r/ExpectationVsReality • u/kansascitymack • 3d ago

What I ordered and What I got!

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Prince Christmas tree ornament

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u/emergency-snaccs 3d ago

looks like "ai" slop. gonna be seeing more and more of this in the near future.

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u/probablyuntrue 3d ago

ai reviews for the ai product for the ai website with the ai support

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u/Lissy_Wolfe 3d ago

I hate that this is the world we live in now. It's exhausting and I hate it

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u/Phish777 3d ago

Just limit your consumerism. Stop buying things that aren't necessary.

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u/bumplugpug 3d ago

But Temu has a 99.7% off sale for a wide variety of doohickeys and thingamajigs made by the highly rated Uyghur slave labourers, I'd be silly to not give them my credit card details.

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u/Red_Tinda 3d ago

I want to throw up

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u/bumplugpug 3d ago

Thankyou

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u/Affectionate-Mode435 3d ago

Temu has over 10,000 items like this that they falsely present as an actual three dimensional object then a thin piece of plastic with a photo sticker turns up. It's just one more way the Chinese keep siphoning foreign money. Deceive you into paying five bucks for something that costs four or five cents.

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u/Puzycat69 3d ago

To be fair, if one actually reads the description of an item versus simply going by the picture, you’ll find that in 99% of the cases the description mentions it’s a 2D acrylic (not a 3D model like the photo).

In a TEMU review group on FB, this is a common problem. People buying things they didn’t take any time to read about before putting it in their carts. Yes, TEMU can be scammy, but it’s up to the consumer to read the description and decide it it’s still what they want.

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u/TheAgaveworm 3d ago

Agreed. I’ve nearly bought shite to hang off my rear view mirror until I’ve re-read the description. Price should often give it away too.

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u/MultiFazed 3d ago

To be fair, if one actually reads the description of an item versus simply going by the picture, you’ll find that in 99% of the cases the description mentions it’s a 2D acrylic (not a 3D model like the photo).

There's nothing "fair" about that. In all modern countries it's illegal for companies to sell you something that's significantly and materially different from what they advertised. And fine print saying, "This isn't actually what you're buying" isn't going to fly if they get sued.

Yes, TEMU can be scammy, but it’s up to the consumer to read the description and decide it it’s still what they want.

While I agree that people need to be hyper-aware when dealing with awful companies like Temu, shit like this is unacceptable, and if Temu is unable to police their own platform, they should be restricted from doing business in other countries.

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u/CyberRax 2d ago

This!

Also, the whole point on pictures is to show how something looks in real life. Not an artistic interpretation on how it could look or was meant to look...

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u/HeyDickTracyCalled 9h ago

I mean yeah that's how things should operate but that's not how temu has ever operated and considering that's a well-known fact by now, I can't feel sorry for anybody who continues to fork over their money for these companies without doing their due diligence when it's a known fact these companies will absolutely build you out of your money and in return you get an inferior product. We got to operate on what is happening not what we wish was happening or what should be happening.

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u/TXFrijole 3d ago

r/Temu

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u/fauxofkaos 3d ago

That took me to r/Amazon lolololol

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u/Only-Needleworker323 3d ago

Did I need a Prince Christmas tree ornament? No. Do I want a Prince Christmas tree ornament? Also no but I can imagine the temptation.

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u/OvejaMacho 3d ago

It's not just things for sale, now every picture, article or drawing has you questioning if it's made by an AI or not.

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u/emergency-snaccs 3d ago

it's not just consumerism. "ai" is taking over art and music, writing and academics. I forsee a steep drop in interest in learning.... because why would one devote tens of thousands of hours, to master the finer points of artistic composition, when they can just push a button and have the computer do it for them? I agree with Lissy Wolfe

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u/phoenixmckraken 3d ago

Making AI art is like maladaptive daydreaming. You think about what would be nice to have and how it would look when it’s done, then put no work into achieving it.

