Temu pauses Google Ads, falls from #2 to #19 in app store

Re:Temu pauses Google Ads, falls from #2 to #19 in app store by mixermachine on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @02:34AM (#43689634)

I can find some bad reviews on items that have a lot of positive reviews on Aliexpress. Seems like they don't completely filter all of them.

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Re:Temu pauses Google Ads, falls from #2 to #19 in app store by jampekka on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @03:20AM (#43689908)

If you read the aliexpress reviews, there are a lot of 5-stars totally bashing the product.

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Re:Temu pauses Google Ads, falls from #2 to #19 in app store by MIC132 on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @02:55AM (#43689771)

But they do have a time limit on leaving a review, as far as I can tell.

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Re:Temu pauses Google Ads, falls from #2 to #19 in app store by dns_snek on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @04:27AM (#43690319)

They have a 30 day time frame to leave a review. That's why so many reviews just say "Everything arrived on time" and none of them say "this thing broke after 31 days".

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Re:Temu pauses Google Ads, falls from #2 to #19 in app store by bkor on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @04:35AM (#43690373)

AliExpress highly encourages leaving a review. They also encourage taking pictures. As a result, loads of random pictures in reviews.

You can do an additional remarks later, but I often don't bother. It's drowned out anyway.

What I often do is read the reviews. What's usually done is a critical review and still 5 stars. The fake reviews are pretty easily spotted. It shouldn't be this way, but in my experience it's still better than Amazon. With Amazon more effort is made to fake a review.

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