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Shein

shein.com
casual, preppy, streetwear, general men, womenAge 0-3, 4-12, 13-18, 19-25, 26-45, 46-60
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Shein is a global online fast-fashion retailer. It utilizes an on-demand business model, providing a vast selection of affordable clothing and accessories. Shein serves customers across numerous countries, primarily targeting younger demographics with its trend-focused offerings.


shein.com
China
Shein is part of Nanjing Lingtian Information Technology Co., Ltd.
Founded in 2008
Clothing item from SheinFashion apparel by SheinMerchandise from Shein clothing lineShein fashion product

Business Highlights

General

Parent Company: Nanjing Lingtian Information Technology Co., Ltd.
Year Founded: 2008
Target Gender: men, women

Shipping

Shipping Cost: $3.99
Free Shipping: sometimes
Free Shipping Detail: for orders over $29

Returns

Return Policy: free
Return Instructions: items must be returned in new, unworn, unwashed, undamaged, and unaltered condition and have the original tags attached and the hygiene sticker
Return Cost: free for the first return only, then returns are $7.99

Sustainability

Sustainability Score: We avoid
Recycling Program: no

Product

Style: casual, preppy, streetwear, general
Body Fit: regular, plus size, petite & short
Available Sizes: Men's (2XS, XS, S, M, L, 0XL, XL, 1XL, XXL, 2XL, XXXL, 3XL, XXXXL, 4XL, 5XL), Women's (2XS, XS, S, M, L, 0XL, XL, 1XL, XXL, 2XL, XXXL, 3XL, XXXXL, 4XL, 5XL)

Customer Service

Support Channels: chat

Payment Options

Payment Methods: card payments, financing, Google Pay, Apple Pay, PayPal, Venmo, Affirm
Buy Now Pay Later: Afterpay, Klarna, Zip Pay

Membership Programs

Rewards Program: Rakuten, TopCashback, Mr. Rebates, Active Junky

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Shein Reviews Summary

Shein has a rating of 2 stars from 4,970 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Shein most frequently mention customer service, tracking number and credit card. Shein ranks 1897th among Women's Clothing sites.

service
1,651
value
1,540
shipping
1,632
returns
1,232
quality
1,459
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AE
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I order and dress since 25/9/2016 more than a month ago and it's still not yet delivered to my house

First, it took them more than 3 weeks to process it for the excuse that this dress is on demand and not available (which was not mentioned on their site when I purchased it) then they shipped it to the local post office (not to my house through aramex as promised) and it was returned twice

I have been complaining and it not sorted out till this moment

I will never shop on Shein website again and I highly don't recommend it

Date of experience: November 2, 2016
JUDY G. Shein Rep
over a year old

Dear Lamya,

Thank you for ordering from our website, and we are so sorry for keeping you waiting.

We will arrange the delivery by Aramex to you as soon as possible. But if you do not want to wait, we could process the refund to you. We are so sorry for all the troubles, and we will send you the tracing number after the package shipped out.

If you have any other concern, do not hesitate to contact us.

New York
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Bad service!
November 1, 2016

I ordered a satin jacket from shein over a month ago and to seriously get an email today regarding about my order and how because of the popularity it's not in stock anymore, its stupid! Why? The website didn't inform me they were low in stock in the first place I've been waiting for a confirmation email for a month now and it's out of stock. The email clearly said the money will be refunded but in shein wallet... which means what? I wont get it back in my card but in my shewallet? In which i do not have an account i found it unnecessary so where will my refund go?

Date of experience: October 31, 2016
Viviana F. Shein Rep
over a year old

Dear Diana,

Thank you for ordering from our website, and we are so sorry for keeping you waiting.

We have already processed the refund to your SheIn wallet.
Please log in your account on our website and check your wallet.
You could use the money in your wallet to reorder on our website or withdraw deposit.
For more details, please check your email.

If you have any other problem, do not hesitate to contact us.

