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These companies are taking the Intarwebs by storm of late, and it appears that they are, first of all, greatly exploitative (a real shocker, that) and, secondly, might have some malware along with their mobile apps (again, shocked, I am shocked).

It's unlikely that you will get completely scammed, but there's a good chance that you are buying into an attempt by the Chinese to do some economic manipulation of the American market.

Of course, if the American market was not hideously slanted in favor of the global capitalists, then this wouldn't work. But, surprise, it is in fact working, and it's a bit difficult to blame the consumer for wanting to get cheaper products, as that sort of is the idea of global capitalism (as well as a product of the Western world's zeitgeist: to keep the lower and middle classes entirely dependent on consumerism...they just didn't count on the fact that a foreign power could exploit those classes better than they could, did they?) :rofl:

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Re: Temu and Shein

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Maybe ya shouldn't get anything from these companies. https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international ... 032_4.html
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Re: Temu and Shein

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scooter wrote: Thu Aug 15, 2024 11:45 pm Maybe ya shouldn't get anything from these companies. https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international ... 032_4.html
Yeah. Probably not!