Plagued Consoomers / Consoomer Culture - Because if it has a recogniseable brand on it, I’d buy it!

[YouTube Autist]

Do you have a link to the pp video?

They just posted (an edited version of) it to YouTube:

Double-posting because I can't edit my previous post.

 

[Sarcastic sockpuppet]

The secret for Temu's success seems to be that the app comes with free phone games where you can win gift cards. People open their phone without the intent to buy anything, just to play the game and maybe win something. The games recreates a mini-casino experience that fries their synapses and makes them addicted.

 

[Sarcastic sockpuppet]

Double-posting but have you seen those morons who purchase huge satin bows to use for holiday decor for 2$ on those sites only to receive some kind of shower curtain screen-printed with said bow.
And it's not like the Chinaman lied to them this time, they just can't be bothered to look at the picture, read the description, and use things like common sense.

https://x.com/notcapnamerica/status/1875691722036146395

(Too lazy to dowload and repost, sorry)

 

[Pina Colada]

Double-posting but have you seen those morons who purchase huge satin bows to use for holiday decor for 2$ on those sites only to receive some kind of shower curtain screen-printed with said bow.
And it's not like the Chinaman lied to them this time, they just can't be bothered to look at the picture, read the description, and use things like common sense.

https://x.com/notcapnamerica/status/1875691722036146395

(Too lazy to dowload and repost, sorry)

You'd have to have a hole in your head to not see the little holes on the corner.

 

[Generic Anime Girl]

Every time I order from Sephora I feel a part of me dying

 

[The Real Slim Shady]

If Trump continues Biden's attempts to close the shipping loophole Temu and their ilk exploit (de minimis I think it's called

How does the loophole work?

 

[Cuntspiracy Man]

How does the loophole work?

you mean the one where china's shipping costs get comped if they ship to the US or most European countries because it's considered a "developing" country for some dumb reason?

the law is meant to help people in actually underdeveloped countries ship mail overseas so that individuals can contact loved ones and small companies can do business with how difficult and expensive shipping would be from their tiny backwards country- the more developed country foots the bill
china is NOT a tiny underdeveloped country however, but somehow they tricked the UN into categorizing them as one
that's why some guy in fuck you mainland china can sell crap from his storage for like 20 cents a piece, he loses nothing on shipping and earns probably 19 cents more than the lousy plastic garbage cost to manufacture per item

 

[PandaChai]

How does the loophole work?

Loophole perhaps isn't the exactly right word, but the de minimis rule means shipments worth under a certain dollar amount are allowed to be imported without customs duties or taxes, and with Shein, Temu, etc. sending parcels directly to customers they don't come anywhere near the threshold and so skate happily through not having to pay anything at the gate, so they don't have to charge that to customers either meaning they can keep prices barely above costs and often times below just to get you on the platform.

 

[NoReturn]

How does the loophole work?

you mean the one where china's shipping costs get comped if they ship to the US or most European countries because it's considered a "developing" country for some dumb reason?

Loophole perhaps isn't the exactly right word, but the de minimis rule means shipments worth under a certain dollar amount are allowed to be imported without customs duties or taxes, and with Shein, Temu, etc. sending parcels directly to customers they don't come anywhere near the threshold and so skate happily through not having to pay anything at the gate, so they don't have to charge that to customers either meaning they can keep prices barely above costs and often times below just to get you on the platform.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36bb2b24Qto

 

[Cuntspiracy Man]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36bb2b24Qto

with all due respect i don't trust this youtuber
he's just another shill trying to worm his adverts into the market of people who are typically against that sort of thing by pretending to side with them

 

[NoReturn]

with all due respect i don't trust this youtuber
he's just another shill trying to worm his adverts into the market of people who are typically against that sort of thing by pretending to side with them

You don't have to trust him, I was more sharing it for the section about shipping since we're all talking about it.

Other youtubers have covered the same topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quGoGgbP-aE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO9M74m7dhE

And articles:

• The Tax Loophole That Helps Temu and Shein Keep Prices So Low
• Biden targets Shein, Temu with new rules to curb alleged ‘abuse’ of U.S. trade loophole
• Shein and Temu use a loophole to ship millions of packages to the US tax-free. Here's why the tax rule faces increased scrutiny.

 

[Kalsarikännit]

Half of one page is the ingredients, a quarter of one page is the recipe, a quarter of a page is a picture of the ingredients posed next to a serving of the food.... And the entire page opposite is the author's meandering opinions on what is and isn't good in vegetarian chili- and it continues to the next page.

I’ll always hold my tongue when criticizing the stories shared with recipes, because I consider them a part of the essential “why”: to why I should try this particular recipe, why it was seemingly important enough to write down, who it came from, etc.

I feel the same way about card games, where you can explain the rules, but it’s almost expected and I feel like there is a strong inclination to also explain why you like this game, and explain its significance to the person you’re introducing it to.

 

[Trapper]

I’ll always hold my tongue when criticizing the stories shared with recipes, because I consider them a part of the essential “why”: to why I should try this particular recipe, why it was seemingly important enough to write down, who it came from, etc.

