Temu Is Much Better Than Amazon, eBay, Wish or AliExpress

A what?

Temu is a junkyard scam just like the rest of them.

Just checked it out. It looks cheap and unorganized, just like Wish and AliExpress. Nothing beats eBay

The price is excellent 👌

R3 if you just checked it out minutes ago, you are 3 months late!

You can buy used underwear on Amazon?

It’s great I got a really nicer smaller ouija board. It’s wood. All the women in my family love it.

Where exactly can I get this used underwear? Can I specify one of the tall beefy Chinese gen z studs? They even have big fat cocks now.

Looks like cheap junk.

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PRC is in the 🏡

Seriously with TEMu, I no longer shop at Amazon for their Amazon Basics or whatever obscure brand names they are selling under, TEMU sells the same thing with no brand names or generic names at a fraction of the price.

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OP why would I want to buy used underwear?

Yep what R10 said, there is really no reason to spend $20 for one garment bag at Amazon when you can get three for $10 at TEMU.

Temu is fucking ghetto and they use customs brokers to bring all their shit in from China.

Amazon is far more reliable.

Wish is ghetto, everything is from China.

Aliexpress is ghetto everything is from China and Singapore or Thailand

Ebay isn't horrible. But out of all of them Amazon is the best for new products.

Ebay and Amazon have real cx service/support. The others don't

[quote]there is really no reason to spend $20 for one garment bag at Amazon when you can get three for $10 at TEMU

I'm guessing that all three of them will fall apart after the first time you use them. Just invest in a good one that will last and you never have to think about it again.

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R17 total BS, they are excellent quality, I bought 6 more

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^ 😂 but they are more than happy to pay $20 for Amazon basics phone case so Bezos can buy another mega yacht!

[quote] But the company—the U.S. offshoot of Chinese e-commerce giant Pinduoduo—is also starting to develop a reputation for undelivered packages, mysterious charges, incorrect orders, and unresponsive customer service. Temu has already been subject to more than 30 complaints to the Better Business Bureau, and has a BBB customer rating of less than 1.5 stars.

The app probably comes pre-loaded with Chinese spyware, for your convenance.

Well, no one is forcing you to buy anything from TEMU! Keep ordering from Amazon or eBay or shopping local if you prefer, I am just glad there is another option here.

So I just decided to test the app out and they don't give you the option of subscribing without providing a password for google / apple etc. So... nope.

Tamu=Wish=AliExpress

I ordered something my mom wanted from here (my first purchase) and within 12 hours got multiple emails from Facebook and PayPal of attempted logins and attempts to change my password on accounts I made with the email I provided them.

I do not trust them at all and will not buy another thing from them.

R26 you forgot to tell us your garage door was mysteriously opened in the midnight and your mails were stolen too.

Privacy? Security? We don't need either in the PRC.

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I just looked at the site for the first time and found Morgan 'silvery coins' for a little over two dollars each, so obviously fraudulent. Who buys this crap?

It's cheap Chinese manufactured crap, but for instances where that will do it works great. Furniture and electronics I buy off Amazon or from a brick-and-mortar store; foam interior doormats and fake flowers I can risk getting an inferior version of if it only costs me a few bucks.

That said, two items I've bought have really impressed me with their function: a black pebble bath mat that grips the tub securely, and a pet hair roller that's made of plastic probably no sturdier than fast food utensils but cleans area rugs as if by magic.

I noticed my SO's phone dragging. They had loaded the Temu app. I uninstalled and the phone picked up. I went ahead and reset the phone because you never know how intrusive those apps can be.

As for the quality of their goods, I have no idea. I used to work for a place that got all their shit from China. The older stuff in the warehouse was a much higher quality than the more recent imports. As the standard of living has improved, the quality of cheap goods has declined.

It is not surprising.

Amazon is just for new stuff. Also, Amazon doesn't ship to a lot of countries. And if it does, a lot of the time shipping cost twice as much as the actual item. Those other three sites are just Chinese junk. Ebay is the best. Anyone can sell on eBay, you don't need to be a certified store. So you can find the most stuff there. All the junk you can find on Temu, Wish and AliExpress, you can also find on eBay. The same Chinese sellers sell on all these sites. But on eBay you can find a bunch of second hand stuff that you can't find anywhere else on the internet.

