Why Temu is a NIGHTMARE 

And I absolutely get that. I understand that it probably really would cost them $150 to replace the zipper on my coat. That doesn't change the fact that the coat itself cost about that much and that if I'm going to spend $150, it may as well be on a new coat.

​@@leifmeadows3782 Can't argue with that, but that's why if you're just going to buy a new coat, you go and buy a new coat. You don't go to a local tailor and criticize their repair prices, as if they are supposed to donate their time to salvage your garment. (I'm reminded of "ending is better than mending" from Brave New World). Option 3 is learn to replace the zipper yourself. Obviously we don't have the time to master every skill and do everything for ourselves, but it pays to be handy in as many ways as possible. Thankfully there is sort of a "maker movement", a lot of interest in DIY and "upcycling" etc., but we can always use more.

Say what, it doesn't even have to be a sweatshop... In China they tend to have whole regions devoted to one industry. All the suppliers, all the skilled labor is just next to you. And then there's economy of scale as they don't produce 1000 shirts - it's 300,000 minimum (and if you get a low price it probably means your design is good enough and it'll be cloned and they'll make 3,000,000 shirts and sell it to everyone before you get your first shipment). Economy of scale and tight integration of everything work miracles, y'know! Source: 20+ years in China, 16 of those in manufacturing.

They look like they bought twenty cent pants, if it's any consolation. Tailoring won't save those clothes. Thank goodness I still have a lot of good vintage stuff. And I can sew. But I will definitely use a tailor for anything heavy or difficult like jeans.

this is why I take into account tailoring prices if I'm trying something on that I like that doesn't fit me as well as I'd like it to -- because technically that accounts for the total cost of the piece. if I try something on that already costs $150 and it doesn't fit as well as it should then it's just not worth it to get it tailored lmao

Same here. 😂 I downloaded the Temu ad after Black Friday last year and ordered some kitchen ware and other cheap shoes, and it was so cheap. But then I kept getting multiple notifications from my app everyday for the next six months, which became rather annoying.

Me too lol

Yep, same...

I got a Temu ad going into this video 😂

Same.

This is exactly accurate. Made me think of a Lucy Siegle quote: “Fast fashion is not free. Someone, somewhere is paying the price.”

@@velichor Who cares? i don't Lmao

@@xXVibrantSnowXx people who have enough self reflection not to be egoist I guess

Cool 😃👍. As long as its not me

What about rtechnology and automation? On average, Mercedes makes one car per employee per month. Which implies they could (in theory) sell one car for an avg monthly German salary.Which is lower that $5000. So they could dump Mercedes cars at avg price of $5000 w/o screwing anyone working there.

Check your calendar, it's Feb 2024

@@michelle.uncensored Hey, I have at least until March to keep making this mistake.

@@michelle.uncensored my brain is still stuck in 2022

almost the same for me the only other time i heard about it was one person saying it sucks

@@sealeo5772 lol, I feel that.

One step forward two steps back :\\\

It's more than fashion. And fast fashion isn't bad. Obviously majority of people aren't as delusional as yall.

@@xaviersmith5154 How is fast fashion not bad? It's bad for the environment as it leads to overconsumerism and bad materials, it's bad for the workers who get paid less, it's bad for the buyers who get low quality items that don't last and thus become more expensive on the long run. Every single one loses, except the investors in the company.

agreed, plus I'm sure the plastics used in most of the temu kitchen ware products are gonna give everyone cancer

@@xaviersmith5154 "fast fashion isn't bad"? who's the delusional one here?

That's actually so so sad 🤦‍♂

Your upset you have a job? Stfu and find something actually worth complaining about.

And the other ⅔ is Amazon

We all know that some amazon productos are the same as the temu ones because they come from china. Amazon sellers just increases their prices.

so they are providing you, or those in your close vicinity, a secure job. that's a good thing. fewer packages means fewer package warehouse employees. if my job was to manage packages, i would give thanks for all of them i see. that's just my outlook. you are free to look at a situation from any angle you please.

Good that you have never clicked on their website and that is your democratic choice. I also have a democratic choice and I like TEMU.

I don't cluck on their shady site either. They've stolen photos from many of my artist friends. They are a scammer company! Still, I am constantly bombarded by them even though I report them daily.

@@TheBioniXman lmao you are brainwashed

How on earth!

Dam it should’ve been me

Just a digital book? So she didn't apologise and actually replace the product with a rectified equivalent or provide a refund? A digital book doesn't cost anything to copy so it's a cost-effective way of making people feel good, I guess. Shows how much the apology is worth!

@WiggaMachiavelli What she's saying is that it wasn't the authors fault. This would be a case where the author had uploaded the book using Amazon's Print on Demand system, and the books are only printed when they're ordered by a customer. But Amazon messed up on the printing and either had files get combined somehow, or pages from different books get combined. Either way, there's no way an author would intensionally do this as they'd have their account shut down in no time, which would be an expensive waste of their time.

