I always hear stories about the dangers of buying from WIsh.com, Aliexpress, and recently Temu. I’ve jokingly called them “buyer beware” sites even. Yet people still use them, and there’s just as many positive results as negative. But I’ve also heard about unexplained card charges, data hacks, pyramid-scheme-like behavior, etc. So which of those sites, or other similar sites, is the “safest” if I DID wanna shop there?

  • radix@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    Nothing’s happened to me personally from Temu, and I’ve spent maybe $90 over five deliveries. I will say I went in thinking, “What’s the worst they can do? Nobody can mess up making a laundry hamper, right?” and they went below and beyond in terms of quality. It made me laugh, to be honest. The things aren’t all unusable, but quality is pretty clearly inferior. With heavy loads of laundry the ribbon serving as a handle did break.