The appeal of Temu and AliExpress is that a lot of the same stuff you'd buy on Amazon is there for sometimes 25% or 50% of the cost- you just have to wait a lit

The appeal of Temu and AliExpress is that a lot of the same stuff you'd buy on Amazon is there for sometimes 25% or 50% of the cost- you just have to wait a little longer to get it. That said, for however fake or skewed Amazon's reviews are, AliExpress and Temu's reviews are another level of useless. Most of the pictures are simply of packaged items, and the reviews themselves are variations of "Just got it haven't used it yet 5 stars!". My hunch is that they ran promotions to get people to write reviews at some point and got a lot of terrible, useless reviews in exchange.