Wish Has Gotten WORSE
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The host digs into Wish.com tech deals, highlighting bizarre, low-quality items like a blurry cookie pack, a concealed-camera watch, and a stretched iPhone lookalike, all illustrating the questionable promise versus reality of Wish products.
Austin Evans roasts Wish.com finds, showing how six-week deliveries and bargain gadgets often deliver more cringe than value.
Summary
Austin Evans pulls back the curtain on a Wish.com haul that ranges from hilariously fake gadgets to questionable hardware. He highlights a 60-pixel “grandma cookies” JPEG as a taste of the low-resolution items that flood the site. A conceal cam-equipped “watch” and a stretched iPhone 17 Pro Max clone illustrate the thin line between clever cosplay and functional nonsense. The crew laughs through a Switch-clone handheld, a questionable RAM module, a finger mouse, and laser keyboard shenanigans, all items that promise much and deliver mostly chaos. We see the team waiting six weeks for deliveries that mostly underwhelm, with one item actually working as RAM, while most others feel outright impractical. Along the way, they poke fun at branding gimmicks, Russian app stores, and copycat Apple products that look like a parody rather than a purchase. In the end, Austin jokes about sticking to normal retailers like temu.com, acknowledging that the “deals” were more entertainment than utility. The video fades out with the crew reflecting on what, if anything, was worth it and inviting viewers to share their own Wish mistakes.
Key Takeaways
- Wish items can arrive after extremely long delays (six weeks) and frequently underperform, making the savings questionable.
- Concealed-camera watches and heavily copied devices illustrate the risk of deceptive product descriptions and design cues.
- A Switch clone handheld with poor build quality and odd hardware specs (mini USB, dubious emulation) exemplifies why cheap emulation hardware often fails.
- A RAM module advertised as 16 GB DDR4 at $119 turns out to be underwhelming in real-world use, underscoring the difference between hype and performance.
- A number of Wish items are blatant Apple knockoffs with mixed results, including the 'iPhone 17 Pro Max' clone that is heavy on gimmicks but light on quality.
- A finger mouse and a laser keyboard meme-device combo show that nabbing futuristic peripherals on Wish often ends in frustration rather than productivity.
- Overall, Austin suggests shopping at regular retailers like temu.com to avoid the disappointment and questionable quality found in Wish listings.
Who Is This For?
Essential viewing for tech enthusiasts who want a reality check on bargain sites like Wish and for anyone curious about how far counterfeit and low-quality gadgets can go. It’s a fun, cautionary watch for shoppers who crave real-world test results before buying cult-favorite-cheap tech.
Notable Quotes
"What the hell? That's creepy, bro."
—Austin reacts to the hidden-camera watch and its deceptive design.
"This is a finger mouse."
—First impressions of the novelty input device.
"My iPhone 17 Pro Max. And this is the 17 Pro Max Max."
—Parody unboxing of a flagrantly fake Apple clone.
"The good thing is this being bad has no bearing on the other things that we waited six weeks for."
—Commenting on the mixed quality across Wish purchases.
"We paid 119 for this?"
—Reaction to the RAM module advertised as a bargain.
Questions This Video Answers
- How reliable are Wish.com gadgets compared to major retailers?
- Why do Wish clones look so similar to Apple products and Nintendo Switch?
- Can you really save money buying RAM from Wish, or is it a scam?
- What should you buy from temu.com instead of Wish for tech deals?
- Are there any Wish items that actually perform well in real life?
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Full Transcript
- Welcome back, my friends, it is time to take a closer look at the tech and the deals from wish.com. Deals, you know, in quotes, because I might not get what I was promised. Let's see what we got, my friends. I could get a 30 pack of Grandma's Cookies. Ooh, I will say that sounds delightful. Although this is the most deep fried ass JPEG I've ever seen. It is like 60 pixels. I'll add that to cart. What the hell? That's creepy, bro. So it's like a like fake mechanical watch, but it has a concealed camera inside and they specifically say it's concealed.
So it's just built into, they've got these little dots around the actual like bezel or whatever. What are you doing that you... Oh my God, oh no, I've made a mistake. I clicked on one, now I'm seeing a bunch. Bad. What? It's an, it's a tablet that looks like a stretched iPhone 17 Pro. It's even an orange. What the fu-? What is this? So with that, my friends, let's take a deeper dive on what we were able to find on wish.com. All righty, my friends, we have our items from Wish, which took a smooth six weeks to show up.
