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American Eagle OutfittersReviews 165

1.7
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casual, preppy, streetwear, swimwear men, womenAge 13-18, 19-25
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ae.com
+1 888-232-4535
USA
Clothing item from American Eagle OutfittersFashion apparel by American Eagle OutfittersMerchandise from American Eagle Outfitters clothing lineAmerican Eagle Outfitters fashion product

Business Highlights

General

Target Gender: men, women
Target Age Group: 13-18, 19-25
Price: $

Shipping

Shipping Cost: $7.95
Free Shipping: sometimes
Free Shipping Detail: for orders over $75

Returns

Return Policy: not free
Return Instructions: full refund within 30 days of the purchase date, or returned for merchandise credit within 60 days.
Return Cost: $5 shipping fee

Sustainability

Sustainability Score: Not Good Enough
Recycling Program: Recyles jeans
Responsible Materials: recycled

Product

Style: casual, preppy, streetwear, swimwear
Body Fit: regular, plus size, tall
Available Sizes: Men's (XS, S, M, L, XL, XXL, XXXL), Women's (2XS, XS, S, M, L, XL, XXL)

Customer Service

Support Channels: chat, phone, email
Support Phone: +1 888-232-4535
Support Email: [email protected]

Payment Options

Payment Methods: card payments, financing, PayPal, Cash App
Buy Now Pay Later: Afterpay

Membership Programs

Rewards Program: Rakuten, TopCashback, Active Junky, Mr. Rebates

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American Eagle Outfitters Reviews Summary

American Eagle Outfitters has a rating of 1.7 stars from 165 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with American Eagle Outfitters most frequently mention customer service, credit card and confirmation email. American Eagle Outfitters ranks 349th among General Apparel sites.

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Virginia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Angry boyfriend.!
April 1, 2021

My girlfriend has been a loyal customer with AE for years and lately the service has been lack luster. My girl has made two orders recently and AE has dropped the ball both times on getting my girlfriend her orders. They have however offered 15% off and two day shipping on next order which is nice but it's not helping. Get it together AE #Respectfully

Date of experience: April 1, 2021
Canada
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Literally the worst experience I've ever had trying to buy jeans, i went into the store to try on they did not have a great selection. I said I would go to another mall to find them as I really wanted them for my birthday. The sales associate promised they would be there by my birthday, that was a lie. The package did say delivered 2 days before my birthday. It was NOT delivered, i have cameras outside my house that notify me when packages arrive and I have never not received a package from anywhere else. The chat people were rude and kept disconnecting when i informed them that the jeans never arrived. They then told me that they refunded me and they could reship them to my house but if they dont show up this time thats my fault and they wont be refunding me, and if i wanted to switch delivery address i would no longer get the free shipping i was promised. I really did like the jeans but they are not worth the hassle or probably not even receiving them. The sales associates are extremely pushy also. Will never be supporting them again

Date of experience: March 11, 2021
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Galería Dallas Tx
March 10, 2021

Si pudiera no darle estrella, fuera espectacular si usted va a comprar en esta tienda específico en el mall de Galería Dallas Tx, corra hulla de allí. Ellos van acusar a latinos de robar. Y van hacerte pasar el peor día de tu vida. Siento asco de estas personas.

Date of experience: March 9, 2021
Mexico
1 review
6 helpful votes
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I'm Art from Mexico City and my experience with AE has been always a nightmare, I've starting to think that maybe they're racists because everytime that I need to talk with the staff of customer service they´re very rude, not friendly and they always treat us as if they were doing us a favor or as if we were asking for free clothes and I think that is very wrong, they end the chat or the call even when you're still talking/writing. Apparently they block any purchase from Mexico City because now no one can buy anything from here because they don't let you add your mexican credit or debit card because "there was an unexpected error" and when you finally made it, they cancel it "due to an availability issue or your request.", but when you look again for your product is still there, obviously available. And when you really made it, your package takes several weeks to arrive and when you try to contact them they say that is your fault or your responsability if the package doesn't arrives and there will not be refund of your money if the package get lost in the process. But even with all this nightmare, I really love their clothes, so I'm hoping that maybe one day they change all the staff and the bad attitude against all the people that the only thing that they want is to buy their clothes.

