Team
ReviewCatalog is a small operation. One person does the picking, buying, testing, filming, and writing. Here’s who.
Alex — Lead Reviewer
Alex started ReviewCatalog after losing about $200 on bad AliExpress orders in late 2025. A USB charger that smoked. A “10,000mAh” power bank that meter-tested at 3,800. A knife handle that fell off in week two. The pattern was less “AliExpress is bad” and more “buyers don’t have a filter.” So he built one.
Day to day, Alex picks the products that go on the review queue, buys them with the site’s own money, runs the 5-point test described on the How We Review page, and writes the verdict. He also handles email at hello@reviewcatalog.com, replies inside two business days, and answers comments on individual reviews.
Before this site, Alex spent about a decade working on consumer-product e-commerce — first as a buyer for a small import business, then as a product manager. That background is the reason the scoring rubric weights “match to description” so heavily; he’s seen what happens when listing photos and reality don’t line up. He is not a certified electrical engineer, lab technician, or medical professional, and the reviews don’t pretend to be lab tests. They are honest hands-on assessments by someone who’s bought, returned, and disputed enough orders to know where AliExpress products usually fall short.
What Alex covers
- Small home goods (lamps, kitchen tools, organizers).
- Personal-care gadgets (knee massagers, percussion guns, skincare devices).
- Tech accessories (cables, chargers, power banks, USB hubs).
- Hobby tools (basic electronics, crafting, small workshop gear).
Categories we explicitly don’t cover: anything medical or prescription, industrial equipment, child car seats, motorcycle helmets, and anything that requires lab certification we can’t perform. The reasoning is on the methodology page, section 6.
Growing the team
We plan to bring on one or two paid contributors in 2027 to widen category coverage. The bar is going to be experience as a buyer, not as a writer — we’d rather train someone who knows how to spot a bad seller than someone who can turn a phrase. If that sounds like you, write to hello@reviewcatalog.com with the subject line “Contributor” and a couple of products you’d want to review first.
How to reach the team
Email is the channel: hello@reviewcatalog.com. There’s no phone, no chat widget, no PR distribution list. For corrections, review requests, or reader experience reports, use the contact page for the full list of what’s worth writing about. To see how Alex’s verdicts get built before they hit publish, read the testing methodology.