Well who doesn't want a backpack wich cost 70 in Europe and 100+ Dollar in the US for just 14 Dollars ? I fully expect this to take a good chunk from Amazone.
I personally become very suspicious when something advertised is too cheap. That usually tells me that it was either stolen or has abysmal quality and should be avoided in favor of a quality product at a reasonable price
Well, there are a lot of stores that inflate prices so much that "reasonable" is meaningless. I saw - pre-"rona" - an $40, 20' ethernet cable at a major store. That completely ignores the clothing and shoes markets. Oof. But this is definitely too far the other direction.
You just don't get it. For many products like a reciprocating saw blade, either you buy from Temu or pay 10 times more to buy local. Amazon sells the same shit as Temu for 3X the price. If you don't buy from Temu, you lose out big time. You will never get rich.
@@thelogician1934as someone who buys tools, the ones that break the fastest are also often the cheapest. The one that’s “10x more” often comes with a good warranty and won’t break due to rough use
My grandmother bought her first clothes dryer in 1965, which still runs today. She said people used to make products with their hands and that gave those products a soul.
I think it’s more that back in 1965 clothes dryers were luxury items, then eventually when it became affordable for everyone the people who made them had to figure out a way to keep them from running out of business, hence planned obsolescence
@@kadensmith5586 Planned obsolescence really kicked in sometime during the 80s. One year my parents wrapped the special Christmas ornaments in normal paper towel which they reused every year. In the 90's we unwrapped the ornaments and noticed that the paper towel was a better quality then the paper towels I had in the kitchen. I still have the cheap kitchen plastic shelves from the 70s that are better made (and better quality) than the plastic shelves I see at the store today for significantly more than the five bucks my parents spent on it in the 70's.
Everything in the US is very expensive and inflation is through the roof. It is 100% our own government's fault, not only for creating inflation, but creating the global economic system that enables companies like Temu to prosper.
@@Kissingerzones1311Yeah but it’s mostly just knickknacks and useless garbage, not necessities. Sure you can get a pair of shoes for 20 bucks, but you can at walmart as well
They let you spin a wheel and tell you you get "$300 in coupons." Then you find out you first have to buy a few items for a certain amount to get the coupons. Then you get the coupons, and it's not $300 worth of stuff, but $20 off a $200 purchase, $30 off a $250 purchase, etc. In other words, you have to spend almost $1000 to get about 10-30% off. Shady. Scammy. Scummy. I deleted the app.
I never even downloaded the app because it felt like the same scam as Wish in the first place. Everyone with a few brain cells should've noticed that from the get go
I got these notes from the video: - Temu is a casino - Temu does not store the ware they sell, but make it directly for the consumer. - Temu is a slave-powered factory. Note that it is weird to think that unethically made goods will bear the same quality (and efficiency) as ethically made goods.
You think apple products are ethically made in Chinese factories , I mean watch a documentary, workers basically are forced to sleep on site and suicide isn’t that rare there.
@@ericktellez7632Local business, which is expensive as hell! So, yeah. Your options are to either pay a lot or pay to unethical labor. In fact, scratch the local business part. There are so many factors and processes that go into making just a single product in our age that it’s almost impossible to ensure nothing unethical was done throughout the entire process. Sure, your local tailor might have sewn that shirt, but was the cotton picked by children? Were the cotton seeds sold by a racist seed company?
That's exactly what I was thinking. Unless I'm using the biggest local online shop in my country (that takes about 3 days for my product to arrive), 2+ weeks is completely normal
Honestly there's a difference, I tried temu for a bit and found the quality so low it wasn't even worth keeping, Amazon and stores might but be the highest quality but are better than temu
You mean you don't buy from h&m? Or dell? Do you even know how rare metals are dug up? I'm not saying it's a good thing or that it's ok for Temu because others do it too, but if you want to be against child labour, than be against it full stop! @@R1IY2N
Don't know if you are aware, but stuff on Amazon is mainly made in China, the difference is that products are selected based on quality and repackaged to give the illusion of premium
Oh damn, somehow I didn't know this. Tbh most of the things I bought from Amazon was a birthday gift for my friend and also things for my PC setup, don't forget my phone or my laptop I got from Amazon too lol
I don't know about "selected on quality". Most of it is the same junk from Alibaba. From what I can tell, the big difference is that Amazon sellers generally do large volume imports to Amazon's distribution centers.
The sad fact is that in the world we live in, even if you're willing to pay a substantial premium, overall, all you get is crap. Endless compromises and frustrations, and absolutely nothing you can do about it. So, when offered often even worse crap, but at a very reasonable price, for a change, it is very tempting indeed.
i completely agree. price barely correlates to quality anymore, and yet some people feel justified to shame those shopping at sites like Temu as if their Amazon products aren't far off in quality.
I mean most Americans are selling items made from the same factory as those on TEMU but at a premium price. Why feed the greed of Americans when there is a better way.
@@user-yk1cw8im4h There are plenty of reasons, very good reasons in fact, to stay within the borders of your own country, when shopping, and to buy from the foreign countries that are most similar to your own, when you have to. That is to say NOT China. All I am saying is that it is perfectly understandable if people do not follow this very sensible advice, also for the reason you describe.
Yeah its so annoying. Like basically the only reason I use it is for dropship products I want. Because most of the time they are just taken from temu and added a zero to the end
i've purchased from temu about a dozen times now, and the average time for delivery is only about 5-6 days. amazon averages about 3-4 days. even at its worst, of about 15 days, the price difference between temu and amazon just makes temu a better value in my eyes. i've also not been disappointed with anything i've ordered, because i've avoided anything electronic, or particularly complicated. i also make sure to check the dimensions provided, ignoring the apparent size in pictures entirely.
There is inaccurate info here. It doesn't take 15 days to receive an order. It's usually a week to 10 days (to NY). And that time is not from manufacturing delays. It's just shipping logistics. Most orders are in the shipping pipeline in a day or two. Evil?? 🤣. Amazon is just as evil. I was a 3rd party seller for Amazon. Jeff's an evil billionaire too. At least TEMU isn't pushing some political agenda on me (at least not overtly).
To be honest this is the result from loosing our own manufacturing. I'm not American but we have the same problem here in Sweden. Most stores / distributors import from China, Pakistan and such instead of relying on our own production. Feels like this was inevitable. Just to much greed now days.
Um no it isn't. We produce far more than we used to in the United states. Less manufacturing but far more efficient. Stuff we produce would never be able to compete with temu. Period. The reason they can make stuff so cheap is polluting the crap out of stuff from factories with no controls or regulations and cheap child and slave labor.
@Techfanatic73 no idea how things are in the USA. Here in Aus, very little is manufactured on our soil. Even etsy sellers who hand make stuff get the base supplies from places like Ali express. Truly tailored stuff is very rare. Even so, where do the supplies they use come from? Where do the craft supply stores get their stuff? Reality bites.
Here are few advices US/Canada can flip this over ... (I once wrote 300 points document to management how they can improve yield of said amz warehouse) .. .(!) stop making warehouses labour only seeking ppl.. it cause same management from them to rise up and take monkey decisions ... (2) most warehouses here are laid out un-optimally, unnecessary space allocated for indoor pit vehicles instead battery pallet jacks ... because the minds who designed layout for opening of new warehouse were same... (3) labour laws dept dont visit the sits often leaving hardworker at mercy of deliberate backdoored systems to let blue-eyed slip and others trap in performance points despite they were highest .performers (4) since labour at these sites know its abusive env they fear even going to court (very very few do) but the real deal is the courts here should mandate that warehouse to display apology on info boards around the warehouse and how it will do best not to repeat it again.. right now out of court settlements causes the person to take meager amount and shutup/ban from discussing the matter... this in the name of both sides privacy etc is making the warehouses hell for knowledgeable labour specially coming from abroad to shine here before it leaves for better job... they are crushed for shining at work. (5) these things are causing giants here to open useless new warehouses instead optimizing reach of existing ones to broader areas.. u can see same corporate's airport size warehouses every 10-kms (should be 30 to 50+) wasting real-state, efficiency and few hardworking labour on mercy of higher count dodger labour and their puppeteering management... i can keep going on but US/Canadian govt can reach me out for how to fix that .. we can do better than all these temus, alibabas etc ... its our home turf for Crist sake!
The first time I seen TEMU, I said to myself, "This must be made in China." So I never tried the company. My neighbor did though. She told me she wished she had never did business with them. Half the stuff she ordered was crappy, poor quality, the Extra Large toddler dress would have fit a small doll, and then they wouldn't stop spamming her. LOL
On China "Quality," When I bought a "Super Joy Power Play III" for $10 in May 2005, it went back to the grocery store the next day. It's a low quality bootleg video game "system" that has stiff buttons and boasts that it has 76,000 games, but most are repeats or hacked versions - there were only 1,384 games between the systems it ripped from.
It's the natural progression of the Chinese business model, make a cheap good, like a plastic spatula that melts the first time you use it, but someone will inevitably buy it because it's cheap and then after it inevitably breaks they go back to standard options, but the company still made money.
Lol this is not the Chinese business model, this is just a business model. If you don't think American companies don't do this shit too you are sadly mistaken. The difference being that we outsource the slave labor to Bangladesh or Vietnam and put a nice brand name on it. Happens with H&M, Zara and any other clothing company you can imagine. Hell, Nestle is rated the worst company in the world in terms of employee treatment.
