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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 30 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Temu is just new wish, right?

[–] wolfshadowheart@kbin.social 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think Temu has been around a bit longer, Wish just got more popular during Covid

[–] blargerer@kbin.social 37 points 6 months ago (1 children)

?? Temu is like 2 years old, they did a huge marketing blitz when they first started. Wish has been around since 2010, and I think they were probably most famous well before the pandemic.

[–] wolfshadowheart@kbin.social 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hm so it is, I could have sworn that Temu was around before 2022

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I thought the same thing, at most as old as the 1700s, but then realized I was thinking of emus, the flightless bird.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

LOL if you post like this often you could compile your comments into a greatest hits

[–] FoD@startrek.website 2 points 6 months ago

Temu is different because they allow a seller to say I'll make plastic dog shit toys by November 1. So it goes on sale in September and 100, 000 people order it. Now the company makes a single batch and knows exactly how many to make and what materials to buy. It's smart. That's why they want your friends involved because it lowers the price more to make more at once.

I'm not defending the company but it is a smart way and less costly and wasteful than making 100, 000 dog shit toys and selling 10, throwing the other 999,990 in the local river and writing it off on taxes.