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You /can/ buy adequate stuff on Temu, and if it is indeed the exact same thing as sold by retailers (there's often many variations of a product with the same mo
by rcxdude 1y ago
You /can/ buy adequate stuff on Temu, and if it is indeed the exact same thing as sold by retailers (there's often many variations of a product with the same moulded shell), then you're probably safe. But you can also blatantly buy a huge amount of wildly unsafe shit on it, much more so than other retailers (Amazon's almost as bad, but not quite). And there's no reasonable way for a consumer to tell the difference. And to no-one's surprise, doing the research and taking on the risk of warranties and returns costs money.
It's entirely possible for Temu to comply here, but it would mean losing a lot of their competitive edge, because that edge has essentially been regulatory arbitrage (i.e. breaking the rules because they could get away with it).