Have you ordered from Temu?

Have you ordered from Temu?

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Hmmm... the first time I ordered from Temu I used my cheque card (FNB). Subsequent purchases were on my virtual card.

The interesting thing is that I never had any charges attached to my cheque card purchases, but suddenly, after the virtual card purchases, FNB has charged me international purchase fees totalling about R10. They were bits of R4 here, R1 there and the odd R0.34 here and there.

Anybody experiencing this?
 
Dups! said:
Hmmm... the first time I ordered from Temu I used my cheque card (FNB). Subsequent purchases were on my virtual card.

The interesting thing is that I never had any charges attached to my cheque card purchases, but suddenly, after the virtual card purchases, FNB has charged me international purchase fees totalling about R10. They were bits of R4 here, R1 there and the odd R0.34 here and there.

Anybody experiencing this?
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Will keep and eye on this as well
 
Dups! said:
Hmmm... the first time I ordered from Temu I used my cheque card (FNB). Subsequent purchases were on my virtual card.

The interesting thing is that I never had any charges attached to my cheque card purchases, but suddenly, after the virtual card purchases, FNB has charged me international purchase fees totalling about R10. They were bits of R4 here, R1 there and the odd R0.34 here and there.

Anybody experiencing this?
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The charges started about a year ago. International payment fees.

All banks, iirc, charge this fee.
 
cpu. said:
The charges started about a year ago. International payment fees.

All banks, iirc, charge this fee.
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Is it the 2.5% like when you get charged for Spotify and netflix?(Fnb)
 
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cpu. said:
The charges started about a year ago. International payment fees.

All banks, iirc, charge this fee.
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I am currently charged on a product I have from the UK on a monthly basis, that did start last year, I agree.

I am just puzzled by them not having charged me on the first purchase.
 
Capitec have not supported PayPal for some time, so for sellers who do not accept non-US credit or debit cards, you can open a Forex account at FNB

I have bought stuff from Parts Express in USA. They send a Pro-Forma invoice and I pay using FNB Forex. The fees are minimal and there is no discount for the seller as PayPal charge

I also have a Customs Import code which is essential if you are going to have more than 3 imports a year
 
chrisc said:
Capitec have not supported PayPal for some time, so for sellers who do not accept non-US credit or debit cards, you can open a Forex account at FNB

I have bought stuff from Parts Express in USA. They send a Pro-Forma invoice and I pay using FNB Forex. The fees are minimal and there is no discount for the seller as PayPal charge

I also have a Customs Import code which is essential if you are going to have more than 3 imports a year
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Isn't that just for withdrawing money? I use Paypal + Capitec a lot to buy from overseas.
 
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DrJohnZoidberg said:
I ordered like 1000 M3 screws in various sizes off Temu last night :laugh:

Local guys just don't stock these and when they do they only have them in 1 or 2 sizes.
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WTF do you use them for? :cool: I mean I googled to know exactly what these are for and these seem to be used in bar stool chairs etc and I have replaced 2-3 of them but 1000 ?
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
I ordered like 1000 M3 screws in various sizes off Temu last night :laugh:

Local guys just don't stock these and when they do they only have them in 1 or 2 sizes.
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They do. Boltfast, topfast etc. sell those sizes in quantity.
 
saor said:
They do. Boltfast, topfast etc. sell those sizes in quantity.
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Boltfast doesn't have any online store, so no way I was going to find them online.

Topfast has an online store but their SEO is too bad for anything to come up in search. I might look at using them in future, pricing looks a bit higher than the Temu ones but I haven't got my tax amount yet from Temu (it's not normally huge).

Thanks for the suggestions!

EDIT: actually I just double checked, and the Temu ones are 304/A4 SS, which are significantly more expensive from Topfast. Not that I need that specifically but comparing apples to apples.
 
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surface said:
WTF do you use them for? :cool: I mean I googled to know exactly what these are for and these seem to be used in bar stool chairs etc and I have replaced 2-3 of them but 1000 ?
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It's for 3D printing projects, it worked out a lot cheaper buying sets of 50 or 100 than getting them individually.
 
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