Same here. 😂 I downloaded the Temu ad after Black Friday last year and ordered some kitchen ware and other cheap shoes, and it was so cheap. But then I kept getting multiple notifications from my app everyday for the next six months, which became rather annoying.
As a tailor, I couldn't tell you how many people bring clothes to us and are shocked by our (reasonable for the labour involved) prices, and say "that's more than I payed for x item to begin with" like I'm supposed somehow magically get the work done in half the time so the price is half as much so the client can keep their bottom line at exploitative levels. Henny, these pants are so cheep bc they came from a sweatshop. My studio is not a sweatshop, and I nor my colleagues will work for sweatshop prices, please understand the difference
And I absolutely get that. I understand that it probably really would cost them $150 to replace the zipper on my coat. That doesn't change the fact that the coat itself cost about that much and that if I'm going to spend $150, it may as well be on a new coat.
@@leifmeadows3782 Can't argue with that, but that's why if you're just going to buy a new coat, you go and buy a new coat. You don't go to a local tailor and criticize their repair prices, as if they are supposed to donate their time to salvage your garment. (I'm reminded of "ending is better than mending" from Brave New World). Option 3 is learn to replace the zipper yourself. Obviously we don't have the time to master every skill and do everything for ourselves, but it pays to be handy in as many ways as possible. Thankfully there is sort of a "maker movement", a lot of interest in DIY and "upcycling" etc., but we can always use more.
Say what, it doesn't even have to be a sweatshop... In China they tend to have whole regions devoted to one industry. All the suppliers, all the skilled labor is just next to you. And then there's economy of scale as they don't produce 1000 shirts - it's 300,000 minimum (and if you get a low price it probably means your design is good enough and it'll be cloned and they'll make 3,000,000 shirts and sell it to everyone before you get your first shipment). Economy of scale and tight integration of everything work miracles, y'know! Source: 20+ years in China, 16 of those in manufacturing.
They look like they bought twenty cent pants, if it's any consolation. Tailoring won't save those clothes. Thank goodness I still have a lot of good vintage stuff. And I can sew. But I will definitely use a tailor for anything heavy or difficult like jeans.
this is why I take into account tailoring prices if I'm trying something on that I like that doesn't fit me as well as I'd like it to -- because technically that accounts for the total cost of the piece. if I try something on that already costs $150 and it doesn't fit as well as it should then it's just not worth it to get it tailored lmao
Temu to me is so strange because…did people forget Shein? We were basically at the point of fast fashion=bad and starting to move forward from Shein and then…boom, popular asf.
@@xaviersmith5154 How is fast fashion not bad? It's bad for the environment as it leads to overconsumerism and bad materials, it's bad for the workers who get paid less, it's bad for the buyers who get low quality items that don't last and thus become more expensive on the long run. Every single one loses, except the investors in the company.
I am a Chinese student who saw this video because of my homework.The things said in the video had already happened in China 10 years ago, now we are facing more and more designed deceit and the customers are getting more cautious.Still, it is the best choice for the low-income people in China,especially the ad is eye-catching and easy to understand.I feel sad about it.I wish our people can have the best deal and live a actual decent life,but the fact is people are tired after the heavy work and never have the chance to think over the choices they are making.
I can’t agree more. I am a Chinese who has been traveling back and forth between US and China frequently in past 25 years. I 100% believe Temu/PDD is a scam so I have been fighting with it for years just to refuse installation of the app(I once accidentally installed and fought for deleting it). Now I am an American citizen and I don’t want these shameless people destroying my environment.
TEMU is NOT targeted to the Chinese consumer. They were created for, and make most of their money from the fees paid to them by Chinese merchants who want to break into the American market, and by selling your data. They make so much doing that, which is why they are ok if they lose money selling, even the cheaply made, for the cheapest of the cheap. We only just started buying a few camping products on their site. Then suddenly started getting all the porn clickbait in our feed. 🙄 This company makes SHEIN look like a church site! This is not an app you want your kids using. Their original prices are so inflated that we definitely did not believe the “savings” and even found some very similar products cheaper at our local Cabela’s and on sale at Amazon. But we did see a couple items we would consider that seemed like such a good deal. Several others had defective parts though and we had to send pictures and follow up with customer service to get returned. They heavily push for a store credit so they can just send you more crap rather than have to issue refunds. Most of their stuff is literally Dollar Store quality. But people love the dollar store too so….. Then we also started having increased spam and some of the security issues like others. After researching we found out they are being investigated for syphoning and selling consumer data - which is mostly a problem for those who download the app. Also people are sharing that if shopping with them you better use a protected form of payment like Apple Pay or PayPal and not put you credit card info on your account. We get the appeal for cheap prices but our experience (and some others we talked to) were so bad that it is confusing to us when we see other consumers so pleased with them. We spend a lot of money shopping online but TEMU takes the prize for being the worst. Everything about this company for us is shady and ick. The few decent products we did like were sooooo not worth keeping the app with all of its yuck, cyber security issues, shady ownership and trash products. The TEMU name and brand image will forever be cringe for us and many people we keep talking to. The app has long since been deleted for us and the money saved was not worth what we now spend on extra computer and phone protection. Good riddance TEMU.
They once offered me an absurd amount of $$$ to promote their stuff. Even though the way the brand operates goes against my own product philosophy and shopping ethos, the offer was so disproportionately high that I often find myself regretting saying no because it honestly would have been incredibly helpful haha. But hearing some of the things you said in this video were timely reminders that the right choice was made. Glad you made this video.
Made the right choice, Another thing is to ask yourself where that money truly came from, It's suspicious if they offered so much with the amount of sponsorships they do.
The right choice is rarely ever the easy one to make, but I'm sure your audience will have a greater appreciation for your considerations I'm what to promote to them and trust you more for it down the line. Having a base audience that trusts you is much more profitable down the line than one quick buck would.
Temu offered me a job in Shanghai to work with the localization for the Nordic region. They were expanding so quickly and so aggressively that they didn't even bother to verify if I actually spoke at least one Nordic language. The impression I get is that both Temu (being the overseas brand) and Pinduoduo (being the domestic brand) are burning unbelieveable amounts of money in order to get market saturation before the money runs out. It's a terrible business strategy, but very popular in China. Problem is that for 90% of companies it just leads to bankruptcy.
@@MoriMementa Yes, for the sake of the planet I hope so. Problem is that if it happens, another player flush with VC money will step in and keep the garbage faucet running.
That's the strategy of most big companies (that have a siginificant tech department) nowadays. Get capital, burn money, flood the market, get consumers addicted and kick smaller players out, then once they have a monopoly raise prices and profit. (Either that or fail in the process)
@@jayg473 I wish Disney was near those 90% but end still in a state to be broken up into the dozens of already big firms it absorbed over the years. [Serious look up what firms they own and where they hold shares it is unbelievable and to me unethical.]
As someone who works in a warehouse with packages, my biggest annoyance is looking at how many Temu and Shien packages come in, they make up at least 1/3 of all packages I see its the worst.
so they are providing you, or those in your close vicinity, a secure job. that's a good thing. fewer packages means fewer package warehouse employees. if my job was to manage packages, i would give thanks for all of them i see. that's just my outlook. you are free to look at a situation from any angle you please.
When I first saw ads for Temu, I thought that their shady business model and cheap crap were so transparently terrible that no one would actually shop there. Sigh.
@aidenfielding1348 They use human slave labor, shady business practices, a lot are made cheaply and poorly to a dangerous degree, and there are almost zero regulations ("Allegedly")
Going onto Temu's website feels akin to walking into a casino. It feels designed to overwhelm your senses. You can palpably feel changes to how your synapses are firing in your brain. You know you aren't finding anything good, but the products are arranged so randomly that you just want to scroll one more time to see what comes up next.
I hate that Temu has been so aggressively marketing through influencers. It’s been so disappointing to see how many of my favorite creators have been taking brand deals by them. Creators who I thought cared about human rights, the environment, or even just the quality of the products they’re advertising to their audience. Frankly, it makes me sick to see new products being sold so cheaply bc I know how shady it must be
Honestly if you’re a small creator who’s not making any money and you are a sponsorship deal come in, it’s very easy to just accept since you don’t get many
Yeah, the company's pretty awful all around. Of course we'd never work with a brand like this because our entire ethos is based around critical thinking and researching before you buy, but a lot of other creators might not even know what they're selling to their audience. We're just glad to contribute to the conversation surrounding this!
Being honest though, products and services that are sponsored through TH-camrs really aren't worth being bought or used. I'm sure you heard enough about Lootcrate to know you don't want one or about Raid: Shadow Legends to not play it.
@@daveisdead I totallyy understand that. it's actually the larger creators I'm disappointed in, who have their own released products and books and such. but I hope they will eventually realise the truth about TEMU and Shein etc. and stop purchasing and promoting them in future. and I hope they get other better sponsors
I was really disappointed when I saw Ann Reardon (How to Cook That) promote Temu. She has to know how bad Temu is for the environment and how poorly their workers are treated. I guess the money was worth more than that to her. :(
@@Cantrippingwell I'm about to set up a TH-cam channel and I will be saying regularly for people not to subscribe that way my audience doesn't have to be tortured by these evil ads
I currently work at the UPS Store and the amount of returns from Temu (and especially Amazon) is an absolute nightmare for the planet. Even if this clothing is resold once returned, every single return must be placed in one of those shipping bags. If the clothing isn't immediately thrown in the trash, the shipping bags certainly are. I know some waste is inevitable but you can't even imagine how out of hand it's gotten.
@@honestytoafault they weren't saying that stuff doesn't arrive in plastic - we all know it does, but it's thinking about how much plastic gets thrown away needlessly as a result of buying/returning stuff from companies like Temu. Most people just don't stop to think about that, they only see what they're getting/sending and it really doesn't seem like much when it's only your stuff you're dealing with.
@@susanlee7079 buying online cuts out the middleman. If you buy something at Walmart, it comes from a US warehouse and that comes from a warehouse in China which comes from the manufacturer. On Temu you buy it directly from the factory that makes it, it goes to a port in China then customs in the US, then the domestic postal system and then your house. There’s no need for the product to sit in American warehouses then American retail stores.
What about rtechnology and automation? On average, Mercedes makes one car per employee per month. Which implies they could (in theory) sell one car for an avg monthly German salary.Which is lower that $5000. So they could dump Mercedes cars at avg price of $5000 w/o screwing anyone working there.
PDD has perhaps the worst record of employee treatment. Several its workers died of overworking just last few years and the company did everything to cover it up.
You think the kids digging up the Cobalt for your iPhone or Tesla are doing better than PDD employees? Think again. Capitalism is built on exploitation.
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I used to shop on Amazon all the time, and now it's been years since I purchased anything from it. I haven't gone anywhere near Temu for the same reasons. I'm glad videos like this exist.
I don’t get how he brings up “unbridled consumerism” then tries to protect the major companies that sell ‘luxury’ items for insane prices from discount sites?? I mean c’mon.
@@zero1188 if you don't need to. let's say you have a 50% coupon at IKEA, a more reputable store (and a very generous coupon). You don't currently need to buy anything, no closet, no chair. You don't need anything, but the coupon entices you to go buy something. Yes, you may have saved X $, but you still go and buy something from the company, in turn, they make money. This is how coupons work, especially if it has an expiry date on it. They make you feel like you are missing out on money if you DON'T buy something from them, when in actuality the companies are the ones benefitting from them most. If however you were already looking for an IKEA bed and you happen to get a coupon, that's fair game. The companies take this into account and have to balance the "enticing-ness" (leading to more sales) and the loss of money through purchases with coupons. I hope I explained that in a clear way.. I'm not the best at it...
I've never heard that saying, but I like it. My mental trick is when I see "save 50%", I revert that in my mind as "I'm spending 50% more than I planned". (except in rare cases when I needed something)
My sister will absolutely be mad at you if you say that She's like the most easy target to get fucking scammed or something Any voucher or coupon given to her will be used
I was bombarded with Temu ads for several months on TH-cam. The sheer aggression of their forceful presence immediatly were red flags for me. It took many times of me clicking on "stop seeing this ad", for it to finally go away.
Yeah, I'm bombarded too! After many MANY times clicking on stop seeing this ad and kept seeing it anyway I stopped caring because it just seems impossible to get rid of it
@@SPZ-gv2on Highly, _highly_ recommend getting an ad blocker. TH-cam tries blocking them, but ad blocker devs are powered by spite and move faster than they can. Ublock Origin is fantastic on browsers and incredibly simple to install, and on mobile there's TH-cam Revanced (which can be a bit more complicated, but there are lots of tutorials available)
I am so shocked at 12:25! I'm casually watching this video, and suddenly, my brother pops up on the screen. He's one of the guys running down the hill 😂 He's the one who is grey with no shoes on. It's called the Gloucestershire cheese rolling, and I came second place this year!!
I had a colleague once who played world of tanks. This idiot was so happy to play that game after shifts and in his weekends. He has a wife and a daughter, I pity them both. 60+ and still doing manual labor.
My mother moved in with me about 5-6 months ago & has been getting Temu packages delivered almost nonstop since the day she moved in. She complains about 90% of the things she ordered being the wrong size or otherwise useless, but she will not stop. It's awful.
@a_r_a_i_z_a I worked for a family that was fairly wealthy and the husband would order cheap stuff every day from Amazon and others. I call it "the Christmas mentality" of needing the fix of getting a box in the mail to open every day. I think there are a lot of people like your mom in the world.
My mom has bought many things, including clothes and shoes and has never had issues with things fitting. Idk if people don't know how to pick stuff, but there's actually great deals on there.
I come from a family of independent book publishers. Amazon absolutely killed their business and they were forced to close, basically as a result of 6:30. Thanks for bringing attention to this.
I am woodworker, selling product online here in indonesia, this is simply predatory pricing, losing money in purpose, tiktok shop did that last year, then the gov ban them, just to return searching some loophole, with merging etc. I am a producer, and its hard to keep competitive, imagine the resellers and dropshippers. The "destroy" the market price and people expectations of absurd prices
The first Temu ad that I saw made me think: no way can you make that dress for that money. Someone is getting screwed. It also made me sad that the tags were "I feel RICH! I feel like a billionaire!" Like, millionaire doesn't cut it any more. Then there's the whole image of buying stupid shit for random people who neither want nor need it. It's very sad that the concept of well-made, quality items that last, that you saved up to afford and look after carefully seems to have gone by the wayside.
@@D.von.N The meaning behind it is that thanks to the knockoffs you can have similar products as a billionaire because you can afford the knockoffs. But it's a valid point - rich people don't buy crap they don't need, it's only poor people who do that, which is one of the main reasons why they are poor...
The only place to get truly well made items built to last these days is the luxury watch industry lol. Everything else has been sent straight to the bottom courtesy of the economic conditions. If you make quality items for reasonable prices what happens now is you just go out of business shortly after.
@@Berkeloid0 LMAO "rich people dont buy crap they dont need" yeah bc the rich REALLY need multiple mansions/properties, luxury cars, yatchs, private jets, vacations, drivers, chefs, maids etc. tell me youre a simp for rich people without telling me. poor people spending is bad but foh if you think rich people are these frugal gurus that only waste money on necessities. if you really think wealth gap is an issues that can be solved if the poor just "stopped buying crap they dont need" then congrats youre smooth brained .
You are over-simplifying. The reason that rich people have multiple properties is because they are doing business in multiple locations around the World and spend maybe a month or two in each location and (for them at least) it's cheaper to buy a property and set it up the way they want it than to stay in a hotel. As for the private jets, with all the travelling they do the same principle applies. Flying these days is apparently not the luxury experience it used to be even if you do travel first class. Employing chefs, maids, etc also makes sense if they are hosting clients at home for business meetings. @@glamglam8347
I'm from Sweden and I have never downloaded or even visited Shein and Temu just on principle due to their shady dealings. Selling the clothes that just Shein sells are made with slavery wages. What makes me more furious is that I have worked at Klarna that handles buying things and pay via invoice later, and the amount of people that buy several products from Shein just to return 80% of their products to get destroyed as they returned. People handles it like it is only a price and no people are taking the consequences and Temu is very likely the very same thing. Amazon I also refuse to buy from unless I can't find thing anywhere else since I can't stand how Jeff Bezos handles thing.
wish there were more people like you. unfortunately, the vast majority of people won't stop to think about their actions and are easily manipulated. i don't think even being made vaguely aware about the consequences of their choices is enough to stop them. a race to the bottom.
@@larrylobster9896If youtube comments are anything to go by, most people do not even care about others, or the state of the world that they live and breed on.
I used to sell jewelry and other art at small local markets. I got so fed up and frustrated with "I can get this only better on Amazon for a fraction of that price!" I quit selling. It's depressing.
Honestly, its this and the same company's totally taking over local markets I used to love going to my local Christmas market, there would always be really interesting and unique things at reasonable prices (considering they were hand made) but as of about 6 years ago all the supposedly "hand made" items are just junk from alibaba Completely stopped going when I bought some jewellery from a "local craftsman" who claimed he made it all himself from our local jet... and then 3 days later on the other side of the country I found a totally different guy selling the EXACT same jewellery. Stopped using etsy for the same reason, It's mostly just alibaba crap resold at a premium price
I watched my mother struggle with the downfall of craft-fairs for many years before she was able to pivot into a pretty successful Ebay store that sold custom bottle-caps. Hardly an original idea, but it was pre-etsy days and she used a disgustingly pungent brand of resin to seal pictures onto them in a way few of her contemporary competitors could compete with. It's been many years since she quit and still hates looking at the boxes of spares we allow just about anyone to pick through for free. I've come to learn the crafting world is just a glittery version of life's darkness.
I had something similar, used to work in a small computer store about 15 years ago. We didn't have the buying power of a large company so our prices were admittedly higher than online. But one thing we never budged on was laptop power supplies, we insisted on getting the genuine articles because of the amount of untrustworthy fakes. Once a customer complained that the power supply was too expensive and she could get one online somewhere for half the price. Which she did, only for her to come back in to us a couple of weeks later because the cheap knockoff she bought blew up!
Amazon charges 10 times more for the same item on TEMU... But Americans LOOOOOOOVE paying more for the same product because the cheaper price is on a "Chinese" website... 90 percent of Amazon and Walmart products are from China.. Even Apple computers are made in China....
I bought pompom flowers from Amazon for 20.00. Saw similar flowers on Temu and purchased them for 2.00. Imagine my surprise when I placed them next to the Amazon flowers....IDENTICAL! Crazy
There are a lot of items on Amazon that are items that would have been on Temu but that want to try and sell the same item at a higher price. Personally, I think both are fucking disgusting though. It's about how shit the product is, not about how Chinese the website is. Having struggled to buy. Functional fucking cables. From anywhere. For a while. It's becoming to be an issue... Like, bro, your adaptors don't carry half the data they're supposed to. The wattage isn't right and the charging rate is attrocious....