You should have sued

Honestly if you’re a small creator who’s not making any money and you are a sponsorship deal come in, it’s very easy to just accept since you don’t get many

Yeah, the company's pretty awful all around. Of course we'd never work with a brand like this because our entire ethos is based around critical thinking and researching before you buy, but a lot of other creators might not even know what they're selling to their audience. We're just glad to contribute to the conversation surrounding this!

Being honest though, products and services that are sponsored through RU-vidrs really aren't worth being bought or used. I'm sure you heard enough about Lootcrate to know you don't want one or about Raid: Shadow Legends to not play it.

@@daveisdead I totallyy understand that. it's actually the larger creators I'm disappointed in, who have their own released products and books and such. but I hope they will eventually realise the truth about TEMU and Shein etc. and stop purchasing and promoting them in future. and I hope they get other better sponsors

I was really disappointed when I saw Ann Reardon (How to Cook That) promote Temu. She has to know how bad Temu is for the environment and how poorly their workers are treated. I guess the money was worth more than that to her. :(

You did the right choice, proud of you!

Maybe the right choice - you still missed out on a lot of money and that seems to be everything we care about today as a society.

Made the right choice, Another thing is to ask yourself where that money truly came from, It's suspicious if they offered so much with the amount of sponsorships they do.

The right choice is rarely ever the easy one to make, but I'm sure your audience will have a greater appreciation for your considerations I'm what to promote to them and trust you more for it down the line. Having a base audience that trusts you is much more profitable down the line than one quick buck would.

In*

Capitalism yeyy

​@@roxylius7550Get a job commie

I totally understand what your saying ❤

Facebook marketplace lol

exactly, keep buying from temu and keep ur costs low. why worry about the environment or others? after all, ur only on earth for 80 yrs

🤫 shhh.... don't give THE MAN that idea. Right now temu is all my broke ** can afford 😩please just give me 2 more years of Temu....they make me feel like a thousandaire lol.

I used to shop on Amazon all the time, and now it's been years since I purchased anything from it. I haven't gone anywhere near Temu for the same reasons. I'm glad videos like this exist.

+1

They should that site is just as gilty as this site is as was ebay thir no saints.

@@squakers9950you haven’t said why you stopped at least using Amazon for certain things.

I don’t get how he brings up “unbridled consumerism” then tries to protect the major companies that sell ‘luxury’ items for insane prices from discount sites?? I mean c’mon.

This has to be the best way I've heard Temu described and it's the truth

TEMU feels like "online looting".

You're right. It's addictive.

Tbh that sounds fun

It does feel like a casino 🎰

Holy smokes!

Yep, I bought some shoes from a "growing local business" with their own website that always wanted reviews, replied personally, said they designed a new color/type of shoe for the first time... Basically watching it expand from the ground up as they got more popular. Then I found the same shoes, with more colors, on Temu! For a fraction of the price! And it had been there for years before this "local made" business started! I felt so scammed since I overpaid for the shoes thinking I'm supporting a business, when it was just shipped from China and had their logo added!

I have seen these too! I buy a lot of craft supplies on Temu and have seen the same stuff on Amazon, local craft stores, and online retailers for MUCH MUCH more

Capitalism yeyyy

@@roxylius7550 More like Socialism. They can be so cheap, because the US government subsidies the transportation, so it is almost free for Chinese businesses to send around the world to the US. Meanwhile small businesses are overtaxed, over-regulated and have to pay minimum wages this Chinese businesses don't have to pay, but imports are not taxed to compensate this.

Honestly, its this and the same company's totally taking over local markets I used to love going to my local Christmas market, there would always be really interesting and unique things at reasonable prices (considering they were hand made) but as of about 6 years ago all the supposedly "hand made" items are just junk from alibaba Completely stopped going when I bought some jewellery from a "local craftsman" who claimed he made it all himself from our local jet... and then 3 days later on the other side of the country I found a totally different guy selling the EXACT same jewellery. Stopped using etsy for the same reason, It's mostly just alibaba crap resold at a premium price

I watched my mother struggle with the downfall of craft-fairs for many years before she was able to pivot into a pretty successful Ebay store that sold custom bottle-caps. Hardly an original idea, but it was pre-etsy days and she used a disgustingly pungent brand of resin to seal pictures onto them in a way few of her contemporary competitors could compete with. It's been many years since she quit and still hates looking at the boxes of spares we allow just about anyone to pick through for free. I've come to learn the crafting world is just a glittery version of life's darkness.

thank goodness you didn't have to deal with smash and grabbers!

How rude that someone would say that at a market 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

I had something similar, used to work in a small computer store about 15 years ago. We didn't have the buying power of a large company so our prices were admittedly higher than online. But one thing we never budged on was laptop power supplies, we insisted on getting the genuine articles because of the amount of untrustworthy fakes. Once a customer complained that the power supply was too expensive and she could get one online somewhere for half the price. Which she did, only for her to come back in to us a couple of weeks later because the cheap knockoff she bought blew up!

Let's hope Temu is part of that 90%.

@@MoriMementa Yes, for the sake of the planet I hope so. Problem is that if it happens, another player flush with VC money will step in and keep the garbage faucet running.