Illinois
1 review
5 helpful votes
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The pictures were a lie
November 2, 2016

I was horrified at the quality of the products, especially since the website provided pictures of them that made them look so beautiful. The material is thin and stretchy. Both of the shirts I ordered are comparable (in regard to quality) to a cheap Halloween costume from a party store. The shirts looked wonderful on the models, but when I tried them on, they were highly unflattering, loose and tight in places not shown in the pictures, and very small (which I couldn't have changed, since the site offers only a "one size" option). SheIn is an untrustworthy scam of an online store.

Date of experience: October 30, 2016
JUDY G. Shein Rep
over a year old

Hi Nam,

Thank you for ordering from our website, and we are so sorry for letting you down.

We have strict quality assurance before each product is packed and shipped, if the items came with defection or bad quality, or is not like the pictures on the website, please send us a few pictures of the items you received, we would surely help you with the return and make this right for you.

If you have any other concern, do not hesitate to contact us.

Georgia
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Email spammer
November 1, 2016

Product was OK, even if a bit slow to arrive. Problem is that they use your order to add you to their email distribution list then refuse to remove you. I have made dozens of requests to quit receiving their spam over a multi-year period without any success or even a response, other than more spam email.

Date of experience: October 30, 2016
JUDY G. Shein Rep
over a year old

Dear customer,

We are so sorry for disturbing you. Please send us the email address you used to register on our website, we will unsubscribe you as soon as possible.

Looking forward to your reply!

Minnesota
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Relieved
November 3, 2016

Relieved this was not a scam, ordered first n then read reviews, backwards i kno! After reading reviews i instantly regretted my purchase, became very worried i jus wasted my money. Although having expectations of "expedited shipping" of recieving my purchase fast, it took 2 weeks to recieve my order, not too bad when ur not expecting to wear right away! Overall satisfied with my order n clothing. Ordered 7 shirts, only one was not what i pictured, instead of a shirt it was a half shirt, still cute tho!

Date of experience: October 29, 2016
New York
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Impressive
October 31, 2016

I ordered 4 pieces of tops and so impressed with it. Got it so nicely packed and not crumpled up and the quality was nice too. I have some more coming my way and I hope I will be also satisfied. I will give them a 5 star.

Date of experience: October 28, 2016
Indiana
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I was extremely disappointed with the quality of the product. Neither the picture nor the description of the product gave any indication that it was distressed to give it a vintage look. Besides not looking like the picture it is described as being a Super Plush Throw. The material is so thin it certainly does not qualify as a throw at all. It is so thin and flimsy I can't imagine what you would use it for. The return policy certainly doesn't give a customer a break from their misleading descriptions. They were going to deduct from the refund about twice what it would cost to ship it back. I told them I'd ship it back and they could issue a full credit

Date of experience: October 27, 2016
JUDY G. Shein Rep
over a year old

Hi Mary,

We are terribly sorry for letting you down.

Yes, there might be slight difference between the real thing and the pictures on our website due to different light exposure and viewing screens. We hope that you can understand it kindly.
We have strict quality assurance before each product is packed and shipped, if the items came with defection or bad quality, or is not like the pictures on the website, please send us a few pictures of the items you received, we would surely help you with the return and make this right for you.

And please send us your order number, or the email address you used to register on our website, so that we could check your order.

Texas
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Just received 2 orders. What complete crap! Thought sizes were adults not kids! Wont be ordering again!

Date of experience: October 25, 2016
JUDY G. Shein Rep
over a year old

Hi Jo,

Thank you for ordering from our website, and we are so sorry for letting you down.

Please kindly noted that the size of our items correspond to the size reference on our site. If the size of the items are quite different from the description we promoted on the website, please kindly help to send us(our e-mail address is [email protected]) a few pictures about the measurements of the items you received, and we would surely help you with the return and make this right for you.

Apologies again for all the troubles, and please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any other question.