I’m currently in Teacher’s College. Last year during placement I noticed a bunch of kids in a high school class were super distracted by their phones (more than usual), one girl in particular kept bothering other students to get them to download some app. After confronting her I found out it was Temu, they were doing one of these promotions where you have X amount of time to recruit a certain number of your friends to sign up to get a deal. My first thought was it sounded like some disturbing combination of a pyramid scheme and the lottery. It’s bad enough we have social media in the classroom, now we have these exploitative companies using gambling tactics to get teenagers addicted to shopping. Teens are so vulnerable to these tactics and these companies absolutely know that.
Companies like Temu will always exist to exploit naive people. It's quite sad that they have been able to get millions of teenagers to become an incessant advertising tool. Especially as this will only serve to harm friendships, as people get sick of constantly being used by their peers in the hope of getting a deal that was clearly too good to be true from the outset.
😉Nothing new! ebay DID IT, amazon DID IT, wish does it, aliexpress and Alibaba does it. Temu is just on a trend right now and of course it does the same 'lure in' tactics to sign up....
You're not too far off by comparing it to a lottery/pyramid scheme hybrid. When I was sent the invitation link, it led me to a set of digital reels that spun to show I had won the top prize of 3 free gifts if I invited 3 or so more friends. The most insidious part of all this is that I'm pretty certain that the reel "spin" is just a animation for show and you will always get 3 free items but it preys upon combining the percieved good luck with a timed window to pressure you into inviting as many people as you can to win your prizes.
My friend asked me to join temu for that reason, and it was so difficult to turn her down, but I didn't want to sign up for something with doubtful intentions
My feelings on Temu is that if you buy at dollar store prices, expect dollar store quality. It isn't 'cheap' or 'inexpensive' if the quality is trash. It's just what you paid for at the price you paid for it.
I place one order on temu when it was new and this simply didn't ring true to my experience. There was a make up case I'd been looking for for over a year, everywhere I found it online it was simply too expensive for me (almost £100 for a plastic case) I even asked my local Chinese store that gets direct shipments from China if they could find it to no avail. I found it on Temu for £30. It was the exact one, it came, the quality was completely fine, the plastic wasn't wrapped or damaged in any way and I've had it since with no issues. I expect it to last at least 5 years.
@@scarlettdamante4945 Oh yes. I've made two orders from Temu. They sell the exact same items on Temu as they do in many amazon fronts for much cheaper. It's just I don't really think 2$ for a hairclip is 'super insane cheap' like a lot of people seem to indicate. I worded it in a round about way, but I don't think Temu is horrible if you shop mindfully and/or can't afford more expensive 'ethical' alternatives (or you don't have time to spend 4 hours researching everything you buy)
And they're even like half the price of dollar store items! What scares me, is that when CBC Marketplace did an investigation into Amazon, they found a lot of lead beyond safe levels, and with Temu being worse in pretty much every way, I can't imagine their stuff being safe from such toxins. Especially with makeup/skincare and toys, I can't trust anything that cheap to be safe.
I live in a small Bulgarian village. People here still go to the local shops to buy what they need. The main street is buzzing with life. I know the names of the store keepers and they know me. Unfortunately, Temu is here as well. I wish there is a way to stop these discount shops. We trade our lives for cheap trinkets that we can live without.
But this is the closest thing to Amazon that we can have here, and to be honest I don't feel bad about ordering from temu. The same things from the mall but really on a different price and many many times it is the only place where you can find something. All the companies use sweat shops - designed in Sweden, produced in Cambodia...
100% agree for most things. but for niche things e.g. I needed a buff to protect me from sunburn - $50 in a chain store or $2 from temu. Otherwise I despise the philosophy of consumerism it promotes. I wish there were more small businesses for staple items e.g. bakeries, bookshops, butchers, vege markets etc rather than chain stores that remove all character from small towns and cities
Also, we must keep in mind that this Temu pre enshittification. Once Temu reaches market saturation, expect those suspiciously low prices to be a thing of the past. Their garbage will be as expensive as locally bought stuff but with no rise in quality of manufacturer compensation.
I refuse to buy from Temu for the same reason I refuse to buy from Wish and Shein: I don't trust that their products are safe. Here in Germany, products from Shein were tested for their safety and for example, a yellow children's raincoat was found to have 20 times the legal lead level, if I recall correctly. Of course not every item is going to have this kind or level of contamination but the fact that it happens at all makes me refuse to spend my money there.
Aliexpress is about as trustworthy as amazon, it's a marketplace so anyone can sell dangerous goods but they are pretty good at dealing with this stuff. It really brought Chinese warehouses a way to sell to western consumers.
@@kelmanl4 I don't trust either of them. Aliexpress started as a doods, overproduction and bad business leftovers websites from alibaba. Basically alibaba was the place were the good deals with wholesale were made and whatever didn't sell, had quality issues or misspelled, made its way to aliexpress to liquidate in smaller quantities.
I think it should also be considered that people gravitate towards aggressive deal sites in part because they also feel like so many other companies/industries regularly take advantage of them (think airlines, streaming/cable, insurance etc) so it can be hard to let go of something that makes you feel like you're coming out ahead for a change
But you’re not coming out ahead. It’s cheaply made garbage whose shipping costs are subsidized (via an international postal treaty) with your tax dollars.
I didn't realise how addictive this kind of shopping apps can be until I saw my mum using the one of Shein. Almost every week she buys a bunch of stuff that she never uses. Clothes that are too small for her but she doesn't ever return. Shoes that are too uncomfortable to wear, sunglasses that do no really protect from the sun, etc. She buys staff just because the feeling she gets when buying and receiving the items, but most of them end up in her closet, never to be used. And I think Temu must be even worse because of the low prices.
im not sure if i'm right but i heard that even if u return clothing it doesnt go back to the shop's storeroom, but simply goes to trash and thats awful.
Exact same products on Amazon and Temu. From the same damn factory in China. Temu just 1/3 of the price but with 2-3 week shipping instead of 1-2 day shipping.
Temu: Cheap Chinese Products Amazon: Cheap Chinese Products with a 30% markup Every crap sold on Temu is also on Amazon, for 30% markup to compensate for the 2 day "FREE" shipping
I had to laugh when you said it's like a trash Amazon or something, because I think Amazon has become just as bad as sites like these. Ignoring that their site is now utterly awful to navigate and use, the amount of fake/dupe products on there with ridiculous names (often including a Chinese name or word) is scary.
@@justjosie8963 I also agree that it's easy to navigate, but you have to do detective work to find out whether the shop selling a product is Chinese or not. Sometimes the writing style gives them up, at other times you have to look where the product is shipped from, and some of the times even if you look at the storefront of that shop it's very difficult to ascertain. But when you see an identical item being offered at more or less the same price by a dozen different shops, you can bet where it comes from.
exactly, at least for some items, Amazon is simply way more expensive than Temu (random fitget toy for example). It is not like Amazon version has better quality or anything.
amazon is much nicer than this lol. you get some quality items! i have a coat my mom bought from there for me and its still good. a normal coat, unlike a coat you'd buy from that site..
Honestly I couldn't care less. Everything is 3x more expensive than it should be, equal amounts of exploitation, my labor is undervalued, and I'm left worse for wear. So I don't much care as long as the stuff I get from temu actually works. Just like 75% of Americans I'm too poor to be so haughty with my morals.
@@AnonsTreasures The Leftist take on it all is that there is no ethical consumption under capitalism. Look at influencers who tell you something is unethical -- their alternatives are also unethical 100% guaranteed. "Temu exploits workers!" yeah no shit, welcome to capitalism. Videos like this missing the point are frustrating.
@@MillieMoses Frankly my problem is how un-utilitarian most are when they approach "social change" if that is really the goal half the time. People will do what is practical and most beneficial (generally in the short term). This is even more exacerbated now because of the tough times we've found ourselves in. Ethical consumption in any respect isn't on the minds of those who don't have the money to even feed themselves. It's cool if you can do it and it makes you feel good, but frankly most of that stuff is as diminished of a return as you can get. Just let me buy my cheap chinese garbage that I could buy equally as exploited for 5x the price but instead I'm giving my money to poor ol' Jeffery Bezos.
Maybe it was covered on this channel, but I want to bring up a tangent issue: stores that are physical and online (Target, Wallmart, Macy's, etc.) that no longer bring all their merchandise in store. Often those are the best looking items too. Instead of walking up to a store, trying on the clothes/shoes, I have to order them home (often in 2 different sizes) and then haul 90% of it back to the store to return because they are not how they looked online or/and don't fit. This is so annoying. Let me try stuff and then just buy what I need and be done with it.
@@Lobonova Gonna disagree with that. Dunno where you live, but I've gotten sick of wasting my time going to the high street where the mens clothes have dwindled to about 25% of what's being sold, and all look the same. And whenever I go there aren't many dudes shopping, with the exception of teenagers in urban sportswear shops. From everything I see men must be shopping at the high street even less than women these days.
Especially plus size. Target has an awesome dress I was given but it’s not available in store because they stopped carrying plus size altogether where I live.
We have been familiar with this chip Chinese product in IRAN for many years because of the sanctions on a lot of American and European products we couldn't find the original products. Believe me, the quality is sacrificed to the price (you get what you pay!), and in the end, you lose your money because you have to throw it away in no time! That's the trap of Chinese chip products.
This video reminds me of conversations I had with someone who was almost violently opposed to people shopping at Walmart. At the time I was struggling to raise a family while the other person was older & much more comfortably well off. I remember telling them I agreed with all their reasons why I shouldn't shop at Walmart but in my current situation I couldn't afford not to. Since then my kids have become adults & I can't even tell you the last time I set foot in a Walmart. With Temu though I knew it was bad from the moment I saw it, same as Wish & Shein. There are affordable prices & then there are stupid low prices that should be a red flag to anyone that the quality is going to suck if you receive any product at all. And having heard a number of times about Temu losing $30 per order it doesn't take many brain cells to wonder how & why a company would do that & expect to stay in business - unless they're getting something even more valuable from their shoppers like personal information. Do I want to hand over my info to any company,much less one based in China? Nope, & neither should anyone else.
Pretty much every company who operates online will take your data. Google is notorious for this and we are watching videos on TH-cam, which is owned by Google. They may sell your data to a data broker. Things like your phone number, or which websites you visit. But I've not heard of them take your bank information and sell it (as shown in the video). Point is, USA companies are no better than Chinese ones when it comes to taking and sharing your data. It's just the laws and restrictions in China are more relaxed when it comes to online privacy. Even if you are ok with your data being shared about, you will get emails from these basement bargain online retailers until the end of time. I made the mistake of making a Wish account a few years ago and they bombard your inbox like nothing else. Luckily it was on a spam email address (I recommend having one email address dedicated for spam for this reason) and most modern email clients have built in spam filters which detect marketing emails like Wish sends out. But still, I wouldn't recommend going anywhere near Temu or the like.
@@bearmugs1408 I'm aware & even worse, I've worked in retail a long time so I've been complicit in helping companies gather that info. Companies nearly hold you hostage to hand it over or you lose our on sale prices, points or rewards, sometimes you can't even access their site. I haven't been able to look at Targets website for awhile because I won't answer their questions & even my long standing Pinterest account won't let me in now unless I give them my date of birth. Sorry, not their business. It's been years since I gave Every Plate a try & didn't like it but they sometimes still send me multiple emails in one day. I've become that person in line who keeps shaking their head no through the whole sales pitch & if a website wants too much info before I can proceed I simply won't order from them. It isn't much & it does make my life more difficult but I do try to keep my business my business.
I'm a senior living on Canada Pension. yer darn right I shop at Temu and Walmart. Since I only discovered Temu recently, I've only placed one order. Almost every item in it it was something I had been looking at elsewhere at higher prices. None of it was unnecessary stuff bought just cause it's on a flash sale. I'm 70, fer Chrissake! I can resist high pressure sales tactics. I assume right from the start that Temu was underselling in order to buy into the market - same way Amazon did. And Japan before them. In my youth, "Made in Japan" was a synonym for cheap crap, which Japan mass produced to make up in volume what was lacking in quality. That's how they turned into the Asian Tiger and look at them now. By the time Temu has turned into the next Amazon, there'l be another Temu; and, I'll be buying from them. Oh, and everything I've got from Temu has been worth the price paid.
Here's a good rule of thumb. If you've ever seen a company, product, or service spam you on a cell phone game app ad...avoid said company. Nice and simple.
I have this rule about advertising in general. When do I actually buy anything that they try to sell me? Never. And the brands that I actually respect don't need to advertise, because quality speaks for itself. So if I see your ad, I avoid your brand.
When I saw all the different influencers from various genres were doing Temu I knew something was up. Plus everything was too cheap. I never went on the site because I didn't want to be drawn into it. Something about them never felt right.
Bought a bunch of cheap stuff from them, works just fine. I even went to compare them with those on Amazon. Guess what, same pic and the same detail but is more expensive on Amazon. Turns out Amazon sellers are mostly from China selling the same things on Amazon. Well, unless you are the upper of the upper middle class (on the +2 sigma side of the normal distribution graph), I earn 6 figures in NYC and I still can't live as nice as my parents back in the 90s. They were blue-collar workers. I tell you what does not feel right, the current state of this world. My generation and the following generations will continue to suffer. Who cares right? It's a dog-eat-dog world now. Those people that created this mess are probably gone or will soon be leaving this world.
@@spika5872 You are the people who created this mess, since you are the consumerist people buying tons of sh*t on amazon. Makes you feel better to blame others though doesn't it... while you do everything just as bad, or worse than they did.
Temu is officially ruining the internet. I watch a lot of home decor videos to get ideas for my house and lately more than half of them are sponsored by Temu. As soon as the name Temu is mentioned I immediately stop watching the video and unsubscribe from the creator if I'm subscribed to them. Lately this is almost every video. Also, I think it's discouraging that in the comments of these videos people do call out TH-camrs for being sponsored by Temu and the response is always "Thank you for telling me. I had no idea this company was so problematic." Or something along those lines. If you're going to sell your soul, at least own it. Anywho, thanks for making this video. Glad to know there are still people on TH-cam with morals.
@@djsaidez271 really you don't seems to really care when you buy fast fashion in zara, h&m and other? How about buys stuff made from. A country that actually kill millions of people base on fake WMD to justify invading other countries?
For me, it's because they are Chinese. Sure, you're funding communist China for World War 3, but you'll die happy wearing some polyester pants for $3.42!
The problem is I've noticed a lot of 'small local businesses' where I live are obviously buying stock from Temu and then marking it up 900%. So by supporting them you are indirectly buying from Temu anyway. We're screwed!
Yep, I bought some shoes from a "growing local business" with their own website that always wanted reviews, replied personally, said they designed a new color/type of shoe for the first time... Basically watching it expand from the ground up as they got more popular. Then I found the same shoes, with more colors, on Temu! For a fraction of the price! And it had been there for years before this "local made" business started! I felt so scammed since I overpaid for the shoes thinking I'm supporting a business, when it was just shipped from China and had their logo added!
I have seen these too! I buy a lot of craft supplies on Temu and have seen the same stuff on Amazon, local craft stores, and online retailers for MUCH MUCH more
@@roxylius7550 More like Socialism. They can be so cheap, because the US government subsidies the transportation, so it is almost free for Chinese businesses to send around the world to the US. Meanwhile small businesses are overtaxed, over-regulated and have to pay minimum wages this Chinese businesses don't have to pay, but imports are not taxed to compensate this.
Sucks cause everytime I want to buy something and search for it, my search results are flooded with temu ads. I used to get locally available or at least national stores up but now NO matter what I search for temu apparently had a cheaper version i’m not interested in
Just goes to show that American Companies like Google are just as much on board with that as the chinese companies like Temu. If Google would be responsible and not air Temu ads, the whole model wouldn't work. But they are not responsible. They are capitalistic. If it makes money it's right. Temu struck me as shady - to say the least - the moment I first saw an ad for it. I'm shocked how people don't see that.
my options are: I shop cheap at amazon, target, Walmart, etc. who are all shit and treat people like shit, or I shop even cheaper at Temu who is doing the same thing and is just as bad. what tf am I supposed to do I do not understand where tf im supposed to shop, second hand things are just as expensive as new, anything that is quality is way too expensive for me as a student, so where do I buy things that I need? like I do not understand how I am supposed to afford college, rent, and even basic shit for my life, its a struggle even with cheap shit from amazon and other places but I have no idea how im supposed to afford buying *high quality things that are all perfectly ethical and green*. makes no sense, I can barely afford the cheap shit let alone the "good" stuff....
I hate shops like Temu and Shein so much. It got to the point in my personal life where I had to BEG my parents to stop buying from them, because they’d be buying gifts from those shitshows that again, were shit, for other people because my parents both have online shopping addictions and “it’s such a great price, you can’t beat that deal!” And they live for the high of getting packages in the mail. Their businesses make me sick, Their businesses made me have to explain the difference between a LOW price and a GOOD price (which are VERY different).
As someone who works on the retail returning end of amazon, temu, etc., I have gotten to see the explosion of people with this invented addiction of online shopping and subsequent returning because people are buying way more than they can return. And as time goes on each company makes the process more confusing to prevent those addicted people from making the return. And most people involved in the return process are ripped off through this process with no choice. At my specific store, about 80% of our traffic and time is amazon returns that we make no money from, because the corporate overlords brokered the deal with amazon and receive all the profit.
@@TassieJake A low price isn't always a good price if you're getting crap quality, or the people who make the items are treated like slaves. Would it be a "good price" if your company sold it's products or services at 1/10th the price it currently does, and paid you $8 a day?
I'm the same way and I got my mom a while ago to even stop buying me any brand clothing or anything at all. I have enough and I don't need anything that isn't 100% my style and comfortable. To give an example, I have about 20 pairs of boxers that are Fruit of the Loom and all the exact same, and I love them because they are really comfortable. I threw out all my other underwear that were from different brands because most of them were through presents and I hated wearing most of them on days I had to before laundry day. The same goes for my socks and my jeans
As someone who sews, I wouldn't trust an item being sold for less than half the material costs. I try to upcycle and use more sustainable fabrics when possible (my local chain store has quite a few recycled and organic options available now), but I'm still aware of how much things cost to make, and a lot of their prices are less than that. When I was in high school, I really liked some of Bluenotes' graphic tees. They'd frequently have them on for $5 or less, and after a few months of wearing them when not in my school uniform, I found out that they wear out very quickly. It's like the cheapest polyester that you can't really do much with. At least if you buy a quality item, you can rewear it for years, and sell it when you're done, or if it gets stained or ripped, the fabric can be reused and it can be made into a bag, or re-dyed, or something fun like that. Buying all this plastic crap isn't doing anyone any good, and I wish more people realized that.
