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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 1.8 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 1932nd among Women's Clothing sites.

service
1,651
value
1,540
shipping
1,632
returns
1,232
quality
1,459
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Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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SHEIN should use another carrier. Usps has mis delivered my package twice and a refund had to be requested. Not good for the company.

Date of experience: August 10, 2022
Viviana F. Shein Rep
over a year old

Hello, sorry for the inconvenience. You may contact Customer Service in SHEIN app, or simply click https://www.shein.com/robot?page=navigationBar. We'd be happy to assist you! Thank you and have a nice day! Please enter 【Contact Agent】and submit a ticket to us.

Florida
1 review
27 helpful votes
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I will never buy from here again, especially from these online stores. The Garments looks great on their ads/ website, once you physically get theses items in your possession, they look awful, the quality is super cheap & poor. I'm super disappointed in the way how things turn out based on quality differences from what appears to be nice online from what we see physically in person

Date of experience: August 9, 2022
Viviana F. Shein Rep
over a year old

Hi! Our goal is to provide customers with cost-effective products, and we are doing everything possible to achieve that goal. We will gradually improve the quality control, hope to bring you a better experience. For any issues, You may contact Customer Service in SHEIN app, or simply click https://www.shein.com/robot?page=navigationBar. We'd be happy to assist you! Thank you and have a nice day! Please enter 【Contact Agent】and submit a ticket to us.

California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Terrible service
August 6, 2022

Item was never delivered. Tried their online robot for anders, every time was met with 'server error '. Never got the package or my money back or even speak to a human about the matter. Utterly appalling customer service.

Date of experience: August 6, 2022
Viviana F. Shein Rep
over a year old

Hello, sorry for the inconvenience. You may contact Customer Service in SHEIN app, or simply click https://www.shein.com/robot?page=navigationBar. We'd be happy to assist you! Thank you and have a nice day! Please enter 【Contact Agent】and submit a ticket to us.

Virginia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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My orders all of a sudden not arriving
August 4, 2022

I usually rave about how much I love Shein but ATM I'm pissed off with them. Being such a big company people order from how do you not have customer service. It's bull$#*!. I've made 8 different orders with them this month. Received first 2 no problem. Then yesterday I had 1 out for delivery. Then I get an email that it failed to contact USPS. So I did. They said for some reason my package was sent back to facility. They don't know why and can't help me only Shein can. So I did their live chat bull$#*! and took hours and 4 different people to figure it out cause they can take forever to respond but if you do that they end the chat. They wanted to reship my package but everything was oos so they did a refund. Now any company would of reassured me this wouldn't happen again and they'd check account and make sure there wasn't an issue. I told them multiple times I was worried about the other orders doing this as it's bday stuff for someone. And wouldn't you know after going thru all that $#*! for hours another one of my orders was out for delivery and same $#*! happened. Only now I can't live chat with no one for some reason. I'm beyond pissed and this is rediculous af

Date of experience: August 4, 2022
Viviana F. Shein Rep
over a year old

Hello, sorry for the inconvenience. You may contact Customer Service in SHEIN app, or simply click https://www.shein.com/robot?page=navigationBar. We'd be happy to assist you! Thank you and have a nice day! Please enter 【Contact Agent】and submit a ticket to us.

New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I have purchased many items from SHEIN. For the most part the clothing isn't bad however, it's rarely looks just like advertised. It's usually in the same neighborhood but definitely Not like the picture shown. Also the material is usually not the best, or the stitching is off with something. But for the prices, you can get a gem or 2 in a haul... I usually purchase like 6 or 8 items at a time and at least 2 of them are definitely winners. The rest are just ok. But still the prices are cheap and for Plus size women it's really not that bad. You take a chance...

Date of experience: August 4, 2022
Viviana F. Shein Rep
over a year old

Hello, For any issues, You may contact Customer Service in SHEIN app, or simply click https://www.shein.com/robot?page=navigationBar. We'd be happy to assist you! Thank you and have a nice day! Please enter 【Contact Agent】and submit a ticket to us.

Canada
2 reviews
23 helpful votes
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If you want to encourage cheap labor and plagiarism, Shein is your quintessential stop!

Shein does not treat its employees well. 11-hours-long shifts on average, one day off per month, around 50 cents per piece for salary, poorly ventilated workplaces littered with bags of clothing and textiles, and no contracts. Please, think about those people. Put yourself in their shoes. Is this a way of living?

I hear you, clothes are getting more and more expensive, and most people can't afford local or eco-friendly brands. I can't.
Well guess what. Shein employees can't afford them either. Life is probably difficult for them as much as it is to you.

