@AbbeyRhode not giving over my bank info. Will use a prepaid Visa and purchase quite a few at a time. Some of the items I’ve chosen are on clearance and they are getting snatched up before I am paying for them and then those get cancelled.

@LoneVoice I will use a prepaid Visa card instead of using my bank card. They don’t need to know what my card numbers are. And the Visa card will be nearly maxed out with my order when I get it. I already have 36 items in the cart, some stationary items, hats & head coverings, magnetic shower drain screen covers (I have shed a lot of hair this past year being anemic and it’s a hassle to pull the hair out of the drain), wood honey dipper, easy to thread sewing needles, 6-in-1 portable DVD player etc., ring size adjusters, a plastic ring size thing to measure my finger since I’ve lost so much weight, 5-piece plastic drain uncloggers (they are $1.25 each at Dollar Tree and $1.78 for 5 of them on Temu), 2 window bird feeders and 1 window hummingbird feeder (I want to watch them feed from inside my home), rice washing bowl, a long 2-cup house bird feeder for the cage, they sell for $9 at the pet store and same thing on Temu is only $2.24, rice bowl strainer because I am tired of losing rice down the drain when I pour off the water and keep rinsing a few times, a strong fishing magnet, heavy duty hook magnets, and a 2-size wood tart tamper to make tart shells in mini and regular size muffin tins. So far this is what I got at @ $105.35. Might as well go right after Walmart opens tomorrow morning and get the Visa card and send the order in the morning. Everything I bought is probably a third or a quarter of what I’d pay online or in a store.

@G0ddess not using my banking account to purchase anything from them. Will use a Visa card and use as much as I can in one or two transactions there

@cherokeepatti why not PayPal? That way it masks your card info

@G0ddess I won’t even use it there

@iamnikki yeah Walmart is going to feel this eventually. I can buy the same things on Amazon for a lot less than Walmart sells .They don’t even have that good of clearance sales any more. Temu offers some of the same things I’ve gotten at Dollar Tree but at a much lower price. Retailers are going to have a problem eventually if the trend to buy online continues. It seems that Walmart is not even trying.

@cherokeepatti do you have Amazon Prime? A movie that came out last month is on there, but it's $20 without prime. I can see it at the theater for $10 so it's not worth it w/o prime.
I don't get much from Walmart aside from groceries maybe once a month (Aldi mostly) and toiletries.

@iamnikki I don’t have Amazon Prime.

@Alisha233 My neighbor orders and hasn’t has a problem with what she got. She has a lot of money saved and this example is why. She is a savvy shopper.

@robingoodfellow it seems to wholesale to the public. People can order the lowest priced type items a double the price and still beat their competition in price

@Iwillwait I don’t even want to enter my Palpal with them.

@cherokeepatti way more layers of protection for you. I have had items come not as described and Temu was very quick to refund with 0 hassle. Upload two fotos and click. Refund sent.

@Teslin I was thinking that other businesses might do it to discourage people from finding bargains at a much lower price than what they offer. I am also thinking a lot of these Amazon and Ebay vendors are buying a lot from Temu and reselling it to make a good profit.

@cherokeepatti That's always a possibility.

@DeWayfarer I’ve bought something identical, same print and fabric from Amazon for over 4 times what Temu is offering. Why not buy it at a good discount instead of Amazon. And I was pleased with what I got on Amazon, not cheap made and nice fabric.

@cherokeepatti read the article. There's more than one point.

I don't believe they stand up for any products. Where at least the Amazon products they do.

Sometimes it's hard to tell which is a Amazon product or a reseller product on Amazon. You got to look closely from where it's coming.

Then check out the reseller's ratings very closely.

Same on eBay BTW. I have bought reseller items on eBay. Yet I check them out closely.

If on either a reseller actually doesn't have a website, be careful.

I don't say don't trust them because reviews on the reseller are sometimes very good. Not just the product. The actual reseller.