How do companies like this just pop up out of nowhere and *DEVOUR* all competition? What dark shit do they need to do to get instant control over a whole market?
Saving money by not employing very many people, and then do lots of ads so people see how cheap it is, and then also be cheap so that people buy more. It's just advertising, they're not being evil in that regard
ALL the dark shit. Counterfeiting, slave labour etc, heck even the shipping is subsidised by postage users in the whole world as for some reason China is still a “developing country”. Once you build aircraft carriers you are not a developing country...
They cut out the middle man, most of your products are already from China/Indonesia/India, but you pay a dstributor 600% the original cost to get it from the local store. That is why temu is so cheap
Just days ago the EU changed their tariffs so that now temu cannot get around taxes with their shipping model. That alone will have an enormous negative impact on temu's sales numbers going forward.
@qweqwe9678 certainly true over the past 2 decades. In their bid to compete with cheap labor overseas they decided to also make cheap crap to stay afloat
@@Lem0nsquidYet the finished product is not better at all in quality. It’s not bad it just isn’t justified in the steep price when the quality is about the same.
I am from East turkestan, and my one of my relatives was sent to one of the concentration camp, he does hard labor, and k Remmeber Chinese guards saying “where is your god, where is your “Allah”l show me him”….hope the Chinese are reprimanded for their actions, the US is sleeping on them so much
The fact that they have thousands of accounts on social media platforms so that’s practically impossible to block them so you can’t see their ads is just ridiculous and disgusting
I've tried many times to block Temu ads, and others in general, here on YT. It never worked. I still get the same ads from the same companies the next day. It's so annoying 😭
@@ThirtytwoJ its like one weigure, all that shit is near xian china not well paind but not forced, no one is forcing you to buy you force people not to buy and spend more, im happy people can buy things affordably
A huge factor is how we don’t charge Temu on regular parcel cost. Chains claimed to be a developing country to qualify for this and were somehow getting $1 items shipped for free.
I wonder if this explains why, when I get little direct from China items from Ebay, and read the return address carefully, it sometimes says Kyrgistan or something like that. There's a lot of room to compromise between $800 and $7 though. How about $80? And how does it take 3 weeks by airmail? One would think if they had 3 weeks, that they could save some fuel and use a ship.
@@alan6832 no, they even try to send it by airmail when it contains li batteries. And most time is spent at customs - at least in Germany - not on shipping itself.
They played commercials non stop during the 2023 superbowl and the ads are the entire reason I sit through that thing. No escape unless you go off grid completely.
because you're "rich enough". there are people who are much more poorer, and we should get used to these things being more common you can try to ban it, it'll get around, other company will get around it'll be the norm
@@dewinmoonlLet’s go send all the poor people to work in the Chinese factories for like 1 cent an hour for 3 years and then when they come back see if they still feel the same about buying from unethical companies
@@dewinmoonl I disagree, you have to be over a certain wealth to be able to afford to throw away and totally waste money on cheap crap you know will break down or you will only use once. Those of us who are actually seriously struggling can't afford to waste money on manufactured landfill when we can barely put food on the table.
@@Jackpkmn the stuff that temu makes is like almost the same quality as bigger brands but just way cheaper. So many people will sacrifise a little bit of quality for 90% off. Including me but I feel like clothes steps over the line a bit
I cannot for the life of me understand how businesses like this succeed. A message to the people: _Stop buying things._ Buy what you need and what will bring you _recurring_ happiness.
I tried warning Mom about TEMU but of course she bought a few things for me and my bro. But she knows better about it now, she truly got convinced by those low low prices
@@Swedish_ants she just made a single order for us then I told her how TEMU is, how they're cheap bootlegs. She only bought me these flat fanny packs, and these tiny backpacks.
Hey man. I like this video a lot. No fluff or overloaded with jokes, and the info is spaced well. I also like how you talk at a normal speed rather than flood the listener with info. Thanks.
I get different ads from temu where it just plays a song with really caked up, when i say caked up, CAKED UP pictures of models wearing their products 💀
Caked up? That expression is new to me. I looked up the term on urban dictionary but I'm still confused. Are you trying to say that the photographs are plagiarized, that the models have large posteriors, or that the models wear excessive makeup?
@@SanchoPanza-wg5xf Excessive makeup being the usual jargon/slang for "caked up" like how people associate cakes in general as having a lot of fluff like icing, sprinkles, decorations, etc. that covers a lot of the actual cake itself which is sometimes smaller and less/unimpressive by comparison.
i was thinking to myself, "shouldnt we be trying to *incentivize* bulk transport, since that's more energy efficient?" and then i remembered that when shipping companies are encouraged to transport goods in larger batches, the size of ships goes up, which leads to longer unloading times, fewer ships able to unload at a time per port, and therefore longer waits in port, higher risk when cargo is lost, less flexibility when shipping lanes are disrupted (such as in the suez canal evergreen situation) and an overall increase in global shipping time. so... we should be doing something to encourage a middle ground. efficient but flexible, high density, medium sized cargo transport.
Efficiency and flexibility are competing interests. Short of changing technologies entirely (like switching from snail mail to email) you'd always trade low per-unit costs for versatility and vice versa, and last time I checked we haven't invented mass teleportation yet.
@@doujinflip my conclusion is. we should standardize more things in shipping so that important things like this arent left up to the insanity of the market
Even worse than that! The US ports are now so old and inefficient that the largest ships don't dock in the US now. They off load in Third World countries.
Put some thought into your comments. Do you really think that your order is packed. Put on a boat. Traveling half way around the globe. Unloaded. Sorted. Put on a train or truck. Delivered near to your home. Then delivered to you in 15 days? I don't think so. So there usually are no ships involved in shipping unless already in the warehouse in US. But article says there are no warehouses involved.
I used to love that store, it was my treat when I'd come home with a good grade on a test in school. I got half an hour to just browse by myself unrushed and unaccompanied. I would talk to staff, play with things, see what new stuff Lego was making, follow the little train around the store on the mounted track overhead, whatever really. It was my legoland.
Ive bought a number of items from Temu and the quality varies tremendously. A laser measuring device that was about 25% of what Amazon or Lowe's sells them for works great and is very accurate. On the other hand, i bought a set of drill bits that couldn't drill thru soft pine. I dont order as much as I used to in part because Temu has changed the minimum purchase from $10 to $20, and if you order a 'locally housed' product, the minimum goes to $30 and Temu still wants $20 of their products. $50 combined is a deal breaker.
Exactly! And they get them from China! Same Americans and westerners who wanna talk about ethicalities are buying stuff from American companies or European companies with merchandises that came from child labor and sweatshops including the maker of this video cuz Around 90% of stuff the west buys and use are made in China. But Temu is made the villain for not having a middleman (American site) to sell you pretty much the same products made from the same country for 10000% more to make the middleman richer.
As your video ended.. a Temu advert played! Great content, thanks for taking the time to research it. In South Africa they changed our equivalent "minimis" law to protect local businesses from the influx of cheap goods from the Chinese direct to consumer sites.
i worked in a bank and the only reason i knew about temu is because people kept coming in asking about unauthorized charges. i ask about any recent history, and eventually learn that the fraud seems to happen after they began using temu.
That is eliminated now by temu. Literally impossible to happen unless your card is stolen or number. Which isnt temu's issue. Temu now verifies every purchase with a screenshot from your bank app.
I didn’t think people actually used temu. I thought everybody knew you had a 50/50 shot at getting your bank account drained everytime you buy something.
@@In.the.mood.2 I think he was talking from the investors (shareholders) point of view. I mean, lots of people are not sure where their tax money goes. In some countries it just "disappears".
As a hongkonger, I would say buying cheap goods from china is just a process of testing if you really need that piece of tech, not owning it. For example, when I heard of air frier, i got one from Taobao(similar to TEMU). I found myself using it pretty often, I then search reviews online and get a nice one from big brands in local stores. Chinese cheap goods are never the final product on your hand. You either throw it away or throw it away and get a new one. If you hate TEMU, I guess you are not using it correctly(or if you are a green guy).
I fail to see how Teemu is any worse than any other reseller of cheap chinese garbage like alibaba, wish, amazon, etc. It is just the latest chapter in a very long list.
You're right, we shouldn't use any of them. but that means NOT trying to fill the black hole at the center of our being by accumulating worthless garbage while everyone around us does exactly the same. Good luck kids. We don't stand a chance as long as we keep living the way we do. Balls deep in the rising tide of self destruction.
Sweatshops and slave labor aren't the same though. One set of workers can go home at the end of the day. Bangladesh is not a worker's paradise but I'd rather by clothes from there than from the place actively rounding up Uighurs to reeducate them
i keep getting them on twitter worst thing is that i cant get rid of them unlike normal adverts (edit) i was gonna make a rant about shein on youtube ads instead and a few minutes in oh look what comes up!
I love pinduoduo, because I live in China we don’t use temu, most people I know buy most things there. It’s even cheaper here and some of my teachers actually consider it a social enterprise
A lot of people in the U.S. have a hilariously skewed view of China. They will comment on how inferior Chinese made products are without having the basic awareness that they're likely typing these comments on a Chinese made phone or computer! They don't seem to realise that a large percentage of the goods they buy from "U.S. companies" are actually made in China.
