I am happy with the quality of the products, however shipping times are excessive and updates lag. Will continue to shop here, but expect better communication
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So BAAAADDDDDD! It is really a terrible experience that i had in lightinthebox. I was very happy that i find the eye shadow palette with 180 colors at the first time, and without more consideration, i place the order at once also for the $31.49 cheap price. Yet, 30 days were passed, yet nobody contact me about my order, and i am disappointed by the same replay of waiting waiting waiting... I can not bear them. On August. 1,35 days later i finally received them, Yet, all was over when i unwrapped the package. Everything was destroyed... I give this bad review to lightinthebox just hope that tell you that never buy from them. They are frauddddddd...
Dresses arrived 3 sizes to small, returns are very complicated if not impossible, customer service is terrible, you have to take a picture of yourself in the non fiitting dress, mail it back to china 36$ each mailing fill out customs forms, site is almost impossible to navigate DO NOT BUY FROM THIS COMPANY YOU WILL BE SORRY.
Most importantly: OUR CREDIT CARDS WERE HACKED within a day of buying something (a dress) on this site. Going through every transaction we had made in the past year (the card was 11 months old) this was the only site that did not run on verified and secured payment system. The charges made to our card were all made in China. Stay away from this site, seriously.
I ordered a last minute dress from them and it turned out nothing close to what was pictured, measurements were godawful (I am a size 6 and the dress literally fell off of me), and arrived with a tear down the zipper.
For 3 weeks after ordering, I attempted communication in order to get a refund. I got back multiple generic form emails which did not address a refund whatsoever. They (at the time, I don't know if it changed) had no US phone line- one was listed but nobody ever picked up- tried over 20 times during different times of day to call it.
These are scam artists, plain and simple. They do not represent their products accurately, the quality is terrible, prices are not just barely cheaper than anywhere else, and as youcan see from all of the other reviews, refunds do not happen. Finally, and they aren't secure enough to be trusted with your credit card information. Stay away from this site.
Dear Stacey,
Thank you for shopping with us and telling us about your experience. Please send us your order number, so that Customer Service can find you in our system. In the meantime, you can open a Customer Service ticket and you will be able to check the progress of your request by accessing My Tickets on our website. Follow this link to view the ticket center: http://www.lightinthebox.com/index.php?main_page=ticket_center, and our customer service team will help you there.
Thank you,
LightInTheBox
I spent $240 on shoes- ordering 6 pairs in the one size. They arrived promptly about 2 weeks later- beautifully made but all in different sizes. Of the 6 only two were actually close to size. When I contacted the customer service they asked me to photograph the shoes with my feet in them (that was a sight let me tell you) so I did- 4 pairs of shoes with my heels hanging over the edge of the shoe.
After waiting almost a business day to get a return from the email I sent (in immediate response to theirs) they admitted error and gave me 4 options. I chose the option of compensation (half the amount of the shoes I purchased) and renegotiated the price - stll out of pocket. They then tried to reword it so I would not receive a refund, rather a store credit or coupon -which will never include postage. I have refused this version of the option and am still waiting on a reply which. After reading all the blogs here, Im thinking will probably not happen.
I paid through credit card as they did not offer the option of paypal- my huge mistake and one I will never make again. NEVER deal with this company if you cant pay through paypal- in fact dont ever deal with this company if you actually want to get what you paid for.
Dear Esther,
Thank you for shopping with us and telling us about your experience. Please send us your order number, so that Customer Service can find you in our system. In the meantime, you can open a Customer Service ticket and you will be able to check the progress of your request by accessing My Tickets on our website. Follow this link to view the ticket center: http://www.lightinthebox.com/index.php?main_page=ticket_center, and our customer service team will help you there.
Thank you,
LightInTheBox
I am getting married on the 10th May and I am worried that my dress will not arrive in time. I have communicated with customer services by raising a ticket but am just simply not getting anywhere.
I understand the the owner of Lightinthebox responds to queries/comments on here... please someone advise... as I am worried sick at this point in time and fear that my once in a life time day will be ruined.
Thanks in advance - NM
Dear Customer,
Thank you for shopping with us and telling us about your experience. Please send us your order number, so that Customer Service can find you in our system. In the meantime, you can open a Customer Service ticket and you will be able to check the progress of your request by accessing My Tickets on our website. Follow this link to view the ticket center: http://www.lightinthebox.com/index.php?main_page=ticket_center, and our customer service team will help you there.
Thank you,
LightInTheBox
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! They ripped me off in more ways then one. Telling me I can't return things until there are photos of me in the product. Telling me I cannot stop ordering something that took 17 DAYS to even BEGIN to process. FULL OF CRAP, NEVER, EVER BUY HERE!
Dear Denise,
Thank you for shopping with us and telling us about your experience. Please send us your order number, so that Customer Service can find you in our system. In the meantime, you can open a Customer Service ticket and you will be able to check the progress of your request by accessing My Tickets on our website. Follow this link to view the ticket center: http://www.lightinthebox.com/index.php?main_page=ticket_center, and our customer service team will help you there.
