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Any of you familiar with Temu.com? Online retailer based in China. Wondering what you think.
Recently at a family get together my brother in law had a cap he was wearing not your standard baseball cap, but a newsboy profile. He told me temu.com and by the way he told me don’t worry about all the spinning wheels and lures. So I got the app and the first thing I noticed was a bunch of spinning wheels promising for me to win things a discounted prices. And I have to admit the prices are pretty damn discounted. I can buy plain T-shirts for $3, a news boy cat for $7, a battery powered portable drill, and a box of tools for $10 each, a rechargeable battery powered auto tire inflator for $6, rechargeable flashlights for $3.
OK, the caveat here is that I’m in a trial phase of my own making. The real question in my mind is this a deal or is it an illusion, just a bunch of cheap crap? So far undetermined, the T-shirts I ordered are OK they’re synthetic, I prefer cotton or cotton blend, but they’re lightweight and feel dry in a hot climate. The battery powered tire inflator, I’ve topped off the tires on two of my cars and it ended up at about half charge. The question will be how long does it last? The battery powered drill, I’ve always resisted lithium powered drills because my understanding is that the battery becomes an expense down the road. This drill is smaller than a standard electric drill that I’m used to, and it remains to be seen how much power it has and how long it holds up. Granted, these days I’m not doing that much drilling, but I’m going to need to set a screw in a concrete wall and I’m gonna see how it does with drilling the hole. I figure for eight dollars I could take the risk.
i ordered a set of sockets for working on the car and these things are cheap as hell. Two of the sockets were damaged so I returned them hasslefree. I ordered two button up shirts, maybe a total of eight dollars and one was too big (check the size chart) and the other one didn’t look anything like what was image of it. So those got returned and the revelation is, they don’t want you to send it back to them, so far they won’t ask for them back because it’s not viable for their expense to return it. They’ll offer you a credit of the same value of your purchase to keep it or if you insist on returning, they will refund it back to your credit card.
Then there’s the phone app they’re running a promotion where you get $100 back but it’s very misleading. Buy three items to get your hundred dollars cash except it’s not that, it’s by three items to get some credit towards $100 back and to qualify my guesses, you’d have to spend $200 or $300 or $400:dollars. Seems like your phone is constantly dinging with alerts from them. We got a deal, spin the wheel, get your guaranteed discount for items for a penny each. The caveat is you have to buy enough stuff to make up a $25 order so it’s very likely with your deals, you feel pressured to buy stuff you don’t need. I’m starting to ignore their phone messaging, but I have not deleted this app yet…
Recently at a family get together my brother in law had a cap he was wearing not your standard baseball cap, but a newsboy profile. He told me temu.com and by the way he told me don’t worry about all the spinning wheels and lures. So I got the app and the first thing I noticed was a bunch of spinning wheels promising for me to win things a discounted prices. And I have to admit the prices are pretty damn discounted. I can buy plain T-shirts for $3, a news boy cat for $7, a battery powered portable drill, and a box of tools for $10 each, a rechargeable battery powered auto tire inflator for $6, rechargeable flashlights for $3.
OK, the caveat here is that I’m in a trial phase of my own making. The real question in my mind is this a deal or is it an illusion, just a bunch of cheap crap? So far undetermined, the T-shirts I ordered are OK they’re synthetic, I prefer cotton or cotton blend, but they’re lightweight and feel dry in a hot climate. The battery powered tire inflator, I’ve topped off the tires on two of my cars and it ended up at about half charge. The question will be how long does it last? The battery powered drill, I’ve always resisted lithium powered drills because my understanding is that the battery becomes an expense down the road. This drill is smaller than a standard electric drill that I’m used to, and it remains to be seen how much power it has and how long it holds up. Granted, these days I’m not doing that much drilling, but I’m going to need to set a screw in a concrete wall and I’m gonna see how it does with drilling the hole. I figure for eight dollars I could take the risk.
i ordered a set of sockets for working on the car and these things are cheap as hell. Two of the sockets were damaged so I returned them hasslefree. I ordered two button up shirts, maybe a total of eight dollars and one was too big (check the size chart) and the other one didn’t look anything like what was image of it. So those got returned and the revelation is, they don’t want you to send it back to them, so far they won’t ask for them back because it’s not viable for their expense to return it. They’ll offer you a credit of the same value of your purchase to keep it or if you insist on returning, they will refund it back to your credit card.
Then there’s the phone app they’re running a promotion where you get $100 back but it’s very misleading. Buy three items to get your hundred dollars cash except it’s not that, it’s by three items to get some credit towards $100 back and to qualify my guesses, you’d have to spend $200 or $300 or $400:dollars. Seems like your phone is constantly dinging with alerts from them. We got a deal, spin the wheel, get your guaranteed discount for items for a penny each. The caveat is you have to buy enough stuff to make up a $25 order so it’s very likely with your deals, you feel pressured to buy stuff you don’t need. I’m starting to ignore their phone messaging, but I have not deleted this app yet…