So better be worth it. Last time I waited six weeks, the results came back negative. - [Alex] Ooh. - All right, we have a, oh a Switch clone. So, you know, when we're looking for some weird tech, I think one of the prime examples online are emulators. So as you can see here, this is a straight up Switch clone. It even has the Switch logo here. Even though it says it's games console, massive game support for high definition output, function for TV and AI runs smoother. This looks bad, I'm just gonna say this looks bad.
I'm gonna guess that this is not actually gonna look that good once I actually open it up out of the box. I mean it, sure. Ah, mini USB. Not even micro, what the hell, bro? Oh, oh my. Can you get a zoom in on that? Okay, so I've heard rumors of this. This is a pair of headphones that came in the box. I've heard legends, but I didn't think it was a real thing. Play game. That screen looks so, look at the screen. As soon as you get a little off axis, it is like completely unusable.
Oh boy, is this touchscreen? No it's not. If you touch the screen, the whole screen sinks in like half an inch. Okay, we've got some games. So we have video, music, a bunch of other stuff, but then we go down here, we have Dyno, Metal Slug, Street Fighter, King of Fighters, play Street Fighter. This game is for use in all countries, excluding the United States. - [Alex] Huh? - Try and stop me. You know, it sounds like you've ever like blown a speaker before? That. Okay, the emulation is actually not terrible. Like it actually, oh God, the stick is the worst thing I've ever touched.
Can I just use D-pad? Yeah, I'm gonna use D-pad. This is not good. I will say bad would be what I would, bye bye. How much was our Switch 2 beating X80 AI game device? - [Alex] It was $70. - [Adriana] No, way. - Well, the good thing is this being bad has no bearing on the other things that we waited six weeks for. - [Alex] I don't know, that might be a pretty good indicator. - Something, something was not padded well, I'll tell you that. All right, let's see what we got here. Ooh. - Ooh.
- Anti-Monopoly. So it's an update to the Monopoly folk game, which I don't know anyone has ever said the Monopoly folk game. So you're divided into competitors and monopolists. The two kind of players follow different rules in their quest for big money. It's this idea of movement and choice, which allows Anti-Monopoly to be the first and only game in history, which clearly distinguishes between the actions of Oh, look at how tiny the board is. Wait, this is the board? - [Alex] That's really cute. I thought this was gonna be like Monopoly Go with like cards.
- Yeah, it's so little. Look at this. What am I supposed to do with this? Ooh, look at my $500 bill. This is kind of funny. How much did we pay for Anti-Monopoly? - [Alex] We paid $12.50. - I think it's nice it's such a small little sort of container, but I legitimately wouldn't wanna play this game just 'cause it's literally too small. Like the text is tiny. Next up, we've got ourselves Camera Watch. So this is a spy watch that I bought from Wish, which, oh good Lord. High definition camera watch, so this has a lot of features.
Clork (laughs). Wait, clork and retord. - [Alex] Excuse me. What did you, what did you call me? - Boy, I guess we're just going on a journey together, my friends. - [Alex] This whole segment is cursed. - It is, the whole video is cursed. It doesn't look, nevermind. I was about to say something good, but I don't. Okay, so it has a dial on this side. It has a dial on this side, which just freely spins the clock. This one, one of these ones on the bottom is the actual camera. And then everything else is the recording hole.
Oh, this seems really dumb, but I will say it's pretty subtle. I don't think anyone's gonna realize that this is a spy watch, which is probably not good. Okay, how about this? Gimme a few minutes to figure out how to spy on people and then I'll bring back some footage for you. Hopefully. Okay, so first let's take a look at a photo. - Well. - I have a video clip here. - Okay. - It's a, well, it's a, I don't like that, so when you're wearing the watch, it's upside down. Normally it's upside down. Okay, here comes the part where I spy on you.
- [Ken] The quality actually doesn't look awful. - The framing. The framing. I think maybe, okay, I've said enough. - Well, well that more depends on how much you paid. - That's a great question. Alex, it was not much money, right? I got, it was super cheap and not. - [Alex] I don't know if super cheap is the right word. - I think it is the word. It's the word I would use. - [Alex] Well, that's not, that wouldn't be an accurate word. We paid 51 and a half dollars. - Whoa. - Ya, ya. I will maybe say that we are good on that one and we should move on to happier items.
