Given my experiences in comparing products and delivery times on various goods between China goods and continental ones, I'd stick with the North American sellers.
What you might save in cost, you pay for with problem-solving.
People will say, 'It's all made in China anyway!' and while that is true at face value, it's also not.
The cheap stuff is most often unauthorized backdoor merchandise made with sketchy material to sketchy specifications. Otherwise, how can they afford to sell it for that?
Anything you might save upfront, you pay for in the long run. Plus all that time is wasted.
Look at the effort and angst that went into this situation, for example.
Now let's say it had arrived and it was all junk, and then the seller put up a fight, you had to open a case, escalate it and yes, you get your money back, but you've lost weeks and currency conversion fees and your blood pressure is now higher than it was to start.
I learned the hard way. Sometimes, that is the only way.
