Or even better, don't order anything from Temu at all
this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2024
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If you want cheap, go for aliexpress, because temu is basically just aliexpress drop shipping at a premium because they spend so much on advertising.
But if you can afford it, perhaps pick a more climate friendly alternative.
Please elaborate what the more climate friendly alternative is
I work in manufacturing supply chain and tbh it may actually be better to buy direct from the factory via Aliexpress than the same thing that’s already been imported.
Because of our “gimme it now” consumer attitude and shit like Prime last mile expedited delivery, the only way to ensure that service (as a corporate distribution strategy) is to overbuy and disseminate finished product geographically - the goal should be Just in Time restocking to each local warehouse/distro hub, but after the pandemic supply crunch we literally re-wrote the textbook and businesses are holding more inventory than before.
And the “locally made with global materials” manufacturing is even worse. Any scrap/waste during production represent materials that were likely transported via sea freight using bunker fuel, and the snowballing volume of intermodal packaging required to ship raw/semifinished material instead of a finished product adds up QUICK.
The real answer? Buy nothing; Thrift, Rent/Borrow. And if you have no alternative, seriously consider spending more on durable goods that’ll last instead of the cheaper or fancy whiz-bang option. DIY is for hobbies, you can’t beat economies of scale and efficiency unless it’s something very basic or simple.
Something that isn’t sourced from halfway accross the world with materials sourced from environmentally damaging mining practices in places with little to no environmental regulations.
You're going to have a real hard time finding a cooktop not made with components shipped from other parts of the world.
I think i'll just light my locally-sourced renewable-growth wooden table on fire as needed.
Never order ~~important~~ stuff from Temu.
There I fixed it for you. 👍
I guarantee you this did not actually come from Temu, but I can be reasonably certain it was damaged in shipping, wherever it came from.
Those burner elements are just held to the deck underneath with some little tiny clips, sometimes just with one dinky screw through it each, and they're not difficult to knock out of position if the thing's been banged or dropped in transit.
It's just as easy to put the back into place, usually, if the owner can be bothered to flip the thing over and take the bottom cover off and, you know, show some initiative other than whining about it on the internet for internet points.
(I have also occasionally seen some of these show up with the wrong glass installed, though, i.e. from a manufacturer that makes more than one model, and the markings on the glass thus don't quite line up with the burner positions underneath.)
The amount of fear people have of opening up their machinery to fix them is the fifth fundamental force of the universe.
I'm an auto mechanic. My father BEGGED me to not fix the window motor in his buick because he was sure I was going to break it. And yeah one of those stupid push clips that holds the door panel in did break, but there's like 9 others plus some bolts, it's okay. Window works now.
Same man was bound and fucking determined to throw away a random orbital sander and buy a new one. I pulled it apart, cleaned a half pound of dust out of it, and put it back together, hey presto it sands again.
The idea of fixing a stovetop is beyond what most people can handle. We're in an era where people don't take their cars in for service and don't know how to call a repairman. You just buy a new car, oven, fridge and washer every 3 to 5 years.
Ain't that the truth.
We live in a era of deliberate learned helplessness; people will readily spend twice as much effort bitching and moaning under the expectation that someone else will take care of it for them than they'd spend on just manning and/or womaning the fuck up enough to lift a finger themselves. I'm amazed most motherfuckers I meet in a daily basis are capable of even tying their own shoes.
To be honest a lot of plastic clips for panels and interior trim on cars are entirely sacrificial, in theory they are reusable but its 50/50 if they are brittle from time or damaged they will break the second you look at them wrong.
They are generally available in packets at auto stores very cheap for a reason.
Having installed one of these before, I can say this was a installer/assembly error.
This picture is years older than temu
Came here to say this. The advice is sound, but goddamn do I hate seeing bad arguments.
You got the Tara Reid model
Never order unimportant ~~important~~ stuff ~~from Temu~~.
~~Never~~ order ~~important stuff from~~ Temu
Order Temu?
Instructions unclear. I have issued commands to temi. I now have command of a Chinese destroyer
I've seen this picture before. Its what happens when the replacement top doesn't align to the burners.
Ignoring that, the placement of the burners makes no sense.
You don't have a peanut pan to cook two pancakes at once?
I actually enjoy the existence of Temu because now everyone is too distracted to notice me buying the same Chinese knockoffs on Ali Express and Ebay lol.
Some things you really can't cheap out on
Never ~~order important stuff from Temu~~
Got it.
..Wait, fuck--
Just don't
Tbf, this is probably just a troll post, but the fix looks to be just turning it off and sliding the plates into place, they should be bolted in but it's not like the stove moves much