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DHgate

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DHgate Reviews Summary

The overall reputation of the company appears to be significantly tarnished by customer experiences, with numerous reports of unreliable product delivery and poor quality. Many customers express frustration over inadequate customer service, citing difficulties in obtaining refunds, unresponsive sellers, and complicated dispute processes. While some customers initially found value in the low prices, the overwhelming sentiment is one of disappointment, particularly regarding product discrepancies and shipping issues. Trust in the platform is low, as many users recommend avoiding it altogether in favor of more reputable alternatives.

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service
639
value
620
shipping
628
returns
507
quality
582

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California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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DHGate Liars
April 24, 2020

DHgate will demand that you pay return shipping and PROMISE and ASSURE you that you will be "reimbursed by the seller as soon as he receives-back the merchandise". This is a bold-faced lie. They will put "rewards" into your "DHpay" account that are NOT transferrable to a bank, nor are they spendable $$ except on DHgate which is the last thing anyone wants who just got screwed with a bogus product. They lied to me repeatedly and then screwed me with "rewards" instead of the cash I spent to ship it back. $118.75 I paid USPS to return a bogus counterfeit saxophone that was also damaged and unplayable. So, I got nothing and it cost me $118.75. DHgate made this an unchangeable condition of receiving any refund. Then once you pay the return shipping you'll never hear from them again. They are liars and they are cowards.

Date of experience: April 23, 2020
Pennsylvania
3 reviews
4 helpful votes
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UPDATE: After placing these reviews on this site and TrustPilot I had an agent reach out to me to tell me that I would have a resolution by 4/27/20 (today). I still have no resolution and this is 17 days past when their policy says I would have a refund/resolution. I also reached out to the "verification" and money guarantee badges listed on the bottom of their site and was told that their emblems were used illegally and DHGate was not actually accredited. Do not trust their business. I understand their individual sellers but DHgate does not verify them and is not willing to reimburse their customers if their own sellers are not legitimate.

I placed an order on 3/10 for two pairs of sunglasses and was given a maximum delivery date of 30 days. The delivery tracking was last updated on 3/20/20 and was still in the shipping country of China. I continued to wait and at the 30 day mark messaged the seller multiple times, never receiving a response. I followed DHgate's "rules" for disputing an order and tried to come to terms with the seller to denied a refund because "it was still shipping" despite being over their maximum shipping time and never being updated on tracking. I waited 5 additional days until I was allowed to escalate the dispute to DHgate for review. They said I had to wait an additional 10 days due to possible delays AGAIN even though it has not been updated in over a month and is clearly lost. I waited 10 days and messaged them again and they sent the exact same response back. It has now been 42 days since it shipped and still has not been updated since 3/20/2020. DHgate has still not offered me a refund and has not followed their terms that they said they would for customer service. I do not know how they have a trustpilot sticker on their site as they are clearly not following any ethical standards. I have two other orders that have not shipped yet and I am concerned I will also not receive those. I have now launched an investigation with my credit card company because DHgate has illegally kept my payment against their own terms and policy.

Date of experience: April 22, 2020
Arkansas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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In January downloaded the app & ordered my Grandson a youth Flyers Jersey for his birthday.
I understood, at first there was a holiday & then the virus hit. I kept in touch with my seller. I was kind and patient. My grandson & I prayed for the health of our seller & his country.
The order showed it as shipped - for 3 months with no progress & the seller stopped communicating. Tracking number showed "no information available".

Mid-April I contacted DHGate & asked for help getting the jersey. They gave me steps to open a dispute but what they told me to look for on the app didnt match what I saw so they opened a dispute for me AND then PROMPTLY cancelled my order! I told them in EVERY communication that I didn't want a refund - I wanted the jersey.

Now, I must tell my grandson that we were lied to and his gift is NOT coming. I must tell him our kindness & patience was met with lies and dishonesty. DHGATE SUCKS. They lie to and cheat even children.

Date of experience: April 22, 2020
South Africa
1 review
19 helpful votes
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Hello!

I am not happy with dhgate I've been using them for a long time and made many purchases, But now I have a package that was supposed to arrive on March 26th, the tracking has not updated since March 7th when it said leaving over seas, the seller refused to refund me, I opened a dispute for a refund as it is stated on dhgate

"If buyer did not get the item on seller's promised delivery time, then DHgate Resolution Center will commence arbitration to issue a refund or return item according to the actual conditions."

My promised date was March 26th, its not here!

My dispute and all messages are being ignored now and nothing is being done and the seller has turned off email notifications so is not even getting my messages.

The seller is not responding to the dispute and dhgate have not issued my refund yet thus is ridiculous and unfair its almost 50 days since
The order was made and absolutely no update since March 7th, dhgate states they will issue a refund if the package does not arrive in time my delivery was supposed to be March 26th its near a full month late! Please just refund me so we can end this dispute I won't give up and will report dhgate to trading standards for fraud and helping sellers to steal money like sneakerstar has stole mine with their help.

Release my refund!

Date of experience: April 21, 2020
New Jersey
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I ordered 5 items all but 2 of them I ordered 2 months ago and still haven't received them. 1 of them still hasn't been shipped. I messaged customer service with no reply! Very upset!