Date of experience: August 3, 2022
Cyprus
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Bad customer service
August 3, 2022

I placed an order on 25 June and I saw that is arrived at my country but my office was closed for holidays so It was impossible to get the order. I tried many times to contact with customer service to give me the tracking number but it was impossible to get an answer. I lost my order. Sorry I but I won't be able to make another order from Shein.

Date of experience: August 3, 2022
Viviana F. Shein Rep
over a year old

Hello, sorry for the inconvenience. You may contact Customer Service in SHEIN app, or simply click https://www.shein.com/robot?page=navigationBar. We'd be happy to assist you! Thank you and have a nice day! Please enter 【Contact Agent】and submit a ticket to us.

Spain
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I order in 126 euro, the package never arrived! They said it was delivered but the company ctt express that they work with in Spain are the worst, no Costomer service, no one to talk with!

Date of experience: August 1, 2022
Viviana F. Shein Rep
over a year old

Hello, sorry for the inconvenience. For any issues, You may contact Customer Service in SHEIN app, or simply click https://www.shein.com/robot?page=navigationBar. We'd be happy to assist you! Thank you and have a nice day! Please enter 【Contact Agent】and submit a ticket to us.

South Africa
1 review
1 helpful vote
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The worst service everthey debited my account twice and they claim that it was only done once. I even checked with my bank and the bank confirmed that it was done twice. I got my bank involved to sort this out and get me my money back! I hate that there's no real human to talk to, once this issue is resolved I'm so deleting the shein app and stop buying from there the worst pits it is

Date of experience: July 30, 2022
Viviana F. Shein Rep
over a year old

Hello, sorry for the inconvenience. For any issues, You may contact Customer Service in SHEIN app, or simply click https://www.shein.com/robot?page=navigationBar. We'd be happy to assist you! Thank you and have a nice day! Please enter 【Contact Agent】and submit a ticket to us.

GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Rubbish customer service,
My first and last purchase from those dodgy people. I purchased few items from them, so they came small, Now i need to return them But,
In order to do the return you need to see your order first, there is nothing in the parcel not even in my account to let me do the returning. So I emailed them and explained many times that i need to see my order to be able to return the items but no reply. The only reply i got was not helpful at all, saying that if i didn't get my parcel yet i have to check it with my courier, seems they didn't understand the issue
Customer service is Rubbish. I would never recommend them to any one, do not waste your money

Date of experience: July 28, 2022
Viviana F. Shein Rep
over a year old

Hello, sorry for the inconvenience. For any issues, You may contact Customer Service in SHEIN app, or simply click https://www.shein.com/robot?page=navigationBar. We'd be happy to assist you! Thank you and have a nice day! Please enter 【Contact Agent】and submit a ticket to us.

Idaho
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Most of the clothes are made from the toxic polyester material...
Literally didn't even try most of them on because polyester expels a toxic chemical in hot weather.
Returned all the items in PERFECT condition and they did not refund 90% of what I returned.

I returned most everything I purchased and they stole a MASSIVE amount of money from me.
I purchased $400.00 worth of clothing and sent it all back... they refunded 36.00 of it.
There is NO phone number to call them...
They literally just stole what I consider to be a massive amount of money from me.
I will NEVER purchase from these thieves EVER again in my life.

Stay away from them... if you return items... they might steal all of your money and keep the returned items... and there is NO WAY to get in touch with them.

Date of experience: July 27, 2022
Viviana F. Shein Rep
over a year old

Hello, sorry for the inconvenience. For any issues, You may contact Customer Service in SHEIN app, or simply click https://www.shein.com/robot?page=navigationBar. We'd be happy to assist you! Thank you and have a nice day! Please enter 【Contact Agent】and submit a ticket to us.

Lebanon
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Shein scammed me
July 27, 2022

Yesterday I paid for an order on Shein and it says on my PayPal account the money has been deducted but on the Shein website it says it's still 'unpaid'. This is a scam and i will not accept this.

Date of experience: July 27, 2022
Viviana F. Shein Rep
over a year old

Hello, sorry for the inconvenience. For any issues, You may contact Customer Service in SHEIN app, or simply click https://www.shein.com/robot?page=navigationBar. We'd be happy to assist you! Thank you and have a nice day! Please enter 【Contact Agent】and submit a ticket to us.

Minnesota
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Return process
July 27, 2022

The return process is not user friendly, most sites will provide you with a legit return label even if you have to pay for the shipping. SHEIN does not make it easy to return items. When trying to ask a specific question all you get are options to chose from and not the actual question that you are trying to find an answer to. I do not care for this site.

Date of experience: July 26, 2022
Viviana F. Shein Rep
over a year old

Hello, sorry for the inconvenience. For any issues, You may contact Customer Service in SHEIN app, or simply click https://www.shein.com/robot?page=navigationBar. We'd be happy to assist you! Thank you and have a nice day! Please enter 【Contact Agent】and submit a ticket to us.