Date of experience: March 5, 2021
Georgia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Ordered only 1 thing, "shipped out" 3 days ago. Keep checking the tracking and says there's no details available...

Date of experience: February 27, 2021
North Carolina
2 reviews
5 helpful votes
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When you order product from American Eagle do not plan on receiving it any time soon. It may take up to a month to receive your product if you even receive it at all. I have the absolute worst time with this store in getting what I order. I believe I am finished with ordering from these guys. Can no longer count on them. I give up - time to move on.

Date of experience: January 19, 2021
Canada
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Worst company I have ever deal with. Ordered a jean instead sending me a xxxl shirt, so I called them for a correction, Shehanna in Louisiana helped me with a re-send order, she told me she will credit back 20% more discount due to the trouble, few days later I found she charged me again with more money! This company is so disorganized and employee is so unprofessional.

Date of experience: December 2, 2020
Arkansas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I ordered from the website & realized after placing the order they were being shipped to the wrong address. I called to have them contact fedex to change the delivery address which the shipper can do with fedex. I was told I would have to deal with fedex myself that they are not responsible. I spoke with 4 different reps & only 1 had any idea of what customer service means. This should have been a simple fix but because ae won't contact fedex with my updated info my package is just out there somewhere. I can't change the address with fedex because I'm not the shipper. I explained this to ae reps but they won't lift a finger to help. So I am done with ae. I'm not sure why people like to create problems where there don't have to be any. Seems pointless. I will be spending my money elsewhere since ae evidently doesn't need it.

Date of experience: October 17, 2020
Germany
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Waste of your time
September 27, 2020

I purchased something and wanted to return it the same day and they only gave me back store credit instead of my actual money back.

Date of experience: September 27, 2020
Colorado
1 review
5 helpful votes
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I love AE clothing. I am saddened to see that they have not taken any steps forward in 1. Reducing pollution and 2. Making sure clothing comes from workers who are paid fair wages/safe conditions. My most recent purchase was underwear and they were from 3 different locations in the world. India, China and Vietnam. Possibly Mexico too. The sewing sadly looked "off" and really made me think about who was making these clothes and how they were being treated. I will no longer buy from here. We all need to do better.

Date of experience: September 22, 2020
Minnesota
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I visited Eagan (Minneasota) outlet Store twice. This time I went on 09/18/2020 around 4:45 pm on Saturday. Both times, Manager didn't let do the checkout on the counter so that other race's people can do checkout on the counters. She asked one of her employee ( Poor 17 years old Andreas) to do checkout for me by taking me on the the side which was very uncomfortable. I am not going to shop in American Eagle at all. There are far better stores to shop where people are real genuine and respectful.

Date of experience: September 19, 2020
Canada
1 review
2 helpful votes
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After contacting AE via their live chat feature, Paula, a customer service rep, proceeded to abruptly end our chat. Long story short, I asked why i had to pay to return the jeans I purchased when their website clearly states it's FREE. Her response verbatim "you can return them to a store" followed by some fluff about why it's not free, even though it says it is! Please see my attachment as I took a screen shot of our chat. I can honestly say, I've never been so upset over something so simple that turned into a horriblecustomer service problem. Oh boy American Eagle, you just lost a long time customer who's closet is half full of your product

Date of experience: September 10, 2020
New Jersey
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I like this jeans
July 14, 2020

I like these jeans. Thanks a lot for the perfect quality. Also, I bought jeans for my husband here. Perfect service.

Date of experience: July 14, 2020
New York
1 review
2 helpful votes
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THEY CHARGE $5.00 minimum FOR RETURN -- read small print before you order; Advertised T-shirts as "very soft" but it did NOT say that the fabric is SO THICK, it's like planing to go to the North Pol -- sneaky exclusion of fabric thickness info. I'm punished 2 times with return:
1. Going to the USPS, and 2. CHARGED $5.00 FOR RETURN SHIPPING -- this was the first and the LAST time "flying" with "eagle".

