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Fabric.com has a rating of 2 stars from 379 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Fabric.com most frequently mention customer service, business days and credit card. Fabric.com ranks 113th among Fabric sites.
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When I first ordered from them, I looked at the negative reviews, but they were the only ones who carried EXACTLY what I was looking for. So I ordered. Perfect and fast delivery! I ordered again-same experience. Same with the third. Fourth order? One of the items, while the package exterior had the correct label, the product inside was wrong, wrong material, wrong color. I emailed customer service, explained nicely the issue and let them know with the pandemic I would not be going out due to immune issues. I asked them to charge my account and ship me the correct item, (I would keep the other and just use it elsewhere) but please check the item before it shipped to ensure it was correct. Three days later it arrived, correct and free! I thank them for their kindness, professionalism and quick turnaround. I will continue to order from them, thank Heaven they are still at work, taking care of everyone else. They need to be appreciated and thanked for still being there when they could just as easily be safe at home! Everyone deserves a second chance~give it a shot. What you do for and to others comes back to you... Thank you Fabric.com! God bless you all!
I ordered a swatch of Erotica Ankara Jaquard.
When I received it I liked what I received. When I went into the website to order it! It was out of stock. I called to see how long I have to wait. They could not tell me. Why sell a swatch when you don't have the fabric?!?!
Hello Violet,
I am sorry that the fabric is currently offline on our site. We pulled this fabric and 50K other fabrics off line to streamline our process for fabric that is being used to create masks for the COVID-19 pandemic here in the United States. We hope to have this item back up in Late April / Early May. I am sorry that was not communicated to you when you spoke to our Customer Service Department and I will make sure that the message is relayed to all of our Representatives.
Thank you for choosing fabric.com.
This is a awning I designed for my commercial kitchen next to my home. I covered it with gorgeous fabric from you guys! It lasted for several years until a huge snowstorm took it down and I decided to build a wooden cover for my porch. So miss my fabric awning.
Love these! Thanks for sharing. I am sew sorry to read what happened! Please keep us posted on your next project.
1. No track and trace received
2. After asking for track and trace got one with information in chineese (wtf)
3.2 weeks further tracking code not updated anymore - apperantly order was lost (I had to contact customer services myself)
4. They resend order even though I said I did not want to have it anymore
5. No track an trace again - later on I receive it - same code as previous shippment...
6 after leaving a 1 start review on there website (which is not posted btw) they got in touch with me, sending the same old track an trace which had not been updated for 2 weeks.
I issued a chargeback - worst experience I ever had. From my experience one big scam.
Greetings-
My name is Ed Harris, CS Lead with Fabric.com. Thank you for your feedback. Currently, our tech team is working intensely to improve transmission and visibility of important notifications, including access to tracking information. Should you have any questions, you are strongly encouraged to contact me directly at [email protected].
They sell quality fabric but the prices are a bit high. If you are dissatisfied, they do allow you to return the fabric.
I sew.
Sometimes I seek designer fabrics from Brunschwig or Scalamandre.
But for basic ticking, notions and other sewing supplies, Fabric.com is perfect.
They have a wonderful array of casual and hearty materials at affordable prices. I used their ticking in each bedroom of a summer house... coordinated with the wall colors.
I unreservedly can endorse this company... the business and shipping end is as equally efficient and reliable as is the fabric quality.
Five stars.
Greetings-
Thank you for your feedback. We are pleased to hear of your positive experience!
Should you have any questions in the future, please feel free to contact us, and we would be more than happy to assist you.
Sincerely,
Ed Harris
Color description & picture were wrong for the fabric. We called & were given the refund authorization and return label. Send $100 of fabric back.We contacted them several times, but they did not issue a refund. My young teen daughter asked for a refund check because she used a gift card that she no longer owned, but they claim that they erroneously put it on the card, never give refund checks,, can't find the refund, etc... The excuses were endless. Bottom line they refuse to correct the problem because they never gave my daughter her money back & she had to walk a lot of dogs to earn $100. Now they have both the fabric & cash.
Hello, Lisa-
Thank you for your feedback. It is our aim to resolve all issues presented to us. With this in mind, we would like to apologize for your recent experience, along with the fact that we were unsuccessful in our attempt to resolve this specific issue.
I was worried about ordering because of the reviews, but I am glad I did. I ordered on Tuesday and my fabric was delivered on Friday! I ordered six one yard pieces and each one was slightly longer than 36". One had a sticker that said I got the end of the bolt, so it was 1 1/2 yards. The fabric arrived folded neatly in individual plastic bags. I am very happy with fabric.com.
The customer service rep got really short with me when I was giving the order number. We finally got it straightened out but she was really not very nice about it. I have ordered 100's of dollars worth of material from this website. Try to be nicer!
Hello-
My name is Ed Harris, CS Lead with Fabric.com. Thank you for your feedback. We would like to apologize for your recent experience, and the frustration it must have caused. It is our tireless mission to listen to and advocate for all customers to provide defect-free, 5-star service. Disappointing you is not something we take lightly.
