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Comment by AstroBen | Hacker News Reader

Good for you, but it's not all about rabid consumption. My girlfriend has been into jewelry making and ordered a lot of stuff off temu, which she gave away the end product to friends and family. That'll most likely be prohibitively expensive at this point

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Temu has notoriously low standards when it comes to jewelry and other jewelry related items. Reddit threads are full of horror stories about toxic materials being used for these items. Be careful what you give out to friends and family.

> Reddit threads are full of horror stories

Reddit is full of horror stories about everything. Mostly because it gets eyeballs. I’m open—almost receptive—to the claim that Temu jewellery contains significant quantities of toxic materials. But we should hold ourselves to a higher standard than Reddit comments.

I haven't seen the Reddit posts. But I've seen the same in Articles in the Norwegian press, where they bought a bunch of random Temu stuff and sent it for safety testing. The result where not great and the results for the jewelry was really scary.

Anything that has skin contact like rings, clothing, toys, etc. I wouldn't but form Temu/AliExpress. That's where I draw the line.

She could give cards, food items or hugs. You don't need to cover people in cheap temu stuff to show you love them.

Ah yes, replace a creative hobby with.. hugs

I think you'd be surprised at the quality

I don't think people are aware their <insert high status luxury brand> came from the same place.

The luxury brand ensures the safety of the product, and as the importer is liable if they fail to do that.

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