Temu

[LittleEsme]

Has anyone bought anything from this website that's actually worthwhile?!

I bought a load of pens for school and they're not reliable at all. Losing ink etc.

What are your good Temu finds?

As I clicked send, I spotted another Temu thread. Sorry!

I got a funky little cosmetics caddy that sits on my dressing table and keeps things from getting dusty. Plus a few odd bits like toilet brushes. Seemed to be good value from what I have seen.

Those ads drive me potty.
They just keep popping up when I'm trying to read something.
I will never buy Temu anything.

Please don't buy all this crap from sweatshops in china!

It's stupidly cheap because it will all be made by exploited people and using materials that are awful for our environment.

Most of what we buy is from China! Or the components that make it....there's no escape

Even the 'worthy' shops in retail parks and high streets!

No point being all po faced about it

I bought four tops that looked quite nice. Stupidly assumed would be cotton or cotton mix but they are really nasty nylon/ polyester. Just horrible. I gave 2 to a charity shop straight away as couldn't be bothered to work out the return. Horrid nasty cheap crap. Will not be buying again.

Pay shit get shit.

Definitely. I will never buy from them again.

No, I'm sick of the adverts too.

Everything looks tacky as well. I would steer clear.

I've bought loads. Jewellery making kits for DD, small bathroom DIY things, baking moulds, cupcake cases, a holdall, embroidery threads, cat toys, potato growing bags, key chains for the spare keys, phone screen protectors, plain baseball caps..loads.

Yes it's all made in China. BUT I've not bought a single thing that I haven't found on Amazon for at least 3x the price. And I do mean exactly the same thing. Nothing branded, of course. Unless every single photo of those items on Amazon is copied from Temu, then they're the same product.

I wouldn't buy clothes or fabric, although I've spotted that they have fat quarter bundles that look like they're the same bundles as here, but I don't quilt so haven't ordered any. I've had a few problems with some pens, but that's it - and not all the pens.

I've noticed that the bluetooth earbuds that I bought a few months ago on Amazon are there too. Look exactly the same, same "brand" name and far cheaper.

I do not believe that when I buy those things from a local seller here that the workers who make them are getting paid 3x (or higher) more. All it does is cut out a few of the middlemen.

Which brings up the plus of Temu: none of my money goes to Bezos!

Almost everything I've bought I'd have bought anyway. Should it be made by workers in shitty factory conditions? No. But when I buy the tape to temporarily seal my leaky shower, it doesn't come from a different factory, with better conditions because I pay more in my local shop. It's exactly the same tape!! But I'm guessing those who refuse to buy on Temu for admittedly sound ethical reasons, wouldn't think twice about buying that same Made in China tape in the shop if their shower leaks.

I will pay more for Fair trade products and the like. But when they're not - and basically that's most things made in China - either you boycott everything made there, or you pay a middle man or three for an inflated price. Temu changes that second option.

Oh yes, and the shipping times have been reliable.

You do realise that 90% of the time when you buy from a UK high street store they're getting their stock from China too. I don't fundamentally disagree with your point, but unless you're going to advocate for buying only British sourced and manufactured goods, buying direct from Temu is no different than buy the same item Next/M&S/etc.

I don't support child slave labour or the Chinese government taking my data .
So I've never bought from them or the slave trade that it shein

I'm addicted, so far the only 2 things that were not as good was a ring that looked a bit plasticky and a hair thing that looks fine but feels insubstantial. I've had some really nice clothes from them including dresses, t-shirts and a swimsuit, and shorts and a couple of 2 pieces.

The fabrics are mainly polyester& lycra mix but you can filter to other fabrics.
One of my favourite items though is a stainless steel ring with paua she'll and mother of pearl shares , cost me 87p.

You've never bought from China?

You will have done...maybe unwittingly, but you will have 😆

Not through a cheap app that is obviously being promoted all over social media and being sold so cheaply, that it's obviously a total sweatshop.

They're the same products as you can get on Amazon, and in shops on the high street, plus independent retailers.

Literally the same product in a great many cases!

@grayhairdontcare

😆 it's the same stuff as b&m,poundshops,Amazon and in the case of a lunch cutlery set, identical to John Lewis !!

Unless they sell the brands I use . I very much doubt I'm buying a pair of Bose headphones or le creuset casserole dish for 87p
I try and buy things that will last. Not cheap shite .

I try very hard not to buy cheap plastic crap from anywhere, including via data harvesting apps from China.

Omg don't get me started on the Bose headphones....fail, don't connect or stray connected. Total shite!

And lots of Bose are made in CHINA!!

Oh god those intrusive exhausting CREEPY ORANGE ADS...marketing an endless sea of landfill tat with dead, dead eyes and uncanny-valley smiles. Ugh.
Words cannot express how fed up I am with those blessed ads!
Come back Hello fresh, all is forgiven!

But not sold via a data stealing, cheap shit, slave labour app

I read online that another reason they are so cheap is because they are making profit by collecting people's data and selling them. Temu as a retailer is actually losing money since everything is so cheap.
I wouldn't touch that app with a bargepole