The Evil Company That Took Over The USA

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How a brand new Chinese E-Commerce company found its way into the average American's life.
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[@h0ser]

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[@cosmiceyness]

Bruh

[@Casethrey]

no

[@skeetrix5577]

you know it's a tech video when you hear the word "solution" mentioned. lol

[@zxcaaq]

I am American therefore, I hate China.

[@damonroberts7372]

The irony of posting a video about the evils of TEMU, and sponsoring it with an ad for an app that's a privacy/security nightmare.

[@bart8440]

They mailed me a Chinese boy instead of my flashlight by accident

[@bazookaman1353]

You may have misread the word.

[@xilpes6254]

​@@bazookaman1353💀

[@pyrofestimo]

it's a self-heating flashlight

[@Ashtrixal]

​@@pyrofestimono, a for e.

[@fraskf6765]

Uhm ... did you order a chinese fleshlight?

[@amaze3109]

Temu is like a lottery, sometimes you get products that breaks after the first use, and sometimes you get products that lasts for years

[@_._5578]

Ive bought a number of items from Temu and the quality varies tremendously. A laser measuring device that was about 25% of what Amazon or Lowe's sells them for works great and is very accurate. On the other hand, i bought a set of drill bits that couldn't drill thru soft pine. I dont order as much as I used to in part because Temu has changed the minimum purchase from $10 to $20, and if you order a 'locally housed' product, the minimum goes to $30 and Temu still wants $20 of their products. $50 combined is a deal breaker.

[@PageRuth-d3j]

Excitement replaced fear until the final moment.

[@seriouslypagan6904]

They sell crap, I can't think why anyone would order more than once.

[@markkocsicska2590]

They built the app to be addictive. It is basicaly lootboxes for irl crap instead of digital crap. They are going for people who are easily addicted to these sort of things. The quality of the items rarely matter for most people. They pay for the thrill of the purchase experience.

[@VikingRul3s]

That depends on what your goal is. You want super cheap goods? Sure, np. You want high quality goods, but not pay more than on TEMU for their super cheap alternatives? Yeah, magic isn't real... Buying (in EU anyway) forces sellers to guarantee that the goods can last for minimum 2 years. That naturly means better quality, but also a significantly high need for capital. That's one thing TEMU and their like don't need to comply with. Can you get high quality cheap on export sites. YES! Unlike what haters say, but you need to know the market, know brands, check everything before you order (and i mean everything), in other words, it can be extremely hard

[@sherlock_backs]

Idk i bought a bunch of iems and audio stuff on temu, that otherwise would be expensive, an example would be KZ and CCA that have official stores on temu

[@matthewjones9716]

So how exactly are they evil? It feels like they provide real cheap, dodgy products that people who either don’t have the money for the more expensive version, or people who don’t care, with the products they want.

[@just_a_casual_user]

Watch the fricking video mate

[@Zenderoks]

I remember when the thumbnail was an airplane with a red box with an arrow and the temu logo like 5 minutes ago

[@ZeroHour-sr2oq]

Exactly.

[@EquaTechnologies]

youtubers can experiment with viewers with the new feature having different thumbnails at different times and how much retention it has and the best one wins

[@RadeonVega64]

same

[@The_Mimewar]

They sell the cheapest of trash. I ordered 3 things for Christmas last year and they’re all utter garbage. I will never order from Temu again

[@ThatGuyWithNoLife]

Different experiences I guess

[@charlessocal3750]

the problem is that 99% of what they sell is harmful\defective\unreliable... so "cheap" only in cost, but there is no value to what they sell

[@eavyeavy2864]

People really saying "let them eat cake" 🤮 future politician

[@TheTwilightBong]

A long time ago, when the first chinese stores arrived here in Portugal, what they had to sell (most of the things) were really cheap. I bought some kitchen stuff and a pair of tennis shoes for nearly nothing. The kitchen stuff broke after using them a few times, and the tennis shoes lasted like three training sessions. I've learned my lesson back then.

[@Eseseso494]

Interesting vid, hoser! Can't wait to see which collapsing nation you talk about next!

[@hata6290]

Which nation is collapsing in this video?

[@Hash6624]

​@@hata6290me

[@therealskull4786]

@@hata6290 most of Hoser's videos are on such topics

[@hata6290]

@@therealskull4786 THAT WASNT MY FUCKING QUESTION

[@therealskull4786]

@@hata6290 Don't care

[@Lottablack]

2:24 P Diddy🤔🤔🤔

[@elononoras1902]

This is the longest Temu add I watched on my own will.... Feel tempted.

[@AphimaYT]

Video could've been broken down to : Temu operating in legal gray zones. Using forced labour. Polluting. Cheap and unreliable quality. Everything else seems... pointless. Homie did an ad read without being paid.

[@georgepetrin1334]

At different times I bought 3 inexpensive items from Temu, a 3-piece bathroom shelf, 2 metal kitchen racks and a 10-piece garden plastic edging soil retainer. All 3 did take about 10 days to arrive, but for the price I paid it was worth it as none of these items are something I had to have right away. As for quality, I'm using all 3 of them without nary a problem and quality was more than acceptable.

[@thevast9031]

Congrats! You both got your information sold, AND supported internment camps!

[@leo2395]

thevast9031 cuz chinas data harvesting is wrong but when US companies do it, it is bald eagle freedom

[@easternstarwolf]

@@thevast9031 America is the worst at using Slave Labour, and use very young children in mines as well. They take over other Countries mines and then use the people as slave labour, no matter the age. Super low pay, but guess it is ok for Amjerica to treat their workers like dirt.

[@momchilandonov]

Why are you not afraid of being sued for defamation by TEMU?! They have a piece of cake lawsuit considering that you call them the most evil company...

[@jingwang4652]

I know by law, these sites can operate in the US but why did these e-commerce got lucky and not got too much attention in anti-dumping probe of China? Also, if you read the stories on how those manufacturers are exploited by Temu, you will hate so much this website.

[@bolothegiantfriendlypillbu4075]

0:20 Funny note on this, Samsung made my phone automatically download this on a couple of occasions. I imagine its like that situation when Discord accidentally made itself go viral on youtube.

[@derek8564]

TEMU isn't E-commerce it's E-Garbage.

