PREPPING Gear on TEMU under $10! TEMU is A RIPOFF?

as for flashlight 2 bucks its good to have one to stage a bunch around house . but eBay and some amazon are putting small panels not using the way reputable sellers rate a panel . there using how many watts for entire days charge surprised the24% so peak 4 days sun would charge

Honestly man, ive been ordering drill bits/screws and other miscellaneous things like drill accessories and whatnot and i have yet to be disappointed. I also got the same solar panel a while ago. It is extremely handy especially right now with our power going in and out due to the winter storm we currently have in mooresburg TN. I did get a flashlight that is rechargeable for free with my order and honestly it comes in handy with small jobs. Not anywhere near as bright as it was advertised but for free, its handy

I find that the foldable solar pannels from temu are only good if you buy the higher wattage models. i bought a couple of the 30w foldable ones and a 100w foldable. The 30w foldable are basically useless. The 100+w are a actually good.

I've ordered stuff from TEMU 3 or 4 times, mostly small kitchen/bathroom stuff. I tend to stay away from the electronics simply based on the quality of the items I've gotten: everything matches/does what it's supposed to do, but not sure how long it will last, or how much heavy use it will take.
The most expensive thing I've ordered was a small vacuum sealer - under $15! I fully expected it to not work at all out of the package (and their packaging is crappy, as you saw), but to my surprise it worked! I've still got the very first bag I sealed with it, and it's still holding a seal with no air leakage 18 months later. And while I don't use it alot, it still pulls a vacuum and seals to this day. Color me amazed!

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If unhappy you can get a refund on 2 items. Then the rest returned

Your experience reflects mine some good some bad. It’s like going to the dollar store some things are cheap and I would not buy it again but I can’t cry over it because it wasn’t a great loss and it is the dollar store so you can not expect great quality but other things there are a great buy snd well worth buying again.

Anybody who buys Temu is mental.

Lol 😂 whoa man its not bright for 1 your outside lol and how do you know its crap it has arrived from another country in tact so thats a plus

Let's be real about the solar panel here. Your top of the line solar panels get around 22.5% efficiency and average ones get around 18% efficiency. Solar light at noon on a clear day is around 1000 watts/m^2. So using the lower efficiency, you should expect to get 180 watts of energy for each square meter of panel that you have on a clear day at noon.

These little panels have about 0.28 meters x 0.12 meters of active area for 0.0336 square meters of active area. If the cells are 18% efficient, you should expect about 6 watts of power and about 7.5 watts of power if they are 22.5% efficient.

Clearly there's some false advertising going on, however, they do list the product dimensions in the picture so a savy consumer should be able to use the dimensions to estimate the true potential power output.

In order to get 30 watts of power under standard testing conditions (clear day at noon) you would need 30/180= 0.167 square meters of panel for 18% efficient cells and 30/225 = 0.134 square meters of panel for 22.5% efficient cells. This translates to a dimension of 41x41 cm worth of active area for 18% efficient cells and 37x37 cm of active area for 22.5% efficient cells.

You can use this do determine the true rating of the cells before you even order them. Now beyound that.

Is this panel a rip off? Not really, I pruchased two 2.5 watt solar cells from amazon for roughly the same price as this assembled unit, with roughly the same total active area. I had buy my own wire and 3d print casings to fit them into with stands, plus I still needed to buy the USB A wire so that I could plug my phone into it. I'm supposed to get up to 500 mA at up to 6 volts from each panel and I've actually seen each panel output 700 mA each under direct sunlight at noon.

That being said, I spent more money and I had to assmble it. So these temu panels are actually not a bad deal.

I have bought all kinds of stuff from temu... never had a problem yet! been thinking about the solar panels there for my pop up camper and a few others would be worth looking at still, but this helps to see

Just in case anyone is really trying to look into cheap temu panels.. I got a "120w" foldable panel from temu for $80. It shipped via ship, and temu messaged me 20 days after it said shipping started to tell me item was likely lost since they hadn't heard and update in 20 days. They gave me a full refund, then a week later it arrived!

Anyway, its about 6' long unfolded and 2.5' wide. Gives me a consistent 90-110w under less than ideal winter sun to my anker battery. Works better than any of the goal zero, anker, etc foldable panels ive tried, and came with adapters to convert its mc4 connectors to any battery I own. It also has its own little charge controller with usb ports that works great, 2x 24w ports, 1x 15w port. Build quality is excellent. Only complaint is there is no kickstand like most foldables.

I am well past purchasing my 150th item and have had zero issues getting refunded. It is an automated process, where you don't have to return the item, which appears to be under a certain dollar amount, and is approved immediately to your temu account or in 5-7 days to your original method of payment. So far, i had one item, that cost $40 bucks, arrive broken and they requried physical return of the item. Within one hour of dropping the prepaid (by them) parcel at UPS, my temu account was credited with the full amount to my preferred method of credit from returns. Oh, and have you accessed the price adjustment feature yet? Where they will credit you the difference if the price you paid drops within 30 days. Pay attention to the ads, read the reviews and have realistic expectations and Temu is a great place to get decent items and lots of times better than decent for the few little dollars you're spending. Watch some more Temu haul videos and you will see the majority of people full of skepticism, until they get to opening and using their new stuff. Way cheaper than amazon and well worth the 5-7 days most of my orders arrive to middle of nowhere Saskatchewan, Canada.