That's the strategy of most big companies (that have a siginificant tech department) nowadays. Get capital, burn money, flood the market, get consumers addicted and kick smaller players out, then once they have a monopoly raise prices and profit. (Either that or fail in the process)

@@MoriMementaI’m also hoping Target, Amazon, Walmart are part of that 90% as well.

@@jayg473 I wish Disney was near those 90% but end still in a state to be broken up into the dozens of already big firms it absorbed over the years. [Serious look up what firms they own and where they hold shares it is unbelievable and to me unethical.]

Explain.

@@OdinTheTall they make their delivery drivers wee in bottles because they are not allowed wee breaks

@@LaPrincesa.DelHielo Thank you. But you can say "piss". It's fine.

@@OdinTheTall you shouldn't swear!

@@LaPrincesa.DelHielo You should try it. It's liberating.

Amazon IS cheap chinese products too though. Just overpriced ones.

Exact same products on Amazon and Temu. From the same damn factory in China. Temu just 1/3 of the price but with 2-3 week shipping instead of 1-2 day shipping.

So you shouldn’t use the coupon?

@@zero1188 if you don't need to. let's say you have a 50% coupon at IKEA, a more reputable store (and a very generous coupon). You don't currently need to buy anything, no closet, no chair. You don't need anything, but the coupon entices you to go buy something. Yes, you may have saved X $, but you still go and buy something from the company, in turn, they make money. This is how coupons work, especially if it has an expiry date on it. They make you feel like you are missing out on money if you DON'T buy something from them, when in actuality the companies are the ones benefitting from them most. If however you were already looking for an IKEA bed and you happen to get a coupon, that's fair game. The companies take this into account and have to balance the "enticing-ness" (leading to more sales) and the loss of money through purchases with coupons. I hope I explained that in a clear way.. I'm not the best at it...

@@zero1188 meaning JUST because it’s cheap, you don’t need to buy it😊 Per-this videos point👍🏼

I've never heard that saying, but I like it. My mental trick is when I see "save 50%", I revert that in my mind as "I'm spending 50% more than I planned". (except in rare cases when I needed something)

My sister will absolutely be mad at you if you say that She's like the most easy target to get fucking scammed or something Any voucher or coupon given to her will be used

😂😢

average boomer behavior

@a_r_a_i_z_a I worked for a family that was fairly wealthy and the husband would order cheap stuff every day from Amazon and others. I call it "the Christmas mentality" of needing the fix of getting a box in the mail to open every day. I think there are a lot of people like your mom in the world.

Your mom needs to pull up the sizing information since the sizes are Asian.

My mom has bought many things, including clothes and shoes and has never had issues with things fitting. Idk if people don't know how to pick stuff, but there's actually great deals on there.

Exactly the reason why I don’t buy online at all.

That's why I refuse to clothes shop online. But unfortunately, most stores closed their dressing rooms during covid and never reopened them.

You dint think that retail items don't arrive in plastic? Not only plastic but also tissue paper. And it all gets thrown away.

@@honestytoafault they weren't saying that stuff doesn't arrive in plastic - we all know it does, but it's thinking about how much plastic gets thrown away needlessly as a result of buying/returning stuff from companies like Temu. Most people just don't stop to think about that, they only see what they're getting/sending and it really doesn't seem like much when it's only your stuff you're dealing with.

@@susanlee7079 buying online cuts out the middleman. If you buy something at Walmart, it comes from a US warehouse and that comes from a warehouse in China which comes from the manufacturer. On Temu you buy it directly from the factory that makes it, it goes to a port in China then customs in the US, then the domestic postal system and then your house. There’s no need for the product to sit in American warehouses then American retail stores.

Same with Shein. I swear to god 25% of ads I get on RU-vid are Shein ads

I had a colleague once who played world of tanks. This idiot was so happy to play that game after shifts and in his weekends. He has a wife and a daughter, I pity them both. 60+ and still doing manual labor.

at least no one actually play raid

I have gotten many good items half the price of amazon from Temu. No regrets.

I wonder if it would be like Hero Wars, which seems like a sketchier version of Raid: Shadow Legends

Yeah, I'm bombarded too! After many MANY times clicking on stop seeing this ad and kept seeing it anyway I stopped caring because it just seems impossible to get rid of it

yours went away?! lol!

install an adblocker then lmfao imagine actually letting ads exist.

I thought I was done with those ads but then I got one on this video...

​@@SPZ-gv2on Highly, _highly_ recommend getting an ad blocker. RU-vid tries blocking them, but ad blocker devs are powered by spite and move faster than they can. Ublock Origin is fantastic on browsers and incredibly simple to install, and on mobile there's RU-vid Revanced (which can be a bit more complicated, but there are lots of tutorials available)

Makes me really glad that book prices in my country are fixed, so Amazon was not able to push all the small bookstores out of business.

Pepe, the book industry died when I could download your entire supply on a portable device.

The fuck, dude, the book industry is dead. You can download your entire countries book supply onto a SD card now.@@jochenklausberger9076

@@jochenklausberger9076 just get e-books at that point, completely kill off price fixed paper.

