The Evil Company That Took Over The USA 

Bruh

no

you know it's a tech video when you hear the word "solution" mentioned. lol

I am American therefore, I hate China.

The irony of posting a video about the evils of TEMU, and sponsoring it with an ad for an app that's a privacy/security nightmare.

slavery is a huge business bro

@@kaiserchan4683based business

Well who doesn't want a backpack wich cost 70 in Europe and 100+ Dollar in the US for just 14 Dollars ? I fully expect this to take a good chunk from Amazone.

How old are you

@@Fiercesoulking That is a good thing. Amazon needs to go down. But I would rather travel to the next city to visit a department store.

I got a similar one in Shein. All those ads I get don’t even interest me. They annoy me. As they probably do for the majority of us.

uBlock Origin for PC, RU-vid ReVanced for Android = no more ads. Apple? Stop buying flashy trash.

@@SatansYardsale I’m glad you didn’t put RU-vid premium as an option.

I got a temu ad under this video lol

Lol I just use an adblocker

Same for me

commenting to boost this

Well, there are a lot of stores that inflate prices so much that "reasonable" is meaningless. I saw - pre-"rona" - an $40, 20' ethernet cable at a major store. That completely ignores the clothing and shoes markets. Oof. But this is definitely too far the other direction.

Or made using literal slave labor from Uighurs in concentration camps, as in TEMU's case.

​@@katiem.3109if that's true, I will buy more

I love this

You mean billionaires aren’t buying $0.01 shirts that take 3 weeks to ship?! 🤯

"shop like a billionaire", ah yes billionaires do like shopping for cheap Chinese plastic products 😂

I always assumed they were referring to "billionaires" by Zimbabwe's standards...

and they don't buy cheap poor-quality junk!

@@JohnGardnerAlhadis haha

You may have misread the word.

​@@bazookaman1353💀

it's a self-heating flashlight

​@@pyrofestimono, a for e.

Uhm ... did you order a chinese fleshlight?

I've tried many times to block Temu ads, and others in general, here on YT. It never worked. I still get the same ads from the same companies the next day. It's so annoying 😭

Also forced laborers im sure

@@ThirtytwoJ its like one weigure, all that shit is near xian china not well paind but not forced, no one is forcing you to buy you force people not to buy and spend more, im happy people can buy things affordably

@@AndresMarchena-o4l bs

@@AndresMarchena-o4l How much did you get paid? Genuinely wondering.

I used to love that store, it was my treat when I'd come home with a good grade on a test in school. I got half an hour to just browse by myself unrushed and unaccompanied. I would talk to staff, play with things, see what new stuff Lego was making, follow the little train around the store on the mounted track overhead, whatever really. It was my legoland.

​@@InservioLetumyou too, huh?

RIP Toys R Us. They have a department in Macy's now so thats something

Meanwhile the malls here still have toys r us

My mother as well

I order once a week😂😂😂

you should be happy if she is happy...simple as that

@@havencat9337 whats the point of being happy knowing some kid was forced to make it

You mean you don't buy from h&m? Or dell? Do you even know how rare metals are dug up? I'm not saying it's a good thing or that it's ok for Temu because others do it too, but if you want to be against child labour, than be against it full stop! ​@@R1IY2N

Agreed 100%, my father has started hoarding thier trash

​@@aaronshady131long delivery times because most items are shipped from China.

@@aaronshady131 And most of them are crap and wind up in the bin after they inevitably break or degrade after a few uses. Duh.

@@aaronshady131?

@@aaronshady131 you're illiterate

That's true. I used to work on related industry.

I'll buy from Amazon once they treat their workers fairly

Oh damn, somehow I didn't know this. Tbh most of the things I bought from Amazon was a birthday gift for my friend and also things for my PC setup, don't forget my phone or my laptop I got from Amazon too lol

This happens in Australia too

I wonder if this explains why, when I get little direct from China items from Ebay, and read the return address carefully, it sometimes says Kyrgistan or something like that. There's a lot of room to compromise between $800 and $7 though. How about $80? And how does it take 3 weeks by airmail? One would think if they had 3 weeks, that they could save some fuel and use a ship.