Thank you,
LightInTheBox
LightInTheBox delay refunding my money more than 20 days. I've ordered ePad for Christmas, I've paid for shipping, but when it arrived, I found out that I have to pay again for shipping + duty tax. I have refused the parcel and I am still awaiting for refund more than 20 days!
Beware this scammers! LightInTheBox is scam and fraud!
Long story short - this website is great for ordering dresses. I've heard horror stories with regard to their electronics, but having ordered two dresses from them on separate occasions, I have been nothing but impressed. Neither of my dresses fit PERFECTLY but considering the price and the fact that I did not request custom sizing, it was not a surprise. I would still argue that you get more than what you pay for when ordering dresses from them. I'm a big fan and will continue to recommend them.
I ordered my first dress from lightinthebox back in August for a wedding in October. I did not do custom sizing. I range between a size 4 and 6 and heard you should order one size bigger from them, so I went with the 6. The dress arrived within 3 weeks. The upper portion of the dress was a LITTLE small (maybe I should have gone with an 8), but constructed beautifully. Basically the shoulder straps were not as long as I would have liked, so it was a little tight to get into, but I wore it to the October wedding and had numerous people tell me how much they loved it.
So I decided to order a second dress for a December wedding. This one was strapless, so I stuck with the size 6, figuring that I wouldn't have to worry about straps and the previous dress had fit perfectly otherwise. This dress also showed up relatively quickly. BEAUTIFULLY constructed. Nice material. The bodice had boning - it was extremely well made. When I tried it on it was definitely too long. I needed to have it hemmed, but once again, I got tons of compliments on it.
Wel... I didn't had the experience with them.
A friend of mine, bought a mobile phone with TV receiver.
I've used that and it was acceptable (seeing analog TV on it).
But... She can't use the phone call function. I think this phone don't recognise the SIM cards.
I'm not sure if she had another problem with them or not.
I'm looking for a affordable tablet pc, and I'm considering to buy it from them.
To Customer Service: I am writing to you again. In case you don't understand the problem I am going to state it again.
No. 1 – as you are using Chinese goods, you need to tell the customer to buy several sizes larger – you did not do this.
All I want from you is the instruction on how to return the bridal jacket that I purchased that is very, very small and I do not want to pay postage to return it – as it is your fault that you do not give the customer the correct sizing information. Your policy of dropping the investigation after 48 hours is also ridiculous. It is the summer and people are on vacation. I was away from a computer when you sent that 48 hour deadline email.
If I do not get any satisfaction from you I will post a comment on the following website about how you deal with your customers. I expect an answer as quickly as you demanded my reply. I will be leaving town again shortly.
Bonnie Goodman
http://www.sitejabber.com/review-website-report-fraud
To Whom it May Concern: (I hope you are Customer Service)
This just keeps getting more and more ridiculous. I feel like I am in an alternate universe.
I just received this survey and filled it out. When I went to send it and I also included a long message repeating my problem, I noticed on the bottom that the survey said not to reply to the survey.
Why did you send it? If I cannot reply to it. That is the stupidest thing I ever heard of.
If I do not get a reply about my problem from you in the next 14 hours I will post my complaint on the site I mentioned below.
Dear Customer,
Thank you for shopping with us and telling us about your experience. Please send us your order number, so that Customer Service can find you in our system. In the meantime, you can open a Customer Service ticket and you will be able to check the progress of your request by accessing My Tickets on our website. Follow this link to view the ticket center: http://www.lightinthebox.com/index.php?main_page=ticket_center, and our customer service team will help you there.
Thank you,
LightInTheBox
Theives! Don't wast your money. If you want a refund it doesn't happen even though they say they will. Terrible customer service
Dear Ben,
Thank you for shopping with us and telling us about your experience. Please send us your order number, so that Customer Service can find you in our system. In the meantime, you can open a Customer Service ticket and you will be able to check the progress of your request by accessing My Tickets on our website. Follow this link to view the ticket center: http://www.lightinthebox.com/index.php?main_page=ticket_center, and our customer service team will help you there.
Thank you,
LightInTheBox
STAY AWAY! No customer service phone numbers, will not accept returns, delivery times are erroneous. COMPANY LOCATED IN CHINA!
Dear Dawn,
Thank you for shopping with us and telling us about your experience. Please send us your order number, so that Customer Service can find you in our system. In the meantime, you can open a Customer Service ticket and you will be able to check the progress of your request by accessing My Tickets on our website. Follow this link to view the ticket center: http://www.lightinthebox.com/index.php?main_page=ticket_center, and our customer service team will help you there.
Thank you,
LightInTheBox
This company seems fraudulent. I cannot find a phone number and my order has been paid for but is "not found" on the website. My tracking number is unknow.
I DO NOT RECOMMEND anyone use this website unless you want to be ripped off.
I recently purchased a video surveillance clock. The directions were impossible to read. I had to enlarge them several times to read them. Now I can read them but they were impossible to understand and follow.No luck. After being told to buy a new memory card via e-mail from the company, I still cannot get the motion function to work or set the time. After four additional e-mails, they have stopped writing to me altogether.