[@brunetteXer]

it's not. i'm sure there's lots of crap on there, but I've bought plenty of good quality items on temu. eg, microfibre mop pads, 2 for $7 Vs $25 for one at my "local store", 3rd party filters for my Dyson vac, that I used to buy on amazon are even cheaper on temu. solar lights for the garden that are 30~50% cheaper than my local hardware store. and jeans! i've bought 3 pairs of fleecy jeans for this winter, and they are wonderful. do i care about human rights in communist china? sorry, no, I don't. It's not my country, it's their culture and their choice.

[@GiantMushrooms]

@@brunetteXer So you want others to suffer and you are a liar about their products. You must be such a great person.

[@adamcuthbert9498]

It's the same shit people are buying at the dollar stores, amazon, wal-mart, bannana republic, old navy, target, etc but for a fraction of the price, people are already buying shit tier quality products made in china why give all that extra market-up profits to those corporations?

[@od813]

@@brunetteXerBro got a temu fit 💀

[@Enonymouse_]

Literally toxic garbage by mail.

[@davidjay24]

LETS GHOST GHOST HUNTERS?! Let’s go 10/10 video 🙌🏼🙌🏼

[@damoneymaker]

The price is cheap but once you get the product it is of poor quality! Never bought again! They will not last long! Trust me! 😊

[@wilsondsouza1395]

Some items I purchased were garbage but many products were actually very good.

[@robertdragan2333]

That s called smart business. They don’t do anything immoral or illegal

[@TheRustyCracker]

Ummm…. Am I the only one that never shopped or downloaded it?…

[@ProtoMarcus]

In a world with an 8 billion population? Probably not.

[@dunskidoodle]

It just appeared on my phone after an update during covid. Hard pass once I realized I didnt install it, sneaky snakes.

[@TheGladeGirl]

I never shopped with them - looked wrong from the start - too cheap - will ruin competition !

[@doomepic]

Oh yes, I love buying from "local companies" that sell the same chinese items made by children & overpriced. Some people cannot afford the items from the "local companies". There is nothing we can do besides getting a better price for the same thing.

[@412hwc]

and now china has all of your bank and home information😂

[@johnw281]

TEMU is a great place to shop. Whether you buy from Amazon or Temu, it's all from China. Why would anyone want to pay more?

[@tripphenderson8499]

Anyone understand why we don't do randomized checks + penalties for lying about tariffs and stuff?

[@j.jarvis7460]

okay but I still think its insane to pay $30-$50 for A SINGLE T SHIRT off some dumb mall store. thanks to china we can find them for around $10 which makes much more sense considering a machine did most of it in 10 seconds.

[@DavidVickers-k3b]

I've HONESTLY never seen one Temu ad. Im online constantly.

[@roncollins1046]

'Smart phones' are the stupidest and most unnecessary gimmick that has ever taken over the world.

[@harpintn]

I don't do business with Amazon or Temu, and I had never even heard of Shein.

[@Sheerkat7]

Their ads annoy me so much on my phone, I have no interest in buying anything there.

[@creatorbydefault]

The most evil is always in good company when looking in the mirror.

[@GrowingTreesEasy]

I think all the countries should change tax policies so people would prefer to buy locally.All that shipping market and post packages is so stupid.

[@chicagocolson]

It's not. Think big picture.

[@davidharper3720]

Import tax and handling fees are a killer i had to pay an extra £3k to buy an engagement ring. Wasted money she wasnt worth it 😂

[@upstreamer1661]

Who ordered, paid for this video,... Jeff Bezos, the Amazon?

[@harlan3103]

Can't be as bad as MacDonald's.

[@PirateOfTheNorth]

I never hopped on the Temu hype train even though I had friends trying to win me over to join

[@quart2knee]

The Toys-R-Us part made me sad 😢

[@Lukastar1]

I thought TEMU was just a meme, I had no idea it was this huge bro

[@kaiserchan4683]

slavery is a huge business bro

[@jay7949]

@@kaiserchan4683based business

[@Fiercesoulking]

Well who doesn't want a backpack wich cost 70 in Europe and 100+ Dollar in the US for just 14 Dollars ? I fully expect this to take a good chunk from Amazone.

[@hata6290]

How old are you

[@1mol831]

@@Fiercesoulking That is a good thing. Amazon needs to go down. But I would rather travel to the next city to visit a department store.

[@TheLiamster]

The motto “shop like a billionaire” is funny because billionaires don’t even do shopping. They have people to do it for them

[@brian954]

You mean billionaires aren’t buying $0.01 shirts that take 3 weeks to ship?! 🤯

[@777guy1]

"shop like a billionaire", ah yes billionaires do like shopping for cheap Chinese plastic products 😂

[@JohnGardnerAlhadis]

I always assumed they were referring to "billionaires" by Zimbabwe's standards...

[@DarthAwar]

and they don't buy cheap poor-quality junk!

[@cloudboy08]

@@JohnGardnerAlhadis haha

[@wildspirewarrior211]

I personally become very suspicious when something advertised is too cheap. That usually tells me that it was either stolen or has abysmal quality and should be avoided in favor of a quality product at a reasonable price

[@kirillstarkov1098]

Same for me

[@nunyabusiness22]

commenting to boost this

[@dragonridertechnologies]

Well, there are a lot of stores that inflate prices so much that "reasonable" is meaningless. I saw - pre-"rona" - an $40, 20' ethernet cable at a major store. That completely ignores the clothing and shoes markets. Oof. But this is definitely too far the other direction.

[@katiem.3109]

Or made using literal slave labor from Uighurs in concentration camps, as in TEMU's case.

[@shhh3683]

​@@katiem.3109if that's true, I will buy more

[@Jungletraveler00_12]

Why are people so obsessed with ordering low quality garbage? Yeah because it's cheap, huray!

[@Kissingerzones1311]

People gotta survive

[@TheSkyGuy77]

Maybe if inflation wasn't so high, people wouldn't be so desperate

[@henlo1910]

Everything in the US is very expensive and inflation is through the roof. It is 100% our own government's fault, not only for creating inflation, but creating the global economic system that enables companies like Temu to prosper.