Yep... 😂lol

Do u also have that "eew" reaction whenever u see temu ads

@@mianadahlia yes i like physically cringe sometimes too😭

A temu ad just played before I could watch this video lmao

This is an ad

I mean, cheap labour doesn't necessarily have to be child labour. It can just be cheap cause of the place where it's made.

@@stansman5461 yeah bro its just made by underpaid impoverished people, not children, its ok bro

@@camadin7335 atleast they get to work on something,rather than nothing

its so immoral

Ya'll ever heard of Uighur people?

That is eliminated now by temu. Literally impossible to happen unless your card is stolen or number. Which isnt temu's issue. Temu now verifies every purchase with a screenshot from your bank app.

Woah! Ty for sharing this information! I had been debating trying out Temu because I'm a broke-ass and I keep hearing about their super cheap prices.

People gotta survive

Maybe if inflation wasn't so high, people wouldn't be so desperate

Everything in the US is very expensive and inflation is through the roof. It is 100% our own government's fault, not only for creating inflation, but creating the global economic system that enables companies like Temu to prosper.

​@@Kissingerzones1311 they are selling unnecessary garbage though, u don't need any of this dreck to survive

@@Kissingerzones1311Yeah but it’s mostly just knickknacks and useless garbage, not necessities. Sure you can get a pair of shoes for 20 bucks, but you can at walmart as well

@@chicanoklushkov3157 a bold assumption from nobody.

@@yourlocalbudtend3r perhaps.

Exactly!!!!

You just don't get it. For many products like a reciprocating saw blade, either you buy from Temu or pay 10 times more to buy local. Amazon sells the same shit as Temu for 3X the price. If you don't buy from Temu, you lose out big time. You will never get rich.

@@thelogician1934as someone who buys tools, the ones that break the fastest are also often the cheapest. The one that’s “10x more” often comes with a good warranty and won’t break due to rough use

Honestly there's a difference, I tried temu for a bit and found the quality so low it wasn't even worth keeping, Amazon and stores might but be the highest quality but are better than temu

This is one of the better comments on here haha

Where are these ethically made goods? Cuz Walmart and Amazon aren’t it either

You think apple products are ethically made in Chinese factories , I mean watch a documentary, workers basically are forced to sleep on site and suicide isn’t that rare there.

@@ericktellez7632but they support 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏴👳🏽‍♂️🧔🏾‍♀️👨🏽‍🦲🫃🏼

@@ericktellez7632Local business, which is expensive as hell! So, yeah. Your options are to either pay a lot or pay to unethical labor. In fact, scratch the local business part. There are so many factors and processes that go into making just a single product in our age that it’s almost impossible to ensure nothing unethical was done throughout the entire process. Sure, your local tailor might have sewn that shirt, but was the cotton picked by children? Were the cotton seeds sold by a racist seed company?

Slave powered factory? So you telling me my father had been a slave? How funny you are!

Right? For stuff from China, it arrives pretty fast. And isn't even all garbage.

yeah being upset about it taking a package two weeks to get from one continent to another (on different sides of the planet) is. something else lol

i've purchased from temu about a dozen times now, and the average time for delivery is only about 5-6 days. amazon averages about 3-4 days. even at its worst, of about 15 days, the price difference between temu and amazon just makes temu a better value in my eyes. i've also not been disappointed with anything i've ordered, because i've avoided anything electronic, or particularly complicated. i also make sure to check the dimensions provided, ignoring the apparent size in pictures entirely.

There is inaccurate info here. It doesn't take 15 days to receive an order. It's usually a week to 10 days (to NY). And that time is not from manufacturing delays. It's just shipping logistics. Most orders are in the shipping pipeline in a day or two. Evil?? 🤣. Amazon is just as evil. I was a 3rd party seller for Amazon. Jeff's an evil billionaire too. At least TEMU isn't pushing some political agenda on me (at least not overtly).

Well, back then, they had to forge parts from metal. Now, the legos (plastic parts) just fall off the machinery like mana from the heavens.

