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Avoid Wish's "Limited Quantity Deals" it's a click bait scam. I shop from Wish a lot and always looking for cheap pricing and some 3rd party items. When this Limited quantity deal started popping up on my feed, I was blown away. My first couple orders were for 2 cargo pants (different colors), 2 Tablets, a 10pcs Rechargable Batteries set, a mini air conditioner and 2 leather jackets in different colors. I had told a family member about this promotion thinking it was a great deal, so he had asked if I could get him a set of drill bits, a security camera and 2 tablets. So I ordered them for him. Mind you, according to Wish, these are $1 each and $1 shipping.
So the following day, more stuff appeared and I ordered 2 camcorder, 2 Superman Statues and a few other things. Now, I know this is all expensive stuff, but Wish's sellers were offering it for $1. The following day, I noticed my orders started showing "Refunded" I figured...ok, I probably missed the deals on them and they didn't have the quantity. Then, all my orders got canceled and refunded as it states "Seller is unable to fulfill this order". Which was really weird considering all the orders got refunded. So I looked for more deals and the same items I ordered from the sellers, are back listed on Wish's site as limited quantity deals again. So I tried to replace my order keeping it at a minimum of 1 and when I ordered the security camera again it stated "Only 4 Left!". So I waited again and all my orders were getting canceled again.
I wanted to reach out to Wish to find out why (especially with the security camera) but had a hard time with their stupid automated chat system (that does nothing to help by the way). When I finally out smarted their chat system, I sent a message to a customer service agent. I got back a generic answer about how if the seller is unable to fulfill the order, they will refund it and it can take up to 14 days before you receive your refund. So I responded saying that I understand that but how can an item be unfulfilled but at the same time be listed back on the site as if the seller still has the item available? I got another generic message saying the same thing as last time. I wrote back again asking the same question, this time I hot a response saying they are sad to hear I'm having problems with Wish and appreciate the feedback. They will address my concern with the company to help them improve. I wrote back again saying I wanted something done and have yet to hear from them.
So if you see these deals, know that they will never ship (because the sellers think it will only cost $1 to ship but really find out that it's more than that and they just cancel the order). I would avoid this at all cost as it's a scam.
For all the people saying "fake post, limited 1 per person, that's what it says read" apparently you weren't around when it first started and it didn't have that posted anywhere. The "1st person wins" was just added after they received numerous complaints. Might want to pay attention before replying and know what it is that you are talking about.
I have actually gotten the limited quantity deals - and surprisingly really good quality purchases. A heavy duty canvas purse and a leather steampunk leg pouch that retails other places for up to $100 starting around $45
Hello I see this as I was searching for an answer to something! I've been winning at the Limited Quantity Deals for more than a year! I have recently noticed that I no longer see this offer! Has anyone had this happen? and if so, did this offer come back or are you limited to how many times you can win? I had averaged more than 100 Items per month! I get many packages with up too 24 items packed together!
I used to get a lot too and now the limited quantity deals are gone! I'm very sad about this!
Yeah, it's gone now because of all the people posting their "tips" and "how-to's." Thanks a lot, idiots. As of now, they have "no plans to reinstate the limited time deals."
WISH LIMITED QUANTITY ITEMS are like a raffle. Each special bid you make eg $1 item and $1 shipping is a ticket in the raffle for that particular item when it is processed 24hr later. Unlike a raffle, if you dont win the item, the same value is refunded to you.
Personally, I make atleast 5 to 8 of these transactions per hour and have been doing this rain hail or shine since April this year so that 5 months of approx 5 or so attempts per hour for approx8 hrs per day every day without fail. I have won a total of 130 out of all of those attempts.
Its not purely based on time but the closer you get to 59:59 the better, you are usually in good spot if you can grab it at around 59:55. However, this is further complicated by the multi listings where there are a number of items because someone may have grabbed a different item to you and because its part of a group the group a a whole is used further diluting your chances. Then to top it all off I dont think it stops there, I think there is a algorithm that takes all 55 to 59.59 bid and randomly selcts 1 from that group of bids, then 50 - 54.59 etc and so on, till there are 6 to 10 possible winners and then 1 randomly is selected then from that pool. I have grabbed items i thought for sure I would win by landing them at 59.56 and 59.58 yet I didnt and there is no feasible way anyone could have landed the item any quicker.