[@technobladeleakedclips1827]

​@@Kissingerzones1311 they are selling unnecessary garbage though, u don't need any of this dreck to survive

[@enemyspotted2467]

@@Kissingerzones1311Yeah but it’s mostly just knickknacks and useless garbage, not necessities. Sure you can get a pair of shoes for 20 bucks, but you can at walmart as well

[@JohnGardnerAlhadis]

From factory to consumer? More like from factory to *landfill.* What a miserable waste of resources, both material _and_ human.

[@stefanmolnapor910]

Agreed 100%, my father has started hoarding thier trash

[@stefanmolnapor910]

​@@aaronshady131long delivery times because most items are shipped from China.

[@JohnGardnerAlhadis]

@@aaronshady131 And most of them are crap and wind up in the bin after they inevitably break or degrade after a few uses. Duh.

[@watermenlon3617]

@@aaronshady131?

[@indictmntt]

@@aaronshady131 you're illiterate

[@Frog38_mc]

the way i almost scrolled past the video because i saw “TEMU” in the big orange letters and thought it was an ad💀

[@daledodge40]

Yep... 😂lol

[@Jillofalltradesfu]

Do u also have that "eew" reaction whenever u see temu ads

[@Frog38_mc]

@@Jillofalltradesfu yes i like physically cringe sometimes too😭

[@markgo9671]

A temu ad just played before I could watch this video lmao

[@brandonsmith9742]

This is an ad

[@nathandriggs7376]

That “a company like toys r …. A company like Amazon” line killed me. 😂 RIP

[@InservioLetum]

I used to love that store, it was my treat when I'd come home with a good grade on a test in school. I got half an hour to just browse by myself unrushed and unaccompanied. I would talk to staff, play with things, see what new stuff Lego was making, follow the little train around the store on the mounted track overhead, whatever really. It was my legoland.

[@travistucker7317]

​@@InservioLetumyou too, huh?

[@mustang8206]

RIP Toys R Us. They have a department in Macy's now so thats something

[@TamWam_]

Meanwhile the malls here still have toys r us

[@jaketaylor3901]

I swear my mom is a sizable percentage of their revenue. Every time i go to her house; she’s got some new clothing item from temu for like 3 cents

[@meowertwelve]

My mother as well

[@RUTHLESSambition5]

I order once a week😂😂😂

[@havencat9337]

you should be happy if she is happy...simple as that

[@R1IY2N]

@@havencat9337 whats the point of being happy knowing some kid was forced to make it

[@yade5979]

You mean you don't buy from h&m? Or dell? Do you even know how rare metals are dug up? I'm not saying it's a good thing or that it's ok for Temu because others do it too, but if you want to be against child labour, than be against it full stop! ​@@R1IY2N

[@ThomasNuclear]

Getting a Temu ad while watching this was the icing on the cake

[@MrBrewskiDrewski]

I got a similar one in Shein. All those ads I get don’t even interest me. They annoy me. As they probably do for the majority of us.

[@SatansYardsale]

uBlock Origin for PC, KZbin ReVanced for Android = no more ads. Apple? Stop buying flashy trash.

[@MrBrewskiDrewski]

@@SatansYardsale I’m glad you didn’t put KZbin premium as an option.

[@WeMakeItWork]

I got a temu ad under this video lol

[@bigfootclouds]

Lol I just use an adblocker

[@justlisten82]

Child labor is a mofo, Americans Act like they don't know but look at the price... cmon people

[@stansman5461]

I mean, cheap labour doesn't necessarily have to be child labour. It can just be cheap cause of the place where it's made.

[@camadin7335]

@@stansman5461 yeah bro its just made by underpaid impoverished people, not children, its ok bro

[@assassinbarno2496]

@@camadin7335 atleast they get to work on something,rather than nothing

[@SkylarMenzies]

its so immoral

[@cory8837]

Ya'll ever heard of Uighur people?

[@barbaragalbreth4429]

My grandmother bought her first clothes dryer in 1965, which still runs today. She said people used to make products with their hands and that gave those products a soul.

[@Nunyaaa12345]

I love this

[@kadensmith5586]

I think it’s more that back in 1965 clothes dryers were luxury items, then eventually when it became affordable for everyone the people who made them had to figure out a way to keep them from running out of business, hence planned obsolescence

[@rtyria]

@@kadensmith5586 Planned obsolescence really kicked in sometime during the 80s. One year my parents wrapped the special Christmas ornaments in normal paper towel which they reused every year. In the 90's we unwrapped the ornaments and noticed that the paper towel was a better quality then the paper towels I had in the kitchen. I still have the cheap kitchen plastic shelves from the 70s that are better made (and better quality) than the plastic shelves I see at the store today for significantly more than the five bucks my parents spent on it in the 70's.

[@IlmuMasaHadapan]

Grandma's right.❤

[@imnotusingmyrealname4566]

I guess Temu products now have the souls of Chinese children.

[@vektracaslermd743]

Adblockers, people. Adblockers. I've never even heard of a Temu until just now.

[@CoreyIsTheName]

Most people watch on mobile, via the app.

[@theairaccumulator7144]

@@CoreyIsTheName revanced exists

[@sword_of_damocle5]

​@@theairaccumulator7144 shhhhhh 🤫

[@1queijocas]

@@theairaccumulator7144first time I heard of this. Gonna have a look, hopefully it works on IOS

[@constantinosbou]

@@CoreyIsTheName free adblocker browser. You're welcome.

[@yourlocalbudtend3r]

I always find it hilarious when people willingly buy cheap crap, and then complain about it.

[@yourlocalbudtend3r]

@@chicanoklushkov3157 a bold assumption from nobody.

[@chicanoklushkov3157]

@@yourlocalbudtend3r perhaps.

[@summersilly9151]

Exactly!!!!

[@thelogician1934]

You just don't get it. For many products like a reciprocating saw blade, either you buy from Temu or pay 10 times more to buy local. Amazon sells the same shit as Temu for 3X the price. If you don't buy from Temu, you lose out big time. You will never get rich.

[@zackaryjolley3950]

@@thelogician1934as someone who buys tools, the ones that break the fastest are also often the cheapest. The one that’s “10x more” often comes with a good warranty and won’t break due to rough use

[@RobertHaynesPeterson]

The "have to wait 15 days for delivery" bit cracked me up. I'm from the "expect six to eight weeks for delivery" generation.