@@420......... Not everyone wants to read on a tablet. Plenty of us still enjoy books.

Companies like Temu will always exist to exploit naive people. It's quite sad that they have been able to get millions of teenagers to become an incessant advertising tool. Especially as this will only serve to harm friendships, as people get sick of constantly being used by their peers in the hope of getting a deal that was clearly too good to be true from the outset.

happened at my school too

😉Nothing new! ebay DID IT, amazon DID IT, wish does it, aliexpress and Alibaba does it. Temu is just on a trend right now and of course it does the same 'lure in' tactics to sign up....

You're not too far off by comparing it to a lottery/pyramid scheme hybrid. When I was sent the invitation link, it led me to a set of digital reels that spun to show I had won the top prize of 3 free gifts if I invited 3 or so more friends. The most insidious part of all this is that I'm pretty certain that the reel "spin" is just a animation for show and you will always get 3 free items but it preys upon combining the percieved good luck with a timed window to pressure you into inviting as many people as you can to win your prizes.

My friend asked me to join temu for that reason, and it was so difficult to turn her down, but I didn't want to sign up for something with doubtful intentions

Why does a raincoat have lead in it??

Aliexpress is about as trustworthy as amazon, it's a marketplace so anyone can sell dangerous goods but they are pretty good at dealing with this stuff. It really brought Chinese warehouses a way to sell to western consumers.

@@gossamera4665 If I had to guess, probably unchecked contamination.

@@gossamera4665 Lead paint and varnish made it into pvc.

@@kelmanl4 I don't trust either of them. Aliexpress started as a doods, overproduction and bad business leftovers websites from alibaba. Basically alibaba was the place were the good deals with wholesale were made and whatever didn't sell, had quality issues or misspelled, made its way to aliexpress to liquidate in smaller quantities.

China is just bareky above north Korea in terms of human rights.

You think the kids digging up the Cobalt for your iPhone or Tesla are doing better than PDD employees? Think again. Capitalism is built on exploitation.

and consumer/employee greed drives it

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That's why they had a new factory built for better working environment?

But this is the closest thing to Amazon that we can have here, and to be honest I don't feel bad about ordering from temu. The same things from the mall but really on a different price and many many times it is the only place where you can find something. All the companies use sweat shops - designed in Sweden, produced in Cambodia...

​@medina__anidemGood for you. Me, neither. Not from Wish, not from Temu, and not Shein nor any new companies that will come out in the future.

100% agree for most things. but for niche things e.g. I needed a buff to protect me from sunburn - $50 in a chain store or $2 from temu. Otherwise I despise the philosophy of consumerism it promotes. I wish there were more small businesses for staple items e.g. bakeries, bookshops, butchers, vege markets etc rather than chain stores that remove all character from small towns and cities

@@greg1439 I am not sure what the answer is but I hate to see our small stores disappear.

Your small village is a gem. Keep supporting each other. Good for all of you.

You slow in the head 😂 how do you have trouble shopping on Temu

@@omens3403 I said exactly how I had trouble. I didn't care about searching for just anything. I saw one thing in an ad that interested me, because I didn't know what it was. So I clicked on it to see what it was, only it didn't take me to the listing, it took me to the home page. And because I didn't know what it was I was looking for, I couldn't search to find it. It made me mad, so I left and never went back. And now I'm glad I never went back.

I place one order on temu when it was new and this simply didn't ring true to my experience. There was a make up case I'd been looking for for over a year, everywhere I found it online it was simply too expensive for me (almost £100 for a plastic case) I even asked my local Chinese store that gets direct shipments from China if they could find it to no avail. I found it on Temu for £30. It was the exact one, it came, the quality was completely fine, the plastic wasn't wrapped or damaged in any way and I've had it since with no issues. I expect it to last at least 5 years.

@@scarlettdamante4945 Oh yes. I've made two orders from Temu. They sell the exact same items on Temu as they do in many amazon fronts for much cheaper. It's just I don't really think 2$ for a hairclip is 'super insane cheap' like a lot of people seem to indicate. I worded it in a round about way, but I don't think Temu is horrible if you shop mindfully and/or can't afford more expensive 'ethical' alternatives (or you don't have time to spend 4 hours researching everything you buy)

It can be disappointing sometimes, no different than amazon but im surprisingly impressed way more than disappointed

You are aware that Amazon sells the same shit from China but with 100% price increase, right? RIGHT?

And they're even like half the price of dollar store items! What scares me, is that when CBC Marketplace did an investigation into Amazon, they found a lot of lead beyond safe levels, and with Temu being worse in pretty much every way, I can't imagine their stuff being safe from such toxins. Especially with makeup/skincare and toys, I can't trust anything that cheap to be safe.

We didn't even know it was a thing until earlier this year and now we're just hoping it stops being a thing soon 😅😩

Honestly I couldn't care less. Everything is 3x more expensive than it should be, equal amounts of exploitation, my labor is undervalued, and I'm left worse for wear. So I don't much care as long as the stuff I get from temu actually works. Just like 75% of Americans I'm too poor to be so haughty with my morals.

