Why Avoid The Cheap Paddle Boards on Temu & Amazon

You may have noticed the number of adverts for CRAZY cheap paddle boards  appearing in your social media feeds? 

Welcome to the Temu Phenomenon - or as we like to call it in the industry - the Race To the Bottom. 

Temu

Temu sprang up from no where and is now taking over the world with cheap products that come direct to the buyer from the factory they're made in. Cutting out the brand/business/seller means that you the buyer gets a bargain - right? 

Wrong!

Buying directly from Temu means that you are assuming responsibility for any issue that may appear in the £67 board you are buying. 

There's no quality inspection. There's zero warranty. There's zero come back unless you are willing to spend BIG on sending the faulty product back to China. 

Why Isn't Everyone making Boards This Cheap

The simple reason - it's impossible (we don't mean feasible, we mean 'impossible') to manufacture a board that is safe, made responsibly, in a good factory with good workers rights and that doesn't have a large impact on the environment for sub £100. 

But that's not for the buyer to worry about is it? Well we think it is. If FatStick were to make a stand up paddle board that was wrapped in plastic we would be jumped on, and rightly so. If we were to make a poor quality board and flood the market with sub £100 boards we'd be criticised, but the Temu Effect is far from critiqued. 

Hundreds of thousands of boards are being churned out with immense waste products and being shipped with a high percentage likely to find their way into landfill over the coming months. 

Then there's the safety aspect. Buying a board with little to no quality checks being carried out means that any buyer is putting themselves, and their family at risk.

A responsible customer will find a UK brand that backs up their construction, manufacturing and makes efforts to make responsible choices and safe products. 

Support UK Brands

We're not asking you to break the bank, but we'd love you to think on what you are buying and more importantly, where you're spending your money. 

The boards are cheap, they're poor quality, they aren't safe and the factories have free reign to make what they like as they don't have a brand to hold them to account. 

So, before you dive into a cheap Amazon or Temu board, think to yourself - "why don't other brands make boards this cheap", there's obviously a reason.

It's not possible.