Europe Warns Giant E-tailer To Stop Cheating Consumers or Face Its Wrath (theregister.com)
- Reference: 0177799361
- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/05/27/0737253/europe-warns-giant-e-tailer-to-stop-cheating-consumers-or-face-its-wrath
- Source link: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/27/eu_shein_warning/
[1] https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/27/eu_shein_warning/
User experience (Score:2)
My daughter buys from these people. The stuff they sell is cheap and cheerful, it doesn't last long. Which is fine for a child of 11 who is still growing.
As she gets older and stops getting taller I will try to get her to understand the value of clothes that last more than 4 months, but for now the Shein sheit meets her use case pretty well.
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My daughter buys from these people. The stuff they sell is cheap and cheerful, it doesn't last long. Which is fine for a child of 11 who is still growing.
It's fine, the clothes contain minimal lead.
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Like buying brand labels protects you from cheap garbage.
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What I don't get is how anyone could think a pair of shoes for under 10 bucks new could be a sensible idea.
Especially heels. It was a trope in the 90s how women absolutely did not care for their health and practicality (and in my opinion looks... The clown shoes the horse... err... woman in Sex and the City wor... my Lord were those ugly...) when it came to fashion sense...
Now that wearing heels has had to make way for comfort (walking around like an absolute slob has become accepted), you'd think that any
Not the only way the EU is hitting back (Score:2)
[1]EU plans €2 fee on small parcels in hit to Shein and Temu [bbc.com]
[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq699ymm81vo
But what else is Shein for- (Score:3)
-if not lies about cheap sheit?
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> -if not lies about cheap sheit?
I know what Shein, Temu and AliExpress are like and I just got used to it because I know that these sales tactics are pretty normal in parts of Asia. Having said that I'd still rather buy this 'cheap sheit' directly from Shein, Temu and AliExpress rather than 'entrepreneurs' in the West who add a 1-500% markup on the exact same 'cheap sheit' which they buy directly from Chinese factories for even less than Shein, Temu and AliExpress charge. Some of the more brazen Western resellers just source their stuff f
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> Cheap tools from ali express are okay, just read the reviews from Ukraine and the ruzzkie pederation.
> If they're good, then the stuff is acceptable 99.9% of the time.
> The price is typically less than a quarter of what you'd pay for roughly the same crap from a US manufacturer, ...
I've had a handful of tools sold to me on Temu and AliExpress that weren't quite up to snuff but the rest performed as expect. The first thing an Asian online shopper will tell you is read the reviews and pay particular attention to the negative ones and the ones with photographs and if you stick to that you'll generally get what you pay for. I suppose we can now add Slavic countries to that list.
> ...but it will be in metric units.
That is only a problem for the three countries that still predominantly use the antiquated imperial system of m
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I gotta be honest, so far I can't provide any truly negative experiences with AliExpress.
And I agree... if I buy garbage, I might buy it just as well for 4 bucks in China rather than pay 22 on Amazon.