[@BlackViperMWG]

Right? For stuff from China, it arrives pretty fast. And isn't even all garbage.

[@marnenotmarnie259]

yeah being upset about it taking a package two weeks to get from one continent to another (on different sides of the planet) is. something else lol

[@TheAruruu]

i've purchased from temu about a dozen times now, and the average time for delivery is only about 5-6 days. amazon averages about 3-4 days. even at its worst, of about 15 days, the price difference between temu and amazon just makes temu a better value in my eyes. i've also not been disappointed with anything i've ordered, because i've avoided anything electronic, or particularly complicated. i also make sure to check the dimensions provided, ignoring the apparent size in pictures entirely.

[@kewrock]

There is inaccurate info here. It doesn't take 15 days to receive an order. It's usually a week to 10 days (to NY). And that time is not from manufacturing delays. It's just shipping logistics. Most orders are in the shipping pipeline in a day or two. Evil?? 🤣. Amazon is just as evil. I was a 3rd party seller for Amazon. Jeff's an evil billionaire too. At least TEMU isn't pushing some political agenda on me (at least not overtly).

[@brandonhoffman4712]

Well, back then, they had to forge parts from metal. Now, the legos (plastic parts) just fall off the machinery like mana from the heavens.

[@lanzer22]

A huge factor is how we don’t charge Temu on regular parcel cost. Chains claimed to be a developing country to qualify for this and were somehow getting $1 items shipped for free.

[@StellaM22]

This happens in Australia too

[@alan6832]

I wonder if this explains why, when I get little direct from China items from Ebay, and read the return address carefully, it sometimes says Kyrgistan or something like that. There's a lot of room to compromise between $800 and $7 though. How about $80? And how does it take 3 weeks by airmail? One would think if they had 3 weeks, that they could save some fuel and use a ship.

[@jpt3640]

​@@alan6832 no, they even try to send it by airmail when it contains li batteries. And most time is spent at customs - at least in Germany - not on shipping itself.

[@Lem0nsquid]

The irony of Americans “supporting America made” and never ever doing it. One of my favorite hypocrisies

[@Lem0nsquid]

@qweqwe9678 certainly true over the past 2 decades. In their bid to compete with cheap labor overseas they decided to also make cheap crap to stay afloat

[@Jalreal]

Unfortunately "American Made" just means overpriced and not much better quality, but the hypocrisy is real.

[@Lem0nsquid]

@@Jalreal generally the reason for higher cost is pretty obvious, that being required to pay American wages/benefits

[@ericktellez7632]

@@Lem0nsquidYet the finished product is not better at all in quality. It’s not bad it just isn’t justified in the steep price when the quality is about the same.

[@Lem0nsquid]

@@ericktellez7632 right because they spend so much on their employees that they cut corners on the product

[@nicovandermerwe2747]

I love how "15 whole days" for delivery is so atrocious to Americans where in some places in the rest of the world like where I live it's normal.

[@Uhhhhtheuhhhhmewhentheuhh]

I NEED MY PLASTIC NOWWWW!!!!

[@Arviragus13]

You sometimes get that for domestic deliveries here

[@user-yc6ny6kh3c]

15 days is super soon in my pov t-t I usuallyhave to wait 2 months or more

[@theravingchannel]

its one day in canada

[@justuraveragecunt9005]

That's exactly what I was thinking. Unless I'm using the biggest local online shop in my country (that takes about 3 days for my product to arrive), 2+ weeks is completely normal

[@DedonaPublishing]

They let you spin a wheel and tell you you get "$300 in coupons." Then you find out you first have to buy a few items for a certain amount to get the coupons. Then you get the coupons, and it's not $300 worth of stuff, but $20 off a $200 purchase, $30 off a $250 purchase, etc. In other words, you have to spend almost $1000 to get about 10-30% off. Shady. Scammy. Scummy. I deleted the app.

[@itsmarshallll2600]

I never even downloaded the app because it felt like the same scam as Wish in the first place. Everyone with a few brain cells should've noticed that from the get go

[@Ehh.....]

They Turned "Wish" into "Temu at Home".

[@appa609]

Temu at home implies Temu is the original desired product

[@olg7483]

I recommend etsy

[@bracedgod4505]

@@appa609Temu is the Wish of Wish

[@RadenWA]

Wish is just another version of Temu

[@olg7483]

@@appa609 you mean they turned temu into wish at home?

[@stevedavenport1202]

They want me to live like a billionaire...so where is my personal jumbo jet for $200.00???

[@eurosonly]

lmao

[@wunderfull]

You feel safe flying in a $200 jet? ✈️ 😂

[@KingCharlesThe1stLV]

​@@wunderfullNo! Not without my $3 parachute...

[@IamSunRae]

@@KingCharlesThe1stLV😂

[@marcusvision]

Lol new slogan, same company/idea. Anyone remember when “Wish” was the hottest app for cheap stuff?

[@triforcelink]

Fun fact, it costs more money for you to send a small package to your neighbor than it does for someone in China.

[@livlaughlove4646]

you are so right.

[@bearb1asting]

This is an unfortunate byproduct

[@f554uv1]

That's why Temu rocks and USA sucks. Are we supposed to act shocked? 😂

[@feels6233]

Wanna bet?

[@digitalrandomart3049]

yes the US subsidizes mail from china through the Universal Postal Union as china is considered a developing country

[@clivah1499]

I got these notes from the video: - Temu is a casino - Temu does not store the ware they sell, but make it directly for the consumer. - Temu is a slave-powered factory. Note that it is weird to think that unethically made goods will bear the same quality (and efficiency) as ethically made goods.

[@ericktellez7632]

Where are these ethically made goods? Cuz Walmart and Amazon aren’t it either

[@georgemarak58]

You think apple products are ethically made in Chinese factories , I mean watch a documentary, workers basically are forced to sleep on site and suicide isn’t that rare there.