My tip is
Use Wish Cash not paypal or any other payment method ( it is processed then and there with no delay)
stick with items that show 59.30 to 59.59. Anything below 59.00 definitely dont bother
avoid if at all possible multi listed items, it causes delays in transaction cause you have to go through items and also makes that 1 bid diluted because of so many other items in that 1 offer
pick a target amount to spend on a regular basis, realise you may not get it. you are refunded. if you wants something buy it normally.
I have won jackets, car covers, led lights for decorations, led lights for car inside and out, cameras and action cameras / kits, watches, power banks, car charger/starter, tracksuits, kids toys, backpacks and other bags and the list goes on.
I just realise that I wont win everything, the issue I have is my 40 to 50 refunds the next day that I seem to have to manually request a refund for instead of the computer system they use simply putting it back in to my wish cash so that I can use it to continue biding on these things, it becomes very time consuming approx 1 min per refund request.
I do get stressed especially if there is something I am really after for example a led moon lamp or the tony stark arc reactor model, been chasing these atleast 2 times a day since april and havent got one yet
Yes. I have recieved many limited quantity deals. It just depends on if you are the 1st.
Unfortunately, I may have gotten too many deals. They don't show up at all now. I never see any anymore.
I have got the deal several times and recieved the items
Same here!
I am a winner of these items myself and personally can say I win daily. These items are called limited quantity deals . Meaning one person who purchased the deal first will get it at this price. Not everyone. Being a actual contest no one can do it without watching the app for a couple hours and refreshing to see new item. I personally have a YouTube you can check out if you don't believe me https://youtu.be/9wtyYfIW5-g
But this is a legitimate thing and it is possible to win. Actually quite simple if you watch the timing and enter correctly. Some people are buying several of the same item. Even if you win you only get one. And the rest will be refunded .
You are right. I have won 54 items since April but it takes time. I have the time and it pays off. I noticed a certain rhythm to when the merchandise changed and following it. It used to be it changed on the top of the hour, or at quarter past the hour, or at the bottom of the hour or as the 45 minute mark. Basically every fifteen minutes it needed to be checked. Recently that is not the case so it's harder to win. I stopped going for clothing as what I got was as cheap as all the rest of the clothing on wish! It can be done be it is time consuming and you have to be right on top of it. As soon as a new bunch of items comes up and you buy it, notice how many minutes (which is shows). If it is less than 59 minutes you won't get it. You have to be the first to go for it in the first minute. Hope this helps.
I wish I would have started doing it sooner, I just started like no joke maybe 3 weeks ago and I've won at least 5 things. But the last two days when I go on wish, there isn't any of the limited quantity deals listed anymore. Is it just me or what's going on?!
it's gone for me too as of last night. might come back i don't know that's what i was trying to find out when i saw this site. but the stuff is definitely winnable its like they said u got to have lots of time and be right on it when it changes.
I have noticed that too! I know I have been begging them to pull the LQDs once that first person 'wins' the item so there aren't so many refunds. Maybe they finally listened? Just seems odd that they are ALL gone now and those of us that were getting chances are now getting none at all? Something is going on.
I was wondering the same thing, its been a few days and haven't seen any. Iv gotten many items worth well more than 75 cents, would make me sad if the get rid of it, might actually stop using wish if they do.
They actually removed the LQD from their help section... It looks like they are pulling them. I might too! Most of their other 'Deals' are mostly click bait. Where it shows some Free or super low price but to get what you want it is no where near that deal :( Sad thing is I still have wish cash to spend and they seemed to have pulled the best deals!
I noticed that too :( doesn't look good. I started with around $40 that I would recycle back into wish cash and toss at the LQD, only have around $4 left, if it doesn't come back ill have to find something REAL cheap.
Yea I had about the same had about 11 left, just found something to buy and used some of my discount points too, because why not right? lol I will keep checking back for the LQD but for now I am giving up on Wish. At least for a few weeks. Maybe they will come to their senses when their sales drop off? Assuming their sales are going to drop seeing most of their items can be bought on aliexpress and amazon cheaper than they offer without some sort of special deal.
. . has AnyOne noticed lately the *Limited Quantity Deals* are Fading away . . . i am Serious. take a closer look .. and you will discover that what im txt'n here is Really the
Honestly Truth . . . sad ×/'-
I've also noticed they stopped offering limited quantity items. August 24th 2021 was the last day I had them available. I have checked every day since and they haven't had any limited quantity items posted.
Yea that was the last day I saw them too. Like I said I think they got rid of them. Hopefully they come to their senses but who knows with them.
Same thing! It's gone!