Absolutely! When I recently started getting into sewing and found out just how expensive fabric is, I finally understood why I was always given second hand clothes or hand-me-downs as a kid. My parents were very picky about what they bought me to wear, and never got me cheap thing from big shops or online cause they wanted it to last! If its lasted long enough to be resold, it'll last a long time! After that I became a lot more careful about the clothes I buy. And I've had the exact same wardrobe for a few years now, and the clothes still look good! I didnt skimp out or fall for fast fashion so these graphic tee shirts that are closing in on five years still look just as good as the day I bought them! Much better than cheap polyester shirts I've tried getting in the past.
I don't cluck on their shady site either. They've stolen photos from many of my artist friends. They are a scammer company! Still, I am constantly bombarded by them even though I report them daily.
Not a fan of gamification and sketchy details of products in temu, but i was so impressed by the checkout experience. It even nicely presented the local shipping partner and products were shipped with in a day. Can't believe that a billion dollar company like Amazon still sucks ar it
I work at a landfill in America and part of my job is to pick up trash that gets blown around by the wind that gets on the road and other areas of the property where it's not supposed to be and I can tell you there are so many Amazon and Temu bags just flying around when the wind picks up. Those are only the ones that escaped before the trash is covered by dirt. Makes you wonder how much goes in there.
It is not only in America, here in Europe it is also spreading. Temu bags hanging in bushes. After the chinese gave us a virus, they now dump their rubbish here lol
@@bradbrad6521 how the f*** do you get capitalism is wrong from what I said? I didn't say s*** about capitalism. I was talking about the amount of trash going into a hole in the ground. You're just trying to pick a fight. I hope you find some peace Brad Brad.
Can't you improve landfills somehow instead of covering trash with dirt? Isn't there better ways to deal with garbage for the environment? This can surely be something to research and invest in, since it's harder to fight all the quick cash cheap item companies.
@@jessy1982 Probably but that's a huge question that I'm sure has been answered by now. So likely like most issues in the U.S. , it comes down to money.
That conditioning is so much a part of my life right now. I sew for myself and do little repairs for friends and family, I recently made myself a coat for Halloween with a big long train and all I heard was "You should sell this you could make money" and I'm always like "no one will pay what it would cost me to make a profit on this, there's like 24 yards of fabric in this coat at like $25 à yard (cause I don't use any kind of polyester) and it took me 30hrs to make" no wants to pay $1500 for a coat unless it's some over priced hype brand, I also made my mom some dresses and she was appalled by fabric prices saying "I thought this was supposed to be cheaper" companies like temu and fast fashion are ruining the clothing industry.
Yes. This is exactly my own experience. I made a similar comment upthread, but you explained it better. I knit and crochet more often than sewing (though I can sew). Like you, I know exactly how much a quality item costs in both time and effort. I try to support my local yarn shops ("lys" in Ravelry forums), and when I can afford it, the local spinners & dyers they source some of their best product from. Most of my crafts cost around $100 (au) in materials alone. If I buy the locally spun/dyed materials, $200 to $300. On a cost per wear basis, that's damn cheap. And it keeps me entertained for months. But noone who doesn't craft would be willing to buy these things even at materials price.
I make clothes that are hard do find at local stores. Some people came to me asking how much to make them these itens custom made size, high quality material and all, I priced it quite cheap and they where like "okay I can find it cheaper from Shein". Frustrating that you can't compete with those massive fast fashion shops.
True but you know what, it's their loss. I'm sure your clothes are amazing and Shein's clothes have been scientificly proven to be toxic to the skin and health, they get what they pay for. It's too bad clothes designers and workshop workers have to suffer because of this and the planet and animals too
you CAN compete. theyre lying to you to try and get you to lower your prices. they'll never find something of a high quality off temu. keep doing what you're doing.
@@vsr3777 Says India has far fewer sweatshops nowadays. Describes how everyone there still works in sweatshop conditions. Can you please make up your mind.
Inflation has a lot to do with it , everything is expensive. So when people see that Temu is giving away free things or low prices items, of course they’re gonna wanna go buy their things there But they don’t realize that they’re just wasting more money than saving
Yes but 40-year-old people do not need children toys that's probably why they're broke in the first place because they keep buying toys instead of paying the bills like normal people.
I create art in a very niche industry. It's disheartening to see dupes and rip-offs of art from people I know on temu. Customers are unwilling to pay a fair price for an artisan made product but get mad because they don't get the same quality for 99 cents. Be for real. Good quality takes time and money. Worse, it reflects badly on my industry when scammers use our pictures and we get called scammers and associated with poorly made products.
Fast fashion and Temu represent everything that is wrong with us. Every time I have to dispose of a container or a broken whatever, I feel so guilty. The one bright spot is our local buy nothing group. I've gotten some useful things: mostly consumables AND I've been able to declutter by listing items.
@@stooglesgoogles7246 in buy nothing groups, the members offer items for free. They post pictures of the item, and say when they’re going choose a recipient. People can also ask for items to have or borrow. We see a lot of this around Halloween. Buying or trading items is not allowed. As far as I know, all the groups work thru Facebook.
@@stooglesgoogles7246 look up Freecycle you should find a group near you, maybe not by that name, but it was one of the first and most widely spread series of groups in the US and UK, maybe elsewhere too, but the name is synonymous with passing free useful items along. We gave away our bread machine that way, I prefer making bread the proper way, it's much nicer to eat, so we passed it on lol. Also see if there's a Repair Cafe near you too. Those are brilliant. When the pandemic started, One of my monitors went on the blink, but I could not get a replacement for love nor money due to the lockdowns (UK) forcing office workers to work from home. Well, I did some research on my monitor, found out what was the problem, accepted that I couldn't to the fix myself, so when the first lockdown lifted, I booked a slot and ordered the parts. Then the the next lockdown was called, but they squeezed me in before it went into force, which was awesome. The electrician was impressed that I'd done my homework and had the transistors or capacitors or whatever ready to replace and did there and then, he said that quite often, if they don't have the spares, people have to go away and come back with the parts. I'd already had about 15years out of this top of the line monitor, but I'm pretty sure it's time has come, at the ripe old age of 20something. I really hit the jackpot with it, but once we get the money together to replace it, I'll donate it to the repair cafe for spares, it's the screen that's going now, not the circuits, so it will probably be cheaper to replace now, and they can get some use out of what's still viable fixing things for others.
@@stooglesgoogles7246it's like a community give-away thing. You just post up stuff you don't need and someone in your community asks for it. They're usually on Facebook and pretty common here on the east coast.
We have a shop here in Finland that sold (just for the show) normal white bed sheets, one being unethically produced and then the other being ethically produced version of the same product. Ethically produced sheets were guaranteed that every person on the process chain has been paid and no child labor is being used, price difference was 5€ vs 50€.
Split the difference and I'd pay 25 for somewhat ethically produced sheets, but 50, hell no. I'm on a fixed income and some shit just costs way too much at that rate.
Temu would send me at least 3 emails a day from many different emails asking me to sponsor them on my channel and no matter what I did (saying no politely, saying no just by replying "no.", blocking, reporting) they kept sending emails since they were coming from different email accounts. It got to the point where I just simply deleted every email and marked them as spam without replying and thankfully only a couple emails still get through to my main inbox. Seeing crochet pieces on the website that i knew HAD to be handmade were being sold for $1 BLEW my mind and I just wanted them to leave me alone edit: I wrote this seconds before you talked about this exact thing lol
Something important not mentioned in the video is the way in which Temu gifted users money for each Temu code they sent to a new user. When Temu was first coming out I was constantly asked for the code and even borderline pressured to just download the app so this person would get the money for me downloading it. It’s an incredibly predatory marketing practice by Temu.
I was addicted to Temu for a little while. It was fun to order a bunch of random stuff for very little money and get a jumbled package full of surprises because I forgot what I ordered in the time it took to get to me. I had mostly weaned myself off of Temu because I knew it wasn't good for me (or anyone else) but I finally deleted my account while watching this video.
I was JUUUST introduced to Temu last week and I ordered stuff three times in two day now waiting for my order. Heard they were shady and now I’m worried, but as soon as I get my orders I am going to delete my account, haven’t downloaded the app though 😣
@@lissaToday5787 I haven’t had any problems with them and I’ve done 27 orders now of multiple things. The transactions are secure and I’ve been happy with most everything so far. One exception is the women’s plus size clothing. The fit is a bit weird for me. But my husband loves the men’s line. Just letting you know from someone who actually uses Temu
Here's a Future Proof video I'd love to see; thoughtful, reasonable, responsible gift ideas! A bit of a counter to the "all these companies are bad," instead, give viewers some direction on how to support small businesses, local artisans, etc. for this year's holiday shopping.
All the best gifts are experiences; a comedy show, concert, play, trip, cooking lesson, dinner, etc. Good _things_ to gift people are those items that enhance stuff they already love to do such as new goggles or gloves for a skier, a new multitool for a mountain biker, new sneakers for a runner, a new pan or utensils for a home cook. Consumables, like a kit to make cookies, are also fun and less expensive and create an opportunity for a new experience (like baking the cookies with one's loved one).
@@stradricOur family gifts typically consist of travel and other experiences ... they're far more fun than crap that builds up on a shelf or in a room. We also make a photo book each year of the family's adventures so we can look at PRINTED copies of photos instead of reaching for devices.
Right?? Everyone is so focused on the bad markets and not to go near them and NEVER show you a good place to get deals and quality products. Almost like they want to cash in on the hot topic 🤔repeating the same lines, I was able to predict this entire video.
local farmer's markets / craft fairs are great for this kind of stuff! also etsy has been getting worse ( for sellers too, speaking from personal experience 😭) but is still decent for finding small businesses and artisans in your area ( you can filter by location )
For me I just literally ask what genre the person wants that year and find them those lol Like if someone asked me, my genre would be that I want plushies. Don't get too specific so it's still a surprise, but you also guarantee the person would appreciate it.
Also, Temu doesn't ship anything in boxes. They pile your crap on a sheet of plastic then wrap it up like a hobo sack. Then they (probably) dropkick it onto a pile of outgoing packages that are crushing each other. My wife ordered a metal sign that arrived bent out of shape, and a cleaning wand that I had ordered arrived intentionally bent in half so that it would fit in the ball that was my shipping package.
If I ever want to go “treasure hunting” I go to the antique stores, seriously these items are a treat, they at least last longer than half of the crap on Chinese marketed sites like Shein, Temu, etc. And it’s more fun.
The sad part - as Ted Danson said - is that we impact many people's lives somewhere down the line when we buy stuff from pretty much anywhere and there's not much you can do as an individual.
exactly, what we can do is just be more thoughtful of our own choices. the show that ted danson clip is from actually has some decent messages regarding this, yeah in the modern world a lot of our choices have far reaching consequences. so instead if buying the tomato from a supermarket, see if you can find a local farmers market, or grow your own, or try petition your local council to start a community garden. change starts on the community level, sure our individual decisions don't do much in the bigger scale of things, but whole communities slowly changing our ways and becoming more critical about the impact we have is a part of how change happens
You can almost entirely control what happens to the people down the line. You can first of all not buy stuff you don't need to not hurt the planet and the people living in the regions most effected by climate change and pollution. Than you can buy fairtrade food and clothing which doesn't eliminate poverty for the workers, but helps tremendesly. You can stop eating animal products which reduces your carbon footprint by 20-40% and not murder innocent animals. You can buy organic to help not destroy the soil. You can live without a car and not fly. You can only buy stuff made from sustainably sourced materials. Electronics are sometimes hard, but 95% of consumption can be done ethically. And with all the money you save from not buying random BS you don't need you can help build schools and supply water in impoverished communitys in Africa. I agree that we're never gonna get to a world where everyone chooses to not be a piece of shit, so we should enforce all of these things, but never use "there's not much you can do as an indiviual" as an excuse, it's just not true. Also, just because I've heard it so many times, your indivual action might not have a big impact when looking at the entirety of climate change, but it still has a big impact. You wouldn't kill someone and then say "looking at all the murders I increased the statistic for this year by only 0,0001%, so what I did doesn't make a difference anyway".
@@chuckyfox9284 Not everyone lives in an area where some of those luxuries exist. If we try to act as individuals to solve problems many times more waste is created in the end. We can't take a trip to where those things are available because the carbon production would be greater as a whole if everyone did that. So we are in a mature system that is hard to break out of. I'm not being apathetic or nihilistic. I'm being realistic based on logistics.
This literally explains my dad's situation. He has gotten ADDICTED to shopping on temu. He discovered it las November and over the past 12 months, I'd say he's spent at least 1,000 dollars on temu. He's gotten A LOT of pretty cool stuff but most of the stuff is useless tbh.
a 1000$ in a year is not alarming unless he's broke. I buy junk from temu. I'll tell you what I got 50$ worth of Roomba products I now have 2 years worth of filters and brush's. Roomba wants 60$ for 1 kit and it would last me 3 months
@@Loady420 But the whole point of that video is that the $50 of stuff you bought made people go hungry because they were used as slaves and didn't get paid for their work. The reason Roomba wants more is because they pay their employees. I mean that's fine if you don't care, but if you lose your job one day because your employer can't compete and shuts down, you'll have nobody to blame but yourself.
So, the nation which decided that competition is profit and growth, has spawned someone who doesn't like it anymore.. Did they undercut didums with their cheaper prices? Grow a pair....
One of the worst parts about businesses like Temu and Shein is that buying from these companies and what-not isn't even good for the consumer. To the average citizen, a $4 hoodie or something obviously seems like a huge steal but in reality, even ignoring the ethical issues with how these products are produced, products sold at unbelievably cheap prices are often much poorer in quality because they're being produced as fast as possible in sweatshops in some Asian country. Because of this fact, they often fall apart and get damaged far more easily than an item sold at a normal price would.
"some Asian sweatshop" which is coincidentally the same sweatshop all your major brand clothes are made in they just sell it to you for 100x the price.
@@supreme1572 sorry, but I have items I paid a lot for last me for years. You do get what you pay for. For clothes especially, there is not comparison. I make clothes, I can tell the difference. Stuff from shein looks really REALLY cheap and shabby, no matter what. Clothes made with care and class, that's a different thing. they will last you a long time.
Keep telling yourself that. Major name brands are still made in China, India, Vietnam, or Cambodia. They still test for lead. Anything from the Abercrombie, Aero, Adidas, Nike, whatever has fallen apart in a year or two on me. I have better luck with off brand shit from Burlington and Shein, stuff I have worn since middle school and I graduated college years ago. I wish you would all shut up. Consumerism is the problem. If you buy cheap, but you only buy what you need and use it for the full life of that product, it's no different than retail stores, better bc you're saving money. No one has a damn brain through.
1st time I saw online Temu ads in 🇨🇦 Canada, I had a gut reaction JUST like what you describe. Kudos to your team and you, Mr. Hildebrand! Keep spreading the needed message. 🎉🙏
it's so frustrating to see people automatically going to temu, shein, etc. for clothing when online secondhand stores exist, like the wait is the same, the prices are the same, just one has better quality items from actual brands!
It's the marketing machine. You'd click through a lot of pages on google before you saw the secondhand options with low quality pictures. Primacy effect is very real.
I love shopping second hand stores even garage sales. Most of my clothing furniture and many household items are second hand finds. Many good quality items for a great price. I actually think it's more fun and satisfying. I know there is a lot of people like me that feel the same too bad that doesn't catch on as fast. Have never bought from or even looked thru apps like Temu, Wish, Shein and the rest.
same! i go to my local flea markets often, they're very common where i live so im definitely more fortunate than some when it comes to great finds @@zsigzsag
Thank you for saying this! There are only two second hand shops in my city and they are very small (one of them only had like 20 items last time I went) but I'm definitely going to buy from them instead of fast fashion companies. If I can't find something I need, I'll even try to sew it myself
I see as well as understand your observations. But people can make their own decisions on where to shop and the repercussions of advancing the Chinese manufacturers marketplace. I have made a few purchases on Temu and was quite satisfied with the items. I was even given an automatic $5 refund because one item of twelve came later than the shipping guarantee date. Returns/refunds are quite easy to do. If one takes a stroll through Walmart, where do you think most of those products are manufactured? Americans cannot build that level of quality for those prices. If an iPhone were built in the US, it would cost 50% to 90% more at the retail level. Americans cannot work at the speed that a Chinese worker can. So instead of knocking the Temu products, just don't shop there. I don't have to shop Temu, but I enjoy doing so.
@@SilverShadow2LWB "Americans cannot work at the speed that a Chinese worker can", as you say, because they are being exploited! It's slavery! America at least has these fancy things like 40 hour work weeks, minimum wage, and overtime pay. You are willingly participating in the exploitation of thousands of humans, sometimes children, just because you "enjoy doing so"!
Let me get this straight though. Every purchase I make is hurting Chinese sellers and manufacturers due to pressure from Temu to keep their prices unsustainable... right? That seems to be the gist. Sounds like I need to make some more Temu purchases and do my part to help tank the Chinese economy. This is great news.
One time I ordered a children's book for my daughter on Christmas via Amazon. When I got it I read through it and exactly halfway in the book, there was a print of a full 12-month calendar. A Playboy calendar with all of these naked ladies. I contacted the author and sent pictures and a video. She apologized and sent me a digital book. She had no idea that Amazon had done that and somehow in the production of the book there was porn in the children's book, about kindness. 😅
Just a digital book? So she didn't apologise and actually replace the product with a rectified equivalent or provide a refund? A digital book doesn't cost anything to copy so it's a cost-effective way of making people feel good, I guess. Shows how much the apology is worth!
@WiggaMachiavelli What she's saying is that it wasn't the authors fault. This would be a case where the author had uploaded the book using Amazon's Print on Demand system, and the books are only printed when they're ordered by a customer. But Amazon messed up on the printing and either had files get combined somehow, or pages from different books get combined. Either way, there's no way an author would intensionally do this as they'd have their account shut down in no time, which would be an expensive waste of their time.
Sometimes my anxiety is a blessing. If I'm overwhelmed with having to make a decision I freeze and don't buy anything. Happens when I'm at markets, chaotic shops, and when I see websites like Temu.
@@sonseraedesigns i have ADHD as well and same, I'll even be going onto the site with a specific item in mind but the barrage of alternatives, accessories, and whatever other shit they shove in your face just overwhelms me and I end up buying it later on somewhere else, usually an actual store if possible
I've only ever heard of TEMU in the context of "it's horrible, don't shop there." Thank you for taking the time to explain what TEMU even is because I honestly had no idea.
it is a discount merchandise online store which currently it loses an average of $30 per order. this is like playing you $30 per order for you to shop with them,
I work at a middle school and the STUDENTS are all talking about getting their friends on Temu so they can earn free stuff through referrals. It's a freaking nightmare.
