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by lph 867 days ago
Every ad I've seen from Temu is either AI-fabricated non-existent products, or real products with impossibly low prices. I wish somebody would sue them into the ground for false advertising.
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In my experience, they're legit, but only for first-time customers. They basically eat the cost of the difference to get you in the door.
Aliexpress does this as well. You have to log in to see the real pricing.
That's where creating new accounts like [name]+aliexpress2@[domain] come in handy, no?
I mean we're talking about saving around 2-3$ from some really bad garbage products you use once and throw it in a corner.
It might just be me, but every Temu ad I see is a normalish product, but the image is designed to look like something sexy or illicit when viewed as a small thumbnail.
You seem like someone who doesn't want to shop like a billionaire! In all seriousness I 100% agree, I feel like this company is a massive house of cards that will end up like Evergrande etc. What is crazy is almost every site I visit I see a Temu ad so their ad spend is borderline insane to begin with, it growing larger is even more unbelievable.