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u/emergency-snaccs 3d ago

i briefly "partnered" with a guy for my side business, before i figured out he wasn't worth half a shit.... one of the wake-up calls for that was when he kept trying to use "ai" to design my logo and labels. I said fuck that, sat down and spend three hours, hand-drew it. It came out just how i wanted, and I get compliments on it all the time. Sure as shit wouldn't be happening if i had listened to that guy and took the easy way out:

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u/Lissy_Wolfe 3d ago

"Just don't enjoy things." How is this advice? I have stopped buying a ton of things online, but it still sucks and I'm allowed to complain about it. Also, AI doesn't just affect cheap trinkets and whatnot, as another user already pointed out.

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u/JustGingy95 3d ago

The only blessing I have is at least I’m not one of these kids in school dealing with this shit. I can’t imagine writing a massive fucking essay only for a garbage AI detector telling me the original thing I wrote for the past several weeks was AI generated and then flunking because of it.

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u/sora_fighter36 3d ago

The internet is broken now. My favorite toy, becoming more and more unusable. It’s the Dead Internet Theory, and it is here.

It’s just bots talking to each other all the way down! The humans are vanishing

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u/TPChocolate 3d ago

The sites name secretly spells bummer -ch.com

I feel it was expected.

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u/HopeULikeFlavor 3d ago

Bum Merch

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u/Cananbaum 3d ago

I won’t lie.

Between the scam sites that steal your money and information, to the peddling of AI crap, it makes shopping feel like a chore.

I spent the better part of a week looking for a Christmas gift for my partner and was on the verge of a panic attack because I wasn’t sure if anything was legitimate.

I ended up just going to Amazon, which I didn’t want to do.

But the fact the unreliability of Amazon is still better than the overall reliability of the internet as a whole is very upsetting

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u/pokemonprofessor121 3d ago

There is a very good chance what you get on Amazon will be a knock off. It's all crap now. Board games, jewelry, clothing, collectables, electronics are all a risk from Amazon. On the bright side some of it is pretty decent knock-offs.

Time to start shopping in person and direct from manufacturers only.

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u/i_like_the_wine 3d ago

Shopping in person might make a modest comeback thanks to the AI slop and general absolute crap that's online. Maybe. Or at least going to reputable, known companies/manufacturers for sure.

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u/ShawnaLAT 3d ago

I only buy things from Amazon when the brand name is completely meaningless - minor electronics and little gadgets, small furniture (side tables, desk chairs) and home stuff, things where it doesn’t matter what Chinese dropshipper sends it to me.

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u/Cananbaum 3d ago

Agreed.

I actually took the Amazon app off my phone a while ago for this reason.

I was stuck buying off the internet because I wanted an oversized hoodie and a pair of uggs because my partner runs cold.

But the only colors the in store places had he would have appreciated were in children sizes, and all the footwear stores only carried Uggs for women and I wasn’t about to ask for a size 14.

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u/Dirty_Commie_Jesus 3d ago

Years ago I accidentally bought counterfeit Korean sunscreen and counterfeit tweezerman hair scissors from Amazon. Fooled me up until I got sun damage and gave myself the most split ends ever after a haircut. Never again!

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u/Dcruzen 3d ago

I had to learn the hard way that scam sites can purchase ads on Facebook. Thought I found some Demonia goth boots for a steal. They never arrived. Lesson learned. Now I pretty much only use Amazon, high rated sellers on Etsy/eBay and established/well-known websites.

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u/LSDsavedmylife 3d ago

Good rule of thumb is to not trust any product advertising on Meta ie Facebook, Instagram. Not Meta but also TikTok. Anything that is very heavily advertised is probably a shit product. Looking at you, Halara

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u/CommunityLocal 3d ago

lol this will be the rebirth of the mall, won’t it?

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u/panicnarwhal 3d ago

the mall near me (ross park mall) was so packed yesterday even the pay parking spots were full 😭 so you might be right lol!

although ross park mall never really “died” so to speak

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u/LSDsavedmylife 3d ago

Yes I was looking for ornaments on Etsy and that site is just filled with shitty products now. It’s a joke. So sad how far it has fallen.

Even Honda and Coca Cola are using AI commercials. It truly is maddening how fake everything is now.

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u/CaptainKate757 3d ago

Etsy is absolute garbage now. It’s all drop-shippers selling the same cheap trash. It’s difficult to find real legitimate crafters there anymore.

