The mrs. just received some craft/ink stuff from Temu -- ordered Feb.
9th and arrived today. Was shipped from Vancouver (warehouse?
Importer??) to Edmonton in 8 days. Pricing much better than other online.
I used to shy away from them due to the App-only purchase experience was
bad, but they've made the web order better.
What John said below about the image and SKU switching. AliExpress does
the same thing. In the search results you'll see a thing with a
silly-cheap price. Click it, then check the size/colour/quantity when it
loads and then the actual item shows with it's actual price.
--Brad
On 2025-02-17 14:25, John R. Hogerhuis wrote:
I've had excellent experiences with Aliexpress, Banggood, Temu. Temu
stuff can be a little too cheap.
Most of the stuff I've bought has been 3d printer stuff and woodworking
tools.
Most of the stuff I've bought I didn't have to work out any deal. I
guess it depends on what you're
getting and if you can buy in quantity. I'm only buying one of things.
Sometimes they have stuff not
on the site and talking to them helps me find it. Like I wanted a
license plate fender mount for my
motorcycle and the seller had it but wasn't advertising it. It can take
some back and forth
to figure out due to language barrier.
You have to be careful about the "colors" / SKU. When you click on an ad
the price can look
low versus the picture. But the ads seem to mix a picture of a higher
SKU with price for the lowest
SKU. It's deceptive but once you're aware of it it's not a big deal.
I don't know about shipping to Canada. It's been fabulous to USA/
California as these
low dollar items through USPS avoid tariff, but it looks like that's
about to change completely, and
that's all I think we should say here about that.
I've never sent anything back and it's probably a hassle. Most of the
stuff is cheap enough that if I don't like
it I would probably just throw it in the trash.
-- John.
