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If you believe their stats, they have 70M+ active users in US, so I’m assuming you’re just not their target customer.
by kredd 2y ago
If you believe their stats, they have 70M+ active users in US, so I’m assuming you’re just not their target customer.
- sph 2y agoNot everybody lives in the US. Stats indicate that 53% of Temu users are from the US, and 7.5% are from the UK where I live. Thanks for advertising it to me, but it might be futile. After having had my experience with the Amazon shopping giant, and how it fell from grace, I do not care to "invest" in another giant that will eventually end the same way.
- roryirvine 2y agoIt only launched in the UK a year ago, but is now the "UK's most-downloaded shopping app" according to The Times: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/money-mentor/consumer-rights/what-is-temu-and-is-it-legit https://www.thetimes.co.uk/money-mentor/consumer-rights/what... Sure, not all of those downloads will have resulted in a purchase - but the same is true of Amazon. The point is that Temu is takes the "masses of cheap crap" aspect of Amazon, and makes a virtue of it. It's effectively the Ryanair model - most people want cheap crap, so why bother with the last vestiges of Amazon-style customer service when you can ditch all that and be even cheaper and crappier?
- kredd 2y agoYeah, fair. I’ve never used it to be honest, but from what I’ve heard from my friends it’s good at “cheap crap that I need” category. My point wasn’t advertising it to someone, but saying even the giants like Amazon could see its lunch being chipped away slowly if they don’t fix their issues. That being said, I won’t be surprising once the competition starts heating up, they’ll start banning other Chinese tech companies in US.