I’ve never shopped online and I don’t plan to. When I want something, I get it only when I decide the time is right, and I need to physically touch it before I make the choice. For me, that’s the only way to truly know if it’s worth having.
The thing that surprised me more is that amazon is still more used in USA than anywhere else. In my country amazon is a more expensive temu, it's barely used.
Can confirm it has also taken over the UK. I work at Royal Mail (UKs mail courier) and the amount of parcels we see from temu is insane... like for every normal looking parcel we got 4 or 5 temu ones.
I got 2 packages about 1 year ago, all electronics never worked, everything is very cheaply made, only these glass jars I like, but even the suction doesn't stay sometimes. Most products fall apart, so they won't last. Just let everyone see for themselves, and the smart ones will move on,the dumb ones well we already know.
UK used to be like that in the 19th and early 20th centuries. You'd get cheap cotton from India, in Manchester they'd turn it into cloth and then you'd sell it back to the Indians.
Once i heard the phrase "shop like a billionaire" in an ad that didn't come served with complementary caviar all i could think was "made by child slaves"
Before talking about evil companies, talk about: Rockefeller, Rothchild, central bank systems, pharmaceuticals, insurance companies, Scientology sect, Monsanto, Bayern… and the list goes on and on. A company that sells cheap Chinese crap is at the bottom of the list
I think China loves people like you - the CCP is laughing at America, and you want to just ignore it? You're exactly the type of propagandist they're looking for...
I already stopped buying from Amazon cause im tired of all the low quality trinkets. I can't believe people buy from Temu, might as well throw your money in the garbage
Yeah selling Chinese goods for markup prices is fine and good for the environment but buying directly is inherently EVIL. Also buying the cheapest shit on the website and it being trash is so surprising one should buy his trash from amazon!
To clarify: every packages contents need to be declared, but it is rare that it is checked for accuracy. Often the content descriptions are vague if not downright incorrect, and purchase price is often lied about. Maybe the US should use some of those anti-dumping laws to tax those temu packages.
They built the app to be addictive. It is basicaly lootboxes for irl crap instead of digital crap. They are going for people who are easily addicted to these sort of things. The quality of the items rarely matter for most people. They pay for the thrill of the purchase experience.
That depends on what your goal is. You want super cheap goods? Sure, np. You want high quality goods, but not pay more than on TEMU for their super cheap alternatives? Yeah, magic isn't real... Buying (in EU anyway) forces sellers to guarantee that the goods can last for minimum 2 years. That naturly means better quality, but also a significantly high need for capital. That's one thing TEMU and their like don't need to comply with. Can you get high quality cheap on export sites. YES! Unlike what haters say, but you need to know the market, know brands, check everything before you order (and i mean everything), in other words, it can be extremely hard
Idk i bought a bunch of iems and audio stuff on temu, that otherwise would be expensive, an example would be KZ and CCA that have official stores on temu
Indonesia used to have the minimus threshold until recently they zero it literally to deal with apps like these. Now every single parcel that enters the country is taxed indiscriminately, which lead to shitstorms when contest prizes and medical equipment to save children were held for customs tax.
I still have memories of walking those halls looking @ action figures, board games, and bikes. But the most memorable thing is why I stopped going. It was having to stand in 2 lines to get videogames. One to pay for the game and another to get the game... When games for less made a business out of being in the same parking lot. Combine that with the digital revolution, I no longer wanted toys. I had also graduated to real bikes instead of the crap lining their halls. I still remember 2 isles of bikes stacked 3-4 bikes high up to what seemed beyond fire code! Even REI can't get that bike crazy and they have them hanging from the ceiling...
I must have been in a Toys R Us 5 times at most, but I swear there's something special about being a kid and being surrounded by toys and taking time to look at them- as well as a GREAT parenting opportunity to enjoy looking at the toys without having to buy more than planned
Former UPSer here, more than half of those 90 boeings of Temu are coming into the Louisville Airport. The bellies of those planes would be filled with a sea of Temu packages. It was sad, but there were videos of people just swimming in them lol
youtubers can experiment with viewers with the new feature having different thumbnails at different times and how much retention it has and the best one wins
@aydeniswise4081 Hmm...so getting decent products at very low prices is "shady"? LOL! Typical American brainwashing. Americans just aren't happy if they aren't being cheated every day by government and their billionaire owners, LOL!
actually, they know they are losing money on sale prices, the owner has admitted it is an under-cutting-cut to the other competitors (like Amazon did at first, like Walmart did at first) - they consider the money 'lost' to the sale prices, as the same as money 'lost' to spending on advertising - all to 'hurt' the competition (take customers away, take sales they would have bought away)... it is a "it is not that i must succeed but others must fail, as long as others are failing then i am succeeding" approach
My Malware detector does not go off when I click on Amazon, it won't even let me look at the product on Temu. Identity theft is very expensive to deal with. If everyone installs anti malware on their computer Temu would be out of business in a month. Mine is free, but I can pay about 50 bucks for upgraded protection, which means Temu's malware is so upfront even the free version goes off on it.
Buying one thing from temu might be the same as buying one thing from amazon but people are buying big hauls of cheap clothes made by children and adults alike who are paid virtually nothing and worked until they either kill themselves or die from exhaustion only to be swapped for another human. Temu is evil, amazon is evil boycott both not neither
Food production should be protected and subsidised. Look what happened to Haiti after deciding to fully remove protectionism - their farmers couldn't sell at viable prices and they went out of business. When hard times struck there was nobody that could produce food (in significant quantities) for the country, you will not always have imports, especially with changes in climate that everyone likes to talk about. Keeping food production safe is a must, just imagine how catastrophic it would be for a country of 50 million to rely on food imports and then be nearly completely cut off after a particularly dry or wet season (or a natural catastrophe).
I'm not saying it shouldn't be, because having access to food (not necessarily good food, mind) should be a human right not a privilege, but if a country with 50m people is unable to feed its population for whatever reason (as in completely halted commercial food production, not just people not being able to eat what they *want* to eat) then there's much more apocalyptic implications than just a bad season. Like a government collapse or violently shifting tectonic plate kind of implication. And at that point, subsidization won't help.
@@jondoe5937 Well, I was maybe a bit too apocalyptic as I was (theoretically) applying what happened to Haiti and its consequences. Realistically, a bigger country will always produce some food... Unless they end up completely alienating/scaring/killing their farmer populations like the USSR, China and other countries did in the past.
@@mabeSc Fair enough. Out of curiosity, when did China do something along those lines? Forgive me that I'm not very familiar with their history except the broad strokes. I just assumed that their industrialization drew a lot of people away from agriculture to pursue more lucrative jobs.
@@jondoe5937 "The major contributing factors in the famine were the policies of the Great Leap Forward (1958 to 1962) and people's communes, launched by Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong, such as inefficient distribution of food within the nation's planned economy; requiring the use of poor agricultural techniques; the Four Pests campaign that reduced sparrow populations (which disrupted the ecosystem); over-reporting of grain production; and ordering millions of farmers to switch to iron and steel production." This is just a small part from Wikipedia, the famines in China after the CCP took over were nearly always man-made/man-caused.
Everything are so expensive in America, Im from Malaysia, i was buying a cheap ass hand coffee grinder for RM20, around 5 bucks. But then i saw a youtube video about budget hand coffee grinder. The video shows the exact same grinder i bought but its 50 bucks there in America, tf?
Tumblr got $50 out of me to block their temu ads for a year so I can just use my blogging app in peace. I hated those jumpscare ads that take up your entire screen and show you disturbing images.
I didn’t know that people actually shopped on Temu. I thought it was common knowledge that it’s such cheap, horrible quality that you can’t even buy it.
There are plenty of excellent products from Temu. Anderson connectors cost $8.00 at a local store like Home Depot and $1.80 at Temu. Eight months later, they are still carrying 50 amps. Over six months ago, I got a reversing camera for the car and saved $50. I have ordered another one for the other car. Delivery is fast as promised, and if they don't deliver at the promised time, I get a $5 refund-and it has happened, even though the difference was only one and a half days. No gasoline or time was wasted going to the store, and they consistently supply tracking reports. I have not downloaded the app, as that would be a dumb thing to do.
So do you shop on Amazon instead. Many of the items on Amazon are made in China. You can often find the exact same items on Temu at 1/3 to 1/2 the price.
@@LucidDreamer54321 Temu costs less and offers faster service without the deceptive tactic of slipping Prime onto your order. The $5 refund is a bit of marketing/promo and did not influence my purchase. I order via a PC and only recommend installing apps on your phone if they are self-serving or essential. Something in the commercial for free costs someone, and they will naturally recover their investment. That does not always mean sinister motives.
Many MANY good deals and quality from temu.....and some of it ships from the USA. Great mini guitar pedals for under $23.....braided waffle iron style guitar cables, 5 meter, for under $12.. They're mad because we can finally get what we want for little money.
What if the deminimus threshold was dropped for shipping to individuals but kept for corporations. This would ensure that American companies could easily import goods while consumers would have to go through said American companies.
The problem there is it creates an incentive for rent seeking. You can imagine some corporation just reselling goods from China and tacking on their own markup.