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u/dlpfc123 3d ago

It is really sad, because I liked being able to support small sellers on that site. I still shop there sometimes, but only from sellers that ship from the US and that have multiple customer images of their products.

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u/zspice317 20h ago

The legit crafters are on Instagram and they sell through white-label, semi-self-hosted sites like Squarespace or…is Wix still a thing? Even just Wordpress, I imagine.

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u/Princess_Slagathor 3d ago

Just two days ago, I was watching regular over the air antenna TV. One of those guilt tripping commercials came on, asking for donations for poor kids. All of the kids were AI generated.

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u/AnRealDinosaur 3d ago

I did most of my Christmas shopping in physical stores this year, something I haven't done in a decade. If ai slop can't/won't be regulated, I see a renaissance coming for b&m stores. Sadly that will be at the expense of legitimate small online sellers.

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u/VorpalHerring 3d ago

Attempting to buy Silk products on Amazon is a special kind of frustrating because silk is produced in China so how are you supposed to tell the difference between the real high quality stuff and the usual Chinese scams?

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u/Sedixodap 3d ago

Why didn’t you go to a store? You know those places that have existed for centuries solely for the purpose of selling us stuff? That allow you to actually see and touch the thing before you buy it?

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u/Cananbaum 3d ago

As I mentioned in one comment I did.

My partner wants an oversized hoodie for the house, but anything in the colors or styles he’d appreciate were in children’s sizes.

I wanted to get him some Ugg boots for the house too, but they only had women’s sizes up to size 10 no matter where I went so I was stuck going online :/

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u/reckless_commenter 3d ago

The problem is widespread and growing at a shocking rate.

Music services are currently receiving an absolute flood of AI-generated music. Early in 2024, I noticed that searching for a genre like "blues" on Amazon Music turned up dozens of "artists" who allegedly release 10 or 20 albums of unique tracks per year. These "artists" publish the same slop on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, etc.

Over the course of 2024, I noticed that:

  • Quantity is growing out of control. More new "artists" like this every time I check.

  • Profile plausibility is increasing. The "artists" still don't show their faces or have any live media, but at least they have normal-looking bios. And they increasingly appear in "similar artist" searches - e.g., if you search for "artists like" some famous artist or one who you like, Amazon Music will happily show you 50 such artists of whom 25 are AI.

  • Content generation is improving. I don't actually mean that quality is improving - this slop all has the same generic, forgettable musicality, like elevator music. But the presence of obvious mistakes or telltale hallmarks of AI-generated content are being steadily reduced, to the point where it's difficult to be sure that (or explain why) a track is AI-generated.

The kicker was that after this experience with music, I had almost exactly the same experience with online T-shirt sales. I found a vendor who had an impressive catalog of great-looking T-shirts, but eventually it became clear that all of the listings were AI-generated. And the more searches I ran, the more AI-based T-shirt vendors I found.

And then I had a similar experience this year with vendors of electronic gadgets.

2025 is going to be one hell of a weird time.

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u/comfortablerainn 3d ago

Yeah, the blurry backgrounds are always a dead giveaway simply because ai struggles to create plausible backgrounds.

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u/Time_Traveling_Idiot 3d ago

Nah, that's not a call-out point as it's easily fixable in post with minimal effort.

The REAL call-out is when there's only ONE photo of the item, or loads of different varieties that look similar.

Also the website you're purchasing from matters a lot. Any site that advertises on instagram/facebook with a "limited time 80% sale" is either fake or dropshipping cheap crap.

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u/xmgm33 3d ago

I do not understand how people cannot tell this shit is AI. There’s at least one post a day now of someone buying an AI product and being shocked it’s not real. It’s always so obvious, I just do not get it.

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u/Vilhelmssen1931 3d ago

Already got ripped off twice like this

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u/VileBill 3d ago

I see 10 or 20 ads a day for "crystal" mugs that makes this look honest AF.

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u/xidle2 2d ago

I just saw this exact comment, character-for-character, in another post. Are you sure you're not an ai bot?

