What I wish I knew before purchasing from Wish
Wish is an online shopping website and application that sells all sorts of items from electronics to clothing at “very cheap” prices. Wish is actually fairly deceiving in this sense as many of their products are labelled as “free”, which they are technically not because you have to pay for shipping. All the shipping fees can add up to a lot and in the end it’s really not worth it, i can assure you.
Most of their products come from China in which there have too many logistical issues. The website allows you to track your product:
But don’t sit there thinking it will only take a week or so, almost all of my products took a month or more, it is completely ridiculous. Not only did the products take a million years to be delivered, half of them i never received. This meant i had to report to wish that i had not received it and they gave me a refund, such a big disappointment after waiting so long. Wish states that an order will arrive within 35 business days once it is shipped, but they only have a 30-day refunds policy! The whole set up is ridiculous and is just designed to take your money.
Furthermore, Wish is a huge website set up with sellers who all lie. All of the pictures they use to showcase there products are not in fact their products and are just pictures taken from tumblr or instagram. The sellers take these over-glamorised pictures in order to deceive you into buying their product, once you receive that product the quality is terrible and usually looks nothing like it should. I have stopped buying off Wish because it’s just not worth it anymore, but if i did, i wouldn’t buy anything without seeing an actual customer’s picture of the product. Wish has the sellers version of the product (an instagram model’s designer outfit) and then sometimes customers will post themselves in the actual outfit being sold. Nevertheless, this false advertising scheme is disgraceful and i feel sorry for anyone who gets tricked into buying these products.
As you can see below, here is the sellers idea of what they are selling, and on the right a customer has shown what you will actually be receiving, and you don’t need to hold that “jumper” in your hands to see that it is poor quality and is nothing more than a 2$ t-shirt with criss-cross back. And there is even more shocking product revelations than this one, trust me.
Over all, Wish is simply not worth it. You’re package will either make it to you in a years time, never be delivered or if it is, by some miracle, delivered it is not what you paid for.