What about Temu???

[sunjamr]

Here in New Zealand, we have been inundated by ads from a new Chinese online retailer called Temu. Apparently they aspire to become the Chinese version of Amazon. They claim that for a couple of years, they will be selling stuff at manufacturers cost, that is, no profit. The idea is to get lots of people used to using Temu, then the prices will start to go up. Have you heard of it in the US and EU? I’ve bought stuff from them 3 times now, and it usually costs about 1/10 what other places sell it for. Shockingly cheap. Delivery is free, and delivery time is often about a week or less. Straight from China.

Out of curiosity, I checked out their offerings for guitars. Most of them I’ve never heard of, but I was surprised to see the Enya NEXG “smart guitars” sold by them. I think Enya is an American company, so how are they being sold by Temu? I think in America they are about $800 US, which is $1300 NZ. So how is Temu selling them for $455 NZ? And I note that below the ad it says “Direct from Enya”, which is apparently headquartered in Texas.

How is this possible? Is Enya a fake guitar company set up by Chinese in Texas?

https://www.temu.com/search_result.html?search_key=guitars&search_method=user&refer_page_el_sn=200010&srch_enter_source=top_search_entrance_10005&refer_page_name=home&refer_page_id=10005_1728592585762_hzs3vb5h5v&refer_page_sn=10005&_x_sessn_id=7dn5ldyqko

Sunjamr Steve

[San Luis Rey]

Hey Steve. Temu is here in the U.S. It pops up as an option sometimes when you look up a product on a search. I’ve never used it though.
Mike

Mike

[sunjamr]

That’s what I said also. But our farmhouse uses water from our creek, and I have to change our water filters fairly often, so maybe I use 10 per year. The water filters are $50 each from all the New Zealand retailers. I bought the same filters from Temu for $1.50. For a retired person like me, that’s a significant savings.

Sunjamr Steve

[GnLguy]

Hey Steve

I won’t go into detail but there are reports that Temu is nefarious in their operations, it would be getting into int’l politics if I say more so <mum is the word>

I won’t deal with them & would strong urge people to thoroughly examine them as company before buying. It may be nothing but there are enough vendors elsewhere that I don’t need to take a chance on them

Keith
aka GnLguy

[Andy N]

Not come across it in the UK but not really gone looking either.
Must say I would probably choose not to use it based on its business plan (ie sell at cost). I’m all for getting a good deal on purchases, but this feels like it’s crossing a line to me. I’d prefer to support businesses that provide a service (maybe that’s advice or being local or whatever) and ultimately wouldn’t want to see them driven out by a monopoly. I think I’d prefer to pay a premium to preserve that…within reason of course!

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