I had one childhood friend who switched from our small private school to a big public school a couple years back, he was still in the class group chat though where he sometimes spoke. He’s basically unrecognizable from what i knew him as, and guess what he sent in said group chat? A Temu referral message. I guess the big school idiot teen culture got the best of him.
Thanks for the info. I had never heard of this company before I saw them pepper the super bowl with ads. I will be avoiding this company like the plague
Ever since the service came out, I've been wary of them. Something seemed off similar to wish which has become a joke to society at this point. Your video helps confirm my suspicions. Also the way they advertise didn't help. Often the best products sell themselves and barely need promoting.
Thank you!! I was trying to remember. Now I got it (who Temu is like.) I stopped buying from Wish, after the 3 strikes of sending me useless items that do not even match the pictures on the website 😩😢
The ads were so obviously suspicious it makes me sad how stupid the world is and how many people will allow companies like this to exist by shopping with them.
How the heck we gonna change consumer views? I used to be on the side of “cheaper being better”. I think there are a lot of innocent people who get duped by this. It’s gonna take some serious re-wiring for consumers to take a step back and evaluate the bigger picture. We’ve got to do it before it’s too late!
We need to go back to preferring products that last. Everyone says stuff isn't made like it used to be, it feels cheap and breaks after a few months. Yeah, it's cheaper but you have to buy more of them when you replace broken stuff and you end up with more trash than if you had bought something durable that cost more.
Consumer greed has taken over. their greed makes them want all that stuff so they spend their living wage on it and have no money left to live on. so they demand higher wages claiming they arent paid a living wage anymore. generous corporations wanting to keep employees happy raise prices to pay more and now you have inflation thats bankrupting those that arent greedy.
I appreciate that you were able to provide a very informative video about a know "scam" without actually buying items from the site. The creators that support it just to make content then rip on it as if they are the ones to make it known that the site sells junk are quite annoying.
@@frantaspacek That's nonsense and a lame excuse, if one want to live a not affected by others one could easily lead a life in the solitude of the mountains... 😅
@@anjunadeep.8384 what are you even talking about? I'm saying that you can complain about something because even if you personally have nothing to do with it, it can still affect you. I never wrote about living in mountains and don't know where you got that from. Maybe people want to live in a society but think that others being abused for cheap trash is not okay.
One of my HUGE pet peeves is when people talk about Shein or Temu like "So what, you hate poor people you don't want poor people to be able to afford stuff?" thing should be affordable obviously but no, Becky, you should not be buying 10 t-shirts a day just because they're cheap like ??? stop buying stuff all the time
I'm not rich at all but I buy high quality second hand and fix my clothes, I have very nice all natural linen and cotton fiber pieces and even some high end stuff because I buy used! It's nuts, being poor is not an excuse at all.
Don't get me started, that's the most biggest cope there is. To use myself and a close female friend as an example, I have giant and wide feet so I'm pretty much forced to go to a professional shoemaker/seller (luckily I have on in my village that won all kinds of awards) or go to a specialty shop. My shoes on average cost somewhere between 100 and 150 euro and generally last me around 1 to 2 years to the point where I'd go "yea, they're done". (and keep in mind these are odd-ball shoes due to giant size they are and how wide they are. Normal shoeshops in my country maybe have 1 or 2 pairs of slimline sneakers in my size if I'm luck and none that fit remotely decently. This also means they have a bit of an upcharge) My friend just LOVED shopping at Primark because it was dirt cheap and she wasn't particularly rich by any measure, basically a step up from aliexpress and similar Chinese selling sites by having a physical store and some brand deals. She bought her shoes there, standard size for around 30 to 40 euro. But they generally lasted for about a month to the point where I'd call it quits and she generally walked on them for a bit longer. Just the sheer economics of needing to buy just awful shoes every few weeks makes buy those dirt cheap shoes a worse deal. But you might say "ohh boy they the poors cant save money due to this", bullshit. She had multiple pairs. But even with low-cost items this still rings true. Socks I bought at primark lasted me a grand total of less than a week each and cost me 2 euro for 4 pair. Buying 3 pair for 5 euro at my usual place last me some months up to (probably) a year. And you can't tell me every single poor person can't save a grand total of 3 euro extra. One could do so by wearing flip-flops for a dollar for 2 weeks mid summer to save up the money that would otherwise would go to that weeks batch of new shit quality socks. Not to mention second hand is still a thing. These ultra cheap shops, be it online or not, don't save people money. They cost people money because it gives them a feeling of getting a good deal because it's cheap at the point of sale. And quite frankly a large part of the population, be it rich or poor, are just plain awful with money. It's a thing for people that are bad with money and for people that are shopping addicted.
It's actually a quite different issue you are talking about. Cheap price vs shopping binge. I can totally imagine many people buy from temu only stuff they need instead of always go shopping binge. Note shopping binge isn't a new thing. For people with higher income they could totally go shopping binge on amazon and other not-so-cheap places. It's a very real thing. Previously people with low income couldn't do that (or do that anyway with credit card and deeply regret it later), now they "have the right" to do shopping binge too...
@@howareyou4400 That's sort of the point, just because lower income people now _can_ shopping binge with places like Temu or Shein, doesn't mean they now _should._
Would love an Amazon deep dive video.. Amazon charges membership, and items are overpriced than most retails... some stuff might have the same quality as Temu..
I knew that temu was selling our info, which is why I never open one of their ads or buy their products. What I didn't know or think about was the exploitative practices towards their merchants, the people manufacturing this $hi# and the environmental aspect of the whole business model. Thank you for presenting this. Now...do Amazon!
Let me get this straight... do you really believe Amazon is not selling your data? If you do, you better wake up. Every social platform or online shop will eventually share or sell your data. If you are dumb enough to believe otherwise you deserve to be exploited by them. As for the environmental impact... Where do you think Amazon products come from? They are the same crap but sold to you at a higher price with sugar coating.
Please elaborate on how this particular business model exploits, pollutes and impacts the environment verses buying Chinese products from literally any store you walk into?
@@justjosie8963 You don't know whether Charlotte actually buys Chinese products or not from her local stores, so we shouldn't assume. But even if she did, she at least gets to see, touch and -in the case of clothes- try them before buying, so there is less chance of surprise. If a plastic is flimsy and looks easy to break, if a garment is sloppily cut, not symmetrical and doesn't fit well, if something described as wood turns out to be plastic... Those issues won't be there. And the very important issue of it not looking anything like the picture you saw online.
I have to admit I have bought from Temu, and for the most part, I’ve been satisfied with the products I’ve received. I’m not a big shopper, so my Temu purchases have been very modest. But the information you’ve shared here, has put me off further shopping on Temu. I agree, something is likely rotten to explain the unreal low prices Temu offers.
So what the different than you buys the product in Ebay and amazon? its the same product... because you buy it from our western company that make them better?
Thank you for addressing this issue and it is very obscure for the end consumer to know "how" and by "what means" something was made. I think you may do the world well by continuing to investigate Amazon. I have found that Amazon sells some of the same items from the same manufactures found on Temu. However, since Amazon is a US company it does come under scrutiny in this piece. Again, thank you!
I really wish there was more market for handmade stuff. I love making things but when I add time and material for the last quilt I made I would have to sell it for $1300 USD to pay myself $15 an hour.
Ur 100% right about Temu. Unfortunately there’s a hard limit to human compassion. We are conditioning our children further from seeing any kind of suffering. Yet we express to everyone we need “things.”
Amazon sells tons of cheap, poor quality Chinese products, but charges more. Many people would pay more for items if the items were good quality and had warranties.
When I need something, I will almost always check eBay, Amazon, and Temu to see who has the best price. Temu gets my business often. Haven't had a bad experience and relatively quick shipping. I wonder how long they will be around as they must be losing money.
I should emphasize that, for a lot of very poor people like myself, it's far better to shop at local thrift stores than it is to ever go near Temu and other scamsites. Not only are you getting similarly low-priced necessities (clothes and music especially, but also tools and books and tons of other things depending on the location), but you're also supporting those places and regulating the influx of items thrift stores get. If consumers don't buy from those shops and don't provide that regulation, then many of those stores are forced to turn down supply from other people, leading to more waste ending up in landfills. You can even get the same experience shopping at scamsites from shopping at thrift stores (the excitement of finding a cool product for very cheap) without supporting an incredibly terrible business. Although it should also be noted that not all thrift stores are ethical, especially those that aren't local; stores like Second and Charles participate in a lot of scummy practices to kill local thrift stores and sell overpriced used items. Bottom line; if a store is trying to appear flashy and upper class, it's more than likely the worst scum you'll find, whereas the shabby local thrift store with a bathroom covered in graffiti is most likely ethical in comparison.
i avoid shopping at Goodwills too now. Many utilize a loophole that lets them pay disabled workers less than minimum wage. they'll literally time how long it takes a disabled worker to do a task vs an able bodied person and dock their pay accordingly. and the worst part is theres no limit, they can literally pay them less than a dollar an hour, legally. its so fxcked. the law is called "Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act"
>for a lot of very poor people like myself But I've been told every furry was a highly successful IT worker making 300k in California and that the internet would LITERALLY disappear without furries???? Oh my God did I just get lied to??? Color me shocked, absolutely shocked
Second hand stores like Goodwill often area charging prices that area similar or even higher than buying brand new! It's unacceptable. In my area, buying from Goodwill is unaffordable. It's doubly disgusting because they get the items FOR FREE!! And it's proven they take advantage of their disabled workers.
We're OK financially and we shop thrift stores all time. Retail prices for clothes are out of bed. Unless it's a specialty item that I can't get elsewhere, I stay away from retail mostly.
Everyone I work with jokes about how they spend SO much money on temu. Ironically one of them has said “oh I don’t shop at Walmart bc it’s so cheap” This same person got flipflops this past summer on temu for like 1.50$ and talked about how they were sooo nice. It was the sh*tty type of flipflop made of rubber and they wore out after about two weeks and she was saying “oh I’ll just get more.. they were only $1.50!” Ughh it drives me crazy how obsessed they are.
Sounds like they need to put more thought into what they do, buying from temu especially a lot, says you don't put any thought and have any standards for what you buy, which doesn't look good.
I try and think of quality when I get stuff. Partially because I get used to, and attached to things more than the average person, so I want them to last longer, as is visible with me still having and wearing two pairs of Crocs that I got in 2008-2009 when they were still made in North America. I never understood the mindset of disposability with things like clothes, household goods, and so on. Then again, I was raised to wash and reuse Ziplock bags, and with a large emphasis on homemade things. Some of my favourite toys were things my dad made from wood, I have a blanket my mom crocheted, and pillowcases my grandmother made for me. Now I have her sewing machine still going strong after 50 years because it's metal and was a good investment. I love being able to sew and repair my own clothes with it, and make custom curtains and such for the house.
@@ChucksSEADnDEAD not that relevant since not from temu and stuff can last when it's cheap quality but more likely not too and temu sells clothes that don't look that good like why not just pay a bit more and get something nice.
To be fair to you, Amazon more or less demolished the brick and mortar industry. The only major bookseller left is Barnes and Noble. And walking into their stores is like a coffee shop met a toy store, with a side hustle as a record store, and they use already bestselling books as decor.
Bookstores will figure it out soon enough. Model it to be a bojuee, pay to enter lounge for people who want to read books on a giant couch they could never own themselves. @@seanwoods647
there's others for ebooks. kobo, lulu, google play. Problem is about 80 percent of our income comes from kindle unlimited - amazon's pay per month and read all you want program. we get like half a cent per page read, but they add up. But if you're in the kindle unlimited program, you are not allowed to publish your book anywhere else. If they even catch a chapter of it somewhere they can ban you from the kindle platform altogether, which is a nightmare scenario for authors. @@dannydaw59
I click the "Why Temu is a nightmare" video, and immediately get a Temu ad. 😂
Same here. 😂 I downloaded the Temu ad after Black Friday last year and ordered some kitchen ware and other cheap shoes, and it was so cheap. But then I kept getting multiple notifications from my app everyday for the next six months, which became rather annoying.
Me too lol
Yep, same...
I got a Temu ad going into this video 😂
Same.
As a tailor, I couldn't tell you how many people bring clothes to us and are shocked by our (reasonable for the labour involved) prices, and say "that's more than I payed for x item to begin with" like I'm supposed somehow magically get the work done in half the time so the price is half as much so the client can keep their bottom line at exploitative levels. Henny, these pants are so cheep bc they came from a sweatshop. My studio is not a sweatshop, and I nor my colleagues will work for sweatshop prices, please understand the difference
And I absolutely get that. I understand that it probably really would cost them $150 to replace the zipper on my coat. That doesn't change the fact that the coat itself cost about that much and that if I'm going to spend $150, it may as well be on a new coat.
@@leifmeadows3782 Can't argue with that, but that's why if you're just going to buy a new coat, you go and buy a new coat. You don't go to a local tailor and criticize their repair prices, as if they are supposed to donate their time to salvage your garment. (I'm reminded of "ending is better than mending" from Brave New World).
Option 3 is learn to replace the zipper yourself. Obviously we don't have the time to master every skill and do everything for ourselves, but it pays to be handy in as many ways as possible. Thankfully there is sort of a "maker movement", a lot of interest in DIY and "upcycling" etc., but we can always use more.
Say what, it doesn't even have to be a sweatshop...
In China they tend to have whole regions devoted to one industry. All the suppliers, all the skilled labor is just next to you. And then there's economy of scale as they don't produce 1000 shirts - it's 300,000 minimum (and if you get a low price it probably means your design is good enough and it'll be cloned and they'll make 3,000,000 shirts and sell it to everyone before you get your first shipment). Economy of scale and tight integration of everything work miracles, y'know!
Source: 20+ years in China, 16 of those in manufacturing.
They look like they bought twenty cent pants, if it's any consolation. Tailoring won't save those clothes. Thank goodness I still have a lot of good vintage stuff. And I can sew. But I will definitely use a tailor for anything heavy or difficult like jeans.
this is why I take into account tailoring prices if I'm trying something on that I like that doesn't fit me as well as I'd like it to -- because technically that accounts for the total cost of the piece. if I try something on that already costs $150 and it doesn't fit as well as it should then it's just not worth it to get it tailored lmao
Temu to me is so strange because…did people forget Shein? We were basically at the point of fast fashion=bad and starting to move forward from Shein and then…boom, popular asf.
One step forward two steps back :\\\
It's more than fashion. And fast fashion isn't bad. Obviously majority of people aren't as delusional as yall.
@@xaviersmith5154 How is fast fashion not bad? It's bad for the environment as it leads to overconsumerism and bad materials, it's bad for the workers who get paid less, it's bad for the buyers who get low quality items that don't last and thus become more expensive on the long run. Every single one loses, except the investors in the company.
agreed, plus I'm sure the plastics used in most of the temu kitchen ware products are gonna give everyone cancer
@@xaviersmith5154 "fast fashion isn't bad"? who's the delusional one here?
I am a Chinese student who saw this video because of my homework.The things said in the video had already happened in China 10 years ago, now we are facing more and more designed deceit and the customers are getting more cautious.Still, it is the best choice for the low-income people in China,especially the ad is eye-catching and easy to understand.I feel sad about it.I wish our people can have the best deal and live a actual decent life,but the fact is people are tired after the heavy work and never have the chance to think over the choices they are making.
I can’t agree more. I am a Chinese who has been traveling back and forth between US and China frequently in past 25 years. I 100% believe Temu/PDD is a scam so I have been fighting with it for years just to refuse installation of the app(I once accidentally installed and fought for deleting it). Now I am an American citizen and I don’t want these shameless people destroying my environment.
do many people in china shop from temu as well?
@@Diamond-b8t Definitely, it is called "Pin Duo Duo" in China
@@Diamond-b8tTemu is a western facing thing.
TEMU is NOT targeted to the Chinese consumer. They were created for, and make most of their money from the fees paid to them by Chinese merchants who want to break into the American market, and by selling your data. They make so much doing that, which is why they are ok if they lose money selling, even the cheaply made, for the cheapest of the cheap.
We only just started buying a few camping products on their site. Then suddenly started getting all the porn clickbait in our feed. 🙄 This company makes SHEIN look like a church site! This is not an app you want your kids using.
Their original prices are so inflated that we definitely did not believe the “savings” and even found some very similar products cheaper at our local Cabela’s and on sale at Amazon. But we did see a couple items we would consider that seemed like such a good deal. Several others had defective parts though and we had to send pictures and follow up with customer service to get returned. They heavily push for a store credit so they can just send you more crap rather than have to issue refunds. Most of their stuff is literally Dollar Store quality. But people love the dollar store too so…..
Then we also started having increased spam and some of the security issues like others. After researching we found out they are being investigated for syphoning and selling consumer data - which is mostly a problem for those who download the app. Also people are sharing that if shopping with them you better use a protected form of payment like Apple Pay or PayPal and not put you credit card info on your account. We get the appeal for cheap prices but our experience (and some others we talked to) were so bad that it is confusing to us when we see other consumers so pleased with them. We spend a lot of money shopping online but TEMU takes the prize for being the worst. Everything about this company for us is shady and ick. The few decent products we did like were sooooo not worth keeping the app with all of its yuck, cyber security issues, shady ownership and trash products. The TEMU name and brand image will forever be cringe for us and many people we keep talking to. The app has long since been deleted for us and the money saved was not worth what we now spend on extra computer and phone protection. Good riddance TEMU.
They once offered me an absurd amount of $$$ to promote their stuff. Even though the way the brand operates goes against my own product philosophy and shopping ethos, the offer was so disproportionately high that I often find myself regretting saying no because it honestly would have been incredibly helpful haha. But hearing some of the things you said in this video were timely reminders that the right choice was made. Glad you made this video.
You did the right choice, proud of you!
Maybe the right choice - you still missed out on a lot of money and that seems to be everything we care about today as a society.
Made the right choice, Another thing is to ask yourself where that money truly came from, It's suspicious if they offered so much with the amount of sponsorships they do.
The right choice is rarely ever the easy one to make, but I'm sure your audience will have a greater appreciation for your considerations I'm what to promote to them and trust you more for it down the line. Having a base audience that trusts you is much more profitable down the line than one quick buck would.
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Temu offered me a job in Shanghai to work with the localization for the Nordic region. They were expanding so quickly and so aggressively that they didn't even bother to verify if I actually spoke at least one Nordic language. The impression I get is that both Temu (being the overseas brand) and Pinduoduo (being the domestic brand) are burning unbelieveable amounts of money in order to get market saturation before the money runs out. It's a terrible business strategy, but very popular in China. Problem is that for 90% of companies it just leads to bankruptcy.
