The French depreciation services have requested the dereferencing of this platform, whose application will no longer be available in virtual stores, due to the presence of non-compliant and dangerous products.
Le Monde with AFP
Such a measurement is rare. But after a survey of the Directorate-General for Competition, Consumption and Fraud Suppression (DGCCRF), the site and the Wish application should disappear from large search engines like Google, and application stores.
Compliance and security of many products posted by the platform are pointing from the finger, reports, Wednesday, November 24, The Parisian who quotes the Ministry of the Economy. Access to the Wish site will be always possible by typing the address directly.
On 140 products sold on Wish and analyzed by the DGCCRF, a significant number had been identified as non-compliant. Thus, 90% of the electrical devices analyzed were considered dangerous, just like 62% of fancy jewelery and 45% of toys.
“There is no reason to tolerate online what we do not accept in the physical shops,” said Bruno the Mayor, Minister of the Economy, on a daily basis.
One hundred million claimed users
After notifying the platform of the presence of these illicit products, the DGCCRF found that even once removed, they often reappeared under another name. She therefore summoned Wish to comply and believes not having received “satisfactory answer”, hence his decision. The penalty should last until Wish comes into compliance with the law.
More generally, as part of its investigation into the safety of products sold on the online marketplaces, the DGCCRF announced in mid-October have found the presence of 60% of non-compliant products on various platforms. forms, 32% of which were dangerous.
Created in 2010 and based in San Francisco, Wish belongs to ContextLogic. She claims some 100 million active users, and entered the stock market in Wall Street in December 2020. In November 2020, the platform had already been pinned by the repression of fraud in another survey: it was notably accused of doing “misleading” price cuts and put on sale call products that were not really available.
