Your temu orders

Lupus said:
Ah yeah seems anything under 200 you keep, but over it boom gotta return
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how does the return process, work. Received a broken soundbar and it does appear it was broken before packaging, did query on the app and got refunded and didn't have to go through the return option, but I am curious and how it works.
 
Grubscrew said:
how does the return process, work. Received a broken soundbar and it does appear it was broken before packaging, did query on the app and got refunded and didn't have to go through the return option, but I am curious and how it works.
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Not sure, never had anything over 200 but I think a few posts up did.
 
xrapidx said:
Seems my second one is like this... will play around when back from leave, otherwise I'll give it to my dad.
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New cam that came has RTSP enabled with both resolution streams on port 554, ports 80, and 8001 were also open.
This one was also a cheapie but it was an icam365 camera not the YI IOT, even though the item description on the site said YI IOT. So i guess its just pot luck which one we get.
Another interesting note, this camera doesn't support wifi N (which the previous cam did) only G, I normally disable wifi B and G on my 2.4Ghz. Only figured this out after an hour of trying and failing to connect.
 
I just checked and I have to pay R750 customs for 2 orders combined (R2500) where about R1500 is clothing. So that is around 40% tax on clothing. Not sure why all these companies are complaining as it seems for orders above R500 we have always pay big tax. Here I was rushing to put an order in before 1 July but I still pay big tax.
 
skimread said:
I just checked and I have to pay R750 customs for 2 orders combined (R2500) where about R1500 is clothing. So that is around 40% tax on clothing. Not sure why all these companies are complaining as it seems for orders above R500 we have always pay big tax. Here I was rushing to put an order in before 1 July but I still pay big tax.
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It was for any order under 500
 
Quick question, I usually buy from temu gadgets and pay R300 or so and get charged around R80 to R90 customs.

Will this new tax and custom fees affect the customs I pay for items around that price? (R300)

I'm okay with customs being below R100
 
RVR said:
Quick question, I usually buy from temu gadgets and pay R300 or so and get charged around R80 to R90 customs.

Will this new tax and custom fees affect the customs I pay for items around that price? (R300)

I'm okay with customs being below R100
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I have bought non clothing stuff for more than R500 and customs invoice amount was around 16-20% so I do not think it will change and you will pay same amount.

But lets assume your R300 order for a formal shirt
Buffalo and Fastway have hidden custom handling fees so you pay them their cut +15% VAT.

Before July 1 for R300 order it is R45 VAT customs + around a R40 handling fee for total of R95.
You think you pay 32% customs but it is Buffalo that is scoring with their handling fee.
So the clothing retailers complaining of consumers dodging tax off less than R500 orders is wrong. It is Buffalo/Fastway profiting.

After the new clothing tax of 45% R300 shirt order, customs should be something like
Bank fee 2.5% of R300 =R 7.50
+ clothing customs 45% of R300 = R135
+15% VAT (R63)
+ Handling fee (R40)
= R238 customs invoice
Total real cost for R300 shirt = R545
Consumer has to pay 79% customs invoice to Buffalo


Now let say you used temu vouchers of R100 off R300 for your shirt
and also you got R20 price adjustment.
So the cost you pay for the valued shirt with your credit card is R180 to Temu, 2.5% to your bank and R238 customs to Buffalo.
But let say you return the shirt as you got the wrong size. Temu give you credit and you reorder the same in a different size
Repeat the order for the different size and what you pay Temu is R180 and total customs (including previous order is R476)
That is 265% total customs of your item value in 2 custom invoices you paid for a single shirt.

So you can see it will get expensive and these local companies now that but are portraying themselves as victims. They just want to import the stuff themselves and make mega profits
 
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RVR said:
Quick question, I usually buy from temu gadgets and pay R300 or so and get charged around R80 to R90 customs.

Will this new tax and custom fees affect the customs I pay for items around that price? (R300)

I'm okay with customs being below R100
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It's not a new tax, also it's only on clothing, it's always been in place for clothing over R500
 
*1st ordering from Temu*

Order placed and payment made on Friday (21/06) evening.
Yesterday morning i saw an email that was send to me on 23/06 03:43am with info that my order was shipped and it has Buffalo tracking number.

I added 2 more other items to the order and made payment on Saturday (22/06). The Buffalo tracking number includes items added later to the order.

Now i wait.....
 
skimread said:
I have bought non clothing stuff for more than R500 and customs invoice amount was around 16-20% so I do not think it will change and you will pay same amount.

But lets assume your R300 order for a formal shirt
Buffalo and Fastway have hidden custom handling fees so you pay them their cut +15% VAT.

Before July 1 for R300 order it is R45 VAT customs + R40 handling fee for total of R95.
You think you pay 32% customs but it is Buffalo that is scoring with their handling fee.
So the clothing retailers complaining of consumers dodging tax off less than R500 orders is wrong. It is Buffalo/Temu profiting.

After the new clothing tax of 45% R300 shirt order, customs should be something like
Bank fee 2.5% of R300 =R 7.50
+ clothing customs 45% of R300 = R135
+15% VAT (R63)
+ Handling fee (R40)
= R238 customs invoice
Total real cost for R300 shirt = R545
Consumer has to pay 79% customs invoice to Buffalo


Now let say you used temu vouchers of R100 off R300 for your shirt
and also you got R20 price adjustment.
So the cost you pay for the valued shirt with your credit card is R180 to Temu, 2.5% to your bank and R238 customs to Buffalo.
But let say you return the shirt as you got the wrong size. Temu give you credit and you reorder the same in a different size
Repeat the order for the different size and what you pay Temu is R180 and total customs (including previous order is R476)
That is 265% total customs invoices you paid for a single shirt.
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Thanks for this detailed reply. Helps!
 
Hmm R600 order, R130 tax 21% really odd, no clothing but some basic "leather" repair
 
Why do people keep on calling Temu a Chinese company? They were founded in the US and the deliveries come from which ever merchant you buy from, based all over the world. I have bought hundreds of items on Temu and only found 2 so far that I was not happy with. I love their bedding, renovated our floors, bathrooms, kitchen cupboards and furniture with their huge variety of wallpaper, their snow boots are amazing and all the clothes are top quality so far.

What am I missing about them being a Chinese giant?

 
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