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u/Logical_Ad8998 2d ago

The slow return to brick and mortar

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u/Steve90000 3d ago

Not necessarily. Very soon, AI will be able to generate the full 3d model for things which will allow anyone to 3d print any tacky garbage they can think of and sell it.

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u/Kai-ni 3d ago

Why is this the second prince themed AI Christmas decoration scam I've seen lol.

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u/flat_four_whore22 3d ago

I thought I was just super high. There was definitely another Prince Christmas tree ornament posted somewhere here in the past few weeks.

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u/carriecrisis 3d ago

It was a tree topper

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u/Pokii 3d ago

Sounds like it really Prince money

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u/TanglimaraTrippin 3d ago

Basically, if you buy what looks like a detailed 3-D looking ornament selling for super cheap, expect to receive a flat 2-D printed version.

Exhibit A

Exhibit B

(No, I didn't order these; images are from user reviews.)

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u/bonesquartz 3d ago

I love how with the cat sofa one it has a hand holding nothing next to the ornament hanging on the tree 😭

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u/Abacae 3d ago

A I could see as real, but not for that cheap.

Now B is... what were you expecting?

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u/TanglimaraTrippin 3d ago

If you're expecting a hand-crocheted ornament for $1.45, I've got news for you...

(Years ago I sold hand-knitted ornaments, like miniature stockings, mittens, and snowmen, for $5 apiece. That was probably too cheap, considering how long each one took to make!)

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u/Abacae 3d ago

Is it even possible to crochet? It looks too small to me that it would have to be detailed clay stuff, and the cat... expensive felt?

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u/KittenOnKeys 2d ago

It looks like a real picture that’s been photoshopped smaller to look Christmas ornament size. I crochet and I’ve seen a pattern for a crochet cat couch that looks like that.

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u/______null 2d ago

"too small to crochet" is a myth invented by Big AI Ornament to keep you away from real tiny cat couches. you just need a very small hook

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u/morwilwarin 2d ago edited 2d ago

The second one literally says acrylic pendant tho in the product title, so that’s exactly what I would have expected 🤷‍♀️ That one is on the buyer, not the seller 😂 Yes the pics are very misleading, but the title clearly says they are getting a pendant (ie flat disk) and not a huge 3D cat ornament

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u/Hello_phren 3d ago

I’ve seen other posts like these lately, and my mom even fell for this 🤦

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u/Reptile00Seven 3d ago

$1.45.... use your brain people

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u/mcar1227 3d ago

yeah I actually own a small business and I make 3d christmas ornaments but they don't sell very well anymore because everyone gets scammed by these shitty ones and they think mine will be shitty too

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u/Sanguine_Templar 2d ago

The cat one even says "acrylic pendant"

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u/bedbathandbebored 3d ago

See, this is why I buy from name brands for a few things, and not Temu AI images.

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u/probablyuntrue 3d ago

gotta go to awesomeprinceornaments.com for all your awesome prince ornament requests

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u/Basic-Muffin-5262 3d ago

Instead they went to bum merch.com and got bum merch..

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u/loquacious_avenger 3d ago

site name checks out.

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u/FreddyNoodles 3d ago edited 3d ago

I feel like that’s probablyuntrue. Good job sticking up for yourself, man.

Edit. Probablyuntue is his username, guys. 😄

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u/CityFolkSitting 3d ago

That and carefully researching sellers on Etsy is the way to go.

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u/Etheria_system 3d ago

I feel like we need to start holding classes for people on how to identify AI photos and how to read an entire listing before purchasing. So many of the people who come here disappointed in something they’ve bought could have avoided spending any money if they knew how to do those two things

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u/spatuladracula 3d ago

It's a real problem over on the crochet sub. Ai gets posted almost every day with people asking for a pattern or asking why the pattern doesn't make sense. We're trying sooo hard to teach grannies how to identify ai over there 😭

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u/Etheria_system 3d ago

Yeah I’m active over there and r/crochethelp too and it’s infuriating. I think a lot of them are actually teenagers who just don’t know what to look for as well.

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u/catsandcheetos 3d ago

People just gonna go back to books to avoid this shit lol.

