Starting from December 12, 2022, Temu announced that under the VMI model, the shipping fee for merchants to prepare goods for warehousing will change from "free" to "half-borne by the platform and the merchant". In this case, for sellers with low value of goods, the operating costs will further increase, which will invisibly increase a large amount of costs.

Before this, the first-leg freight of TEMU's domestic section has always been borne by the platform. But after that, the logistics cost of TEMU's domestic section (that is, from the merchant's shipping place to the platform's domestic warehouse) will be borne by the platform and the merchant at 50%, and the freight will be deducted from the payment.