The clock was way over priced and I have learned my lesson - NEVER to buy from them again.
Dear Anthony,
Thank you for shopping with us and telling us about your experience. Please send us your order number, so that Customer Service can find you in our system. In the meantime, you can open a Customer Service ticket and you will be able to check the progress of your request by accessing My Tickets on our website. Follow this link to view the ticket center: http://www.lightinthebox.com/index.php?main_page=ticket_center, and our customer service team will help you there.
Thank you,
LightInTheBox
What in the world is REALLY going on?! On february 27, I was searching for my dream wedding dress. I found that dress on lightinthebox. I ordered the dress on the very same day. My payment was confirmed and received on that very same day. The status read that my order would be shipped around april 5. Well, it is april 6 and the status of my order has not changed since the 27th of february. I have not received an email or a telephone call and no one is responding to my "tickets." Which is a request that we have to submit after an order is placed. Once an order is placed you cannot talk to customer service apparently. Anyway I would just like some type of status update. I mean, come on, this is my WEDDING DRESS! Lastly, I submitted a review similiar to this on their site and I promise you! Within 10 minutes they erased my post off the site. I am very worried. At this point I am not requesting my money back or anything of the sort... just the dress, at least an update of the status:-(
Don't buy anything from www.lightinthebox.com. Let me tell my story. I bought this tablet from Lightinthebox.com. It is more expensive than that from other sellers. I would have paid more to get higher quality product. However I was wrong. It took three weeks to receive this tablet. When I got it, I found it was a defective product, which was a block spot on screen. I can send you the pictures I took on black spot if you want to see. I contacted seller to tell them it was a defective product. No response. I went online to chat with seller. They said that you had to wait until response. If you did not like to wait, you could sue us. Does any buyer tolerate this ridicules answer? I had no choice to contact Paypal and hold my payment. Seller immediately responded. Then I returned this tablet via USPS. It took other 4 weeks to get refund and reimbursement for return cost. However, Paypal charged me a fee $11.4 for refund and reimbursement of return cost. I contacted seller to argue on the fee. Seller said they don't want pay the fee. Does any buyer want to pay a fee for refund and return cost when you receive a defective product? It was seller's fault to send a defective product. Seller should pay for everything. If you don't care about your money, you buy it from Lightinthebox.com.
The reviewfbi.com gives so much positive comment, obviously it's written by their own staffs, who totally submit poor reviews for any other website besides itself. So IGNOBLE motives!
I have bought cell phones from them, at the first sight of it. I was so angry. Thoroughly different from what I saw from their website. Beautiful pic but poor product, totally RUBBISH. Without the EU charge, what's more, can't use in my country. Oh, my god, I can't bear it...
Contacting their customer service, no one respond to me the whole day. With great difficulty, a fellow gave me an answer. But he said he can't refund me, said that there is no proof of it... I'm so regret that I didn't pay though paypal! It's a big fraud! Poor product, poor service! RUBBISH! I will never have a look of it from now on.
Be cautious about it!
Despite payment through Paypal, the product I ordered never arrived. When I contacted customer service, they said they need a photocopy of my credit card and passport.
Luckily Paypal has a good dispute resolution mechanism and I was given a refund.
BEWARE!
Dear Michael K,
I would like to apologize for the inconvenience you have experienced while shopping at LightInTheBox.
Please allow me to explain why you were asked for extra identification. We do not ask for extra information unless our finance department deems there is something wrong with the payment (eg. Wrong billing address, etc). The extra information helps us confirm that the customer is in fact the one making the purchase. This is solely to protect our customers from others who might be making fraudulent purchases.
Regards,
Diana
LightInTheBox
I ABSOLUTELY NOT RECOMMEND TO SHOP IN LIGHTINTHEBOX WEBSITES items looks good only in the sites and when you received after waiting for several weeks late? It is just a piece of junk... My dress and shoes order came one week late for the occasion, the quality is not that good for the asking price { which I think it's too pricey} and it is bigger than they stated on the website dress size charts, and the shoes is one size smaller. The customer service through email will take you in a wheel of circle until you run out of the 7days return policy, you have to pay for S/H to return which you don't know if will make it back safe to China AND GET YOUR MONEY BACK, it will just make you angry dealing with them...
I ordered a lit faucet from the company. I installed it after a little trouble adapting it to my system. After a week of use, it started leaking in a couple of points and before I could find a way to repair it, the lighting system shorted out. I asked for their assistance repairing it and their only response was "sorry, the company won't let us do that outside of the SEVEN (7) day return policy, would you like $50 gift certificate to buy more things from us."
Dear David,
Thank you for shopping with us and telling us about your experience. Please send us your order number, so that Customer Service can find you in our system. In the meantime, you can open a Customer Service ticket and you will be able to check the progress of your request by accessing My Tickets on our website. Follow this link to view the ticket center: http://www.lightinthebox.com/index.php?main_page=ticket_center, and our customer service team will help you there.
Thank you,
LightInTheBox