Missouri
2 reviews
3 helpful votes
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Horrible Fabric
October 24, 2016

I bought a leather jacket and the material is horrible! It feels like a big sandwich bag and feels like one too, considering how shiny and thin it is. Last year my favorite leather jacket was from forever 21 so I expected it to be at least that quality but I was so wrong! It is very tight in the arms and fits on the shoulders very awkwardly. I am usually an extra small so there is no reason the small shouldn't have fit me. Definitely my most disappointing online shopping experience.

Date of experience: October 24, 2016
Viviana F. Shein Rep
over a year old

Hi Cynthia,

Thank you for ordering form our website, and we are so sorry for letting you down.

We have strict quality assurance before each product is packed and shipped, if the items came with defection or bad quality, or unfitness, please send us a few pictures of the items you received, we would surely help you with the return and make this right for you.

If you have any other problem, please do not hesitate to contact us.

California
1 review
4 helpful votes
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False advertising
October 25, 2016

I ordered clothes from here. Picked express shipping, the site said it would arrive on 10/21. Its now 10/23 and my package has finally received tracking info and it says it will be here in about a month! What a bunch of crap. I asked and the response I received was the website had a glitch. Seems to be false advertising for them Do not order unless you are okay with it taking months to receive. It ridiculous they can take your money in less than 24 hours but can not get you your stuff for over two months.

Date of experience: October 23, 2016
JUDY G. Shein Rep
over a year old

Dear Nic,

Thank for ordering from our website, and we are so sorry for letting you down.

Normally, it takes us 3-7 business days to process the order, and we have shipped out your package on October 22,2016. And it normally takes 3-5 business days for shipment, we checked your package, it has been delivered on October 25,2016.

If you have any problem, do not hesitate to contact us.

New York
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Satisfaction
October 18, 2016

Just a quick note to let SiteJabber know, with your assistance, I have received my refund credited back to my original credit card as requested from the company Shein. It's good to know that someone is there to help when life gets complicated. They have apologized for the inconvenience and plan to review this process with their staff/employees. Thanks again for coming to my rescue!

Date of experience: October 16, 2016
Australia
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I am still waiting for dress to arrive. Shein sent me a small instead of medium and it is their error they said they will compensate me by sending me the correct size they gave me a link to a tracking number but it is the tracking number for the OLD order that I already did receive with the dress which is small size. There are no new details or dates when I click on the LINK. I have opened 2 tickets and keep being told the item has been sent to click on the tracking: http://new.17track.net/en/track?nums=LX*******CN I am disappointed because I think they might me lying to me having sent me a new dress :(

Date of experience: October 12, 2016
Viviana F. Shein Rep
over a year old

Dear customer,

Thank you for ordering from our website, and we are so sorry for letting you down.

We checked your order, and we are so sorry that we sent you the wrong size. And our customer service made a mistake to give you the tracing number for the old package, we are sincerely sorry for the unprofessional behavior of our customer service, and we will offer more professional training to every customer service in the future, so that the same situation wont happen again.
And please check your email, we have sent the ways of solution to your email.

We are so sorry for all the inconvenience.

If you have any other concern, do not hesitate to contact us.

Canada
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Order didnt come in yet
October 12, 2016

So I ordered a bunch of stuff on the 9th of September and its been a month now and nothing came in yet. I spent over 50$ on stuff... When will my package come in?

Date of experience: October 10, 2016
JUDY G. Shein Rep
over a year old

Hi Nicole,

Thank you for ordering on our website, and we ae so sorry for keeping you waiting.

Normally, it takes us 3-7 business days to process the order.
We checked your order, and it shows we have sent out the package on September 19, 2016.And it has been transit to the destination on October 8.
Could you please check with the post office to see if they got your package? And we have sent the tracing number and tracing information to your email address, please check your email.

Sorry for all the inconvenience.

