Published On: Thu, May 3rd, 2012

WishWall: A Place For Great Deals Or Just Hidden Scam?

There’s new Pinterest knock off website called WishWall.me, which claims to give people discounts to buy their dream products or to win items for free by wishing on products they like.

Website has been made with a Pinterest knockoff theme. Every user has to login with Facebook and there is no other way. Website says “We use Facebook login because it helps us personalize your experience and allows us to better recommend interesting products for you to wish for.” It has a system where people can put a “Wish” stamp on products and add it to their wish list to get a discount or recommend it to a friend.

It works like this: when a considerable number of  people wish for something,  website tries to negotiate a deal with the vendor to give it away to all the users who wished for it with a discount. There is also a system that gives you wishes. In the beginning you get 15 wishes and just like always, you have to earn them.

After Googling for a bit I found a post at Reddit from the user Gnork, who says that some of his Etsy products ended up at WishWall and some people have already received 10% discounts to get it but he has never been informed about these discounts. Although it’s possible for the Wish website to buy only few products from vendor without directly contacting.

System of the Wish looks very legit. Although I’ve found many users complaining that this is a scam. Things are still not very clear. I’ve already tried it out myself but didn’t see anything suspicious about it. But I gotta say it does look like a scamming system in so may ways. But I’m not gonna be the judge here, you can check it out if you want. But remember they will be getting your Facebook details and personal info’s, so you’re on your own buddy.

If you have any experience with this website be sure to let us know with a comment.

 

[Via: Reddit / WishWall]
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  • http://YourWebsite... Rose-chan

    I only got a reward for manga I purchased…was the only rebate I got that actually cleared (apparently this was before they changed things). Personally, that place screams scam to me….

    • http://www.wishwall.me Christine Borden

      Rose, my name is Christine and I am the content and community manager at Wish. If you have any issues with rewards, please email us at support@wishwall.me and we can help you with the redeem process.

  • http://YourWebsite... MaggieMB

    I don’t really know anything about it works; I just enjoy looking at nifty things. I started adding things for the sheer pleasure of contributing…and I won $3.00. I am still not exactly sure what criteria was fulfilled to make this happen (if any), but the money was gifted to my Amazon account. And that’s pretty darn cool.
    Overall, I thoroughly enjoy WishWall.

  • Seth Bailey

    I frequent Wish a lot, because it is full of useful things instead of a bunch of useless, stupid, “in-your-dreams” kind of stuff on pintrest. Over the past couple months, by adding products, and the products being popular enough to get a LOT of wishes on them, I have obtained over $120 worth of Amazon gift cards. Recently I bought a new limited edition xbox 360 controller, a charging deck for 2 controllers, and a solar phone charger. ALL of which ended up being completely free for me. Also, any product I add that is posted on Amazon, if I “recommend” it to 3 friends, I get an automatic 10% discount (I buy it at full price, then email the receipt to Wish and they deposit 10% of the price into my paypal account).

    It really works, and I love it. I’m tight with my money, so getting so much stuff for free, and getting everything else at an auto-10% off, is really nice.

  • wish success

    I made over $600 in the last 6 months =) post stuff and if enough people like it, you get amazon gift cards! its fantastic i love it!

  • Alex

    I also found out a similar platform giveyouroffer.com but there you share your material wishes, what you want to buy and then you start receive price offers. It’s similar to ebay, but only backward, you receive price offers in descending order and you choose the best one for you.

    • http://freshinfos.com/ Roshan Perera

      Sounds similar to WishWall. How to you receive points in that system?

  • Ophelia

    I’ve never had any problems with that site, I made an item that got popular and I earned Amazon gift cards when 500 and then 1,000 people wished for it. There are people who get very popular here and probably make hundreds of dollars from their posted items. I haven’t heard of it being a scam, and whenever I used one of their discounts or rebates, I always got paid back within about a week.

  • aki

    I’ve gotten a lot gift cards. There isn’t really anything to worry about on this site :P

  • http://www.facebook.com/alexis.rule.94 Alexis Rule

    I have used wishwall for nearly a year now…I have uploaded a little over 400 products and have earned almost $1000 in amazon gift cards (which have been a real life saver for much needed reptile supplies). The system is pretty easy for the first 251 wishes you receive a choice between a rebate on the product or a $2 amazon gift card…. 501 wishes makes a choice again between a rebate or $5 amazon gift card…. and 1001 wishes makes a choice between a rebate or $10 amazon gift card.

    It takes time, patience, and knowing what is popular and what isn’t.

  • tpotty

    I get alot of amazon gift cards which absolutely works just by adding things I like. There was one item I posted which got over 12,000 wishes. I didn’t keep track how much it got me but at 10,000 wishes I got $10. I think it got me at least $50 from that one item which is really awesome!