Let's hope Temu is part of that 90%.
@@MoriMementa Yes, for the sake of the planet I hope so. Problem is that if it happens, another player flush with VC money will step in and keep the garbage faucet running.
That's the strategy of most big companies (that have a siginificant tech department) nowadays.
Get capital, burn money, flood the market, get consumers addicted and kick smaller players out, then once they have a monopoly raise prices and profit.
(Either that or fail in the process)
@@MoriMementaI’m also hoping Target, Amazon, Walmart are part of that 90% as well.
@@jayg473 I wish Disney was near those 90% but end still in a state to be broken up into the dozens of already big firms it absorbed over the years. [Serious look up what firms they own and where they hold shares it is unbelievable and to me unethical.]
As someone who works in a warehouse with packages, my biggest annoyance is looking at how many Temu and Shien packages come in, they make up at least 1/3 of all packages I see its the worst.
That's actually so so sad 🤦♂
Your upset you have a job? Stfu and find something actually worth complaining about.
And the other ⅔ is Amazon
We all know that some amazon productos are the same as the temu ones because they come from china. Amazon sellers just increases their prices.
so they are providing you, or those in your close vicinity, a secure job. that's a good thing. fewer packages means fewer package warehouse employees. if my job was to manage packages, i would give thanks for all of them i see. that's just my outlook. you are free to look at a situation from any angle you please.
When I first saw ads for Temu, I thought that their shady business model and cheap crap were so transparently terrible that no one would actually shop there. Sigh.
They sell tons of great shit for great prices
@aidenfielding1348 They use human slave labor, shady business practices, a lot are made cheaply and poorly to a dangerous degree, and there are almost zero regulations ("Allegedly")
Sure, you're funding China for World War 3, but you'll die happy wearing some polyester pants for $3.42.
Going onto Temu's website feels akin to walking into a casino. It feels designed to overwhelm your senses. You can palpably feel changes to how your synapses are firing in your brain. You know you aren't finding anything good, but the products are arranged so randomly that you just want to scroll one more time to see what comes up next.
This has to be the best way I've heard Temu described and it's the truth
TEMU feels like "online looting".
You're right. It's addictive.
Tbh that sounds fun
It does feel like a casino 🎰
I think my adblock and algorithms are on point. It's 2023 and I'm on the internet on a daily basis. This is the first I've heard of Temu.
Check your calendar, it's Feb 2024
@@michelle.uncensored Hey, I have at least until March to keep making this mistake.
@@michelle.uncensored my brain is still stuck in 2022
almost the same for me the only other time i heard about it was one person saying it sucks
@@sealeo5772 lol, I feel that.
I hate that Temu has been so aggressively marketing through influencers. It’s been so disappointing to see how many of my favorite creators have been taking brand deals by them. Creators who I thought cared about human rights, the environment, or even just the quality of the products they’re advertising to their audience. Frankly, it makes me sick to see new products being sold so cheaply bc I know how shady it must be
Honestly if you’re a small creator who’s not making any money and you are a sponsorship deal come in, it’s very easy to just accept since you don’t get many
Yeah, the company's pretty awful all around. Of course we'd never work with a brand like this because our entire ethos is based around critical thinking and researching before you buy, but a lot of other creators might not even know what they're selling to their audience. We're just glad to contribute to the conversation surrounding this!
Being honest though, products and services that are sponsored through TH-camrs really aren't worth being bought or used.
I'm sure you heard enough about Lootcrate to know you don't want one or about Raid: Shadow Legends to not play it.
@@daveisdead I totallyy understand that. it's actually the larger creators I'm disappointed in, who have their own released products and books and such. but I hope they will eventually realise the truth about TEMU and Shein etc. and stop purchasing and promoting them in future. and I hope they get other better sponsors
I was really disappointed when I saw Ann Reardon (How to Cook That) promote Temu. She has to know how bad Temu is for the environment and how poorly their workers are treated. I guess the money was worth more than that to her. :(
If I see an influencer promoting temu, it's an immediate unfollow and block.
why are you following influencers in the first place
@@i_like_lemonsAre you watching a youtube video? Then you're following the content of an influencer.
@@Cantripping not all youtubers are influencers bud
When I was growing up if somebody was influencing you it meant that you were a weak stupid human being and now people seem to Revel in it
@@Cantrippingwell I'm about to set up a TH-cam channel and I will be saying regularly for people not to subscribe that way my audience doesn't have to be tortured by these evil ads
I currently work at the UPS Store and the amount of returns from Temu (and especially Amazon) is an absolute nightmare for the planet. Even if this clothing is resold once returned, every single return must be placed in one of those shipping bags. If the clothing isn't immediately thrown in the trash, the shipping bags certainly are. I know some waste is inevitable but you can't even imagine how out of hand it's gotten.
Exactly the reason why I don’t buy online at all.
That's why I refuse to clothes shop online. But unfortunately, most stores closed their dressing rooms during covid and never reopened them.
You dint think that retail items don't arrive in plastic?
Not only plastic but also tissue paper. And it all gets thrown away.
@@honestytoafault they weren't saying that stuff doesn't arrive in plastic - we all know it does, but it's thinking about how much plastic gets thrown away needlessly as a result of buying/returning stuff from companies like Temu. Most people just don't stop to think about that, they only see what they're getting/sending and it really doesn't seem like much when it's only your stuff you're dealing with.
@@susanlee7079 buying online cuts out the middleman.
If you buy something at Walmart, it comes from a US warehouse and that comes from a warehouse in China which comes from the manufacturer.
On Temu you buy it directly from the factory that makes it, it goes to a port in China then customs in the US, then the domestic postal system and then your house. There’s no need for the product to sit in American warehouses then American retail stores.
I was once told, that if something is abnormally cheap for how much time, skill, and effort it takes to make it, someone else is paying the price.
This is exactly accurate. Made me think of a Lucy Siegle quote: “Fast fashion is not free. Someone, somewhere is paying the price.”
@@velichor Who cares? i don't Lmao
@@xXVibrantSnowXx people who have enough self reflection not to be egoist I guess
Cool 😃👍.
As long as its not me
What about rtechnology and automation? On average, Mercedes makes one car per employee per month. Which implies they could (in theory) sell one car for an avg monthly German salary.Which is lower that $5000. So they could dump Mercedes cars at avg price of $5000 w/o screwing anyone working there.
PDD has perhaps the worst record of employee treatment. Several its workers died of overworking just last few years and the company did everything to cover it up.
China is just bareky above north Korea in terms of human rights.
You think the kids digging up the Cobalt for your iPhone or Tesla are doing better than PDD employees? Think again. Capitalism is built on exploitation.
and consumer/employee greed drives it
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That's why they had a new factory built for better working environment?
they just offered me 28 loose teeth and an adorable cat shelf for $8 and im fighting with myself. I dont even know wtf the teeth is about
What
You DEFINITELY need to make the Amazon video. The amount of people who just let it be "out of sight, out of mind" could use a refresher.
I used to shop on Amazon all the time, and now it's been years since I purchased anything from it. I haven't gone anywhere near Temu for the same reasons. I'm glad videos like this exist.
+1
They should that site is just as gilty as this site is as was ebay thir no saints.
@@squakers9950you haven’t said why you stopped at least using Amazon for certain things.
I don’t get how he brings up “unbridled consumerism” then tries to protect the major companies that sell ‘luxury’ items for insane prices from discount sites?? I mean c’mon.
It’s like the old saying. “Just because you have a coupon, it doesn’t mean you have to use it”
So you shouldn’t use the coupon?
@@zero1188 if you don't need to.
let's say you have a 50% coupon at IKEA, a more reputable store (and a very generous coupon). You don't currently need to buy anything, no closet, no chair. You don't need anything, but the coupon entices you to go buy something. Yes, you may have saved X $, but you still go and buy something from the company, in turn, they make money. This is how coupons work, especially if it has an expiry date on it. They make you feel like you are missing out on money if you DON'T buy something from them, when in actuality the companies are the ones benefitting from them most.
If however you were already looking for an IKEA bed and you happen to get a coupon, that's fair game. The companies take this into account and have to balance the "enticing-ness" (leading to more sales) and the loss of money through purchases with coupons.
I hope I explained that in a clear way.. I'm not the best at it...
@@zero1188 meaning JUST because it’s cheap, you don’t need to buy it😊
Per-this videos point👍🏼
I've never heard that saying, but I like it.
My mental trick is when I see "save 50%", I revert that in my mind as "I'm spending 50% more than I planned". (except in rare cases when I needed something)
My sister will absolutely be mad at you if you say that
She's like the most easy target to get fucking scammed or something
Any voucher or coupon given to her will be used
I was bombarded with Temu ads for several months on TH-cam. The sheer aggression of their forceful presence immediatly were red flags for me. It took many times of me clicking on "stop seeing this ad", for it to finally go away.
Yeah, I'm bombarded too! After many MANY times clicking on stop seeing this ad and kept seeing it anyway I stopped caring because it just seems impossible to get rid of it
yours went away?! lol!
install an adblocker then lmfao
imagine actually letting ads exist.
I thought I was done with those ads but then I got one on this video...
@@SPZ-gv2on Highly, _highly_ recommend getting an ad blocker. TH-cam tries blocking them, but ad blocker devs are powered by spite and move faster than they can. Ublock Origin is fantastic on browsers and incredibly simple to install, and on mobile there's TH-cam Revanced (which can be a bit more complicated, but there are lots of tutorials available)
I am so shocked at 12:25! I'm casually watching this video, and suddenly, my brother pops up on the screen. He's one of the guys running down the hill 😂 He's the one who is grey with no shoes on. It's called the Gloucestershire cheese rolling, and I came second place this year!!
Temu is the Raid Shadow Legends of online shopping: ubiquitous and obnoxious ads for what seems like at best a sketchy product.
Same with Shein. I swear to god 25% of ads I get on TH-cam are Shein ads
I had a colleague once who played world of tanks.
This idiot was so happy to play that game after shifts and in his weekends.
He has a wife and a daughter, I pity them both.
60+ and still doing manual labor.
at least no one actually play raid
I have gotten many good items half the price of amazon from Temu. No regrets.
I wonder if it would be like Hero Wars, which seems like a sketchier version of Raid: Shadow Legends
My mother moved in with me about 5-6 months ago & has been getting Temu packages delivered almost nonstop since the day she moved in. She complains about 90% of the things she ordered being the wrong size or otherwise useless, but she will not stop. It's awful.
😂😢
average boomer behavior
@a_r_a_i_z_a I worked for a family that was fairly wealthy and the husband would order cheap stuff every day from Amazon and others. I call it "the Christmas mentality" of needing the fix of getting a box in the mail to open every day. I think there are a lot of people like your mom in the world.
Your mom needs to pull up the sizing information since the sizes are Asian.
My mom has bought many things, including clothes and shoes and has never had issues with things fitting. Idk if people don't know how to pick stuff, but there's actually great deals on there.
I come from a family of independent book publishers. Amazon absolutely killed their business and they were forced to close, basically as a result of 6:30. Thanks for bringing attention to this.
Makes me really glad that book prices in my country are fixed, so Amazon was not able to push all the small bookstores out of business.
Pepe, the book industry died when I could download your entire supply on a portable device.
The fuck, dude, the book industry is dead. You can download your entire countries book supply onto a SD card now.@@jochenklausberger9076
@@jochenklausberger9076 just get e-books at that point, completely kill off price fixed paper.
@@420......... Not everyone wants to read on a tablet. Plenty of us still enjoy books.
I am woodworker, selling product online here in indonesia, this is simply predatory pricing, losing money in purpose, tiktok shop did that last year, then the gov ban them, just to return searching some loophole, with merging etc. I am a producer, and its hard to keep competitive, imagine the resellers and dropshippers. The "destroy" the market price and people expectations of absurd prices
So where would one buy your products in Europe or the US? Like which site do ya use?
The first Temu ad that I saw made me think: no way can you make that dress for that money. Someone is getting screwed. It also made me sad that the tags were "I feel RICH! I feel like a billionaire!" Like, millionaire doesn't cut it any more. Then there's the whole image of buying stupid shit for random people who neither want nor need it. It's very sad that the concept of well-made, quality items that last, that you saved up to afford and look after carefully seems to have gone by the wayside.
Just billionnaires usually don't buy cheap knockoff... their edge, at most, is second hand. Still better than those cheap knock-offs.
@@D.von.N The meaning behind it is that thanks to the knockoffs you can have similar products as a billionaire because you can afford the knockoffs. But it's a valid point - rich people don't buy crap they don't need, it's only poor people who do that, which is one of the main reasons why they are poor...
The only place to get truly well made items built to last these days is the luxury watch industry lol. Everything else has been sent straight to the bottom courtesy of the economic conditions. If you make quality items for reasonable prices what happens now is you just go out of business shortly after.
@@Berkeloid0 LMAO "rich people dont buy crap they dont need" yeah bc the rich REALLY need multiple mansions/properties, luxury cars, yatchs, private jets, vacations, drivers, chefs, maids etc. tell me youre a simp for rich people without telling me. poor people spending is bad but foh if you think rich people are these frugal gurus that only waste money on necessities. if you really think wealth gap is an issues that can be solved if the poor just "stopped buying crap they dont need" then congrats youre smooth brained .
You are over-simplifying. The reason that rich people have multiple properties is because they are doing business in multiple locations around the World and spend maybe a month or two in each location and (for them at least) it's cheaper to buy a property and set it up the way they want it than to stay in a hotel. As for the private jets, with all the travelling they do the same principle applies. Flying these days is apparently not the luxury experience it used to be even if you do travel first class. Employing chefs, maids, etc also makes sense if they are hosting clients at home for business meetings. @@glamglam8347
I'm from Sweden and I have never downloaded or even visited Shein and Temu just on principle due to their shady dealings. Selling the clothes that just Shein sells are made with slavery wages. What makes me more furious is that I have worked at Klarna that handles buying things and pay via invoice later, and the amount of people that buy several products from Shein just to return 80% of their products to get destroyed as they returned. People handles it like it is only a price and no people are taking the consequences and Temu is very likely the very same thing. Amazon I also refuse to buy from unless I can't find thing anywhere else since I can't stand how Jeff Bezos handles thing.
wish there were more people like you. unfortunately, the vast majority of people won't stop to think about their actions and are easily manipulated. i don't think even being made vaguely aware about the consequences of their choices is enough to stop them. a race to the bottom.
I couldn’t agree more.
Amazon is easily avoidable, I don't make excuses to shop there.
@@larrylobster9896If youtube comments are anything to go by, most people do not even care about others, or the state of the world that they live and breed on.
@@larrylobster9896Sadly, there’s also the group who are aware but believe it is the govt’s job and not theirs to change behavior
I used to sell jewelry and other art at small local markets. I got so fed up and frustrated with "I can get this only better on Amazon for a fraction of that price!" I quit selling. It's depressing.
Honestly, its this and the same company's totally taking over local markets
I used to love going to my local Christmas market, there would always be really interesting and unique things at reasonable prices (considering they were hand made) but as of about 6 years ago all the supposedly "hand made" items are just junk from alibaba
Completely stopped going when I bought some jewellery from a "local craftsman" who claimed he made it all himself from our local jet... and then 3 days later on the other side of the country I found a totally different guy selling the EXACT same jewellery.
Stopped using etsy for the same reason, It's mostly just alibaba crap resold at a premium price
I watched my mother struggle with the downfall of craft-fairs for many years before she was able to pivot into a pretty successful Ebay store that sold custom bottle-caps.
Hardly an original idea, but it was pre-etsy days and she used a disgustingly pungent brand of resin to seal pictures onto them in a way few of her contemporary competitors could compete with.
It's been many years since she quit and still hates looking at the boxes of spares we allow just about anyone to pick through for free. I've come to learn the crafting world is just a glittery version of life's darkness.
thank goodness you didn't have to deal with smash and grabbers!
How rude that someone would say that at a market 🤦♀️🤦♀️
I had something similar, used to work in a small computer store about 15 years ago. We didn't have the buying power of a large company so our prices were admittedly higher than online. But one thing we never budged on was laptop power supplies, we insisted on getting the genuine articles because of the amount of untrustworthy fakes. Once a customer complained that the power supply was too expensive and she could get one online somewhere for half the price. Which she did, only for her to come back in to us a couple of weeks later because the cheap knockoff she bought blew up!
Amazon charges 10 times more for the same item on TEMU... But Americans LOOOOOOOVE paying more for the same product because the cheaper price is on a "Chinese" website... 90 percent of Amazon and Walmart products are from China.. Even Apple computers are made in China....
I bought pompom flowers from Amazon for 20.00. Saw similar flowers on Temu and purchased them for 2.00. Imagine my surprise when I placed them next to the Amazon flowers....IDENTICAL! Crazy
There are a lot of items on Amazon that are items that would have been on Temu but that want to try and sell the same item at a higher price.
Personally, I think both are fucking disgusting though. It's about how shit the product is, not about how Chinese the website is.
Having struggled to buy. Functional fucking cables. From anywhere. For a while. It's becoming to be an issue... Like, bro, your adaptors don't carry half the data they're supposed to. The wattage isn't right and the charging rate is attrocious....
This comment.
It's far from the "same" though. It's cheap garbage
Much higher quality stuff on Amazon
I’m currently in Teacher’s College. Last year during placement I noticed a bunch of kids in a high school class were super distracted by their phones (more than usual), one girl in particular kept bothering other students to get them to download some app. After confronting her I found out it was Temu, they were doing one of these promotions where you have X amount of time to recruit a certain number of your friends to sign up to get a deal. My first thought was it sounded like some disturbing combination of a pyramid scheme and the lottery.
It’s bad enough we have social media in the classroom, now we have these exploitative companies using gambling tactics to get teenagers addicted to shopping. Teens are so vulnerable to these tactics and these companies absolutely know that.
Companies like Temu will always exist to exploit naive people. It's quite sad that they have been able to get millions of teenagers to become an incessant advertising tool. Especially as this will only serve to harm friendships, as people get sick of constantly being used by their peers in the hope of getting a deal that was clearly too good to be true from the outset.
happened at my school too
😉Nothing new! ebay DID IT, amazon DID IT, wish does it, aliexpress and Alibaba does it. Temu is just on a trend right now and of course it does the same 'lure in' tactics to sign up....
You're not too far off by comparing it to a lottery/pyramid scheme hybrid. When I was sent the invitation link, it led me to a set of digital reels that spun to show I had won the top prize of 3 free gifts if I invited 3 or so more friends. The most insidious part of all this is that I'm pretty certain that the reel "spin" is just a animation for show and you will always get 3 free items but it preys upon combining the percieved good luck with a timed window to pressure you into inviting as many people as you can to win your prizes.
