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

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Post by bavell »

vultour wrote: post #251
prmoustache wrote: post #155

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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.

I make maybe 5 Amazon purchases a year. There are a lot of shopping addicts out there! Gotta get your dopamine fix somehow I suppose.

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Post by [deleted] »

dingnuts wrote: post #377
arghwhat wrote: post #348

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> I personally feel bad for the environment 1 item per day is certainly not efficient, but nowadays temu and aliexpress batch things over a small period so that shouldn't really happen... > and all the people on the losing side of cheap low quality junk production Remember that taking away bad jobs does not save anyone, quite the contrary. People go from having shit jobs to no jobs, or even worse jobs with lower-prof…

> Helping them requires creating vast numbers of better paying jobs with better working condition in their country, which require redirecting vast amounts of money to those countries This was the logic under Deng, and the reason China is now a peer state. Unfortunately when doing business with communists, enriching them doesn't help the individuals move out of poverty because that would require wages to rise and that…

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

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Post by pixl97 »

prmoustache wrote: post #419
d3nj4l wrote: post #335

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It isn’t all or nothing, products from Temu/Shein/AliExpress are not all “crap”; (and the idea that Chinese products are crap is also seriously outdated). Yes, there’s a lot of shovelware on those websites, but if you know how to navigate them you can get the same products that you’d get from Amazon for a third of the price. I’ve bought bags, tools, hobby equipment etc from aliexpress that has lasted me years and sav…

Comparing with Amazon is flawed as most of the stuff you find on Amazon is also pure junk/waste.

I keep hearing stuff like this and I kind of fully expect someone to tell me you have to pay Monster cable prices to get something that's not junk.

Really my day to day experience isn't this at all. I have good amounts of "chinese junk" tools that I use on a weekly/monthly basis that I paid probably 25% of a name brand tool and they are holding up just fine. I'm not using them daily so don't need to spend my life savings on them. I do a bit of research first so not getting the worst crap that some people run into.

Batteries are the big thing I've had excellent luck with. I can get Dewalt knockoff batteries at less than half the cost and twice the power and they last the same amount of time as my name brand.

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

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Post by XenophileJKO »

forgetfreeman wrote: post #431
dingnuts wrote: post #377

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> Helping them requires creating vast numbers of better paying jobs with better working condition in their country, which require redirecting vast amounts of money to those countries This was the logic under Deng, and the reason China is now a peer state. Unfortunately when doing business with communists, enriching them doesn't help the individuals move out of poverty because that would require wages to rise and that…

"If we enrich the CCP we just end up with an adversary capable of taking us on. That's why tariffs." This argument is absolutely accurate and somewhere between two and six decades late depending on who you feel like blaming for offshoring. Present day all we're doing is poking inflation with a stick, threatening the bond market (and eventually the dollar reserve), and encouraging economic partners to look elsewhere f…

The thing that really annoys me is tariffs could have been used SO much more intelligently. For example a 24 month increasing schedule. That gives business the kind of incentive to affect manufacturing and something they can plan against.

But now we have a dumpster fire and tariffs will have an even worse reputation.

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

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Post by gruez »

orasis wrote: post #430
gruez wrote: post #424

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How does this make sense? Google isn't affiliated with the App Store (note the capitals), and instead it's operated by its competitor.

App Store ranking is determined heavily by install volume.

The parent commenter implied something far more sinister with "quid pro quo".

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Post by neves »

0xTJ wrote: post #316

Good. They're pushing overpriced low-quality junk. If you want to buy from Temu but want a better chance at reasonable prices, shop AliExpress.

There's an art to buy good products from AliExpress. You must order by number of items sold. See bad reviews. See the seller rate.

They are making each time more difficult to assert the product quality. I'm super careful, but still sometimes buy from seller SHOP123456789

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

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Post by tantalor »

gruez wrote: post #424
tantalor wrote: post #388

> shut off Google Shopping ads... App Store ranking subsequently plummeting Are they implying that app store ranking was quid pro quo for ads buys?

How does this make sense? Google isn't affiliated with the App Store (note the capitals), and instead it's operated by its competitor.

I take "App Store" as generic to mean any app store, like Apple's or Google's

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

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Post by pixl97 »

kubb wrote: post #314
BiteCode_dev wrote: post #97

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I'm in France, maybe I should open a proxy. You order through me, I reexpedite to the US, with a French stamp lol.

Russia has 0% tariffs, so they're probably going to ship through there.

China is 'best friends' with Russia, Russia is best friends with Trump. Huge piles of cash for everyone on the inside there.

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Post by neves »

Gasp0de wrote: post #439
datadrivenangel wrote: post #421

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Worse support. Amazon usually will try and make you whole-ish, aliexpress is like lmao

That is not my experience with AliExpress. I usually just got my money back when I complained.

They just make it very hard to complain. And it always is necessary to do a lot of back and forth

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

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Post by j245 »

neves wrote: post #456
0xTJ wrote: post #316

Good. They're pushing overpriced low-quality junk. If you want to buy from Temu but want a better chance at reasonable prices, shop AliExpress.

There's an art to buy good products from AliExpress. You must order by number of items sold. See bad reviews. See the seller rate. They are making each time more difficult to assert the product quality. I'm super careful, but still sometimes buy from seller SHOP123456789

Applies to eBay and Amazon too ..
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