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A year and a half after its delisting, Wish makes a discreet return to Google

2023-03-14T19:18:25.251Z


After the “digital injunction” issued by the DGCCRF in November 2021, the main search platforms simply no longer referred to the commercial site.


Wish is making a sneaky comeback.

A year and a half after being delisted by Bercy, in November 2021, following an investigation by the DGCCRF (General Directorate for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control) - which had revealed that a large part of the articles sold were not compliant or dangerous - the e-commerce platform Wish has returned to search engines since Friday, as

Politico

spotted

.

The information, confirmed to Le

Figaro,

was not a surprise for the state services in charge of these issues.

If

the "digital injunction"

lasted for nearly fifteen months,

"the DGCCRF regularly exchanged

(during this period, editor's note)

with the company by being very firm on the expected measures allowing to respect the injunction to stop deceiving the consumer",

specifies the administration of Bercy.

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The DGCCRF justifies this decision in particular

“after more than a year of exchanges and with regard to the elements produced, the commitments made and the checks carried out by the DGCCRF.”

At the end of 2021, Bercy had urged Wish to bring its products into compliance with the standards in force to avoid accidents.

At the end of its investigation, the DGCCRF had indicated 90% of the electronic devices analyzed were considered dangerous.

Ditto for 62% of fancy jewelry and 45% of toys.

And was based on a new device voted in 2020 giving the DGCCRF the possibility of delisting certain problematic sites.

Protect the consumer

Since then, the platform was always available for those who went directly to the web address of the site.

Even if its removal from search engines had greatly impacted its attendance.

By the digital injunction, the DGCCRF wanted to protect the consumer from the dangerousness of the products and the misleading information that the site could contain

”, specifies in

Figaro

the office of the Minister Delegate in charge of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, and Trade Olivia Gregory.

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So that Wish no longer “

intends to mislead the consumer

”, the latter warns: “

It was the injunction that allowed this upgrading.

“ Among the commitments made, there is in particular the promise of the withdrawal of “

non-compliant or dangerous products that the DGCCRF had pointed out at the time.

“In 2021, the non-reaction of Wish had also led to the decision of the authorities.

There followed a legal battle at the end of which the Paris administrative court considered that Wish did not respect Bercy's requests.

The DGCCRF now wants to be optimistic:

“The company has notably put in place measures concerning the procedures for withdrawal/recall and limitation of the presence on the platform of products similar to those which have been recognized as non-compliant and dangerous.”

With a warning:

“Particular vigilance will be brought by the DGCCRF to the respect of the commitments made by Wish.”

Source: lefigaro

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