Exactly. Now what to do with the wish cash. We should've been warned it was being removed if we had the cash for this sole purpose
I done this deal thing about 40 times over the past few month i had no luck and i was always refunded with in hrs. Also if yall read the print it does say one item will be sold at the special deal.
Idjuts! Read the print. They only sell ONE of the item at the $1 rate. The first person to order, wins it. Everyone else gets refunded. Check your notifications. you can get the refunded immediately following the 24 hr fulfillment of the 1 winner.
It is actually a much bigger scam than people realize. The item may only be 50 cents and 25 cent shipping so it comes out to .75 but people don’t really pay attention to their refund and wish refunds with a couple of cents short if you take the cash or then give wish credit so it forces you to give them free money. And everyone who enters just because it’s a dollar here and their they make millions by stealing a couple cents on the refund. Should be illegal.
You WILL NOT get your refund with the limited quantity deals that I can promise you I've done at least 200 of them and haven't been selected to get one and got about 36 refunds back, that's it You will be ripped off that I can promise you. File a complaint with the California state attorneys Generals office with better luck...GOOD LUCK
Actually they don't I use cash app and it tracks every transaction exactly and nope your wrong. And 8t actually give you the option of what you want as a refund so I think it's a user error on your part. Be it not being able to add or possibly just over clicking
Lol you doing something wrong obviously cuz I've gotten every refund back and I win stuff so it must be a timing thing. If you don't actually go into the order and request refund it can take 15 days
Hey Mark McLean I'm sorry you didn't win but it's not a scam. I've won about 200 items since the end of May. So maybe learn timing as that's all it boils down to and yes you get your money back or you could dispute it with your bank and still get your money back lol
They return the exact amount you spent on all refunds. Wish Cash isn't free money. It's store credit that never expires.
If you don't initiate the refund on an unwon limited quantity deal, it will be automatically returned to you in 2-3 days.
Did you request the refunds? You have to request them. Click the link in your email.
I am a huge wish user. I'vewon about 200 items in year half. Ten this past month. My best was a portable washing machine. Anyways. You always get refunded. You need to scroll and get refund . Check under order history. Click on product.. Select need help. Click cancel item... It'll say you're didn't win. How would you like refund.
I always got my refund when I didn’t win and in full each time and always won I’ve won over 100 items
Wow, just had my first win, it was for a nice comforter set. It took a while to win one but I will continue to try for more items.
I’ve “won”over 200 items so far. Been doing it a little over a month. There’s definitely a trick to winning
Is there a certain time that the deals start? I tried at 12:01am in my time zone but didn't win anything. I'm just trying to figure out the times and time zones :)
That is totally BS. YOU MUST BE A WISH.COM BOT.
i can guarantee that i'm not a bot. and it is legit u just need to take the time to figure out the ins and outs. last year i spent about $320 and won over $31000 worth of stuff. i probably should just keep my mouth shut since more plp that think its fake less competition.
I always get my refunds also but I can't find anymore limited quantity deals which sucks
The deals only run for 1 hour per item and they are posted on the hour. people who are smart research this stuff and win lots of things like my sister does because every hour on the hour she is on the app ordering every limited quantity deal she sees and wins about 10 per week
NOT SCAM I see lots of posts of this being a scam. It is not, it's just hard to be the first person to order it. I have got 4 jackets 3 pairs of shoes. 4 pairs of pants and 2 shirts. You have nothing to lose as they will refund your money 24 hours if you aren't the first person, The best time to order is on the hour this will increase your chances to get it but it's not always guaranteed.
you will not get your money back. They owe me about 120 refunds
So what time does the LQD starts? May we are late in timing.
You must have lived a really good (or really short) life if getting a full refund is what you call a scam.
I got back .78 cents from an 11 dollar order...
If you bought something aside from the lqd that would be why you only recieved the lqd amount back
I have received 2 of ...a lot lol... of emails saying the orders were processed and so I know it's not a scam. I'm just wondering how soon you get refunded the stuff you did NOT get. It says they'll let you know in 24 hours, and i'm nearing the 48 hour mark and I've only heard about 2. ? And I'm still keeping my hopes up that I will get more, but know that there's a chance that one of the other billions of shoppers on wish may get it instead ;) A gamble is just that! Thanks for any info :)
The way I see it, It takes a LOT longer to notify hundreds/thousands that they didn't complete their order on time so they can't always notify you within 24 hours but it only takes seconds to contact the 1 person that did complete the order in time so if I happen to be the 1st to complete a LQD purchase, I'll know within 24 hours.