I have been wanting to stock up on rock posters to wallpaper a guest room. They have tons on Temu for cheap, cheap cheap. I'm just worried I will spend the money and they will never arrive. Or like someone up thread said, they will start spamming me or something weird.

Temu is absolute garbage, AND it installs malware on your phone/computer.

There is NO sale worth the BS that site puts you through, or the surveillance they do on your activity. Waddle to the dollar store instead.

Don’t you have to buy in bulk from Ali? And isn’t Amazon now a “buy a minimum of three of this product” now if it’s under $50?

I buy stuff from aliexpress, never had an issue. I certainly don't buy anything electronic, clothes, make up, dog stuff or kitchenware.

I wouldn't spend a cent on cheap Chinese shit, sorry.

eBay SUCKS since Trump. I used to buy medication you can’t get here in US, like extra strength (2%) Voltaren gel. Don’t tell me it’s available and OTC in US - only 1% Voltaren is available OTC here.

I even used to get 10mg codeine pills to help with horrible arthritis pain from Lyme disease. Bought robaxin pills from Canada where it’s OTC. Try buying robaxin now, US will stop it at border or charge you minimum $50 import fee for something I used to pay less than $20 for..

Also bought Emla, an excellent topical anesthetic with lidocaine and prilocaine in it.

Trump administration banned all of it from eBay. You can only buy what you can get otc in US on eBay. And useless foreign herbal crap.

What do you mean I can’t buy medication on eBay? Where will I find my morphine drip refills?

I’ve bought numerous items from Temu and have had zero issues. A lot of the items can be found on Amazon for 5-10 dollars more. I found a great Marimekko-esque throw in tobacco and black that cost me $17. That has been my biggest purchase.

I mostly by little things that I don’t want to pay $10 a pop for and get for a $1.87 or some ridiculous price. I am selective, and look closely at items before purchasing.

TEMU rocks, Bitches.

[quote]The app probably comes pre-loaded with Chinese spyware, for your convenance.

[quote]Shopping app that didn't exist 4 months ago now a source of privacy concerns

I won't order from any vendor that requires me to download their app to do so. I'm probably not as diligent about internet security as I should be, but I'm not entirely lax either. There is no fucking reason to require an app to place an order -- account details? fine; offer an app if it comes with come real some convenience or benefit to the customer? fine; but allow purchases only after downloading an app? Fuck no.

China's record on internet security and its record of allying with businesses and business fronts to harvest personal and financial information is not at all encouraging.

I don't buy a lot of plastic and synthetic goods, cheap tools, cheap metal products, cheap kitchen items, and short-lived household goods from any source. Sometimes these thing inevitably come from China, but I won't buy anything at all directly from China. They misrepresent customs rules, shipping dates, forget careful packaging, and forget bothering to send anything back -- even if half the time they send something only vaguely similar to the product (mis-)represented.

Carry n and fill your houses with plastic shower curtains and plastic this and plastic that, and shirts that cost $4.14 each, cat litter boxes for a fraction of the cost of ones bougfht in stores, or luxury brands for pennies on the dollar, up to the rafters in cheap shit at bargain prices. I don't need tawdry shit and bad knock-offs and products deceitfully represented, let alone a storeroom filled of them. The vendors lie from start to finish and, worse, their prices are artificially low in order to clog your mobiles with malware to harvest your financial data.

Temu should just ship their plastic shit straight into landfill and cut out the middle man.

You may not be able to buy used underwear on Temu, but there's a strange subculture of old men showing off their underwear purchases in video "reviews" on the app/website, with gratuitous posing and waistband snapping, ending with and obligatory dick flash.

Does it take a month for shipping from China? I bought a birdcage from an Facebook ad. Nothing at all gave the impression it was a Chinese company until after purchase. It took a month for delivery that actually never happened. Tracking said delivered but it was never received and security video had no delivery of it either.

My Temu purchases have tended to 7-10 business days, about what I'd expect for free ground shipping. I think orders are fulfilled from stateside warehouses, not shipped directly from overseas.

I had never heard of Temu before reading this thread. So I looked for a review from a reputable website. The best I could find was a review from ZDNet. The review is rather restraint and doesn't advise directly to stay away from Temu. It has some good information though about the affiliation to China, trusting with use of data etc.