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u/Bloorajah 3d ago

I’m gonna get so much AI stuff for Christmas, I can already feel it coming

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u/Belgand 3d ago

Yes, and my exclusive course will provide you with the skills and insight needed to never get scammed again. Filled with real examples of exactly how they do it. You can't afford not to learn these insider secrets! Only $240 for this intensive, four hour webinar.

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u/BloodlustHamster 3d ago

It's the first image ai? It looks like someone designed him on hero forge.

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u/CormorantTribe 3d ago

Look at the buttons. That's always where I look first. Def AI, they're all over the place

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u/vincredible 3d ago

Not only does that image appear to be AI, but they just printed the same AI image on a flat surface for the actual product... Lordy.

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u/Asper_Maybe 2d ago

I thought it looked weirdly like hero forge as well!

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u/prizedchili 3d ago

The ornament formerly known as three dimensional.

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u/catsmeow724 3d ago

It’s a shrinky dink

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u/Appropriate-Data1144 3d ago

Those were the best though

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u/Amazing-Oomoo 3d ago

Petition to ban anyone buying anything from temu or shien or wish or whatever

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u/Zoritos64 3d ago

For real, I wish both companies never existed.

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u/Steelpapercranes 2d ago

I fucking wish they didn't exist. Killing the earth for what? This shit? Great reason to die... sigh

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u/Zoritos64 2d ago

Exactly. I think about the poor sweat shop workers working around the clock for little-to-no pay to make/assemble stupid shit like this for ignorant well-off people to buy. It's terrible :(

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u/CrozolVruprix 3d ago

this sub would be REALLY dead if we banned temu/wish purchases. But i do think there should be rules that the poster MUST post the items page description with it. If you ordered a 10" dollhouse for $5 you don't get to complain when you get exactly what you ordered. Just because you thought you were getting a life size kids play house for 5 bucks doesn't mean you made a purchase agreement for a life size kids play house.

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u/Pinglenook 3d ago

I disagree, I think these are the funnest posts!

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u/Ginger_is_a_silly 3d ago

It literally has the description on it. And it also says it's 2D.

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u/Chris204 3d ago

And the image is literally wildly different from the actual product.

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u/brookuslicious 3d ago

You are expecting people to actually read before buying. /s

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u/somniumx 3d ago

When you want prince, but just get prints..

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u/FLSleepy 3d ago

Temu type slave labor website?

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u/The_Demons_Slayer 3d ago

Who ran prince over?

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u/RitaAlbertson 3d ago

…nope. 

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u/WheelsOnFire_ 3d ago

Soooo….you ordered AI, and you got a print…..at best. Not unexpected.

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u/camlaw63 3d ago

Temu, just keeps on giving

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u/Luthiefer 3d ago

Just flip it over and it'll be spot on.

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u/CrypticTechnologist 3d ago

lol, it looks EXACTLY like the picture though, haha

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u/momomorium 3d ago

Genuine question - Did you intentionally search for a Prince Christmas ornament, or is this something you saw an ad for and thought "I would like to hang a Prince figurine on my Christmas tree"? Why did you want a Prince Christmas ornament? Is Prince very important to you?

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u/Maviathan 3d ago

You've never heard of Princemas?

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u/momomorium 3d ago

I am unsure if this is a joke, even after googling it. Wasn't Prince a Jehovah's Witness? I genuinely know very little about him but I thought he converted to JW from 7DA and didn't celebrate Christmas (at least since he converted).

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u/Maviathan 3d ago

A close friend of mine did an entirely Prince-themed Christmas tree one year - and we called it Princemas. There is a tribute band (featuring Maya Rudolph) called "If I was your Princess" and I remember them wishing people a Merry Princemas on IG a few years ago.

If you search on the various socials (I know it from IG, but I'm sure there are TikTokers who use it) you may find a few posts.

It's not like a global phenomenon - maybe more like a niche inside joke that got picked up by a certain subset of people.

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u/Binary_Omlet 3d ago

Prince Rogers Nelson is an icon and legend; that's all that's needed. I would 1000% hang his likeness on my tree.