If I haven't been notified about anything in that time I just go ahead & cancel the item & get my refunds so I can accumulate the Wish cash & try again.
it's a scam you will see I promise you
it's all computerized so they come out close to the 24 hr mark but sometime my mail has screwed up and they dont appear. but u can always gotto order history and check em and get your refund there. and if u dont request the refund mine have auto refunded to the original purchase method in about 2-3 days like someone said above. as far as the timeing of when LQD change its an algorithm and changes and you have to figure it out again. LQD IS NOT FOR THE IMPATIENT.
I won a tablet yesterday, and today I got refunded..
i won an item, so it is real. although i had to make hundreds of attempts to get it
It's click bait pure and simple. I contacted wish after purchasing countless items (100+) and having not been successful once to say I didn't receive my refund and I was informed that if you don't submit whether you want wish cash or money returned via EFT they will simply keep the money because there is only a limited window available in order to request a refund. So I guess there would be 2 questions I have... 1. How many suckers like me have not had a chance or forgot to request a refund therefore forfeiting their money and giving wish money for nothing (I'd suggest there would be a fair few, 100's, 1, 000's 10, 000's of people?) 2. If it was legit, why not just ask for the money once the purchase was successful? I'm sure almost everyone would be happy to make the payment straight away when they were sure they'd be getting the awesome deal. And if the customer doesn't pay in time, then repost the item on the market place for someone else to get the chance at the good deal. Sure the customer that didn't pay in time would kick themself for not paying sooner, but they'd only have themself to blame for that, which people can live with.
Another thought, why no remove the item straight away once the first person has successfully processed the payment and won the item? My guess is because wish wouldn't have the chance to retain countless amounts of ill-gotten funds to earn the short term interest for up to 2 weeks if they did it that way.
Agreed!
Your absolutely correct my friend
528 items bought off the limited items deal and no deals processed. I have 30 pages of "refunded" products . I've tried a multitude of different items and at different times of the day. I'm leaving wish, at least I know that i'll get a product at Vova.
you just lost a boatload of money
i have had loads of stuff like three solar panels, two mobile phones, two car styerio mp5 players with touch screens and 12 led reverse cameras, led lights an inverter and loads more. it is first come first serve but i dont moan when i have to get countless refunds. put in the order time and it will pay off. no scam just luck of the draw!
I am real. I am david from Edinburgh Scotland and NO i dont work for wish. the only thing i wish is that my orders would come through more often lol.
Unfortunately, greed and excitement make people jump to conclusion and write inaccurate and somehow defamatory comments or articles. As others mentioned, it is clear from the comment under each item with "limited quality" that the first person each day will have it. This doesn't mean that there is only one item from the same seller. The seller is offering this price each day for the first order. So there might be tens or hundreds of this item showing up from the same seller each day. This is another marketing method from wish. Probably Wish is subsidising this with coordination with the sellers. Now from a commercial point of view, basically Wish is receiving money from customers in advance without obligation to fulfil the transaction. This is a very clever way to generate cash flow for the company. Imagine thousands of people order hundreds of (1 + 1 USD) items and by the time they get refunded either by store credit or back to their credit cards, the company will have hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars in hand.
Yes, it's there now after numerous complaints to Wish that people were getting refunded for items that they thought they actually won. It's not a defamatory comment nor inaccurate, more of an opinion review. Because at the start of this program, they never had "1st person who purchases the item wins". Instead, it would show the item as a normal item with a $1 price tag and it would read "Limited Quantity Deal". When it comes to sellers, it's inexcusable when they have the item listed at this quantity deal, it stays up for everyone else to try, then taken down and relisted again in the same week. Remind you, this was before the disclaimer. A lot of people were upset by this and complained, Wish didn't really have an answer except "We will discuss this feedback with our team". So it falls under a misleading and bad business practice. When they started with the disclaimer, that covers them so everyone is now aware. You maybe on to something with how it works but, Wish needed more time before rolling it out to get the kinks taken care. Now that everything is smoothed out with the Limited Quantity Deal, by posting 1st purchase wins, they covered their butts. If I was the only person to complain, I would agree that maybe it was an overreaction and I didn't do the research. Unfortunately, I was not the only person who wrote something on this and I wasn't the only person to get in contact with Wish about the issue. These things do happen and people tend to be ignorant to the issue when things have been modified by the company to resolve a problem. So the people who initially had an issue before it was fixed and everyone caught on to the fix, get the bad end of the stick. This a lot of people tend to forget.
If they get refunded at all
I think a win for them is the refunds that you choose wish credit or refunded back to the original payment type in 14 days. I opted for the immediate credit. I am kind of looking at it as a savings account for shopping that I don't have to account for.
