Temu Tat…

No, it's really not.

It's false economy though, and sometimes even dangerous / bad for your health.

Yes, a lot of products come from china, but they still have different standards from factory to factory. The products from Temu and Shein have been tested independently and been found to contain harmful levels of minerals and some nasty chemicals.

The false economy is that they will last far less time than well-made products.

I prefer to buy well-made second-hand.

Not to mention the modern slavery aspects.

I can't find any reason why I'd choose to buy dangerous, harmful, fragile crap from Temu, made by people who are in forced labour.

People are putting their desire to give their own children clothes, toys, craft items, etc etc, above the environmental cost. That is all they are doing
And most of us would do it, whatever our lofty ideals, if it was a choice between our kids having Xmas presents or not.

I live and work with families in an area of extremely high deprivation, and if I suggested they stop using sites like Temu I would, quite rightly, be laughed out of the park.

(And the people in my community are also brilliant at sharing what they have, passing on unwanted items etc. Nothing gets thrown away or wasted if another family could plausibly use it. But you can't get everything on Facebook marketplace and the free sites. And also, sometimes people want a bit of sparkle, even if it's cheap tacky sparkle?)

Correct the heinous imbalance in our society. THEN I will absolutely take your point about this......

Surely toys from unregulated places are dangerous ?
We don't know what toxins are in them and they won't have the same safety stuff we do here ?

Yeah, what absolute cunts, having the temerity to be poor AND want themselves and their kids to have toys, clothes, cosmetics etc.

Why don't they weave together a cloak of leaves, and let their children play with foraged sticks, like any ethical poor person would?

Jesus.

My Mum bought us all hampers of Temu stuff for Christmas. Lip balms, hand creams, sweets etc. All went straight in the bin when she left.
I don’t know what the ingredients are etc.

Slavery isn’t work, it’s slavery. Much of the production takes place in prisons where people are imprisoned for being Muslim or Buddhist or for supporting democracy.

as long as your £2.99 flowers are not from Kenya or Ethiopia, depriving locals of land and water.
i agree though. we need to reset with consumerist culture. Even Amazon is full of temu stuff but 6 times the price. Ditto etsy

Im 46. I have friends that consistently gift from temu. Its absolute tat. I understand budget constraints but id rather a 2.99 bunch of flowers than even more tat, id rather no gift and them to say they cant afford presents this year than to use temu

No, it really is.

It's really not, it's cheap copies.

You do know that most TEMU stuff is just cutting out the "middle man" who then adds their profit on top - sorry but I'm all for saving in the current economic climate.

Temu and Shein should be banned. Appalling that people put price above human and environmental cost.

Two things can be true at the same time. Some Chinese factories have standards, some don't.

A quick google is all that's needed.

Both of you making yourselves feel better for buying cheap shite that is manufactured by forced labour. Bleughhh.

Shame about the poor people who also need to live but earn well below living wage.

That’s great news, thank you so much! X

I don’t let my children play with any tat from temu because loads of it won’t adhere EU or UK safety standards.

Perhaps we need, again, to ask MN and lots of posters why they recommend Uniglo, when they use child slavery?
Some of the documentaries are worth a watch, because the argument is that employment is needed to prevent starvation. If those children wasn't working, they'd die. Perhaps that's the thought? It's still questionable that a parenting site advertises a company, which is one of the worse child employers, consideringthe cost of the garments. Zara is another brand which is totally exploitative. I wouldn't buy toys etc from shein, though.

Yup if you shop smart you just cut the price rather than buying pure crap.

My hobby craft orders via Temu save me money yet are the same items and since it shares the tracking I know it’s definitely hobby craft not a front.

Other people and shops buy from temu suppliers including Amazon and Poundland type companies and car booter types and then sell it for a much higher price. I’ve got watering systems that a big garden centre sells for a lot of money identical off temu for maybe 10/15% of the price.

It’s everywhere, I’m in a few craft groups and there’s some real snobbery on there by some members to those who post kits they’ve bought on temu and shein etc.

But then when they post their own little hauls they’ve bought from local craft fairs or independent craft shops, it’s temu stuff too.

There’s a little gothic witchy gift shop just opened in my town and it’s stocked with temu stuff that’s marked up a lot. Almost every product in there is on temu.

No, they ship direct so bypass EU and UK safety standards
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jul/20/eu-commissioner-shocked-dangerous-goods-sold-shein-temu

"Among the worst examples McGrath came across were baby soothers with beads that fall off easily, which pose a choking hazard because they did not have the regulation-size hole to enable a baby who did swallow one accidentally to continue to get air.
Among other goods cited by MEPs in a report released this month include children’s raincoats with toxic chemicals, sunglasses with no UV filter and kids’ shorts with drawstrings longer than regulation length, which cause a trip hazard.
They also found cosmetics containing butylphenyl methylpropional, also known as Lilial, which is listed as a chemical of “very high concern” by the EU and has been banned since 2022 over concerns that it affects fertility and foetal development. "

No, for each order I think you can return as many items as you want but if you then decide to return something else later from that same order, it’s then you have to pay the P&P so you should be okay as long as you return the unwanted stuff in one go as it were.

We don’t have any of it and don’t know anyone who buys from there. Most of our kids toys like that are wooden, but all bought from Aldi and Lidl middle aisles so super cheap. Maybe suggest books, colouring books, paint/pencils instead?

Do they have a CE Mark?

Ffs don’t buy anything from temu ever!

Its the epitome of absolute junk