Temu

Semple said:
But do you now feel like a billionaire?
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A Zimbabwean trillionaire.

Raymond Lin said:
I wouldn’t get tools from there, you can get a racket set on Amazon for £20 ish.


(I just bought a headphone stand on AliExpress)
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The socket set was a "freebie", I had to choose three items and this was one of them. Draper stuff is fantastic, for the hobbyist like myself I'll rarely need anything better tbh. I've bought tons of stuff on Aliexpress, had much more success. Temu is a joke in comparison.
 
Dunno if was a coincidence, but after I created a Temu account I started getting a lot of junkmail
never bought from them, I still use aliexpress
 
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I don't trust temu, whenever I've seen things ordered from there the quality of what arrived is very poor, and it's full of cheap tat that they try to convince you you need.

Ali express is difficult to know what's good. That said we've bought army Lego for my boy as he's proper into it and they've arrived in good time and the quality been pretty good.

Fruugo is another one I've ordered once and item never arrived, seller disappeared and it's impossible to actually go through the fruugo customer service section of the website to get a resolution.

Made in china I have had success with, needed an exhaust elbow for a Cummins engine, Cummins had a 12 week lead time, and was £2500, made in china said they had in stock and was £90 inc shipping, was desperate and thought for the price can take a chance and order the one from Cummins anyway. One from made in china arrived, it was genuine Cummins and arrived within a week. Was well chuffed, customer was happy aswell.

Hard part with these sites is taking a chance and ensuring your not getting scammed.
 
I tried this a few weeks back, for sure it's full of gamified offers and all sorts of OMG LIMITED TIME BLA BLa etc.

The goods I received were kinda OK, a shaver with various attachments that despite feeling a bit cheap and plasticky actually deals with long hairs better than my Panasonic shaver, and a Smart watch that seems to do the job. Cost about £26 in total for the pair, so I wasn't expecting good quality. I mean a basic digital watch probably costs best part of a tenner anyway.
 
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I've ordered some camping stuff from AliExpress, but after a lot of research. Tent cost me like £90 and held up some crazy storms, and a ultralight camping quilt which isn't far off some of the more expensive models.

The tent actually held up better than my UK bought tent at 3* the price!
 
BUDFORCE said:
I can't imagine this is good for our economy.
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It's more the environment that is the concern. Production and shipping of tat around the globe, that will last 5 minutes and end up in landfill. Who's going to warranty this stuff when it breaks?
 
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I first ordered off Temu when I saw an advert for a dish drainer that looked awesome and would be mine for £8.99. I had a look and added a couple of other little things to get the delivery. The dish drainer is awesome and still going strong over a year later. Ive probably made 10 or so orders with them since, never had a non delivery, had a few items arrive damaged that I just asked for a refund on and got one immediately. Best thing I've found on there are Apple Watch straps, deskmats, things for sticking things to other things and a couple of decent little not lego sets. There have been a few misses, but for the price of a can of coke you can live with that.
The best thing I have bought was a comforter, it was about £13, came vacuum packed, but when opened was awesome and served me really well over the cold new year.
 
I have bought a few things off Temu and they have all been really good, What is not good however are the usage / setup instructions for many items
 
dcsarge said:
Unless we start bulk manufacturing all sorts of cheap tat/useful bits, all this does is cut out the eBay and Marketplace sellers who mark it up by a hefty margin and probably never even handle it.

At least it keeps the posties busy after losing the profitable contracts.
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Yeah I see your point.
 
All depends what you buy and do not expect too much but sometimes it is a nice surprise. Had a short Jet washer gun for the Karcher so I could use the 1/4in connectors instead of Karcher clunky ones. It was £16 and has been faultless and really good quality and I wasn't expecting it to be as good for the price.
 
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