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Just shop AliExpress. It's the same garbage that is sold on Amazon, but without Amazon's large markup.
AliExpress takes a zillion years to receive your item...longer than any other online retailer I've used. Great value for your money, but you ain't getting that shit any time soon. I've had good experiences with them, but Amazon is when you need something within a reasonable timeframe.
Like OP said, Amazon is really the only company that managed to figure out how to ship stuff fast. So many other websites are ungodly slow, making you wait multiple weeks for your item. Patience is a virtue, I guess...but it's hard to order items online from these other vendors when you're out of town frequently (I drive to visit my mom a lot and stay at her place since it's somewhat far from me) and have no idea when your package will eventually arrive.
I've found Aliexpress shipping is much better than it used to be. It used to be 1 month for ocean shipping and another for customs and delivery. Now it is a couple weeks total. Just bought a bunch of stuff mid January and it all arrived last week.
Yeah, it usually sits in customs longer than it takes to get here from China.