The Most 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

[@SpanishMoroccanGuy]

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.

[@ilia2178]

I'm ditching Temu and buying the same crap from Amazon at a higher price so that Jeff Bezos could take his cut. Support your local billionaires!

[@Armored_Ariete]

its funny if you compare a lot of products on amazon to temu, amazon is just reselling or dropshipping temu products at an upcharge

[@philipthecow]

@@Armored_Ariete You're restating what the guy said...

[@Youtubegoblin23]

Spot on

[@alma_h2410]

So giving up child slavery for adult slavery?

[@fuzzzzy]

or just stop buying crap on the internet? seriously

[@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

[@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.

[@num1cheechwizard]

So you are an Old coot like me, waiting for my cereal box tops whistle. Temu does have good fishing gear.

[@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).

[@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 😂

[@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.

[@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?

[@Andy-cq8fs]

Laughs in Nestlé. Idk. Nestlé is up there.

[@slowmotion2300]

90 Boeing 777 a day is absolutely crazy

[@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

[@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

[@matthewshambler2644]

As your video ended.. a Temu advert played! Great content, thanks for taking the time to research it. In South Africa they changed our equivalent "minimis" law to protect local businesses from the influx of cheap goods from the Chinese direct to consumer sites.

[@tamfuwing1]

They finally drove me to KZbin Premium. "Shop like a billionaire." How can one fall for that crap?

[@TheStockwell]

I'm sure this is where Bill Gates and Elon Musk buy all their shitty, landfill-ready, $20.00 shoes. 😆

[@replikvltyoutube3727]

Drove me to Firefox with Ublock

[@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

[@user-fb6kl7fj1m]

its so immoral

[@cory8837]

Ya'll ever heard of Uighur people?

[@Lem0nsquid]

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

[@qweqwe9678]

american made stuffs are not very good. Especially electrics. Still remember the nightmare named maytag

[@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.

[@ryein542-zx1jp]

"Buy first, regret it later."😂

[@LucidDreamer54321]

I have bought a few items off Temu that are the exact same thing sold on Amazon (because many Amazon items are made in China). The only difference is that the cost is about 1/2 from Temu.

[@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

[@meowertwelve6262]

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

[@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

[@mianadahlia]

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

[@Frog38_mc]

@@mianadahlia 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

[@EdenP01]

I didn’t know that people actually shopped on Temu. I thought it was common knowledge that it’s such cheap, horrible quality that you can’t even buy it.

[@VaughanMcCue]

There are plenty of excellent products from Temu. Anderson connectors cost $8.00 at a local store like Home Depot and $1.80 at Temu. Eight months later, they are still carrying 50 amps. Over six months ago, I got a reversing camera for the car and saved $50. I have ordered another one for the other car. Delivery is fast as promised, and if they don't deliver at the promised time, I get a $5 refund-and it has happened, even though the difference was only one and a half days. No gasoline or time was wasted going to the store, and they consistently supply tracking reports. I have not downloaded the app, as that would be a dumb thing to do.

[@LucidDreamer54321]

So do you shop on Amazon instead. Many of the items on Amazon are made in China. You can often find the exact same items on Temu at 1/3 to 1/2 the price.

[@VaughanMcCue]

@@LucidDreamer54321 Temu costs less and offers faster service without the deceptive tactic of slipping Prime onto your order. The $5 refund is a bit of marketing/promo and did not influence my purchase. I order via a PC and only recommend installing apps on your phone if they are self-serving or essential. Something in the commercial for free costs someone, and they will naturally recover their investment. That does not always mean sinister motives.

[@Anna_Stetik]

Ordered a pair of boots off of Temu. The seam between boot and the soul came apart in 3 weeks. Returned them, got my money back, and have never used Temu again.

[@JesusGodHolySpirit3]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6apqnetg51sb68 Same thing happened to me with this juicer lame broke on the spot.

[@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

[@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

[@Cespasbeau]

As a Canadian yesterday I made purchase of lightweight IT products and a pair of sandals with buckles. Total cost: ~$60 .. Should arrive within the 1st week of August. Have already told myself that if I receive "garbage" I won't cry about it. It will however affect my future purchases.

[@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.

[@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

[@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!

[@thevast9031]

Why isn’t anyone talking about how TEMU is likely a front for collecting people’s personal information and selling that data?

[@dogbot55]

Because nobody cares about their privacy anymore

[@Hazel66781]

And you don't think Google or Facebook does that?

[@wmzer0mw]

seriously what are they going to sell at this point? We lost the privacy battle in the US in the early 2000s. Its a little late to be considering it now.