My friend asked me to join temu for that reason, and it was so difficult to turn her down, but I didn't want to sign up for something with doubtful intentions
My feelings on Temu is that if you buy at dollar store prices, expect dollar store quality.
It isn't 'cheap' or 'inexpensive' if the quality is trash. It's just what you paid for at the price you paid for it.
I place one order on temu when it was new and this simply didn't ring true to my experience. There was a make up case I'd been looking for for over a year, everywhere I found it online it was simply too expensive for me (almost £100 for a plastic case) I even asked my local Chinese store that gets direct shipments from China if they could find it to no avail. I found it on Temu for £30. It was the exact one, it came, the quality was completely fine, the plastic wasn't wrapped or damaged in any way and I've had it since with no issues. I expect it to last at least 5 years.
@@scarlettdamante4945 Oh yes. I've made two orders from Temu. They sell the exact same items on Temu as they do in many amazon fronts for much cheaper. It's just I don't really think 2$ for a hairclip is 'super insane cheap' like a lot of people seem to indicate. I worded it in a round about way, but I don't think Temu is horrible if you shop mindfully and/or can't afford more expensive 'ethical' alternatives (or you don't have time to spend 4 hours researching everything you buy)
It can be disappointing sometimes, no different than amazon but im surprisingly impressed way more than disappointed
You are aware that Amazon sells the same shit from China but with 100% price increase, right? RIGHT?
And they're even like half the price of dollar store items! What scares me, is that when CBC Marketplace did an investigation into Amazon, they found a lot of lead beyond safe levels, and with Temu being worse in pretty much every way, I can't imagine their stuff being safe from such toxins. Especially with makeup/skincare and toys, I can't trust anything that cheap to be safe.
I live in a small Bulgarian village. People here still go to the local shops to buy what they need. The main street is buzzing with life. I know the names of the store keepers and they know me. Unfortunately, Temu is here as well. I wish there is a way to stop these discount shops. We trade our lives for cheap trinkets that we can live without.
But this is the closest thing to Amazon that we can have here, and to be honest I don't feel bad about ordering from temu. The same things from the mall but really on a different price and many many times it is the only place where you can find something. All the companies use sweat shops - designed in Sweden, produced in Cambodia...
@medina__anidemGood for you. Me, neither. Not from Wish, not from Temu, and not Shein nor any new companies that will come out in the future.
100% agree for most things. but for niche things e.g. I needed a buff to protect me from sunburn - $50 in a chain store or $2 from temu. Otherwise I despise the philosophy of consumerism it promotes. I wish there were more small businesses for staple items e.g. bakeries, bookshops, butchers, vege markets etc rather than chain stores that remove all character from small towns and cities
@@greg1439 I am not sure what the answer is but I hate to see our small stores disappear.
Your small village is a gem. Keep supporting each other. Good for all of you.
Also, we must keep in mind that this Temu pre enshittification. Once Temu reaches market saturation, expect those suspiciously low prices to be a thing of the past. Their garbage will be as expensive as locally bought stuff but with no rise in quality of manufacturer compensation.
So true. The prices are already going up. Amazon sellibg the identical products for more
I refuse to buy from Temu for the same reason I refuse to buy from Wish and Shein: I don't trust that their products are safe. Here in Germany, products from Shein were tested for their safety and for example, a yellow children's raincoat was found to have 20 times the legal lead level, if I recall correctly.
Of course not every item is going to have this kind or level of contamination but the fact that it happens at all makes me refuse to spend my money there.
Why does a raincoat have lead in it??
Aliexpress is about as trustworthy as amazon, it's a marketplace so anyone can sell dangerous goods but they are pretty good at dealing with this stuff.
It really brought Chinese warehouses a way to sell to western consumers.
@@gossamera4665 If I had to guess, probably unchecked contamination.
@@gossamera4665 Lead paint and varnish made it into pvc.
@@kelmanl4 I don't trust either of them. Aliexpress started as a doods, overproduction and bad business leftovers websites from alibaba. Basically alibaba was the place were the good deals with wholesale were made and whatever didn't sell, had quality issues or misspelled, made its way to aliexpress to liquidate in smaller quantities.
I think it should also be considered that people gravitate towards aggressive deal sites in part because they also feel like so many other companies/industries regularly take advantage of them (think airlines, streaming/cable, insurance etc) so it can be hard to let go of something that makes you feel like you're coming out ahead for a change
Excellent point!
wrong, people want to have stuff for the lowest price possible, no matter the consequences!
But you’re not coming out ahead. It’s cheaply made garbage whose shipping costs are subsidized (via an international postal treaty) with your tax dollars.
I didn't realise how addictive this kind of shopping apps can be until I saw my mum using the one of Shein. Almost every week she buys a bunch of stuff that she never uses. Clothes that are too small for her but she doesn't ever return. Shoes that are too uncomfortable to wear, sunglasses that do no really protect from the sun, etc. She buys staff just because the feeling she gets when buying and receiving the items, but most of them end up in her closet, never to be used. And I think Temu must be even worse because of the low prices.
im not sure if i'm right but i heard that even if u return clothing it doesnt go back to the shop's storeroom, but simply goes to trash and thats awful.
resell them
for some ppl its the opposite, i get anxiety and nausea when im on those sites, which is why i never spent a dollar on them.
@@victor.i Just like 98% of amazon returns tho, and it is heavily documented.
@@sirzebra amazon is not a fast fashion brand like shein
Temu: Cheap Chinese Products
Amazon: Not cheap Chinese products
Amazon IS cheap chinese products too though. Just overpriced ones.
Exact same products on Amazon and Temu. From the same damn factory in China. Temu just 1/3 of the price but with 2-3 week shipping instead of 1-2 day shipping.
Temu: Cheap Chinese Products
Amazon: Cheap Chinese Products with a 30% markup
Every crap sold on Temu is also on Amazon, for 30% markup to compensate for the 2 day "FREE" shipping
@@johnyoung823 Exactly
@@jessy1982 that amazon gladly makes 30% margin on every sales. 😂
I had to laugh when you said it's like a trash Amazon or something, because I think Amazon has become just as bad as sites like these. Ignoring that their site is now utterly awful to navigate and use, the amount of fake/dupe products on there with ridiculous names (often including a Chinese name or word) is scary.
I find Amazon amazingly easy to navigate! It saves me time, money, gas and waste..
@@justjosie8963 But most of the stuff they peddle is trash.
@@justjosie8963 I also agree that it's easy to navigate, but you have to do detective work to find out whether the shop selling a product is Chinese or not. Sometimes the writing style gives them up, at other times you have to look where the product is shipped from, and some of the times even if you look at the storefront of that shop it's very difficult to ascertain. But when you see an identical item being offered at more or less the same price by a dozen different shops, you can bet where it comes from.
exactly, at least for some items, Amazon is simply way more expensive than Temu (random fitget toy for example). It is not like Amazon version has better quality or anything.
amazon is much nicer than this lol. you get some quality items! i have a coat my mom bought from there for me and its still good. a normal coat, unlike a coat you'd buy from that site..
Temu had always been sketchy. Glad its been brought to the light
We didn't even know it was a thing until earlier this year and now we're just hoping it stops being a thing soon 😅😩
Honestly I couldn't care less. Everything is 3x more expensive than it should be, equal amounts of exploitation, my labor is undervalued, and I'm left worse for wear. So I don't much care as long as the stuff I get from temu actually works. Just like 75% of Americans I'm too poor to be so haughty with my morals.
@@AnonsTreasures 👏
@@AnonsTreasures The Leftist take on it all is that there is no ethical consumption under capitalism. Look at influencers who tell you something is unethical -- their alternatives are also unethical 100% guaranteed. "Temu exploits workers!" yeah no shit, welcome to capitalism. Videos like this missing the point are frustrating.
@@MillieMoses Frankly my problem is how un-utilitarian most are when they approach "social change" if that is really the goal half the time. People will do what is practical and most beneficial (generally in the short term). This is even more exacerbated now because of the tough times we've found ourselves in. Ethical consumption in any respect isn't on the minds of those who don't have the money to even feed themselves. It's cool if you can do it and it makes you feel good, but frankly most of that stuff is as diminished of a return as you can get.
Just let me buy my cheap chinese garbage that I could buy equally as exploited for 5x the price but instead I'm giving my money to poor ol' Jeffery Bezos.
Maybe it was covered on this channel, but I want to bring up a tangent issue: stores that are physical and online (Target, Wallmart, Macy's, etc.) that no longer bring all their merchandise in store. Often those are the best looking items too. Instead of walking up to a store, trying on the clothes/shoes, I have to order them home (often in 2 different sizes) and then haul 90% of it back to the store to return because they are not how they looked online or/and don't fit. This is so annoying. Let me try stuff and then just buy what I need and be done with it.
This seems to be a lady thing. As a man i have never bought clothes online.
@@Lobonova Gonna disagree with that. Dunno where you live, but I've gotten sick of wasting my time going to the high street where the mens clothes have dwindled to about 25% of what's being sold, and all look the same. And whenever I go there aren't many dudes shopping, with the exception of teenagers in urban sportswear shops. From everything I see men must be shopping at the high street even less than women these days.
Especially plus size. Target has an awesome dress I was given but it’s not available in store because they stopped carrying plus size altogether where I live.
@@Lobonova I've started buying jeans online because as a man that is 5 foot 6 inches tall my local stores don't carry inseams under 30 inches.
@@Lobonova tshirts, medium, that's it.. don't look at anything else hahahah
We have been familiar with this chip Chinese product in IRAN for many years because of the sanctions on a lot of American and European products we couldn't find the original products. Believe me, the quality is sacrificed to the price (you get what you pay!), and in the end, you lose your money because you have to throw it away in no time! That's the trap of Chinese chip products.
This video reminds me of conversations I had with someone who was almost violently opposed to people shopping at Walmart. At the time I was struggling to raise a family while the other person was older & much more comfortably well off. I remember telling them I agreed with all their reasons why I shouldn't shop at Walmart but in my current situation I couldn't afford not to. Since then my kids have become adults & I can't even tell you the last time I set foot in a Walmart.
With Temu though I knew it was bad from the moment I saw it, same as Wish & Shein. There are affordable prices & then there are stupid low prices that should be a red flag to anyone that the quality is going to suck if you receive any product at all. And having heard a number of times about Temu losing $30 per order it doesn't take many brain cells to wonder how & why a company would do that & expect to stay in business - unless they're getting something even more valuable from their shoppers like personal information. Do I want to hand over my info to any company,much less one based in China? Nope, & neither should anyone else.
I do. I want to hand over my information to china i dont care. But I do not shop on temu.
Pretty much every company who operates online will take your data. Google is notorious for this and we are watching videos on TH-cam, which is owned by Google. They may sell your data to a data broker. Things like your phone number, or which websites you visit. But I've not heard of them take your bank information and sell it (as shown in the video). Point is, USA companies are no better than Chinese ones when it comes to taking and sharing your data. It's just the laws and restrictions in China are more relaxed when it comes to online privacy.
Even if you are ok with your data being shared about, you will get emails from these basement bargain online retailers until the end of time. I made the mistake of making a Wish account a few years ago and they bombard your inbox like nothing else. Luckily it was on a spam email address (I recommend having one email address dedicated for spam for this reason) and most modern email clients have built in spam filters which detect marketing emails like Wish sends out. But still, I wouldn't recommend going anywhere near Temu or the like.
@@bearmugs1408 I'm aware & even worse, I've worked in retail a long time so I've been complicit in helping companies gather that info. Companies nearly hold you hostage to hand it over or you lose our on sale prices, points or rewards, sometimes you can't even access their site. I haven't been able to look at Targets website for awhile because I won't answer their questions & even my long standing Pinterest account won't let me in now unless I give them my date of birth. Sorry, not their business. It's been years since I gave Every Plate a try & didn't like it but they sometimes still send me multiple emails in one day. I've become that person in line who keeps shaking their head no through the whole sales pitch & if a website wants too much info before I can proceed I simply won't order from them. It isn't much & it does make my life more difficult but I do try to keep my business my business.
I'm a senior living on Canada Pension. yer darn right I shop at Temu and Walmart. Since I only discovered Temu recently, I've only placed one order. Almost every item in it it was something I had been looking at elsewhere at higher prices. None of it was unnecessary stuff bought just cause it's on a flash sale. I'm 70, fer Chrissake! I can resist high pressure sales tactics.
I assume right from the start that Temu was underselling in order to buy into the market - same way Amazon did. And Japan before them. In my youth, "Made in Japan" was a synonym for cheap crap, which Japan mass produced to make up in volume what was lacking in quality. That's how they turned into the Asian Tiger and look at them now.
By the time Temu has turned into the next Amazon, there'l be another Temu; and, I'll be buying from them.
Oh, and everything I've got from Temu has been worth the price paid.
I don't have a lot of money, but I would still shop at Walmart over Temu.
Here's a good rule of thumb. If you've ever seen a company, product, or service spam you on a cell phone game app ad...avoid said company. Nice and simple.
Even better: just avoid all companies.
you're on youtube, google is a company@@Tendomcgoobin
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Even better: just avoid everyone
I have this rule about advertising in general. When do I actually buy anything that they try to sell me? Never. And the brands that I actually respect don't need to advertise, because quality speaks for itself. So if I see your ad, I avoid your brand.
When I saw all the different influencers from various genres were doing Temu I knew something was up. Plus everything was too cheap. I never went on the site because I didn't want to be drawn into it. Something about them never felt right.
Bought a bunch of cheap stuff from them, works just fine. I even went to compare them with those on Amazon. Guess what, same pic and the same detail but is more expensive on Amazon. Turns out Amazon sellers are mostly from China selling the same things on Amazon. Well, unless you are the upper of the upper middle class (on the +2 sigma side of the normal distribution graph), I earn 6 figures in NYC and I still can't live as nice as my parents back in the 90s. They were blue-collar workers. I tell you what does not feel right, the current state of this world. My generation and the following generations will continue to suffer. Who cares right? It's a dog-eat-dog world now. Those people that created this mess are probably gone or will soon be leaving this world.
@@spika5872 You are the people who created this mess, since you are the consumerist people buying tons of sh*t on amazon. Makes you feel better to blame others though doesn't it... while you do everything just as bad, or worse than they did.
Prices on Temu is actually still higher than that in China. It's just the stuff in US and other "developed" countries are too expensive.
Temu is officially ruining the internet. I watch a lot of home decor videos to get ideas for my house and lately more than half of them are sponsored by Temu. As soon as the name Temu is mentioned I immediately stop watching the video and unsubscribe from the creator if I'm subscribed to them. Lately this is almost every video. Also, I think it's discouraging that in the comments of these videos people do call out TH-camrs for being sponsored by Temu and the response is always "Thank you for telling me. I had no idea this company was so problematic." Or something along those lines. If you're going to sell your soul, at least own it. Anywho, thanks for making this video. Glad to know there are still people on TH-cam with morals.
I did a video on Temu and had to have the same grim ending. There is no silver lining with them, it's just that bad.
It's honestly pretty disheartening to see their meteoric rise when they're so obviously awful
Because they Chinese companies? You have same feeling against FTX?
@anubizz3 it’s not that they’re Chinese, it’s the human rights and labor rights, among other things
@@djsaidez271 really you don't seems to really care when you buy fast fashion in zara, h&m and other? How about buys stuff made from. A country that actually kill millions of people base on fake WMD to justify invading other countries?
For me, it's because they are Chinese. Sure, you're funding communist China for World War 3, but you'll die happy wearing some polyester pants for $3.42!
The problem is I've noticed a lot of 'small local businesses' where I live are obviously buying stock from Temu and then marking it up 900%. So by supporting them you are indirectly buying from Temu anyway. We're screwed!
Yep, I bought some shoes from a "growing local business" with their own website that always wanted reviews, replied personally, said they designed a new color/type of shoe for the first time... Basically watching it expand from the ground up as they got more popular.
Then I found the same shoes, with more colors, on Temu! For a fraction of the price! And it had been there for years before this "local made" business started!
I felt so scammed since I overpaid for the shoes thinking I'm supporting a business, when it was just shipped from China and had their logo added!
I have seen these too! I buy a lot of craft supplies on Temu and have seen the same stuff on Amazon, local craft stores, and online retailers for MUCH MUCH more
Capitalism yeyyy
@@roxylius7550 More like Socialism. They can be so cheap, because the US government subsidies the transportation, so it is almost free for Chinese businesses to send around the world to the US. Meanwhile small businesses are overtaxed, over-regulated and have to pay minimum wages this Chinese businesses don't have to pay, but imports are not taxed to compensate this.
@@cherubin7th us government subsidized what? Source?
Sucks cause everytime I want to buy something and search for it, my search results are flooded with temu ads. I used to get locally available or at least national stores up but now NO matter what I search for temu apparently had a cheaper version i’m not interested in
Just goes to show that American Companies like Google are just as much on board with that as the chinese companies like Temu. If Google would be responsible and not air Temu ads, the whole model wouldn't work. But they are not responsible. They are capitalistic. If it makes money it's right.
Temu struck me as shady - to say the least - the moment I first saw an ad for it. I'm shocked how people don't see that.
my options are: I shop cheap at amazon, target, Walmart, etc. who are all shit and treat people like shit, or I shop even cheaper at Temu who is doing the same thing and is just as bad. what tf am I supposed to do I do not understand where tf im supposed to shop, second hand things are just as expensive as new, anything that is quality is way too expensive for me as a student, so where do I buy things that I need? like I do not understand how I am supposed to afford college, rent, and even basic shit for my life, its a struggle even with cheap shit from amazon and other places but I have no idea how im supposed to afford buying *high quality things that are all perfectly ethical and green*. makes no sense, I can barely afford the cheap shit let alone the "good" stuff....
Capitalism yeyy
@@roxylius7550Get a job commie
I totally understand what your saying ❤
Facebook marketplace lol
exactly, keep buying from temu and keep ur costs low. why worry about the environment or others? after all, ur only on earth for 80 yrs
I hate shops like Temu and Shein so much. It got to the point in my personal life where I had to BEG my parents to stop buying from them, because they’d be buying gifts from those shitshows that again, were shit, for other people because my parents both have online shopping addictions and “it’s such a great price, you can’t beat that deal!” And they live for the high of getting packages in the mail.
Their businesses make me sick, Their businesses made me have to explain the difference between a LOW price and a GOOD price (which are VERY different).