Date of experience: April 20, 2020
DHgate C. DHgate Rep
over a year old

Hi Zachary,

Please provide us with your order number and login email address. That way, we can check the status of your order and we can provide the correct resolution to your concern.
Connect us using the link https://www.dhgate.com/helpbuyer/helpcenter.html#pu1812_helptop-contactUs

Portugal
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Bom dia, solicitamos que o Dhgate fale com o vendedor e encontre uma solução para o envio dos nossos produtos, em conversa com o Chat, disse que a responsabilidade é do vendedor, se apelamos produtos a DHgate, então a responsabilidade do Ghgate falar com o vendedor.
Meu nome é Daniel Tomás, da empresa Arus sediada em Portugal. Nós pedimos produtos e chegamos a acordo com o vendedor, ninguém envia os produtos e a Dhgate não resolve o problema com o vendedor. Serviço ao cliente, não existe, ninguém responde aos emails também. Como cliente temos direitos e este esquema é somente para roubar os clientes. Evitem este site a 100%

-Leia o telefone com o DHgate.
Acesso ao nosso histórico de mensagens no Dhgate.
-Leia o messenger no facebook no Dhgate.

Apelamos algo que o vendedor disse que sim desde o início, aliás várias vezes, sendo responsabilidade da plantaforma Dhgate, estamos aguardando que o Dhgate resolva este problema com o vendedor e nos envie nossos produtos solicitados.

Date of experience: April 17, 2020
DHgate C. DHgate Rep
over a year old

Hi Daniel,

Please provide us with your order number and login email address. That way, we can check the status of your order and we can provide the correct resolution to your concern.
Connect us using the link https://www.dhgate.com/helpbuyer/helpcenter.html#pu1812_helptop-contactUs

Alabama
11 reviews
9 helpful votes
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To good to be true
April 7, 2020

Wanted a great deal on an item and found it on this website. The problem is the sizes they post and then actually make are incorrect. Plus it's impossible to get a refund. Buyer beware.

Date of experience: April 7, 2020
Colorado
1 review
14 helpful votes
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I bought a dress on DHgate for $110. It didn't fit. I don't think it was properly sized. After going through a long complicated return authorization process, I finally got approval to send it back. DHgate said I had to send back to China using DHL. When I went to the local DHL agent with my dress packaged up for shipment, the agent said the shipping cost was going to be $130! BUYER BEWARE - Do NOT buy anything from DHgate if you think that you may need to return the product for any reason.

Date of experience: March 31, 2020
Illinois
1 review
14 helpful votes
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Received damaged items and some were the wrong sizes. The seller ask me to just drop the dispute. He wanted me to just let him keep my money. I put in the dispute the day I received the items. Why would they release the money, knowing there was an issue? The dispute process is only to protect the seller NOT YOU! Stay away from this site!

Date of experience: March 27, 2020
Virginia
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Zero stars
March 27, 2020

After I waited 2 months for the shoes I ordered to be delivered. I finally received a shoe bag with a smiley face.

Date of experience: March 27, 2020
New York
2 reviews
8 helpful votes
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Dont believe them!
March 23, 2020
Updated review

DHGATE'S SELLERS SHIP EMPTY ENVELOPES TO ANOTHER STATE. ONE REPRESENTATIVE WILL TELL YOU ITS SHIPPED THEY GIVE YOU 17 TRACK THAT OF COURSE WORKS IN THERE FAVOR. THE SELLERS DONT SHIP HALF OF THE TIME HOPING YOU WONT DISPUTE IT. CUSTOMER SERVICE ACT LIKE THEY ARE HELPING ALL THEY SAY IS WE GAVE YOU A REFUND. WHAT ABOUT WHAT YOUR SELLERS ARE DOING GIVING PEOPLE FALSE HOPE I ORDERD THIS ITEM TWICE SINCE EARLY DEC FOR WINTER. IT IS NOW SPRING AND I STILL HAVE A TRACKING NUMBER THAT SAY THEY ARE PREPARING IT. BUT THEY WILL TELL YOU ITS IN TRANSIT TO HOLD ON TO YOUR MONEY. I AM PLEADING WITH YOU NOT TO BUY ANYTHING FROM DHGATE! ITS ALL A BIG SCAM AND THERE IS NO HELP ONCE YOU PAY YOUR MONEY. THE SELLERS WILL CONVINCE YOU THAT THEY HAVE THE ITEM BUT ONCE YOU PAY THEY ARE GHOST! SAVE YOURSELF THE HASSLE.

Date of experience: March 23, 2020

WORST SITE EVER!
March 21, 2020
Previous review

THIS IS THE WORST WEBSITE

THIS IS THE WORST WEBSITE! I ORDERED A ITEM I EVEN PAID EXTRA FOR FAST SHIPPING THE ITEM WAS SENT E PACKET AFTER I PAID FOR UPS. WHEN THE PACKAGE DID ARRIVE IT WENT TO ANOTHER STATE! I TRIED TO ORDER IT FROM ANOTHER SELLER IN JAN IT IS NEARLY APRIL I STILL HAVE NOT RECIEVED THIS ITEM. CUSTOMER SERVICE IS THE WORST!