[@otterholly3603]

I think it’s telling how I saw this comment and didn’t think much of my personal information and data being stolen. What a world we live in where this is normalized.

[@andreprinsloo3572]

@@Hazel66781 Google and Facebook 1000% do that and the same comments will be posted about them, by the same commenters. Having a bad agent in your own country doesn't mean that bad agents from other countries entering yours should be treated preferentially. I never understand this "b-bUt fAcEboOk aNd gOoGle" garbage. Reminds me of the people who have a problem with space exploration because the resources allocated to it were ostensibly going to magically solve the world's troubles. The same people who have no problem with flashy celebs' ostentatious lifestyles. Meh, each to their own I'm all ranted out.

[@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

[@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?

[@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

[@Jymbo6511]

It's been years since Amazon got me ANYTHING besides my bill in two days.

[@redaxecat9206]

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

[@TheRoseBoy11]

WE MAKIN OUTTA THE SWEATSHOP FACTORIES WITH THIS 🗣🗣🗣🔊🔊🔊

[@SpanishMoroccanGuy]

And we won’t escape it sadly

[@DiddlerMaster]

NAAHH

[@changingpeopleslivesmoon2993]

wild

[@johnxina3709]

We makin unfunny overused comments with this

[@6489Tankman]

You won't

[@FXwashere]

My best friend is Chinese, and I asked him his opinion on Temu. He replied with "That sh** is a scam!"

[@bitterballs356]

I ordered like at least 40 cheap things from Temu and only the backpack whiwas 5 euros was of poor quality

[@Schzercro]

I'm chinese and yea it's bullshit, f*ck temu just buy legit shit 2nd hand

[@packles81]

@@archimedesfromteamfortress2 nah it just sounds like an npc

[@Schzercro]

@@archimedesfromteamfortress2 yup, same

[@SURYAGAMING_05]

​@@packles81your comment is more npc than his

[@LeniBats]

It doesn't help that KZbin has been spamming Temu ads nonstop for two months now that I've noticed. Each day, I see up to five different Temu ads upwards of ten times or more per day no matter how much I toy with the ad settings in Google. I report their ads as spam and misleading, but youtube is still pushing them like fish that's about to turn.

[@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.

[@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

[@JoeCosentino]

If you buy from Amazon you are getting the same crap anymore, all the 3rd party sellers buy from Temu and then resell it at 4 times the cost.

[@derek8564]

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

[@ssp4795]

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]

@@ssp4795 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]

@@ssp4795Bro got a temu fit 💀

[@Enonymouse_]

Literally toxic garbage by mail.

[@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

[@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?

[@TylerHulan]

The irony of getting temu ads during this video

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@matthewburton5063]

The irony that Temu ad is tagged to this video for me 😂😂😂

[@bonafidesa]

Literally having a temu ad under this video is hilarious.

[@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?

[@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

[@unstoppablezone4980]

Tom Cotton? Now there's a a credible detractor! 😂😂😂😂😂

[@jds-universe]

I found it funny that Tophatter disappeared the same time that TEMU showed up and the graphics and app design feel like it was from the Tophatter interface.

[@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

[@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

[@eu_bebo_oleo]

@@kevinle1083big elitist corporations *

[@eu_bebo_oleo]

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

[@colabear1529]

You can’t tell me there isn’t drugs or illegal weapons/parts in those packages. They aren’t even looked at

[@Iordlangford]

thank you that reminds me i need to go buy a line tester from TEMU.

[@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*

[@user-ns9jw7ld8j]

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

[@1000Ducks]

I work at UPS and this company has overwhelmed our building and does not use the big zipper bags that all other shippers use

[@Nicksolvo]

“Do you know what I hate”yea, sponsorships for products that don’t work when it comes to actually writing because it changes wordings phrases in ways you don’t agree with

[@garethfairclough8715]

I work in a bank and the majority of my customers who fell for scams or want to cancel payments (which we can't often do) had TEMU involved somehow.

[@toasty_tonsty]

It might be the fact that Temu is seriously unsafe and has many security breaches in which cards and sensitive information get exposed.

[@jasonreed7522]

When i saw an Ad for temu claiming you could get an Xbox series X for $20 i wrote off the entire thing as a scam. Ultimately is something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

[@Larry-Lobster]

@@toasty_tonstyHence why you use PayPal wherever possible when online shopping

[@craca96]

@@jasonreed7522the $20 Xbox is not a true thing it’s just a ad

[@JustHereForTheTea]

@@jasonreed7522 I saw a Facebook ad for Temu that was offering free YES FREE copies of Tears of the Kingdom with each purchase. Totally not sketchy at all.

