How to use Temu discounts (bargain thread spinoff)

[fishfingersandchipsagain]

I thought it might be a good idea to have a separate spinoff thread on how to use Temu for bargains, given some on the bargain thread don’t like it.

If you have objections to Temu, needless to say this isn’t the thread for you 😊

Disclaimer - I am a complete noob at using it, but seemed to have success with recent orders. It is however bloody complicated to navigate the Ts&Cs and the various “competitions”.

I have ordered a few bits but find it overwhelming with all the pop up so could do with guidance

I found it really confusing too! I made sure to read the terms and conditions really carefully. Reviewing contacts is a big part of my job and I was still confused 😅

So far I have had success with “claim credit”. It seems to be one of the first “games” if offers you. It offers you cash back into your PayPal account - paid back over a period of 7 days - after you place an order. The way they describe it is confusing (up to 460% cash back) etc, but I placed an order of just over £40, and it gave me the maximum back (£34.50). It then gave me a bonus £5 back automatically when the order was delivered.

I then had to go into the app each day and type in claimcredit (all one word) to go back to the activity and claim the money each day. If offered me the activity 4 times in total, the first two with £34.50 back from a £40+ order, and the last two with £19.50 back.

The obvious catch is that you have to go in each day to claim the money, but I did and it all came back to my PayPal, and the automated £5 back after delivery all worked too.

The next catch is that you can only choose from what they offer you when you are placing your order. The important thing here is to build your basket before triggering the game, because they will offer you items that are in your basket. Once I got the hang of this I was able to just pick basket items rather than having to scroll through their suggestions.

I've never worked out how their offers work. I add things to my basket, get offered something (eg cash back) but only if I order from a set page. Which isn't the things I wanted.

Edited for spelling.

If the things were in your basket more than a few hours previously, add one or two things from the offer page to your basket, click on the total to reveal your basket, untick the things you don’t want and select the ones you do want from your own basket.

Not all of the items in your basket will be available in an offer though. Apparently it depends on the seller, warehouse and profit margin.

I have found that if there is a particular thing I want I have the best chance of getting an offer if I add two or three of the same item at slightly different price points from different sellers.

Can someone help me out here please? I have this £90 offer but at the rate the coin increments are increasing I'll have spent £90 by the time I have enough coins to be eligible. What am I doing wrong? Or is it that I have to spend £90 to get the £90 back? Essentially making the items free? I can't find enough things to buy on the pages they keep giving me so I'm never going to get to £90. I feel like I'm doing this wrong or missing something?

This didn't work for me. Mind you, it's not an offer for PayPal credit as far as I can tell. Just some vague "money back" thing.

It looks like you need to place an order of £105 to get the £90 back in PayPal. So basically pay a net £15.

(It says you need to collect 10,000 coins for the reward at a rate of 1 coin per pound. You are 1.05% away from 10,000 coins. 1.05% of 10,000 coins is 105 coins. That would be £105 at a rate of 1 coin per pound.)

ETA if it’s not showing you things you want to buy, but you want to use the offer, leave the offer page, add a few dozen things to your basket that you like (but don’t check out), and go back to the offer page tomorrow or the day after. You should find it shows you things like those in your basket, interspersed with things you have clicked on. To get back to the offer go to “you” then “coupons and offers”.

It's still a mystery to me. Currently getting the 6 free gifts offers. I quickly learned if you fill your gift basket with three "premium" gifts and three of lesser value, it will give you the 3 lesser gifts first and your premium ones vanish. So you try and fill your gifts with premium things. Except your shopping list stops offering anything of value or that you actually want. Im not planning on ordering, but its a game to see if I can actually order 6 free and 6 purchases I actually would like.

Watch out for the rewards back one

Seems to give you 3 days of 'rewards' - only one of which is the site credit (which doesn't grt added until 2 days passed delivery and is a low amount) The other 2 are a gift when you spend £X (which wanted a minimum spend of £35 so didn't get claimed) and money off coupons (I think £4 off a £20 and £12 off £50) so very much geared to getting you to spend more.

My initial order I was ordering anyway but easy for people to get sucked in. Won't be doing any more unless I was already ordering

Yeah, I didn’t bother with that one once I figure out I was going to have to place an order of over £200.

