Temu and other sites selling tat - what’s the point?

SouthWesterly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121532098#Comment_121532098

There is strict legislation for professional drivers in the EU.

whisky_galore

Because it's race to the bottom Capitalism baby, that's why.

Filling up landfills with tat that will still be there in millions of years to come because teeny boppers and middle aged mums needed a dopamine hit.

BrianD3

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121532717#Comment_121532717

Amazon delivery vans are generally Cat B vehicles i.e. can be driven with a car licence. They don't have tacographs and CPC is not required.

Thelonious Monk

It's awful, even thinking about all the crap sites like Temu and Ali Baba distribute around the world that no one really needs gives me existential dread.

I wish everyone was as woke as me and limited how much stuff they buy as much as they can, even at Christmas.

MrMusician18

Well I for one love the likes of AliExpress particularly. My hobby is electronics and building my own circuits but I was absolutely sick of being absolutely fleeced by local suppliers, or local suppliers locking out non-trade customers. €10 for pennies parts was the norm.

Yes, there's lots of useless **** on these sites, but no one is forced to buy any of it. Someone posted a tap cover, but that's no more useless than the one you'd pick up in a hardware shop. The only difference is that you won't have much change out of €20 for one got here.

pixelburp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121532711#Comment_121532711

Ok; you say you're not blaming the poor, then basically say it's a still choice to stay poor, that hard work automatically lifts you out of poverty - therefore, if they're still poor it's their fault. Lazy, in effect cos I guess they should work harder? Like there couldn't be a dozen economic and social factors locking people into a cycle. Sometimes yes, the blame lies on external factors if you're running just to stay still and the deck's stacked against you. Maybe take a look at the "boot's theory" as a first stop.

Thankfully in Ireland we don't demonise the poor to the extent America or, latterly, the UK likes to do. The poor should work harder, the sick should not fall ill. I'm glad Bezos worked his way to success, but one swallow doesn't mean a summer. I don't think he's inhumane, i didn't say that.

Getting off topic TBH and not interested in yet another distraction from a user trying to put the Poor's problems at their own feet for not trying hard enough - it's gross, reductive and inhumane. Can agree to disagree.

Deebles McBeebles

Has anyone else spotted the Temu employee in the thread?

Kat1170

The shills are really, really trying hard in this thread.

Nigzcurran

They sell cheap tin foil hats on it if your in the market!

T-Maxx

All shops sell tat, anybody noticed what time of the year it is? However - and that seems to be the issue that many on here fails to grasp - just because a shop sells tat it doesn't mean everything they sell are tat.

Capt'n Midnight

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121530762#Comment_121530762

I'd love if I only had to pay annual taxes of a quarter of a thirteenth of what I made in a single day.

https://time.com/5869262/jeff-bezos-13-billion/

Also he paid no tax in 2007 and 2011.

Here in Ireland USC in 8% on higher incomes.

Rows Grower

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121532801#Comment_121532801

You seem determined to misinterpet what I wrote and then exaggerate your misinterpetations for some reason.

I've got some small errands I must run for friends so I'll leave you to your faux outrage, wish you a Happy Christmas and hope Santa will bring you a lovely lifelong lasting locally made present.

Potential-Monke

I don't use those cheap sites. If something seems too cheap, there's usually a reason. Some of these things are being sold for less that it would cost to make them properly, so how can they be good value? Something, somewhere has to be sacrified to get that price. I also don't use Amazon if at all possible, and if I do have to use it I'll use Amazon.de, as much as Bezos seems to think I am part of the UK and pushing me to use it. That's actually my main reason for not using Amazon, it's insistence that Ireland is still tied to the UK. Go to Amazon.ie and you get redirected to .co.uk because.... I'd love if someone could change Amazon.com to redirect to Amazon.ca and see how they like it!

Ironic that while reading and posting in this thread, Boards has ads for Temu all over it.

OrangeBadger

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121528966#Comment_121528966

Lol this lad believes sh1t that comes out of China

AndrewJRenko

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121532962#Comment_121532962

Do Temu HAVE actual employees in Ireland?

NewbridgeIR

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121552460#Comment_121552460

Amazon.de charge for shipping or do you have German Prime?

I occasionally use .de if something is significantly cheaper. I find that UK is best. They deal with the VAT properly (a lot of UK retailers don't) and as I have Prime, no shipping charges and deliveries 7 days a week.

Potential-Monke

Nearly anything I've got on .de was free shipping iirc, but I rarely buy anything on Amazon so maybe I've just been lucky. I do have a Prime Video account, not sure if that includes the delivery.

dxhound2005

Programme on BBC Radio 4 about how stuff is being built not to last, Planned Obsolescence. But near the end the very important topic of Psychological Obsolescence is mentioned. Where people get new stuff even though the old stuff is still working.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001tqj9

JP Liz V1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121530546#Comment_121530546

I agree

cj maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121529349#Comment_121529349

Have you bought any of these , I’ve bought the ear buds which work perfectly and I’ll be buying more when it I reach€10