[@thanksmaybe4103]

@@ericktellez7632but they support 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏴👳🏽‍♂️🧔🏾‍♀️👨🏽‍🦲🫃🏼

[@Kozkayn]

@@ericktellez7632Local business, which is expensive as hell! So, yeah. Your options are to either pay a lot or pay to unethical labor. In fact, scratch the local business part. There are so many factors and processes that go into making just a single product in our age that it’s almost impossible to ensure nothing unethical was done throughout the entire process. Sure, your local tailor might have sewn that shirt, but was the cotton picked by children? Were the cotton seeds sold by a racist seed company?

[@yangruilin3211]

Slave powered factory? So you telling me my father had been a slave? How funny you are!

[@2yoyoyo1Unplugged]

How do companies like this just pop up out of nowhere and *DEVOUR* all competition? What dark shit do they need to do to get instant control over a whole market?

[@virginia3421]

Saving money by not employing very many people, and then do lots of ads so people see how cheap it is, and then also be cheap so that people buy more. It's just advertising, they're not being evil in that regard

[@doppelpunkt]

def get boosted by the chinese gov to increase exports and undermine markets

[@geoffhoutman1557]

ALL the dark shit. Counterfeiting, slave labour etc, heck even the shipping is subsidised by postage users in the whole world as for some reason China is still a “developing country”. Once you build aircraft carriers you are not a developing country...

[@haze300]

​@@virginia3421Yeah, in the end, consumers are to blame for this shit.

[@MegaChickenmuffin]

They cut out the middle man, most of your products are already from China/Indonesia/India, but you pay a dstributor 600% the original cost to get it from the local store. That is why temu is so cheap

[@CarefaceKarl]

To be honest this is the result from loosing our own manufacturing. I'm not American but we have the same problem here in Sweden. Most stores / distributors import from China, Pakistan and such instead of relying on our own production. Feels like this was inevitable. Just to much greed now days.

[@selenecelestial5498]

Exactly, even if you buy from a normal retail store, it's all coming from the same cheap labour -- just at hiked up prices!

[@Techfanatic73]

Um no it isn't. We produce far more than we used to in the United states. Less manufacturing but far more efficient. Stuff we produce would never be able to compete with temu. Period. The reason they can make stuff so cheap is polluting the crap out of stuff from factories with no controls or regulations and cheap child and slave labor.

[@selenecelestial5498]

@Techfanatic73 no idea how things are in the USA. Here in Aus, very little is manufactured on our soil. Even etsy sellers who hand make stuff get the base supplies from places like Ali express. Truly tailored stuff is very rare. Even so, where do the supplies they use come from? Where do the craft supply stores get their stuff? Reality bites.

[@mi1400]

Here are few advices US/Canada can flip this over ... (I once wrote 300 points document to management how they can improve yield of said amz warehouse) .. .(!) stop making warehouses labour only seeking ppl.. it cause same management from them to rise up and take monkey decisions ... (2) most warehouses here are laid out un-optimally, unnecessary space allocated for indoor pit vehicles instead battery pallet jacks ... because the minds who designed layout for opening of new warehouse were same... (3) labour laws dept dont visit the sits often leaving hardworker at mercy of deliberate backdoored systems to let blue-eyed slip and others trap in performance points despite they were highest .performers (4) since labour at these sites know its abusive env they fear even going to court (very very few do) but the real deal is the courts here should mandate that warehouse to display apology on info boards around the warehouse and how it will do best not to repeat it again.. right now out of court settlements causes the person to take meager amount and shutup/ban from discussing the matter... this in the name of both sides privacy etc is making the warehouses hell for knowledgeable labour specially coming from abroad to shine here before it leaves for better job... they are crushed for shining at work. (5) these things are causing giants here to open useless new warehouses instead optimizing reach of existing ones to broader areas.. u can see same corporate's airport size warehouses every 10-kms (should be 30 to 50+) wasting real-state, efficiency and few hardworking labour on mercy of higher count dodger labour and their puppeteering management... i can keep going on but US/Canadian govt can reach me out for how to fix that .. we can do better than all these temus, alibabas etc ... its our home turf for Crist sake!

[@ThirtytwoJ]

Wouldnt be without the spending and taxes the gov has implemented. Indireftly funding communism.

[@oldNavyJZ]

Let's be honest. Amazon is warehoused Temu crap and retail stores are heavily marked up Temu crap.

[@bryanthompson1]

Honestly there's a difference, I tried temu for a bit and found the quality so low it wasn't even worth keeping, Amazon and stores might but be the highest quality but are better than temu

[@Sweegdeddy]

This is one of the better comments on here haha

[@redaxecat9206]

This app has taken over Australia too. Every square meter of my housemate's room is covered in junk from Temu.

[@hsthatzo8063]

Bro lives in a room filled with temu💀💀

[@raijinenel3116]

That's a shame...

[@aaronh678]

Same in the UK. Got a colleague said it's good for people struggling or on benefits.

[@RealHomeRecording]

No one forced your housemate to buy from Temu.

[@scottprather5645]

Most of that stuff's going to end up in the landfill

[@SilverBlaze189sb189]

The fact that they have thousands of accounts on social media platforms so that’s practically impossible to block them so you can’t see their ads is just ridiculous and disgusting

[@I.no.ah.guy57]

I've tried many times to block Temu ads, and others in general, here on YT. It never worked. I still get the same ads from the same companies the next day. It's so annoying 😭

[@ThirtytwoJ]

Also forced laborers im sure

[@AndresMarchena-o4l]

@@ThirtytwoJ its like one weigure, all that shit is near xian china not well paind but not forced, no one is forcing you to buy you force people not to buy and spend more, im happy people can buy things affordably

[@ThirtytwoJ]

@@AndresMarchena-o4l bs

[@zanemob1429]

@@AndresMarchena-o4l How much did you get paid? Genuinely wondering.

[@FelixNielsen]

The sad fact is that in the world we live in, even if you're willing to pay a substantial premium, overall, all you get is crap. Endless compromises and frustrations, and absolutely nothing you can do about it. So, when offered often even worse crap, but at a very reasonable price, for a change, it is very tempting indeed.

[@sianais]

Yep. Spending more money is no guarantee of quality. 😢

[@sharongao4992]

i completely agree. price barely correlates to quality anymore, and yet some people feel justified to shame those shopping at sites like Temu as if their Amazon products aren't far off in quality.

