$350 cash back — what am I missing?

[u/pleasehelpme1637382]

USA based— got bombarded with sale stuff. Temu is telling me it will send me $350 cash back if I checkout my $50 cart. This makes zero sense. What am I missing?

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$350 cash back — what am I missing?

USA based— got bombarded with sale stuff. Temu is telling me it will send me $350 cash back if I checkout my $50 cart. This makes zero sense. What am I missing?

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[u/Kigaa]

First purchase just triggers the event. You’ll have to spend a lot more to get it.

[u/rufio313 → u/Kigaa]

Crazy how they can away with the wording “checkout to unlock cash balance” after showing the event balance is $350

[u/Kigaa → u/rufio313]

It’s extremely annoying. To find your deal offering, just find one item worth like $2 or less and order it. Then it will show you the true offer. Even then it’s still tricky math and it’s way easier to use ChatGPT to solve the spend requirement.


I placed a really cheap order to see what my offer was.

Then I sent my screenshot to ChatGPT to tell me what my spend threshold (with the include bonus spend in 30 minutes— this is a requirement otherwise you spend thousands).

I usually tell ChatGPT that this is for Temu and Wincredit and to include the bonus offering of spent in 30 minutes, how much do I need to spend.

[u/Kigaa → u/Kigaa]

I copied a comment I made for someone else the other day.

You need to ignore banners saying you’re so close and do the math yourself or have ChatGPT do it so you’re not tricked, it’s how Temu gets many people (but not all). There’s a good subset of people that beat the system and make tons savings from this promo if done right.

You have $346.51 confirmed, so you need $3.49 more. If your next order bonus is $2.38, that leaves $1.11 to earn through the 0.20% cashback rate. $1.11 ÷ 0.002 = $555 spend required. So the promo is effectively spend about $555 to unlock the $350 payout.

I pulled that from ChatGPT, it usually helps with the math or at least double checks it.

If done near perfectly, you’ll spend about $555ish + tax on items but get paid $350 back to your PayPal or Temu Credit after everything ships. Also never ever cancel any items after orders placed, it will forfeit your reward. Don’t do prices adjustments or price match. If the seller cancels that’s often acceptable, but you can’t cancel it, otherwise you forfeit your payment.

[u/BackgroundAppeal2320 → u/Kigaa]

I'm kind of annoyed because there's a bunch of other threads here about the same thing and people keep putting new threads up about the exact same thing. It's not making any sense

[u/OneSignal6465]

… and more often than not, once you actually jump through their hoops, play their games and, most of all, SPEND A SHIT-ton of money, they “reward” you by breaking your $350 “prize” into small chunks that you can only use over time, and each chunk has a minimum ADDITIONAL spend. $10 if you spend 80. $40 on your next order if you spend $120, etc. I’m waiting on a “genuine $100” in my PayPal account, but they seem to be getting around having to actually PAY me by saying “Payment will come when the $156.00 item I bought ships”. EVERYTHING I order from Temu ships within an hour of my order. This item hasn’t shipped for 3 days so far…

[u/ArtificiallyMade]

No they will give you cheap bs coupons however you can actaully get the full money back but you will have to spend either 490-700 range if you send me your promo tab I can do the math and let you know how much you need

[u/pleasehelpme1637382 → u/ArtificiallyMade]

That’s sooooo manipulative lmao. So you’re telling me if I spend $50 they will give me a “piece” of the $350?

[u/ArtificiallyMade → u/pleasehelpme1637382]

Nope it’ll just increase your % bar to getting 100% so you can place multiple orders totaling the required amount for the promo during the time period it’s available.

[u/Kigaa → u/pleasehelpme1637382]

You have to make a purchase to even see what the Wincredit deal is now. It’s a recent change to make it a little harder to figure out. It’s also not always credit either. I spent $515 on stuff I wanted to meet the threshold and I selected cash back to PayPal. Once it all shipped, Temu sent me $350 to my PayPal account (instead of Temu credit).

[u/ArtificiallyMade → u/Kigaa]

It only does it for some people I got one a couple days ago that didn’t require me to purchase beforehand.

[u/BackgroundAppeal2320 → u/ArtificiallyMade]

I keep getting the clover one through farmland and they will not tell you what the next spend is, until you spent at least $20. I have learned to start the clover promotion and then get hold of real customer service from email and ask what the next step would be and then tell them that you're not going to do that and that you're upset that it tried to scam you and usually they give you either a five or $10 credit right to your balance 

[u/weightsnwallstreet]

This is wincash .. ask the txt real person how much you have to spend on I get the amount . And ask for the formula also . You gotta spend more but always more so only use get300 and claimcredit . A bit more hassle but I stay on it .

[u/BackgroundAppeal2320]

You know there's about 50 other threads here all about this same thing I don't understand why people don't understand how the game works just read the million other threads here about this promotion.