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EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products

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Re: EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products

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Post by mdrzn »

bcjdjsndon wrote: post #10
nolok wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, it's a fine, but the fine doesn't absolve you from fixing it too so it stops. You have this delay to submit a plan for how and on what timeline you will fix it. If you don't do it, or take too long, we will keep fining you, increasingly. An exemple what how in the old microsoft case they ended up puttin a daily fine for non compliance until microsoft balked back and fixed it (after they tried to act tough and pre…

How do they enforce a fine on a Chinese company? What if temu says "up yours"?

you won't be able to sell in the EU market anymore

Re: EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products

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Post by robin_reala »

bcjdjsndon wrote: post #10
nolok wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, it's a fine, but the fine doesn't absolve you from fixing it too so it stops. You have this delay to submit a plan for how and on what timeline you will fix it. If you don't do it, or take too long, we will keep fining you, increasingly. An exemple what how in the old microsoft case they ended up puttin a daily fine for non compliance until microsoft balked back and fixed it (after they tried to act tough and pre…

How do they enforce a fine on a Chinese company? What if temu says "up yours"?

I visited Temu from Sweden and clicked on the terms of use, this is the first line:

1.1 These Terms are between you and Whaleco Technology Limited, an Irish company.

Re: EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products

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Post by alibarber »

alexaholic wrote: post #12

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This is about illegally dangerous products (banned chemicals, dangerous baby toys, crappy mains chargers) specifically. The stuff that makes for exciting viewing on Big Clive's YouTube channel.

Local importers, shops and marketplaces selling such stuff do often get hit by national enforcement. Not enough in my opinion - but this isn't about just targeting Teemu for the normal commodities that you can indeed buy anywhere else.

Re: EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products

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Post by dylan604 »

mdrzn wrote: post #11
bcjdjsndon wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do they enforce a fine on a Chinese company? What if temu says "up yours"?

you won't be able to sell in the EU market anymore

Doesn’t Temu direct ship to the customer? What if they ship in plain unmarked packaging and keep changing the address of the sender? Is the EU customs peeps just going to start inspecting every single package from China looking for items from Temu? That sounds like a logistical nightmare. This sounds like old school thinking where you can stop whole containers full of stuff from a single supplier.

Re: EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products

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Post by bcjdjsndon »

mdrzn wrote: post #11
bcjdjsndon wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do they enforce a fine on a Chinese company? What if temu says "up yours"?

you won't be able to sell in the EU market anymore

Say they carry on.... How does EU actually stop people ordering from their website and getting items posted to their house?

Re: EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products

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Post by AndrewDucker »

throwa356262 wrote: post #6
big85 wrote: post #3

> Evidence from a mystery shopping exercise included in the Commission's investigation shows that a very high percentage of the selected chargers failed basic safety tests, while a high percentage of tested baby toys posed safety risks of medium to high severity, as they contain chemicals exceeding legal safety limits or pose suffocation hazards due to detachable parts. > Under the DSA, designated Very Large Online P…

Is temu much worse than amazon here?

Certainly in the UK, we don't have the same issues with terrible Chinese fakes that I hear about from US Amazon users.

Re: EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products

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Post by mns »

alexaholic wrote: post #12

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But you know what's not amusing, but rather sad? the comments here. It's wild that people now are upset that the big bad EU is somehow doing something against companies that make profit from selling products that could hurt people, products targeted for kids that can poison or kill them, but the main issue, as seen by tech people, is the EU targeting Temu...

Re: EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products

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Post by spwa4 »

So they let sellers from china, and reseller platforms, get away with violating safety laws for 3 years (just Temu), have 50 BILLION euro in revenue (about 3-4 billion in profit for the platform itself) from those products and then charge them 200 Million for the crime?

Can European companies demand equal treatment? Wait, no, I know the answer to that.

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