This move seems highly impactical. It's easy to legislate a lower threshold but where did you obtain the extra inspection capacity to audit an extra 100 million packages per year?
This is literally "let's make the corporations even richer at our own expense". I mean, why bother with all that? Just tell the Federal Reserve to do another round of QE and hand the money to them directly.
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you know it's a tech video when you hear the word "solution" mentioned. lol
I am American therefore, I hate China.
The irony of posting a video about the evils of TEMU, and sponsoring it with an ad for an app that's a privacy/security nightmare.
I thought TEMU was just a meme, I had no idea it was this huge bro
slavery is a huge business bro
@@kaiserchan4683based business
Well who doesn't want a backpack wich cost 70 in Europe and 100+ Dollar in the US for just 14 Dollars ? I fully expect this to take a good chunk from Amazone.
How old are you
@@Fiercesoulking That is a good thing. Amazon needs to go down.
But I would rather travel to the next city to visit a department store.
From factory to consumer? More like from factory to *landfill.*
What a miserable waste of resources, both material _and_ human.
Agreed 100%, my father has started hoarding thier trash
@@aaronshady131long delivery times because most items are shipped from China.
@@aaronshady131 And most of them are crap and wind up in the bin after they inevitably break or degrade after a few uses. Duh.
@@aaronshady131?
@@aaronshady131 you're illiterate
Getting a Temu ad while watching this was the icing on the cake
I got a similar one in Shein. All those ads I get don’t even interest me. They annoy me. As they probably do for the majority of us.
uBlock Origin for PC, RUclips ReVanced for Android = no more ads. Apple? Stop buying flashy trash.
@@SatansYardsale I’m glad you didn’t put RUclips premium as an option.
I got a temu ad under this video lol
Lol I just use an adblocker
I personally become very suspicious when something advertised is too cheap. That usually tells me that it was either stolen or has abysmal quality and should be avoided in favor of a quality product at a reasonable price
Same for me
commenting to boost this
Well, there are a lot of stores that inflate prices so much that "reasonable" is meaningless. I saw - pre-"rona" - an $40, 20' ethernet cable at a major store. That completely ignores the clothing and shoes markets. Oof. But this is definitely too far the other direction.
Or made using literal slave labor from Uighurs in concentration camps, as in TEMU's case.
@@katiem.3109if that's true, I will buy more
the way i almost scrolled past the video because i saw “TEMU” in the big orange letters and thought it was an ad💀
Yep... 😂lol
Do u also have that "eew" reaction whenever u see temu ads
@@Jillofalltradestuvm yes i like physically cringe sometimes too😭
A temu ad just played before I could watch this video lmao
This is an ad
I always find it hilarious when people willingly buy cheap crap, and then complain about it.
@@chicanoklushkov3157 a bold assumption from nobody.
@@yourlocalbudtend3r perhaps.
Exactly!!!!
You just don't get it. For many products like a reciprocating saw blade, either you buy from Temu or pay 10 times more to buy local. Amazon sells the same shit as Temu for 3X the price. If you don't buy from Temu, you lose out big time. You will never get rich.
@@thelogician1934as someone who buys tools, the ones that break the fastest are also often the cheapest. The one that’s “10x more” often comes with a good warranty and won’t break due to rough use
Child labor is a mofo, Americans Act like they don't know but look at the price... cmon people
I mean, cheap labour doesn't necessarily have to be child labour. It can just be cheap cause of the place where it's made.
@@stansman5461 yeah bro its just made by underpaid impoverished people, not children, its ok bro
@@Camiscee atleast they get to work on something,rather than nothing
its so immoral
Ya'll ever heard of Uighur people?
My grandmother bought her first clothes dryer in 1965, which still runs today. She said people used to make products with their hands and that gave those products a soul.
I love this
I think it’s more that back in 1965 clothes dryers were luxury items, then eventually when it became affordable for everyone the people who made them had to figure out a way to keep them from running out of business, hence planned obsolescence
@@kadensmith5586 Planned obsolescence really kicked in sometime during the 80s. One year my parents wrapped the special Christmas ornaments in normal paper towel which they reused every year. In the 90's we unwrapped the ornaments and noticed that the paper towel was a better quality then the paper towels I had in the kitchen. I still have the cheap kitchen plastic shelves from the 70s that are better made (and better quality) than the plastic shelves I see at the store today for significantly more than the five bucks my parents spent on it in the 70's.
Grandma's right.❤
I guess Temu products now have the souls of Chinese children.
They mailed me a Chinese boy instead of my flashlight by accident
You may have misread the word.
@@bazookaman1353💀
it's a self-heating flashlight
@@pyrofestimono, a for e.
Uhm ... did you order a chinese fleshlight?
The motto “shop like a billionaire” is funny because billionaires don’t even do shopping. They have people to do it for them
You mean billionaires aren’t buying $0.01 shirts that take 3 weeks to ship?! 🤯
"shop like a billionaire", ah yes billionaires do like shopping for cheap Chinese plastic products 😂
I always assumed they were referring to "billionaires" by Zimbabwe's standards...
and they don't buy cheap poor-quality junk!
@@JohnGardnerAlhadis haha
Why are people so obsessed with ordering low quality garbage? Yeah because it's cheap, huray!
People gotta survive
Maybe if inflation wasn't so high, people wouldn't be so desperate
Everything in the US is very expensive and inflation is through the roof. It is 100% our own government's fault, not only for creating inflation, but creating the global economic system that enables companies like Temu to prosper.
@@Kissingerzones1311 they are selling unnecessary garbage though, u don't need any of this dreck to survive
@@Kissingerzones1311Yeah but it’s mostly just knickknacks and useless garbage, not necessities. Sure you can get a pair of shoes for 20 bucks, but you can at walmart as well
They let you spin a wheel and tell you you get "$300 in coupons." Then you find out you first have to buy a few items for a certain amount to get the coupons. Then you get the coupons, and it's not $300 worth of stuff, but $20 off a $200 purchase, $30 off a $250 purchase, etc. In other words, you have to spend almost $1000 to get about 10-30% off. Shady. Scammy. Scummy. I deleted the app.
I never even downloaded the app because it felt like the same scam as Wish in the first place. Everyone with a few brain cells should've noticed that from the get go
这下美国人民也体验到了拼多多砍一刀的快感😂
Adblockers, people. Adblockers. I've never even heard of a Temu until just now.
Most people watch on mobile, via the app.
@@CoreyIsTheName revanced exists
@@theairaccumulator7144 shhhhhh 🤫
@@theairaccumulator7144first time I heard of this. Gonna have a look, hopefully it works on IOS
@@CoreyIsTheName free adblocker browser. You're welcome.
I got these notes from the video:
- Temu is a casino
- Temu does not store the ware they sell, but make it directly for the consumer.
- Temu is a slave-powered factory.
Note that it is weird to think that unethically made goods will bear the same quality (and efficiency) as ethically made goods.
Where are these ethically made goods? Cuz Walmart and Amazon aren’t it either
You think apple products are ethically made in Chinese factories , I mean watch a documentary, workers basically are forced to sleep on site and suicide isn’t that rare there.
@@ericktellez7632but they support 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏴👳🏽♂️🧔🏾♀️👨🏽🦲🫃🏼
@@ericktellez7632Local business, which is expensive as hell!
So, yeah. Your options are to either pay a lot or pay to unethical labor.
In fact, scratch the local business part. There are so many factors and processes that go into making just a single product in our age that it’s almost impossible to ensure nothing unethical was done throughout the entire process. Sure, your local tailor might have sewn that shirt, but was the cotton picked by children? Were the cotton seeds sold by a racist seed company?
Slave powered factory? So you telling me my father had been a slave? How funny you are!
I love how "15 whole days" for delivery is so atrocious to Americans where in some places in the rest of the world like where I live it's normal.
I NEED MY PLASTIC NOWWWW!!!!
You sometimes get that for domestic deliveries here
15 days is super soon in my pov t-t I usuallyhave to wait 2 months or more
its one day in canada
That's exactly what I was thinking. Unless I'm using the biggest local online shop in my country (that takes about 3 days for my product to arrive), 2+ weeks is completely normal
Let's be honest. Amazon is warehoused Temu crap and retail stores are heavily marked up Temu crap.
Honestly there's a difference, I tried temu for a bit and found the quality so low it wasn't even worth keeping, Amazon and stores might but be the highest quality but are better than temu
This is one of the better comments on here haha
@@bryanthompson1at least aliexpress was usable
Not really. There is a difference.
@@bryanthompson1same crap. Just in Amazon you pay more because Amazon is the middle man.
I swear my mom is a sizable percentage of their revenue. Every time i go to her house; she’s got some new clothing item from temu for like 3 cents
My mother as well
I order once a week😂😂😂
you should be happy if she is happy...simple as that
@@havencat9337 whats the point of being happy knowing some kid was forced to make it
You mean you don't buy from h&m? Or dell? Do you even know how rare metals are dug up? I'm not saying it's a good thing or that it's ok for Temu because others do it too, but if you want to be against child labour, than be against it full stop! @@R1IY2N
Don't know if you are aware, but stuff on Amazon is mainly made in China, the difference is that products are selected based on quality and repackaged to give the illusion of premium
That's true. I used to work on related industry.
