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Sephora

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Sephora Reviews Summary

Sephora's reputation is mixed, with customers praising the variety of products and the enticing in-store experience. However, significant dissatisfaction arises from frequent issues related to order fulfillment, shipping delays, and unresponsive customer service. Many international buyers report frustrations over lost items and inadequate support, while others express disappointment with the return policy and perceived lack of accountability. Overall, the feedback suggests a need for Sephora to enhance its customer service approach and shipping reliability to maintain loyalty and address growing competition in the beauty retail sector.

This summary is generated by AI, based on text from customer reviews

service
107
value
94
shipping
93
returns
84
quality
94

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France
2 reviews
5 helpful votes
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Love their selection!
August 3, 2018

Their site is like a candyland full of makeup. I love how you can find natural products and their reviews are really helpful when picking as well. My first order came pretty fast so the delivery process was awesome!

Date of experience: August 2, 2018
Florida
4 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Always great customer service. I love their customer service online, it will take a few days for a reply, but they will fix your problem! Really enjoyed to shop at Sephora.

Date of experience: July 31, 2018
Canada
1 review
2 helpful votes
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This is my first review ever on anything that I had purchased in the past due to how upset I am with their customer service. I will never purchase from them again whether online or in store. Will never recommend either!

Date of experience: July 30, 2018
Mexico
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I have ordered many products. My last order only 3 of the 4 items arrived. I emailed over 20 times to sort out this issue. I finally receive an email stating i will receive a gift card in lieu of the missing item. Nothing arrives nor any further contact. I continually email with various consultants from customer service responding but not helping. Why would i ever order from Sephora.mx again!

Date of experience: July 25, 2018
Norway
2 reviews
9 helpful votes
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Very Good
July 24, 2018

I have bought 2 bottle of lution, the prooduct is good, and shipping is faster than expected. Happy experience.

Date of experience: July 24, 2018
Colorado
4 reviews
21 helpful votes
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Love this store
July 23, 2018

Never had a problem if I had to return a product to Sephora
Love shopping here, even though it can be pricey that goes with the territory. With your purchase points you can get free gifts. My main shopping items are in the skin care line. I rarely use makeup, so the products are top quality. Overall I'm quite happy with Sephora. I have been a customer for over 10 years.

Date of experience: July 23, 2018
Illinois
3 reviews
0 helpful votes
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As a VIB rewards member, Sephora makes it easy to find the products Im looking for and always surprises me with new best sellers that I end up loving.

Date of experience: July 22, 2018
Virginia
4 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Shopping online is just as easy as in store! I can check out the ingredients and the specifics of every item before I buy, plus I can see how some of the products look on different people who are not just models.

Date of experience: July 14, 2018
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Awesome but...
July 13, 2018

My go-to products are always out of stock:< I love the freebies whenever I order but the shipping is always late

Date of experience: July 12, 2018
New York
3 reviews
2 helpful votes
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I am going to purchase products almost exclusively from Sephora. The products are amazing, ang most importantly, the shipment and delivery of products are super fast! I love that about them, and I will always be a faithful cusotmer! I hope that all businesses follow suit in having the same exceptional customer service and super fast delivery!

Date of experience: July 5, 2018
Florida
4 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Sephora lover
July 3, 2018

Since I was teenager, I'm a big fan of Sephora. It has been almost 10 years since then! So I have never had a problem with their stuff until yesterday. My in-store experience was a bit disappointing. I asked advice to one of the sales assistants and she was rude and unpolite. She seemed sick and tired of customers but come on, is her job to help you out. I hope next customers have a better experience than me. About their beauty products, there's no problem at all.

Date of experience: July 3, 2018
Tennessee
5 reviews
7 helpful votes
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I know a lot of you love them, but that is not me experience with them. I'll just post the email I just sent them. Customer service was very rude to me. Here is my letter to them.
Charged Twice On My Bank Card (Supervisor Please)
Yes, I just wanted to bring it to your attention that you charged me twice on my bank card when there was only one order. Please check your records and correct this problem.
Im still stewing about my shortage on my order before last. Who ever answered my email did not give a flip I was shorted a part of my order. Never even offered me a refund either. I have a good mind to file a complaint with Paypal because I did not get my full order. I have already filed a complaint about the double charge. You need to get your stuff together or you will loose a lot of customers. And like the lady that replied to me about the order I was shorted and did not even offer a resolution to it as to give me a refund is crazy. She should be fired because she dont know how to react to someones complaint. All she said is we are out of the product. I hope you get all your order in your next box. Well I did but paid dearly for it by charging me twice. You have lost a good customer here. I will not be buying nothing else from you. I have never seen the likes of rudeness. And I will be telling others about this too, plus posting this on sitejabber. This is my next thing to do on my list.
Roselyn Howerton

Date of experience: June 23, 2018
Arizona
17 reviews
67 helpful votes
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Simply a great company! I adore their customer service and they have a host of products in their offerings. Shipping is fast and returns are a breeze. Seriously, what's not to love!

