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Re: Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads

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Post by tgsovlerkhgsel »

ljf wrote: post #92
tgsovlerkhgsel wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm surprised the Chinese sellers are able to compete for fast fashion. Clothes are the one thing I don't really buy online because getting sizing right is already hard even when you're not dealing with Temu-style "well actually we said there's a +- 25 tolerance in the fine print and this is within tolerance" bullshit. AliExpress is indispensable for small technical items. If they're available locally at all, shippin…

No idea about Shein, but I was shocked how easy/good Temu return policy was. My wife bought some rugs and some prints and they were not as described/pictured. Took a minute in the app to generate a qr code, then I had it to the post shop the same day and they refunded within 3 days. I wouldn't (personally) buy clothes to wear normally from them, but something like beach shoes or a poncho for a festival I'd maybe get…

TIL Temu has a return policy. I thought the return policy was "throw it in the trash and be out the money (albeit 1/10th of what you would have paid in a regular store)".

Re: Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads

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Post by mytailorisrich »

linotype wrote: post #4
maxilevi wrote: post #2

temu and shein are cooked

Less cheap junk flowing into the US sounds like a win to me. Maybe clothes should be more expensive and better quality.

The market does what people want. Fast fashion is exactly what people want because fashion has always been changing fast and about the "new thing" and people like to be able to buy new stuff all the time.

Re: Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads

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Post by vineyardmike »

fastball wrote: post #93
whatever1 wrote: post #78

Ads was THE thing that our tech industry was exporting to the world. I was astonished with the people who thought that tech would be not affected by the tariffs.

That doesn't make sense, as ads are useless without consumption (i.e. imports). We did manage to monetize our consumption thru ads though.

The world is still consuming. Even if the US tariffs everyone else, they still trade amongst themselves. The real risk to our economy is that the rest of the world stops paying for our services and cultural exports.

Re: Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads

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Post by probably_wrong »

Aurornis wrote: post #77
glimshe wrote: post #15

Good riddance. I'd rather have fewer things I care more about. If we rethink our consumption, we could become happier, need less space and spend less money even at higher prices. And when we do need to buy things, we'll be either supporting local workers or friendly nations.

> If we rethink our consumption, we could become happier, need less space and spend less money even at higher prices. I can't believe how many people are trying to put a positive spin on the government imposing massive taxation on people's right to buy things from other countries. It's easy to sneer at junk fashion from Temu or whatever, but access to cheap tools and parts was the lifeblood of hobbyists and experimen…

I think two things can be true at the same time: these taxes are ridiculous, and ordering a 75-cents part from the other side of the planet is a massive waste of resources.

Re: Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads

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Post by mixermachine »

ipsum2 wrote: post #71
bufferoverflow wrote: post #50

I used to buy a lot from Temu. Till I got a product that fell apart after three months. I tried to leave a bad review, but Temu wouldn't allow it. If you're trying to leave 3 star rating or below, they redirect you to customer service. But since customer service only dealt with items under 45 days (as far as I remember), they would just tell me something like "too bad, you're out of luck". So I can't get a refund, I…

Aliexpress has the same problem, quite frustrating.

I can find some bad reviews on items that have a lot of positive reviews on Aliexpress. Seems like they don't completely filter all of them.

Re: Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads

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Post by spiderfarmer »

adrianmsmith wrote: post #100
IshKebab wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Amazon definitely don't do anything like this.

I've only ever left one bad review on Amazon. Chopsticks, they came bound together with some sticky tape. Sticky tape left a very sticky area just where your hands go that I was unable to get off despite a lot of effort scrubbing, washing, and so on. I left a polite constructive review saying they were good chopsticks but watch out for this stickiness issue. My review was declined by Amazon on the grounds it didn't m…

They must have thought it was a bad dad joke.

Re: Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads

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Post by blitzar »

aegypti wrote: post #38
glimshe wrote: post #15

Good riddance. I'd rather have fewer things I care more about. If we rethink our consumption, we could become happier, need less space and spend less money even at higher prices. And when we do need to buy things, we'll be either supporting local workers or friendly nations.

Do tariffs raise the quality of domestic substitutions, or do we simply pay more?

lower quality, higher price.

Re: Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads

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Post by paganel »

roxolotl wrote: post #33
throwaway7394 wrote: post #30

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There's a minimum charge, as well a percentage. > Washington will also increase the per postal item fee on goods entering after May 2 and before June 1 to $100 from the planned $75. Parcels entering after June 1 will pay a fee of $200 per item instead of $150 announced previously, according to the Wednesday order. ref. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-10/trump-aga...

Wow I’m genuinely surprised that’s not getting more press. That’s absolutely going to shock the hell out of some people.

Truth be told, the status quo, with 5-dollar packages clogging the USPS, was a DoS on-going thing in real life/physical form, there had been many posts in here detailing that. Yes, it will most probably negatively affect a lot of people who were relying on that DoS thing to carry on, and, yes, most probably the proposed charges are too high, but it was obvious that something needed to change.

Re: Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads

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Post by vitorgrs »

bufferoverflow wrote: post #50

I used to buy a lot from Temu. Till I got a product that fell apart after three months. I tried to leave a bad review, but Temu wouldn't allow it. If you're trying to leave 3 star rating or below, they redirect you to customer service. But since customer service only dealt with items under 45 days (as far as I remember), they would just tell me something like "too bad, you're out of luck". So I can't get a refund, I…

In Brazil there's Shopee, which honestly, I find way better than Temu...

Re: Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads

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Post by Freak_NL »

wredcoll wrote: post #86
mattigames wrote: post #65

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The closest thing to Amazon made in Latin America is almost the same thing, I'm talking of course about Mercadolibre.com, you can ask a refund for a product but if you do you cannot leave a review at all, and the products with bad scores have their scores and their reviews hidden, that's why is impossible to find a single product with less than 4 stars, and they have millions of them, it's as shady as it gets.

Whats the goal here? Like, with amazon they don't own most of the products they sell, so presumably leaving a bad review doesn't bother amazon much, but what about temu?

Temu is about offering a convenient hyper fast shopping channel to Chinese manufacturers with customers worldwide, primarily for clothing. A product which sells for months/years and gathers reviews is not part of their vision. Their customers don't need reviews (sales numbers is everything), but the users expect them, so they are there.
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