97% Wish Promo Codes ➡️ (64 Wish Coupon Codes) April 2024

The most redeemed Wish discount codes

1. Don't Ignore Reviews

Sometimes it's okay to take reviews with a grain of salt. Buyers often nitpick an item if it doesn't mean their specific expectations, so you ignore it.

However, you should not do this on Wish reviewers will let you know the ugly truth behind that drone you want so bad.

If the reviews on the item you want are mostly negative, you might want to reconsider your plan to purchase it. On the other hand, some items are "Verified by Wish Shoppers." This means that a product has received positive reviews from customers.

2. Be Aware of Long Shipping Times

Used to two-day Amazon Prime shipping? Wish will be your wake-up call.

Wish ships from China. That means it could take a long time to get to your doorstep. Let's just say that one week is a quick shipping time for Wish. Some users report that their item doesn't arrive for months after their order.

It's also possible that your item won't come at all. According to several complaints, it's not uncommon for a buyer's item to never reach their home. Always keep track of your order.

3. Watch Out for Misleading Descriptions

One of the biggest issues on Wish is incorrect product descriptions and images. Descriptions aren't always accurate and images can make the product look better than it actually is.

In this case, it's better to pay more attention to customer reviews than the product descriptions.

4. Choose the Right Size

If you're buying clothing on Wish, make sure to look at the size chart. The small, medium, or large in your country might not correspond with the clothing sizes from Wish.

Since most clothes from Wish come from China, the clothes are often in Asian sizes. Luckily, Wish shows a meter on clothing items that let you know whether it runs large or small.

About Wish

As Wish moves into the name-brand space, it will have to make some changes on the back end to cater to Western merchants, including tweaking some of its policies on returns and fraud detection, and updating its seller portal to allow vendors to add elements like barcodes and extra technical specs for electronics. Currently, according to Marketplace Pulse, 87 percent of the app's 1 million active merchants are based in China, with an additional 7 percent in the US, and less than 1 percent in the UK and Canada. The company doesn't break out the geographic distribution of its sellers or its customers, but says the US is its largest market (according to Recode, American customers account for 30 percent of its sales), while Europe does more sales overall.

It has been able to maintain its rock-bottom prices thanks in part to a 2011 agreement between China Post and the US Postal Service that sets special rates on shipments from China weighing 4.4 pounds or less. It often costs less to ship these 'ePackets' across the ocean than it does to ship a small parcel from one state to another, making already-inexpensive Chinese-made products look even more attractive to American consumers.

This deal might not be long for the world, however. President Donald Trump announced in October that he would withdraw the US from the 145-year-old Universal Postal Union, the United Nations organization that governs the international mail system. In Trump's view (and that of many others dating back to the Reagan administration), the current arrangement gives China an unfair advantage because it classifies it as a developing country, keeping its shipping rates to the US artificially low.

The withdrawal gives the US a year to renegotiate the terms of the deal - including, likely, setting higher rates on inbound mail from China - and if successful, it says it will stay in the organization. But without the shipping discounts, Wish vendors may have to raise prices.

Lehrman declined to speculate on the potential fallout if rates go up, but says it is something the company has been thinking about for years. It's investing in local warehousing in the US and Europe to support its Wish Express program, which has enabled shipping times to be cut down to less than a week for certain popular products, though shipping costs vary widely vendor to vendor. (Currently, only about 30 percent of its US shipments are handled by these warehouses, according to Recode.) It is also seeking out more local vendors near its biggest markets.

Szulczewski recently told Forbes that the company is planning for an IPO within the next year or two. It is looking to Latin American markets - Mexico, Argentina, Chile - for growth, and eventually Africa when the logistics infrastructure catches up, Lehrman says. Before it can tackle global domination, though, there are a few things it needs to take care of at home.

For one, there's the reputation issue. While its overall ratings on Google Play and Apple's App Store are high - 4.3 out of 5 for 7.9 million reviews and 4.7 out of 5 for 885,000 reviews, respectively - many of the reviews marked 'most helpful' by users describe nightmarish experiences with shipping and customer service: items that haven't arrived after months, impossible-to-obtain refunds, unauthorized purchases after using a credit card on the site. Sites like Trustpilot, Better Business Bureau, and Complaints Board are littered with one-star ratings for the company. Last year, Wish settled a class action lawsuit alleging that it duped customers by inflating the 'original' prices of products on the site to make the deals look better than they were. It did not admit any wrongdoing, but agreed to pay between and to US customers who purchased from the site within a four-year timeframe, plus more than million in legal fees.

On the app itself, Wish uses customer reviews to establish trust, but like Amazon - and, frankly, most marketplaces - Wish says it is constantly fighting fake reviews. Last year, it noticed merchants gaming the system by using algorithms to plug in four- and five-star reviews, so it developed its own algorithm to try to weed out the ones with suspicious phrasing. A newer version also flags products that get a suspiciously high share of one- or two-star ratings.