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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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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?

Ordering ISPs to DNS block temu would probably be easier and effective enough.

Or maybe getting google and apple to make the app not available in the EU.

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

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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.

Amazon UK these days is definitely full of Chinese reproductions and drop shipped knock offs.

Whether they're dangerous I don't know, I've not tried them.

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

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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.

We don’t have the fakes problem but Amazon in the UK has a growing amount of stuff that is just resale of stuff from temu. I suspect if you tested the top 10 chargers on Amazon that weren’t anker, you’d find the same problems.

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

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post #11

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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?

Maybe going for the money. Forbit EU banks from transferring funds to known Temu accounts.

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

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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...

If you believe the EU cares about kids, then yeah, I guess you could say it's sad to talk about the EU targeting Temu.

If you believe the EU cares about the EU economy, then I think it's absolutely relevant to talk about the EU targeting Temu.

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

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This is one press release. It tells us nothing about how much other enforcement action has taken place, much of which is supposed to be local. The EU does not care about individual corner shops, report them to your local trading standards body.

(I also find it odd how we get lots of nationalist complaints from the US on here when EU rules are applied to US companies; now EU rules are being applied to a Chinese company and people are still complaining?)

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

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Is temu much worse than amazon here?

Probably yeah, Amazon already had long exposure to the regulations from EU and European countries, they surely have some won lessons from these years, compared to Temu which is relatively new and might still be learning how things work, apparently. Temu is what, 3-4 years old or something?

"compared to Temu that does not give a damn by design" would be more accurate.

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

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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.

The money has to move from the EU to Temu/Pinduoduo coffers at some point.
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