I’ve made some purchases on Temu and my advice would be to avoid products that are way too low in price (sub three dollars). Otherwise they offer very good discounts on basically the same stuff offered on Amazon.
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I’ve made some purchases on Temu and my advice would be to avoid products that are way too low in price (sub three dollars). Otherwise they offer very good discounts on basically the same stuff offered on Amazon.
Never heard of that site and just checked it out. Are those prices real?. Most of them seem low, like reaaaally low.
Some of the stuff is cheap for a reason. The sub one dollar Chinese decorations I got were either crumpled during transport or had missing components. But since the price is so low to start with I opted not getting a refund.
The stuff above three dollars are much better quality wise. They also give coupons from time to time which is pretty good. I got a 15 dollar coupon that allowed me to buy a computer mouse, a mouse pad, a dozen pant hangers, around 100 zip ties, and an infrared thermometer for cooking.
I'll check it out then. Thanks.
No doubt that Temu will get banned. Way too many US mega-corps interests in this market
I bought a kitchen torch from Amazon 2 weeks ago. I saw the same thing at literally half price from Temu a few days later. Temu to Pin Duo Duo is like TikTok to Douyin. I can see US politicians wanting to have Temu banned soon.
Libz of the world learn from Mao and Carl Schmitt challenge(Impossible).
The reason Japan and South Korea will work with the US is because China is "eating their lunch," so to speak.
Advanced East Asian economies compete over the same industries - high tech., advanced manufacturing, ship building, IT, media exports, etc. China is beating Japan - and increasingly South Korea - in all of these domains. They're losing market share and orders. Their economic life lines are more and more dependent on supplying components and tools to Chinese companies, and with the shift to self-sufficiency under Xi Jinping due to national security concerns, even that line is being cut.
This is why they will fall in line behind the US - because it's in their interest to do so. China is beating them, and they have no way to address that but to knock China down, because they have neither the market size nor the capital to compete with China directly. They need the US to sabotage China, because otherwise they're toast.
Now, is there an alternative to what they're doing? Sure. They could reach an agreement with China over establishing a collaborative supply chain, where China agrees to depend on them for certain products and components, and vice versa, so they'll always have industries that they "own" and which China largely stays out of. But to do that, they'd have to abandon their alliances with the West, first, otherwise they can never be reliable components in a Chinese supply chain.
That, however, they will never do. You won't ever convince the Korean or Japanese public that they should rather be friends with China, than the West. This is because their societies are deeply infiltrated by Western media and intelligence. They have already convinced themselves of "China bad."
So they will march to the drum of inevitable war and be the front line soldiers of future Western aggression.