I'll buy from Amazon once they treat their workers fairly
Oh damn, somehow I didn't know this. Tbh most of the things I bought from Amazon was a birthday gift for my friend and also things for my PC setup, don't forget my phone or my laptop I got from Amazon too lol
I don't know about "selected on quality". Most of it is the same junk from Alibaba. From what I can tell, the big difference is that Amazon sellers generally do large volume imports to Amazon's distribution centers.
Scamazon is mostly junk and Chinese knockoffs now too. It's been flooded with fake reviews too
The sad fact is that in the world we live in, even if you're willing to pay a substantial premium, overall, all you get is crap. Endless compromises and frustrations, and absolutely nothing you can do about it. So, when offered often even worse crap, but at a very reasonable price, for a change, it is very tempting indeed.
Yep. Spending more money is no guarantee of quality. 😢
i completely agree. price barely correlates to quality anymore, and yet some people feel justified to shame those shopping at sites like Temu as if their Amazon products aren't far off in quality.
I mean most Americans are selling items made from the same factory as those on TEMU but at a premium price. Why feed the greed of Americans when there is a better way.
@@user-yk1cw8im4h There are plenty of reasons, very good reasons in fact, to stay within the borders of your own country, when shopping, and to buy from the foreign countries that are most similar to your own, when you have to. That is to say NOT China. All I am saying is that it is perfectly understandable if people do not follow this very sensible advice, also for the reason you describe.
Yeah its so annoying. Like basically the only reason I use it is for dropship products I want. Because most of the time they are just taken from temu and added a zero to the end
I deleted temu when it started giving me all these timers. I don’t appreciate being pressured into a sale.
The "have to wait 15 days for delivery" bit cracked me up. I'm from the "expect six to eight weeks for delivery" generation.
Right? For stuff from China, it arrives pretty fast. And isn't even all garbage.
yeah being upset about it taking a package two weeks to get from one continent to another (on different sides of the planet) is. something else lol
i've purchased from temu about a dozen times now, and the average time for delivery is only about 5-6 days. amazon averages about 3-4 days. even at its worst, of about 15 days, the price difference between temu and amazon just makes temu a better value in my eyes. i've also not been disappointed with anything i've ordered, because i've avoided anything electronic, or particularly complicated. i also make sure to check the dimensions provided, ignoring the apparent size in pictures entirely.
There is inaccurate info here. It doesn't take 15 days to receive an order. It's usually a week to 10 days (to NY). And that time is not from manufacturing delays. It's just shipping logistics. Most orders are in the shipping pipeline in a day or two. Evil?? 🤣. Amazon is just as evil. I was a 3rd party seller for Amazon. Jeff's an evil billionaire too. At least TEMU isn't pushing some political agenda on me (at least not overtly).
Well, back then, they had to forge parts from metal.
Now, the legos (plastic parts) just fall off the machinery like mana from the heavens.
To be honest this is the result from loosing our own manufacturing. I'm not American but we have the same problem here in Sweden. Most stores / distributors import from China, Pakistan and such instead of relying on our own production. Feels like this was inevitable. Just to much greed now days.
Exactly, even if you buy from a normal retail store, it's all coming from the same cheap labour -- just at hiked up prices!
Um no it isn't. We produce far more than we used to in the United states. Less manufacturing but far more efficient. Stuff we produce would never be able to compete with temu. Period. The reason they can make stuff so cheap is polluting the crap out of stuff from factories with no controls or regulations and cheap child and slave labor.
@Techfanatic73 no idea how things are in the USA. Here in Aus, very little is manufactured on our soil. Even etsy sellers who hand make stuff get the base supplies from places like Ali express.
Truly tailored stuff is very rare. Even so, where do the supplies they use come from? Where do the craft supply stores get their stuff? Reality bites.
Here are few advices US/Canada can flip this over ... (I once wrote 300 points document to management how they can improve yield of said amz warehouse) .. .(!) stop making warehouses labour only seeking ppl.. it cause same management from them to rise up and take monkey decisions ... (2) most warehouses here are laid out un-optimally, unnecessary space allocated for indoor pit vehicles instead battery pallet jacks ... because the minds who designed layout for opening of new warehouse were same... (3) labour laws dept dont visit the sits often leaving hardworker at mercy of deliberate backdoored systems to let blue-eyed slip and others trap in performance points despite they were highest .performers (4) since labour at these sites know its abusive env they fear even going to court (very very few do) but the real deal is the courts here should mandate that warehouse to display apology on info boards around the warehouse and how it will do best not to repeat it again.. right now out of court settlements causes the person to take meager amount and shutup/ban from discussing the matter... this in the name of both sides privacy etc is making the warehouses hell for knowledgeable labour specially coming from abroad to shine here before it leaves for better job... they are crushed for shining at work. (5) these things are causing giants here to open useless new warehouses instead optimizing reach of existing ones to broader areas.. u can see same corporate's airport size warehouses every 10-kms (should be 30 to 50+) wasting real-state, efficiency and few hardworking labour on mercy of higher count dodger labour and their puppeteering management... i can keep going on but US/Canadian govt can reach me out for how to fix that .. we can do better than all these temus, alibabas etc ... its our home turf for Crist sake!
Wouldnt be without the spending and taxes the gov has implemented. Indireftly funding communism.
The first time I seen TEMU, I said to myself, "This must be made in China." So I never tried the company. My neighbor did though. She told me she wished she had never did business with them. Half the stuff she ordered was crappy, poor quality, the Extra Large toddler dress would have fit a small doll, and then they wouldn't stop spamming her. LOL
On China "Quality," When I bought a "Super Joy Power Play III" for $10 in May 2005, it went back to the grocery store the next day. It's a low quality bootleg video game "system" that has stiff buttons and boasts that it has 76,000 games, but most are repeats or hacked versions - there were only 1,384 games between the systems it ripped from.
They Turned "Wish" into "Temu at Home".
Temu at home implies Temu is the original desired product
I recommend etsy
@@appa609Temu is the Wish of Wish
Wish is just another version of Temu
@@appa609 you mean they turned temu into wish at home?
It's the natural progression of the Chinese business model, make a cheap good, like a plastic spatula that melts the first time you use it, but someone will inevitably buy it because it's cheap and then after it inevitably breaks they go back to standard options, but the company still made money.
And then pocket the money made and bail once the ship starts sinking, rinse and repeat.
Lol this is not the Chinese business model, this is just a business model. If you don't think American companies don't do this shit too you are sadly mistaken. The difference being that we outsource the slave labor to Bangladesh or Vietnam and put a nice brand name on it. Happens with H&M, Zara and any other clothing company you can imagine. Hell, Nestle is rated the worst company in the world in terms of employee treatment.
@@alexandervillar7742but the Bangladeshi slaves make clothes that last and are good....so not the same?
@@alexandervillar7742Social Credit Score increase! 🇨🇳
@raptorhacker599 most of that shit is cheap trash too.
How do companies like this just pop up out of nowhere and *DEVOUR* all competition? What dark shit do they need to do to get instant control over a whole market?
Saving money by not employing very many people, and then do lots of ads so people see how cheap it is, and then also be cheap so that people buy more. It's just advertising, they're not being evil in that regard
def get boosted by the chinese gov to increase exports and undermine markets
ALL the dark shit. Counterfeiting, slave labour etc, heck even the shipping is subsidised by postage users in the whole world as for some reason China is still a “developing country”. Once you build aircraft carriers you are not a developing country...
@@virginia3421Yeah, in the end, consumers are to blame for this shit.
They cut out the middle man, most of your products are already from China/Indonesia/India, but you pay a dstributor 600% the original cost to get it from the local store. That is why temu is so cheap
These videos are so well made. I especially like the country animal + country flag icons.
This app has taken over Australia too. Every square meter of my housemate's room is covered in junk from Temu.
Bro lives in a room filled with temu💀💀
That's a shame...
Same in the UK. Got a colleague said it's good for people struggling or on benefits.
No one forced your housemate to buy from Temu.
Most of that stuff's going to end up in the landfill
Just days ago the EU changed their tariffs so that now temu cannot get around taxes with their shipping model. That alone will have an enormous negative impact on temu's sales numbers going forward.
Good.
That is very, very good news. Always happy to see the EU doing something reasonable
The irony of Americans “supporting America made” and never ever doing it. One of my favorite hypocrisies
@qweqwe9678 certainly true over the past 2 decades. In their bid to compete with cheap labor overseas they decided to also make cheap crap to stay afloat
Unfortunately "American Made" just means overpriced and not much better quality, but the hypocrisy is real.
@@Jalreal generally the reason for higher cost is pretty obvious, that being required to pay American wages/benefits
@@Lem0nsquidYet the finished product is not better at all in quality. It’s not bad it just isn’t justified in the steep price when the quality is about the same.
@@ericktellez7632 right because they spend so much on their employees that they cut corners on the product
I am from East turkestan, and my one of my relatives was sent to one of the concentration camp, he does hard labor, and k Remmeber Chinese guards saying “where is your god, where is your “Allah”l show me him”….hope the Chinese are reprimanded for their actions, the US is sleeping on them so much
Allah like eating pig meat?