On China "Quality," When I bought a "Super Joy Power Play III" for $10 in May 2005, it went back to the grocery store the next day. It's a low quality bootleg video game "system" that has stiff buttons and boasts that it has 76,000 games, but most are repeats or hacked versions - there were only 1,384 games between the systems it ripped from.

Most people watch on mobile, via the app.

@@CoreyIsTheName revanced exists

​@@theairaccumulator7144 shhhhhh 🤫

@@theairaccumulator7144first time I heard of this. Gonna have a look, hopefully it works on IOS

@@CoreyIsTheName free adblocker browser. You're welcome.

I NEED MY PLASTIC NOWWWW!!!!

You sometimes get that for domestic deliveries here

15 days is super soon in my pov t-t I usuallyhave to wait 2 months or more

its one day in canada

That's exactly what I was thinking. Unless I'm using the biggest local online shop in my country (that takes about 3 days for my product to arrive), 2+ weeks is completely normal

2 weeks 14 days wow i live in switzerland and stuff from china it take like 20-25 days

Bro lives in a room filled with temu💀💀

That's a shame...

Same in the UK. Got a colleague said it's good for people struggling or on benefits.

No one forced your housemate to buy from Temu.

Most of that stuff's going to end up in the landfill

Temu at home implies Temu is the original desired product

I recommend etsy

@@appa609Temu is the Wish of Wish

Wish is just another version of Temu

@@appa609 you mean they turned temu into wish at home?

Yep. Spending more money is no guarantee of quality. 😢

i completely agree. price barely correlates to quality anymore, and yet some people feel justified to shame those shopping at sites like Temu as if their Amazon products aren't far off in quality.

I mean most Americans are selling items made from the same factory as those on TEMU but at a premium price. Why feed the greed of Americans when there is a better way.

@@user-yk1cw8im4h There are plenty of reasons, very good reasons in fact, to stay within the borders of your own country, when shopping, and to buy from the foreign countries that are most similar to your own, when you have to. That is to say NOT China. All I am saying is that it is perfectly understandable if people do not follow this very sensible advice, also for the reason you describe.

Yeah its so annoying. Like basically the only reason I use it is for dropship products I want. Because most of the time they are just taken from temu and added a zero to the end

@qweqwe9678 certainly true over the past 2 decades. In their bid to compete with cheap labor overseas they decided to also make cheap crap to stay afloat

Unfortunately "American Made" just means overpriced and not much better quality, but the hypocrisy is real.

@@Jalreal generally the reason for higher cost is pretty obvious, that being required to pay American wages/benefits

@@Lem0nsquidYet the finished product is not better at all in quality. It’s not bad it just isn’t justified in the steep price when the quality is about the same.

@@ericktellez7632 right because they spend so much on their employees that they cut corners on the product

Exactly, even if you buy from a normal retail store, it's all coming from the same cheap labour -- just at hiked up prices!

Um no it isn't. We produce far more than we used to in the United states. Less manufacturing but far more efficient. Stuff we produce would never be able to compete with temu. Period. The reason they can make stuff so cheap is polluting the crap out of stuff from factories with no controls or regulations and cheap child and slave labor.

@Techfanatic73 no idea how things are in the USA. Here in Aus, very little is manufactured on our soil. Even etsy sellers who hand make stuff get the base supplies from places like Ali express. Truly tailored stuff is very rare. Even so, where do the supplies they use come from? Where do the craft supply stores get their stuff? Reality bites.

