I'd argue that counterfeits are a much bigger problem for a company like Amazon that people actually use for "qualitative" purchases.
Also the numerous videos from linustechtips and many other reputable channels detailing in painful detail how scammy wish is.
Also my mother in law who bought a $12 fitness tracker that died after 2 months.
My opinion is that they've begun exhausting the pool of people they can afford to convert since the lifetime value per new member must be atrocious and they rely heavily on marketing to new users to keep the machine going. Everyone has seen a wish ad by now - at this point there are only 2 segments: those willing to give it a shot, and those who have decided not to. If those that were in the first camp don't keep buying because the experience is terrible then you are spending progressively more to try and convert that second camp as things go on. I don't think they have a future-secure business model.
edit: a quick review of their s1 shows they spend 100% of their profit on marketing, and that aside from coronavirus bump they have not grown either in margins or growth since 2018.
> Wish will pay the organization between $12 million and $14 million a year for the length of the three-year contract, according to a source who wasn't authorized to share the numbers publicly.
I just now surfed to the website to see what they even sell and it won’t let me see a single bit of the website without signing up. Genius plan.
When I think of Wish.com I think of gimmicky, low quality, chinese products. Very few sellers are actually trying to build a brand, so they aren't trying to build a quality product. Wish.com is trying to build a brand though so they need to do better at quality control.
The auto switches are drop-in mechanical pieces for a gun to convert it into burst fire or fully automatic, skirting laws, taxes, and registration. I don't remember the incognito name they use for these but there are very specific designs used for specific guns so once you see a picture, it's obvious what it actually is. Because these things are so specific in how they are built, there's pretty much no way you could escape conviction if you owned one and it was not registered. The feds could just say it looks like an auto switch and if you can't prove that it existed before the automatic weapons ban, then you are breaking the law.
And I'm with you - I probably wouldn't want to put a wish.com-sourced fuel filter on a firearm any more than I'd want to put it on any machinery.