Temu Shoppers

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I figure Temu shoppers are entirely without scruples and/or common sense. Same with TikTok users. No one should be letting Chinese companies into their lives like that.

But I'm sure you have no issues shopping from Amazon. When I see plenty of the same Temu products sold on Amazon for a huge markup. But it's okay if it's amazon, right?

Is Amazon Chinese-owned?

What difference does it make when the majority of items they sell are Chinese made and therefore supporting Chinese companies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I assume Temu is just like Shein -- trash from China.

What brands are you buying that aren't made in China? Take a long look at the shoes in your closet, the jackets, pants etc. You are deluding yourself.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I haven’t purchased anything from Temu, but I do reverse google image searches when shopping a lot and find the exact same images on Amazon and Temu (Temu being a fraction of the price). Doesn’t that mean they are being produced in the same Chinese facilities? What makes Amazon so much more acceptable? (Legitimately asking)

I don’t actually find Amazon much more acceptable (don’t shop there either) but reasons people might feel it’s marginally less reprehensible imo are:

- some of the warehouse workers are unionized — although very few and this doesn’t affect the people making the products

- if you buy Amazon or other American brands there is a fairly good chance the product you’re buying is likely to be made to American industrial standards (eg no more likely to poison you than anything else, some sop to at least the appearance of human rights in the supply chain, etc) — but if you’re buying some random garbage brand on Amazon they don’t check or enforce *anything* so yeah it’s likely the exact same thing as on Temu

- you data is being harvested and fed into complex behavioural models by American capitalists (who will likely sell the data to whoever pays them) as opposed to Chinese communists (who will give the data to their government) — to me, this is much of a muchness but some people might feel more comfortable with one or the other

Mostly agree, except nothing made in China has any industrial standards. Anyone who believes otherwise is simply naive. Most Americans have no actual experience with Communist regimes and how they control just about every detail. The Chinese Communist Regime has exactly zero concern for foreign industry standards or for the massive toxic waste getting dumped into the environment. every. single. second. Zero.

I agree with you but let's not be silly. China makes most of our prescription drugs now. India has joined the party. We should have been railing against this decades ago.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Dem who has never and will never buy from Temu

Ah but I bet you will buy stuff from Amazon. no wait, you are going to tell me that Amazon is awful and you recently cancelled Prime.

People who say they don't buy from Temu or Shein but eagerly buy from Amazon as if that is somehow better. Where do you think the sellers on Amazon get the stuff from?
If you can purchase the same thing on Temu or Shein for less, than the Amazon seller bought there and is selling to you at a higher price.

Many of the brands just sell directly on all three platforms now.

Also many of those small business and independent online "boutiques" are simply selling the same stuff just with higher markup

I don’t buy from any of those places. I go to target to buy stuff made in china, the higher prices include quality control made by target engineers. They deserve to be paid 🤷‍♀️

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone break down the differences between them and why is everyone talking about Temu and not the others.

Doesn't Amazon have the same sellers?

Yes Amazon has the same sellers.

But do they give the CCP access to all your data the way temu does?

You're giving the same info away to big businesses that include Chinese companies when you buy most anything in this country. Do people really not realize how intertwined their lives are with China?

Also a good practice is to never download an app for any product you buy. There are some situations where you have to but in most cases you don't need to. You have little control over the info they are gathering from your phones. Don't use apps.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Dem who has never and will never buy from Temu

Ah but I bet you will buy stuff from Amazon. no wait, you are going to tell me that Amazon is awful and you recently cancelled Prime.

People who say they don't buy from Temu or Shein but eagerly buy from Amazon as if that is somehow better. Where do you think the sellers on Amazon get the stuff from?
If you can purchase the same thing on Temu or Shein for less, than the Amazon seller bought there and is selling to you at a higher price.

Many of the brands just sell directly on all three platforms now.

Also many of those small business and independent online "boutiques" are simply selling the same stuff just with higher markup

I don’t buy from any of those places. I go to target to buy stuff made in china, the higher prices include quality control made by target engineers. They deserve to be paid 🤷‍♀️

[Anonymous]

Doesn't anyone realize that what we are discussing here is at the heart of what has caused the massive political divide in this country?

When American manufacturers moved the production of goods to other countries (China, Mexico etc) a distinct portion of our population lost jobs. Those people often did not have college degrees. People could maintain a reasonable standard of living by working in manufacturing jobs in this country.