Date of experience: July 11, 2020
North Carolina
2 reviews
14 helpful votes
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I totally understand that with Corona going on, things will be delayed. Because of corona, I haven't been able to go out shopping in person. Also, because my size (32C) is so hard to find in stores, shopping in person is not as much of an option. I ordered some bras and underwear on May 17. It is currently June 7th and I have yet to even see that they're shipped. I just wanted some bras that fit, but I guess I'll have to wait lol.

Date of experience: June 6, 2020
Maine
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Worst retail company I have EVER experienced! This fake corporate greedy chain is living in the dark ages! Placed an order with this store the clothing is beyond cheap and not one item was as pictured online. If you have to send clothing back there's NO paperwork or instructions on how to do so inside the package, the instructions are very vague on their website. They explicitly said to drop it off at the post office which I did and got charged almost 13$! They refused to refund my return! They do not listen, or care to resolve anything. It's your tough crap have a nice day! Save your time and money and use better customer friendly services that have SIMPLE AND FREE RETURNS! They won't bat an eye screwing you over!

Date of experience: May 29, 2020
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Worst Brand Ever
May 28, 2020

Customer Care doesn't give a $#*! about their customers.
I doubt they must be getting even paid or Even there is a customer care unit.
They never answer calls nor live chats.
Never shopping again.

Date of experience: May 28, 2020
Canada
11 reviews
34 helpful votes
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Awesome!
May 13, 2020

I've shopped at AEO for a long time! I can't tell you how many times I've ordered products from their website and I've almost always loved what I've received. Overall, the experience is pretty positive in terms of shipping. I always get my order on time. I do think that shipping items separately is a bit odd, I would prefer to have all of my items all at once as opposed to one or two things at a time but it's no biggie. As a 5'9 woman, it is difficult finding a decent pair of jeans that actually fit but at AEO there are so many different options to chose from and I absolutely adore their mom jeans.

One thing to note, if you aren't familiar with your jean sizing my advice is always measure yourself and compare those measurements to the measurements listed for the item because oftentimes their jeans all fit differently. Another thing to note is just how large everything runs. I'm more thick on the bottom so I typically wear an M/L on the top but I don't ever usually buy a large in anything AEO because almost all of their tops run really big, especially Aerie items.

I've heard/read mixed reviews when it comes to the quality of their jeans. I will admit their stretchy jeans aren't made of the most amazing-gonna-last-you-a-million-years type material but I don't mind because at least they're stretchy! I've purchased mom jeans that are just regular denim and I've had no issues with tearing or anything like that. The color of black jeans does fade over time but I think that's inevitable.

I will continue to purchase AEO jeans as they're the only ones that fit me well! I love their products and have never had a negative experience shopping with them.

Date of experience: May 12, 2020
Spain
2 reviews
8 helpful votes
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I bought some boxers for my kids that costed a total of 56. The big surprise came when the Fedex representative that brought the parcel made me pay 29 in border taxes. I leave in Spain. I did not receive any alert when I was placing my order, and my confirmation email did not say a word. I complained to customer service and they said that their general terms and conditions state that any taxes must be payed by the customer. In the moment I was complaining there was a big banner in American Eagle website stating that they cover any import taxes. How a bran can be so cynical. Dear sirs in Amercan Eagle I've lost 29, but you have lost much more that a customer.

Date of experience: May 3, 2020
Pennsylvania
3 reviews
19 helpful votes
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Frequent customer
April 11, 2020

I order from this company at least once a month and just love the products they have! The only time I encountered an issue is when I ordered a candle and it came broken into pieces. The representative I spoke with was helpful and kind. Their products are so cute and stylish and the prices are very affordable. Have always, and will continue, recommending others to this company.

Date of experience: April 10, 2020