Consoomers / Consoomer Culture - Because if it has a recogniseable brand on it, I’d buy it!

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Brenda Holiday said:
Its very frustrating to see something on etsy being sold for 18 dollars, then look it up and find it on temu for whatever stupid cheap less than a dollar price, but I don't want to sign up for temu and give china my entire identity. If buying anything new its a good idea to make sure its not from temu. Unfortunately it almost always is, and I still don't have the item I was originally looking for after months of wanting. Fuck temu.
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I have really good luck finding the same item on eBay and Amazon, but the item listen on eBay has free shipping and it's cheaper. This is for tools and technical products typically, like a left-handed metric tap in a fine pitch that I only need once and probably never again in my life, so I'm not worried about buying something high quality.

A lot of cheap electronics and tools come out of the same factories but they slap different brand names on them for the same product. I think they go through QA testing, so you'll see the same desoldering iron from several providers, but one might be unbranded and $40 less. These aren't QA tested, and you might get a dud. Vevor products are the best examples I can think of this phenomenon, and what I would call A-stock. They have a decent reputation for cheap tools. You can buy the same diesel shop heater from Vevor off Amazon with +1000 5 star reviews as eBay with 5 purchases for way less.

For me, getting the tool to use once off eBay, especially hand tools is well worth it. Even if I hate how scummy it is
 
The Real Slim Shady said:
And they were full of little useful and useless trinkets, shit quality items which broke after a short time. These stores where you could buy the cheapest shit like kitchen sponges, tiny cups, impractical strainers, polyester tea towels, tiny soaps, candles, and so on.
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I miss the pre-franchise dollar stores and their hilarious copyright breaking merchandise, just for the sake of looking at the goofy bootlegs. Winnie the Pooh was popular for some reason.
 
The Real Slim Shady said:
The store is organized as long, single alley, so you always have to walk through the entirety of it (how is this fire code compliant, I don't know).
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Not really dollar store related, but IKEA also does this, with their weird maze stores where they funnel you through everything in the store until the checkout. I've never checked for fire exits so I'm not sure if there is one visible from anywhere, but it seems it could be confusing and the design of the store could force someone in the direction of the fire.

For all I know, they hired some Temple Grandin level autist to design this and make it safe while calming the niggercattle and making them buy stuff, but it seems at least odd.

On the more consoomer level, IKEA kind of is the goyslop of furniture but you generally know what you're getting for the price. I've bought stuff there on a few occasions, and never had a product fail directly, but wherever you install it is going to be its final resting place. You don't even try to move it because without disassembling it, it's not practical and it would be barely more expensive and much less hassle just to buy another one wherever you go to.

The locking cam they use to assemble the furniture allegedly can be undone to disassemble it but I've never been able to pull that off and reassemble it as good as new.

Anyway, definitely a consoomer product. That said if you've ever had to move suddenly to somewhere unfurnished it's pretty much a one stop shop to instantly furnish it.
Torque Wheeler said:
For me, getting the tool to use once off eBay, especially hand tools is well worth it. Even if I hate how scummy it is
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I buy toolsets like this for practically nothing, like the little screwdriver with all the goofy heads for doing things like opening up a laptop. I use something like this maybe once a year or so and will probably never use half the bits in it even if I live 100 years, so I might as well just pay $20 for a bunch of Chinesium.
 
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Yaks said:
I miss the pre-franchise dollar stores and their hilarious copyright breaking merchandise, just for the sake of looking at the goofy bootlegs. Winnie the Pooh was popular for some reason.
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Makes me recall all those Ashens videos from 10-15 years ago about all the junk you'd find at Poundland and the 99p Store, the Britbong version of those.
 
Temu is just direct to consumer dollar store shit without the markup of a dollar store.
Cuntspiracy Man said:
Think to an era of your life before Temu- genuinely, how often did you buy little items and trinkets? It wasn't once a day, was it? It wasn't once a week, it was likely barely once a month. How often did you buy little gadgets and cutesy decor and little crap devices? If it wasn't at your fingertips telling you that you want it, you'd never think "boy I sure could use this hyperspecific crap"
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Someone isn't old enough to remember TV shopping channels and the absolute junk that was just a phone call away. I remember how addicted people were to that shit, some throwing away hundreds a week on garbage.
 
Kim said:
Temu is just direct to consumer dollar store shit without the markup of a dollar store.
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Is there an alternative to it that isn't chink spyware or something equally bad?
 
NoReturn said:
Yeah. There are a bunch of articles about Amazon wanting to compete with Temu, but you can go between Amazon and Temu and see the same products in the same places.
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If you buy from Amazon, make sure it is sold by Amazon. Or you are buying third party shit, and yeah it's probably from Temu. I only buy books and DVD from third party, essentially used.