The wish cash insures that they will get the money eventually.
Clearly states...at the top of the listing...First completed order gets the item at that price!
Yes, it's there now, not back then.
The question now is, how many people order these "limited quantity" items? While only one item sells Wish has all the money from all the other hopefuls, right? That could add up to an awful lot of money. Do they earn interest from that? Smell what I'm stepping in?
S#!÷ I assume, but all other "hopefuls" get a refund if they weren't first to order, so this isn't relevant. And you may want to order a new pair of shoes.
And now they require a security code be sent. For each limited quantity deal before a refund is issued. So for most they keep the money a few days more. Until the automatically refund it.
It clearly states "the first person to have their transaction fully processed will receive the item at that price and all others will be refunded within 24 hours". You might want to learn to READ the big paragraph above the order button that is HIGHLIGHTED to make it clear. I have received TWO pairs of shoes originally listed at more than $20 each for $2! ($1 Purchase Price & $1 Shipping) as well as an originally $18 Dog Bed for $2! I can personally say this is not a scam, just luck!
You might want to learn to read. That didn't come until after the numerous complaints. Sounds like you got ripped off on the dog bed since it was $2 and not $1 like the quantity deals normally states. But hey, maybe your just upset because they ripped you off a $1. Next time understand, just because something is there now, doesn't mean it was there from the start.
Did you get it all in the same order/same day? What time of day did complete your order/orders?
Its a "Lottery" based system. I have had no trouble refunding as of 9/23. I did get : 1 spiderman full costume, 1 business suit, 1 saudering kit, 3 pairs of shoes, 1 leather jacket, 1 snow jacket and a 12 pack of multi color D and D dice, an MP3 player w bluetooth and a large duffel bag to haul it all in and 2 jogging sweat suits. Thats 14 items for 28 bucks. I think its pretty cool. You just have to get lucky.
Hope this helps.
I'm happy you at least won some things. Wish should have been a little more clearer for people in the beginning of this promotion (sale, limited deal or whatever you want to call it). They just actually posted "1st person to purchase gets the deal" came after the complaints. As nice as it sounds, I'll just stick to purchasing the regular price items. I'm glad though to hear you were a lucky buyer to win some items.
What time of day was it when you got that lucky and what time zone do you live in? I've been using Wish for a couple years now but stopped logging in daily when I discovered Aliexpress about 8 or 9 months ago. I started using that because they have so many deals that are even better than Wish (if you don't mind the snail mail). Aliexpress does something similar every day too. They have "freebies" items & you can pick 2 items to apply to receive for free per day, all you pay is 1 penny for shipping if you're the lucky winner & you can improve your chances of winning by purchasing items from the app & giving good reviews. I know it's legit because I won a Mini WiFi camera back in October but anyways, the past few weeks I started bouncing between the 2 apps & I don't remember ever seeing LQD prior to the past few weeks. The ones I see are always $.50 per item & $.25 shipping unless "ship to store" is available for that item, it can be at little as $.15 for shipping. I have about $20.00 in wish cash and I keep trying everyday to get lucky but obviously wish has a lot of people doing the same thing which decreases my chances but someone has to win & I always get refunded so I'm gonna keep trying.
I just keep buying the LQD that I like until I'm out of wish cash & then wait until I've been notified to get my refund & then do it all over again. 😆
I do wish we could get a bulk refunds instead of 1 item at a time but that's really my only complaint.
People can't expect seller's to practically give their stuff away to a ton of people everyday, it's how they make their money.
I think this is a pretty smart marketing tactic on their part because it shows that they are selling a lot more than they actually are & that brings in even more traffic.
I just wanna hear from more people who were lucky enough to be the first to complete their purchase & receive the items so cheap!
I agree with you, I have made 3 orders with limited quantity items and first 2 orders all of the items were cancelled except one; They actually are sending me one of the limited quantity items. I have yet to receive it but I do have tracking for it. The 3rd order I placed has 4 limited quantity items and all got cancelled. This is a large scam but if my one item shows anything, they may occasionally send one out here and there just to say "see we do it." I may try a few more times since you get all your money back anyways. If I plan on ordering something, just throw $10 worth of $1 items on there and maybe get lucky! Lol.
Go on YouTube and look for The Cheap Chick. She has 8 Wish Limited Quality Haul videos of all the stuff she actually got from this deal. Seems legit. The stuff she got are incredibly expensive stuff. Go check her out.
How many days your refund arrived?