do you guys shop on places like aliexpress/Temu and if you do what items have pleasantly surprised you?

yuunikki@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 43 points –

I'm curious what sorta finds you guys have had

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I feel like AliExpress and temu aren't really equivalent. Temu makes it seem like you're, well I guess the tagline is shop like a billionaire. Aliexpress doesn't exactly hide the fact it's a cheap Chinese market.

Temu is very obviously a bunch of low-grade tat though. Who feels like a billionaire buying such crap?

Aren't they the same sweatshop slave-labor factory goods though?

Not that it's possible to completely avoid goods which are made via exploitation, but I assumed they're just an alternate outlet / search page for the same distributors and factories.

Probably. I've never used temu tbh but my understanding is it tries to present itself as not.

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