The fact that they have thousands of accounts on social media platforms so that’s practically impossible to block them so you can’t see their ads is just ridiculous and disgusting
I've tried many times to block Temu ads, and others in general, here on YT. It never worked. I still get the same ads from the same companies the next day. It's so annoying 😭
Also forced laborers im sure
@@ThirtytwoJ its like one weigure, all that shit is near xian china not well paind but not forced, no one is forcing you to buy you force people not to buy and spend more, im happy people can buy things affordably
@@AndresMarchena-o4l bs
@@AndresMarchena-o4l How much did you get paid? Genuinely wondering.
A huge factor is how we don’t charge Temu on regular parcel cost. Chains claimed to be a developing country to qualify for this and were somehow getting $1 items shipped for free.
This happens in Australia too
I wonder if this explains why, when I get little direct from China items from Ebay, and read the return address carefully, it sometimes says Kyrgistan or something like that. There's a lot of room to compromise between $800 and $7 though. How about $80? And how does it take 3 weeks by airmail? One would think if they had 3 weeks, that they could save some fuel and use a ship.
@@alan6832 no, they even try to send it by airmail when it contains li batteries.
And most time is spent at customs - at least in Germany - not on shipping itself.
The glory of adblockers. Never heard of or even seen a TEMU ad. This video is the first time I've ever heard of them.
You're lucky, i felt sometimes like i'm in George Orwells 1984.
They played commercials non stop during the 2023 superbowl and the ads are the entire reason I sit through that thing. No escape unless you go off grid completely.
I didn't realize how widespread this thing got, I'd just kinda ignored it once i got the ads to stop bugging me
because you're "rich enough".
there are people who are much more poorer, and we should get used to these things being more common
you can try to ban it, it'll get around, other company will get around
it'll be the norm
@@dewinmoonlLet’s go send all the poor people to work in the Chinese factories for like 1 cent an hour for 3 years and then when they come back see if they still feel the same about buying from unethical companies
@@dewinmoonl I disagree, you have to be over a certain wealth to be able to afford to throw away and totally waste money on cheap crap you know will break down or you will only use once. Those of us who are actually seriously struggling can't afford to waste money on manufactured landfill when we can barely put food on the table.
@@Jackpkmn ah i see, this makes sense. so the target audience is those who have "some, but not a lot" of disposable income
@@Jackpkmn the stuff that temu makes is like almost the same quality as bigger brands but just way cheaper. So many people will sacrifise a little bit of quality for 90% off.
Including me but I feel like clothes steps over the line a bit
It will not go as long as the EXACT same products are being dropshipped on amazon at over 4x the price
I cannot for the life of me understand how businesses like this succeed. A message to the people: _Stop buying things._ Buy what you need and what will bring you _recurring_ happiness.
yep buy decoration stuff at 500% more... no
what = that*
They also sell shoes and other essential items
contradictory
directions unclear; i just spent $749 on TEMU
Temu is like a lottery, sometimes you get products that breaks after the first use, and sometimes you get products that lasts for years
I tried warning Mom about TEMU but of course she bought a few things for me and my bro. But she knows better about it now, she truly got convinced by those low low prices
Hopefully your prices can get higher soon like you wish.
@@tritium1998 I don't wish anything from TEMU because I couldn't care less about the company. What an oxymoronic thing to say
How did you convince her? I have been trying to convince my mom too but she doesn’t care
@@Swedish_ants she just made a single order for us then I told her how TEMU is, how they're cheap bootlegs. She only bought me these flat fanny packs, and these tiny backpacks.
Some those items u found them in Walmart and dollars general store
They want me to live like a billionaire...so where is my personal jumbo jet for $200.00???
lmao
You feel safe flying in a $200 jet? ✈️ 😂
@@wunderfullNo! Not without my $3 parachute...
@@KingCharlesThe1stLV😂
Lol new slogan, same company/idea. Anyone remember when “Wish” was the hottest app for cheap stuff?
Hey man. I like this video a lot. No fluff or overloaded with jokes, and the info is spaced well. I also like how you talk at a normal speed rather than flood the listener with info. Thanks.
I refuse to touch that thing...
I get different ads from temu where it just plays a song with really caked up, when i say caked up, CAKED UP pictures of models wearing their products 💀
They know what you like 😄😂😄
eyup, haven't seen em but that sounds realistic
Caked up? That expression is new to me. I looked up the term on urban dictionary but I'm still confused. Are you trying to say that the photographs are plagiarized, that the models have large posteriors, or that the models wear excessive makeup?
@@SanchoPanza-wg5xfexcessive makeup
@@SanchoPanza-wg5xf Excessive makeup being the usual jargon/slang for "caked up" like how people associate cakes in general as having a lot of fluff like icing, sprinkles, decorations, etc. that covers a lot of the actual cake itself which is sometimes smaller and less/unimpressive by comparison.
i was thinking to myself, "shouldnt we be trying to *incentivize* bulk transport, since that's more energy efficient?" and then i remembered that when shipping companies are encouraged to transport goods in larger batches, the size of ships goes up, which leads to longer unloading times, fewer ships able to unload at a time per port, and therefore longer waits in port, higher risk when cargo is lost, less flexibility when shipping lanes are disrupted (such as in the suez canal evergreen situation) and an overall increase in global shipping time. so... we should be doing something to encourage a middle ground. efficient but flexible, high density, medium sized cargo transport.
Efficiency and flexibility are competing interests. Short of changing technologies entirely (like switching from snail mail to email) you'd always trade low per-unit costs for versatility and vice versa, and last time I checked we haven't invented mass teleportation yet.
@@doujinflip my conclusion is. we should standardize more things in shipping so that important things like this arent left up to the insanity of the market
Even worse than that! The US ports are now so old and inefficient that the largest ships don't dock in the US now. They off load in Third World countries.
Put some thought into your comments. Do you really think that your order is packed. Put on a boat. Traveling half way around the globe. Unloaded. Sorted. Put on a train or truck. Delivered near to your home. Then delivered to you in 15 days? I don't think so. So there usually are no ships involved in shipping unless already in the warehouse in US. But article says there are no warehouses involved.
@@frankorosz901 its a video about factory to consumer shipping. the factories are on another continent. we aren't talking about amazon warehouses
That “a company like toys r …. A company like Amazon” line killed me. 😂 RIP
I used to love that store, it was my treat when I'd come home with a good grade on a test in school. I got half an hour to just browse by myself unrushed and unaccompanied. I would talk to staff, play with things, see what new stuff Lego was making, follow the little train around the store on the mounted track overhead, whatever really. It was my legoland.
@@InservioLetumyou too, huh?
RIP Toys R Us. They have a department in Macy's now so thats something
Meanwhile the malls here still have toys r us
Ive bought a number of items from Temu and the quality varies tremendously. A laser measuring device that was about 25% of what Amazon or Lowe's sells them for works great and is very accurate. On the other hand, i bought a set of drill bits that couldn't drill thru soft pine. I dont order as much as I used to in part because Temu has changed the minimum purchase from $10 to $20, and if you order a 'locally housed' product, the minimum goes to $30 and Temu still wants $20 of their products. $50 combined is a deal breaker.
Fun fact, it costs more money for you to send a small package to your neighbor than it does for someone in China.
you are so right.
This is an unfortunate byproduct
That's why Temu rocks and USA sucks. Are we supposed to act shocked? 😂
Wanna bet?
yes the US subsidizes mail from china through the Universal Postal Union as china is considered a developing country
That Toys-R-Us to Amazon jump cut, though. 😂
4:47
I rolled back to see if what I seen was what I had thought I seen. Kind of funny ya
What’s evil is the American corporations selling the same stuff at 10000% markups
Exactly! And they get them from China! Same Americans and westerners who wanna talk about ethicalities are buying stuff from American companies or European companies with merchandises that came from child labor and sweatshops including the maker of this video cuz Around 90% of stuff the west buys and use are made in China. But Temu is made the villain for not having a middleman (American site) to sell you pretty much the same products made from the same country for 10000% more to make the middleman richer.
10000% lol
Exactly, I see it all the time. The exact items, you know they bought from Temu 😂
@@unsocialbutterfly5760 everything from amazon is just drop shipping from china lol, its crazy how we could just buy directly now for cheaper
So you think your average scalper is more evil or even comparatively evil to a Chinese corp using slave labor.
GOTCHA 👌🏼
As your video ended.. a Temu advert played! Great content, thanks for taking the time to research it. In South Africa they changed our equivalent "minimis" law to protect local businesses from the influx of cheap goods from the Chinese direct to consumer sites.
I am so sick and tired of getting their ads it's ridiculous
who tf gets ads
Remember, Hoser is not sad, is happy, healthy, and never felt suicidal.👍
Keep him secret, keep him safe!
Bro's going to get the whistleblower treatment😬
Good to know, we can't lose him!
Dudes who always cry about certain countries often are sad and suicidal though.
Hopefully h0ser never makes a video on boeing
i worked in a bank and the only reason i knew about temu is because people kept coming in asking about unauthorized charges. i ask about any recent history, and eventually learn that the fraud seems to happen after they began using temu.
That is eliminated now by temu. Literally impossible to happen unless your card is stolen or number. Which isnt temu's issue. Temu now verifies every purchase with a screenshot from your bank app.
Woah! Ty for sharing this information! I had been debating trying out Temu because I'm a broke-ass and I keep hearing about their super cheap prices.
