So in case everyone isn't up to date on what's going on with this on the reddit side of things.
Apparently someone had their order canceled for their single keyboard order and now the seller has seemed to have deleted their Ali account.
When you try to access their store page you're greeted with "Sorry, your search 'Langui Li' did not match any products. Please try again." and when you try to view the current product page you're met with a 404 error.
Here's the links to the snapshot for anyone wanting to try for themselves
TKL
http://www.aliexpress.com/snapshot/6326763499.html
Fullsize
http://www.aliexpress.com/snapshot/6326763502.html
I'm going to attempt to contact someone from Ali instead of the seller (since i can't now) and see what's going on.
I don't quite understand why this is going on.
Ali holds payments in escrow, so not as if seller can hope to make a pile from selling things for nothing and cheating you on the shipping. (EG 100000 items at $10 shipping each adds up to a nice income for a scammer but Ali will never let that happen.)
If they made a mistake offering things at 99% off it is only too easy for them to cancel the order later and decline to send you stuff at a big loss.
So what does seller hope to gain from this? Except he will never be able to open a shop with Ali again, and probably has taken a permanent rep hit. If he merely cancelled orders with an apology he won't be in any trouble.
I also find it hard to believe that they 'shipped' stuff to some people and then cancelled their account/ closed their shop. It is bizarre. Don't tell me they shipped garbage? If they shipped legit stuff, they are a legit business, so why close the webpage? Not as if most buyers will not be understanding if they were only able to ship a few and had to cancel orders for the rest; 99% off is not a sound business strategy and can always be blamed on fat fingers keying in wrong numbers eg 11% off not 99% off, errant employee, computer glitch.
Oh well, as my cynical instinct suggested, it was indeed too good to be true.