So I saw an ad for this cool looking led strip thing you can put in your car and then it has lots of settings.
Clicked the link and it took me to Temu, figure sure I’ll give it a go and download the app.
OMFG what the heck is this gamified shopping?
When it loaded I swear to Odin it went like a casino and said you can get the item you clicked on for free and you can choose another 5 items.
So I’m browsing through all this crap I don’t really want and adding things to move on. After selecting all free items it then said you win again or something and gave me more things to pick.
Then at the end it’s like right spend $35 to get all the other stuff for free, but said the original thing I clicked to get was not available. It’s like a bait and switch and I’m thinking I don’t any of this really I just wanted the cool led strip thing and to be left alone.
Honestly I really can’t believe people would use this place at all.
My guy has been living under a rock for the past 5 years. Nah don’t get it, just buy it off aliexpress
Apparently so 😂
It’s essentially an app to cause as much addiction as possible, with 10-20% discounts to allow for it
It was cheaper than resellers in local sites, but you could usually find the same thing but on AliExpress instead (much more honest of a site)
Thanks for this info.
I’ll check out AliExpress next time I see something interesting.
They’re still not great, but better. If you don’t hear from in a week or so, check your order. It might have been cancelled. They do give refunds within a certain window though.
Prices have got up a LOT with the tariffs
I bought one thing on Temu. Once.
My mom was recovering from back surgery and needed a bed that could lift up and lower down. Those beds are expensive as fuck, and her insurance wasn’t covering them. I tried to rent, but I was in a funky area where none of the rental companies covered my area.
Anyway, up pops an add on Temu. So off I go. Find one for like $250. Read reviews, and they’re English reviews and have legit pictures. So, terrified and desperate, I bought a whole-ass bed off Temu.
Came two weeks later. Put it together. It worked. She still uses it. It’s been almost a year now. Those two weeks of wondering if I just threw away $250 were wild though, lol.
Haven’t used temu, but I have used Wish a lot. It’s a lot of misrepresented low quality stuff. But if what you’re after is impossible to misrepresent and quality doesn’t matter it’s alright.
I tried Temu and Wish around the same time and had mostly the same experience:
Tons of misrepresented garbage, often with varying prices for the same, exact product, that you may or may not even receive after several months.
I’ve imported things from other countries before, even China, using other services such as eBay and never had it take the better half of a year to receive anything, and I almost always got what I expected. These sites suck even for trying to get cheap crap.
I bought two things on temu through a friend. I got what I paid for. One was a pack of origami paper for 0.60€, it was crap. The other was a pack of 4 typewriter ribbons for 6€, the quality was bad but good enough to use, I may buy them again.
Temu and wish are just aliexpress with less options.
No. Misleading images, dogshit quality. Learn from the mistakes other went trough, and dont use it.
I love watching Vargskelethor’s Temu Trash streams where he browses the site looking at funny awful products. (clip from one of them that I cut together) That’s the closest I’ve gone near it.
I think you’re probably better off constructing whatever you need out of trash and free debris, lol
Yeah I vastly prefer AliExpress, there are items in a similar vein with the ‘pick three!’ type, but those are in the significant minority.
And if you check for good sellers then you’ll get good products, like all the other buying platforms. I usually buy stuff on there if there are no fair labor made alternative
If they have to market something, it’s probably not worth it.
Temu is owned by PDD aka Pinduoduo, a Chinese company with a long history of either accidentally or deliberately (“accidentally”) putting malware in their apps. Malware that tends to dial home to PLA servers for some odd reason.
E.g. something like https://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/pinduoduo/
People’s Liberation Army?
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I bought a toy for my nephew on temu and have since been getting constant emails offering deals. I’ve ignored them cause I suspect it’s some kind of scam