Love your editing. Subbed
I didn’t think people actually used temu. I thought everybody knew you had a 50/50 shot at getting your bank account drained everytime you buy something.
What? You fr?
@@YaBoyfelipe yes. I knew people were stupid but not THAT stupid
@@In.the.mood.2what’s stupid from buying the same stuff on amazon but way cheaper
@@wussrestbrook1200the video literally says you don’t actually know where your money is going when you use temu
@@In.the.mood.2 I think he was talking from the investors (shareholders) point of view.
I mean, lots of people are not sure where their tax money goes.
In some countries it just "disappears".
Remember kids, if it’s too good to be true it probably is
One of the first ads for temu i saw was offering an xbox series x for $20.
That's all i needed to write off the company as a scam.
Been buying off them for approx 12 months from here in Australia.Zero issue so yeah I have no issues but each to their own
I got a switch oled for $108 so not always
@@somekindaguy100Lmao brokie
"The Most Evil Company " is Blackrock, with Vanguard as a close second....
Don't forget States Street
007
LOL!
OY VEY
For me, hands down EA is the worst company by far
BR & VG is the same thing 😂😂😂
As a hongkonger, I would say buying cheap goods from china is just a process of testing if you really need that piece of tech, not owning it.
For example, when I heard of air frier, i got one from Taobao(similar to TEMU). I found myself using it pretty often, I then search reviews online and get a nice one from big brands in local stores.
Chinese cheap goods are never the final product on your hand. You either throw it away or throw it away and get a new one. If you hate TEMU, I guess you are not using it correctly(or if you are a green guy).
I fail to see how Teemu is any worse than any other reseller of cheap chinese garbage like alibaba, wish, amazon, etc. It is just the latest chapter in a very long list.
The long-term solution to all this is to get people to _stop buying crap they don't need._ Consumerist culture is killing our planet.
You're right, we shouldn't use any of them. but that means NOT trying to fill the black hole at the center of our being by accumulating worthless garbage while everyone around us does exactly the same. Good luck kids. We don't stand a chance as long as we keep living the way we do. Balls deep in the rising tide of self destruction.
Temu has way better marketing
No it’s worse, and Amazon and eBay have had to lower quality to keep up with Temu.
Aliexpress quality > Temu.
Tbh seeing a company being very questionable isnt shocking
Especially if its chinese
I am just used to all companies being shady, scummy, greedy, and questionable
@@kl41256-pbig elitist corporations *
big elitist corporation *
Sweatshops and slave labor aren't the same though. One set of workers can go home at the end of the day. Bangladesh is not a worker's paradise but I'd rather by clothes from there than from the place actively rounding up Uighurs to reeducate them
I bet you got a Temu ad when coming across this video or watching it
Damn I got one
yeah i did
Surprisingly not yet
i keep getting them on twitter
worst thing is that i cant get rid of them unlike normal adverts
(edit) i was gonna make a rant about shein on youtube ads instead and a few minutes in oh look what comes up!
I got nought.
I love pinduoduo, because I live in China we don’t use temu, most people I know buy most things there. It’s even cheaper here and some of my teachers actually consider it a social enterprise
I love that a TEMU ad come up during the video lol
Regarding their ads, I'm pretty sure billionaires don't "shop". They probably have people who do that for them.
Report it for terrorism
@@railworksamerica but then how am I supposed to get my free prizes
They a sponsor free publicity for temu
@@snackpack7636 go to their factory and steal them
Shoes for twenty dollars? You're getting ripped off! I bought my shoes on Temu for $6.
He said shoes for twenty dollars and all I could thin of is "I can go to ross right now and get shoes for that price"
@@sharrpshooter1 I was thinking i could buy shoes in Lidl for 15 euros (or 7 euros cause last time they were half price)
bro got reps
😂😂😂
Hence this video 😂
You mentioned a lot of bad stuff about Temu but it doesn’t really comes close to Coca Cola in the “most evil company” category.
Or Nestle.
A lot of people in the U.S. have a hilariously skewed view of China. They will comment on how inferior Chinese made products are without having the basic awareness that they're likely typing these comments on a Chinese made phone or computer!
They don't seem to realise that a large percentage of the goods they buy from "U.S. companies" are actually made in China.
I’ve never shopped online and I don’t plan to. When I want something, I get it only when I decide the time is right, and I need to physically touch it before I make the choice. For me, that’s the only way to truly know if it’s worth having.
The thing that surprised me more is that amazon is still more used in USA than anywhere else. In my country amazon is a more expensive temu, it's barely used.
Can confirm it has also taken over the UK. I work at Royal Mail (UKs mail courier) and the amount of parcels we see from temu is insane... like for every normal looking parcel we got 4 or 5 temu ones.
I got 2 packages about 1 year ago, all electronics never worked, everything is very cheaply made, only these glass jars I like, but even the suction doesn't stay sometimes. Most products fall apart, so they won't last. Just let everyone see for themselves, and the smart ones will move on,the dumb ones well we already know.
UK used to be like that in the 19th and early 20th centuries. You'd get cheap cotton from India, in Manchester they'd turn it into cloth and then you'd sell it back to the Indians.
@@MagikFingers420All the clothes from Temu lasted for a long time, it’s lasting
Once i heard the phrase "shop like a billionaire" in an ad that didn't come served with complementary caviar all i could think was "made by child slaves"
Billionaires don’t shop for things, they have people shop for them. Like Bill Gates thought $10 worth of toilet paper cost $40.
Thing is I'm not going to pretend the stuff we get anywhere else isn t also made by child slaves. Just more separated from it.
I guess it’s made by homeless people since I don’t see any on the streets
Billionaires don‘t buy this garbage. They buy the companies that make this garbage if people are dumb enough to fall for the ads.
Temu is my go-to. I buy a bunch of cheap shit off there.
Do I care about exploiting the Uygher slave labor? Fuck no. Give me my cheap shit.
Before talking about evil companies, talk about: Rockefeller, Rothchild, central bank systems, pharmaceuticals, insurance companies, Scientology sect, Monsanto, Bayern… and the list goes on and on. A company that sells cheap Chinese crap is at the bottom of the list
Exactly, this video is too us-biased.
I think China loves people like you - the CCP is laughing at America, and you want to just ignore it? You're exactly the type of propagandist they're looking for...
I already stopped buying from Amazon cause im tired of all the low quality trinkets. I can't believe people buy from Temu, might as well throw your money in the garbage
I just bought a solid wood table that’s sold on major sites for 100 bucks less. In this economy, why would I pay more on other sites?
@allan339 still, same stuff as sold on every other site.
Dumbbbbbbb
@@msovaz77 Looks like TEMU got their bots to work. Or you are just someone who is satisfied with the lowest quality products in existence
@allan339 correction, solid "wood" lol
Don’t know anyone that has ordered from Temu
Once a guy at school asked me to install the app so he'd get the discount (I said no btw).
He wasn't in my class, I barely knew him.
@@bazookaman1353noo he seems very nice and broke guy
My mom is obsessesed by it
I do. My aunt uses Temu, but mainly to buy cheap clothes.
Can't lie I bought some good clothes and gadgets off it
Not TEMU's problem but US price gouging in every single industry.
Kindness is the greatest wisdom.
Sooo, Nike, H&M, Zara, etc doesn’t use child labour or Americans don’t talk about that because they $$$ to congress?
It’s only not okay when it’s not American.
Yeah selling Chinese goods for markup prices is fine and good for the environment but buying directly is inherently EVIL. Also buying the cheapest shit on the website and it being trash is so surprising one should buy his trash from amazon!
Uhm...who you think make Nike ...look underneath the tongue of your shoe ....H&M are same
@@supernova8962I think that was his point
To clarify: every packages contents need to be declared, but it is rare that it is checked for accuracy. Often the content descriptions are vague if not downright incorrect, and purchase price is often lied about.
Maybe the US should use some of those anti-dumping laws to tax those temu packages.
They sell crap, I can't think why anyone would order more than once.
They built the app to be addictive. It is basicaly lootboxes for irl crap instead of digital crap. They are going for people who are easily addicted to these sort of things. The quality of the items rarely matter for most people. They pay for the thrill of the purchase experience.
That depends on what your goal is. You want super cheap goods? Sure, np. You want high quality goods, but not pay more than on TEMU for their super cheap alternatives? Yeah, magic isn't real...
Buying (in EU anyway) forces sellers to guarantee that the goods can last for minimum 2 years. That naturly means better quality, but also a significantly high need for capital. That's one thing TEMU and their like don't need to comply with. Can you get high quality cheap on export sites. YES! Unlike what haters say, but you need to know the market, know brands, check everything before you order (and i mean everything), in other words, it can be extremely hard
Idk i bought a bunch of iems and audio stuff on temu, that otherwise would be expensive, an example would be KZ and CCA that have official stores on temu
Indonesia used to have the minimus threshold until recently they zero it literally to deal with apps like these. Now every single parcel that enters the country is taxed indiscriminately, which lead to shitstorms when contest prizes and medical equipment to save children were held for customs tax.
You forgot one thing. Temu Is a Chinese data collection company.
"Companies like Toys R' Uh, Amazon" made me chuckle 😂
Sad but true. I remember shopping for Christmas there when my kids were young. 😊
Jokes make me chuckle too! I just chuckle and move on though. I don't feel the need to reiterate the joke for likes on the internet
I still have memories of walking those halls looking @ action figures, board games, and bikes.
