Action, meet Consequences

  • SeeingRed [he/him]
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    19 days ago

    I appreciate the line that states most of their business is not affected because Europe and the middle east still buy a lot of stuff. America realizing they don’t matter anymore is fun to watch.

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    19 days ago

    everything is still normal up here in canada lol

  • Lussy [any, hy/hym]@hexbear.net
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    19 days ago

    Listen, I respect Chinese manufacturing and their products, but I have literally the lowest opinion of Temu. That place is garbage. I’d buy something from there if the site didn’t behave like a scam

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      19 days ago

      What about it is scam-like behavior to you? I’m not real familiar with it myself.

      I just know from what people said in this thread, it sounds like some of the products can be low quality, some high quality, kind of a mixed bag: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/7336237

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        19 days ago

        The games employ a lot of scammy dark patterns and rapidly, drastically diminishing returns to convince you to make ten purchases when you could have reasonably expected two would get you a free item. The game rules and terms of service basically amount to “Temu reserves the right to change everything for any reason at any time”.

        There’s also a lot of misguiding listings where there’s no option to buy everything in the picture. The products themselves are usually decent, but the way they sell them is absolutely disgusting.

    • Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml
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      19 days ago

      The pop up fake gifts are annoying, but something I’m willing to tolerate to pay less than half for the exact same products I find on Amazon or at retail stores.

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      17 days ago

      Aside from their scammy games Temu just sells you the same things other major online retailers do but cutting out the warehousing middle man.

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      19 days ago

      I’ve never used it, so i can’t say. But i know it is popular and a lot of people relied on it.