Temu: Shop Like a Billionaire 4+

If you have high values about high quality and personal cashflow, maybe skip this one. Because if you’re looking for cheap deals, this place is addictive. The prices are great and the quality is decent and if you can sweat through the shipping time, there are some steals here! And, the classic saying “you get what you pay for” applies here, as it does everywhere. Be smart. If you want high quality clothes, don’t buy them here. If you want beginner art supplies to try stuff out, or stamps, or trinkets or tools or hair stuff - and can wait 10-14 days - give it a whirl. Think online dollar store quality stuff. Know what you’re getting yourself into. Just made my first larger priced purchase, so I’m interested to see how if the quality increases as the prices increase.

I’ve been surprised at how well things arrive given the distance and wrapping - which is basically just a heavy plastic bag - but even glass things have come intact so far. And they’ve arrived within the guaranteed delivery window every time. I’m also a fan of the price adjustment option, which gives you store credit if prices go down within a window after purchase. Overall, I’m pretty pleased and am way too tempted by these deals.

It’s great for the price tags but the user interface is poor, with random pop-ups that you can’t skip over. The instructions for deleting an account were inaccurate and it took forever to even find the button to do so. Customer service was hard to communicate with and I’m fairly certain the “person” I chatted with was AI; I was met with repeated questions and statements in the exact same manner and it was a long and difficult process to get a refund on an item that I never received. The big sales like Black Friday are more often than not scams; they entice you by claiming to offer free gifts of your choosing but afterward make you invite new users to the app or perform other tasks to get the rewards. Even after inviting new users, the “points” per person dwindles with each accepted invitation to the point where no matter how many people accept your link, you still can’t claim the gifts you chose; they use you to get new customers and more traffic while giving you nothing in return. Plus, the obscured data collection and hidden features that you often unknowingly “consent” to by simply pressing a seemingly harmless button makes for a very sketchy platform. That’s not even to mention the poor packaging and shipment; everything gets thrown into a bag that is haphazardly taped up. My advice is use at your own risk and don’t partake in deals that seem too good to be true— most often, they are.

You will get an email stating that you can get like 7 free items and who doesn’t like free stuff but it’s not as easy as they make it out to be. For example if your total is $100 for your free stuff you have to send an invite to your friends and if you bought something it will get deducted from the $100 until you reach like a $1 or so and that’s when the fun begin. Now you have to invite the entire world and they need to download the app and then a few cents gets deducted here and couple of cents gets deducted there and you will never be able to get the last $0.25 off so that being said you already advertise for them but no free stuff because no free stuff until the detection reached zero and you have 24 hrs to complete it. Its not like you can invite a few of your friends and have them download, NO they want you to invite every friend you have and I’m not sure if that’s will be enough because I wasn’t able to finish it. They do that on purpose because they want the people to give up. Free advertisement for nothing. It’s a scam and don’t fall for that because I did. I heard the quality it’s really bad but I haven’t got the stuff I ordered yet so I can’t say for sure one way or another until I get my stuff then I’ll update the feedback about the quality. Do yourself a favor and don’t fall for the free stuff they offer you because it’s a headache, scam and free advertisement for them.