Here are few advices US/Canada can flip this over ... (I once wrote 300 points document to management how they can improve yield of said amz warehouse) .. .(!) stop making warehouses labour only seeking ppl.. it cause same management from them to rise up and take monkey decisions ... (2) most warehouses here are laid out un-optimally, unnecessary space allocated for indoor pit vehicles instead battery pallet jacks ... because the minds who designed layout for opening of new warehouse were same... (3) labour laws dept dont visit the sits often leaving hardworker at mercy of deliberate backdoored systems to let blue-eyed slip and others trap in performance points despite they were highest .performers (4) since labour at these sites know its abusive env they fear even going to court (very very few do) but the real deal is the courts here should mandate that warehouse to display apology on info boards around the warehouse and how it will do best not to repeat it again.. right now out of court settlements causes the person to take meager amount and shutup/ban from discussing the matter... this in the name of both sides privacy etc is making the warehouses hell for knowledgeable labour specially coming from abroad to shine here before it leaves for better job... they are crushed for shining at work. (5) these things are causing giants here to open useless new warehouses instead optimizing reach of existing ones to broader areas.. u can see same corporate's airport size warehouses every 10-kms (should be 30 to 50+) wasting real-state, efficiency and few hardworking labour on mercy of higher count dodger labour and their puppeteering management... i can keep going on but US/Canadian govt can reach me out for how to fix that .. we can do better than all these temus, alibabas etc ... its our home turf for Crist sake!

Wouldnt be without the spending and taxes the gov has implemented. Indireftly funding communism.

I think the evil part is that they likely use slave labour to make the products. However, that’s pretty much what every big company does except Temu just costs less so… I don’t see how it’s different from any of the other companies 💀

Maybe you havent noticed the uyghur slavery issue. But lets be honest , western politicians dont care about muslims , they are just upset about the success of their adversary. My honest opinion , plz dont buy this crap and take care of the environment and also your pocket

Exactly, this video is too us-biased.

you are so right.

This is an unfortunate byproduct

That's why Temu rocks and USA sucks. Are we supposed to act shocked? 😂

Wanna bet?

yes the US subsidizes mail from china through the Universal Postal Union as china is considered a developing country

Saving money by not employing very many people, and then do lots of ads so people see how cheap it is, and then also be cheap so that people buy more. It's just advertising, they're not being evil in that regard

def get boosted by the chinese gov to increase exports and undermine markets

ALL the dark shit. Counterfeiting, slave labour etc, heck even the shipping is subsidised by postage users in the whole world as for some reason China is still a “developing country”. Once you build aircraft carriers you are not a developing country...

​@@virginia3421Yeah, in the end, consumers are to blame for this shit.

They cut out the middle man, most of your products are already from China/Indonesia/India, but you pay a dstributor 600% the original cost to get it from the local store. That is why temu is so cheap

lmao

You feel safe flying in a $200 jet? ✈️ 😂

​@@wunderfullNo! Not without my $3 parachute...

@@KingCharlesThe1stLV😂

Lol new slogan, same company/idea. Anyone remember when “Wish” was the hottest app for cheap stuff?

And then pocket the money made and bail once the ship starts sinking, rinse and repeat.

Lol this is not the Chinese business model, this is just a business model. If you don't think American companies don't do this shit too you are sadly mistaken. The difference being that we outsource the slave labor to Bangladesh or Vietnam and put a nice brand name on it. Happens with H&M, Zara and any other clothing company you can imagine. Hell, Nestle is rated the worst company in the world in terms of employee treatment.

​@@alexandervillar7742but the Bangladeshi slaves make clothes that last and are good....so not the same?

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@raptorhacker599 most of that shit is cheap trash too.

You're lucky, i felt sometimes like i'm in George Orwells 1984.

Keep him secret, keep him safe!

Bro's going to get the whistleblower treatment😬

Good to know, we can't lose him!

Dudes who always cry about certain countries often are sad and suicidal though.

Hopefully h0ser never makes a video on boeing

Good.

Walmart kicked off the entire race to the bottom. There is no such thing as ethical consumption in a capitalist society.

no, not really, they're actually very different.

@@fox156 really? Enlighten us. Besides one is owned by American one is by Chinese.

@@fox156They backdoor stuff from China, Vietnam, and Bangladesh anyways

Exactly, Americans acts like they’re saints…😂

Hopefully your prices can get higher soon like you wish.

@@tritium1998 I don't wish anything from TEMU because I couldn't care less about the company. What an oxymoronic thing to say

How did you convince her? I have been trying to convince my mom too but she doesn’t care

@@AAants she just made a single order for us then I told her how TEMU is, how they're cheap bootlegs. She only bought me these flat fanny packs, and these tiny backpacks.