The promise of Nafta was that it would elevate those countries that took over production of goods thus making the world safer. Has it? We also were promised that the people in the heartland who lost their jobs would be reeducated and find better jobs. We all know that that didn't happen. Who makes up most of the Republican party now? Unfortunately they don't see how that party doesn't do anything to help them.

We abandoned those people and the data clearly shows how poorly that demographic group has faired. We are paying for it now and we are going to continue to pay for it.

We are doing nothing to make college more accessible - it's quite the opposite and the divide between the haves and the have nots grows. If you're in the former group don't rest easy because we are all going to pay for abandoning the latter.

For all of you railing about Temu, Amazon etc stop being silly and address the real issue here. It's unconscionable not to care about what we did to this country.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Doesn't anyone realize that what we are discussing here is at the heart of what has caused the massive political divide in this country?

When American manufacturers moved the production of goods to other countries (China, Mexico etc) a distinct portion of our population lost jobs. Those people often did not have college degrees. People could maintain a reasonable standard of living by working in manufacturing jobs in this country.

The promise of Nafta was that it would elevate those countries that took over production of goods thus making the world safer. Has it? We also were promised that the people in the heartland who lost their jobs would be reeducated and find better jobs. We all know that that didn't happen. Who makes up most of the Republican party now? Unfortunately they don't see how that party doesn't do anything to help them.

We abandoned those people and the data clearly shows how poorly that demographic group has faired. We are paying for it now and we are going to continue to pay for it.

We are doing nothing to make college more accessible - it's quite the opposite and the divide between the haves and the have nots grows. If you're in the former group don't rest easy because we are all going to pay for abandoning the latter.

For all of you railing about Temu, Amazon etc stop being silly and address the real issue here. It's unconscionable not to care about what we did to this country.

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This is very savvy. I say that as a Republican.

But you can't expect them to just come back to you. You lost their trust and you have to earn it back. They don't come to Republicans for the same things -- they've always been more like us socially, and since you've lied to them about helping, they stop voting on that issue even when you say you will this time. Why SHOULD they believe you? Fool me once....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Doesn't anyone realize that what we are discussing here is at the heart of what has caused the massive political divide in this country?

When American manufacturers moved the production of goods to other countries (China, Mexico etc) a distinct portion of our population lost jobs. Those people often did not have college degrees. People could maintain a reasonable standard of living by working in manufacturing jobs in this country.

The promise of Nafta was that it would elevate those countries that took over production of goods thus making the world safer. Has it? We also were promised that the people in the heartland who lost their jobs would be reeducated and find better jobs. We all know that that didn't happen. Who makes up most of the Republican party now? Unfortunately they don't see how that party doesn't do anything to help them.

We abandoned those people and the data clearly shows how poorly that demographic group has faired. We are paying for it now and we are going to continue to pay for it.

We are doing nothing to make college more accessible - it's quite the opposite and the divide between the haves and the have nots grows. If you're in the former group don't rest easy because we are all going to pay for abandoning the latter.

For all of you railing about Temu, Amazon etc stop being silly and address the real issue here. It's unconscionable not to care about what we did to this country.

.

This is very savvy. I say that as a Republican.

But you can't expect them to just come back to you. You lost their trust and you have to earn it back. They don't come to Republicans for the same things -- they've always been more like us socially, and since you've lied to them about helping, they stop voting on that issue even when you say you will this time. Why SHOULD they believe you? Fool me once....

Because the Republicans are doing absolutely nothing for them other than encouraging and misdirecting their anger. You take advantage of their rage and aim it in the wrong direction. Everyone of us, both sides are at fault for abandoning them.

For me this isn't just a battle over souls for the political parties. The lack of jobs meant people lost everything including medical care. No one in a country with such wealth should lack medical care.

It's all tied together and no one cares. What a waste of time playing superiority games regarding who shops where when all of this is due to decisions made that benefitted only the wealthy people in this country. Nafta caused the loss of jobs for a certain demographic but brought us cheaper prices for goods that the other demographic enjoyed.

It's sad.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I figure Temu shoppers are entirely without scruples and/or common sense. Same with TikTok users. No one should be letting Chinese companies into their lives like that.

This response is just dumb. If you have any electronic products or prescription drugs in your home you have let Chinese companies into your life. You clearly are clueless about the number of grocery items in your home that were made in China.

You are clueless.

Is our made-in-slavelabor-China food required to be accordingly labeled?

[Anonymous]

I shop at Xiemu

https://youtu.be/MKTN2OiR2R8?si=iLttTxRrhHdVikRQ