifications.

Sometimes even… the exact same photos.

But definitely not the same price.

Now, that doesn't mean everything sold at a higher price is a rip-off.

A French business has overheads, customer service, legal obligations, sometimes local stock and plenty of other costs.

But as a buyer, I like knowing what I'm actually buying.

If I can buy a product directly for much less, I at least want to know that option exists.

After that, everyone can make their own choice.

That's exactly what Que-Dalle is about.

Then I created Que-Dalle

The website has been around since 2022.

The name sums up the idea pretty well.

Pay next to nothing.

Ideally, while still getting something in return.

At first, I mainly wanted to share tips about AliExpress.

How do you choose a seller?

How do you find a good product?

How do you make the most of promotions?

What should you do when a parcel doesn't arrive?

How do you ask for a refund?

Then the website grew.

I started writing about Temu, other platforms and, more recently, a lot about Whatnot.

But the way I work has changed too.

These days, I'm much less interested in publishing an article simply because people are searching for the topic on Google.

I'd rather talk about what I've actually seen and experienced.

I test, I buy and sometimes I get it wrong

Obviously, I don't own every product I talk about on Que-Dalle.

That would be impossible.

And my garage would seriously start running out of space.

But when I've actually bought or tested something, I tell you.

That's become an important part of the website.

I can show you what I ordered.

Tell you how much I paid.

Explain why I chose it.

And, most importantly, tell you after it arrives:

“Yes, it's worth it.”

Or:

“No. Save your money.”

Both answers matter to me.

In fact, bad purchases are sometimes much more interesting to write about.

At least my mistake might help you avoid making the same one.

Whatnot put me on the other side of the equation

Whatnot has a special place on Que-Dalle these days.

Because this time, I didn't just buy things.

I sold things too.

I've experienced €1 auctions, live shows with three viewers, others with hundreds of people, commissions, fees, giveaways and the algorithm.

I've had great sales.

And some much less impressive live shows.

I've run auctions where you wonder why nobody is clicking.

And others where everything suddenly sells.

That experience completely changed the way I write about the platform.

I can look at Whatnot through the eyes of both a buyer and a seller.

And believe me, the view isn't always the same.

So, am I an “expert”?

I'm not particularly fond of that word.

The Internet is full of self-proclaimed experts.

I'd rather tell you what I actually do.

I dig around.

I compare.

I buy.

I test whenever I can.

I try to understand how things work.

And when I get something wrong, I correct it.

After more than 20 years of shopping online, I've inevitably picked up a few useful habits.

But I can still end up buying a bad product.

And that's probably a good thing.

Otherwise Que-Dalle would get pretty boring.

And yes, there are affiliate links

We might as well talk about it openly.

Some of the links on Que-Dalle are affiliate links.

AliExpress, Amazon, Whatnot or other platforms may pay me a commission when someone makes a purchase.

You normally don't pay any more because of that commission.

It simply helps the website generate revenue.

But there's one rule that's important to me:

an affiliate link doesn't magically turn a bad product into a good one.

If something looks bad to me, I'd rather say so.

Even if I could make a few euros by telling you the opposite.

That might make money today.

It would be much less profitable tomorrow if nobody trusted what I wrote anymore.

If you'd like to know more, I explain exactly how the website works on my Transparency page.

What I want Que-Dalle to be

I don't want to create yet another catalogue filled with “10 amazing products you absolutely need to buy”.

There are already plenty of those.

I want you to be able to come here with one very simple question:

“Is it worth it?”

And leave with an answer.

Sometimes yes.

Sometimes no.

Sometimes: “yes, but watch out for this”.

That third answer is often the most interesting one.

I also want to keep publishing more real purchases, tests, comparisons and first-hand experiences.

Even when the result isn't spectacular.

Because a €4 product that genuinely works can be far more interesting than yet another “unbelievable deal”.

Anyway, welcome to Que-Dalle

If you like doing your research before buying, comparing prices and understanding what's really behind a good deal, you should feel at home here.

I'll keep digging.

Ordering.

Testing.

Getting it wrong sometimes.

And, most importantly, telling you what I discover.

Without pretending everything is amazing.

And without pretending everything is rubbish either.

Because somewhere in between, there are plenty of genuinely good deals.

And a few absolute duds.

It's up to us to sort the good from the bad.

Alain