[@user-yk1cw8im4h]

I mean most Americans are selling items made from the same factory as those on TEMU but at a premium price. Why feed the greed of Americans when there is a better way.

[@FelixNielsen]

@@user-yk1cw8im4h There are plenty of reasons, very good reasons in fact, to stay within the borders of your own country, when shopping, and to buy from the foreign countries that are most similar to your own, when you have to. That is to say NOT China. All I am saying is that it is perfectly understandable if people do not follow this very sensible advice, also for the reason you describe.

[@JuppeD]

Yeah its so annoying. Like basically the only reason I use it is for dropship products I want. Because most of the time they are just taken from temu and added a zero to the end

[@michaelthayer5351]

It's the natural progression of the Chinese business model, make a cheap good, like a plastic spatula that melts the first time you use it, but someone will inevitably buy it because it's cheap and then after it inevitably breaks they go back to standard options, but the company still made money.

[@nakoma5]

And then pocket the money made and bail once the ship starts sinking, rinse and repeat.

[@alexandervillar7742]

Lol this is not the Chinese business model, this is just a business model. If you don't think American companies don't do this shit too you are sadly mistaken. The difference being that we outsource the slave labor to Bangladesh or Vietnam and put a nice brand name on it. Happens with H&M, Zara and any other clothing company you can imagine. Hell, Nestle is rated the worst company in the world in terms of employee treatment.

[@raptorhacker599]

​@@alexandervillar7742but the Bangladeshi slaves make clothes that last and are good....so not the same?

[@Jalreal]

​@@alexandervillar7742Social Credit Score increase! 🇨🇳

[@theowainwright7406]

@raptorhacker599 most of that shit is cheap trash too.

[@oneminutefixed5003]

Don't know if you are aware, but stuff on Amazon is mainly made in China, the difference is that products are selected based on quality and repackaged to give the illusion of premium

[@nsshing]

That's true. I used to work on related industry.

[@mustang8206]

I'll buy from Amazon once they treat their workers fairly

[@TamWam_]

Oh damn, somehow I didn't know this. Tbh most of the things I bought from Amazon was a birthday gift for my friend and also things for my PC setup, don't forget my phone or my laptop I got from Amazon too lol

[@that.schamp]

I don't know about "selected on quality". Most of it is the same junk from Alibaba. From what I can tell, the big difference is that Amazon sellers generally do large volume imports to Amazon's distribution centers.

[@inuendo6365]

Scamazon is mostly junk and Chinese knockoffs now too. It's been flooded with fake reviews too

[@gabrielpecson8549]

I get different ads from temu where it just plays a song with really caked up, when i say caked up, CAKED UP pictures of models wearing their products 💀

[@PrinceChaWulf]

They know what you like 😄😂😄

[@Ryzard]

eyup, haven't seen em but that sounds realistic

[@SanchoPanza-wg5xf]

Caked up? That expression is new to me. I looked up the term on urban dictionary but I'm still confused. Are you trying to say that the photographs are plagiarized, that the models have large posteriors, or that the models wear excessive makeup?

[@Samlogancarolina7]

@@SanchoPanza-wg5xfexcessive makeup

[@BlueSunStudios1]

@@SanchoPanza-wg5xf Excessive makeup being the usual jargon/slang for "caked up" like how people associate cakes in general as having a lot of fluff like icing, sprinkles, decorations, etc. that covers a lot of the actual cake itself which is sometimes smaller and less/unimpressive by comparison.

[@mikenichols3849]

Just days ago the EU changed their tariffs so that now temu cannot get around taxes with their shipping model. That alone will have an enormous negative impact on temu's sales numbers going forward.

[@AwesomeHairo]

Good.

[@tacovids]

What’s evil is the American corporations selling the same stuff at 10000% markups

[@niyoleo]

Exactly! And they get them from China! Same Americans and westerners who wanna talk about ethicalities are buying stuff from American companies or European companies with merchandises that came from child labor and sweatshops including the maker of this video cuz Around 90% of stuff the west buys and use are made in China. But Temu is made the villain for not having a middleman (American site) to sell you pretty much the same products made from the same country for 10000% more to make the middleman richer.

[@Yru2noz]

10000% lol

[@unsocialbutterfly5760]

Exactly, I see it all the time. The exact items, you know they bought from Temu 😂

[@tacovids]

@@unsocialbutterfly5760 everything from amazon is just drop shipping from china lol, its crazy how we could just buy directly now for cheaper

[@MobyShtick]

So you think your average scalper is more evil or even comparatively evil to a Chinese corp using slave labor. GOTCHA 👌🏼

[@subman721]

6:32 Don’t you mean SLAVE LABOR SWEATSHOPS???

[@jesses764]

He's not talking about america

[@ncp321]

That Toys-R-Us to Amazon jump cut, though. 😂

[@CatalinaFOIA]

4:47

[@chamberlain85]

I rolled back to see if what I seen was what I had thought I seen. Kind of funny ya

[@joshuafrimpong244]

Tbh seeing a company being very questionable isnt shocking

[@jrezecordero7943]

Especially if its chinese

[@kevinle1083]

I am just used to all companies being shady, scummy, greedy, and questionable

[@grbbsc]

@@kevinle1083big elitist corporations *

[@grbbsc]

big elitist corporation *

[@BiggestCorvid]

Sweatshops and slave labor aren't the same though. One set of workers can go home at the end of the day. Bangladesh is not a worker's paradise but I'd rather by clothes from there than from the place actively rounding up Uighurs to reeducate them

[@FOX007-um1wr]

The first time I seen TEMU, I said to myself, "This must be made in China." So I never tried the company. My neighbor did though. She told me she wished she had never did business with them. Half the stuff she ordered was crappy, poor quality, the Extra Large toddler dress would have fit a small doll, and then they wouldn't stop spamming her. LOL

[@101Volts]

On China "Quality," When I bought a "Super Joy Power Play III" for $10 in May 2005, it went back to the grocery store the next day. It's a low quality bootleg video game "system" that has stiff buttons and boasts that it has 76,000 games, but most are repeats or hacked versions - there were only 1,384 games between the systems it ripped from.

[@cuchulainn1967]

"The Most Evil Company " is Blackrock, with Vanguard as a close second....