@@AnonsTreasures 👏

@@AnonsTreasures The Leftist take on it all is that there is no ethical consumption under capitalism. Look at influencers who tell you something is unethical -- their alternatives are also unethical 100% guaranteed. "Temu exploits workers!" yeah no shit, welcome to capitalism. Videos like this missing the point are frustrating.

@@DuridPid Frankly my problem is how un-utilitarian most are when they approach "social change" if that is really the goal half the time. People will do what is practical and most beneficial (generally in the short term). This is even more exacerbated now because of the tough times we've found ourselves in. Ethical consumption in any respect isn't on the minds of those who don't have the money to even feed themselves. It's cool if you can do it and it makes you feel good, but frankly most of that stuff is as diminished of a return as you can get. Just let me buy my cheap chinese garbage that I could buy equally as exploited for 5x the price but instead I'm giving my money to poor ol' Jeffery Bezos.

Just billionnaires usually don't buy cheap knockoff... their edge, at most, is second hand. Still better than those cheap knock-offs.

@@D.von.N The meaning behind it is that thanks to the knockoffs you can have similar products as a billionaire because you can afford the knockoffs. But it's a valid point - rich people don't buy crap they don't need, it's only poor people who do that, which is one of the main reasons why they are poor...

The only place to get truly well made items built to last these days is the luxury watch industry lol. Everything else has been sent straight to the bottom courtesy of the economic conditions. If you make quality items for reasonable prices what happens now is you just go out of business shortly after.

@@Berkeloid0 LMAO "rich people dont buy crap they dont need" yeah bc the rich REALLY need multiple mansions/properties, luxury cars, yatchs, private jets, vacations, drivers, chefs, maids etc. tell me youre a simp for rich people without telling me. poor people spending is bad but foh if you think rich people are these frugal gurus that only waste money on necessities. if you really think wealth gap is an issues that can be solved if the poor just "stopped buying crap they dont need" then congrats youre smooth brained .

You are over-simplifying. The reason that rich people have multiple properties is because they are doing business in multiple locations around the World and spend maybe a month or two in each location and (for them at least) it's cheaper to buy a property and set it up the way they want it than to stay in a hotel. As for the private jets, with all the travelling they do the same principle applies. Flying these days is apparently not the luxury experience it used to be even if you do travel first class. Employing chefs, maids, etc also makes sense if they are hosting clients at home for business meetings. @@glamglam8347

Even better: just avoid all companies.

you're on youtube, google is a company@@Tendomcgoobin

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Even better: just avoid everyone

I have this rule about advertising in general. When do I actually buy anything that they try to sell me? Never. And the brands that I actually respect don't need to advertise, because quality speaks for itself. So if I see your ad, I avoid your brand.

im not sure if i'm right but i heard that even if u return clothing it doesnt go back to the shop's storeroom, but simply goes to trash and thats awful.

resell them

for some ppl its the opposite, i get anxiety and nausea when im on those sites, which is why i never spent a dollar on them.

@@victor.i Just like 98% of amazon returns tho, and it is heavily documented.

@@sirzebra amazon is not a fast fashion brand like shein

wish there were more people like you. unfortunately, the vast majority of people won't stop to think about their actions and are easily manipulated. i don't think even being made vaguely aware about the consequences of their choices is enough to stop them. a race to the bottom.

I couldn’t agree more.

Amazon is easily avoidable, I don't make excuses to shop there.

@@larrylobster9896If youtube comments are anything to go by, most people do not even care about others, or the state of the world that they live and breed on.

@@larrylobster9896Sadly, there’s also the group who are aware but believe it is the govt’s job and not theirs to change behavior

I find Amazon amazingly easy to navigate! It saves me time, money, gas and waste..

@@justjosie8963 But most of the stuff they peddle is trash.

@@justjosie8963 I also agree that it's easy to navigate, but you have to do detective work to find out whether the shop selling a product is Chinese or not. Sometimes the writing style gives them up, at other times you have to look where the product is shipped from, and some of the times even if you look at the storefront of that shop it's very difficult to ascertain. But when you see an identical item being offered at more or less the same price by a dozen different shops, you can bet where it comes from.

exactly, at least for some items, Amazon is simply way more expensive than Temu (random fitget toy for example). It is not like Amazon version has better quality or anything.

amazon is much nicer than this lol. you get some quality items! i have a coat my mom bought from there for me and its still good. a normal coat, unlike a coat you'd buy from that site..

Excellent point!

wrong, people want to have stuff for the lowest price possible, no matter the consequences!

But you’re not coming out ahead. It’s cheaply made garbage whose shipping costs are subsidized (via an international postal treaty) with your tax dollars.

How about $24 dollar middling quality silicone phone case made by Chinese adult labor?

