Check some these #'s out: https://www.usitc.gov/publications/...inese_auto_parts_final_080519-compliant_0.pdf Now go look at your pretty new 'all-American' pickup in the driveway. It might as well come with a 'chopsticks option'. 
Is it ok to just look at Temu?
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23DenaliBDE
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Keep purposely buying Chinese crap that you CAN avoid you dolt
Love Temu On one order I got 2 tips and stuck one on a bar stick. super glue. picture a 3 vally table bar with all the cues have those, all in one furrel and tip
smiling_Hans
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Americans don't make the little parts that make up the product. Things like chips, components and all that stuff they don't make.
I pay through PayPal--connected to credit card not bank account.
I've bought a few cheap cues from Temu--that is around $100 down to $35-40. Some carbon fiber, and one is a 3/4-length billiard cue with a 10-11 mm tip. The last one was the cheapest ($35-ish), and it has a *kind of CF* finish, which may be faux, but does not have the feel of the others--which are more like the expensive CF shaft (I have a Revo too). Maybe it's more plasticky, for lack of a better description.
One I bought mostly because it's nice looking, but the idea was to just see the quality. I also bought a $45-ish wooden cue, brand Jianying (model PA24, it turns out) which I found that I really like to play with. I also got the $25, screw-in extension which fits the Jianying, as we as the CF billiard cue.
The cues themselves are generally nice, although i think the tips could be better. Still, I have not changed any, as I will play with about any cue, as long as it's straight. The other downside is that there is usually NOT an option for tip diameter or cue weight--and there may be no changeable weight, so would require drilling and/or installing a weight, if desired.
Lastly, before Temu I used to buy cheap cues off eBay. I got a "Preoaidtr" (sp?), because the idea of the Chinese knock-off name made me laugh. I actually have never hit any balls with it, but there's nothing wrong with the cue. Same for a Poison knock-off--"Poizon", or something similar.
I buy cheap cues like some of my female friends buy shoes.
Might be coincidence , but after I found out you could pay with Pay Pal I started looking at some items and within 24 hours had an email saying I had bought something {it did not say from Temu"} but it was a fake Pay Pal message wanting me to click and then give my Pay Pal info to check out the problem, an obvious scam, but it seems like it's probably connected.
boogieman
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that ping.
Still want to shoot
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Just reading that article got me aroused. Damn it Temu!. sites like that always drive me nuts.
You can only read this message 3 times before it is gone for good.
7 cents a day - month? is always in the back of my mind. Been there since I started using Amazon. But truthfully, isn't that mantra forged into all the Chinese tech the US relies on?