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

Why don't the Chinese respect copyright? What's their problem?

I completely avoid sites like this & Shein. As someone who buys a lot of physical media, wouldn't touch anything that comes out of China or Russia. King of the fakes.

Cheap dopamine hits.

The poor at it again I see

we can save this planet by killing them all

I could walk into any phone shop in the nearest towns to get a phone case - spend €15 on it

Or buy the exact same one for €4.50, along with some other things that are marked way up in local shops but have the exact same factory sources, delivered, for free - in about 10 days

That's why I bought from them, and would buy again from there

Loads of crap on the site, but there's also a lot of the exact same stuff you see in Irish shops, but cheaper.

Selling that nasty cheap shite and complete tat as you call it has taken them from 5.8 million customers in the US in October 2022 to 104.2 million US customers in April 2023 Bob.

Obviously your opinion isn't shared by too many.

God no way would I consider buying from any of them wouldn't even download their apps to have a look.

Who in God's name wants to support that sh$te?

It encourages people to buy that and badly made crap that just ends up dumped.

I don't like being taken for a busride by some Irish/local manufacturers or shops but buying only went absolutely necessary and shopping around a bit works for me.

Have to agree with all the negative comments. All this low quality disposable tat is horrific waste.

That you can buy the same tat in Dublin more expensive doesn't make it better.

You have to ask why do they make phones that are as slippery as a bar of soap and/or fragile materials like glass. All of it uneconomical to repair.

One daft thing after another.

What makes it worse is Amazon is now full of the same stuff. Full of fake reviews and impossible to find anything decent.

That is becoming less true. Amazon is going back to not delivering to Ireland for a lot of things.

Why is nobody addressing the elephant in the room and calling out the real culprits here?

Back in my day, there was never this cheap unreliable tat. Back then, all these Chinese 4 and 5 year olds know how to make stuff that lasted. We've seen a massive decline in standards. Why can't the Chinese do something simple like bring the previous generation back in to supervise the news ones? That previous generation would be teenagers now and well able to enforce better standards on today's lazy replacements.

Kids are just getting away with too much these days.

Yes there is lots of tat, but prices are crazily cheap compared to retail. I bought Christmas lights which were $27 in the local retailer (big box store) for $3.49 same thing as I was replacing some of the ones from last year.

no app download needed, it took time to deliver but still saved a lot of money.

sure children need jobs too, it builds character!

I love Shein. Got so many great bits of it. It's actually very high quality clothes from it so I have no problem buying off it.

Fat fingers from too much Western food. It's Trumps plan to bring manufacturing back to the USA

Here, did you know there’s a thread in the “Current Affairs” forum where people have a go at Elon Musk?

$972 million is a lot of money to pay in tax over 4 years in anyones language Bob. An awful lot of money. Almost a million bucks a day if he worked 5 days a week. Then if you add up how much his 1.3 million employees pay in taxes both directly and indiretly you might realize the world needs people of the calibre of Mr. Bezos and companies like Temu.

You need to look at the bigger picture Bob, if you've got 1.3 million employees there's bound to be a few who are uncouth and choose to urinate into bottles. Also if you don't get rid of the lazy ones that can't meet the targets it's just a recipe for disaster.

There are plenty of small Irish businesses that treat their employees worse than Mr. Bezo.

Don't hate the players Bob, hate the game.

Jeff Bezos is a modern day robber baron.

It's not true to say that you have to install the app to make a purchase. They do push the app very hard, but you can make purchases through the browser, just like any most sites.

And it's a waste whether bought from China or a shop down the road.

Idiots will buy crap.

Ahh c'mon now pixelburp you're trying to make a mountain out of a molehill, 3 drivers out of 275,000 drivers that Amazon employ alledge they have been forced to urinate in bottles.

If Amazon are such a tough company to work for why don't the unhappy workers leave and find a job somewhere else? It's not like they are slaves, they work for Amazon by choice.

I had major surgery 2 years ago and upon waking up from it I made a silly purchase online that under normal circumstances I would not have

So I conclude that these tatty retailers and their advertising techniques work on the vulnerable

I'd never heard of temu until this post. My social circles would only shop in high class establishments such as Barbour.

Because we're all very wealthy.