But I got something that's gonna blow your mind. Did you know- - Mind, mind specifically? - Yes. - Did you know? - Yeah. - Did you know that Apple, Apple have released a number of products recently? - Could you name some of the Apple products? There's some really popular ones. - iPhone 17e. - That's exactly it. But there's more, go ahead, go ahead. Just keep talking more. - Okay, MacBook Neo. - Great product, high quality product. And this one, you forgot this one. This, behold my friends, is a brand new product directly- - What the (beep).
Is that what it looks, what? That's not what it was supposed to look like. What is... I got clickbaited. I thought I had a funny bit. - [Alex] I mean, it still might be a funny bit. - So was this supposed to look like a iPad? - Okay, so bubble wrap. (all laughing) - [Alex] Yeah. Yeah, buddy. - Feel like I need this real quick. My iPhone 17 Pro Max. - And this is the 17 Pro Max Max Max. - [Ken] That's incredible. - It also comes with a screen protector. The Apple winsle. We've got ourselves USB-A, USB-A to C, SIM card.
We've got a stand for your iPad and a power adapter. That's a lot of stuff. This is such an egregious copy. - But it also- - Oh wait, wait. Holy (beep) - It has a pen built, wait why did it- - Whoa, whoa, whoa. - It has a built-in stylus and your winsle. - [Ken] This is a Galaxy S27 Ultra, dude. - It's surprisingly heavy though, you're right. Being metal, oh, well there you go. - [Ken] It's, or it's color match, look at that. - That is basically iOS in a nutshell. It's real slow. Does it have an app drawer?
No, it doesn't. It comes with TikTok already installed though. So I'll definitely be signing in with that. And what's the RuStore? Oh, it's in Russian? - Oh, oh, the, oh, the Russia store. - Russian store. Oh, I see, I see. - I see, shorten it, I see. That makes sense. Oh yeah, we're we're videoing right now. - Oh, okay. - This is what the image quality of the iPhone, I mean the iPhone 18 Pro Mega edition looks like. And this is a pile of garbage. I mean it's built well, but it's super, super crappy, like plastic screen.
The only good thing that's really going for it is the look because it's hilarious and it's probably gonna trick grandma into thinking that you got her the new iPad iPhone edition. Well the good thing is this was a relative bargain. How much is an iPhone 17 Pro Max? Thousands of dollars? This is a downright bargain. This is only...less than that. - [Alex] It is $135. - It's not worth it. - You could buy a lot of things for that for that money actually. - You could buy a lot of things with that. But (laughs) is it $135 funny?
I don't think so. - Can you hear me now? - What would you say is the most pressing issue of our time today? - [Ken] (beep). - No. - [Alex] Overpriced RAM. - [Ken] That's so specific. - No, no, no it's not because I told him to say that because this would be a funny bit. 16 gigabytes of CL 16 3200 mega transfer RAM. So it's a single DIMM, but 16 gigabytes of RAM in this economy, it's worth hundreds of dollars, right Alex? - [Alex] It was like $119. - We paid $119 for this? - [Alex] We paid $119 for this.
- Wait, that's not cheap at all. That's like barely any cheaper than regular RAM. - Well, no, that's still cheaper. - I don't know man. I feel like I'd go to Micro Center and get a better deal than that. All right, well I guess let's put this in the PC and make sure it's authentic. But it's not just RAM my friend, because I purchased a number of PC related acccoutrement from wish.com and I think that you are about to have your mind blown. I paused there for dramatic effect. So here's a system that has no unfortunate RAM inside of it.
- No, that's valuable. That's gold. - So that's just, you can- - [Alex] No, don't throw it! - So with a system that has no RAM, obviously we gotta try to put in this. - Well clearly he doesn't care about it. I care about you. - [Austin] Well that was a (laughs). - You're gonna go to a good home. - Oh, oh, we got USB up. - [Alex] Yay. - Yeah, boy. 16 gigabytes of DDR4. It's almost like if you wanna save almost no money by buying RAM, potentially fraudulently on wish.com, you could do that.
But we're not here just to buy RAM. That's boring. Who cares about RAM? I care about that next wave. Hey, guess what? You still using your hands? - [Alex] That sounds like a threat. - Why do you ask? - I got a better way to use your computing devices. - [Ken] Feet? - Well actually that's a better idea than what I was about to suggest. So you got them fingers out and stuff. Well, here you go. I'll fix that for you real quick. - A finger mouse. - That's a finger mouse. - [Ken] Is that Mickey's cousin?
