#people will hold onto those 3 temu credit card tiktoks until they die

[chiveburger]

listen, I've been a consumer of aliexpress, shein, temu and I'm by no means avocadating for them. I know they're probably data mining and stealing customer's information and abusing their staff but I do find it funny how so many of the people who speak of these websites are such apparent xenophobes. If these sites were ran by people who WEREN'T chinese, I'm sure nobody would really give a shit or question the legitimacy of it, and they'd probably find some way to justify less than quality products by saying "well it's cheap!" temu itself is littered with (I'm sure) thousands of comments how it's used to sell your information to china and how it'll steal your credit card information and I'm sure that's true, but so is your starbucks app and so is google and so is the whole of the internet. people write about these sites like chinese people are the most evil conniving devious people ever and if you even do more than LOOK at this website, your whole browser and household is going to explode. that everything listed here is meant for losers and it's all junk and cheap and trash... I'm not telling people to buy from these sites or that they're safe but no online shopping is safe to begin with. even paypal has fucked people over. my point is some people extrapolate from a couple of reddit posts and believe everything online to be true, all the while try to disguise their hate for chinese people as being "careful." these are also the same people who are fine with buying everything from amazon though :)