Listen, I respect Chinese manufacturing and their products, but I have literally the lowest opinion of Temu. That place is garbage. I’d buy something from there if the site didn’t behave like a scam
What about it is scam-like behavior to you? I’m not real familiar with it myself.
I just know from what people said in this thread, it sounds like some of the products can be low quality, some high quality, kind of a mixed bag: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/7336237
The games employ a lot of scammy dark patterns and rapidly, drastically diminishing returns to convince you to make ten purchases when you could have reasonably expected two would get you a free item. The game rules and terms of service basically amount to “Temu reserves the right to change everything for any reason at any time”.
There’s also a lot of misguiding listings where there’s no option to buy everything in the picture. The products themselves are usually decent, but the way they sell them is absolutely disgusting.
I’ve hardly noticed the game elements on Temu; the misleading items are annoying but it’s nothing you won’t see on Amazon, and you can usually get a refund
The pop up fake gifts are annoying, but something I’m willing to tolerate to pay less than half for the exact same products I find on Amazon or at retail stores.
Listen, I respect Chinese manufacturing and their products, but I have literally the lowest opinion of Temu. That place is garbage. I’d buy something from there if the site didn’t behave like a scam
Aside from their scammy games Temu just sells you the same things other major online retailers do but cutting out the warehousing middle man.
What about it is scam-like behavior to you? I’m not real familiar with it myself.
I just know from what people said in this thread, it sounds like some of the products can be low quality, some high quality, kind of a mixed bag: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/7336237
The games employ a lot of scammy dark patterns and rapidly, drastically diminishing returns to convince you to make ten purchases when you could have reasonably expected two would get you a free item. The game rules and terms of service basically amount to “Temu reserves the right to change everything for any reason at any time”.
There’s also a lot of misguiding listings where there’s no option to buy everything in the picture. The products themselves are usually decent, but the way they sell them is absolutely disgusting.
I’ve hardly noticed the game elements on Temu; the misleading items are annoying but it’s nothing you won’t see on Amazon, and you can usually get a refund
Ah good to know, thanks.
The pop up fake gifts are annoying, but something I’m willing to tolerate to pay less than half for the exact same products I find on Amazon or at retail stores.
I’ve never used it, so i can’t say. But i know it is popular and a lot of people relied on it.