- This my friends is a mouse specifically designed to be used for those of you who are too creative to be pushing around some piece of plastic. Ugh, gross. That's disgusting. So do you put your finger down because it's finger shaped, right? Can we just establish that this is like finger shaped? - Wait, yeah, but, no, but. - Right? - But look, look, you're well here, here. It's a mouse, you have left and right click and a scroll. So I think. - We might censor that. Calm down please. You gotta read the manual real quick.
- [Alex] This, this. - Oh, there's a diagram? That does not help, that does not help. Edit team will show what Alex is showing us. That does not help in any way. How many fingers are you put in? It works even on trousers, on any surface, such as trousers. They specifically call out that you can use it on your trousers. - [Adriana] Get this away from my trousers. - [Ken] This is the dumbest, bro this is so dumb. - Oh, it needs a AAA battery power. It needs a AAA battery, we're missing- - Where do you even put it?
Oh. - Oh, oh yes. Wait, is this, is this the move? Is this the new meta? - Cautiously speaking. I actually kind of dig this. Okay, okay, okay, while you do that, let's get this outta here. This is nonsense, we don't need that anymore at all. - Oh, you got, you got- - Instead I have a keyboard that is going to blow your mind. - Laser keyboard, oh, you got one of these bull (beep) things. How do you expect me to use this with my (beep) middle finger now? - Well, because you are the laser master.
But how do you connect it? You need a, is there a receiver? Oh, it's Bluetooth. - Oh, well hold down the button maybe. Jesus. - Why would you blazer us? Stop that! Okay, wait, can we- (Ken screaming) Wait, can we. Actually, that actually just looks straight up. Can we go ahead and kill the lights? It makes noises when you tap stuff. Laser keyboard connecting, okay. Come on, come on little buddy. We believe in you. (calm music) The keyboard plays music? - [Adriana] Is that Raid: Shadow Legends? - That's Raid: Shadow Legends?. Wait, why is this a speaker?
- Oh my God. - Did you connect it as a Bluetooth speaker instead of a keyboard? - Why is that an option? - Okay, do you wanna try to type something? - [Ken] This is awful. - It's not, no. Why are we not lasering right now? Let me try this. - Eyes up here. - I need to say, I need to say it. The mouse is the best thing that you- - I'm glad you mentioned that. Alex can we bring the lights up please? For the grand finale, I would like to present to you an item to solve a need.
What is the worst part of using a computer? - Windows 11. - What's the second worst part of using a computer? Cold hands. My voice cracked didn't it. Cold hands, cold hands. - Heated mouse pad hand warmer. - [Alex] Yeah, we are very excited about this in the office. - [Adriana] Yes. My hands are freezing right now. I'm not even kidding. - Oh my gosh. - Well have I got the item for you? So this my friends is the real, real (beep), emphasis on (beep). - Oh, it's got the neoprene wrist rest. Well let me just.
- Yeah, you go ahead and stick your hand all the way inside and then. Okay, now wait, wait, wait, it's not, wait. We gotta plug it in via USB-C. I don't like the way this looks. I just, something about it makes me a little uncomfortable. Hold it for three seconds, 45 degrees Celsius or 55 degrees Celsius. Good lord. - That's actually pretty. - That's hot, that's too hot. So basically, would you like to experience mousing the way that no one has ever intended it? Play some Raid: Shadow Legends in your browser, which apparently is a thing you can do.
- Continue. - So what have we learn from wish.com? Well, I forgot you had the fingers inside the whole time. I feel like maybe some mistakes were made. I'll take the L on this one. Next time let's just shop where the regular people shop, which is temu.com. - Feel that. - Oh my God, it's like scalding hot. It's like not hot at all on the inside. It's literally heating the outside, not the inside. At least our RAM works. - I feel like almost all of our items were bad. Was anything good today? - Not this.
This. - Stop - This! - Flipping me off with lasers. What was your favorite item from wish.com today? Let us know in the comments below. I think I know Ken's and if you enjoy it, make sure to subscribe to the channel and check out our high quality videos. Trust me, we've made them, they're up here. Not this, this was bad, but these videos are great. Thanks for watching friends. I gotta go wash my eyes out with something that's resembling soap.
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