[@007stopjockin]

Don't forget States Street 007

[@kimchristensen2175]

LOL!

[@TheRealSkulldozer]

OY VEY

[@BloodyEddy09]

For me, hands down EA is the worst company by far

[@LeeMooEez]

BR & VG is the same thing 😂😂😂

[@Ayem427]

I didn't realize how widespread this thing got, I'd just kinda ignored it once i got the ads to stop bugging me

[@dewinmoonl]

because you're "rich enough". there are people who are much more poorer, and we should get used to these things being more common you can try to ban it, it'll get around, other company will get around it'll be the norm

[@lenoxpI]

@@dewinmoonlLet’s go send all the poor people to work in the Chinese factories for like 1 cent an hour for 3 years and then when they come back see if they still feel the same about buying from unethical companies

[@Jackpkmn]

@@dewinmoonl I disagree, you have to be over a certain wealth to be able to afford to throw away and totally waste money on cheap crap you know will break down or you will only use once. Those of us who are actually seriously struggling can't afford to waste money on manufactured landfill when we can barely put food on the table.

[@dewinmoonl]

@@Jackpkmn ah i see, this makes sense. so the target audience is those who have "some, but not a lot" of disposable income

[@JuppeD]

@@Jackpkmn the stuff that temu makes is like almost the same quality as bigger brands but just way cheaper. So many people will sacrifise a little bit of quality for 90% off. Including me but I feel like clothes steps over the line a bit

[@eliprenten7066]

It will not go as long as the EXACT same products are being dropshipped on amazon at over 4x the price

[@aviancoleslaw]

I cannot for the life of me understand how businesses like this succeed. A message to the people: _Stop buying things._ Buy what you need and what will bring you _recurring_ happiness.

[@GamingInfested]

yep buy decoration stuff at 500% more... no

[@daledodge40]

what = that*

[@KyleZuber-h8i]

They also sell shoes and other essential items

[@slumz12]

contradictory

[@iridescentsea3730]

directions unclear; i just spent $749 on TEMU

[@Cat_DeGaulle]

Remember, Hoser is not sad, is happy, healthy, and never felt suicidal.👍

[@Gr13fM4ch1n3]

Keep him secret, keep him safe!

[@mm-qq7bb]

Bro's going to get the whistleblower treatment😬

[@-AstroLogical-]

Good to know, we can't lose him!

[@tritium1998]

Dudes who always cry about certain countries often are sad and suicidal though.

[@shutupMaji]

Hopefully h0ser never makes a video on boeing

[@In.the.mood.2]

I didn’t think people actually used temu. I thought everybody knew you had a 50/50 shot at getting your bank account drained everytime you buy something.

[@YaBoyfelipe]

What? You fr?

[@In.the.mood.2]

@@YaBoyfelipe yes. I knew people were stupid but not THAT stupid

[@wussrestbrook1200]

@@In.the.mood.2what’s stupid from buying the same stuff on amazon but way cheaper

[@In.the.mood.2]

@@wussrestbrook1200the video literally says you don’t actually know where your money is going when you use temu

[@zazzy2859]

​@@In.the.mood.2 I think he was talking from the investors (shareholders) point of view. I mean, lots of people are not sure where their tax money goes. In some countries it just "disappears".

[@Ural-Vnz]

I am from East turkestan, and my one of my relatives was sent to one of the concentration camp, he does hard labor, and k Remmeber Chinese guards saying “where is your god, where is your “Allah”l show me him”….hope the Chinese are reprimanded for their actions, the US is sleeping on them so much

[@Just_aNobody]

actually a disgusting company

[@electron8262]

What is especially disgusting is the monster app they created by mixing all the dopamine-hacking techniques together: loot boxes, cheap consumable products, time pressure - it's like TikTok but with the added bonus of slavery and physical waste.

[@orangecitrus8056]

agreed, as a Chinese person I always laugh when people say western companies are "doing shady stuff behind the scenes". it's child's play compared to stuff we got here like Temu and Tiktok

[@abdullahal-mamun1053]

@@orangecitrus8056what’s tiktok doing?

[@orangecitrus8056]

@@Fr3nchFlag for real

[@noobymooby-ty8gh]

Well spotted! Now onto the next one, Nestle!

[@macoi3008]

You mentioned a lot of bad stuff about Temu but it doesn’t really comes close to Coca Cola in the “most evil company” category.

[@kristoffer3000]

Or Nestle.

[@FlameFlickers]

A lot of people in the U.S. have a hilariously skewed view of China. They will comment on how inferior Chinese made products are without having the basic awareness that they're likely typing these comments on a Chinese made phone or computer! They don't seem to realise that a large percentage of the goods they buy from "U.S. companies" are actually made in China.

[@felixstrider]

i was thinking to myself, "shouldnt we be trying to *incentivize* bulk transport, since that's more energy efficient?" and then i remembered that when shipping companies are encouraged to transport goods in larger batches, the size of ships goes up, which leads to longer unloading times, fewer ships able to unload at a time per port, and therefore longer waits in port, higher risk when cargo is lost, less flexibility when shipping lanes are disrupted (such as in the suez canal evergreen situation) and an overall increase in global shipping time. so... we should be doing something to encourage a middle ground. efficient but flexible, high density, medium sized cargo transport.

[@doujinflip]

Efficiency and flexibility are competing interests. Short of changing technologies entirely (like switching from snail mail to email) you'd always trade low per-unit costs for versatility and vice versa, and last time I checked we haven't invented mass teleportation yet.

[@felixstrider]

@@doujinflip my conclusion is. we should standardize more things in shipping so that important things like this arent left up to the insanity of the market

[@RickBlaine]

Even worse than that! The US ports are now so old and inefficient that the largest ships don't dock in the US now. They off load in Third World countries.

[@frankorosz901]

Put some thought into your comments. Do you really think that your order is packed. Put on a boat. Traveling half way around the globe. Unloaded. Sorted. Put on a train or truck. Delivered near to your home. Then delivered to you in 15 days? I don't think so. So there usually are no ships involved in shipping unless already in the warehouse in US. But article says there are no warehouses involved.