California
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I didn an order for my honeymoon last August and out of nowhere the CS asked me to cancel the order and get refund with is so wired from online selling website and cause am stupid customer I did another bulk deal for 14 pieces and I expect you treat the bulk deals way different cause I worked my whole life in sales and I know how the CS should be. First they shipped one item cause it's already in the US warehouse and informed me there's one item not ready and gave me the choice either to cancel or send the other items right away and wait for this to be ready and done. I asked to send the rest of items right away cause am going back home by end of October for like 4 months and depending on my shopping through you gain cause am so stupid and now they are telling me oops it's another item not ready do you want to cancel! And my order is divided into 3.1st package the one not ready. 2nd the one that is shipped already and 3rd one with the 12 pieces and processing. Guess what your smart CS is telling me that the 1st one is ready and waiting to be shipped and the 2nd one shipped and the 3rd one which is the biggest amount is under processing and not ready now. And he's asking me to cancel if I want while another ticket is like I heard you wanna cancel. What's wrong with your company as long as you aren't qualified to shop on time and to the Us or even not qualified to satisfy your customer to an extent the best solution you have is to cancel the orders which failure big time. My items has to be sent on time and I only accept one item not prepared no more cause actually these aren't my mistakes and your company has to take care of it not me...

Date of experience: October 10, 2016
JUDY G. Shein Rep
over a year old

Dear Lama,

Thank you for ordering from our website, and we are so sorry for all the troubles.
Now we have marked your order as priority in delivery, we will deliver the ready items to you as soon as possible.
After we shipped out, we will send you a email of tracing number and tracing link.
Apologize again for all the inconvenience.
If you have any other concern, do not hesitate to contact us.

Michigan
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Tracking
October 6, 2016

I ordered a skirt on monday the 3rd. And got my tracking number on Tuesday the 4th. But when i go to the tracking information it says, "label created" and it has been saying that everyday and never telling me when it has been shipped. I got the expedited shipping, which is only supposed to take 3-6 days i believe, because i needed the skirt for the 15th of this month and i thought it would get here on time especially because i ordered it 2 weeks before the date i needed it, now i might have to go out and buy something else if it doesn't get here on time.

Date of experience: October 6, 2016
Viviana F. Shein Rep
over a year old

Dear Ruby,

Thank you for ordering from our website, and we are so sorry for keeping you waiting.
We checked your order, and we have already sent out your package, but normally, the FedEx won't update the logistic information before the package arrived at the sorting center of USA.
Please kindly wait for a few more days.

If you have any problem, do not hesitate to contact us.

Georgia
1 review
4 helpful votes
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DO NOT SHOP HERE!
September 29, 2016

I placed an order on 9/14 and I ordered a pair of boots, a pair of shoes, a dress, and 2 body suits. It took over a week for them to get the package together and all of my items were still not ready! They told me that the dress I ordered and the other body suit will take longer to ship because it wasn't ready due to the manufacturer! So I asked for a refund on 9/22 and it's taking forever for them to put the money back on my card! I got a tracking confirmation on the shoes and then another separate tracking number on the boots and 1 of the bodysuits 9/20. The shoes came yesterday 9/26, and they didn't even fit! I asked the representative when the second package was coming they told me 10/3, which is ridiculous. If they don't have their merchandise in stock, they need to take it off their website! What makes it so bad they don't even have a phone number to speak to anyone, you have to create a new ticket for each issue that you have! Do not shop here!

Date of experience: September 27, 2016
JUDY G. Shein Rep
over a year old

Hi Jamalia,

Thank you for ordering from our website, and we are so sorry for keeping you waiting.

Normally it would only take 3-7 business days for us to get the order ready for shipping, but the items you ordered are best sellers, thus it took a little longer for our suppliers to get it ready, we do sorry about that.

Please kindly noted that the size of our items correspond to the size reference on our site. If the size of the items are quite different from the description we promoted on the website, please kindly help to send us,our e-mail address is(dispute@shein. Com) a few pictures about the measurements of the items you received, and we would surely help you with the return and make this right for you.

