The other day I was on wish.com, when I discovered a truly frightening revelation. They now have a refurbished store. Yes, my friends. High tech, huge savings. Fully refurbished and refundable within 30 days. So, Wish are out here selling you not only junk that's brand new that doesn't work, but apparently junk that's refurbished that also doesn't work. Let's find out.

Oh boy. Okay, alright. Well, the first thing I see is a refurbished Galaxy Z Flip 5G for $289. I like the number one review from Tiffany, four stars.

I was shocked to discover that Wish is now selling refurbished products on their platform, with a promise of full refunds within 30 days. This raises concerns about the quality and authenticity of these items.

The fact that Wish is offering refurbished products at such low prices seems suspicious. I couldn't help but wonder what's really going on behind the scenes.

I decided to investigate further by checking out some of the available refurbished products. That's when I came across a refurbished Galaxy Z Flip 5G, priced at $289. The first thing that caught my eye was the one-star review from Tiffany, who had purchased the product and expressed her disappointment with its performance.

As I delved deeper into the reviews, I noticed that many of the other reviewers had also experienced similar issues with the refurbished products. It's clear that Wish is not being transparent about the condition of their refurbished items.

I'm left wondering what kind of quality control process Wish has in place to ensure that these products are safe and functional before they're sold to customers. Is it possible that some of these refurbished products are actually broken or defective? Only time will tell if Wish's promise of full refunds within 30 days is as good as it sounds.

