It's really interesting to see people being ignorant, and proud of their ignorance. Imagine someone saying "All American products are garbage. And I obviously never bought anything American, why on Earth would I buy garbage?"
It is really interesting to see people making up stuff in their heads. Nowhere did I talk about "all", obviously Chinese factories can produce extremely high quality products. E.g. iPhones.
Temu is a trash distributor, the race to the bottom needs to be stopped. Their entire business model is being cheap and shipping trash.
> Their entire business model is being cheap and shipping trash.
[citation needed]
I spent a few thousand on items on AliExpress, and I'm satisfied with almost all of them. How come?
Because you are a consumer and someone who enjoys trash.
To be honest "consumer" is really one of the worst things to call someone, but I think it applies very well to someone like you.
It’s amazing how not only can you decide what others can and should buy, you can also decide the quality of that item for them sight unseen. You should reach out to TV producers - this skill would be very entertaining in a show!
Yes, I am very intelligent for figuring out that products, made under near slavery conditions with the sole goal of making them as cheaply as possible by companies who have exactly zero reputation and whose customers have no way to retaliate are in fact bad. This was an extremely complex deduction on my part and in no way totally obvious.
Also, things that are very bad for the environment should be banned. Not by me, but by the government.
I guess, like the rest of the positive comments, they conflate quantity of choice with quality of choice. I stopped buying stuff online mostly a few years back, covid completely destroyed my trust in online retailers, especially ones with China backed products.
I don't get the desire to pollute some other country just so one can have a hobby, go volunteer at a shelter or something useful.
Externalizing our negativity got the US pretty far, and if walking that back sucks for most people because they're used to buying literal land fill, then that's too bad.