Some those items u found them in Walmart and dollars general store

Incredible deals if you know how to assess the quality

Good work mate 👍

yep buy decoration stuff at 500% more... no

what = that*

They also sell shoes and other essential items

contradictory

directions unclear; i just spent $749 on TEMU

4:47

I rolled back to see if what I seen was what I had thought I seen. Kind of funny ya

Billionaires don’t shop for things, they have people shop for them. Like Bill Gates thought $10 worth of toilet paper cost $40.

Thing is I'm not going to pretend the stuff we get anywhere else isn t also made by child slaves. Just more separated from it.

I guess it’s made by homeless people since I don’t see any on the streets

Billionaires don‘t buy this garbage. They buy the companies that make this garbage if people are dumb enough to fall for the ads.

Temu is my go-to. I buy a bunch of cheap shit off there. Do I care about exploiting the Uygher slave labor? Fuck no. Give me my cheap shit.

Especially if its chinese

I am just used to all companies being shady, scummy, greedy, and questionable

@@kevinle1083big elitist corporations *

big elitist corporation *

Sweatshops and slave labor aren't the same though. One set of workers can go home at the end of the day. Bangladesh is not a worker's paradise but I'd rather by clothes from there than from the place actively rounding up Uighurs to reeducate them

Amazon is pretty much owned by China man

Agreed, TEMU is not the only culprit

Or Ebay

The whole video is about how temu is different from Amazon

​@@sebastianschweigert7117 Temu is worse, but that doesn't make Amazon good, just the lesser evil.

What? You fr?

@@YaBoyfelipe yes. I knew people were stupid but not THAT stupid

@@In.the.mood.2what’s stupid from buying the same stuff on amazon but way cheaper

@@wussrestbrook1200the video literally says you don’t actually know where your money is going when you use temu

​@@In.the.mood.2 I think he was talking from the investors (shareholders) point of view. I mean, lots of people are not sure where their tax money goes. In some countries it just "disappears".

Don't forget States Street 007

LOL!

OY VEY

For me, hands down EA is the worst company by far

BR & VG is the same thing 😂😂😂

People really saying "let them eat cake" 🤮 future politician

One of the first ads for temu i saw was offering an xbox series x for $20. That's all i needed to write off the company as a scam.

Been buying off them for approx 12 months from here in Australia.Zero issue so yeah I have no issues but each to their own

I got a switch oled for $108 so not always

​@@somekindaguy100Lmao brokie

Exactly! And they get them from China! Same Americans and westerners who wanna talk about ethicalities are buying stuff from American companies or European companies with merchandises that came from child labor and sweatshops including the maker of this video cuz Around 90% of stuff the west buys and use are made in China. But Temu is made the villain for not having a middleman (American site) to sell you pretty much the same products made from the same country for 10000% more to make the middleman richer.

10000% lol

Exactly, I see it all the time. The exact items, you know they bought from Temu 😂

@@unsocialbutterfly5760 everything from amazon is just drop shipping from china lol, its crazy how we could just buy directly now for cheaper

So you think your average scalper is more evil or even comparatively evil to a Chinese corp using slave labor. GOTCHA 👌🏼

I looked it over and I got a lot of negative vibes. I worked in construction and I've learned you can't buy cheap tools. The same when choosing my guitars. Though I seek antiques before buying anything produced today. I learned removing it from my apps is the right thing to do. You don't need to download it anymore.

I am so sick and tired of getting their ads it's ridiculous

who tf gets ads

because you're "rich enough". there are people who are much more poorer, and we should get used to these things being more common you can try to ban it, it'll get around, other company will get around it'll be the norm

@@dewinmoonlLet’s go send all the poor people to work in the Chinese factories for like 1 cent an hour for 3 years and then when they come back see if they still feel the same about buying from unethical companies

@@dewinmoonl I disagree, you have to be over a certain wealth to be able to afford to throw away and totally waste money on cheap crap you know will break down or you will only use once. Those of us who are actually seriously struggling can't afford to waste money on manufactured landfill when we can barely put food on the table.

