Two people discuss Temu's aggressive marketing and cheap products. One speaker's father ordered flashlights, swords, and knives that broke immediately, all priced around $1.99. They debate whether a $2,000 Chinese pickup truck sold on the platform could actually be street-legal.
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TMU, man. TMU is hella aggressive with their email marketing, dude. I literally blocked you guys and you are still sending me messages. Yeah, and I don't, I don't mess with that. Like, I don't like it, you know? Like, it's— I'm starting to realize, like, I never even bought anything on TMU. I downloaded the app and created an account because my pops was going nuts about it. And he had Temu packages stacked to the ceiling like you see on those Amazon commercials.
Really?
I swear to God. What was he buying? Just shit, trinkets, flashlights, swords, knives.
Was any of it good?
Some of it, yeah. Some of it was actually really useful. Like some of the stuff, you know what I'm saying?
Oh, you told me about one thing you bought and it broke right away.
Oh yeah, the nice flashlight thing. Like we had it for one day. I went like this and the whole fucking thing fucking popped right out. You know, it's not quality. You're paying for a dollar. If it's $1.99 for a reason, right? Like, so like it, but even yo, I asked him to buy me this sunshade.
Yeah, right. That's the thing. That's the thing I was talking about.
Yo, I literally, the, it was as thin as this piece of paper, man. Right? Like, and we're in South Florida, so one storm, bro, like, that thing was out of here. And I was just thinking, like, the sun itself, I'm gonna come outside and it's just gonna be on fire, right?
Like, so, no, but I'm just saying, like, this Temu all of a sudden came out of nowhere and they're selling stuff like a dollar, pay, it's free if you pay for shipping. And there's like every cockamamie item possible.
You can buy everything, Yeah, but how long does it take to get here? Buy a stove on T-Mobile.
I don't know if I'm buying a stove.
I'm just saying, you can buy a truck, a little truck. Yeah, that you built yourself.
Oh yeah, I did see that. I saw a guy who made a video about that. He bought the thing and he put it together, and it's, it's great.
Yeah, from my understanding.
Yeah, dude, like, anyway, it was like $2,000.
Yes, bro, it's like a Toyota or something like that.
No, it's some Chinese brand. Yeah, yeah, some Chinese stuff.
It's some Chinese manufactured by someone.
It's a truck, actually. It's like a small, tiny pickup truck made by this Chinese company.
Yes.
And I was like, that is insane.
It's, it's actually— I would buy one, but I don't know if they're street legal.
I don't—
in America, I don't know.
That'd be interesting.
They only go like 40 miles an hour or something.
But the thing's like only— it's only like $2,000 or something.
Imagine a windstorm with that though.
Oh, if you went through a puddle like the ones that were outside, that thing would be floating out of the—
boom—
down the Intracoastal in a, in a second. Yeah, if you're driving that around in a 45-mile-an-hour wind, that thing's gonna blow across the road. It's probably about as strong as a golf cart.