[@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

[@nicoles_handle]

it's interesting because we've been having access to such prices for so long via shopee in my country, i always thought the states saw that in amazon

[@kylewillett9110]

Never used temu and after watching this video I never will.

[@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".

[@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

[@metalbrony2012]

I just got interrupted by a temu ad on this video. 😂

[@geoffphone1304]

That Toys R' Us "glitch" is hilarious!! Very clever. But also heartbreaking.....

[@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

[@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...

[@ajrikhraj9212]

the toys r us joke just made me subscribe haha

[@georgiosparaskeva8038]

The death of Amazon hahahah

[@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.

[@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.

[@Afrocanuk]

The real problem with TEMU is they're getting in the way of corporate America exploiting their customers to a significant degree.

[@AffableMia]

Dead ass what I was thinking about the entire time. Stupid ass consumers bickering about which big corpo can exploit them better.

[@dmurray2978]

Exploiting customers versus exploiting child labour

[@TheStockwell]

"Shop like a billionaire." Because, you know: I'm sure this is where Bill Gates and Elon Musk buy all THEIR shitty, landfill-ready, $20.00 shoes. 😆

[@armans47]

Sooo, Nike, H&M, Zara, etc doesn’t use child labour or Americans don’t talk about that because they $$$ to congress?

[@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

[@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.

[@tgreaux5027]

I ordered one item from Temu and learned very quick how trash their products are. Always remember when it comes to purchasing anything, you get what you pay for.

[@siriife]

I HOT A TEMU AD BEFORE THE VID WHAAAT HAHAHAHAHA😂

[@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

[@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 👌🏼

[@tsukikoamagiri]

Small correction: in the EU (since 2021), pretty much every value under 5 EUR has to be declared but the threshold used to be around 26 EUR. So up to 150 EUR, you'd also need to declare your package value and while there's no custom tax, you still have to pay VAT. The end of the 25 EUR threshold is also due to the EU's efforts to counter cheap Chinaware imports (but thanks to that, imports got more expensive. A 19-22% tax slapped onto a movie poster does suck.)

[@TheRustyCracker]

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

[@ProtoMarcus]

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

[@cuchulainn1967]

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

[@007stopjockin]

Don't forget States Street 007

[@kimchristensen2175]

LOL!

[@TheRealPsychoGeniusRevengeance]

OY VEY

[@BloodyEddy09]

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

[@LeeMooEez]

BR & VG is the same thing 😂😂😂

[@aydeniswise4081]

I knew temu and shein were very sketchy companies just because there’s no way it’s that cheap, so thank you for this video

[@priyanka5316]

@aydeniswise4081 Hmm...so getting decent products at very low prices is "shady"? LOL! Typical American brainwashing. Americans just aren't happy if they aren't being cheated every day by government and their billionaire owners, LOL!

[@dollarbillzz]

not everything on shein is like that since theres shops inside shein. but over all i guess you could say that

[@konstantinosskordos8645]

actually they are very good...its weird u had those experiences...but yeah...

[@Munenushi]

actually, they know they are losing money on sale prices, the owner has admitted it is an under-cutting-cut to the other competitors (like Amazon did at first, like Walmart did at first) - they consider the money 'lost' to the sale prices, as the same as money 'lost' to spending on advertising - all to 'hurt' the competition (take customers away, take sales they would have bought away)... it is a "it is not that i must succeed but others must fail, as long as others are failing then i am succeeding" approach

[@RAVEN_SPRING_]

The faces on the Temu 😂 love the editing 10:00

[@DoomFinger511]

It's true. I just got into Temu like 3 weeks ago. I bought a ton of stuff for under $50 total. But after finally getting it all in the mail I'm now returning most of it. A lot of the items either weren't as described _(1 item was supposed to be a garden hose with spray nozzle, but the hose part wasn't delivered)_ , or they were made of very inferior quality _(I bought a few motion sensor light bars for my closet and they are so dim it would barely pass as a night light)_ . Also the gamification of the app is annoying. If I want to quickly search and purchase an item I have to back out of several slot machine and spin games which I don't care about as soon as I open the app.

[@daemiax]

There is no such thing as " Less evil " As long as Amazon and alike are not punished, pointing finger at Temu is Hypocrisy.

