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Buyee

2.7

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Buyee Reviews Summary

Buyee has a rating of 2.7 stars from 320 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Buyee most frequently mention shipping fees, credit card and next day. Buyee ranks 15th among Mail Forwarding sites.

service
81
value
79
shipping
81
returns
61
quality
72

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Australia
4 reviews
33 helpful votes
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Buyee's website is complex to navigate and you will continue to discover new fees at every turn. If you end up paying less for shipping than the items cost, you've done well. Staff are inflexible and even when they make mistakes there are no refunds, no compensation, and no compromises or negotiation. Stay away unless you are willing and ready to throw buckets of money towards the land of the rising sun. Take what you might reasonably expect to pay, and double it. Do NOT recommend. Oh, and my items themselves? Some arrived damaged as well. Sigh. Worst shipping forwarder I've ever dealt with.

Date of experience: January 14, 2020
California
1 review
15 helpful votes
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Overcharged Shipping
January 13, 2020

They got me for $100 (over normal) on shipping fees. No customer support. They will not honor the shipping prices quoted, so when you go to ship, it is always more expensive.

Date of experience: January 13, 2020
Hong Kong
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Worst customer service
January 10, 2020

Worst customer service, i waited 5 hours and no one responded on their online customer support.
And there is no number to call so you can only either wait for them to reply your email (which is extremely slow) or their ridiculous online support. I will not use them ever again.

Date of experience: January 10, 2020
Missouri
1 review
3 helpful votes
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FRAUD
November 8, 2019

The worst company (transfer item from Japan) ever... I am incredibly disappointed at their service. They did not tell me how much is shipping combine or separate shipment until I finished payment... After I finish payment, there are many cheaper options arise... plus you can NOT modify anything if you already paid. They do not have pre-confirmation page before payment.
I complained to customer service how come you cannot tell me how much I am paying for shipping (separately or individually or many other shipment option) but I have to pay "Surprise" price after I randomly chose the method and gave you my Credit card number. Then they told me "We do not know. Just luck sometimes." How come it is not illegal to do business/payment like this?

Date of experience: November 7, 2019
Illinois
1 review
4 helpful votes
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STAY AWAY
September 5, 2019

Children can run a better operation. Anything goes wrong (And it Will) you will lose everything. Insurance, protection all of that is a scam. You will received damaged items from the Seller or even Buyee is Known to damage the items themselves during "Inspection" or "Wrapping". Lowest tier paid idiots handling this.

You will never get your money back. Even with Insurance. They will send bland cut and paste emails telling you they are right. Even though they are dead wrong.

Please. Do not get ripped off like the rest of us.

Date of experience: September 5, 2019
New York
39 reviews
73 helpful votes
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Proxy shopping site
November 27, 2018

It's a good site if u know how to put up and or navigate it. I've used it over a span of 5 or more years so I know my stuff.
Yes I've seen the bad review's and I agree that the site could be more polished & at least notify customer's of any problems going on with payment processing which is usually on their end. However I use it as a proxy site, I get what I want so nothing else matter's to me. In the end I give it 5/5. A lot of critic reviews on here are BS as you should already know their are limitations on what you can import, & why complain about CS when you don't even take the time to learn their language?

Date of experience: November 26, 2018
Singapore
2 reviews
43 helpful votes
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Do not use this site
February 20, 2018

I joined up and won to items, I wanted to pay via PayPal but their system prompted that there was an error. I contacted PayPal and was told the issue was not from their end. Even though it was a bank holiday, I managed to verify with my bank that the issue is not from their end either. Hence I proceeded to contact buyee to inform them of my problem. However, before I could get a reply from them, my account had been blocked. Feeling frustrated as I took the trouble just to want to pay (do you know the difficulty in getting a response from the bank during a bank holiday) I decided to just give up on their website all together. Fours days later I got a reply from buyee saying that my account has been unblock and that I have an outstanding with them even though the error message issued was not resolved. Hence I have decided to just ignore them as how they have ignored me. To those who wishes to join them, my advice is to look for a better alternative instead.

Date of experience: February 19, 2018
Latvia
3 reviews
6 helpful votes
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Not qualified staff
January 18, 2016

It is an intermediary for foreigners buying in Japanese stores. There is a list of prohibited items for purchase, which is logical. However, the staff, with whom customers communicate through email, does the work of mediocre and unceremoniously. I have repeatedly demanded the lifting of the ban on the purchase of various items that do not reflect the list. For example, I refused to purchase stingray skins (everybody can buy this at Ebay without restrictions). My claim to provide email of the chief to complaint remains unsatisfied. My claim to specify a group of prohibited goods where the skins are included - the same. In many of my requirements klerk- "answering machine" named Teresa replied, "what kind of response do you want?".
Clerks of Buyee are unqualified and indifferent to the needs of customers. No email for complaints. If you do not want a hopeless situation, refrain from primitive Buyee`s service. There are many similar companies with the same services offered.

Date of experience: January 17, 2016