If you go direct to a famous chef’s website instead of hitting the first result on Google, you don’t tend to get the unnecessary SEO filler, but it’s annoying if there’s something specific you want to make. There are browser extensions and apps that strip out the filler, too.

 

[Cuntspiracy Man]

You don't have to trust him, I was more sharing it for the section about shipping since we're all talking about it.

Other youtubers have covered the same topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quGoGgbP-aE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO9M74m7dhE

And articles:

• The Tax Loophole That Helps Temu and Shein Keep Prices So Low
• Biden targets Shein, Temu with new rules to curb alleged ‘abuse’ of U.S. trade loophole
• Shein and Temu use a loophole to ship millions of packages to the US tax-free. Here's why the tax rule faces increased scrutiny.

oh look, more things some of us knew are terrible finally being discovered by the common population way too late
it just won't stop happening

 

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

Doomscrolling was a somewhat vague litmus test of someone's worthwhileability as an adult human. Hearing them use Temu, in any capacity, is a completely binary flag. I can SORT OF understand getting xmas laces for your work shoes or a little card holder or something, but clothes? Let alone tools? Kitchen shit? Actual manbaby.

 

[NoReturn]

Half of one page is the ingredients, a quarter of one page is the recipe, a quarter of a page is a picture of the ingredients posed next to a serving of the food.... And the entire page opposite is the author's meandering opinions on what is and isn't good in vegetarian chili- and it continues to the next page.

If you go direct to a famous chef’s website instead of hitting the first result on Google, you don’t tend to get the unnecessary SEO filler, but it’s annoying if there’s something specific you want to make. There are browser extensions and apps that strip out the filler, too.

It's not always obvious, but at least online you can usually find a "Jump to Recipe" button:

 

[Major]

The secret for Temu's success seems to be that the app comes with free phone games where you can win gift cards. People open their phone without the intent to buy anything, just to play the game and maybe win something. The games recreates a mini-casino experience that fries their synapses and makes them addicted.

The app is spyware. Delete it now if you have it

 

[Chromeo]

The secret for Temu's success seems to be that the app comes with free phone games where you can win gift cards. People open their phone without the intent to buy anything, just to play the game and maybe win something. The games recreates a mini-casino experience that fries their synapses and makes them addicted.

I've used Temu off and on to buy cheap stickers in bulk, the "game" isn't even that. You open the app and it immediately opens with a spinning wheel that gives you like a $200 credit and tiny text that says "wheel is for illustrative purposes only, all customers receive best result." Then you claim the $200 credit...and it takes you to a special deals "for you" page that's based on things you've seen/bought and it asks you to pick 4 items and you'll get 3 free PLUS the 200 dollar credit. Then it has a 10 minute timer and you have to pick items in 10 minutes or you get NONE OF ANYTHING BLAAAAAGGHH!!! Except the timer resets if you let it run out, it just phrases it like "hurry, 10 bonus minutes before you lose all your deals!!" So you click shit you wouldn't mind getting for free and then it's like "if you get $40 worth of items in your cart you'll also get $40 credit to use on anything!" So you have to add MOOOOREEEEE to your cart.
Then when this loop finally ends you've got like $50 of crap you didn't even want in your cart BUT ACTUALLY it's all worth $700 and was all on sale and totally not actually listed for 29 cents apiece all the time anyway, so it's an insane bargain! AND you qualify for free shipping!!! So then you place that order and it finally lets you out onto the home screen that it should've just opened to in the first place.
And I have to mention that you can't select the same item twice, so if you want 2 of something during this event you have to hope there's an identical listing, which there almost always is, but it's just different enough that it's probably not right. Oh, and everything shows up whenever the fuck and some things never show up at all, so at least it was all like a dollar per item anyway.
It's literally such a struggle to open Temu and go straight to the home page and only buy the thing you want. Even if you manage to avoid all that, it tries to get you to add more to your cart for deals and recommends products that are on sale and limited supply and already in carts!

Wish was better because you could trust you'd get your product 98% of the time, it wasn't so overwhelming, didn't push on your FOMO, and didn't constantly send you emails. Temu is worse in every conceivable way, it has to be some kind of psychological warfare.

 

[Torque Wheeler]

I've used Temu off and on to buy cheap stickers in bulk, the "game" isn't even that

I believe that people are this dumb

 

[Cuntspiracy Man]

X

Well why the fuck are you using it then?

Temu is dogshit in every conceivable way even just in the way it functions, and that's not even touching on it being a Chinese spyware app that is selling your banking information, and it's depressing watching people get sucked into it
Every bastard wants to say "nooo I'm different, I don't get addicted I just buy stuff I need" but, aside from the fact that the very act of using the app at all is a terrible idea, you find that it's not true

Think to an era of your life before Temu- genuinely, how often did you buy little items and trinkets? It wasn't once a day, was it? It wasn't once a week, it was likely barely once a month. How often did you buy little gadgets and cutesy decor and little crap devices? If it wasn't at your fingertips telling you that you want it, you'd never think "boy I sure could use this hyperspecific crap"