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Is Temu legit?
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I think the myth is that China isn't capable of producing high quality stuff. We mostly see low quality stuff because a lot of people in the West place orders for those things from China to stock their shelves, but it's just a fraction of what China produces. Western retailers are really the ones who are being cheap by not placing orders for higher quality goods. That's how I have synthesized the information I've seen about the topic.
Yeah, low quality is a function of cheapskate importers, not one of Chinese manufacturing
I've only ever bought electronic stuff and other tinkerer things from sites like temu, AliExpress etc, and it's all been the same as stuff you can buy at the shops just significantly cheaper.
I think the problem is when people buy stuff that they expect to be high quality when they're paying like $5-20 for something.