I paid £8.11 for a Temu cat bed without measuring it – people are in hysterics at the end result
A WOMAN has left people in hysterics over an accidental Temu purchase.
Keen to give her cats a cosy home, the pet owner purchased them a bed off Temu, for the bargain price of £8.31.
However, she neglected to check the measurements before her purchase, assuming that the bed would be cat-sized.
On the picture on the Temu website, a cat sits in the cat bed, filling most of the bed with its body.
However, when the woman's cat bed arrived, it was enormous, filling half of her living room.
"When I bought a cat bed without looking at the size", she said in a TikTok video.
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Although the woman was shocked by the size of that cat bed, she made the most of it, and got inside the bed too, cosying up with her kitties.
She placed a blanket in there and some cushions, and settled down to read a good book.
"Now it's my bed too", she said.
The blunder was shared by the Temu TikTok page, and racked up 698,000 views.
Viewers were left in hysterics, including one person who said: "The price did not give a hint!"
A second person said: "At least it wasn’t a tiny 10cm bed for toy cats!"
A third person said: "It is apparently the ideal size!"
And the woman isn't the only one who's made a Temu blunder lately.
One woman took to TikTok to share her epic fail, as she said: "We got a new rug and I wanted to get some lacy curtains - brown beige curtains for my living room.
"I ordered them from Temu and they just came in."
Why is Temu so cheap?
TEMU exploded onto the scene in late 2022, with people all over social media raving about the low prices.
The company is a Chinese-owned digital marketplace - essentially an online shopping app where people are connected to the retailer directly while the app takes care of the shipping element.
The frenzy over the app is not completely unfounded either as it offers a wide variety of products, including fashion, make-up, electronics and furniture.
According to a report from the US House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, Temu takes advantage of a trade loophole that allows the company to ship duty-free goods directly to the US.
The loophole is called the de minimis exception and it means they can ship goods valued up to $800 (£643) to the US without it being inspected or taxed by US customs.
Temu connects customers directly to manufacturers and only manages how the items are sent to customers.
It means Chinese vendors can essentially sell their products directly to customers and ship it without building a network of warehouses across the globe.
By doing this, they cut down on huge costs and ensure the product itself isn’t marked up extra.
While many of the products seen on the Temu app are from brands with extensive, original collections, many more are dupes of designer brands.
She then moved back from the camera to hold up the curtain - which actually ended up being a panel of material printed with a picture of a window with a curtain half over it.
"Not only does it come with the curtain, it comes with the window!" Steph sighed.
What made the situation even worse was then Steph "bought four of them".
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"Now I have to return them. F**k my life," she concluded.
"Trying to save a few bucks never goes well for me," Steph captioned the video.