This can't be real can it?

temu uses slaves to make their cheap nasty shit. Nothing is safety tested, it doesn’t have to confirm to any of the regulations that a UK company has to conform to. Made using unsafe materials, designs ripped off real designers putting them out of business, they mine and sell your data who knows where. Their parent company app was removed from google and apple stores because of the malware it contained. Returns dumped straight into landfill.

it’s mainly about the slave labour though.

I don’t understand what is “tempting” though? The £10 offer is now at worth the RRP and you could get something similar / better for cheaper than you’d have to spend to qualify on Amazon or from Argos.
mot just look on Facebook marketplace for something similar?

Go to any charity shop and find something similar, that is the kind of hideous monstrosity every parent wants to get rid of , if I had it I’d pay you to take it away !

I'm organising a party for some family and I've ordered several things from Temu - cake slices, bunting, table decs etc. Everything arrived on time and was better than I thought it would be.

I read the report about allegations of slave labour but then I also found the exact same stuff on Amazon (just double the price) so is Amazon selling products made with forced labour too?

If the allegations against Temu's suppliers are proven, I'll not be back but I'd equally want to know why Amazon is selling the same stuff.

Noooo cost of living in the UK aid not a reason to knowingly buy from a company that almost certainly has terrible labour practices and is horrendous for the environment

Cost of living = buy less + buy more secondhand

Cost of living /= not buy more cheap stuff from a Temu

Didn’t we have all the bad press with SHEIN and Ali express etc before ? TEMu is the same .
It’s the same stuff being sold on eBay and even Amazon most times as others are just buying them in bulk and sell them at much higher price next day delivery .
I haven’t tried many of the clothes but to be fair other companies selling under the U.K. are just as bad quality wise , bohoo is a great example , SHEIN stuff is the same quality as boboo .
By all means don’t buy if you don’t want too , but all the myths about being worse than anything else are just a lie , it’s just another SHEIN or LightInTheBox or Ali express .
One of the items I orded was a dash cam for the car , hubby orded the exact same one from Amazon , it arrived in the same box , same instructions , same manufacture for sure ( mine took 10 days to arrive his 2 days ) . His was £68 mine was £13 , mine even had an extra gift of SD card .
In the current climate people will need to make budget choices unfortunately.

If you're okay with their data mining...

OP is unreasonable to want to buy from a company you deem 'cheap?'

How strange of you to think your opinion holds such weight.

They mine your data

https://nypost.com/2023/08/05/why-the-chinese-shopping-app-is-a-scam/#:~:text=But%20I%20am%20not%20buying,I%20value%20my%20online%20privacy.&text=I%20don%27t%20download%20Chinese,phones%20and%20computers%20for%20data.

Tempted why?

You do understand things have a cost. For you to have some crap you don't need, exploited workers suffer in unsafe conditions and the environment suffers.

I cannot imagine it would!

I keep getting ads from them on instagram. They look like another company south cheap products producing as much plastic tat that people don't need, as they can.

People seem to love this sort of thing for some reason

I'm not up on the latest safety measures for children's toys but will it come with a kite mark or CE mark etc to show its been safety tested?

I wouldn't pay them with monopoly money let alone any real money!

You can pay with Apple Pay so no need to disclose any info .

I actually said they are better quality than SHEIN . I haven’t orded many clothes to be honest just a couple of toddler ones and they where literally the same ones I got on Amazon a few weeks before so produced by the same place for sure .
The other items were electronics and household stuff , party stuff etc

@Cucucucu it's bad times when shein is better quality.
No idea what they do to their clothes but they have 'smells' on their return label.

I try not to buy anything from companies that use slave labour so I wouldn't touch anything from Temu.

The whole company seems shady too with too much information hidden or not disclosed so I wouldn't trust them with my bank details either even if they had a transparent supply chain which they don't.

😂

YABU to even consider using Temu. It’s cheap knock off junk from china that falls apart within a week.

If you want to shop at cheap places like Temu, Shein etc. carry on doing it but don’t then moan about the death of your local town/village and how local shops are too expensive/closing down.

I keep warning people off temu after someone I know had their bank details stolen and small bits that added up to 4 ish grand was taken out!! If it looks too good to be true, it probably is!

Looking at the prices like PP I also suspect they are similar to Shein, consequently I wouldn't touch them with a bargepole , however good the quality it doesn't excuse slave labour.

I have orded from TEMu 7 times only ever used the discount vouchers including a £30 and it has always worked . Things are actually like SHEIN or a bit better quality

Please look into Temu. It's products are 'highly likely' to have been made using slave labour according to a recent analysis.