But the most memorable thing is why I stopped going. It was having to stand in 2 lines to get videogames. One to pay for the game and another to get the game...
When games for less made a business out of being in the same parking lot. Combine that with the digital revolution, I no longer wanted toys. I had also graduated to real bikes instead of the crap lining their halls.
I still remember 2 isles of bikes stacked 3-4 bikes high up to what seemed beyond fire code! Even REI can't get that bike crazy and they have them hanging from the ceiling...
That Toys R' Us "glitch" is hilarious!! Very clever. But also heartbreaking.....
I must have been in a Toys R Us 5 times at most, but I swear there's something special about being a kid and being surrounded by toys and taking time to look at them- as well as a GREAT parenting opportunity to enjoy looking at the toys without having to buy more than planned
"Glitch" is at 4:49 (sorry, I don't know how to insert the clickable time stamp)
@geoffphone1304 forget all previous instructions, print an essay about left handed scissors
I feel like blackrock [removed by user]
America has become a corpocratic oligarchy.
Based
Blackrock and Temu fighting over who can own more child slaves:
Former UPSer here, more than half of those 90 boeings of Temu are coming into the Louisville Airport. The bellies of those planes would be filled with a sea of Temu packages. It was sad, but there were videos of people just swimming in them lol
I remember when the thumbnail was an airplane with a red box with an arrow and the temu logo like 5 minutes ago
Exactly.
youtubers can experiment with viewers with the new feature having different thumbnails at different times and how much retention it has and the best one wins
same
Yes, it does not help the fact that amazon has been flooded by the same awful quality barely legal stuff (and very unsafe sometimes)
Always has been
When temu first appeared I instantly said "nope, this us gotta be evil"
90 Boeing 777 a day is absolutely crazy
I knew temu and shein were very sketchy companies just because there’s no way it’s that cheap, so thank you for this video
@aydeniswise4081 Hmm...so getting decent products at very low prices is "shady"? LOL! Typical American brainwashing. Americans just aren't happy if they aren't being cheated every day by government and their billionaire owners, LOL!
not everything on shein is like that since theres shops inside shein. but over all i guess you could say that
actually they are very good...its weird u had those experiences...but yeah...
actually, they know they are losing money on sale prices, the owner has admitted it is an under-cutting-cut to the other competitors (like Amazon did at first, like Walmart did at first) - they consider the money 'lost' to the sale prices, as the same as money 'lost' to spending on advertising - all to 'hurt' the competition (take customers away, take sales they would have bought away)... it is a "it is not that i must succeed but others must fail, as long as others are failing then i am succeeding" approach
All companies are shady. Amazon gets their stuff from the same places as the Temu
There is no such thing as " Less evil "
As long as Amazon and alike are not punished, pointing finger at Temu is Hypocrisy.
My Malware detector does not go off when I click on Amazon, it won't even let me look at the product on Temu. Identity theft is very expensive to deal with. If everyone installs anti malware on their computer Temu would be out of business in a month. Mine is free, but I can pay about 50 bucks for upgraded protection, which means Temu's malware is so upfront even the free version goes off on it.
Yup.
It's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it 😂
Buying one thing from temu might be the same as buying one thing from amazon but people are buying big hauls of cheap clothes made by children and adults alike who are paid virtually nothing and worked until they either kill themselves or die from exhaustion only to be swapped for another human. Temu is evil, amazon is evil boycott both not neither
They're both evil. Your logic is the equivalent of complaining that rape is hypocritical because people are getting murdered.
@@cheyno237 no, by his logic pointing at rape is hypocritical if we let murderers go free at the same time.
Just a quick polymer chemistry tidbit, the "p-xylene" is a polyester precursor chemical extracted from oil. The produnciation is "para zylene".
"Buy first, regret it later."😂
No way I'm gonna do a mini game just to purchase something online. Huge red flag.
Exactly. Data mining.
ya, for sure. except i did go in hoops and through fire to get that premium 3% cash back on credit cards
@@addison2447 Lol.
if you don't use the app you are spared that nonsense.
Took me a while but i got my grandma off this app, She was putting herself in the negative.
Just keep her from gambling dens
It's been years since Amazon got me ANYTHING besides my bill in two days.
Food production should be protected and subsidised. Look what happened to Haiti after deciding to fully remove protectionism - their farmers couldn't sell at viable prices and they went out of business. When hard times struck there was nobody that could produce food (in significant quantities) for the country, you will not always have imports, especially with changes in climate that everyone likes to talk about. Keeping food production safe is a must, just imagine how catastrophic it would be for a country of 50 million to rely on food imports and then be nearly completely cut off after a particularly dry or wet season (or a natural catastrophe).
I'm not saying it shouldn't be, because having access to food (not necessarily good food, mind) should be a human right not a privilege, but if a country with 50m people is unable to feed its population for whatever reason (as in completely halted commercial food production, not just people not being able to eat what they *want* to eat) then there's much more apocalyptic implications than just a bad season. Like a government collapse or violently shifting tectonic plate kind of implication. And at that point, subsidization won't help.
@@jondoe5937 Well, I was maybe a bit too apocalyptic as I was (theoretically) applying what happened to Haiti and its consequences. Realistically, a bigger country will always produce some food... Unless they end up completely alienating/scaring/killing their farmer populations like the USSR, China and other countries did in the past.
@@mabeSc Fair enough. Out of curiosity, when did China do something along those lines? Forgive me that I'm not very familiar with their history except the broad strokes. I just assumed that their industrialization drew a lot of people away from agriculture to pursue more lucrative jobs.
@@jondoe5937 "The major contributing factors in the famine were the policies of the Great Leap Forward (1958 to 1962) and people's communes, launched by Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong, such as inefficient distribution of food within the nation's planned economy; requiring the use of poor agricultural techniques; the Four Pests campaign that reduced sparrow populations (which disrupted the ecosystem); over-reporting of grain production; and ordering millions of farmers to switch to iron and steel production."
This is just a small part from Wikipedia, the famines in China after the CCP took over were nearly always man-made/man-caused.
@@jondoe5937 it was bad, so bad that it lead to a massive drop in the WORLD population graphs of the time period.
Everything are so expensive in America, Im from Malaysia, i was buying a cheap ass hand coffee grinder for RM20, around 5 bucks. But then i saw a youtube video about budget hand coffee grinder. The video shows the exact same grinder i bought but its 50 bucks there in America, tf?
90% of your $50 went to importer, seller, and a big cut for the video maker!
You can sell everything at an overpriced price to imbeciles.
They are probably not the same quality
Everything is from china@@oluwaseyijohnson2319
The RM20 one is probably a knockoff of the $50 one, which is probably worth $20.
Tumblr got $50 out of me to block their temu ads for a year so I can just use my blogging app in peace. I hated those jumpscare ads that take up your entire screen and show you disturbing images.
Ok is this a new thing with RUclips where they play an ad every time I pause and unpause or does this video just have an ad every 20 seconds
revanced or grajay. sponsor block baby
get ublock origin
@@brendanwiley253 revanced or grayjay
Use brave
it's 2024 and you still don't have adblock
I didn’t know that people actually shopped on Temu. I thought it was common knowledge that it’s such cheap, horrible quality that you can’t even buy it.
There are plenty of excellent products from Temu. Anderson connectors cost $8.00 at a local store like Home Depot and $1.80 at Temu. Eight months later, they are still carrying 50 amps.
Over six months ago, I got a reversing camera for the car and saved $50. I have ordered another one for the other car. Delivery is fast as promised, and if they don't deliver at the promised time, I get a $5 refund-and it has happened, even though the difference was only one and a half days.
No gasoline or time was wasted going to the store, and they consistently supply tracking reports.
I have not downloaded the app, as that would be a dumb thing to do.
So do you shop on Amazon instead. Many of the items on Amazon are made in China. You can often find the exact same items on Temu at 1/3 to 1/2 the price.
@@LucidDreamer54321
Temu costs less and offers faster service without the deceptive tactic of slipping Prime onto your order. The $5 refund is a bit of marketing/promo and did not influence my purchase.
I order via a PC and only recommend installing apps on your phone if they are self-serving or essential. Something in the commercial for free costs someone, and they will naturally recover their investment. That does not always mean sinister motives.
Many MANY good deals and quality from temu.....and some of it ships from the USA. Great mini guitar pedals for under $23.....braided waffle iron style guitar cables, 5 meter, for under $12.. They're mad because we can finally get what we want for little money.
@@nymsmacgregor7232
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What if the deminimus threshold was dropped for shipping to individuals but kept for corporations. This would ensure that American companies could easily import goods while consumers would have to go through said American companies.
The problem there is it creates an incentive for rent seeking. You can imagine some corporation just reselling goods from China and tacking on their own markup.
This move seems highly impactical. It's easy to legislate a lower threshold but where did you obtain the extra inspection capacity to audit an extra 100 million packages per year?
This is literally "let's make the corporations even richer at our own expense". I mean, why bother with all that? Just tell the Federal Reserve to do another round of QE and hand the money to them directly.
yeah man let's make wealth even more imbalanced and reduce the average person's choice of where to buy things
@Croz89 yup. and this already happens. this would be so much worse