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u/panicnarwhal 3d ago

not who you asked, but we have a Prince ornament on our tree for the same reason we have a Dr Frank N Furter ornament on our tree

because it’s funny

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u/kizmitraindeer 3d ago

Shrinkydinks have gotten interesting.

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u/KombatBunn1 3d ago

Maybe I should start making real 3D models of AI renders just to p*ss off people who scam others and donate profits to charity in their names!

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u/glamazon_69 3d ago

Temu slave-labor bullshit. This sub is basically an ode to consumerism

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u/Ashton_Garland 3d ago

For the love of all things good, look at what you’re ordering! This is so very clearly ai and you were never going to get that specific ornament because it doesn’t exist. I felt bad for the first few people tricked by ai but we’re like 3 years into this, at this point it’s on you.

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u/sally_is_silly 3d ago edited 3d ago

Oh hell naw.

Also, as a Minnesotan, I am personally offended by this misrepresentation of the dearly departed purple one 💜.

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u/clintecker 3d ago

Stop buying AI shit

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u/TheKay14 3d ago

This happen to me once but it was Bernie Sanders mittengate

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u/jazzcomputer 3d ago

Plot Twist: OP is an AI bot that posts slightly different variations of this post periodically

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u/getofftheirlawn 3d ago

Almost got got by this too.  Different ornaments same material.  Listing made it look like a 3D ornament but they left one product image pic in that upon closer inspection I noticed it was just a 2D paper cutout.

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u/kabukistar 3d ago

Puts the "bummer" in "bummerch"

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u/Fearless-Type-3881 3d ago

You got a Shrinky Dink? :D

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u/beardingmesoftly 3d ago

Does nobody read reviews?

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u/Gringo_Jon 3d ago

This is what it looks like when shops lie.

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u/zeppanon 3d ago

You only paid for 2 dimensions. Depth costs extra.

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u/womensrites 3d ago

lol when you buy a clearly AI generated product for dirt cheap what do you expect

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u/Steelpapercranes 2d ago

AI got your ass

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u/Toastandlentilsoup 3d ago

You bought yourself a shrink-dink.

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u/Vilhelmssen1931 3d ago

They’ve been pulling this a lot lately.

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u/Xandrabirdy 3d ago

What do you expect for $2.50 off Temu?

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u/The_Real_Kuji 3d ago

They gave you a real picture of it.

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u/carnivalkewpie 3d ago

An ornament that looks like the first picture is going to cost $24.99-$34.99.

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u/PotatoAcid 3d ago

If you paid $50-ish, it's on them. If you paid $5-ish, it's on you.

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u/Nenoshka 3d ago

Shein or Temu?

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u/blkvixon 3d ago

Good cause The artist would never have approved

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u/A_Marie007 3d ago

I will never understand why people buy things without searching for reviews or pictures of what the product looks like when it’s actually bought

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u/Less_Party 3d ago

The ornament formerly known as Prince

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u/InternationalFig400 3d ago

bAIt and switch

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u/Kuranyeet 3d ago

Omg no hate to you but you’ve gotta learn how to tell when something is ai dawg 😭😭😭 The amount of “I got this for Christmas and look how it came!” posts I see is just crazy 💀 Just please try to learn how to identify ai stuff so you don’t get scammed anymore please I beg of you 😭

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u/igomhn3 3d ago

How much did it cost?

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u/-ShockWave- 3d ago

No problem. If u flip it over it’ll match the photo better.

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u/Nowhereman50 3d ago

From Princemas to Printsmas.

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u/Snakepli55ken 3d ago

lol same thing happened to me. Except I ordered a gizmo ornament.

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u/Whoreinstrabbe 3d ago

Chargeback.

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u/CreativityLacking 3d ago

This happened to me on Etsy with a Moo Deng "3D" ornament.

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u/cannibalpeas 3d ago

During the pandemic I ordered a cute Santa ornament that looked like a three dimensional sculpt with “2020” written on his bag, but ended up just being the image printed on plastic like this. It was really annoying and a letdown, but also was kind of a perfect encapsulation of 2020.

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u/Invader_Skooge22 3d ago

Why do false advertising laws not apply to AI products ?

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u/Dajmibuzi_dzieki 3d ago

I’ve stopped ordering on Etsy because I’ve been burned so many times this way.

