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Post by vultour »

prmoustache wrote: post #155
dr_kiszonka wrote: post #116

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Thank you for saving me money! I have been saving up for a little birthday gift for myself, which I was planning to get from Temu and the extra charge would make it way over my budget. Thanks again!

Why would you offer some low quality shit from Temu for a birthday? 99 items out of 100 self destruct within weeks of use. It is only useful to people compulsively buying clothing regardless of the quality and who will never wear twice the same thing. Disposable stuff/waste. One would only do that to their worst enemy. OK I am exagerrating a bit and had a handful lf decent stuff from aliexpress/wish/temu. But you can…

Reading this thread is mind-boggling. People complaining that cheap garbage from Temu is falling apart. People proudly proclaiming that they order Chinese crap almost daily. An argument about whether one crap peddler is better than another one.

Am I taking crazy pills? Am I the only one who buys things a few times per year? This rampant consumerism is depressing.

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Post by lodovic »

poisonborz wrote: post #220
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…

You really expect that kind of support from something ahipped across the globe for peanuts? Ali/Temu and the kind serve specific purposes and they do it well. I find reviews on those sites still useful, and at least on Ali there are a fair number of negative ones as well. Users tell if a specific part works with Home Assistant or zigbee2mqt. I suggest to sort by order number and not stars.

But that is unfair competition against rule-abiding vendors. Platforms like Ali and Temu should face the most strict limitations for that alone.

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Post by esperent »

vitorgrs wrote: post #109
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...

Shopee has even worse behavior around reviews. You can't even leave a review past the first few days, and they bribe you with shopee points to leave a review.

The result is people opening the box, going yep, it works, 5 stars, gimme those points.

If it breaks a week or so later? Too late! No way to give feedback.

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Post by wesselbindt »

moooo99 wrote: post #216
simianwords wrote: post #123

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Americans definitely have more buying power than Europe. This doesn't look to be true.

If you use the PPP adjusted per capita GDP as a comparison metric the US stands about 37% higher than the EU. Considering the baseline tariff of 10% and the substantially higher tariffs for important trading partners the US targets, it may actually even out.

But GDP (PPP) is not the same as purchasing power, no? I don't know of any actual data but you can imagine two countries, both with the same GDP (PPP), same population size, shared currency (so the PPP doesn't factor in). One has organized its production and labor force in such a way that everyone has a relatively equal share of the pie, and the other one consists of a massive wage slave class getting by on poverty wages and a privileged few who reap the benefits of production. Surely the first of these two countries is more interesting to global ecommerce companies from a sales perspective.

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Post by constantcrying »

0xEF wrote: post #213
constantcrying wrote: post #186

I hope temu and the other Chinese companies in that segment stop selling overseas. Their model is just incredibly destructive to the environment, they ship over the lowest quality garbage imaginable and create so much pollution and waste in the process. I also have quite a bit of disdain for people using these sites. Nobody needs this and it is just harmful all around.

I did an experiment for my blog awhile back that never got written up (lack of time, mostly), but it is was just me ordering about $30US of stuff from Temu to see why they were so aggressively marketing themselves, the app auto-installing on my Samsung smartphone I have for work, etc. The experience left me feeling very, very dirty. The items in question were some small fire sticks for camping, a couple of solar port…

I personally am always weary of cheap power banks. Given the rest of the corners cut on the device, how sure are you that the circuitry and the batteries themselves are of acceptable safety standards.

Even the batteries in expensive devices can become dangerous and I would assume that those undergo some higher leven of QA, testing and safety standards.

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Post by bmicraft »

Renaud wrote: post #202
constantcrying wrote: post #186

I hope temu and the other Chinese companies in that segment stop selling overseas. Their model is just incredibly destructive to the environment, they ship over the lowest quality garbage imaginable and create so much pollution and waste in the process. I also have quite a bit of disdain for people using these sites. Nobody needs this and it is just harmful all around.

You will find the exact same items on Amazon, except usually more expensive. There are many items sold on Aliexpress that are of decent quality. I think the point is to buy what you really need, and focus on quality, rather than impulse buying cheap stuff that ends up in the garbage after a month. Our consumerism is hooked onto cheap crap, the factories producing it are only fulfilling the demand.

Demand doesn't need to get fulfilled. The people profiting off this are still the other half of the problem.

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Post by SXX »

slavik81 wrote: post #63
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.

> we'll be either supporting local workers or friendly nations Are there any friendly nations left?

What about buying some largest-in-the-world microcontrollers from Russia?

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Post by echoangle »

whatyesaid wrote: post #249
squarefoot wrote: post #190

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This. People buying a laptop there for ten bucks then receiving the photo of one have indeed all the rights to complain, but common sense should suggest them before the purchase the old saying that if something looks too good to be true... And this can happen everywhere there's no strict quality control or accountability. Aliexpress is great for small modules, SBCs, diy electronics in general, however I wouldn't ever…

Yeah especially as in places like London there have been many explosions and house fires originaying from cheap foreign e-bike batteries. Some Chinese companies care about a long-term brand and place high standards on themselves but it's not true that anything online has passed safety standards. It's hard to differentiate the two due to the amount of fake reviews also.

Yes, I would never buy something grid-powered from AliExpress, and I would be very careful with larger batteries.

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Post by mrheosuper »

thelastgallon wrote: post #176
roshin wrote: post #138

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If what Trump says is any sign to how MAGA explains it, then the answer is: if you don't want to pay those large fees, buy local. Sure the cost will go up, and significantly so in the "short term" (however long that is ...), but in the long term we will have more local manufacturing. disclaimer: I personally don't agree with that, so no need to argue against me. Just answering OP's question, because I feel that it is…

And its going to be fine. Amish mostly make everything they need, have no debt, no trade deficits, have lots of kids and are thriving. I'm not saying this to be snarky, all Americans can be as happy as billionaines: https://www.businessinsider.com/if-you-want-to-be-happier-sh... "Is it possible to step off the hedonic treadmill? The best approach involves silencing our desires, restraining the insatiable appetite of…

"ignorance is bliss"

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Post by constantcrying »

robocat wrote: post #247
constantcrying wrote: post #186

I hope temu and the other Chinese companies in that segment stop selling overseas. Their model is just incredibly destructive to the environment, they ship over the lowest quality garbage imaginable and create so much pollution and waste in the process. I also have quite a bit of disdain for people using these sites. Nobody needs this and it is just harmful all around.

> create so much pollution and waste in the process Your environmental footprint depends on your income and your country. Everything bought is environmentally unfriendly in proportion to the cost. The only exception is something where the only purpose is to be environmentally good (maybe planting some trees, maybe something that reduces energy usage). Complaining about specific things being bad is almost pointless.

>Your environmental footprint depends on your income and your country.

No, it depends on what you do with that income.

>Everything bought is environmentally unfriendly in proportion to the cost.

Plainly false. E.g. more expensive things made of natural materials and lasting for a long time create much less landfill than products which are cheap but last only a short time.

I own expensive shelfs which my parent bought for me as a child decades ago. They are literally "as good as new", much of the IKEA furniture I had to replace. Clearly the IKEA furniture had a bigger impact, although it was "cheaper".

>Complaining about specific things being bad is almost pointless.

All complaining I do is pointless. Obviously no institution who could force change is making decisions based on my HN posts.

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