Temu Tat…

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Does anyone else get annoyed by Temu gifts that break?

My young child is continually gifted Temu gifts from family members for birthdays and Christmas.

They are cheaply made and don’t last - two examples an aeroplane that wing broke when my child caught it’s side on a wooden floor while playing with it. A car that’s wheel snapped of when it travelled down a ramp.

And the latest - a light gun that batteries containers has smashed after being knocked of the table.

I know there has been a few knocks but these are children toys. So fed up of my 3 year old becoming upset because there toys are broken.

Please stop buying my child cheap tat.

Anyone else?

Health and safety gone mad, we should go back to the good old days of lead paint and radium girls' faces rotting off.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls

That is quite possibly the worst argument I've ever heard. If we're all fucked, I'm just going to take up smoking again and, why not, maybe start a crack habit?
If our organs are getting destroyed anyway, I'll drink away my liver, why not ?

What got me was the research (possibly by Trading Standards, can’t honestly remember) into the stuff being imported by third party resellers, so Amazon etc as well as Temu et al. So, mainstream and used by loads of people. The stuff was safety tested and 95% of it failed to meet UK safety standards! Children’s toys fared better, only 80% failed safety standards! Most shops are selling stuff made in China, yes in sweatshops, but avoiding them altogether takes time, effort, and money that frankly most of us don’t have (myself included). So I just try to stick to shops selling things that meet the safety standards.

Re: ethics, that is a really hard call. I’m still trying to buy better quality, more consciously, do without certain things etc., but on a low budget it often boils down to buy unethically or don’t have it - and when it comes to making my child miss out, I hate to say it but my ethics have not won. I will do without stuff for me, but she goes without so bloody much already, that I’m afraid that yes, I bought her the Chinese made toys, just the slightly more expensive ones not from 3rd party importers, so where I had a reasonable expectation that they would be safe at least.

I don't buy from temu tbh I bought some hot wheel type toy cars for my then 2 year old when they arrived they were like cardboard not die cast like I was lead to believe fell apart on the first play and he wasn't even rough with them and don't get me started on the clothing I have been told temu and shein clothes come from the same place but seriously I've had better stuff off shein and it wasn't great from there

They don’t! Tests showed the majority didn’t meet safety standards!

Cheap from places like Temu isn't just disappointing bad quality but not as safe to use and goes to landfil quickly. I bought Wow and ELC and similar, they were robust. After being played with by my boys and their cousins, they are still in excellent condition to be passed on again.

Ok yes I know some stuff from Temu is crap but there are things that are brilliant; I buy all of my Christmas wrapping paper from them it’s bloody awesome thick really good quality & everyone loved it this year; I’m heavily into crafting &!8 get loads of my stuff from them it’s just so much cheaper than hobby craft; but I do not buy toys or children’s things I don’t know what they’re made from & I worry about the paint does it contain lead etc but other bits it’s brilliant just shop with care x

Wonder what poisonous toxic fumes Lovely smells you are filling your house/lungs with

Wonder if we should just AgreeToDisagreeSometimes? 😉

BS. I got something off Temu and it was EXACTLY the same brand that my friend got in a high street shop for three times the price. Chinese yes. But exactly the same brand.

What was the brand?

Small shops have been caught selling Temu Tat here by the way - it's illegal so you can report them.

I've heard stories of people reverse image searching stuff at "artisan" markets and finding it on Temu.

Temu steals and replicates designs it finds on Etsy. If you see it elsewhere it doesn’t always mean those businesses are selling temu tut - it might but it might not.

Temu is registered here, and taking orders here. It doesn't matter at that point where it comes from.

If you approach a Chinese company in China who doesn't operate here, and pay to import something, then sure nothing could be done. But Temu is absolutely liable for anything they sell that reaches a person in this country.

Is it registered in the UK though? It’s a .com website and they don’t pretend to be British based.

also Temu and Shein do not care about legalities. They quite happily use slave labour and rip off designers so why would they even worry about complying with British or European law?

Never used it but have looked at it I'm not sure on quality guessing poor don't know
If spending that on temu is asking for a giftcard possible

How do I know the wooden toys from John Lewis that are made in China are not being made in labour camps ?
Serious question.

You have to trust that John Lewis audits its supply chain, checks out factories and suppliers.

Many companies do this - nobody is saying don't buy anything made in China as that would be nigh on impossible. There is still a slim chance that if you buy from any UK based retailer that later on they are found to be doing something dodgy, or more likely, that a supplier is and that was hidden from them. But when you buy from Temu or Shein that's practically guaranteed.

This. With bells on.

I dont buy anything electrical or safety compromising 💩that's how. I'm not fucking stupid. And I stand by it. I LOVE Temu Tat!

What do you buy that doesn't have safety issues?

Just reminded me of something I got once for my sister.
A teddy hug in a box £13.99 from etsy.
£1.99 temu exactly the same no difference.
Literally no difference identical, apart from the price.
A bedding set £34.99 m&s £11 temu no difference same material same design.

I may be wrong but all the stuff we can get from b&m £1 land and other cheap-ish shops, I think is just bulk buys by companies from temu.
Because it's the same stuff just cheaper.

you do have to think about the shops and the economy in the UK though?

I tend to avoid Amazon as well

Oh god I hate hate hate temu with a fiery burning passion!!

The stupid games it makes you play when you go to the website, the AI adds, the forced app downloads, the tat, the the prices, the delivery times, the ethics, the people that are so suckered in by it, the landfill, the noise, the nonsense, the way no one's really sure how the fuck it's pronounced.

It's everything wrong with society.

Fuck temu