Personally, I don't find the site very compelling. I wouldn't buy expensive things there. And I usually don't purchase cheap 3-dollar tchotchkes. So this isn't for me.

OP I never heard of it. I will google. Thanks.

I still feel like it’s a scam.

Today heard discussion on NPR about people being scammed by cheap goods from Temu made in China.

[quote]You may not be able to buy used underwear on Temu, but there's a strange subculture of old men showing off their underwear purchases in video "reviews" on the app/website, with gratuitous posing and waistband snapping, ending with and obligatory dick flash.

I am totally laughing over this. Is it true?

Cheap Chinese junk. If I have a burning need for some of that (and ocassionally I do need something cheap and low quality for immediate and one off use) I'll get it from the dollar store, where my gaydar seems to have come from

And as R35 and others have pointed out the app is a massive security /privacy hole. I'm not particularly risk averse with these things but I'm not downloading that.

Garbage. Uvly crap products that fall apart.

I try to avoid shopping online

Where can I buy underwear worn in the senate chamber?

^ Contact a senate page on his Instagram. He should be able to help you. Make sure you ask for his Venmo.

I bought a $100 dollars worth there and everything was a piece of shit!

It sounds like Temu is the Lang Lang of online shopping.

I bought a bathroom mat for the holidays.

On it was written [Bold]Meery[/Bold] Christmas.

First and last time.

R60 Oh, dear!

Oooooh I love Engrish!

For gifts, I go to Etsy. It’s not always cheap but it has a lot of charming stuff. Great prints, unique jewelry, etc. I just bought a an acrylic “notepad” and use it all the time.

R60 Amazon isn't any better. Most of the stuff on Amazon is probably made in China, in the same factories by the same people as the items on Temu

It still screams SCAM to me.

My fear is what they are doing with personal information??? I brought it up to a friend who highly advised not to purchase on the site....didn't.

TikTok shop is the best imo

[quote] My fear is what they are doing with personal information?

That's my concern, too. Cheap shit that doesn't work I can throw out. But my personal info... there are e-tailers I trust more than an obscure shop from China.

Sometimes I like buying name brand stuff along with no name crap. You can't do that on Temu.

From Wikipedia:

[quote] Business model

[quote] Temu allows China-based vendors to sell and ship directly to customers without having to rely on intermediate distributors in the destination country, making products more affordable.[15] It sells products at a loss in order to undercut competitors' prices and get a foothold in new markets.[16] Temu offers free goods to some users who successfully refer new users via affiliate codes, social media, and gamification.[8]

OP is a Temu shill, receiving free used underwear in exchange for vomiting pro-Temu propaganda all over DL.

[quote]And isn’t Amazon now a “buy a minimum of three of this product” now if it’s under $50?

Never seen this on Amazon.

[quote]TikTok shop is the best imo

you mean for cheap Chinese junk from a company that will hand over your personal data to the Chinese government?

Pinduoduo, the holding company that owns Temu, distributed an app that contained malware... What did they do next? They transferred the engineering team to Temu!

[quote] In 2023, Google removed Pinduoduo's app from the Play Store due to security concerns after it was found to contain malware.[26][27] Two days after releasing an update to address concerns, Pinduoduo disbanded the team of engineers and product managers who had developed the exploits. A majority of the team was transferred to Temu, working in various departments.[28]

Who gives a fuck what they are doing with your personal information? Who are you, the president?

FUCK these commie cunts!!

[quote] You can buy used underwear on Amazon?

Sure you can.

But not on Amazon Fresh.

I have bought some useful stuff on Wish way below local retail. For example I was giving away samples of fragrances from my hundreds of bottles, to friends and family, and the same cute mini lipstick sized atomizers that are 10E a piece are 1E on Wish. The exact same product from the same factories. Stuff like that. Sure if you only need 1 of something that is made in China, buy local. But if you want 50, buy them through Wish or Amazon direct from the damned factories.

Temu is awful and it's also privacy invasive

utter shite

Can we F&F the anti gay male Frau OP please?

Tamu.

