You are viewing a single thread.
View all comments
70 points

Temu is insanely popular. Don’t underestimate this. Yes, it’s pure crap, but people buy it. They earn bucks.

Meaning, it’s not a valid argument to say it’s crap, and then it’s not a problem. Temu is a problem.

But then we have to start another discussion about the free market, because then Temu is valid.

Then what? Legit question, I don’t have the answer to.

permalink
report
reply
4 points

Do they sell Adderall?

permalink
report
parent
reply
9 points

I got some temu stuff. A 7$ bag heat sealer. Works perfectly fine.

However, I do not abide surveillance pricing. I can defeat the surveillance pricing but the procedure annoys me, so I’ve gone back to aliexpress which is easier to defeat.

permalink
report
parent
reply
1 point

ya with how expensive plastic crap is nowadays in most stores, why not just buy from a place that sells the same thing that represents more closely to the price of manufacturing them? Of course I wouldn’t buy any tech stuff from there, but a simple plastic container? Temu for sure!

permalink
report
parent
reply
7 points

Any tips on defeating aliexpress pricing? I stopped buying because everything was up so much.

permalink
report
parent
reply
1 point

Create a new account each time with a new email address (outlook works fine). Profit of unlimited “new customer offer”. You can even do it for each article you purchase.

With this, I bought a lot of 1 cent crap when it was a thing.

permalink
report
parent
reply
5 points

It’s a process for me, I open hundreds of tabs, save all URLs, strip trackers from URLs, remove duplicates, then I reload all tabs into a fresh, empty multiaccount container, then I use a scraper addon called gatherfromtabs to pickup all the prices, then I log and setup everything up to the last page of the sale, I tally up all the totals in excel, order by price, usually 100s of ads, find the absolute 3 cheapest ones, review the ads really thoroughly to avoid scams and then buy 10-20x of whatever this item was to make it worth my time.

This process will become more difficult over time.

permalink
report
parent
reply
16 points

What is surveillance pricing? Are they like using cookies to subtley raise the price on thing you’re searching for?

permalink
report
parent
reply
4 points

I took would like to know as well.

permalink
report
parent
reply
3 points
*
Removed by mod
permalink
report
parent
reply
13 points
*

Things like using surveillance to figure out when your payday is and raising prices (just for you, and just on that day) because you psychologically are more willing to spend in that moment

permalink
report
parent
reply
28 points

The thing is that it’s not PURE crap.

It’s kind of like going to a flea market. Most of it is crap and you can still find some decent and good stuff that’s way cheaper than it should be.

permalink
report
parent
reply
1 point

Gues why: Ultra cheap labor.
And probably not 100% voluntary.

permalink
report
parent
reply
6 points

I don’t need to guess. I know from having been to China and having talked to people.

It’s mostly a combination of 3 things:

  1. Tons of infrastructure. If you decide to start manufacturing some random thing you can easily get all the stuff you need to get started.
  2. Regulations are generally very favorable to small startups and businesses. This is partly why so much of the stuff on Temu is crap.
  3. A huge population. That’s the main source of ultra cheap labor. Farmers in rural China can still make as little as $1.90 per day. All a factory owner needs to offer is more than that and they’ll have a line of applicants.
permalink
report
parent
reply
1 point

I cannot obtain food and housing without work. I am being coerced to work under duress. I would like to get off this planet now. Like right now.

permalink
report
parent
reply
8 points

Where there was once Tupperware, and makeup, there is now temu

permalink
report
parent
reply
1 point

Yeah, everyone is “a business owner” by selling temu crap all over the place now.

Even farmers markets with wealthy looking white people selling garbage mugs and tchotchkes that are all clearly from China.

Someone else did all the work and they think they are special for pushing it on others. Heck so many ads these days are for sites selling the shovels in this gold rush for making your own drop shipping site on tiktok. What else is Shopify?

permalink
report
parent
reply

Technology

!technology@lemmy.world

Create post

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


Community stats

  • 15K

    Monthly active users

  • 6.7K

    Posts

  • 153K

    Comments