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[-] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 141 points 5 months ago

Except I respect raccoons more than Temu sellers

[-] Protoknuckles@lemmy.world 64 points 5 months ago

More trustworthy too

[-] Shelbyeileen@lemmy.world 137 points 5 months ago

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

[-] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 73 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 55 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 22 points 5 months ago

True, but with Amazon you are paying more for faster shipping. Stuff actually shipped from China takes a long time.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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.

[-] JCreazy@midwest.social 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Aliexpress is the way to go. A lot of the time you're buying directly from the company that makes the product. On Amazon, there are a lot of drop shippers.

[-] NightAuthor@lemmy.world 38 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] Shelbyeileen@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Thank you for clarifying!

[-] protist@mander.xyz 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

The raccoons are kind of high maintenance.

[-] MissJinx@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

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

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[-] menemen@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Is it worse than AliExpress?

[-] fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

Yes and much worse than even Wish.

[-] Evotech@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

And they steal the design of the products they sell

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[-] dumblederp@lemmy.world 104 points 5 months ago

By raccoons do you mean Uyighur slaves held by the CCP?

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 37 points 5 months ago

What's there to understand? "Avoid." There. That's literally everything you need to know about Temu.

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 30 points 5 months ago

Temu is just new wish, right?

[-] wolfshadowheart@kbin.social 11 points 5 months ago

I think Temu has been around a bit longer, Wish just got more popular during Covid

[-] blargerer@kbin.social 36 points 5 months ago

?? 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.

[-] wolfshadowheart@kbin.social 10 points 5 months ago

Hm so it is, I could have sworn that Temu was around before 2022

[-] bamboo 28 points 5 months ago

I thought the same thing, at most as old as the 1700s, but then realized I was thinking of emus, the flightless bird.

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

LOL if you post like this often you could compile your comments into a greatest hits

[-] FoD@startrek.website 2 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] el_pablo@lemmy.world 29 points 5 months ago

AliExpress is now trying to copy Temu by gamifying the app which is such a PITA.

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 months ago

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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 17 points 5 months ago

"Shop Like a Biilionaire" says their tagline, but I can't imagine Warren Buffett filling his house with flammable plastic tat from China.

[-] match@pawb.social 14 points 5 months ago

if that service existed I would buy from them and them alone

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