Thursday, November 25th 2021
France is Trying to Ban Wish by Asking App Stores and Search Engines to Block its Apps and Website
Wish has become something of a phenomenon, in the sense that it has become Europe's go-to place for cheap gadgets, toys, clothing and more, most of which are delivered straight from the PRC to your front door. However, a lot of the products sold on Wish doesn't meet European safety regulations and now France's DGCCRF (direction générale de la concurrence, de la consommation et de la répression des fraudes) or in English, the General Directorate for Competition Policy, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control, are going after Wish for selling substandard and even outright dangerous goods to French consumers.
There is clearly legit reasoning behind it all, as the DGCCRF ordered some 140 different products from Wish - of which most arrived directly from the PRC - and then proceeded to test them to see if they met European safety standards. Out of the 140 products, 45 percent were deemed outright dangerous, although when it came to electronic products, 90 percent were deemed dangerous and 95 percent were not certified for use in Europe. It's not clear how many of the products were electronic products though, which makes it a bit hard to judge how bad the situation really is.
Other products weren't quite as bad, but even on the accessory side, 62 percent of the products were considered dangerous. In all fairness to Wish, Amazon and other online shops where third parties can sell their products directly, are likely to have similar, if not quite as bad issues. Wish is said to be proactively removing sellers that are reported to be selling dangerous products, but apparently this wasn't quite good enough for the DGCCRF, as they feel Wish isn't taking earlier warnings seriously enough.
As such, the DGCCRF has decided to request that the likes of Apple, Google and Microsoft block access to the Wish app, as well as remove Wish from search engines. This obviously only applies to French citizens for the time being, but as France is an EU nation, it's possible that an EU wide blockade of Wish could happen in the future. However, if Wish were to implement the changes the DGCCRF wants to see, the block of Wish to French customers would be removed.
However, in a statement provided by Wish to TechCrunch, it seems like the company doesn't feel that it's responsible to make sure its third party sellers' products meet European standards. Wish also seem to think that they already have a good enough mechanism for removing sellers of poor quality products. Overall, Wish is obviously not happy with what the DGCCRF is doing, as they're losing access to a fairly sizeable market. Time will tell what the long term effect of this disagreement will be, but if nothing else, it might make some more room for shipping other products from the PRC to France.
Source:
TechCrunch
There is clearly legit reasoning behind it all, as the DGCCRF ordered some 140 different products from Wish - of which most arrived directly from the PRC - and then proceeded to test them to see if they met European safety standards. Out of the 140 products, 45 percent were deemed outright dangerous, although when it came to electronic products, 90 percent were deemed dangerous and 95 percent were not certified for use in Europe. It's not clear how many of the products were electronic products though, which makes it a bit hard to judge how bad the situation really is.
As such, the DGCCRF has decided to request that the likes of Apple, Google and Microsoft block access to the Wish app, as well as remove Wish from search engines. This obviously only applies to French citizens for the time being, but as France is an EU nation, it's possible that an EU wide blockade of Wish could happen in the future. However, if Wish were to implement the changes the DGCCRF wants to see, the block of Wish to French customers would be removed.
However, in a statement provided by Wish to TechCrunch, it seems like the company doesn't feel that it's responsible to make sure its third party sellers' products meet European standards. Wish also seem to think that they already have a good enough mechanism for removing sellers of poor quality products. Overall, Wish is obviously not happy with what the DGCCRF is doing, as they're losing access to a fairly sizeable market. Time will tell what the long term effect of this disagreement will be, but if nothing else, it might make some more room for shipping other products from the PRC to France.
47 Comments on France is Trying to Ban Wish by Asking App Stores and Search Engines to Block its Apps and Website
The website maybe only in my circles? Is a meme.
The chances of getting what you expect from Wish are vanishingly small even if you somehow don't get scammed; It is infamous.
If yall want to have an interesting read:
WISH ContextLogic Inc - Ordinary Shares - Class A — Stock Price and Discussion | Stocktwits
This is life, and not a trait exclusive to humanity but seen far and wide across almost all species on earth.
The explosion of the internet has also opened another major avenue for con artists or scammer ~ advertising to the masses!
That's probably the biggest issue these days.
At which point ContextLogic will just apply it's marketing algorithm to another business venture.
$3 Pistol?! | We Bought 10 Weapons From Wish.com! - YouTube - LOL
Some people order clothes from there from what I understand, as it's so cheap that they can just bin whatever they don't want.
Other people other cheap electronics, cables, etc. from Wish, although most mains powered devices are most likely illegal to use in the EU, as they won't be certified.
Personally I had no idea what it was either, until they were in the news a couple of years ago due to the above.
CLs primary business is/was search.
Hes actually rocking an almost all Aiexpress CPU water cooling setup/loop and its working all good with no issues for 1+ year now.
Too bad its a bit worse now since its taxed, it wasn't before so now we get our 27% VAT added to our Ali orders and some extra too. 'like a few $/euro each package'
TBH I/my family never used Wish, its been known for a long time that its mainly a scam site that sends you trash. 'Watched multiple unboxing/ordering videos on YT its kinda funny in a way:laugh:'
or, in this instance "Cheap is as cheap does" which more often than not, translates into the above anyways, hehehe :)