And could you please provide us your order number, you could login your account on our website and find the order number.

Apologies again for all the troubles, and please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any other question.

Texas
1 review
9 helpful votes
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I currently in the prcoess on my first order after applying the first order 40% code nothing changes. Please help

Date of experience: September 26, 2016
JUDY G. Shein Rep
over a year old

Hi Kolin,

Thank you for ordering from our website.

Please noted that our coupons are based on the original price, we checked your order, it shows that two of your items are both enjoyed the discount more than 40%, therefore, you can not use 40% coupon for this order, but you could use it next time.

If you have any problem, do not hesitate to contact us.

Virginia
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I placed an order for two items on August 23th with expedited shipping and I paid $1.99 shipping insurance, a week after that it was still processing and I asked them if they thought it would be here by September 3 and they said no because one item is taking longer than the other. Great service so far! Nothing bad yet but wait for it. Around the 16th or 17th of September (1 month after placing the order) it was still processing! I asked them why and was told it was on hold because they were waiting for me to cancel my order(?!) and they were sorry and are shipping now. I got the shipping confirmation that day and this is where I expected the expedited shipping part to kick in but nope still waiting. I feel like an idiot waiting so long for an order that wasn't even processing to finish processing all because of a lack of communication. Who does that without telling someone! They took my money, thought I wanted a refund even though they didn't give me my money back AND they would've "processed" my order forever if I didn't say something. Very disappointed. Every time I think about it my blood boils.

Date of experience: September 26, 2016
JUDY G. Shein Rep
over a year old

Hi Breah,

Thank you for ordering from our website, and we are so sorry for keeping you waiting.

We checked your order, it shows that you have contacted our customer service on September 28, and asked if you could have it before September 3, and our customer service told you that you could not have it before September 3, and hold your order. We are so sorry that we did not contact you and inform you the situation. And we are sincerely sorry for the unprofessional behavior of our customer service, and we will offer more professional training to every customer service in the future, so that the same situation wont happen again.

And now your package has been shipped out, and we have sent the tracing information to your email, please kindly wait for a few more days.

We are so sorry for all the troubles.

Yours sincerely
Lexie

Georgia
2 reviews
8 helpful votes
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Bogus discount code
September 23, 2016

I use makemechic regularly so i'm familiar with longer than average shipping times and generally know what to expect(don't order something you need for an event next weekend). Noticed this site that offers many of the same products for around the same price. Decided to give it a try. Added about 6 things in my cart, total came to around $150 so i tried to use the 45% off code offered for $105 and over... nope. I was forced to use my "first time" 40% off coupon. Ok, fine. Tried to use that and wasn't allowed because i was "already enjoying a higher discount" before my coupon. I wasn't. Although yes, most items were "discounted" around 35%. So i checked the site again, and yes, sure enough. Even Just In items are discounted at that rate already. EVERYTHING is discounted at that rate. So just forget about the coupon, that' doesn't really exist. Unloaded my cart and sending these emails to spam. BYE.

Date of experience: September 23, 2016
Viviana F. Shein Rep
over a year old

Hi Sonora,

Thank you for ordering from our website, and we are so sorry for all the troubles.

All of our coupons are based on the original price, and lots of our items are on a big discount, more that 40%, but you could use your coupon next time.

We have products of good price and good quality, please be assured your purchase, if you have any concern during the purchase, do not hesitate to contact us.

Louisiana
1 review
7 helpful votes
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I read a lot of people's reviews saying their clothes never arrived or took months to do so, weren't the right size, looked different than pictured, etc. Not only did I receive all my order in about a week and a half but everything was exactly as I ordered. Some things fit a little different than I hoped but it is discount clothing and you get what you pay for. Not bad for 12 products for $100 bucks!
All in all I was impressed!

Date of experience: September 19, 2016
JUDY G. Shein Rep
over a year old

Hi Lauren,
Thank you for your support.
We will keep on improving.