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Be Careful What You Wish For | Corporate Casket

iilluminaughtii

Blair Zoń

Documentary, Education, Business, Society & Culture

4.4961 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Sign up for our Patreon to support what we do! https://www.patreon.com/iilluminaughtii Welcome to the Corporate Casket, a weekly series where bad businesses go to die. Wish is effectively the ‘reality’ side in the online versus reality meme. Their cheap quality and cheap prices often result in low-quality products but, when you only pay a few dollars, who can complain, right? Unfortunately, quality isn’t the online issue at Wish; there are other dangers lurking behind this cheap, fast fashion. Connect With Me: https://linktr.ee/iilluminaughtii’ Sources: https://justpaste.it/40339 Writers/Researchers/Helpers: Ali Z-B This episode was edited and mixed by: G. Thomas Craig Album cover art created by: Betsy Primes Intro Song Credits: Trauma- Will Van De Crommert Outro Song Credits: Electronica Punch- Oleksandr Koltsov Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're going to be. Wish is the internet's dollar store. They've got toilet paper earrings and engagement.

0:17.0

Wish is the internet's dollar store.

0:21.0

They've got toilet paper earrings and engagement rings, fast

0:24.2

fashion and tech goods, all for suspiciously low prices. But what's the worst that

0:29.7

can happen, right? If you buy a tablet for 50 bucks, sure it may not be as great as the latest thing on the market, but you get a functional device out of the deal.

0:38.0

Chances are, if you open the app or go to their website, you might even find a whole host of products you didn't think you needed, but you'll go

0:44.8

ahead and buy them anyway. The prices are low, therefore the stakes are low, and those of us who

0:50.4

remember all those toilet paper shortages at the beginning of the pandemic might start to look at those toilet paper earrings with a weird sense of nostalgia.

0:58.0

Now you'll never be without toilet paper again, I guess.

1:02.0

Weird actress. Your next dresses.

1:04.0

That's right.

1:05.0

These dresses are the most off the wall, but like...

1:08.0

Plus, some people buy from wish purely for those expectation versus reality videos and laugh,

1:12.0

or be pleasantly surprised by the results.

1:15.0

And I mean, hey, if you need a sexy, sequin evening gown or a fluffy flowery dress for prom,

1:20.0

knowing that you're only going to wear it once, why pay hundreds of dollars for it?

1:24.0

Even popular youtubers like Sophia and Iguard have done multiple clothing, makeup, and

1:28.3

tech calls from the site, and use the company to buy wedding dresses and explore how she felt in a variety of styles.

1:34.0

So I think that it is a little bit nicer in that regard, but it just doesn't seem like a wedding

1:40.3

dress to me. And not just... So what's the harm really? You get a cheap outfit that doesn't hurt your

1:44.7

wallet, maybe a novelty product that takes a month or more to come in, but

1:48.2

everybody wins. Well if you've seen any of my other fast fashion episodes before, whether it's Sheehan,

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