@@VitalVampyr Now that’s what I call a must-buy product

Awww spot the racist,@@toastedclubsandwich

As someone who works on the retail returning end of amazon, temu, etc., I have gotten to see the explosion of people with this invented addiction of online shopping and subsequent returning because people are buying way more than they can return. And as time goes on each company makes the process more confusing to prevent those addicted people from making the return. And most people involved in the return process are ripped off through this process with no choice. At my specific store, about 80% of our traffic and time is amazon returns that we make no money from, because the corporate overlords brokered the deal with amazon and receive all the profit.

personal responsibility

Low price is good price 👍 So what ya talking about ?

@@TassieJake A low price isn't always a good price if you're getting crap quality, or the people who make the items are treated like slaves. Would it be a "good price" if your company sold it's products or services at 1/10th the price it currently does, and paid you $8 a day?

I'm the same way and I got my mom a while ago to even stop buying me any brand clothing or anything at all. I have enough and I don't need anything that isn't 100% my style and comfortable. To give an example, I have about 20 pairs of boxers that are Fruit of the Loom and all the exact same, and I love them because they are really comfortable. I threw out all my other underwear that were from different brands because most of them were through presents and I hated wearing most of them on days I had to before laundry day. The same goes for my socks and my jeans

I do. I want to hand over my information to china i dont care. But I do not shop on temu.

Pretty much every company who operates online will take your data. Google is notorious for this and we are watching videos on RU-vid, which is owned by Google. They may sell your data to a data broker. Things like your phone number, or which websites you visit. But I've not heard of them take your bank information and sell it (as shown in the video). Point is, USA companies are no better than Chinese ones when it comes to taking and sharing your data. It's just the laws and restrictions in China are more relaxed when it comes to online privacy. Even if you are ok with your data being shared about, you will get emails from these basement bargain online retailers until the end of time. I made the mistake of making a Wish account a few years ago and they bombard your inbox like nothing else. Luckily it was on a spam email address (I recommend having one email address dedicated for spam for this reason) and most modern email clients have built in spam filters which detect marketing emails like Wish sends out. But still, I wouldn't recommend going anywhere near Temu or the like.

@@bearmugs1408 I'm aware & even worse, I've worked in retail a long time so I've been complicit in helping companies gather that info. Companies nearly hold you hostage to hand it over or you lose our on sale prices, points or rewards, sometimes you can't even access their site. I haven't been able to look at Targets website for awhile because I won't answer their questions & even my long standing Pinterest account won't let me in now unless I give them my date of birth. Sorry, not their business. It's been years since I gave Every Plate a try & didn't like it but they sometimes still send me multiple emails in one day. I've become that person in line who keeps shaking their head no through the whole sales pitch & if a website wants too much info before I can proceed I simply won't order from them. It isn't much & it does make my life more difficult but I do try to keep my business my business.

I'm a senior living on Canada Pension. yer darn right I shop at Temu and Walmart. Since I only discovered Temu recently, I've only placed one order. Almost every item in it it was something I had been looking at elsewhere at higher prices. None of it was unnecessary stuff bought just cause it's on a flash sale. I'm 70, fer Chrissake! I can resist high pressure sales tactics. I assume right from the start that Temu was underselling in order to buy into the market - same way Amazon did. And Japan before them. In my youth, "Made in Japan" was a synonym for cheap crap, which Japan mass produced to make up in volume what was lacking in quality. That's how they turned into the Asian Tiger and look at them now. By the time Temu has turned into the next Amazon, there'l be another Temu; and, I'll be buying from them. Oh, and everything I've got from Temu has been worth the price paid.

I don't have a lot of money, but I would still shop at Walmart over Temu.

This seems to be a lady thing. As a man i have never bought clothes online.

​@@Lobonova Gonna disagree with that. Dunno where you live, but I've gotten sick of wasting my time going to the high street where the mens clothes have dwindled to about 25% of what's being sold, and all look the same. And whenever I go there aren't many dudes shopping, with the exception of teenagers in urban sportswear shops. From everything I see men must be shopping at the high street even less than women these days.

Especially plus size. Target has an awesome dress I was given but it’s not available in store because they stopped carrying plus size altogether where I live.

@@Lobonova I've started buying jeans online because as a man that is 5 foot 6 inches tall my local stores don't carry inseams under 30 inches.

@@Lobonova tshirts, medium, that's it.. don't look at anything else hahahah

Damn, great job on deleting your Temu account. Consumerism is out of control! Appreciate someone going against it at least a little bit 👏

It usually only takes ten days lol. You have a short memory lol.

I was JUUUST introduced to Temu last week and I ordered stuff three times in two day now waiting for my order. Heard they were shady and now I’m worried, but as soon as I get my orders I am going to delete my account, haven’t downloaded the app though 😣

@@lissaToday5787 I haven’t had any problems with them and I’ve done 27 orders now of multiple things. The transactions are secure and I’ve been happy with most everything so far. One exception is the women’s plus size clothing. The fit is a bit weird for me. But my husband loves the men’s line. Just letting you know from someone who actually uses Temu

Watch the arte documentary about prison workers in china that are forced to work for companies such as temu

It is not only in America, here in Europe it is also spreading. Temu bags hanging in bushes. After the chinese gave us a virus, they now dump their rubbish here lol

so your argument is capitalism is wrong because it gives you a job? makes you wonder for sure.