Date of experience: March 20, 2020
Canada
1 review
10 helpful votes
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I ordered some masks I've been trying to get a refund for three weeks every time I go to the war or the mass from the company house they say to follow it says request refund and up pops operator fail it won't let me have a refund but yet it will let me re-order more masks they don't send you any information of confirmation the payments been taken or anything they don't send any confirmation when it's going to be shipped they don't send me any confirmation of any information it's a scam

Date of experience: March 6, 2020
DHgate C. DHgate Rep
over a year old

Hi Greg,

Please provide us your order number and login email address. That way, we can check the status of your order and we can provide the correct resolution to your concern.
Connect us using the link https://www.dhgate.com/helpbuyer/helpcenter.html#pu1812_helptop-contactUs

Illinois
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I waited for months to get an item only to receive a horrible counterfeit, nothing like the picture online, I originally filed a complaint because the tracking stopped and I never got the item. Well, the seller had it released from customs and the minute it was delivered, DH Gate released my payment and closed my dispute without me even seeing the shoe. ITS GARBAGE I have spent countless hours trying to get a refund, only to be given fake emails of my ""account manager" that get bounced right back to me. They tell you to contact the seller and have them message you to agree to refund you the money and then send them the message from the seller so they can refund you. Honestly? Nobody half way across the world is going to give you your money back! The seller never responds. The online chat is a joke. BEWARE spending your money here, THEY WILL NOT HELP YOU!

Date of experience: March 6, 2020
DHgate C. DHgate Rep
over a year old

Hi Heidi,

Please provide us your order number and login email address. That way, we can check the status of your order and we can provide the correct resolution to your concern.
Connect us using the link https://www.dhgate.com/helpbuyer/helpcenter.html#pu1812_helptop-contactUs

Barbados
1 review
30 helpful votes
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DH GATE IS A SCAM
March 3, 2020

This company and it's sellers are some of the dirtiest crooks you can find online. So many problems they have given both my girl and I. We have been wronged so many times, denied refunds for things that were not our fault and never even received items we paid money for. Did we get our money back for those things that were never sent? Absolutely not. DO NOT give your time nor business to this joke of a company

Date of experience: March 3, 2020
DHgate C. DHgate Rep
over a year old

Hi Dan,

Please provide us your order number and login email address. That way, we can check the status of your order and we can provide the correct resolution to your concern.
Connect us using the link https://www.dhgate.com/helpbuyer/helpcenter.html#pu1812_helptop-contactUs

Colorado
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Order finally delivered coming from China... delivered in good condition... be patient. If you need it in a hurry maybe not the best site

Date of experience: February 29, 2020
DHgate C. DHgate Rep
over a year old

Hi Gloria,

Thank you for the feedback! If you have any other question, please do not hesitate to contact us through the following link and choose online chat: https://goo.gl/hvEzdN or send email to: [email protected]

Regards,
Riane
Customer Service Center
DHgate.com

Thailand
4 reviews
20 helpful votes
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Scam
February 29, 2020

I bought a suit from them and the buyer told me he told me he doesn't have the same and he will send me another one. I opened a dispute before he shipped the item but he refused it and sent the item! I contacted Dhgate team on live chat with Tomas and he was very very rude and not helpful and he was talking about another cases that's not for me! This is part of his chat

(seller provide the tracking number and system allow seller ship out the order within 5 days, understood now? Jesus)

At the end of the chat I asked him about his name and he ended the chat!

At least if you will not help the situation be kind!.

At the end I reliesd that the buyer can request a refund before the seller ship the item because the seller said he will send different item. Then the seller can refused the refund and send the item! And Dhgate cant do nothing to him.

This is the order number *******992.

Stay away from this site. There customer service is a nightmare

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Date of experience: February 28, 2020
Wisconsin
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Clearly a scam
February 28, 2020

They take your money and give excuses as to why it didn't ship. Over 2 months! Read the reviews! SCAM

Date of experience: February 27, 2020
Canada
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Very crewed company I ordered pointer for the amount 207 dollars they never send it I emailed them 3 times no answer they don't care I advise you never deal with them alots other companies way more honest

Date of experience: February 11, 2020
Tennessee
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Another one
February 9, 2020

This time they sent my Stuff to the wrong address and still refuse to get me my refund this is not my address and they know it and still won't give a refund

Date of experience: February 9, 2020
DHgate C. DHgate Rep
over a year old

Hi DARRELL,

Please provide us your order number and login email address. That way, we can check the status of your order and we can provide the correct resolution to your concern.
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South Carolina
2 reviews
3 helpful votes
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1 star is too much
February 8, 2020

I year later no MERCH and no refund. For what I paid for 4 pair of shoes that I never received I could have bought 2 legit pair.

Date of experience: February 8, 2020
DHgate C. DHgate Rep
over a year old

Hi Chantal,

Please provide us your order number and login email address. That way, we can check the status of your order and we can provide the correct resolution to your concern.
Connect us using the link https://www.dhgate.com/helpbuyer/helpcenter.html#pu1812_helptop-contactUs