Except I respect raccoons more than Temu sellers
It’s because it’s a data stealing company. They require 24 different types of permissions, including keylogging, biometrics (your fingerprint), your wifi network, your Bluetooth, photos, contact info and it saves your payment details, just by using the app. It also was recently flagged for malware. You’re getting a good price because you’re paying for it in a different way
It’s also just stuff from Alibaba. It’s all made in China, which has gotten really cheap. You can buy the same things on AliExpress without giving out all your contacts and everything.
Basically you are seeing how stores in the US buy their merchandise. It’s extremely cheap, and they are marking it up at least 100%. Shirts and pants are like $3 to $10, maybe a little more for good quality. Places like Target and Walmart buy these and double or triple the price.
It’s also just stuff from Alibaba. It’s all made in China, which has gotten really cheap
I feel the same about Amazon. Most listings are just US based resellers selling you cheap Chinese merchandise bought from Alibaba and then passing the costs onto the customer by inflating the price they resell it at.
It’s literally just drop shipping
Don’t run any inventory. Just take orders on a front-end website. Then buy at wholesale rates and resell at retail prices, while trying to make a margin based on the difference between the margin and the cost of advertising. It works great if you’re able to get a bunch of free publicity. So you’ll typically see these guys “networking” in hopes of doing an impromptu sales pitch in front the largest crowd possible. Or doing stunts to get literally anyone to look at them.
Amazon is a multi-trillion dollar industry that’s functionally built on the idea of drop shipping. Jeff Bezos is just the richest incarnation of those insufferable frat-bros trying to sell you bitcoin.
Just to be clear on the biometrics, no normal device anyone uses sends your biometrics to apps secured by biometrics.
It’s more that your phone stores a very strong password that’s specific to that app, and your phone will automatically enter that password, but only if the phone can validate the biometric.
This is not meant to detract from anything else you said, just clearing up how that actually works.
It’s not just a data-stealing company, they also exploit tariff exemptions on shipments from China by shipping single orders that stay below the sales amount threshold rather than large shipments of products imported for resale. Using this sales technique they can undercut their competion, while also being even worse ecologically. They’ve also dumped a ton of money into marketing
I wish it was always this simple, as a poor person if I could sell my data to pay for food or rent I would
OK, great. I occasionally order at AliExpress and was kind of tempted to try Temu, because of the hype. WIll skip it then.
Yup, a lot of my cosplay/fashion designer friends have had their work stolen and they can’t do anything because it’s international and they can’t afford an attorney with their small business income.
Those cat paw socks, Danielle Baloo at Toe Beanies created them, several years ago and in the process of getting a patent, they were copied by Alibaba sellers. She was denied her Kickstarter campaign for drop-shipping, and had to fight for months, proving she was the original designer. Screw people who steal designs. She worked her ass off and they’re selling her work with cheap foam that’s not safe for human skin… I constantly report them.
By raccoons do you mean Uyighur slaves held by the CCP?
Yes, definitely ignore the 572 cited sources on the wikipedia article; it’s all totally just one guy.
So apparently the municipal history of Quebec has the article with the most unique citations at 1761.
Technically, “2023 deaths in the United States” has more but I’d consider that a list article.
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When I have time, I will actually go through those one by one, but MANY news outlets actually go in circles, if you follow the trail you either end up with dead links or an RFA article
The biggest info dump in the whole case, if you remember, was the supposed police files leak, and that contained both images of famous Chinese actors (who weren’t Uyghur btw) and AI-generated images, so sorry if I’m not on board with the latest Falun Gong propaganda leaflets
You are intentionally trying to spread extremely harmful and false ideas. You’re trying to cover for atrocities. You’re either misguided, or a bad person.
I’m called misguided by someone deep into State Dept cool aid. 20 years ago, libs said the same shit about Iraq and it’s WMDs and y’all pretended like you were on the right side of history back then. It’s just nowadays that you admit to your mistakes. Same with CIA funding jihadi groups…
Yeah, believe whatever the fuck you want, I live in the actual other side of the planet, your opinions won’t scratch my balls. Just a heads up, I said what I could
I knew it would come to this if leftists refused to get off tik tok. Acceptance of genocide against some people while decrying genocide against others, all based solely on whomever serves them the content tells them to.
What’s there to understand? “Avoid.” There. That’s literally everything you need to know about Temu.
Temu is just new wish, right?
I think Temu has been around a bit longer, Wish just got more popular during Covid
?? Temu is like 2 years old, they did a huge marketing blitz when they first started. Wish has been around since 2010, and I think they were probably most famous well before the pandemic.
Temu is different because they allow a seller to say I’ll make plastic dog shit toys by November 1. So it goes on sale in September and 100, 000 people order it. Now the company makes a single batch and knows exactly how many to make and what materials to buy. It’s smart. That’s why they want your friends involved because it lowers the price more to make more at once.
I’m not defending the company but it is a smart way and less costly and wasteful than making 100, 000 dog shit toys and selling 10, throwing the other 999,990 in the local river and writing it off on taxes.