@@bradbrad6521 how the f*** do you get capitalism is wrong from what I said? I didn't say s*** about capitalism. I was talking about the amount of trash going into a hole in the ground. You're just trying to pick a fight. I hope you find some peace Brad Brad.

Can't you improve landfills somehow instead of covering trash with dirt? Isn't there better ways to deal with garbage for the environment? This can surely be something to research and invest in, since it's harder to fight all the quick cash cheap item companies.

@@jessy1982 Probably but that's a huge question that I'm sure has been answered by now. So likely like most issues in the U.S. , it comes down to money.

Just goes to show that American Companies like Google are just as much on board with that as the chinese companies like Temu. If Google would be responsible and not air Temu ads, the whole model wouldn't work. But they are not responsible. They are capitalistic. If it makes money it's right. Temu struck me as shady - to say the least - the moment I first saw an ad for it. I'm shocked how people don't see that.

It's honestly pretty disheartening to see their meteoric rise when they're so obviously awful

Because they Chinese companies? You have same feeling against FTX?

@anubizz3 it’s not that they’re Chinese, it’s the human rights and labor rights, among other things

@@djsaidez271 really you don't seems to really care when you buy fast fashion in zara, h&m and other? How about buys stuff made from. A country that actually kill millions of people base on fake WMD to justify invading other countries?

Society will - that's just inevitable.

The solution to your simple: Just unplug ALL the gadgets in your life connected to the internet of things. If you can't, quit complaining ! 😅😅😅

@@anjunadeep.8384 that's not a viable solution, because even if you do that, you'll still be affected by other people

@@frantaspacek That's nonsense and a lame excuse, if one want to live a not affected by others one could easily lead a life in the solitude of the mountains... 😅

@@anjunadeep.8384 what are you even talking about? I'm saying that you can complain about something because even if you personally have nothing to do with it, it can still affect you. I never wrote about living in mountains and don't know where you got that from. Maybe people want to live in a society but think that others being abused for cheap trash is not okay.

Bought a bunch of cheap stuff from them, works just fine. I even went to compare them with those on Amazon. Guess what, same pic and the same detail but is more expensive on Amazon. Turns out Amazon sellers are mostly from China selling the same things on Amazon. Well, unless you are the upper of the upper middle class (on the +2 sigma side of the normal distribution graph), I earn 6 figures in NYC and I still can't live as nice as my parents back in the 90s. They were blue-collar workers. I tell you what does not feel right, the current state of this world. My generation and the following generations will continue to suffer. Who cares right? It's a dog-eat-dog world now. Those people that created this mess are probably gone or will soon be leaving this world.

@@spika5872 You are the people who created this mess, since you are the consumerist people buying tons of sh*t on amazon. Makes you feel better to blame others though doesn't it... while you do everything just as bad, or worse than they did.

Prices on Temu is actually still higher than that in China. It's just the stuff in US and other "developed" countries are too expensive.

For real

Like TikTok. They are manipulating people to go out and steal cars.

If it’s too good to be true, IT IS!

Amazon is basically the same thing but with another middle man. They sell the same products. All the graphics and ad copies are the same.

So Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX not?

Absolutely! When I recently started getting into sewing and found out just how expensive fabric is, I finally understood why I was always given second hand clothes or hand-me-downs as a kid. My parents were very picky about what they bought me to wear, and never got me cheap thing from big shops or online cause they wanted it to last! If its lasted long enough to be resold, it'll last a long time! After that I became a lot more careful about the clothes I buy. And I've had the exact same wardrobe for a few years now, and the clothes still look good! I didnt skimp out or fall for fast fashion so these graphic tee shirts that are closing in on five years still look just as good as the day I bought them! Much better than cheap polyester shirts I've tried getting in the past.

Someone who sews and has an invader zim profile picture

Yes. This is exactly my own experience. I made a similar comment upthread, but you explained it better. I knit and crochet more often than sewing (though I can sew). Like you, I know exactly how much a quality item costs in both time and effort. I try to support my local yarn shops ("lys" in Ravelry forums), and when I can afford it, the local spinners & dyers they source some of their best product from. Most of my crafts cost around $100 (au) in materials alone. If I buy the locally spun/dyed materials, $200 to $300. On a cost per wear basis, that's damn cheap. And it keeps me entertained for months. But noone who doesn't craft would be willing to buy these things even at materials price.

It's the marketing machine. You'd click through a lot of pages on google before you saw the secondhand options with low quality pictures. Primacy effect is very real.

I love shopping second hand stores even garage sales. Most of my clothing furniture and many household items are second hand finds. Many good quality items for a great price. I actually think it's more fun and satisfying. I know there is a lot of people like me that feel the same too bad that doesn't catch on as fast. Have never bought from or even looked thru apps like Temu, Wish, Shein and the rest.

same! i go to my local flea markets often, they're very common where i live so im definitely more fortunate than some when it comes to great finds @@zsigzsag

Thank you for saying this! There are only two second hand shops in my city and they are very small (one of them only had like 20 items last time I went) but I'm definitely going to buy from them instead of fast fashion companies. If I can't find something I need, I'll even try to sew it myself

I had literally never heard of an online secondhand store until this comment. I'll have to look into that

It's the more shady version of Amazon

I wonder how much the women are paid paid, there are thousands of images of their hands, feet, torsos, faces with countless products.

