"Amazon is full of Chinese crap!"
Well yeah dude, when you buy from the resellers selling a $10 item for $100 you're obviously not gonna get $100 of value.
this post was submitted on 23 May 2024
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Imagine moving all your manufacturing to China and then complaining that all your stuff is made in China
"They were supposed to be our cheap labor, not learn how to make things!"
That will never not be funny to me as someone who works in manufacturing. Of course they’re going to learn how to make stuff, you have to give them the blueprint so they can make it in the first place lmfao. Another one that is still pervasive is the idea that Chinese steel is still inferior to American steel. Bud China makes so much of the world’s steel you would have to be dog shit stupid to believe we don’t have tons of bridges and buildings made out if it.
People are stuck in time. They still think china is making mini mill steel and cheap plastic trinkets. Sure that was the start, and yes they're still doing that, but starting with that knowledge base with wealth and time they have learned A LOT. They also have a society that invests in and highly values education. All these things combined and they're whipping our asses
So but fr is Temu safe/okay to use in :western-world-emoji: ? I've heard bad things about it like they're spying on you in the app and stuff but so does meta so 
It's structured as a behavioralist skinner box nightmare slot machine, so i would say no, it is not safe at all.
As in, you're saying it's unsafe because you can't reliably expect to deliver even half-decent quality products? Because that seems fair to me with how cheap the prices are. My mate ordered some cheap designed pins to put on his backpack which looked just fine, he quit the app because of le china spying 
Idk what the behavioralist skinner box metaphor is supposed to imply.
The app is constructed as a casino to exploit gambling addictions. It's really, realy, really aggressively trying to hijack your brain using gambling mechanics and every other dirty trick.
Same is true here in the states. There's some horror stories about temu w theft of cc numbers and stuff but it's hard to tell if that's real or propaganda.
Once people catch on though amazon is kinda fucked.
OOO OOO TEMU OOO OOO TEMU 
Last I checked, stuff on Amazon is about $10 more expensive than the same thing on Ali. Something that costs $1 becomes $11, something that costs $60 becomes $70.
Anything small is cheaper on aliexpress. Large heavy items, shipping will be high, so you can probably buy large/heavy items cheaper locally, since they will order in bulk. I bought a Lenova tablet off aliexpress, that was over $100 cheaper than buying the same model/specs off bestbuy.