As someone who works on the retail returning end of amazon, temu, etc., I have gotten to see the explosion of people with this invented addiction of online shopping and subsequent returning because people are buying way more than they can return. And as time goes on each company makes the process more confusing to prevent those addicted people from making the return. And most people involved in the return process are ripped off through this process with no choice. At my specific store, about 80% of our traffic and time is amazon returns that we make no money from, because the corporate overlords brokered the deal with amazon and receive all the profit.
personal responsibility
Low price is good price 👍
So what ya talking about ?
@@TassieJake A low price isn't always a good price if you're getting crap quality, or the people who make the items are treated like slaves. Would it be a "good price" if your company sold it's products or services at 1/10th the price it currently does, and paid you $8 a day?
I'm the same way and I got my mom a while ago to even stop buying me any brand clothing or anything at all. I have enough and I don't need anything that isn't 100% my style and comfortable. To give an example, I have about 20 pairs of boxers that are Fruit of the Loom and all the exact same, and I love them because they are really comfortable. I threw out all my other underwear that were from different brands because most of them were through presents and I hated wearing most of them on days I had to before laundry day. The same goes for my socks and my jeans
As someone who sews, I wouldn't trust an item being sold for less than half the material costs. I try to upcycle and use more sustainable fabrics when possible (my local chain store has quite a few recycled and organic options available now), but I'm still aware of how much things cost to make, and a lot of their prices are less than that.
When I was in high school, I really liked some of Bluenotes' graphic tees. They'd frequently have them on for $5 or less, and after a few months of wearing them when not in my school uniform, I found out that they wear out very quickly. It's like the cheapest polyester that you can't really do much with. At least if you buy a quality item, you can rewear it for years, and sell it when you're done, or if it gets stained or ripped, the fabric can be reused and it can be made into a bag, or re-dyed, or something fun like that. Buying all this plastic crap isn't doing anyone any good, and I wish more people realized that.
Absolutely! When I recently started getting into sewing and found out just how expensive fabric is, I finally understood why I was always given second hand clothes or hand-me-downs as a kid. My parents were very picky about what they bought me to wear, and never got me cheap thing from big shops or online cause they wanted it to last! If its lasted long enough to be resold, it'll last a long time!
After that I became a lot more careful about the clothes I buy. And I've had the exact same wardrobe for a few years now, and the clothes still look good! I didnt skimp out or fall for fast fashion so these graphic tee shirts that are closing in on five years still look just as good as the day I bought them! Much better than cheap polyester shirts I've tried getting in the past.
I've never ever clicked on Temu's website, yet I am bombarded by ads, so tedious! Not even Shein was this aggressive in my recommendation.
Good that you have never clicked on their website and that is your democratic choice. I also have a democratic choice and I like TEMU.
I don't cluck on their shady site either. They've stolen photos from many of my artist friends. They are a scammer company! Still, I am constantly bombarded by them even though I report them daily.
@@TheBioniXman lmao you are brainwashed
Same
Not a fan of gamification and sketchy details of products in temu, but i was so impressed by the checkout experience. It even nicely presented the local shipping partner and products were shipped with in a day.
Can't believe that a billion dollar company like Amazon still sucks ar it
I work at a landfill in America and part of my job is to pick up trash that gets blown around by the wind that gets on the road and other areas of the property where it's not supposed to be and I can tell you there are so many Amazon and Temu bags just flying around when the wind picks up. Those are only the ones that escaped before the trash is covered by dirt. Makes you wonder how much goes in there.
It is not only in America, here in Europe it is also spreading. Temu bags hanging in bushes. After the chinese gave us a virus, they now dump their rubbish here lol
so your argument is capitalism is wrong because it gives you a job?
makes you wonder for sure.
@@bradbrad6521 how the f*** do you get capitalism is wrong from what I said? I didn't say s*** about capitalism. I was talking about the amount of trash going into a hole in the ground. You're just trying to pick a fight. I hope you find some peace Brad Brad.
Can't you improve landfills somehow instead of covering trash with dirt? Isn't there better ways to deal with garbage for the environment? This can surely be something to research and invest in, since it's harder to fight all the quick cash cheap item companies.
@@jessy1982 Probably but that's a huge question that I'm sure has been answered by now. So likely like most issues in the U.S. , it comes down to money.
That conditioning is so much a part of my life right now. I sew for myself and do little repairs for friends and family, I recently made myself a coat for Halloween with a big long train and all I heard was "You should sell this you could make money" and I'm always like "no one will pay what it would cost me to make a profit on this, there's like 24 yards of fabric in this coat at like $25 à yard (cause I don't use any kind of polyester) and it took me 30hrs to make" no wants to pay $1500 for a coat unless it's some over priced hype brand, I also made my mom some dresses and she was appalled by fabric prices saying "I thought this was supposed to be cheaper" companies like temu and fast fashion are ruining the clothing industry.
Someone who sews and has an invader zim profile picture
Yes. This is exactly my own experience. I made a similar comment upthread, but you explained it better.
I knit and crochet more often than sewing (though I can sew). Like you, I know exactly how much a quality item costs in both time and effort. I try to support my local yarn shops ("lys" in Ravelry forums), and when I can afford it, the local spinners & dyers they source some of their best product from.
Most of my crafts cost around $100 (au) in materials alone. If I buy the locally spun/dyed materials, $200 to $300.
On a cost per wear basis, that's damn cheap. And it keeps me entertained for months.
But noone who doesn't craft would be willing to buy these things even at materials price.
I make clothes that are hard do find at local stores. Some people came to me asking how much to make them these itens custom made size, high quality material and all, I priced it quite cheap and they where like "okay I can find it cheaper from Shein". Frustrating that you can't compete with those massive fast fashion shops.
They’ll also get the quality they pay for. Good riddance
QUALITY MATTERS. I love clothes when I know what I am paying for. Never bought clothes online because of size problems.
True but you know what, it's their loss. I'm sure your clothes are amazing and Shein's clothes have been scientificly proven to be toxic to the skin and health, they get what they pay for. It's too bad clothes designers and workshop workers have to suffer because of this and the planet and animals too
you CAN compete. theyre lying to you to try and get you to lower your prices. they'll never find something of a high quality off temu. keep doing what you're doing.
@@vsr3777
Says India has far fewer sweatshops nowadays.
Describes how everyone there still works in sweatshop conditions.
Can you please make up your mind.
If someone try to find a video on youtube talking about a Temu, when you open the video a Temu ad opens
Inflation has a lot to do with it , everything is expensive. So when people see that Temu is giving away free things or low prices items, of course they’re gonna wanna go buy their things there
But they don’t realize that they’re just wasting more money than saving
I would ascribe it more to greed. Buying more crap than is remotely needed at prices that clearly mean someone didn’t get paid for their work.
Yes but 40-year-old people do not need children toys that's probably why they're broke in the first place because they keep buying toys instead of paying the bills like normal people.
@@FTY13you're desperate to be despicable
@@LJCG777 I don't need to be despicable I've done it all and in very grand style I might add
I create art in a very niche industry. It's disheartening to see dupes and rip-offs of art from people I know on temu. Customers are unwilling to pay a fair price for an artisan made product but get mad because they don't get the same quality for 99 cents. Be for real. Good quality takes time and money. Worse, it reflects badly on my industry when scammers use our pictures and we get called scammers and associated with poorly made products.
Fast fashion and Temu represent everything that is wrong with us. Every time I have to dispose of a container or a broken whatever, I feel so guilty. The one bright spot is our local buy nothing group. I've gotten some useful things: mostly consumables AND I've been able to declutter by listing items.
@@stooglesgoogles7246 in buy nothing groups, the members offer items for free. They post pictures of the item, and say when they’re going choose a recipient. People can also ask for items to have or borrow. We see a lot of this around Halloween. Buying or trading items is not allowed. As far as I know, all the groups work thru Facebook.
I don't really know any people to so it with but do you guys do like a group yard sale meet up or list things online and do local pickup?
@@anny8720 Hi anny - check out the links below.
@@stooglesgoogles7246 look up Freecycle you should find a group near you, maybe not by that name, but it was one of the first and most widely spread series of groups in the US and UK, maybe elsewhere too, but the name is synonymous with passing free useful items along. We gave away our bread machine that way, I prefer making bread the proper way, it's much nicer to eat, so we passed it on lol.
Also see if there's a Repair Cafe near you too. Those are brilliant. When the pandemic started, One of my monitors went on the blink, but I could not get a replacement for love nor money due to the lockdowns (UK) forcing office workers to work from home. Well, I did some research on my monitor, found out what was the problem, accepted that I couldn't to the fix myself, so when the first lockdown lifted, I booked a slot and ordered the parts. Then the the next lockdown was called, but they squeezed me in before it went into force, which was awesome. The electrician was impressed that I'd done my homework and had the transistors or capacitors or whatever ready to replace and did there and then, he said that quite often, if they don't have the spares, people have to go away and come back with the parts. I'd already had about 15years out of this top of the line monitor, but I'm pretty sure it's time has come, at the ripe old age of 20something. I really hit the jackpot with it, but once we get the money together to replace it, I'll donate it to the repair cafe for spares, it's the screen that's going now, not the circuits, so it will probably be cheaper to replace now, and they can get some use out of what's still viable fixing things for others.
@@stooglesgoogles7246it's like a community give-away thing. You just post up stuff you don't need and someone in your community asks for it. They're usually on Facebook and pretty common here on the east coast.
We have a shop here in Finland that sold (just for the show) normal white bed sheets, one being unethically produced and then the other being ethically produced version of the same product. Ethically produced sheets were guaranteed that every person on the process chain has been paid and no child labor is being used, price difference was 5€ vs 50€.
Split the difference and I'd pay 25 for somewhat ethically produced sheets, but 50, hell no. I'm on a fixed income and some shit just costs way too much at that rate.
And you believe what they say? Very funny.
Do you mind me asking what shop? I hear about this for the first time and got interested
Temu would send me at least 3 emails a day from many different emails asking me to sponsor them on my channel and no matter what I did (saying no politely, saying no just by replying "no.", blocking, reporting) they kept sending emails since they were coming from different email accounts. It got to the point where I just simply deleted every email and marked them as spam without replying and thankfully only a couple emails still get through to my main inbox. Seeing crochet pieces on the website that i knew HAD to be handmade were being sold for $1 BLEW my mind and I just wanted them to leave me alone
edit: I wrote this seconds before you talked about this exact thing lol
just call em a slur
Something important not mentioned in the video is the way in which Temu gifted users money for each Temu code they sent to a new user. When Temu was first coming out I was constantly asked for the code and even borderline pressured to just download the app so this person would get the money for me downloading it. It’s an incredibly predatory marketing practice by Temu.
...and so what? Im not seeing a reason to not use them.
I was addicted to Temu for a little while. It was fun to order a bunch of random stuff for very little money and get a jumbled package full of surprises because I forgot what I ordered in the time it took to get to me. I had mostly weaned myself off of Temu because I knew it wasn't good for me (or anyone else) but I finally deleted my account while watching this video.
Damn, great job on deleting your Temu account. Consumerism is out of control! Appreciate someone going against it at least a little bit 👏
It usually only takes ten days lol. You have a short memory lol.
I was JUUUST introduced to Temu last week and I ordered stuff three times in two day now waiting for my order. Heard they were shady and now I’m worried, but as soon as I get my orders I am going to delete my account, haven’t downloaded the app though 😣
@@lissaToday5787 I haven’t had any problems with them and I’ve done 27 orders now of multiple things. The transactions are secure and I’ve been happy with most everything so far. One exception is the women’s plus size clothing. The fit is a bit weird for me. But my husband loves the men’s line. Just letting you know from someone who actually uses Temu
Watch the arte documentary about prison workers in china that are forced to work for companies such as temu
Thanks for reminding me to check my Temu cart I forgot I had 33 items in there. now they are on the way.
Here's a Future Proof video I'd love to see; thoughtful, reasonable, responsible gift ideas! A bit of a counter to the "all these companies are bad," instead, give viewers some direction on how to support small businesses, local artisans, etc. for this year's holiday shopping.
All the best gifts are experiences; a comedy show, concert, play, trip, cooking lesson, dinner, etc. Good _things_ to gift people are those items that enhance stuff they already love to do such as new goggles or gloves for a skier, a new multitool for a mountain biker, new sneakers for a runner, a new pan or utensils for a home cook. Consumables, like a kit to make cookies, are also fun and less expensive and create an opportunity for a new experience (like baking the cookies with one's loved one).
@@stradricOur family gifts typically consist of travel and other experiences ... they're far more fun than crap that builds up on a shelf or in a room. We also make a photo book each year of the family's adventures so we can look at PRINTED copies of photos instead of reaching for devices.
Right?? Everyone is so focused on the bad markets and not to go near them and NEVER show you a good place to get deals and quality products. Almost like they want to cash in on the hot topic 🤔repeating the same lines, I was able to predict this entire video.
local farmer's markets / craft fairs are great for this kind of stuff! also etsy has been getting worse ( for sellers too, speaking from personal experience 😭) but is still decent for finding small businesses and artisans in your area ( you can filter by location )
For me I just literally ask what genre the person wants that year and find them those lol
Like if someone asked me, my genre would be that I want plushies. Don't get too specific so it's still a surprise, but you also guarantee the person would appreciate it.
Also, Temu doesn't ship anything in boxes. They pile your crap on a sheet of plastic then wrap it up like a hobo sack. Then they (probably) dropkick it onto a pile of outgoing packages that are crushing each other. My wife ordered a metal sign that arrived bent out of shape, and a cleaning wand that I had ordered arrived intentionally bent in half so that it would fit in the ball that was my shipping package.
you get what you pay for. 🤷♀
well what do you expect for really dirt cheap products
Half of my stuff that says not in box arrives in original packaging boxes. Go figure.
"hobo sack" is such a funny yet accurate analogy.
@@johnrussell5592 In _crushed_ boxes.
If I ever want to go “treasure hunting” I go to the antique stores, seriously these items are a treat, they at least last longer than half of the crap on Chinese marketed sites like Shein, Temu, etc. And it’s more fun.
Similar thing for me with model trains. I can buy rare collectables that were made in brass in the 1970s, 60s and even 50s.
love this! There's so much more value and character to be found at antique stores and second hand flea markets... :)
This just shows stuff in the modern times are being made worse than decades ago.
Not to mention the obviously photoshopped models
The sad part - as Ted Danson said - is that we impact many people's lives somewhere down the line when we buy stuff from pretty much anywhere and there's not much you can do as an individual.
There is a lot you can do about it. You can be aware of your impact and make the most ethical choices you can.
exactly, what we can do is just be more thoughtful of our own choices. the show that ted danson clip is from actually has some decent messages regarding this, yeah in the modern world a lot of our choices have far reaching consequences. so instead if buying the tomato from a supermarket, see if you can find a local farmers market, or grow your own, or try petition your local council to start a community garden. change starts on the community level, sure our individual decisions don't do much in the bigger scale of things, but whole communities slowly changing our ways and becoming more critical about the impact we have is a part of how change happens
You can almost entirely control what happens to the people down the line. You can first of all not buy stuff you don't need to not hurt the planet and the people living in the regions most effected by climate change and pollution. Than you can buy fairtrade food and clothing which doesn't eliminate poverty for the workers, but helps tremendesly. You can stop eating animal products which reduces your carbon footprint by 20-40% and not murder innocent animals. You can buy organic to help not destroy the soil. You can live without a car and not fly. You can only buy stuff made from sustainably sourced materials. Electronics are sometimes hard, but 95% of consumption can be done ethically. And with all the money you save from not buying random BS you don't need you can help build schools and supply water in impoverished communitys in Africa.
I agree that we're never gonna get to a world where everyone chooses to not be a piece of shit, so we should enforce all of these things, but never use "there's not much you can do as an indiviual" as an excuse, it's just not true. Also, just because I've heard it so many times, your indivual action might not have a big impact when looking at the entirety of climate change, but it still has a big impact. You wouldn't kill someone and then say "looking at all the murders I increased the statistic for this year by only 0,0001%, so what I did doesn't make a difference anyway".
@@chuckyfox9284 Not everyone lives in an area where some of those luxuries exist. If we try to act as individuals to solve problems many times more waste is created in the end. We can't take a trip to where those things are available because the carbon production would be greater as a whole if everyone did that. So we are in a mature system that is hard to break out of. I'm not being apathetic or nihilistic. I'm being realistic based on logistics.
@@johnbillings5260 it’s just not true. Which one of the things could you not do while living in any western democracy?
This literally explains my dad's situation. He has gotten ADDICTED to shopping on temu. He discovered it las November and over the past 12 months, I'd say he's spent at least 1,000 dollars on temu. He's gotten A LOT of pretty cool stuff but most of the stuff is useless tbh.
If you have communicated with your dad by email the Chinese government has read it. That is why TEMU exists. To spy on Americans.
a 1000$ in a year is not alarming unless he's broke. I buy junk from temu. I'll tell you what I got 50$ worth of Roomba products I now have 2 years worth of filters and brush's. Roomba wants 60$ for 1 kit and it would last me 3 months
@@Loady420 But the whole point of that video is that the $50 of stuff you bought made people go hungry because they were used as slaves and didn't get paid for their work. The reason Roomba wants more is because they pay their employees. I mean that's fine if you don't care, but if you lose your job one day because your employer can't compete and shuts down, you'll have nobody to blame but yourself.
So, the nation which decided that competition is profit and growth, has spawned someone who doesn't like it anymore.. Did they undercut didums with their cheaper prices? Grow a pair....
Research who made your freezer or oven... Decide which country is employing slaves, again, after you do that,,@@Berkeloid0
One of the worst parts about businesses like Temu and Shein is that buying from these companies and what-not isn't even good for the consumer. To the average citizen, a $4 hoodie or something obviously seems like a huge steal but in reality, even ignoring the ethical issues with how these products are produced, products sold at unbelievably cheap prices are often much poorer in quality because they're being produced as fast as possible in sweatshops in some Asian country. Because of this fact, they often fall apart and get damaged far more easily than an item sold at a normal price would.
Mass-produced items are always cheaper. That's basic economics
"some Asian sweatshop" which is coincidentally the same sweatshop all your major brand clothes are made in they just sell it to you for 100x the price.
@@supreme1572 sorry, but I have items I paid a lot for last me for years. You do get what you pay for. For clothes especially, there is not comparison. I make clothes, I can tell the difference. Stuff from shein looks really REALLY cheap and shabby, no matter what. Clothes made with care and class, that's a different thing. they will last you a long time.
Keep telling yourself that. Major name brands are still made in China, India, Vietnam, or Cambodia. They still test for lead. Anything from the Abercrombie, Aero, Adidas, Nike, whatever has fallen apart in a year or two on me. I have better luck with off brand shit from Burlington and Shein, stuff I have worn since middle school and I graduated college years ago. I wish you would all shut up. Consumerism is the problem. If you buy cheap, but you only buy what you need and use it for the full life of that product, it's no different than retail stores, better bc you're saving money. No one has a damn brain through.
