Shopping with Wish: What to look out for - tips and info

Wish promises extremely affordable shopping via app. The trend from the USA has long since arrived in Europe. If you'd like to try out the service for yourself, we'll tell you what to look out for.

Far East shopping: a large proportion of all the products you see at Wish come from China.

Wish now has over 400 million customers. The app, which is available for Android and iOS, is thus no longer exotic in Germany.

Shopping at Wish: How to prevent unwanted risks

Wish is not an online store in the true sense. This means:

• Instead of its own products, Wish combines the assortments of participating stores. Wish thus acts as an intermediary.
• As such, Wish finances itself through a commission based on product price and shipping costs.
• It is not directly apparent that many of the stores are located in China. This explains the extremely low prices with which Wish could win millions of customers.
• At the same time, this also means that many items are of inferior quality. In some cases, orders even arrive damaged at the recipient.
• Another consequence: long delivery times are not uncommon, not to mention the shipping costs. And complaints or returns are correspondingly complex and costly.

Since this does not apply to all stores, it is all the more important not to be blinded by the price alone when shopping, but to check where the provider is based. Then namely it is quite possible to find real bargains, even if this is rather rare from experience.