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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.

My wife shops on Temu regularly. She doesn't trust them, so she uses one-time cards. Most of what she buys are single-use items: party accessories, crafts for kids, etc. The exceptions were solar lights, which are surprisingly durable, vastly outlasting those we got locally or Amazon. Speaking of Amazon, we used to shop there a lot but almost completely stopped. 90% of goods are just rebranded Temu products, and the "premium" selection can be found cheaper in the nanufacturers' or speciality stores. Amazon is currently positioned very poorly, with competition pressuring them both from top end and junk. Looks like Amazon as a retailer is heading back to its origin, with books being the only reasonable deal there.

No. Misleading images, dogshit quality. Learn from the mistakes other went trough, and dont use it.

it's terrible

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.

If they have to market something, it's probably not worth it.

That's just how billionaires shop!

/s

https://youtu.be/6dK4txrV6Ds

My guy has been living under a rock for the past 5 years. Nah don't get it, just buy it off aliexpress

Cheapest shit on the internet...and you really do get what you paid for. Buy ten and one might work, or spend twice as much and be certain.

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

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/

Yeah I vastly prefer AliExpress, there are items in a similar vein with the 'pick three!' type, but those are in the significant minority.

I find how they try to make you feel like a winner every visit there as laughably bad. Always hitting the right spaces on the spin the wheel? Always getting sales? Always this and that with Temu. Okay then...

I wouldn't ever buy anything big from Temu at any cost. They're great for stickers, enamel pins and just general, casual level items. If you're willing to wait however long it takes to get them to you, obviously from where they're sourced.

I think you’re probably better off constructing whatever you need out of trash and free debris, lol

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.

I got a keyboard, keycaps, and some switches for a work keyboard. I wanted something cheap cause it is just supposed to get me off a shitty ergo one they provide. Spent maybe $40 and it's pretty decent. I got quiet switches, connectibility is good. No complaints. But I got it solely for this purpose, I haven't been back on it again, and I researched what I was wanting to get, so nothing was surprising.

It worked well for it's intended purpose, but they bombard you with sales and stuff to get you to spend more. It's definitely a trap system

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.

Temu and wish are just aliexpress with less options.

nope

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.