Pinned down but not totally sunk.
Dereferenced from major search engines like Google and application stores since Monday, Wish is implementing its response against the French administration.
According to our information, the lawyers of the American company filed on December 27th an appeal before the administrative court of Paris.
The e-commerce site and the Wish application, which resell cheap products made in China, contest the findings of an investigation by the Directorate General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control (DGCCRF) on the security of products sold on Wish in particular.
A scheduled hearing
In its investigation, revealed last Wednesday by Le Parisien, the Directorate General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control (DGCCRF) pointed to serious compliance problems on the 140 products sold online and analyzed.
"Some toys were made with small elements that came off too easily, at the risk of being ingested and causing suffocation in toddlers," Bercy said.
The same goes for electrical devices, 95% of which were non-compliant, with 90% of products at risk.
A hearing is scheduled for December 10 and Wish is "hopeful that the judge will rule on this issue quickly."
In the meantime, Wish continues to be accessible in France, just type in its address directly into the browser to enter the marketplace.
