Temu Tat…

a warning for anyone who sees this that buys kids toys online from china - they often don’t meet UK EU safety regs. I don’t mean breaking and poor quality, I mean toxic plastic dyes and chemical ingredients!!!

I do buy things from there for business use, we source packaging for example. But I’d never buy kids things directly from China

I wouldn't let a child have anything from Temu to be honest.

No safety testing
Batteries and magnets in them that are dangerous
Made with toxic dyes or chemicals.

Not worth the risk just to save a couple of quid.

Yes!!! Not Temu but the cheapest cr*p they can find! Both sides of the families too!

Also not about the money, it’s about quantity over quality and it drives me insane!

Even when they ask for ideas, they will then buy heaps of random tat to go along with the decent gifts I have suggested.

How many days since Christmas and we’ve already had two meltdowns over their presents breaking etc!

Not all items made in China may be through slavery. However, slavery has been linked to Temu hasn't it?
Once you know, should it not make a difference? For example, I used to buy products in my youth, then found out they were tested on animals. I stopped buying them, couldn't justify the cruelty in my purchase.

Same as quality. For sure, expensive items in the UK can be made in China, but Temu will have to be making cuts along the way, design, materials, slavery to keep their costs down to tempt European buyers by their price.

Yawn🙄

Never ever been tempted to order from them, I certainly wouldn't buy gifts from Temu/Shein or whatever they are called. Old adage, you get what you pay for.

How poor does one need to be before they can disregard slavery?

I completely understand. We have a family friend who has bought a huge amount of gifts for our 5 month DS. They are very poor quality and I have concerns about safety. I just won't give any of it my baby. I have three big bags worth of it at the bottom of my wardrobe. I won't donate it as I don't want other babies to be at risk, so sadly off to landfill it will go. I sound very ungrateful but with the amount this family member spends they could get one nice gift from a reputable company.

I've been dirt poor. Eating Weetabix with water for lunch poor. I didn't need a single thing from Temu. Nobody NEEDS anything from Temu. People want to buy "bits" from there and need to justify their decisions.

I don’t trust any toys (or clothing) from TEMU, especially those that require batteries and/or charging. My mum has bought stuff in the past for my daughter and I have just shoved it to the back of the cupboard to dispose of later. It’s not worth the risk.

I got a lovely scarf from a UK high street store at Xmas. Cost about £50. Guess where it's made?

I got an underwater digital camera from Temu for £15..cheaper than a disposable Kodak. Absolutely brilliant piece of kit.

I've got several t shirts from Temu, less than £5 each. Really nice quality cotton, wash great. £12-15 from supermarkets, worse quality.

It's just not as simple now as "shop ethically". You can't if you try. Watch the Good Place ... excellent episode on this towards the end where an ethics professor who has huge anxiety about doing the right thing can't actually work it out.

Tell them you can't allow the kids to have TEMU items.... They don't meet proper safety standards.

I buy lots of beads, findings and cords from Temu and the quality is fine.
I bought some door furnishings from Amazon and where were they made, yes China and they were not cheap tatt same as not all stuff on Temu is tatt.

Growing up our parents would buy 30, 40, 50 POUNDLAND 'gifts' usually cheap grainy chocolate and sweets, cheapy make up items, toys (if you can call them that).. Because 'lots of little presents is so much better than one big one'. Bullshit! Both me and my siblings have nipped that shit in the bud with them and our DCs gifts!
I'm not an ungrateful shit but at 13 years old and type 1 diabetes, 30 chocolate bars and sweet tubes is a kick in the teeth 🤷‍♀️

Whataboutism at its absolute finest…

A now essential piece of tech which the PP will likely have for years is very different to crap off TEMU which is never used as it is so utterly appalling quality. We all have to live under capitalism whether we like it or not but we can choose when and how to engage with it.

Maybe have a little think about this. Just a tiny bit deeper. You’re so close to getting it.

i shopped at Temu for the first and last time before Christmas. A couple of small gifts for DC’s birthday, couple of tops for me and scrapbooking/hobby supplies. Most advertised as UK based for delivery.
A large bag of stuff arrived after Christmas and I wasn’t expecting top quality stuff for the price of the tops but what I got was absolute shite. Apparently I can only return one item with free shipping and would have to pay for the rest.
The tops are nothing like the photos, I usually shop for clothes in charity shops and now I realise that buying online and cheap isn’t always the best way.
I’m at fault but I got sucked in by all the offers that I would supposedly get for free with my order, none of which turned up.
The hobby supplies were crap on the whole. All shipped from China as I tracked them rather than the UK warehouse. Never again, lesson learned!

My MIL bought my children’s bday gifts from there. Absolutely shocking quality. They were actually dangerous id say. A total of 6 transformers (we’ve twins) all in the bin within 24 hours. I was so annoyed as we asked for vouchers knowing that she would buy crap….. yet here we are!

Much like the tech you're currently using to post 🤨

🤔 Who’s going to tell her where the vast majority of Fisher Price toys are made…..?

Its not all from china there are alot of uk stores on there.

I don't like it either. I've never been snobby about brands but there is so much poor quality and unsafe crap out there now I'm being a lot more selective.

Temu slave labour sweat shops … robbing a Chinese child of thier childhood, so yours can cheap shite.

Not to mention harvesting your Card details …