[@felixstrider]

@@frankorosz901 its a video about factory to consumer shipping. the factories are on another continent. we aren't talking about amazon warehouses

[@mattyice100]

"Companies like Toys R' Uh, Amazon" made me chuckle 😂

[@flowermeerkat6827]

Sad but true. I remember shopping for Christmas there when my kids were young. 😊

[@MrKingH8sYouTube]

Jokes make me chuckle too! I just chuckle and move on though. I don't feel the need to reiterate the joke for likes on the internet

[@brandonhoffman4712]

I still have memories of walking those halls looking @ action figures, board games, and bikes. But the most memorable thing is why I stopped going. It was having to stand in 2 lines to get videogames. One to pay for the game and another to get the game... When games for less made a business out of being in the same parking lot. Combine that with the digital revolution, I no longer wanted toys. I had also graduated to real bikes instead of the crap lining their halls. I still remember 2 isles of bikes stacked 3-4 bikes high up to what seemed beyond fire code! Even REI can't get that bike crazy and they have them hanging from the ceiling...

[@Elongated_Muskrat]

Don’t know anyone that has ordered from Temu

[@bazookaman1353]

Once a guy at school asked me to install the app so he'd get the discount (I said no btw). He wasn't in my class, I barely knew him.

[@botbat9645]

​@@bazookaman1353noo he seems very nice and broke guy

[@eduardpeeterlemming]

My mom is obsessesed by it

[@DacLMK]

I do. My aunt uses Temu, but mainly to buy cheap clothes.

[@schemar17]

Can't lie I bought some good clothes and gadgets off it

[@sunsinger970]

Once i heard the phrase "shop like a billionaire" in an ad that didn't come served with complementary caviar all i could think was "made by child slaves"

[@rebelroar78]

Billionaires don’t shop for things, they have people shop for them. Like Bill Gates thought $10 worth of toilet paper cost $40.

[@DaLatinKnight]

Thing is I'm not going to pretend the stuff we get anywhere else isn t also made by child slaves. Just more separated from it.

[@foxyfoxfilms]

I guess it’s made by homeless people since I don’t see any on the streets

[@rcchin7897]

Billionaires don‘t buy this garbage. They buy the companies that make this garbage if people are dumb enough to fall for the ads.

[@Hegemon1984]

Temu is my go-to. I buy a bunch of cheap shit off there. Do I care about exploiting the Uygher slave labor? Fuck no. Give me my cheap shit.

[@Ghastmanpeople]

1:37 p diddy

[@ummmm.....5270]

Hey man. I like this video a lot. No fluff or overloaded with jokes, and the info is spaced well. I also like how you talk at a normal speed rather than flood the listener with info. Thanks.

[@Brackfield]

I fail to see how Teemu is any worse than any other reseller of cheap chinese garbage like alibaba, wish, amazon, etc. It is just the latest chapter in a very long list.

[@JohnGardnerAlhadis]

The long-term solution to all this is to get people to _stop buying crap they don't need._ Consumerist culture is killing our planet.

[@advicepirate8673]

You're right, we shouldn't use any of them. but that means NOT trying to fill the black hole at the center of our being by accumulating worthless garbage while everyone around us does exactly the same. Good luck kids. We don't stand a chance as long as we keep living the way we do. Balls deep in the rising tide of self destruction.

[@Jalreal]

Temu has way better marketing

[@rebelroar78]

No it’s worse, and Amazon and eBay have had to lower quality to keep up with Temu.

[@victorchen9170]

Aliexpress quality > Temu.

[@jackchandelier]

Shoes for twenty dollars? You're getting ripped off! I bought my shoes on Temu for $6.

[@sharrpshooter1]

He said shoes for twenty dollars and all I could thin of is "I can go to ross right now and get shoes for that price"

[@Enyap_]

@@sharrpshooter1 I was thinking i could buy shoes in Lidl for 15 euros (or 7 euros cause last time they were half price)

[@od813]

bro got reps

[@mcsarah5910]

😂😂😂

[@firefox8713]

Hence this video 😂

[@imabird1566]

Remember kids, if it’s too good to be true it probably is

[@jasonreed7522]

One of the first ads for temu i saw was offering an xbox series x for $20. That's all i needed to write off the company as a scam.

[@somekindaguy100]

Been buying off them for approx 12 months from here in Australia.Zero issue so yeah I have no issues but each to their own

[@neolynx_]

I got a switch oled for $108 so not always

[@PatrickArcato]

​@@somekindaguy100Lmao brokie

[@Avigorus]

I refuse to touch that thing...

[@noahboat580]

I tried warning Mom about TEMU but of course she bought a few things for me and my bro. But she knows better about it now, she truly got convinced by those low low prices

[@tritium1998]

Hopefully your prices can get higher soon like you wish.

[@noahboat580]

@@tritium1998 I don't wish anything from TEMU because I couldn't care less about the company. What an oxymoronic thing to say

[@AAants]

How did you convince her? I have been trying to convince my mom too but she doesn’t care

[@noahboat580]

@@AAants she just made a single order for us then I told her how TEMU is, how they're cheap bootlegs. She only bought me these flat fanny packs, and these tiny backpacks.

[@shanenice5380]

Some those items u found them in Walmart and dollars general store

[@snackpack7636]

I love that a TEMU ad come up during the video lol

[@unoriginalname4321]

Regarding their ads, I'm pretty sure billionaires don't "shop". They probably have people who do that for them.

[@railworksamerica]

Report it for terrorism

[@snackpack7636]

@@railworksamerica but then how am I supposed to get my free prizes

[@jarrodwilson2382]

They a sponsor free publicity for temu

[@railworksamerica]

@@snackpack7636 go to their factory and steal them

[@constructionproduction4965]

I bet you got a Temu ad when coming across this video or watching it

[@Abdulrahmanic]

Damn I got one

[@jakubvrana6115]

yeah i did

[@calebkaminski6951]

Surprisingly not yet

[@Reixuria]

i keep getting them on twitter worst thing is that i cant get rid of them unlike normal adverts (edit) i was gonna make a rant about shein on youtube ads instead and a few minutes in oh look what comes up!

[@silenttera666]

I got nought.

[@kazansky22]

I deleted temu when it started giving me all these timers. I don’t appreciate being pressured into a sale.