The Weirdest Things You Can Buy on Temu, Your New Favorite Online Sale

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Launched less than a year ago , Temu e-commerce site has quickly established itself as the online world’s new favorite sale – the choice when you’re looking for an incredibly wide range of incredibly cheap items. Available as a website and as an app , the Chinese-owned digital flea market offers free shipping to new customers and ongoing sales on an extensive collection of semi-disposable items. Temu sells everything —car accessories, video game clothing, homewares, new t-shirts, sex toys, power tools… whatever they have, or their cheap equivalent. Because despite the “shop like a billionaire” slogan, you won’t find many branded products on Temu. This is not the Temu way. It’s like Amazon, only everything is cheap. Chinzier.

How shady is the theme?

While Temu is not an outright scam site, it is not trustworthy either. Its meteoric rise has been fueled by aggressive marketing strategies , including a flurry of “free credit” offers and an army of thousands of “Temu ambassadors” flooding TikTok and other social media sites with coupons to earn commissions on every signup they link to.

As you would expect from an online version of Dollar Tree, product quality and customer service are not always Temu’s strong points. The company has a Better Business Bureau rating of 2.35 out of 5 stars , with many users reporting long waits for products (or none at all). In the style of a real online store from China, the product you receive may also bear only a passing resemblance to the photos on the site.

But otherwise what would you expect? If you want a company with a well-known name and a working customer service department, stick with Amazon . If you want a $13 3D printer , Temu is the one for you. (As astute commenters have pointed out, the $13 is actually for the 3D printer filament, while the printer itself is around $100 – still pretty cheap.)

What products should you buy from Temu?

Temu’s barrel style for the bottom of the retail is perfect for certain types of products, especially those that don’t really need to be high quality. Whether you need a plastic soda can holder for your fridge or a rice rinsing basket, Temu is the one for you.

The theme is also good for risk taking. I put this $20 distortion pedal in my cart. It’s probably shit, but you never know. But if you want something like a new running shoe, I would stay away from ankle-breaking monsters like the Y2K Blade men’s running shoes . Kitchen knives , linens or a tuxedo on the Theme, I would not buy either.

You can buy a lot of strange things on Theme

Although I could buy this shirt . I’m guessing it’s poor quality, uncomfortable, and made from melted plastic water bottles, but it’s literally the ugliest shirt I’ve ever seen . A shirt with such an intricate pattern would cost about $400 at Dan Flashes, but it costs less than $8 on Temu. This is a novelty among shirts, and novelties are where Temu really shines.

Consider the following proof that you will need:

Collection “As seen on TV”.

Some people marvel at the power of useless disposable gadgets that solve problems that no one really has. Previous generations had to buy them through late-night commercials at astronomical prices. The same itch of the Theme can be almost for nothing, so if you see an advertisement for a product you like, check the Theme before buying. Below are some Temu knockoffs in the “as shown on TV” style. I do not recommend any of them.

Temu sells a lot of things that you can smoke weed out of

I don’t recommend any of these products, but if you enjoy smoking weed and you’re too old to walk around with a crushed soda can, you can smoke weed from…

If your drug habits have already outgrown weed, Temu’s deals on glass pipes and ” snuffers ” are unbeatable.

Your one stop shop for grilling (and also grilling)

You can buy cheap Theme grills all day, but you can also buy cheap grills so you can finally look like a “local rapper circa 2003”.

Temu is the perfect place to shop for sex toys

Sex toys are a killer Temu app. The markup for dildos at your local adult bookstore borders on the criminal, but the offerings straight from China to Temu are ridiculously inexpensive. I don’t recommend you put any of these products inside your body, or put any part of your body inside any of these often terrifying products, but here’s a little taste of the erotic side of Temu:

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