For now, I'm skeptical about buying refurbished products from Wish. While the prices may seem attractive, the lack of transparency and low-quality reviews raises serious concerns about the reliability of these items.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- The other day I was on wish.com,when I discovered a trulyfrightening revelation.They now have a refurbished store.Yes, my friends.High tech, huge savings.Fully refurbished andrefundable within 30 days.So, Wish are out here selling younot only junk that's brandnew that doesn't work,but apparently junk that's refurbishedthat also doesn't work.Let's find out.Oh boy.Okay, alright.Well, the first thing I see isa refurbished Galaxy Z Flip 5G for $289.I like the number one reviewfrom Tiffany, four stars."It was alright as far as the phone goes,but they sent me the wrong color,and it was locked to a servicewhen it's supposed to be unlocked."I would say, Tiffany,no offense,that's probably a littleless than four starsif you get a different color devicethat's locked instead of being unlocked.So, this is a little desktop for $92,the CHUWI CoreBox.And it's probably not gonna be very fast.I mean, we're talking dualcore 5th Gen Intel processor.I mean for 91 bucks,this might be alright.But wait, what is this?'Cause they show a MacBookAir and a MacBook Pro?What?MacBook Air/Pro, 11/13 inch.What am I getting here?Is this just I pick whatever I want?Oh my God, dude.You pick the size.And the size doesn't say, MacBook Air,Pro, whatever.It just says the model number.So, unless you are wellversed with the differencebetween an MD760LL and an MD2240LL/A,you don't really know what you're getting.Sure, add to cart.This is gonna be a garbage dump.A Galaxy Tab 3, which is ancient.I do think this tablet is about as oldas half the people watchingthis video right now.This Droid Mini is,oh, good lord.When did the Droid Mini come out?I wanna say that was like 2011?This is a very old phone.For 55 bucks?Sure, I'm down.That's a legitimately neat item.So with that, let me hitthat big red order button.Give it two to five monthsfor everything to show up,and we'll see was it really a good(laughs softly)I'm not gonna finish that sentence.Of course it's not a good idea,but we'll all go on thetrain wreck together.(train engine blaring)Oh wow!Our items from Wish have arrived.All of them showed up relatively quickly,and I believe they were allfrom various US sellers.- Wait, these are Wish refurbished?- Are you here without understandingthe premise of the video?Did you not watch the first two minutesof the video before you got here?- No, that's not--- No.- We don't watch AustinEvans videos, what?- Okay, so this is the Lumia 735.- Yo!- And they say refurbished,this is in the box.If you're not familiar,Nokia was once a great friendand partner of Microsoft,so much so that actuallythey purchased the company.And when Microsoft purchased them,they basically made themexclusive to Windows Mobile,or Windows Phone as it wasknown a little bit later.How much did we pay for this Lumia 735?- A whopping $60.- 60 bucks!This is the kind of stuff thatI could absolutely get behind.Some sweet Microsoftbranding on my five watt USB.Actually, was it 10 watt?- This isn't thefirst time we've seena Microsoft plug on Austin's channel.(Ken laughing)Got him!- This is certainly moreof a collector's piecethan something that youwould actually want.But the fact that I foundthis brand new in box on Wish,and I can do an unboxing of it eight,nine years after it firstcame out is really cool.But like, oh,it immediately pops up!Look at that, look at that.We are firing up as we speak.Can we check that's not an OLED?- That's not a $12,000 phone,because that's what an OLED was back then.- No, no.The S3 had an OLED, andthe S4 and S5 had an OLED.- This has a OLED display!Look at that.- No way.- 720p, 312 pixels per,what?Okay.- I called it, boy!- Now he's gonna gloat.He's gonna gloat.- No, it couldn't be an OLED!Ooh.Oh, we can get in a taxi.It's so far away!Where's the sidewalk?- Okay, why are you,don't attack us!- You know, sometimes I am right,and anytime I am,I'm happy to proclaimit from the rooftops.Austin was right!Austin was right!So it's gonna be a little slow, for sure,but let's see if we canactually watch a video here.It's loading, it's got one gig of RAM.So, we have to be patient.- Wow.- Ah, it works!Hey, this is fine.I still have a lot of love,and look, I'll admit it,definitely rose tinted glasses,but this era of hardware and softwareI feel like had a lot of potential.I think this is also a phone,'cause we ordered a few phones here, but--- Is it ringing?- No?- Then how do you know?It's true.- Because--- Scientific deduction, okay.- Oh, it's our Moto Droid XT Mini.- Droid!- Okay.So we just took a lookat that Lumia, right?Feel how heavy this little (squeak) is.(laughing)- You are out of control today.- Back in the old days,before Android was a household name,there was Droid.Droid was a very, very big deal,and there were a number of Droid models,and this is the Droid Mini,and boy, oh boy.is that, just fill my hands up real nice.Oh, we know.Okay, I will say,so unlike the Lumia, thisone has certainly been used.It's in, I would say quite good condition.It also has 1080p video and 10 megapixels.What year did the Droid mini come out?This must have been 2011.- 11 or 12.- 2013.- 13.- 2013?We've got an always ondisplay, the active display.We also have Droid Zap,which allows you to instantlyshare with a simple gesture of,(making gun noises)I will say, YouTube isstruggling real hard on this guy.It is so slow.Which it shouldn't be a surpriseconsidering that it is over 10 years old.This is a sample of the videocoming straight off of the Droid Mini.It is like saturationand contrast cranked up to 100.Oh my God, you're zooming in!For 2013, this is actuallyreally pretty neat.Thankfully we have one more phone,and I have it right here.It's a Blackberry mobile device!I like the fact that I takeoff the screen protector,and yet the screen looks no different.(crew laughing)- It's stick, oh great.That was in some CEO's ass crack.He went and sniffed that?Like, why would you do that?- Where exactly do youkeep your phone, Ken?- I like to keep it between my--- Okay, nevermind.Nevermind.moving on, moving on!- Natures' pocket.(crew laughing)- My mom watches this channel.- That's not where Ithought that sentence was going.