Has anyone ordered anything from Wish? Is it legit?

[Peterbishopssarcasticsmile]

I keep seeing it pop up with bargains that look too good to be true furniture and homeware wise - is it legit? Or one of those crappy, nothing like the picture, never get your money back places?

Various sellers so various quality. Go by customer pictures (I never buy without) as some will say "brilliant, just like the picture" and give five stars but if you look at their picture it is clearly inferior quality. I think they are convinced they will benefit if they give high ratings! Some do rip off other companies ideas and use their picture so it is best to check up if you want something non generic. And prices for the same item will vary on there a lot so don't buy the first listing you see.

I have got some bargains there, I've also had some tat. Don't spend more than you can afford to lose and some items take so long you forget you've ordered so get a nice surprise! I ended up deleting the app as I was getting sucked into too many rabbit holes of weirdness.

I think I waited about 6-8 weeks for delivery and not for big items! This would put me off using them again

Thank you bookmum. One of those is near us and she'd love it I'm sure. Rugrats I think we'll have to agree to disagree on this one and move on as its not what this thread is about.

Poorly made and shit quality. All of it.

Only use it for stationery, and I've always been lucky. Though it does take its time to arrive. I always check on eBay first, as often I can get the same items.

Clothes are horrendous.

I was looking for crystal specimens (pretty woo stuff) and when I can buy a 1kg piece of rose quartz for £6 on there, but it would cost me £20 for a piece a quarter that size from an importer/warehouse I have to question if it's real. Particularly when the advert explains that the reason it's so cheap to get the 'natural' specimen is that they get it directly from the factory making it (by which I guess they mean a volcano as it's an igneous rock, often from hydrothermal vents rather than an actual factory churning out pretty glass shapes haha )

Puts me off buying from the whole site, no matter what. I'd rather go without than encourage fakes.

What I don't understand is why people don't just buy items from High St shops. I have a friend who orders pretty much everything online yet she is a five minute walk from various shops where she could easily purchase them. I remember one of her children excitedly telling me that a book they really wanted to read had "been ordered and was on its way" yet they could have walked to the Sainsbury's five minutes down the road and buy it then and there off the shelf for pretty much the same price (I am talking of a fairly mainstream kids book - Wimpy Kid type thing).
I constantly read of parcels going missing, being left in wheely bins, in the rain, delivered to random addresses etc.
Just buy stuff from actual shops! We constantly get reports of High Streets/Malls 'dying' and the owners of a major shopping mall chain has recently gone into administration. Why? Because people are buying random stuff from random online retailers.
Oh and my friend is very much the type of person who will say "oh I didn't know that X Shop sells XX" and this will be something like buying really basic items like envelopes from Poundland.

Please dont order from wish. Its a bunch of different chinese sellers on one site. The site has been selling nets that entangle and kill birds it also sells real animals killed and put in resin including turtles and seahorses and bats.

What I don't understand is why people don't just buy items from High St shops.

bookmum08 Because I don’t want to. It’s not fun—even before Corona—I don’t have the same huge choice as I do online, even in a big city, and it’s so much cheaper to shop online. Not only that but it’s far more convenient.

Why would I buy a book from Waterstones when I can get it online for a quarter of the price?

I’m not interested in the high street dying; I don’t use it anyway.

You may “constantly” hear of delivery issues but I’ve been shopping online for nearly two decades now and never had a problem.

It's generally tat shipped directly from China. As mentioned, loads and loads of copyright and trademark infringing stuff, as well as outright counterfeits.

Re the fakes and copyright issues.. On here people talk happily all the time about Aldi and Lidl versions of cosmetics and Jo Malone candles at a tiny fraction of the price. What's the difference between that and what Wish are selling? (in ethical terms, not the quality issues)?

@HugeAckmansWife

Re the fakes and copyright issues.. On here people talk happily all the time about Aldi and Lidl versions of cosmetics and Jo Malone candles at a tiny fraction of the price. What's the difference between that and what Wish are selling? (in ethical terms, not the quality issues)?

Aldi and Lidl are bound by law; they may have a very similar product to Frosties but they would never use Tony the Tiger on the box because that’s illegal. So it’s not a knockoff, it’s a genuine similar product.

Google “a moron in a hurry”; that explains the legalities of it.

The products you buy—Justice Magician—are marketing their cheaper, poor quality knockoff products with Harry Potter characters on them. That is illegal.

I bought some tiny chicken crash helmets as a jokey present for a friend from Wish

They took forever to arrive, but they seemed ok.

I ordered some crash helmets for chickens on 29th June and they arrived today. DD loves them as they fit her Barbies and LOL dolls perfectly

What I don't understand is why people don't just buy items from High St shops. because the items arent always available from high street shops where I am. Eg The minecraft toys I bought on wish for ds I havent seen anywhere else. If I can get it locally then I do. If not I go online. Sometimes I use localish companies, sometimes amazon tho I try and avoid it, sometimes I use wish/ali. It depends on what I need and when I need it.

I dont understand why items from wish would be more likely than items from any other retailer to end up in landfill.

I bought some tiny chicken crash helmets as a jokey present for a friend from Wish

I realise this is not the way to win hearts and minds, but fucksake, really? this is exactly why the planet is going to hell in a handcart.

heartsonacake but the characters aren't named as Harry etc, they just look the same, but no more so than the Cien bottles look like Tresemme and Pantene.

everything I've ordered arrived took forever but was only wool and craft stuff.

Yes I've had a few things now. Most of it I have been pleasantly surprised by, in particular a Pokémon Go outfit for ds which was a good fit and washes well. I'm a wish convert! You just have to wait ages for your goods.

@HugeAckmansWife

heartsonacake but the characters aren't named as Harry etc, they just look the same, but no more so than the Cien bottles look like Tresemme and Pantene.

I’m not talking about the minifigures in the box, I’m talking about Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson being on the box dressed as Harry, Ron and Hermione.

That’s illegal.

Strictly what shops did you try for Minecraft toys. I can think of half a dozen shops off the top of my head that are likely to sell them or legitimate shops and companies online you could get them from. If buying from wish or Ali Express they aren't likes to be fakes. Buying from Forbidden Planet shop (using their online services) they will be genuine. Of course you have to pay a bit more but personally I prefer to buy toys that I can guarantee have been through safety checks and aren't stolen designs.
I suppose it's up to you wherever you are happy for your children to have potentially dangerous toys just because they are cheaper.

Heartsonacake it's people like you that are the reason major retailers are going bust or downsizing and town centres are becoming boarded up no go places and 100s of people are losing their jobs.
I agree - shopping is BORING. I don't especially enjoy it. I just prefer that people in my area have jobs and everything I buy is carefully monitored by trading standards.
Mass unemployment and town centre buildings standing empty vs cheap iffy stuff online? It's your choice.

bookmum08 Yeah, I really don’t care. Those retailers need to adapt to the online market because with their extortionate prices, lack of choice and inconvenience they’re totally irrelevant in today’s world.

I’m not advocating buying from knockoff apps like Wish and AliExpress—although I really don’t care if people do—but genuine online retailers are subject to high standards and good quality products as much as the high street is.

I don't have a problem with legitimate online retailers heart. I have a problem with the dodgy ones like Wish and AliExpress.
If done properly the legitimate online retailers and the high street retailers can co exist and offer people the choice.
But buying fake products from dodgy internet retailers is just as bad as buying fake products out of the back of some blokes van.
I apologize for saying it's "people like you". That was a bit rude.
A lot of high st retailers deliver though. If someone can't or doesn't want to go to a physical shop why don't they just order and have home delivery? That I don't see any logic other than "it's cheaper" - when it isn't always.