Ask Lemmy

Do you like gambling? Try out this new store and you'll have the opportunity to wonder if the product you ordered is actually the product you saw on the site!

Do you like buying the worst quality shit imaginable that will break after one use? Boy do I have the site for you!

Is your favorite pastime wasting natural resources to ship cheap fabric and plastic you don't need across the ocean? Well then, let me introduce you to Temu!

I keep seeing ads

Well, there's your problem. Block that shit!

i Don't. Out of spite. Fucking spam everywhere.

Ive bought a few bundles of things from the app. The products from the app are very hit or miss. Ive gotten a few good deals, I got a really solid nintendo switch pro controller knockoff for like $14 that works great. A lot of the stuff will not match the pictures at all. You'll get different sizes or colors. Their clothes have also been reported to contain unsafe volumes of lead so I can't recommend. Ultimately it's a bit of a gamble.

I've heard it's basically just Wish 2.0. Would you buy something from Wish? No? Then don't buy something from Temu.

I've ordered from them a few times. I wanted to see how bad the products are and they give new members a pretty good deal.

The products are generally better than wish, but they are still hit or miss. Think dollar tree quality for most things. I can't recommend electronics. Most of them are extremely cheap and won't last. There is a lot of etsy art/designs stolen and resold. Prints tend to be lesser quality because they don't have access to the original files.

They will spam you with notifications/emails whatever else they can and constantly tell you there are deals to get free things, but most of the time it stops you from getting the free item without inviting people or making multiple orders. Many of their big coupon offers they advertise like $200 off coupon is actually multiple little coupons that equal $200 off, but you'd need to spend hundreds to actually redeem them all.

Still, I've gotten some things from there that aren't bad. Those cardboard cat scratchers? You can find them for 1/3rd of the price and they are the same quality as any major store.

I will always recommend to shop local if you can, but a lot of us don't have that choice, and some of us can't afford it anyways.

It's the same shit that's flooding Amazon right now. It's just cheaper to buy directly from China. A lot of the electronics will likely reflect the lower price point (I got a pair of Lenovo earbuds which are decent for the $10 I paid and actually don't seem to be knockoffs, but they're not exactly high quality). Some electronics will likely be scams, and anything with memory should probably be quarantined and wiped so you don't accidentally install a keylogger onto your system.

Clothing will be sized oddly or contain errors as they're being pumped out by what are basically sweatshops at high volume.

I mean, it's really hard to be ethical about buying clothing at all at this point without doing a ton of research - even established clothing brands have been caught out using factories with sweatshop conditions. But at least those established brands are likely to have some quality control that prevents harmful chemicals from being used - not necessarily so with Temu, they're very reactive (will recall when pointed out to them but not proactively checking) so that's another avenue to consider.

Economic, in ecommerce, means also of poor quality, plastic pieces that the first year are already broken and useless.

My favorite ad from them so far:

Please do not buy worthless pieces of crap online, think sustainable and shop locally if possible