Thank you so much! You're a Temu genius, that all worked perfectly. Went searching for some things I knew DD would like and when I accessed the offer they were all there. Thank you again

Aww, that’s so nice! ❤
I’m glad it worked for you.

I’m sure the Uyghurs are thrilled that you can fill your house with tat for even less money.

It’s great that you never buy anything from Amazon, U.K. department stores, high street gift stores, Etsy etc, but some of us do (most of the U.K. population in fact).

So long as the same products, from the same factories, are stocked on a cheaper marketplace I’ll keep shopping there. I don’t see anything inherently morally superior in paying a cut to more middlemen rather than keeping the supply chain short.

There is actually an argument that direct sourcing from large marketplace suppliers (Temu, Aliexpress etc) gives greater control than indirect sourcing through a longer chain of intermediaries (independent high street gift store / Etsy), because it allows greater oversight and control. Platforms can demand documentation, factory audits, and compliance certifications more easily than a retailer relying on an opaque supply chain of dozens/hundreds of long chain distributors.

Arguably the most effective way to address forced labour (and other unethical labour practices) is holistically through trade restrictions, and international diplomatic pressure.

An alternative of course if to always buy (very well documented) fair trade, or locally manufactured. But let’s face it, most people don’t, they just order from Amazon or John Lewis.

Loving this thread

i still don’t understand the cash back one. I had it pop up once the PayPal credit but I don’t get it? Can you explain please?

I shop on Temu regularly, it automatically applies the largest discount but you can go through and pick a different one if you want

What do I do here? X

It depends which one it is. It should give some indication in the pop up. Grab a screenshot if you can.

This is the one I avoided.

It is currently asking you to choose your “free gifts”.

You can only choose them from the items it shows you. It will allow you to chose 3 high value ones, then it will only show you low value ones.

Once you have spent time choosing your gifts (therefore feel invested in them) it will calculate the minimum order to receive them. But it doesn’t tell you the minimum order - instead it does the same as the example upthread and makes it a game where you have to “collect” 10,000 stars but it “gives” you the first 9,800+ stars. It then tells you that you will win points at 1 star per pound for placing orders from the offer page.

The big kicker is once you have jumped through the hoops to get to 10,000 stars they will send out your free gifts, lowest value ones first, over a prolonged period of time (up to 3 months).

TLDR you will need to place a high value order to eventually get the gifts several weeks in the future.

When I first started using Temu, I’d regularly get 2 free gifts and it was great! Then it went to 4 (even better), then 6 or even 8 but you needed to come back every day and claim them. Now you have to spend more to collect “stars” to get the free gifts, I’ve stopped bothering. If I read the small print and see stars mentioned I just click off it.

Now see, this is why I am still a noob 😂

You know how I’ve been saying “they only let you choose from the offer page”? Well I was wrong … there’s a search icon in the top right 😳

In the attached image I tested it by searching for “drum”.

So you can basically add whatever you like to the offers I guess.

Just in case it helps anyone, some more tricks I have found:

Search for “discount777” - this will let you select an item from a list to get an additional discount on it. You can do it once per day.

For 30 days after placing an order you can claim a price adjustment if the price drops. So each day (if you can be bothered) go into the orders you have already placed, click into the order and select “price adjustment” at the bottom. It will calculate if any prices have dropped and credit you the difference. It’s worth going several times over the period as the prices do drop, so if you catch it on a day when they have discounted you can get a lot back. It doesn’t take into account coupons or credit back when calculating, so in some cases you can end up getting back more than you paid.

Also, if you have been given coupons but haven’t used them you can ask the customer service bot to reactivate them. eg I had a £3 off coupon, but minimum checkout is £15 so I didn’t use it. Today I was placing a £15 order (using discount and credit from the tricks above) so asked it to reactivate the coupon and got the money off.

price adjustment is fab especially when used alongside claimcredit!

After you place your order,if the price drops within 30 days you get a refund back in the form of credit. Go into your order and look for the "price adjustment" button. I got £5 back last week on a £15 order! You can click the option .multiple times u tim that 30 day window closes.

Does anyone know of this means I only have to place an order of £15 min and get the 3 free gifts?