The store files actually live on my own…
The store files actually live on my own WordPress install - I confirmed this on a weekend when I was testing things by just opening the file manager and seeing everything sitting there, mine, not locked behind some third-party dashboard. AliDropship costs $89 once, which I kept double-checking because I expected a catch, and the only real friction I found was that the initial product import from AliExpress takes some patience to get the categories organized the way I wanted them. Someone wrote a negative review saying ownership was just a technicality, but that is not what I found.