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The Real Slim Shady said:
In Europe there are Flying Tiger stores
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some of their art supplies are actually pretty good quality, i'm not sure where they're manufactured but i've popped in a few times when i was in a country that has them and it's kind of a mixed bag of dumb cheesy knicknacks and surprisingly decent materials

the winding design of the store is definitely annoyingly intentional, and the whole place has a sort of mid-2010s soft uwu tumblr aesthetic

Kim said:
It's 2025 and everything is spyware. The alternative? Wait for all this shit to hit your local Salvation Army and pick it up for a dollar per pound.
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"everything is spying on you so might as well give your banking info to glorious cccp, western pig" is the worst excuse for having no privacy, if you can mitigate how much you're spied on, why not? saying 'oh well it was aaaaalready happening anywaaay might as well forget about it and lay down and take it up the ass' comes off as some dismissive propaganda to make people stop questioning and fighting for their right to privacy
it's up there with shit like "if you have nothing to hide why do you need privacy? what are they gonna find out, what brand of dish soap you buy?" frankly, 1. that's a terrible precedent to set up, that privacy doesn't matter unless you're a criminal, and 2. yes, fuck you, i don't even want those commies to know THAT

i'm referring to people who DO make claims like that, not necessarily you who i quoted directly, which i apparently have to clarify itt
 
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AnOminous said:
The locking cam they use to assemble the furniture allegedly can be undone to disassemble it but I've never been able to pull that off and reassemble it as good as new.
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Soap. Bog standard bar soap. Moisten your finger, rub it on the soap, then on the cam and the head of the pin.
Cams hold firmly and undo cleanly every time.
 
Sarcastic sockpuppet said:
The secret for Temu's success seems to be that the app comes with free phone games
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AliExpress's app does this too. If you check in daily after a week you'll get something like 77¢ in credit every single day from that point onwards. More if you play their match three slop games.

I have the AliExpress app on my burner/goof-off phone and I collect the daily 77 cents specifically so I can cash it out every once in a while and send the stupidest chink shit to a Twitch streamer I watch who has a public PO box for this very reason.

I wouldn't actually buy anything with intent on AliExpress though, especially computer parts or memory as it's all counterfeit garbage that is nowhere near the advertised capacities.
 
There's some decent stuff. I got my ultrasonic cleaner from there and it's been great (nice big one that can fit a pair of carburettors or an entire chainsaw in it), various small engine components, head gaskets, pistons, rings, fan shrouds, throttle cables and carbs have generally been fine (carbs can be a bit hit and miss, a fake mikiuni is never as good as the real thing, a handful of jets is good though)
My last purchase was a set of auto reset chips for my printers ink cartridges

I'd never buy storage on there though. But I did get a sata/ide hard drive to usb dock thing for snooping on old hard drives I pick out of late 90s early 2000s laptops, and it was fine.
Oh and hard wired poe security cameras and recorder, that was pretty good.

Another good use is for electronics components, leds, resistors etc, propper electronic need shops haven't been a thing here for probably 20 years, it's an hour drive to the closest one and if they do have what I want in stock, I could build the whole thing with China stuff for the price of just one part from there.


Getting someone's address and sending them $0.5 buttplugs is also a good use of the platform, but it's not all direct to landfill junk
 
Pina Colada said:
You'd have to have a hole in your head to not see the little holes on the corner.
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Ironically, you could DIY the same kind of bow with a shower curtain. And I'm not weird for thinking the clock placed on the door was a red flag am I?
Save the Loli said:
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So my mother wanted a cookbook for Christmas, so I stopped in a physical bookstore and stumbled across this collection of junk. Why are there so many of these "unofficial cookbooks" anyway? The usual suspects like Star Wars and Disney are there, but there's ones for shit that doesn't even make me think of food like Halo or Magic the Gathering or the Ticket to Ride boardgame? Are they going to teach me how to make hotpockets but with a funny name? Who would unironically use these?
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I can understand theme based cookbooks but I'm confused by the Halo or Ticket to Ride ones. The Lovecraft one is kind of funny based on the stupid pun alone.
 
Barry Williams said:
I wouldn't actually buy anything with intent on AliExpress though, especially computer parts or memory as it's all counterfeit garbage that is nowhere near the advertised capacities.
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ya that's bullshit. I run mem ssds m.2s in three of my pcs all ali stuff np and performing as expected no outliers but you can't just order the cheapest thing. Put in some time see what there is and use your mind. sure you can be taken for a fool but only dumbfucks actually are. kinda like shopping everywhere else.

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informative reference to those shitty phonegames they offer I mean when you collect the 60 points daily you are there anyway. may as well collect the 77 cents.
 
AnOminous said:
Not really dollar store related, but IKEA also does this, with their weird maze stores where they funnel you through everything in the store until the checkout. I've never checked for fire exits so I'm not sure if there is one visible from anywhere, but it seems it could be confusing and the design of the store could force someone in the direction of the fire.
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They hide quite a few "shortcuts" between sections. They look (at first glance) like "employees only" doors but they're not actually labeled as such, and you're free to just push through them (they're the "flappy" kind of door with no knob). You can cut out more than half the "planned route" by doing so. The double doors separating the main entrance from the "marketplace" (i.e. where you get a cart and actually pick stuff out) are usually unlocked as well. And nobody really cares if you walk through the checkout lanes directly into the warehouse section either.

You can also go back downstairs to the store entrance quickly even if you've already gone up the famous one-way escalators or used the elevator to go up. They just hide the second floor elevator call button behind a panel that slides up and out of the way.

There's a good number of double-door fire exits (well marked), but they're buried in the visual noise of the store's design and layout, and I guarantee if there's ever a fire upstairs in one of those stores there will be casualties because of it.

Source: was married, dragged far too often to IKEA, got bored and went exploring.
 
Came across these videos of grown-ass adults fighting tooth and nail over who gets to take the most Pokémon cards home. I know most of these scalpers, but these retards act like rabid animals over this shit. :stress:
 
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