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~~Temu is literally just a front page for AliExpress (which is itself a public/consumer front end for Alibaba), so no difference there.~~ You'll probably find a lot of junk and some halfway decent products.
No clue how Aussie eBay is, but here in the states it's done a lot to clean itself up over the past decade. A few years ago, I never even considered it when online shopping because of how many dropshipping SEO-manipulating accounts there were. It was hard to find quality items from real accounts. Now, I do almost 100% of my online shopping on eBay. Mostly books, which are usually dirt cheap used.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AliExpress
They both sell products out of China, and I can believe that the same products might be available on both, but I don't think that they're the same organization, if that's what you're saying.
You're right, I was thinking of Alixpress and TaoBao being two front ends for Alibaba