- So we've got a wide variety ofapps here that are mostly BBM,which is the only reasonwhy you'd buy one of these.One of the things thatmade this slightly moreof a business-y phone is that this wasoutfitted with not only the micro USB,but also the micro HDMI,meaning that you could plug it into a dockand actually try to use this as,maybe not a laptop, but at least a devicethat you could sit downwith a keyboard and type,and have like an externalmonitor and stuff.I think RIM were really tryingto have some kind of relevancy,because by the time this phone came out,the iPhone was absolutely dominating.Android was completelyeating Blackberry's lunch.Even Windows Phones still existed.Like, it was one of those thingswhere they had to try something,and unfortunately theywere not successful.It's not awful.Let's try the camera real quick,'cause unfortunately, aswith lots of older phones,outside of a couple of key apps,they don't really do anything anymore.I bet that looks beautiful.Oh (duck quacking), that's beautiful.Now we have to decide here, like,is Wish actually a good spotto buy refurbished tech?Like, so far,at least with older tech,it's a resounding yes.Prices have been good.I would say the condition has been solid.But why don't we try someslightly more modern techthat you actually may wanna purchase,to see if this is the samejunk as everyone else sells,or if Wish are really onto something.This next item drew my attentionfor one reason and one reason.Actually, no,technically two reasons.but really one reason.Are you familiar withour friends at Chuwi?You know, Chuwi.- Like the Star Wars character?- No, not Chewbacca.No, this is the Chuwi Corebox.It's a little unclear.We purchased it for, it waslike 58 bucks or something.- No, it was almost 100.- Whoa!- What, no?It was $57, right?This is a little desktop for $92.We paid almost 90 for it.You can buy it now for around 60.- What! It went from 90 to 60?Right after I bought it?Dammit, okay,well, behold.- Okay!- The Chuwi!- Wait, actually,that looks kind of dope.- It's like a little mini Mac Pro.I purchased this as a refurbished item.This thing is brand new as hell.I wonder why we keep getting thesebrand new items in therefurbished section.Is it either that Wish are lazyand they only have a handfulof refurbished items,and they're just puttinga bunch of new stuffon there to fill out the segment.Or B, because it's a brand new thing,they're incentivizing thesellers who are actually the oneswho fulfill the items to putstuff at really good prices.Either way, I'm battinga really good averageon brand new items that aresupposed to come refurbished,and that's pretty cool.Well, let's actually set this thing up,get it fired up.So we have gottenourselves into Windows 10.Let's see what we've actuallygot to work with here.Spec wise, we do have that Core i5-5257U,which is not like a terrible CPU.We have eight gigs of RAM,which looks like it might be upgradable.A 240 gig SSD.If this was actually used,which I don't think it is,I'm pretty sure this islike a brand new computer.If this was really used,I'd be like a littleborderline for 90 bucks, right?But considering this isa new system that seemsto have a fully authenticcopy of Windows 10,and this is enough performance thatyou could do basic home tasks on,or use this as a NAS or something.Like, it's not terrible.You may be asking, wowthat's a really scuffed XboxSeries X actually got there.Well, thankfully this was not from Wish.This is a refurbished Xbox game from Wish.Now I think this should bepretty straightforward, hopefully.I'm just curious on what kind ofrefurbished Xbox game does Wish sell?So it's, well,it's very simple.Oh my God, that is,wait, this is from VIP Outlet.That's a VIP Outlet label.So it says this is WatchDogs 2 Deluxe Edition,includes extra content.Doubt.But let's take a look at our$9 copy of Watch Dogs 2.There you go, Watch Dogs 2 shows up.So I actually think thatthis is a functional game.So while we let our Watchdogs install,what if I told you that there's a companywho has made the perfect accessoryto go with your Xbox Series X?Yep, you heard me right.I'm talking about Sony.Wait, that's a?- Sony?- Okay, so you know how I just waspointing out this is a VIP Outlet label?This is a Target label, clearance!Was $99.99, now $29.99.How much did I pay for this?- You paid a cool $40 flat.- So some mother(squeak) went out thereand bought this on clearancefrom Target for 30 bucks,and resold it to me for 40,while having the audacity of leaving the,(Alex laughing)(flames roaring)And we have our INZONE H3.I have a little bit of a problemwith this headset at 100 bucks,because it just doesn'tfeel quite that expensive.But at like 40 bucks,this thing's a no-brainer.So as much as I'm not happyabout the whole clearance thing,this is fine, this is okay.It's brand new, I got a good deal on this.As far as playing Watch Dogs 2,I mean, if you reallycare about Watch Dogs 2,you can feel free to,but the inconsistency inthe quality of the itemsand where I'm getting them fromdoes feel a bit concerning.Like, just 'cause I getfour or five good items,I think I could just as easily get fouror five absolute trash items.There's no real, like,solid feeling of quality,like oh, they're actually on top of this.It just feels like Wish are just randomlygrabbing stuff from all over the internetand just reshipping it straight to you.So when I saw a Samsung Galaxy Z Fliplisted as a refurb model on Wish,you know I couldn't say no.Now, this is a Z Flip 5G,which is technically the Z Flip 2.It says store, eBay.Did I?I definitely purchased this from Wish,but it's actually, it was from eBay.Huh, okay.Let's take a look, that's very unusual.This is our Z Flip 5G.I will say that bronze looks terrific.I just like that colorway.And the screen is, ooh!Oh snap, this actually lookslike it's in good shape.I think whoever bought theZ Flip did not use it much,'cause it actually feels fresh.And keep in mind that this wasa $1,450 phone when it came out in 2020.2020?2020, 2020.I will say, the only realflaw I can see with this,and it's really small,there is a scratch on that outer screen.It's subtle, but there isa little scratch there.Whoever refurbished this,they didn't actually completely wipe it.So not only did it jump straight intothe interface withoutneeding me to log in,but it does have the batterylevel app on installed,which you would think that theyshould have actually wiped.That being said, everythingelse seems to be in good shape.The screen itself,I'm looking at it with a white display,it is in good shape, so there'sno burn-in that I can see.Clearly no scratches or anything.Oh, the outer display is broken.Normally if I double tap the power button,so you hear it.So if I hit this button,that's gonna take a photo right now.