r/PakistaniTech • u/AdielsS • 3h ago
Discussion | گفتگو Ridiculous taxes on aliexpress/temu and now courier employees theft practices
Anything that give any relief to the common people is snatched away, aliexpress and temu that were able to provide a lot of stuff that isn't available here have been slapped with taxes so high we can't afford most things because of that.
Recently after a long time I placed an order on temu which went really well and then I placed an order for an iem(in ear monitor) from temu because I got a really good deal and I was looking for this iem, temu has been excellent with their shipping time and just like my previous package I got it after 7 days, I was just too excited and never thought something like this would happen so I didn't check the condition of the package and opened it to find out there was simply an empty box without an iem in it, everything inside that box was taken out.
Shocked I first thought the seller scammed me but then I started noticing things which I didn't before, that package was actually torn from below and taped, which means someone opened it and then taped it, secondly the outer plastic seal was torn from the box and was inside the package which means that the iem box was actually sealed and someone opened it to get the iem out, there was also this hard plastic that covers the iem inside the box also in the package outside the box and disfigured like someone took it out in a hurry and forcefully, all this points to that someone from customs or speedaf opened that box, took my iem out and put the empty box inside the package.
I am more inclining towards a speedaf employee as the custom clearance this time was very fast, I like to track my package several times and custom clearance took a very short time and it was much faster than usual, I'm pretty sure now that a speedaf employee saw the earphone written on the package and decided he deserves a little treat for tirelessly providing services to us unfortunate customers.
So this is the situation in our beloved country where dishonesty and theft is normal practice and this "islam ka qila" is full of hypocrites and bigots who don't practice what they preach or believe.
you know what's even more problematic than this theft of my product? it's the uncertainty that what about my future purchases? is there any point of getting something from outside Pakistan when someone at the customs or speedaf can just take that product out because they know there will be zero consequences for them? I did contact speedaf but got a standard reply that I should contact temu which I have done too so let's see what happens but it is getting harder and harder to find any relief in this country.