Temu: Shop Like a Billionaire 12+

Been using for quite a while now, lots of great inexpensive stuff for the kiddos, winning free items indeed happens, but in my experience there will typically be a hyped up offer if you make an impulse purchase, like more coupons or credits, which is generally good, however there are times where you may expect to earn credit of a certain amount, but will only be awarded the “credit” on future purchases, and or “coupons” which are lackluster and stretched out to infinity, coercive ads try to distract and constant asking by Temu to share the app or products to get the MLM thing rolling, other than that, I’ve got a lot of good cheap stuff that would have been double or triple the amount from other platforms. USA shipping is getting quick as well, and many times I’ll see packages in under a week from one of the surely many warehouses in the States. Overall if you want some entertainment and like finding deals, give it a shot. I have not experienced any fraudulent transactions, in case that is a concern, which it should be naturally. Returns are easy, and you can take either money back to the bank or have it loaded on as credit, which is fully available in under a minute usually. Overall pretty cool, good products and stuff is cheap and pretty quick to show up!

I heard a lot of people say that this app is a scam, and while I can certainly see why they’d think that it actually isn’t a bad place to shop. I will deduct it a star though for one reason; they give you the illusion that you’re winning prizes. When you spin a wheel or pull the lever on a virtual slot machine they will ALWAYS rig it to have the best prize to make you think you got lucky, and they do this to pressure you into taking the deal before it expires. Sometimes they even have promotions where they offer you free items if you invite friends to the app or the event, don’t believe this though since they made this nearly impossible to win. They do have some games on this app where you water a plant or feed some fish for a while, which can actually get you some free items, granted they are cheap items but still free regardless. And I’m not referring to the ones you choose the moment you play the game for the first time, I mean the extra items they allow you to earn on the side. They make it to where you need to complete the side objective every day of one week to get it, which doesn’t really take up much of your time for each day you gotta do this. When it comes to the actual shopping, the prices are actually really good. I would recommend talking to their customer service bot about getting the checkout minimum removed though to make things more convenient for you. Anyway, that about sums this review, it’s a surprisingly fun app to shop on.

Shopping on Temu is fun! Great customer service too. I’ve made probably over 10 orders now. The best part is the completely random finds under $10 with free shipping.

That being said, this past week, I’ve been seeing an overload of “local items”, where you have to pay 2.99 to ship unless you spend $30 from that “local provider”. I bought one thing listed as local, and now, 95% of the items on the homepage and any tab are local. Most of these items are the same price or more than other online shopping sites. Not a fan of this and there’s no way to exclude these local items from a search. I don’t even bother clicking on them because I know I have to spend a minimum of $30 for free shipping. I hate to say it, but I’ll stop using Temu if everything turns local. There’s only a few non-local items on any given page, and that really limits my choices of what I want to click on.

I got a vacuum attachment from a local provider as it was cheaper than non local, paid the 2.99 for shipping, and it still arrived 3 days later than the rest of the order. So never ordering local again lol At least I’ll be getting a $5 credit for late delivery thanks to Temu and their customer service! I’ll bump it back to 5 stars when I see less local items, but now when I see local stuff, I just close the app and go about my day