[@brendacooper5729]

My Malware detector does not go off when I click on Amazon, it won't even let me look at the product on Temu. Identity theft is very expensive to deal with. If everyone installs anti malware on their computer Temu would be out of business in a month. Mine is free, but I can pay about 50 bucks for upgraded protection, which means Temu's malware is so upfront even the free version goes off on it.

[@f554uv1]

Yup. It's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it 😂

[@ahakddiwnfs1742]

Buying one thing from temu might be the same as buying one thing from amazon but people are buying big hauls of cheap clothes made by children and adults alike who are paid virtually nothing and worked until they either kill themselves or die from exhaustion only to be swapped for another human. Temu is evil, amazon is evil boycott both not neither

[@cheyno237]

They're both evil. Your logic is the equivalent of complaining that rape is hypocritical because people are getting murdered.

[@poot6760]

​@@cheyno237 no, by his logic pointing at rape is hypocritical if we let murderers go free at the same time.

[@fenrirgg]

The thing that surprised me more is that amazon is still more used in USA than anywhere else. In my country amazon is a more expensive temu, it's barely used.

[@taelorwatson9822]

I've only bought $10 from them, they forgot one of my things and the cell phone holder doesn't attach to my vent

[@ron2823]

Nowhere was it mentioned that only 10% of TEMU's business is online retail sales.

[@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

[@user-vx8fk9pc4z]

I already stopped buying from Amazon cause im tired of all the low quality trinkets. I can't believe people buy from Temu, might as well throw your money in the garbage

[@msovaz77]

I just bought a solid wood table that’s sold on major sites for 100 bucks less. In this economy, why would I pay more on other sites?

[@allan339]

@@msovaz77 "solid wood" Sounds like a marketing ploy.

[@msovaz77]

@@allan339 still, same stuff as sold on every other site.

[@pilinks85]

Dumbbbbbbb

[@user-vx8fk9pc4z]

@@msovaz77 Looks like TEMU got their bots to work. Or you are just someone who is satisfied with the lowest quality products in existence

[@dVector13]

i worked in a bank and the only reason i knew about temu is because people kept coming in asking about unauthorized charges. i ask about any recent history, and eventually learn that the fraud seems to happen after they began using temu.

[@ctrlv6196]

Just an update, products imported into Brazil are regulated and have import tariffs, A law was recently passed to tax purchases below R$50 (9 dollars), previously only items over R$200( 35 dollars) was taxed

[@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.

[@mabeSc]

Food production should be protected and subsidised. Look what happened to Haiti after deciding to fully remove protectionism - their farmers couldn't sell at viable prices and they went out of business. When hard times struck there was nobody that could produce food (in significant quantities) for the country, you will not always have imports, especially with changes in climate that everyone likes to talk about. Keeping food production safe is a must, just imagine how catastrophic it would be for a country of 50 million to rely on food imports and then be nearly completely cut off after a particularly dry or wet season (or a natural catastrophe).

[@jondoe5937]

I'm not saying it shouldn't be, because having access to food (not necessarily good food, mind) should be a human right not a privilege, but if a country with 50m people is unable to feed its population for whatever reason (as in completely halted commercial food production, not just people not being able to eat what they *want* to eat) then there's much more apocalyptic implications than just a bad season. Like a government collapse or violently shifting tectonic plate kind of implication. And at that point, subsidization won't help.

[@mabeSc]

@@jondoe5937 Well, I was maybe a bit too apocalyptic as I was (theoretically) applying what happened to Haiti and its consequences. Realistically, a bigger country will always produce some food... Unless they end up completely alienating/scaring/killing their farmer populations like the USSR, China and other countries did in the past.

[@jondoe5937]

@@mabeSc Fair enough. Out of curiosity, when did China do something along those lines? Forgive me that I'm not very familiar with their history except the broad strokes. I just assumed that their industrialization drew a lot of people away from agriculture to pursue more lucrative jobs.

[@mabeSc]

@@jondoe5937 "The major contributing factors in the famine were the policies of the Great Leap Forward (1958 to 1962) and people's communes, launched by Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong, such as inefficient distribution of food within the nation's planned economy; requiring the use of poor agricultural techniques; the Four Pests campaign that reduced sparrow populations (which disrupted the ecosystem); over-reporting of grain production; and ordering millions of farmers to switch to iron and steel production." This is just a small part from Wikipedia, the famines in China after the CCP took over were nearly always man-made/man-caused.

[@metaparalysis3441]

@@jondoe5937 it was bad, so bad that it lead to a massive drop in the WORLD population graphs of the time period.

[@Ftureofphonetruth]

Don't close your mall people buy locally