Temu tat

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What stupid things have you bought?

I avoided it for so long then I got distracted by organisers and getting my life sorted so I started clicking away. Ended up with lots of tat that is just adding to the crap I’m trying to organise.

Got these drawers, thinking they would do as a bedside cabinet for DD. Clearly didn’t give the size and looked bigger in the picture.

Nothing. See also Shein. I get the impression they both have rock bottom ethics.

Plenty of hypocritical posters complain about the ethics of temu, yet still buy their slave labour made phones and electric cars.

I always think that's such a bullshit argument. Phones are borderline essential for modern life in this country - mine is provided by work and I couldn't have turned it down. It's ridiculous to basically say "well since I can't buy absolutely everything completely perfectly ethically, it makes no difference if I add to the pile with a load of inessential crap from a seller I know is awful".

Well, as long as you’re comfy who cares about slave labour right?

I hope they sell your credit card details on.

It's like the middle aisles in Lidl and ALDI, all cheap shite that you don't need

Almost anything we buy is made in China 🤣

Better hand back the mobile device used to type your post then.

There are Etsy sellers who buy things from temu etc and list them on their shop for at least four times as much.

AHH okay so your ethics stop at the point slave labour benefits you?

Clothes are essential too, some people have to buy as cheap as they can.

I've wondered this. I haven't bought from Temu but I don't understand why people get on their high horse about Temu and Shein but not Poundland, B&M, home bargains, Amazon etc. it all seems to be the same shite to me.

What makes you think people who actively choose not to buy from Shein and Temu due to slave labour or the environment- are the ones by cheap rubbish they don't need from Poundland?

We aren't.

And if it's all the same shite, aren't a hypocrite? Or do you just buy the shite anyway?

Well it's not really. It's like saying I'll be ethical when it suits me.

Clothes are essential too, some people have to buy as cheap as they can.

There are options people can do to use less slave labour and create less pollution:

Buy fewer items
Repair broken items
But secondhand clothes from Vinted/charity/local
Borrow from friends
Buy from uk stores to support small businesses and high streets (not shop stuff from Shein)
Get the full use out of clothes and don't throw away
Try to buy natural materials that break down

If you do some of these things, then well done. Despite buying from cheap places, you're making an effort. It's not just about where you buy, it's the attitude that counts

What are you typing on?let us all know so we can use the same

I truly thought Temu was a creepy scam site because of those strange blobby cushion creatures pop ups.

Yes! I've seen TikToks of women saying stay aware and basically saying temu take money from you, starts with low amounts you don't notice
Comments always include bank staff saying temu fraud is growing

I don't understand the relevance of it being on Pinterest?

I use a mobile phone. What I don't do is berate people for making unethical decisions when making unethical decisions myself.

I use a mobile phone. What I don't do is berate people for making unethical decisions when making unethical decisions myself.

So you quite happily participate in slave labour as long as you're not a hypocrite. And you think that's better? Its worse. It means you're apathetic, at least pp would take a better alternative if there was one.

Lots of people use second hand phones and repair their old one, by the way. Unless you but the latest iPhone every year or chuck it in the garbage, having a phone is not evil or wrong.

My phone was a gift but I plan to use it for years and buy from a phone repair shop next! Mostly due to price, but there hey

So it's ok to bully people about the choices they make in life, when yours are no better? Ok then.

A lot of those options take time and money which not everyone has. Charity shops are absolutely shit these days, last time I went it cost me £6 bus fare to get there and 4 hours of looking to find one item that was suitable. With Vinted again you have to find things in your size, trust that the poster will post when they say they will and that the item is as described.

Buying bulk on Shein or Temu gets free delivery and guaranteed things that you like in your size. It is what it is.

I’d never buy from there. We’re choking the planet with unnecessary stuff, and all made in factories full of abuse

This argument of "they're all the same so it makes no difference" is so lazy.

There is a huge difference between buying a coat or mobile phone in good faith and later finding out that the ethics aren't great, or knowingly buying shite from sites like Temu/Shein because it's cheap.

When you buy from Temu you KNOW that they have dubious practices, not just in credit card fraud but also with their app tracking your data and using enslaved people and children to make the stuff they sell. There is no doubt about that. If you buy from them you are supporting that.

And most of what they sell is just cheap shit, tat nobody needs. This sort of shit, shipped across the planet is what means we're all drowning in single-use plastics and other rubbish.

So it's ok to bully people about the choices they make in life, when yours are no better? Ok then.

You're not being bullied @Pix56 xxx

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