If you would like to discuss your recent issue in greater detail, I invite you to reach out to me directly at [email protected].
Sincerely,
Ed Harris
I live in Canada and have ordered fabric from them for at least eight years. I wanted to order a swatch and when I went to checkout, my shipping charge was $17.50! I phoned as thought that must be a mistake. The person I spoke with was condescending and told me that is that standard rate for international orders. Give me a break... put it in an envelope with a stamp on it and charge me for postage. Other online fabric stores in the US usually send it to me free. I now try to avoid dealing with them as much as possible.
This is my first time ordering from this merchant and although I didn't have problems with the order fulfillment itself, the fabrics I ordered were missing several inches from each one. I ordered 6 different fabrics totaling over $100 (including shipping) and ordered 2 yrds each. When they arrived and I measured them, some were missing anywhere between 4-5 inches with one missing as much as 7 inches. Considering I PAID for two yards each, I expect to get exactly 2 yards. It's too bad because the fabrics were of good quality otherwise but I feel short-changed on the amount of fabric I received. Inspect your fabrics right away when you get them and make sure you're getting the amount you paid for.
Had fabric in my cart for over a week at $7.57 per yard. After they promptly setup my business account, at checkout I realized they had not set my account up as tax free. Called to let them know at which time they fixed it over the phone but the prices in my cart immediately increased on two items. The $7.57/yd went up to $14.98/yd. Customer Service said for me to place my order at the new price and they will review the sale prices and give me credit towards a future purchase. Later, they actually told me they couldn't find on their end where the fabric had been on sale. Unbelievable. I've looked at my cart every day for over a week and compared costs. How can a Company not know what prices they have advertised? Similar pricing incident through Amazon. This Company is horrible.
I made my first order from Fabric.com, and I couldn't be happier! I needed to recover the seat on a 1940s gossip bench. I found a simple red and oatmeal stripe material I loved, and I ordered one yard. The material came today ahead of schedule, and it is wonderful. It had a slight odor, so I just put it in the dryer for 15 minutes and that took care of it! I know my order was simple, but my experience was excellent. I will continue to buy from Fabric.com when I so need.
This is the review I wrote on fabric.com which they refused to publish:
I ordered P. Kaufman Blue Smoke Velvet while it was on sale (not final sale or clearance) based on the photo and the color description as I generally find fabric.coms photos and descriptions accurate. However, this fabric was a light grey with a slightly greenish hue, not 'Blue Smoke' at all. I emailed fabric. Com to see about returning or even exchanging the item for another color and was told they would be happy to take the return and would just need to request a return label. Upon requesting the return label, I was told by a different representative that the fabric was now final sale and could not be returned. I sent multiple polite follow up emails that have been completely ignored. It's very disappointing as I have purchased from fabric. Com many times. This was the first item l sought to return and I truly could not be more shocked by their horrible customer service.
Fabric samples were sent as requested. Paid $3 for each sample but on the back of each sample there are stickers with numbers, width of fabric, etc. However, there is no information to trace back WHAT THE FABRIC IS. None of the numbers match the search on the website to order the fabric. Tried contacting customer service and was put on hold for 30 minutes and I finally gave up. Sent an email and the first response was to contact customer service (what?!). The second response was a list of fabrics but the numbers were "not found" on their website." I think I will be ordering from another fabric company since the service at Fabric.com is so unprofessional. After looking at the other reviews, I agree: RUN AWAY FROM THIS COMPANY!
I use to shop this fabric store a lot, but their pricing has steadily gone up and priced me out. Also, I resent with a passion fabric stores that sell quilting fabrics but do not appropriately separate the categories of quilting fabrics, as in; keep flannel all on it's own, keep minky all on it's own. The other huge resentment toward fabric.com is their "minimum" order restriction on quilting fabrics. A yard is a lot of fabric for a quilter, and the most I will buy at a time unless I'm buying a one color back round or backing. I logged on today needing one yard each of 9 fabrics. But I can't buy one yard cuts at fabric.com so I won't bother with them anymore. That "minimum 2 yard purchase" or 3 yard purchase in quilting fabrics is a deal breaker that today ended me shopping at fabric.com until they have a REAL sale. Sale prices are not sales at all when you demand a minimum yardage.
The site needs a lot of work. For instance, when I shop for QUILTING fabric I am not by any means of the imagination shopping for flannel. I want crisp quilting cotton. Fabric.com has a category "quilting cotton" however clicking on "quilting cotton" DOES NOT ELIMINATE FLANNEL from the fabric choices. I really loathe fabric stores that do not SEPARATE fabrics any better than this. However, I tend to shop fabric.com a lot for the ease of using Amazon check out. Still, on days like to day when I have a specific quilting fabric theme in mind, I will not shop fabric.com because I do not want to strain my eyes nor my brain weeding through the mounds and mounds of flannel and minky. They just "redesigned" fabric.com and now it's worse than ever rather than better and easier. ADD to that, it shows I have two items in a shopping cart, but the site will not pull up the shopping cart. The site is a holy wreck, they need to shut down hire all new designers and start over from scratch.