I've purchased several things at TEMU. Nothing was delivered broken, and I've been given credit if an order is delivered late. No complaints so far (I've been ordering items since fall of last year)

Only for certain things and the quality is atrocious as other have stated. The "Meery" Christmas bathmat for instance that I ordered for the holidays.

I just purchased a model house kit from AliExpress for the first time and was surprised that it arrived quickly and in great condition. My brother's experiences at similar sites has been uniformly terrible, but he's probably not probing the sellers' feedback histories too deeply.

Here's a surprise: Temu has good customer service. Called and spoke to an English speaking woman who credited my account without any argument.

I buy from Temu a lot. As long as you know what you're buying, it's a great way to find bargains. No problems so far, and customer service has been fine.

If you buy anything from TEMU you deserve exactly what you get.

TEMU is for the same bottom feeders who use TikTok

embarras de richesses

Agreed, R87. I get items of same quality as Amazon for a fraction of the price.

They often have ads at a website I visit regularly, featuring weird, creepy stuff (clothing items, statues, etc) that skeeve me out looking at it.

[quote]France's lower house of parliament unanimously approved a "kill bill" on 14 March that targets fast fashion and ultra-fast fashion sold by online retail giants such as Shein and Temu. The measure is a move to offset the fast fashion industry's environmental impact by banning the advertising of certain ultra-fast-fashion companies – and penalising them with annually increasing increments of up to 10 euros (£8.54 or $10.92) per article of clothing by 2030. The bill would also mandate that fast fashion retailers include an item's reuse, repair, recycling and environmental impact near the product's price.

The French are always bitching about something, so what

It's not just the French, the EU as a whole is cracking down on fast fashion. It's a horrific environmental disaster propped up by slave labour, I don't know how any normal person can support that.

I shop Temu frequently.

The shirts and bathing suit cover ups I've bought through temu are all a shiny polyester material. I hate it but the designs are pretty. I need to read the reviews and look at customer photos I guess

Needed by the government for deceptive advertising and malicious malware via their website and app

It’s ultra cheap Chinese shit

Let the slave labor countries deal with it, I want my stuff, find a way to economically recycle perhaps? Someone else can deal with it.

[quote]The Biden administration has proposed rules that could make it more costly for Chinese e-commerce platforms like Shein and Temu to ship goods into the US. In his announcement proposing to crack down on "unsafe, unfairly traded products," President Joe Biden accused China-founded e-commerce platforms selling cheap goods of abusing the "de minimis exemption" that makes shipments valued under $800 duty-free.

[quote]Allowing this alleged abuse to continue would not just hurt US businesses like H&M and Zara that increasingly struggle to compete with platforms like Shein and Temu, Biden alleged. It would also allegedly make it "more challenging to enforce US trade laws, health and safety requirements, intellectual property rights, consumer protection rules, and to block illicit synthetic drugs such as fentanyl and synthetic drug raw materials and machinery from entering the country."

Most of Temu is nasty Chinese/Asian junk which just falls apart. I watched a documentary on the quality of the clothing that was coming out of Temu and the overall conclusion was that if you got 3 wears out a piece then you got very lucky. There is also all the extra slavery or bad, unsafe work conditions in various Asian countries and gross environmental pollution that Temu's business model has created.

I buy my Systane hydration PF preservative free dry eye drops on eBay for $10 the box of 30 vials. On Walgreens and CVS it costs me $22. Nothing beats EBay, and they even have money back guarantee.

Temu is my second choice and Amazon third.

I bought a couple of cheap rayon button shirts I liked the pattern of from Temu recently. Clearly the sizes mean vastly different things in Asia, but the material itself seemed about the same quality as similar products I've bought in the US. I gave them to my mom in case she could get any use out of them as blouses.

Cheap China shit

[Quote] It’s great I got a really nicer smaller ouija board. It’s wood. All the women in my family love it.

Oh goodie, r7! See ya soon! 😊

I love Temu! Free returns and, usually, they just let you keep the stuff rather than return it. Quality is can be either great or nasty but it's worth the risk because of the free return policy. PLUS if you do return something you don't even have to pack it. Show the QR code at the Post Office and they do the work!

Wow. Not only can I buy tons of made in China stuff at Wal Mart, Target, etc., I can now buy direct from China! Low prices matter more than anything.