šJokerChinese immigrants in the U.S. are running Temu shipping centers out of their homes
carl_dungeonWho is buying that shit? Iāve never once heard someone say ālook at this great thing I got on temu!ā. Iāve literally only seen wish-fail stuff. It seems like a company that extracts pennies from putting shit directly into the landfill.
I havenāt bought from temu, but Iāve bought loads of stuff for various things on similar sites like aliexpress. If you have the time to wait for the shipping, itās the exact same components as I buy in electronics supply stores here, but at a fraction of the price.
I would say you should be free to make the decision to forego the advantages working though a middle man affords you, if you would prefer the savings. That said, thereās consumer protection, quality certification (important for insurance purposes), returns, after sales care and Iām sure Iām forgetting stuff. Nothing to do with differences in the product itself, more so the guarantee of a product that does what it says on the tin.
I use AliExpress for all the little items in my life that can fail without any real problem.
I need a comb and get 2/$1 to my door. $3/4/5 each in a physical store for the same.
I don't think you're appreciating how often these are literally the same products.
The retail sector has long ago entered enshittification. I'm not blind to the real people working in the field, but paying more for a product does not increase the chance of any positive environmental or social outcome. Feeding the beast, feeds their investors.
There is no ethical consumption.
There is no ethical consumption.
āWhat, me worry?ā
AliExpress (if you are not the person thiking you can get a 4TB SSD for 20ā¬) is great.
It started off as a āfor peopleā Alibaba.com and I have bought lots of quality stuff there including a phone, circuits, tools (not the best but they will probably outlive me), 3D printer stuff etc etc.
Temu is like wish, just crap.
Altima NEOTemu is more on par with wish. Itās really scanmy and disingenuous. Descriptions will claim one thing but send you some junk product instead.
AliExpress is a lot more legit. Theyāre still cheap products, but at least you know what youāre getting.
JohnEdwaAnything you can find on Temu you could get from Ali, and usually even a bit cheaper, Temu just adds a predatory interface and false marketing on top of it, and people who have no experience with what Chinese manufacturing actually costs think itās miraculous.
It isnāt, Iāve been buying this same stuff for almost two decades from sites like DealExpess, BangGood, Gearbest and then just straight from AliExpress. Temu is just the first to break through with the advertising.
And they gameified it by making it if you got someone else to sign up you both got insane coupons to make stuff that they were selling as loss leaders even cheaper and get enough and you could get it for free.
It made it a race to get the most people to sign up for the app as the very rare person got a switch for free for being better than any advertisement.
They must have been bleeding money for the name recognition. I still think their name equals trash.
Itās the exact same components I would have bought at a local store if there were any.
The last one closed almost 20 years ago. (Long before Temu, aliexpress and banggood)
Iād always thought there was a better use for the name Banggood than an electronic component store
I thought thatās what they call upvotes on PornHub.
I thought those were called ErectVotes