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EU investigates Temu over illegal products (www.dw.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The European Union's investigation into the Chinese online shopping platform Temu to ensure that Temu's goods meet EU standards and do not harm consumers. The EU is concerned about counterfeit items, aggressive sales tactics, and the platform's addictive design. Temu has rapidly expanded in Europe and is considering joining a European anti-counterfeit group.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

I'm becoming more aware of this lately too. Just realizing that Amazon for example has almost negative quality control, in the sense that a counterfeit product from one supplier just gets lumped in with the real ones from other suppliers, and then they sell them having lost the knowledge of who supplied the counterfeit.

And I know no one is checking for flammability of kids' clothing / items. So I mean, who's to say stuff made with lead or whatever the fuck else isn't just getting hucked on down the line too?

Got any rules of thumb or heuristics you're using? So far all I've really got is "nothing for kids from a store without a physical location in my country". Just basing that on the fact there will at least be someone to sue, which usually encourages better behavior. I also generally avoid the "I can't believe this is so cheap" products (outside legit sales) because usually something important is getting squeezed somewhere, given the already generally oversquoze situation that is "the market".