Date of experience: June 15, 2018
Denmark
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I absolutely love Sephora! The selection, the free gifts and the easy check out process make it a pleasure to shop there. Well done!

Date of experience: June 7, 2018
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I ordered a coco mademoiselle perfume by Chanel and i got an email saying it was cancelled and so i called customer service (U. S) and they said that they cancelled it because they couldn't confirm it was me since my billing address and shipping address was different. I confirmed it was me and they re-ordered it for me with 2 Day shipping completely free!

I got my package a few days later and it arrived tampered. It was missing my items as well as my samples, the box was ripped and i literally cried. I emailed customer service with photos and they responded to me so fast! They apologized and offered me a refund or replacement! I love their customer service and i will forever continue to shop here.

Date of experience: June 3, 2018
New Jersey
3 reviews
5 helpful votes
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I bought 2 shadow palette to this company it took like a week to send me to say that one of the pallets was not available and they were going to send me the other one they had immediately told them to cancel it because I did not want anything From this people they still have the palette of shadows available they are irresponsible I do not go back to buy anything from them.

Date of experience: May 30, 2018
New Jersey
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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Best online shop
May 30, 2018

This is the best online shop! I always buy all my cosmetics here because there is a huge range of products to chose from.

Date of experience: May 30, 2018
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I used to shop here a lot, but I feel like the quality is not as good as it used to be with a lot of their products. I will still go here for certain things, but I feel like there are better quality options for many of their products now.

Date of experience: May 25, 2018
Tennessee
1 review
17 helpful votes
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Sephora is just getting ridiculous to say the least! I shop at their store in our local mall & 9 times out if ten they are totally out of what I regularly buy or it has been discontinued permanently! They say I would be notified if my favorites would be discontinued but they never do, so I leave there very disappointed more than I can remember! Their stores in JC Penny are the worst! They too are usually out of what I want or they don't even have it & tell me there is not enough room in the JCP shop so they don't carry much! I never ever return items I gave ordered on-line by mail! I always return it at one if their stores so I have proof if everything! I always print out a copy of my on-line orders & I always save receipts. They only give you 30 days for returns & you must keep the packages or they give you a hard time! I'm never ordering on-line again! My orders are always $50.00 or over so I get free shipping! Which is a joke! You get it with in 3 days but that's after waiting a week or more till they decide to send it! I have never received my entire order when ordering on-line, ever! They are always out of one or two of the things I have ordered & they don't tell you until they have already shipped what's left of your order so you have no recourse or chance to add something else to the order! Then you can't track your order! They give you a tracking number but you can't get any info on it until they get your package to the UPS store for shipping! Which can take longer than it does to get the order! Sometimes the order comes before they say it's even been sent! They need to get together on their poor shipping & improve this bad situation! I have never received any of the 3 free samples that I choose when placing an order! Never! I choose 3 I really want to try & I get "their choices" because they are perpetually out of samples & I end up throwing them away because they send nothing I can use or it's so hidiuos I won't use it! I have complained so many times about their company running out of products so frequently & never getting the samples I ordered but they always say it out of their control! Now a days with computers it's very easy to count down merchandise so customers know it's out if stock & would be able to buy or choose something else instead of total disappointment all the time! No one should ever show a "store salesperson" their Passport for any reason what so ever but I have heard this place will ask fir this personal info on returns! They ever do this to me it will be the very last time I ever shop with Sephora! I'm so fed up with them as it is, I'm considering shopping else where & I will never ever shop on-line with them again!

Date of experience: May 17, 2018
New York
3 reviews
25 helpful votes
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This store is orgasmic. I walked in and said "I'm oily, I want enough coverage in a foundation to cover scars, but I want to look super natural for summer", and the dude took me aside, ad showed me the differences between all of the products that would really work for ME IN PARTICULAR. The workers really know their stuff, even if some of them look like they're still walk-of-shaming themselves. Honestly, f I wore that much makeup to work, I'd look scary, too. But, trust the workers in Sephora, they really know their stuff

Sephora brand stuff itself is AMAZING. Their brand might not have the hype of the other brands in the store, but the stuff is incredible, and half the price of a lot of the other stuff in the store. I was using color fx powder, but it had hardly any coverage, and costs literally twice as much as the sephora brand stuff. Their brushes ARE AMAZING TOO. I really didn't think brushes made much of a difference, but sephora brand brushes are fantastic. I look so natural, and I have been getting checked out a lot lately. I love it.

Date of experience: May 10, 2018