I have never, ever seen a TEMU ad on RU-vid or Facebook, not that I’m on Facebook very often, but I’m on RU-vid a lot and never seen an ad.

All the best gifts are experiences; a comedy show, concert, play, trip, cooking lesson, dinner, etc. Good _things_ to gift people are those items that enhance stuff they already love to do such as new goggles or gloves for a skier, a new multitool for a mountain biker, new sneakers for a runner, a new pan or utensils for a home cook. Consumables, like a kit to make cookies, are also fun and less expensive and create an opportunity for a new experience (like baking the cookies with one's loved one).

@@stradricOur family gifts typically consist of travel and other experiences ... they're far more fun than crap that builds up on a shelf or in a room. We also make a photo book each year of the family's adventures so we can look at PRINTED copies of photos instead of reaching for devices.

Right?? Everyone is so focused on the bad markets and not to go near them and NEVER show you a good place to get deals and quality products. Almost like they want to cash in on the hot topic 🤔repeating the same lines, I was able to predict this entire video.

local farmer's markets / craft fairs are great for this kind of stuff! also etsy has been getting worse ( for sellers too, speaking from personal experience 😭) but is still decent for finding small businesses and artisans in your area ( you can filter by location )

For me I just literally ask what genre the person wants that year and find them those lol Like if someone asked me, my genre would be that I want plushies. Don't get too specific so it's still a surprise, but you also guarantee the person would appreciate it.

They’ll also get the quality they pay for. Good riddance

QUALITY MATTERS. I love clothes when I know what I am paying for. Never bought clothes online because of size problems.

True but you know what, it's their loss. I'm sure your clothes are amazing and Shein's clothes have been scientificly proven to be toxic to the skin and health, they get what they pay for. It's too bad clothes designers and workshop workers have to suffer because of this and the planet and animals too

you CAN compete. theyre lying to you to try and get you to lower your prices. they'll never find something of a high quality off temu. keep doing what you're doing.

​@@vsr3777 Says India has far fewer sweatshops nowadays. Describes how everyone there still works in sweatshop conditions. Can you please make up your mind.

...and so what? Im not seeing a reason to not use them.

it is a discount merchandise online store which currently it loses an average of $30 per order. this is like playing you $30 per order for you to shop with them,

I used TEMU a few times and never had any issue with it.

I've spent hundreds on it and only have good things to say 💪💪

​@@happyjohn1656 So you are ok with support sweat shops with terrible work conditions and absolutely horrible pay?

Nah these mfs in the replies are not real 💀

@@stooglesgoogles7246 in buy nothing groups, the members offer items for free. They post pictures of the item, and say when they’re going choose a recipient. People can also ask for items to have or borrow. We see a lot of this around Halloween. Buying or trading items is not allowed. As far as I know, all the groups work thru Facebook.

I don't really know any people to so it with but do you guys do like a group yard sale meet up or list things online and do local pickup?

@@anny8720 Hi anny - check out the links below.

@@stooglesgoogles7246 look up Freecycle you should find a group near you, maybe not by that name, but it was one of the first and most widely spread series of groups in the US and UK, maybe elsewhere too, but the name is synonymous with passing free useful items along. We gave away our bread machine that way, I prefer making bread the proper way, it's much nicer to eat, so we passed it on lol. Also see if there's a Repair Cafe near you too. Those are brilliant. When the pandemic started, One of my monitors went on the blink, but I could not get a replacement for love nor money due to the lockdowns (UK) forcing office workers to work from home. Well, I did some research on my monitor, found out what was the problem, accepted that I couldn't to the fix myself, so when the first lockdown lifted, I booked a slot and ordered the parts. Then the the next lockdown was called, but they squeezed me in before it went into force, which was awesome. The electrician was impressed that I'd done my homework and had the transistors or capacitors or whatever ready to replace and did there and then, he said that quite often, if they don't have the spares, people have to go away and come back with the parts. I'd already had about 15years out of this top of the line monitor, but I'm pretty sure it's time has come, at the ripe old age of 20something. I really hit the jackpot with it, but once we get the money together to replace it, I'll donate it to the repair cafe for spares, it's the screen that's going now, not the circuits, so it will probably be cheaper to replace now, and they can get some use out of what's still viable fixing things for others.

​@@stooglesgoogles7246it's like a community give-away thing. You just post up stuff you don't need and someone in your community asks for it. They're usually on Facebook and pretty common here on the east coast.

Similar thing for me with model trains. I can buy rare collectables that were made in brass in the 1970s, 60s and even 50s.

love this! There's so much more value and character to be found at antique stores and second hand flea markets... :)

This just shows stuff in the modern times are being made worse than decades ago.

just call em a slur