@@Jackpkmn ah i see, this makes sense. so the target audience is those who have "some, but not a lot" of disposable income

@@Jackpkmn the stuff that temu makes is like almost the same quality as bigger brands but just way cheaper. So many people will sacrifise a little bit of quality for 90% off. Including me but I feel like clothes steps over the line a bit

Different experiences I guess

Efficiency and flexibility are competing interests. Short of changing technologies entirely (like switching from snail mail to email) you'd always trade low per-unit costs for versatility and vice versa, and last time I checked we haven't invented mass teleportation yet.

@@doujinflip my conclusion is. we should standardize more things in shipping so that important things like this arent left up to the insanity of the market

Even worse than that! The US ports are now so old and inefficient that the largest ships don't dock in the US now. They off load in Third World countries.

Put some thought into your comments. Do you really think that your order is packed. Put on a boat. Traveling half way around the globe. Unloaded. Sorted. Put on a train or truck. Delivered near to your home. Then delivered to you in 15 days? I don't think so. So there usually are no ships involved in shipping unless already in the warehouse in US. But article says there are no warehouses involved.

@@frankorosz901 its a video about factory to consumer shipping. the factories are on another continent. we aren't talking about amazon warehouses

The long-term solution to all this is to get people to _stop buying crap they don't need._ Consumerist culture is killing our planet.

You're right, we shouldn't use any of them. but that means NOT trying to fill the black hole at the center of our being by accumulating worthless garbage while everyone around us does exactly the same. Good luck kids. We don't stand a chance as long as we keep living the way we do. Balls deep in the rising tide of self destruction.

Temu has way better marketing

No it’s worse, and Amazon and eBay have had to lower quality to keep up with Temu.

Aliexpress quality > Temu.

He said shoes for twenty dollars and all I could thin of is "I can go to ross right now and get shoes for that price"

@@sharrpshooter1 I was thinking i could buy shoes in Lidl for 15 euros (or 7 euros cause last time they were half price)

bro got reps

😂😂😂

Hence this video 😂

They know what you like 😄😂😄

eyup, haven't seen em but that sounds realistic

Caked up? That expression is new to me. I looked up the term on urban dictionary but I'm still confused. Are you trying to say that the photographs are plagiarized, that the models have large posteriors, or that the models wear excessive makeup?

@@SanchoPanza-wg5xfexcessive makeup

@@SanchoPanza-wg5xf Excessive makeup being the usual jargon/slang for "caked up" like how people associate cakes in general as having a lot of fluff like icing, sprinkles, decorations, etc. that covers a lot of the actual cake itself which is sometimes smaller and less/unimpressive by comparison.

I just bought a solid wood table that’s sold on major sites for 100 bucks less. In this economy, why would I pay more on other sites?

@allan339 still, same stuff as sold on every other site.

Dumbbbbbbb

@@msovaz77 Looks like TEMU got their bots to work. Or you are just someone who is satisfied with the lowest quality products in existence

@allan339 correction, solid "wood" lol

Damn I got one

yeah i did

Surprisingly not yet

i keep getting them on twitter worst thing is that i cant get rid of them unlike normal adverts (edit) i was gonna make a rant about shein on youtube ads instead and a few minutes in oh look what comes up!

I got nought.

Sad but true. I remember shopping for Christmas there when my kids were young. 😊

Jokes make me chuckle too! I just chuckle and move on though. I don't feel the need to reiterate the joke for likes on the internet

I still have memories of walking those halls looking @ action figures, board games, and bikes. But the most memorable thing is why I stopped going. It was having to stand in 2 lines to get videogames. One to pay for the game and another to get the game... When games for less made a business out of being in the same parking lot. Combine that with the digital revolution, I no longer wanted toys. I had also graduated to real bikes instead of the crap lining their halls. I still remember 2 isles of bikes stacked 3-4 bikes high up to what seemed beyond fire code! Even REI can't get that bike crazy and they have them hanging from the ceiling...

Regarding their ads, I'm pretty sure billionaires don't "shop". They probably have people who do that for them.