The problem is, how do you make sure the $40 hoodie actually is better and not exactly the same crap, just with a much larger profit margin?
1st time I saw online Temu ads in 🇨🇦 Canada, I had a gut reaction JUST like what you describe. Kudos to your team and you, Mr. Hildebrand! Keep spreading the needed message. 🎉🙏
it's so frustrating to see people automatically going to temu, shein, etc. for clothing when online secondhand stores exist, like the wait is the same, the prices are the same, just one has better quality items from actual brands!
It's the marketing machine. You'd click through a lot of pages on google before you saw the secondhand options with low quality pictures. Primacy effect is very real.
I love shopping second hand stores even garage sales. Most of my clothing furniture and many household items are second hand finds. Many good quality items for a great price. I actually think it's more fun and satisfying. I know there is a lot of people like me that feel the same too bad that doesn't catch on as fast. Have never bought from or even looked thru apps like Temu, Wish, Shein and the rest.
same! i go to my local flea markets often, they're very common where i live so im definitely more fortunate than some when it comes to great finds @@zsigzsag
Thank you for saying this! There are only two second hand shops in my city and they are very small (one of them only had like 20 items last time I went) but I'm definitely going to buy from them instead of fast fashion companies. If I can't find something I need, I'll even try to sew it myself
I had literally never heard of an online secondhand store until this comment.
I'll have to look into that
This has been a huge problem on eBay, and is starting to be a huge problem on Amazon too. Many categories are flooded with these Temu-like products.
It's been like that for a long time, ever since AliExpress/AliBaba become more accessible to the West
At least with Temu, you're buying closer to the source.
I see as well as understand your observations. But people can make their own decisions on where to shop and the repercussions of advancing the Chinese manufacturers marketplace. I have made a few purchases on Temu and was quite satisfied with the items. I was even given an automatic $5 refund because one item of twelve came later than the shipping guarantee date. Returns/refunds are quite easy to do. If one takes a stroll through Walmart, where do you think most of those products are manufactured? Americans cannot build that level of quality for those prices. If an iPhone were built in the US, it would cost 50% to 90% more at the retail level. Americans cannot work at the speed that a Chinese worker can. So instead of knocking the Temu products, just don't shop there. I don't have to shop Temu, but I enjoy doing so.
@@SilverShadow2LWB "Americans cannot work at the speed that a Chinese worker can", as you say, because they are being exploited! It's slavery! America at least has these fancy things like 40 hour work weeks, minimum wage, and overtime pay. You are willingly participating in the exploitation of thousands of humans, sometimes children, just because you "enjoy doing so"!
Let me get this straight though. Every purchase I make is hurting Chinese sellers and manufacturers due to pressure from Temu to keep their prices unsustainable... right? That seems to be the gist. Sounds like I need to make some more Temu purchases and do my part to help tank the Chinese economy. This is great news.
One time I ordered a children's book for my daughter on Christmas via Amazon. When I got it I read through it and exactly halfway in the book, there was a print of a full 12-month calendar. A Playboy calendar with all of these naked ladies. I contacted the author and sent pictures and a video. She apologized and sent me a digital book. She had no idea that Amazon had done that and somehow in the production of the book there was porn in the children's book, about kindness. 😅
How on earth!
Dam it should’ve been me
Just a digital book? So she didn't apologise and actually replace the product with a rectified equivalent or provide a refund?
A digital book doesn't cost anything to copy so it's a cost-effective way of making people feel good, I guess. Shows how much the apology is worth!
@WiggaMachiavelli What she's saying is that it wasn't the authors fault. This would be a case where the author had uploaded the book using Amazon's Print on Demand system, and the books are only printed when they're ordered by a customer. But Amazon messed up on the printing and either had files get combined somehow, or pages from different books get combined. Either way, there's no way an author would intensionally do this as they'd have their account shut down in no time, which would be an expensive waste of their time.
You should have sued
Theres literally a TEMU pop up ad underneath this video on my phone
Sometimes my anxiety is a blessing. If I'm overwhelmed with having to make a decision I freeze and don't buy anything. Happens when I'm at markets, chaotic shops, and when I see websites like Temu.
Yeah, my ADHD brain can’t handle too many options. I get overwhelmed and leave.
@@sonseraedesigns i have ADHD as well and same, I'll even be going onto the site with a specific item in mind but the barrage of alternatives, accessories, and whatever other shit they shove in your face just overwhelms me and I end up buying it later on somewhere else, usually an actual store if possible
I've only ever heard of TEMU in the context of "it's horrible, don't shop there." Thank you for taking the time to explain what TEMU even is because I honestly had no idea.
it is a discount merchandise online store which currently it loses an average of $30 per order. this is like playing you $30 per order for you to shop with them,
I used TEMU a few times and never had any issue with it.
I've spent hundreds on it and only have good things to say 💪💪
@@happyjohn1656 So you are ok with support sweat shops with terrible work conditions and absolutely horrible pay?
Nah these mfs in the replies are not real 💀
I work at a middle school and the STUDENTS are all talking about getting their friends on Temu so they can earn free stuff through referrals. It's a freaking nightmare.
I had one childhood friend who switched from our small private school to a big public school a couple years back, he was still in the class group chat though where he sometimes spoke. He’s basically unrecognizable from what i knew him as, and guess what he sent in said group chat? A Temu referral message. I guess the big school idiot teen culture got the best of him.
That's just bad if kids are drawn into these things
shut the hell up
Ok Boomer
@@mark0z479 But he’s not wrong tho
Thanks for the info. I had never heard of this company before I saw them pepper the super bowl with ads. I will be avoiding this company like the plague
Ever since the service came out, I've been wary of them. Something seemed off similar to wish which has become a joke to society at this point. Your video helps confirm my suspicions. Also the way they advertise didn't help. Often the best products sell themselves and barely need promoting.
Thank you!! I was trying to remember. Now I got it (who Temu is like.) I stopped buying from Wish, after the 3 strikes of sending me useless items that do not even match the pictures on the website 😩😢
The ads were so obviously suspicious it makes me sad how stupid the world is and how many people will allow companies like this to exist by shopping with them.
@@unknowngirloriginal I agree. Those 3 strikes I gave them to play with my money was misinformation on my behalf. I have learned now though.
How the heck we gonna change consumer views? I used to be on the side of “cheaper being better”. I think there are a lot of innocent people who get duped by this.
It’s gonna take some serious re-wiring for consumers to take a step back and evaluate the bigger picture. We’ve got to do it before it’s too late!
How do we herd the sheeps in the right direction?
@@mid-sizesedan488what is our equivalent of shepherd dog?
We need to go back to preferring products that last. Everyone says stuff isn't made like it used to be, it feels cheap and breaks after a few months. Yeah, it's cheaper but you have to buy more of them when you replace broken stuff and you end up with more trash than if you had bought something durable that cost more.
Consumer greed has taken over. their greed makes them want all that stuff so they spend their living wage on it and have no money left to live on. so they demand higher wages claiming they arent paid a living wage anymore. generous corporations wanting to keep employees happy raise prices to pay more and now you have inflation thats bankrupting those that arent greedy.
@@TheDisquietingNight Class consciousness.
From the first time I saw the ad "Shop like a billionaire" and the lady in the ad buying stuff for everyone who didn't ask, I knew Temu was trouble...
I appreciate that you were able to provide a very informative video about a know "scam" without actually buying items from the site. The creators that support it just to make content then rip on it as if they are the ones to make it known that the site sells junk are quite annoying.
I don’t want to live in a TikTok TEMU world. I wish society wouldn’t drag us to extinction with them.
Society will - that's just inevitable.
The solution to your simple:
Just unplug ALL the gadgets in your life connected to the internet of things.
If you can't, quit complaining ! 😅😅😅
@@anjunadeep.8384 that's not a viable solution, because even if you do that, you'll still be affected by other people
@@frantaspacek
That's nonsense and a lame excuse, if one want to live a not affected by others one could easily lead a life in the solitude of the mountains... 😅
@@anjunadeep.8384 what are you even talking about? I'm saying that you can complain about something because even if you personally have nothing to do with it, it can still affect you. I never wrote about living in mountains and don't know where you got that from. Maybe people want to live in a society but think that others being abused for cheap trash is not okay.
One of my HUGE pet peeves is when people talk about Shein or Temu like "So what, you hate poor people you don't want poor people to be able to afford stuff?" thing should be affordable obviously but no, Becky, you should not be buying 10 t-shirts a day just because they're cheap like ??? stop buying stuff all the time
I'm not rich at all but I buy high quality second hand and fix my clothes, I have very nice all natural linen and cotton fiber pieces and even some high end stuff because I buy used! It's nuts, being poor is not an excuse at all.
it sounds to me like your problem is with that rascal becky and not temu
Don't get me started, that's the most biggest cope there is. To use myself and a close female friend as an example, I have giant and wide feet so I'm pretty much forced to go to a professional shoemaker/seller (luckily I have on in my village that won all kinds of awards) or go to a specialty shop. My shoes on average cost somewhere between 100 and 150 euro and generally last me around 1 to 2 years to the point where I'd go "yea, they're done". (and keep in mind these are odd-ball shoes due to giant size they are and how wide they are. Normal shoeshops in my country maybe have 1 or 2 pairs of slimline sneakers in my size if I'm luck and none that fit remotely decently. This also means they have a bit of an upcharge)
My friend just LOVED shopping at Primark because it was dirt cheap and she wasn't particularly rich by any measure, basically a step up from aliexpress and similar Chinese selling sites by having a physical store and some brand deals. She bought her shoes there, standard size for around 30 to 40 euro. But they generally lasted for about a month to the point where I'd call it quits and she generally walked on them for a bit longer. Just the sheer economics of needing to buy just awful shoes every few weeks makes buy those dirt cheap shoes a worse deal.
But you might say "ohh boy they the poors cant save money due to this", bullshit. She had multiple pairs. But even with low-cost items this still rings true. Socks I bought at primark lasted me a grand total of less than a week each and cost me 2 euro for 4 pair. Buying 3 pair for 5 euro at my usual place last me some months up to (probably) a year. And you can't tell me every single poor person can't save a grand total of 3 euro extra. One could do so by wearing flip-flops for a dollar for 2 weeks mid summer to save up the money that would otherwise would go to that weeks batch of new shit quality socks.
Not to mention second hand is still a thing.
These ultra cheap shops, be it online or not, don't save people money. They cost people money because it gives them a feeling of getting a good deal because it's cheap at the point of sale. And quite frankly a large part of the population, be it rich or poor, are just plain awful with money. It's a thing for people that are bad with money and for people that are shopping addicted.
It's actually a quite different issue you are talking about. Cheap price vs shopping binge.
I can totally imagine many people buy from temu only stuff they need instead of always go shopping binge.
Note shopping binge isn't a new thing. For people with higher income they could totally go shopping binge on amazon and other not-so-cheap places. It's a very real thing.
Previously people with low income couldn't do that (or do that anyway with credit card and deeply regret it later), now they "have the right" to do shopping binge too...
@@howareyou4400 That's sort of the point, just because lower income people now _can_ shopping binge with places like Temu or Shein, doesn't mean they now _should._
“It’s like the shady version of Amazon”
Amazon is already the shady version of Amazon.
It's the more shady version of Amazon
Dude I hope you get your Channel back. Your videos always made my day better🫶
Would love an Amazon deep dive video.. Amazon charges membership, and items are overpriced than most retails... some stuff might have the same quality as Temu..
I knew that temu was selling our info, which is why I never open one of their ads or buy their products. What I didn't know or think about was the exploitative practices towards their merchants, the people manufacturing this $hi# and the environmental aspect of the whole business model. Thank you for presenting this. Now...do Amazon!
Let me get this straight... do you really believe Amazon is not selling your data? If you do, you better wake up. Every social platform or online shop will eventually share or sell your data. If you are dumb enough to believe otherwise you deserve to be exploited by them. As for the environmental impact... Where do you think Amazon products come from? They are the same crap but sold to you at a higher price with sugar coating.
Please elaborate on how this particular business model exploits, pollutes and impacts the environment verses buying Chinese products from literally any store you walk into?
@@justjosie8963 You don't know whether Charlotte actually buys Chinese products or not from her local stores, so we shouldn't assume. But even if she did, she at least gets to see, touch and -in the case of clothes- try them before buying, so there is less chance of surprise. If a plastic is flimsy and looks easy to break, if a garment is sloppily cut, not symmetrical and doesn't fit well, if something described as wood turns out to be plastic... Those issues won't be there. And the very important issue of it not looking anything like the picture you saw online.
I have to admit I have bought from Temu, and for the most part, I’ve been satisfied with the products I’ve received. I’m not a big shopper, so my Temu purchases have been very modest. But the information you’ve shared here, has put me off further shopping on Temu. I agree, something is likely rotten to explain the unreal low prices Temu offers.
So what the different than you buys the product in Ebay and amazon? its the same product... because you buy it from our western company that make them better?
so back to amazon for you then eh
@@anubizz3😂😂😂
I agree, temu has great products and quality.
@@lealmelisa I agree, black is white, up is down, and you aren't even remotely dodgy
Thank you for addressing this issue and it is very obscure for the end consumer to know "how" and by "what means" something was made. I think you may do the world well by continuing to investigate Amazon. I have found that Amazon sells some of the same items from the same manufactures found on Temu. However, since Amazon is a US company it does come under scrutiny in this piece. Again, thank you!
I really wish there was more market for handmade stuff. I love making things but when I add time and material for the last quilt I made I would have to sell it for $1300 USD to pay myself $15 an hour.
Ur 100% right about Temu. Unfortunately there’s a hard limit to human compassion. We are conditioning our children further from seeing any kind of suffering. Yet we express to everyone we need “things.”
Amazon sells tons of cheap, poor quality Chinese products, but charges more. Many people would pay more for items if the items were good quality and had warranties.
not all chinese products are poor quality
When I need something, I will almost always check eBay, Amazon, and Temu to see who has the best price. Temu gets my business often. Haven't had a bad experience and relatively quick shipping. I wonder how long they will be around as they must be losing money.
I should emphasize that, for a lot of very poor people like myself, it's far better to shop at local thrift stores than it is to ever go near Temu and other scamsites. Not only are you getting similarly low-priced necessities (clothes and music especially, but also tools and books and tons of other things depending on the location), but you're also supporting those places and regulating the influx of items thrift stores get.
If consumers don't buy from those shops and don't provide that regulation, then many of those stores are forced to turn down supply from other people, leading to more waste ending up in landfills.
You can even get the same experience shopping at scamsites from shopping at thrift stores (the excitement of finding a cool product for very cheap) without supporting an incredibly terrible business.
Although it should also be noted that not all thrift stores are ethical, especially those that aren't local; stores like Second and Charles participate in a lot of scummy practices to kill local thrift stores and sell overpriced used items.
Bottom line; if a store is trying to appear flashy and upper class, it's more than likely the worst scum you'll find, whereas the shabby local thrift store with a bathroom covered in graffiti is most likely ethical in comparison.
i avoid shopping at Goodwills too now. Many utilize a loophole that lets them pay disabled workers less than minimum wage. they'll literally time how long it takes a disabled worker to do a task vs an able bodied person and dock their pay accordingly. and the worst part is theres no limit, they can literally pay them less than a dollar an hour, legally. its so fxcked. the law is called "Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act"
>for a lot of very poor people like myself
But I've been told every furry was a highly successful IT worker making 300k in California and that the internet would LITERALLY disappear without furries???? Oh my God did I just get lied to??? Color me shocked, absolutely shocked
@@GeneralKenobi69420 Not all furries are IT techs, but all IT techs are furries
Second hand stores like Goodwill often area charging prices that area similar or even higher than buying brand new! It's unacceptable. In my area, buying from Goodwill is unaffordable. It's doubly disgusting because they get the items FOR FREE!! And it's proven they take advantage of their disabled workers.
We're OK financially and we shop thrift stores all time. Retail prices for clothes are out of bed. Unless it's a specialty item that I can't get elsewhere, I stay away from retail mostly.
Everyone I work with jokes about how they spend SO much money on temu. Ironically one of them has said “oh I don’t shop at Walmart bc it’s so cheap”
This same person got flipflops this past summer on temu for like 1.50$ and talked about how they were sooo nice. It was the sh*tty type of flipflop made of rubber and they wore out after about two weeks and she was saying “oh I’ll just get more.. they were only $1.50!” Ughh it drives me crazy how obsessed they are.
Sounds like they need to put more thought into what they do, buying from temu especially a lot, says you don't put any thought and have any standards for what you buy, which doesn't look good.
I try and think of quality when I get stuff. Partially because I get used to, and attached to things more than the average person, so I want them to last longer, as is visible with me still having and wearing two pairs of Crocs that I got in 2008-2009 when they were still made in North America. I never understood the mindset of disposability with things like clothes, household goods, and so on. Then again, I was raised to wash and reuse Ziplock bags, and with a large emphasis on homemade things. Some of my favourite toys were things my dad made from wood, I have a blanket my mom crocheted, and pillowcases my grandmother made for me. Now I have her sewing machine still going strong after 50 years because it's metal and was a good investment. I love being able to sew and repair my own clothes with it, and make custom curtains and such for the house.
I got a 3.50€ pair of flip flops from a physical store in 2019, still not worn out.
@@ChucksSEADnDEAD not that relevant since not from temu and stuff can last when it's cheap quality but more likely not too and temu sells clothes that don't look that good like why not just pay a bit more and get something nice.
I wish I didn't have to sell my books on Amazon but getting self-published material into brick and mortar is a risky proposition.
To be fair to you, Amazon more or less demolished the brick and mortar industry. The only major bookseller left is Barnes and Noble. And walking into their stores is like a coffee shop met a toy store, with a side hustle as a record store, and they use already bestselling books as decor.
Bookstores will figure it out soon enough. Model it to be a bojuee, pay to enter lounge for people who want to read books on a giant couch they could never own themselves. @@seanwoods647
You are permitted to walk with the devil until you cross the bridge ❤
There has to be an online bookstore like Amazon that's independent of it that sells book digitally. Is Amazon the only game in town?
there's others for ebooks. kobo, lulu, google play. Problem is about 80 percent of our income comes from kindle unlimited - amazon's pay per month and read all you want program. we get like half a cent per page read, but they add up. But if you're in the kindle unlimited program, you are not allowed to publish your book anywhere else. If they even catch a chapter of it somewhere they can ban you from the kindle platform altogether, which is a nightmare scenario for authors. @@dannydaw59
Great video! I have always assumed this was the case with Temu but now know it's worse than I even imagined.