I bought that flashlight.🔦 it works great for a kids flashlight on camping trips. You can charge it durning the day! Kids love it and it does work in a pinch and hold a charge! It was great for the cheap price, was not expecting a $50 quality flashlight!

I agree with your thoughts on Temu using a loss leader strategy. One difference however is that I think it's a current loss leader for it's real business which is information. Supposedly their books show merchandise driving only 10% of profits. I think there can be a skill developed to somewhat tell the ones that are higher quality. I bought some tools that were fantastic. Also if information gathering is the worse that it gets I really don't see much difference between Temu and Google/Facebook/Amazon. Wait... those companies don't give me cheap tools in exchange for my information.

I buy many practical homestead and electronics control board stuff from temu as well as ebay. If you plan for a given project and then source your parts from temu or ebay cheaply, it works well. I simply buy stuff from temu for the parts a product contains. To source each component would be more expensive....why not? For the price, it makes sense to buy from them. The flashlight, he reviews, by itself, is junky and toy like. I bought it for its leds and parts of the unit to install in a metal backpack frame along with good switches and a larger lithium battery. It serves me well when hiking near dusk hours. Temu works in this respect.

Most items are fine, I've gotten a ton of stuff and they're actually the same stuff being sold on amazon. But I will always avoid most electronics, charging cubes, power banks and batteries. Every time you hear a story of someones phone catching fire or a flashlight or device exploding, it's always with knock off chargers or batteries.

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If i order something and it turns out to be crappy. Oh well what im going to be out a few dollars. I've spent thousands of dollars on stuff that turned out to be crappy. But i will say this about Temu they have some cool shirts. Material is not the best. But they have some cool pictures.

Just buy the more expensive products. Now us sellers like big manufacturers are selling through their. You can buy patio furniture and more

You could take apart the flashlight and put a high quality battery in it like a rechargeable panisonic.

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Dollar store junk.

Temu get what you pay for think of the logic in price lol

I got a 4 piece solar panel from temu £16 mine works fine

What an idiot

Ouch💚🇬🇧🌱 Temu always disappoints.

Everything is junk on temu

"Temoo" lol

Personally i would not buy nothing from them a complete scan and rubbish

Does this guy think he's buying these items from NASA?

What do you expect for the money you paid.

The torch would be ideal for camping being light in weight.

I've had a couple of those torches - absolute rubbish,the usb port breaks as soon as go to use it 👎

Temu is a scam, love this video and how it was an ad ❤

Anything made in china is crap uk scrap yards full of chinese electrical stuff

I ordered sam staff but when coming very disappointed
The size the sleeper was wrong
The think 4 plugs the hairs not strong in half etc...
Plus when u have a credit the minimum can u spend is $30 if u have the credit $20 u have to shopping 4 anothe $10
In the hand is not good 4 me !!
I never shopping again to temu
I delite too the App
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I didn't shopping any more to temu

DON'T point powerful lights at cameras like that , totally moronic thing to do !!!

Ive not used temu but the quality and wait time from what I’ve seen my mate buy i wouldn’t even bother a few extra quid and next/same day delivery is my preference

Temu 😂😂😂😂😂👎👎👎👎 Try speaking with customer service have to keep repeating yourself always Temu asking stupid questions over & over oh Boxes are all damaged or crushed as for the tactical flashlight yes total crap as for a lot of the gadgets sold on Temu
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Anyone ever heard the saying, "You get what you pay for?" Come on are you really that stupid! 😂

I feel like he got exactly what he ordered and if he didn't have any other flashlight he'd hang on to it, not throw it away for being junk, same with solar panel. I bet he didn't throw either away. Also, it's got to be pretty solid to if survived shipping from the other side of the globe in a plastic bag. One drop and it will break, I'm sure that ship has sailed before you saw it😂

Only use TEMU for fishing braid, mono fishing line ,hooks swivels

I joined temu with a promise of a makita tool kit on my first purchase but guess what it never arrived I believe they are just a ripoff sight

Temu knock off Gerber knifes are fantastic you can beat them to hell out of them they really hold up Great try them five stars*** excellent knifes 20 to 27 dollars ones

Some good stuff, some crap. I’ve bought a fair amount of stuff from them. The best? Reusable zip ties. They open with a little tab. Hints? Look at all the photos with the item. They tell a lot. Avoid clothes. Inconsistent fit. If it seems too good to be true….

Solar panel and pump information both provided on post. Maybe look before you buy? 🤷‍♂️

Free returns BTW

People like you give people wrong advice,you don't pay much and you suppose to get a lot.These things you got I have and been working good for four years and still going.Youre a little rich boy try to tell people about another man's gifts