Customer Service don't try to help - instead "I do apologise, but i am unable to make any recommendation' and 'I do apologise ma'm' when I asked some questions about different types of fabric. I know this is a way out suggestion: but maybe they should train their staff in some product knowledge?
My mom is making something for a cousin's wedding and she order 6.5 yards of patterned fabric from Fabric.com. It is a large chevron pattern so if you are making something based on the position of the fabric, you cannot use scrap pieces. Everything has to be cut out based on the position of the patter. She had ordered from Fabric.com before and never checked the measurements but did on this order and was 8 inches short. Thankfully she had order 10 inches extra for an allowance so she wouldn't have to wait on a replacement but she did contact them and let them know she was missing some expected a refund. They did not even ask her what she wanted and shipped out the remainder of her order plus a little bit, so they claim. She was just notified but based on other reviews, we wont hold our breath.
The issue is, had she needed that portion that was missing, she would have been screwed because there was no other way to make the pattern work for what she is making and she can't put a seam in it. She is not too upset because she, thankfully, had ordered more than she needed and as long as she is careful, all will be fine, but she can see how this easily could have been a big problem and they are being wasteful and sending out a strip of useless fabric to her that she can't use. In such a small size, the pattern is lost.
She doubts she will ever purchase from them again, especially after coming across their reviews on multiple platforms and I know I will never shop with them again.
For anyone who does choose to shop with them, make sure to use a credit card or debit card with good protection so that if your order is wrong or doesn't show up and fabric.com does not make it right, the card company will make it right for you and deal with fabric.com themselves. If you can, use PayPal. PayPal has amazing protection for it's users. I am not sure about Amazon Pay's protection but I know that Amazon does a great job protecting customers from problems that occur with orders on their own site. At the very least, be aware of how you can protect yourself from problems, and this is good to do with any Internet shopping you do.
I had my social security debit card stolen. It was used at fabric.com and at other stores such as Sears. I contacted fabric.com and they told me that my bank should just reimburse me. Then when I went to Amazon Jeff Bezos who owns this piece of crap company, I was contacted by Angelina from fabric.com. She stated that she will make sure I get my money back. After many email excuses, she has now stopped answering me. Not only did someone steal my debit card, they bought things with it and was paid for with my hard earned social security. Sears was very cooperative and gave me back my money. PLEASE DO NOT ORDER FROM fabric.com. They are con artists. They are liars. They do not care about the customer. I am very surprised that Jeff Bezos allows a company he owns to have such a poor business standard.
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Answer: Im using them for almost a year but no more... they keep sending me 25 % discount almost every week to gain me back... NO WAY! Yeah i order atleast 2,000 each order... total loss for them... until now they still awe me money for the fleece fabric i order long time ago, when i order it it has 50 yards of it, after 10 days they gonna tell me its out of stock, waited for replacement, until now no replacement... i got a lot of horrible experience with this company,,, dirty fabric that looks like somebody use it to rub on their body... really really sucks!
Answer: My business is making curtains. I have dealt with this company for the past two years and I think the customer service department is doing the best they can with trying to making it look like the company has it together. They do not have it together at all. There is no excuse with the volume of business that they do that they cannot afford a system that can tell you immediately an item is out of stock. I cannot tell you how many times I have purchased fabric from this company only to learn three days later that it is not in stock. Then they hold the rest of your order for another three to four days after you answer an email telling them to continue to ship the rest of the order. I have had fabric arrive to me balled up in a box that they didn't even bother to put in a bag, I have had fabric with shoe prints on it in the middle of the bolt or pieces of fabric missing from a ten yard order that were cut out of the middle of the ten yards. I am trying to eventually not use this company at all anymore as they don't have a clue as to how to treat customers or just don't care. The only problem is they have run all of the mom and pop online fabric stores out of business with lower prices (this was maybe two years ago) and the smaller businesses couldn't keep up with them so they closed. Now that they have the market they have raised their prices because they have very little competition out there. If you leave a good review for this company you are one in a million that have had a pleasurable experience. Just because you bought from them once and don't have a complaint means nothing, consider yourself lucky.
Answer: It's a US website, so they'll take the money in US dollars, but if they take orders from Australia your bank or payment processor will have to convert the currency according to the current exchange rate and I think they may also charge a fee for doing this.
Answer: Thank you so much for your inquiry. Please feel free to send your contact information to [email protected], and I would be more than happy to forward it to the appropriate people.
Answer: You would have been better off contacting fabric.com directly. It doesn't look like they even know about this website.
Answer: I would call or email them, including as much detail as you can... order #, what fabrics were ordered and approximately the time of the order. Have never had this happen to me from Fabric.com, have from another online site and was lucky that I got the help I needed. Good Luck.
Answer: As a customer of theirs, almost an ex-customer of theirs at this point, I can honestly say they have made absolutely no changes for the better in my case. They have paid absolutely no attention to any of my issues with them, which is why I'm about to become a former customer.
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