• Snapz@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Have any of you actually ever stopped to process what the tagline, “I’m shopping like a billionaire” means?

    I’ve always interpreted it as,

    I’m needlessly buying things that don’t make me happy, but making the purchase without any hesitation, knowing that the purchase price could never financially impact me in any real way. When I purchase the thing, I’ll probably never use it or actually take it out of the box even. It is just empty, hollow. And somewhere inside, I always know that it’s all only possible, because I’m actively exploiting the cheap labor of scores of other people that are made to perpetually suffer in generations of abject poverty to allow for my relative comfort…

    🎶*“I’m shopping like a billionaire!”*🎶

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      6 months ago

      I am disabled and have limited income I don’t have control over increasing or decreasing. I use temu to save a lot of money on essential things that should be cheap but are still overpriced in America. Sponges. Rags. Soaps. Pens. Tools. Home improvement hardware. Plant grow supplies. Gifts for me nieces. The tagline, is just a tagline. Billionaires are not like me and scouring for cheap magic sponges.

      Edit: also, temu did not invent drop shipping. Shopping on amazon is literally the same thing.

    • dan@upvote.au
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      6 months ago

      My interpretation of that tagline is that since the prices on Temu are cheap, it means you can shop as if you had a lot of money, without actually spending that much.