South Africa
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Delivered but not delivered
July 23, 2022

Good day.
I placed my on shein and it was delivered to abuffalo logistics to deliver it.on my track it's saying I have signed and received my parcel but unfortunately I didn't. I checked with security and neighbors but no parcel. I contacted the logistics they just said we will investigate it's now some days I haven't get any response so please shein change the logistics company. Below is the screen shoot of their page with huge complaints.its so heart breaking when you order a huge order and you don't receive it. Please help us out as we want to keep ordering from you

Thank you
Wayne

Date of experience: July 23, 2022
Viviana F. Shein Rep
over a year old

Hello, sorry for the inconvenience. You may contact Customer Service in SHEIN app, or simply click https://www.shein.com/robot?page=navigationBar. Please enter 【Contact Agent】and submit a ticket to us. We'd be happy to assist you! Thank you and have a nice day!

California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Glitter phone case
July 23, 2022

The phone case came broken. I opened the package that it was in and the phone case was just split in half.

Date of experience: July 23, 2022
Viviana F. Shein Rep
over a year old

Hello, sorry for the inconvenience. You may contact Customer Service in SHEIN app, or simply click https://www.shein.com/robot?page=navigationBar. Please enter 【Contact Agent】and submit a ticket to us. We'd be happy to assist you! Thank you and have a nice day!

Canada
2 reviews
8 helpful votes
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Customer service sucks!
July 22, 2022

Customer service phone number not in service!?
One of my orders does not show on my account therefore I can not do returns of items they have sized incorrectly.
Quality of clothing can be very poor.
I'm paying $18 (on 2 orders) to return items because their sizing items wrong! Plus I'm stuck with an item that was final sale and again their sizing was off!
Such a waste time of MY $$$ and time!

Date of experience: July 22, 2022
Viviana F. Shein Rep
over a year old

Hello, sorry for the inconvenience. You may contact Customer Service in SHEIN app, or simply click https://www.shein.com/robot?page=navigationBar. We'd be happy to assist you! Thank you and have a nice day! Please enter 【Contact Agent】and submit a ticket to us.

Georgia
4 reviews
3 helpful votes
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If you are willing to wait months to receive your order then this is the site for you, but if you would like to receive you merchandise that is automatically deducted from your account then don't shop here. This is about like WISH. I feel like if you can take my money with minutes or seconds even then it should only take a couple weeks at the most to receive what I have paid for. This is ridiculous, I have contacted customer service days ago and my order is still on a plane after over two weeks. Shop at your own risk

Date of experience: July 20, 2022
Viviana F. Shein Rep
over a year old

Hello, sorry for the inconvenience. You may contact Customer Service in SHEIN app, or simply click https://www.shein.com/robot?page=navigationBar. Please enter 【Contact Agent】and submit a ticket to us. We'd be happy to assist you! Thank you and have a nice day!

California
6 reviews
24 helpful votes
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Their stuff is garbage
July 20, 2022

Their stuff is absolute garbage. I received my order yesterday - $125 of dresses, shoes and underwear, and it's awful. When I saw the dresses I was confused because I didn't know they made clothing out of material so cheap and thin. On the website, the photography, photo editing and lighting are excellent. It makes you think you're buying decent quality stuff. But in person the clothing looks like it cost 10 cents to produce and won't last one wash.

Date of experience: July 20, 2022
Viviana F. Shein Rep
over a year old

Hi! Our goal is to provide customers with cost-effective products, and we are doing everything possible to achieve that goal. We will gradually improve the quality control, hope to bring you a better experience. For any issues, You may contact Customer Service in SHEIN app, or simply click https://www.shein.com/robot?page=navigationBar. We'd be happy to assist you! Thank you and have a nice day!

Utah
1 review
1 helpful vote
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You can never get a refund for a return, you cannot get a live person or a real person to chat with. They are the most unreliable company I have ever dealt with. They are not ethical at all in their dealings with you.

Date of experience: July 20, 2022
Viviana F. Shein Rep
over a year old

Hello, sorry for the inconvenience. You may contact Customer Service in SHEIN app, or simply click https://www.shein.com/robot?page=navigationBar. Please enter 【Contact Agent】and submit a ticket to us. We'd be happy to assist you! Thank you and have a nice day!

Canada
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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I ordered a 2XL, and it didn't fit at all... it all comes from China where they have no idea what plus size means. I was told this was a much better site to order from... NOT!

Date of experience: July 19, 2022
Viviana F. Shein Rep
over a year old

Hello, sorry for the inconvenience. You may contact Customer Service in SHEIN app, or simply click https://www.shein.com/robot?page=navigationBar. We'd be happy to assist you! Thank you and have a nice day! Please enter 【Contact Agent】and submit a ticket to us.