Report it for terrorism

@@railworksamerica but then how am I supposed to get my free prizes

They a sponsor free publicity for temu

@@snackpack7636 go to their factory and steal them

There are plenty of excellent products from Temu. Anderson connectors cost $8.00 at a local store like Home Depot and $1.80 at Temu. Eight months later, they are still carrying 50 amps. Over six months ago, I got a reversing camera for the car and saved $50. I have ordered another one for the other car. Delivery is fast as promised, and if they don't deliver at the promised time, I get a $5 refund-and it has happened, even though the difference was only one and a half days. No gasoline or time was wasted going to the store, and they consistently supply tracking reports. I have not downloaded the app, as that would be a dumb thing to do.

So do you shop on Amazon instead. Many of the items on Amazon are made in China. You can often find the exact same items on Temu at 1/3 to 1/2 the price.

@@LucidDreamer54321 Temu costs less and offers faster service without the deceptive tactic of slipping Prime onto your order. The $5 refund is a bit of marketing/promo and did not influence my purchase. I order via a PC and only recommend installing apps on your phone if they are self-serving or essential. Something in the commercial for free costs someone, and they will naturally recover their investment. That does not always mean sinister motives.

Many MANY good deals and quality from temu.....and some of it ships from the USA. Great mini guitar pedals for under $23.....braided waffle iron style guitar cables, 5 meter, for under $12.. They're mad because we can finally get what we want for little money.

@@nymsmacgregor7232 Aye, laddy! Macgregor and McCue know how to $ave money to $hovel into our Mc$porran$.

They built the app to be addictive. It is basicaly lootboxes for irl crap instead of digital crap. They are going for people who are easily addicted to these sort of things. The quality of the items rarely matter for most people. They pay for the thrill of the purchase experience.

That depends on what your goal is. You want super cheap goods? Sure, np. You want high quality goods, but not pay more than on TEMU for their super cheap alternatives? Yeah, magic isn't real... Buying (in EU anyway) forces sellers to guarantee that the goods can last for minimum 2 years. That naturly means better quality, but also a significantly high need for capital. That's one thing TEMU and their like don't need to comply with. Can you get high quality cheap on export sites. YES! Unlike what haters say, but you need to know the market, know brands, check everything before you order (and i mean everything), in other words, it can be extremely hard

Idk i bought a bunch of iems and audio stuff on temu, that otherwise would be expensive, an example would be KZ and CCA that have official stores on temu

@aydeniswise4081 Hmm...so getting decent products at very low prices is "shady"? LOL! Typical American brainwashing. Americans just aren't happy if they aren't being cheated every day by government and their billionaire owners, LOL!

not everything on shein is like that since theres shops inside shein. but over all i guess you could say that

actually they are very good...its weird u had those experiences...but yeah...

actually, they know they are losing money on sale prices, the owner has admitted it is an under-cutting-cut to the other competitors (like Amazon did at first, like Walmart did at first) - they consider the money 'lost' to the sale prices, as the same as money 'lost' to spending on advertising - all to 'hurt' the competition (take customers away, take sales they would have bought away)... it is a "it is not that i must succeed but others must fail, as long as others are failing then i am succeeding" approach

All companies are shady. Amazon gets their stuff from the same places as the Temu

Once a guy at school asked me to install the app so he'd get the discount (I said no btw). He wasn't in my class, I barely knew him.

​@@bazookaman1353noo he seems very nice and broke guy

My mom is obsessesed by it

I do. My aunt uses Temu, but mainly to buy cheap clothes.

Can't lie I bought some good clothes and gadgets off it

What is especially disgusting is the monster app they created by mixing all the dopamine-hacking techniques together: loot boxes, cheap consumable products, time pressure - it's like TikTok but with the added bonus of slavery and physical waste.

agreed, as a Chinese person I always laugh when people say western companies are "doing shady stuff behind the scenes". it's child's play compared to stuff we got here like Temu and Tiktok

@@orangecitrus8056what’s tiktok doing?

@@Fr3nchFlag for real

Well spotted! Now onto the next one, Nestle!