Nearly Half of Gen Z Is Buying From Chinese Shopping Apps

[Alpha8472]

These Chinese apps make very little money from selling products. The Chinese companies make money by selling information about their American customers to the Chinese government.

You have their address, name, date of birth, credit information, bank information, phone location, etc. Information selling is where the money is made. An app on your phone that tracks your every move, purchases, etc. This is all very dangerous and Gen Z is willing to give up their privacy for cheap merchandise. If someone were to try to hunt you down, you could be easily tracked and found.

At least with Amazon you can choose a pickup location other than your home. Now these apps know where you live.

[storewanderer]

That is concerning. I think it is a good habit to delete idle/unused apps from the phone. But once you use the app they have all of your info..

[mbz321]

These Chinese shopping apps track way too much information about you. They know your address, name, credit card information, and location. I certainly don't want that being handed over to a foreign government.

Pretty much every app on your phone does the same (minus sending your address to a foreign government, but with all the Terms & Conditions buried in every app today, who knows? ).

I've placed many Temu orders, but only through a computer (Private browser window and all that jazz) and checking out via PayPal, and haven't had any issues. The app is definitely just annoying to navigate through with the enormous selection of stuff they offer. I've definitely had some junky items, but its basically a no-questions asked account credit or refund and you never have to return anything (at least I haven't, but I haven't bought or returned anything more than like $5 in value.). I have heard some of their supplies are getting pissed about that aspect as the money comes from the vendor, not Temu themselves.

[storewanderer]

I figured I'd get roasted for purchasing from these companies but I have really found some funny/useful very cheap items there, beyond pet toys, random household items, cleaning type items, etc. I'd never buy any high value merchandise on these sites. I did have a situation where I bought a quantity of an item because I ordered one and it was very useful for me to partially repair something and I wanted a few more. So I ordered a few more of the item. The items arrived damaged, I think USPS damaged the items by wedging them into a PO Box... so I took photos of that approx. $20 order that got damaged in shipping, they saw the photos, provided a return label almost immediately, and I returned to a US address. I had to really fight to get that refund despite their saying it was "approved" right after I shipped the item back to their US address using the return shipping label they sent me, but after 2 months I finally got the refund.