I am a person that has relatively low expectations on most things in this world.
(A) It keeps me from getting disappointed every moment of every day.
(B) Occasionally I am relatively/genuinely surprised on the quality of something.
And finally (C) it prevents me from purchasing household items on shady Chinese shopping websites that are edible.
TEMU is a Chinese shopping website where… let’s just say… Quality is NOT one of TEMU’s core business principles. Unless of course you’re a fan of data harvesting / stolen credit information / undelivered orders / flimsy materials / child labor and very suspect product grade – then TEMU is for you.
Good Luck with that.
So this story should surprise no one – unless you’re Team TEMU.
Again, Good Luck with that.
The TikToker, who calls herself FrogInAHatGirl, shared a story about how she bought a croissant lamp she saw on TEMU for a friend. She thought she was getting a lamp that looked like a croissant.
Weird, but okay. I’ve got my eye on an octopus coffee mug holder so no shame there.
But when it arrived, she knew something was strange when she noticed a line of ants surrounding the package?? Turns out (and on) there’s a reason that you can’t spell “croissant” without “ant” because it was an ACTUAL CROISSANT with just a light jammed inside of it.
There was a tiny hole that the ants were crawling into, and that’s when she realized that the croissant was REAL but just covered in resin. But just be sure, she broke it open and TASTED a piece to confirm it (caveat emptor). That’s not the form of product testing I believe should be done here by the (literal) consumer in this case – especially after an entire ant colony has had their way with it.
The lesson here is to temper your expectations with anything and everything online. Just the fact you can taste-test an advertised lamp should sound the alarm about TEMU and the internet in general.
@froginahatgirl Pls explain temu
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