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Big corp penny slap on the fingers. I dont this amount will change behaviour or incentive to make larger profit.
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Why there is a difference between selling and allowing to sell? If the product is sold in your site, you must be responsible of it.
If you sell something on your site, or allow users to post something on your site, you should have some liability for the consequences.
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I'd be curious to see a breakdown between the "toxic chemicals" and "suffocation hazards" categories, as my intuition says it's mostly the latter and often bunk. The other day I was watching the TV above the Walmart customer service desk that displays product recalls, and multiple recalled products were a motorized bassinet, but the wireless remote control has a battery compartment that could be opened and then the b…
Not a breakdown, but this comment reminded me of a recent play sand test by Stiftung Warentest: They tested play sand for asbestos, and four of these positive tested play sands were ordered on Temu. The play sand is for kids! https://www.test.de/Deko-Spiel-und-Bastelsand-Asbest-Alarm-i...
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I'd be curious to see a breakdown between the "toxic chemicals" and "suffocation hazards" categories, as my intuition says it's mostly the latter and often bunk. The other day I was watching the TV above the Walmart customer service desk that displays product recalls, and multiple recalled products were a motorized bassinet, but the wireless remote control has a battery compartment that could be opened and then the b…
> "suffocation hazards" categories, as my intuition says it's mostly the latter and often bunk. Are you US-american? (Walmart is a good hint that you are.) There's some widespread misconceptions/prejudice there, e.g. the Kinder egg thing. The EU has no problem with selling those.
Say what you may of Temu, and I do think more vetting of certain goods is a good idea, but they fill a very real need. In the part of Europe where I live, the choice is only between intermediaries for the same products coming from China. The local intermediaries sell a very limited picking at staggering margins. And when it comes to certain things, like electronic components, the choice is between importing (old) Ame…
I am very pro free market, but Temu with data harvesting and selling illegal projects should be banned together with tiktok...
Doesn’t TEMU have CCP ties? Free market is for businesses and individuals and foreign govt entities should not unfairly benefit from a free market.
TEMO will more than likely just pass the cost of this onto EU consumers.
… which found that a high percentage of chargers purchased through Temu failed basic electrical safety tests. It also found that a high proportion of baby toys posed safety risks, containing chemicals above legal limits or featuring small detachable parts that presented suffocation hazards…