22-01-2025, 08:54 PM
(22-01-2025, 08:02 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: I wouldn't buy fromTemu if they paid me. Too dodgy, morally, ethically, environmentally, politically, and all the rest.
But I love my Body Shop body brush.
We recently made our first Temu purchase as an experiment. OH wanted a couple of angled brushes to clean the ali window drainage channels. That grew to two stainless steel cat bowls and a bamboo toothbrush in order to reach the $15 minimum purchase amount.
The order arrived in about a week which actually beat a couple of TM purchases made around the same time. The cat bowls I had been searching for previously but pet supplies sites wanted $10-$15 each for them. Temu about $2 each. Basic items so no real risk but I wouldn't dream of buying tech items through Temu.
The real problem is that stores in NZ (both online and B&M) are passing on excessive overheads, and profits, and essentially taking the piss with their pricing. If they're losing sales because of this then it is a case of 'lesson learnt' but if not wave goodbye to their business model.