(phone camera clicking)But I do not see it there,so that's the downside.Is this worth 290 bucks?I think it's an okay deal.It's not terrible if youwant to get a folding phone,you don't wanna commit toa huge amount of money.Like, this actually is still decent,but the fact that it camewith the broken outer display,like, it's not that useful.But I don't buy a refurbished deviceto have a almost flawless thing.Like, I want all of my screens,buttons, cameras,all that kinda stuff tofunction, and this just doesn't.So what I'm gonna do isI'm going to contact Wish,and say, hey,this outer display doesn't work.Gimme a refund, gimme a discount,gimme a swap.Whatever they recommend,I will be open to,but I'm gonna basically see if they cando something to make this right.I gotta say, the return processwas actually pretty smooth.So I was able to use their AI chat botonline to process the return.They gave me a prepaid shippinglabel, I shipped it off,and within less than a week,I have my refund for the Z Flip.No real questions asked, Idon't have to talk to anybody.So thumbs up for Wishvirtual customer support,I guess?So inside this box is aMacBook of some variety.So I purchased this on Wish.It gave me a MacBook Air/MacBook Prowith a bunch of modelnumbers and sort of specs,but I don't actuallyknow which one this was.For $217, it looks like a MacBook Air.So I guess I have a MacBook Air now,in a case and a power adapter,and that's it.First impressions, this isin shockingly good condition.Not only with the case,but also just physically.Like this MacBook looks,I would say, A plus quality.Like honestly, there is nothing that Icould possibly complainabout when it comesto this being a refurbished machine.Uh oh.Oh!(Austin yelling)(Austin cheering)This MacBook Air did so many things rightthat they sold a gajillion of them,and they're still goodcomputers even today.Now the big downside, I would say,is with the screens.So this is I think on the 13,like a 1440 by 900.Like, it is the opposite of retina,and that was one of the maindownsides to using these MacBooks.The screens are mid at best.So it is running High Sierra right now,so it is a 1.8 gigahertz Core i5,eight gigabytes of RAM,and let's actually see what we'reworking with as far as battery.'Cause that's one of the things thatI always worry aboutwith things like this.Ooh, okay.408 cycles,and it is service battery condition.So that's a big problem.I would, if I had normally purchased this,I would probably spend another50 bucks to put a battery in.I do wanna take a look at one more itemthat we're gonna try with this.I have bought a numberof AirPods from Wish,and they were all fake.100% of them were fake.These are supposedly realrefurbished AirPods Pros.So what better way toexperience my beautiful newMacBook Air then with some real,real good AirPods Pros, shall we?Alright, inside we've got...AirPods Pro One.- Well, Ireally hope they're real,because we paid almost $150.- Oh God.That's so much money for used AirPods.Good lord, alright,these are the first Gen too,which I feel like youcould probably buy newif they were still around for that much.'Cause you can buy AirPodsPro 2 for like $200.So the fact that I got thelast Gen refurbished, yikes.Let me first start by making surethis is a real wireless charging case.So I'm gonna turn on my power sharing.Okay, so theoretically ifI put this on my Z Flip,it will start to charge.Yes, okay,cool, so it is the realwireless charging case.That's cool.Let's try to actually listen tosome music or something on these.Now I don't wanna betoo judgmental on these,because I do think that,because this version of macOSI think predates the AirPods Pro,it's like sort of semi supported,but the controls are being finicky.They kind of work and they kind of don't,like yeah, it won't,it will pause but it won't play.The AirPods Pro do appear to be authentic,but hell no are theyworth 150 bucks, right?There's just no shotthat you could do this.Now, yes,they are refurbished-ish.I mean, they seem perfectly clean.There's nothing that'sobviously wrong with it.The value alone kind of makes thema no-go as far as I'm concerned.Now, this MacBook is a littlebit more of a tricky subject,because I do believe that this isa very minty 2017 MacBook here.Like, I will give them that.It is in excellent condition.The problem I have isnot so much with the factthat the battery is in poor condition,which it would be nice to know that,but that kind of speaks toa bigger overall problem with Wish,in that most sites thatsell you refurbished stuffare very clear with what you're getting.You're gonna see the condition,you're gonna see the grade,you're gonna see an explanation ofthe battery life may be low,or may be scratched, whatever.But on Wish, it's like,hey, it's refurbished.Deal with it, sucker.Sometimes, in fact I would say most,of the items we got today wereactually in really good shape,which is impressive.I am impressed by Wish Refurbished,but the inconsistency gives me hugepause before I could recommend it,because I could have just been lucky.None of this feels like, oh,Wish is the spot to get your stuff.Wish is the spot if youwant to roll the diceand hope that you get something decent.Because I feel like for every gooditem that's in great condition,that's new in box, that's a great deal,there's probably just as manyabsolute stinkers out thereand you have no real ideaof how to separate them out.Thank you very much for watching.Make sure to subscribe to the channel,ring-a-ling the ding-a-ling button,and let me know, is it timeto give Wish an A plus,or should we just wish that we hadmoved on to a different topic.One thing I'll mention is that whileI was going through the return process,I was looking through Wishand I noticed something.They have removed the refurbished section.Now, to be clear,Wish still sell lots of refurbished items,but they no longer advertiseit on their homepageas they're the home of refurbished stuff.And while you can see somerefurbished categories,none of them directly line up with whatwe were able to order in this video,which got me thinkingon how serious is Wishreally about this refurbished stuff.Austin was right!