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The wheel is for illustrative purpose only. Everyone will get the best result.
😐 how can anyone stand this app
Oh jesus christ, it's like they put together a team and told them "build a reward animation we can put during the startup", and then put together 20 more teams to do the same thing, and then put them all into the app.
It smells a bit like a situation where the dev builds themselves don't show the anti-patterns, but everybody else will.
Nice, I've always wanted my online shopping experience to resemble a slot machine
Is this real? That's 1:45 of intro before you even get to the store. Also
The wheel is for illustrative purpose only, everyone will get the best result.
Holy fucking hell, that is every single cursed dark psychological pattern, all at once and as fast as possible!
It's one of those moments where you're left struggling to figure out who this is even for. Like, it's simply too much to even respond to for the most gullible user.
It's akin those scam calls where the person on the other end has to read you a ten minute long pitch before getting to the actual scam, but calls you back two minutes later fully knowing you're not their target.
You have to remember - if this didn't work they wouldn't do it.
Which means, it works.
Gambling-like graphics and exciting sounds. The illusion of winning big. Praise for being a good loyal customer. The promise of huge rewards and discounts. Time pressure to act fast, now now now. Don't think, just do.
It's every single trick and dark pattern crammed mercilessly into one app.
And it works.
I fear for our species.
yeah the brain really needs some vulnerabilities patched
It work I was flabbergasted and though wait 400# is a good deal. But boy 30 minutes on the page they lock you on is pushing people to urgency. Crazy to see, I am glad I avoid these like pest
It’s every single trick and dark pattern crammed mercilessly into one app.
And it works.
It works for now, but like any other trick it will eventually wear off when people see it everywhere and figure out that it is just a scam.
if this didn’t work they wouldn’t do it.
Which means, it works.
That's circular logic, assuming some kind of infallibility at the business end.
Gambling-like graphics and exciting sounds. The illusion of winning big. Praise for being a good loyal customer. The promise of huge rewards and discounts. Time pressure to act fast, now now now. Don’t think, just do.
So, how much did you end up spending on Temu after you watched the ads?
That's circular logic, assuming some kind of infallibility at the business end.
Are you familiar with multivariate testing?
So, how much did you end up spending on Temu after you watched the ads?
It doesn’t have to work on everyone, just someone. I also sincerely doubt everyone is getting the full 2 minute edition. Maybe their algorithm decided to push it in this instance.
Are you familiar with multivariate testing?
Real marketing data is messy, skewed, and full of rare events that models struggle to learn from. When accuracy becomes the goal, models can look impressive while quietly getting the most important decisions wrong. This article explains why that happens, how imbalanced data creates false confidence, and what marketers should do instead.
If you ever get your teeth into Game Theory, you discover why A/B Testing patterns can run you down a rabbit hole.
That's before you even consider the Ur-challenge of any business enterprise - The Principle Agent Problem. When you build an incentive structure to reward certain results, you can incentivize your agents to lie to you about the effectiveness of your policies.
It doesn’t have to work on everyone
It presumably has to work on an increasing slice of retail market cap with each iteration.
Is there any evidence that Temu's splash screen is generating more revenue per visitor than Amazon's?
They tested multiple variations to get people to spend more money, and the was the best result.
Is there any actual evidence of this?
Or is Temu's revenue growing independently of the changes to the splash screen?
Maybe it can be used as a vaccine against them
Someone made that. They put actual effort into its existence.
My career has had low points but never quite that low.
Honestly that art is for sure AI slop. Who knows about the rest. You lock a dude in a room for 4 hours and make them play the instruction game with a not and they could cook all those sloppy effects. It doesnt even have to actually do anything but make them think they need to buy something right now.
Why are we using temu?
Looks like if dark patterns had a store front.. No amount of "bargain" is worth encouraging that shit.
Either save up for the real thing or skip it.
I see things I've wanted to buy from temu ads. I click the ad to buy and instead of letting me buy it gives endless roulette wheels before demanding I install the app.
I don't even try to buy now.
Yeah no, 3 second in and I'd uninstall the app. God, the website with an ad blocker is fucking bad enough, why in the world would you opt into more tracking?
Just like billionaires shop!
~~billionaires~~ gambling addicts
Looking in on temu users:
This thing is lead in the water supply
Blue Archive starts up faster and nags you less than Temu. And that's an acutal gacha game.
that's crazy
🤮
Using Temu is a choice.
I literally only have ever heard about that store from family who talk about it being constantly advertised on Facebook.
Looks like I'm missing a lot these days /s
If I’m reading it right you’re missing out about $405 worth of rewards.
all you have to do is buy 2 items in the next ~~10~~ ~~30~~ 10 minutes!
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