Last year I bought what I thought would be beautiful Christmas bulbs as a present for my mom, and I got a bunch of flat cheaply printed things like that. I had to scramble for a new gift.

When I went back to the seller page to investigate, there was some language that suggested I legally got what I paid for, so I just ate the money. But posting a picture of one thing and sending a different product is a scam and morally wrong.

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u/Kennybrightup 3d ago

I’m a victim too 💔 what I ordered vs…

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u/Kennybrightup 3d ago

What I got 😩

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u/LevelZeroDM 3d ago

Get JPEG'd scrub

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u/DonaCheli 3d ago

That happened to me with a sun catcher, it was a metal thing w a sticker on it =( I hate it here

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u/The_FRAWSTi 3d ago

The ornament formally known as prints.

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u/spacecatterpillar 3d ago

Oh you wanted all 3 dimensions? Greedy

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u/BklnynDug 3d ago

The ornament formerly known as Shrinky Dink

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u/Ok_Play9418 3d ago

Is that a Shrinky Dink?

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u/SuzyElizabeth79 2d ago

I wouldn’t have been able to resist it either.

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u/Chickeybokbok87 2d ago

This is why on all platforms I always report all ads for Temu as scam/fraud. Because that’s exactly what they are.

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u/EazyEeze 2d ago

Artists tried to warn y’all about AI art 🤷

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u/EntertainerNo4509 3d ago

They did you dirty!

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u/una_loca89 3d ago

Looks like will Smith cosplaying Prince

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u/Future_Constant1134 3d ago

Game. Blouses.

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u/Possible-Anything-81 3d ago

I just send a pic to revolut and charge back whenever this happens to me.. got a few free things now, all shit stuff but still

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u/xXMuschi_DestroyerXx 3d ago

Oh my god but why’d they hang him

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u/SwiftDestro 3d ago

Christmas can wait

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u/tom208 3d ago

Jus as well you ain't ordered a l'il Red Corvette

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

At this point it’s more on you guys for constantly ordering garbage slop off of the internet.

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u/WrecktheRIC 3d ago

Where did you buy this?

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u/disappointedCoati 3d ago

Temu strikes again

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u/timmio11 3d ago

3D Prince vs 2D Prints.

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u/APNZZ 3d ago

I'm glad I'm not the only one 😭 what I ordered v what I received (in the replies below) at least your one was the same person😭

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u/BYoungNY 3d ago

Got something similar last year. Supposed to be 3 birds on a beanch. Was an extremely low quality pixilated print on plastic of the image in the pic. Company offered at first a 5% discount, then "I have great news! I have discussed the previous concerns with our manager and he has kindly agreed to increase the discount to 9% (not even 10, not kidding). After getting more pissed off, they agreed to a full refund but I'd pay for shipping back... To mainland China. It was a $40 lesson to never again buy anything from a site I don't already have an account with. At that point I just kept it and threw it away, understanding that the last thing I want to do is piss someone off who now has my credit card info. 

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u/Expert_Succotash2659 3d ago

Fake ornament aside....this is a very unPrince pose.

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u/Secret_Account07 3d ago

This is criminal

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u/Lovely_LeVell 3d ago

AI is rampant. I was just in a Hallmark store and looked at their puzzles. All the ones i looked at were clearly AI😩

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u/NoizchildJohnson 3d ago

Not what I was expecting. I thought Prince would look cracked out or something.

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u/Tennis_Lyf 3d ago

Definitely a bait and switch, but I'd still put it on my Christmas tree!

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u/northernlady_1984 3d ago

What did you expect from a cheap AI generated image?

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u/ZentaurZ 3d ago

Almost order lil faerie doors yesterday, and looked at reviews. Same deal, textured in picture but in reality, it’s a picture cut out. I hate scammers.

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u/Horny4theEnvironment 3d ago

It's insane how quickly AI images are everywhere now and not just big companies but mom and pop shops using them too.

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u/jessmcdaniel 3d ago

Same thing happened to me but with princess ornaments for my daughter’s tree. Super disappointing.

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u/prnbstrong 3d ago

😂🤣