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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
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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 1899th among Women's Clothing sites.

service
1,651
value
1,540
shipping
1,632
returns
1,232
quality
1,459
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Tennessee
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I have ordered from Shein four times and I have never been disappointed. They send out emails for free shipping often, so when they do I take advantage of that! Always read the reviews about the item you are wanting to order. That helps with knowing what size to get and the quality of the item.

Date of experience: February 19, 2020
South Africa
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Still waiting
February 19, 2020

I'm starting to get irritated because I have not received my items after purchasing it a moth ago. I paid a lot of money for it and was expecting great service. I do not recommend buying from Shein if you're South African.

Date of experience: February 19, 2020
Viviana F. Shein Rep
over a year old

Hello, sorry for any inconvenience. For better service, we suggest you contact our customer service via: https://sourl.cn/AVmS3g. Please enter【Contact Agent】and submit a ticket to us. We'll offer a proper solution for you asap. Thank you and have a nice day! ❤️

GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Bin liner
February 19, 2020

I ordered a faux leather waterfall jacket size was huge. It looked more like a bin liner. Really poor quality & didn't look like the one I ordered..

Date of experience: February 19, 2020
Viviana F. Shein Rep
over a year old

Hello, sorry for any inconvenience. For better service, we suggest you contact our customer service via: https://sourl.cn/AVmS3g. Please enter【Contact Agent】and submit a ticket to us. We'll offer a proper solution for you asap. Thank you and have a nice day! ❤️

New Zealand
1 review
40 helpful votes
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Scammers!
February 17, 2020

I have had to rate Shein one star because I didn't have the option to rate no stars. I bought 3 items on 23th of January and they still haven't been delivered, it's now the 17th of Feb! The tracker stated on 05/02/200 that the order is in Hong Kong and it hasn't moved since. I've tried live chat to speak with someone and sent a message but cannot get in with contact anyone! From looking at the reviews, this happens a lot, I should have read these first. Do NOT order from this site!

Date of experience: February 16, 2020
Viviana F. Shein Rep
over a year old

Hello, sorry for any inconvenience. For better service, we suggest you contact our customer service via: https://sourl.cn/AVmS3g. Please enter【Contact Agent】and submit a ticket to us. We'll offer a proper solution for you asap. Thank you and have a nice day! ❤️

Michigan
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Original Review:
I bought a pajama set for Valentine's Day back on January 27th. It is now the day before Valentine's Day (double the shipping expectation). I never get updates it hasn't had a delivery scan done in ages and this is so frustrating for a 9$ set of pajamas. Not worth it.

Edited Review:

I still don't think it is really worth it to shop here given the issues I've had as well as other similar issues others have had. The only redeeming quality was that the US customer service responded to my review and contacted me very quickly. They refunded my purchase that never showed up and gave me some shein points valuing roughly 10$. I still would not shop here unless you're willing to have the possibility of waiting nearly a month for your purchase to never show up.

Date of experience: February 13, 2020
Viviana F. Shein Rep
over a year old

Dear Laurel,

A member of Shein's US Team has sent you an email from [email protected]. Please be sure to check your emails Spam folder in the event it was filtered.

Canada
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Don't trust the price
February 13, 2020

I ordered lots of items from SHEIN Canada each showed as $11 cad or $12. Cad I find the price reasonable until I checked my credit card and noticed that they charged my card twice more than what it's was showing in the website. I contacted them and asked to fix the price. The people are in China and they were not helpful at all. I do not suggest buying from this website because the price is not clear. Also I had to pay custom at the end which added to the price that I paid. I was not expecting that because simply I assumed I'm shopping a Canadian website. Be careful with the company and prices.

Date of experience: February 13, 2020
Viviana F. Shein Rep
over a year old

Hello, sorry for any inconvenience. For better service, we suggest you contact our customer service via: https://sourl.cn/AVmS3g. Please enter【Contact Agent】and submit a ticket to us. We'll offer a proper solution for you asap. Thank you and have a nice day! ❤️

South Africa
1 review
58 helpful votes
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Although Shein's website is not very helpful, neither the customer services, I was able to track my package via sitejabber and another US review page. I received my clothes after 8 weeks and had to use sitejabber to track it until the end as the Shein website updates are not very helpful. It was a very stressful exercise, but I do love my clothes and the quality is excellent.

Date of experience: February 13, 2020
Viviana F. Shein Rep
over a year old

Hello, sorry for any inconvenience. For better service, we suggest you contact our customer service via: https://sourl.cn/AVmS3g. Please enter【Contact Agent】and submit a ticket to us. We'll offer a proper solution for you asap. Thank you and have a nice day! ❤️

California
1 review
10 helpful votes
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This is my worst experience in online shopping, the order took 2 months to get delivered where it was suppose to be delivered in 3 weeks, I tried to cancel the order and they didn't allow me. Bad customer service you can only contact them via email and the take too long to get back to you. I don't recommend it at all. This company will bankrupt soon if they keep doing that.

Date of experience: February 12, 2020
Viviana F. Shein Rep
over a year old

Dear Udai,

A member of Shein's US Team has sent you an email from [email protected]. Please be sure to check your emails Spam folder in the event it was filtered.

South Africa
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I finally received my order, i didn't know that it takes 30 days to ship an order to south africa, i got my order and everything went well, its perfect clothes and fits well. I would definitely order again..

Date of experience: February 7, 2020
Viviana F. Shein Rep
over a year old

Dear Rudzani,

A member of Shein's US Team has sent you an email from [email protected]. Please be sure to check your emails Spam folder in the event it was filtered.

Pennsylvania
18 reviews
47 helpful votes
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My top arrived in a timely manner, was as pictured, well-made, and at a great price. However, the sizing was off. I am a size 4, and ordered the Large, because the top appeared clingy/tight on the model. When it arrived, it appeared to be a US size small. Even though it is still clingier/tighter than I'd like, I am not planning on returning it.

Date of experience: February 3, 2020
Pennsylvania
2 reviews
14 helpful votes
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FRAUD
January 29, 2020

No customer service phone number no customer service email no return instructions sent with any of the products so they basically just steal your money and they are thousands of miles away and they don't care

Date of experience: January 29, 2020
Viviana F. Shein Rep
over a year old

Dear Denise,

This is Alexis from Shein's US Escalation Team. On behalf of Shein, I apologize for the experience you had in doing business with us. I would love to help you resolve this issue. Can you please provide me your order number or the email you used to place the order. Please send to: [email protected] with the subject line "RESOLUTION via SITEJABBER - Denise C".

I hope to hear from you soon.

Michigan
1 review
6 helpful votes
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No Communication
January 28, 2020

My co-worker ordered from Shein and was very happy with her order, which arrived within a week. I submitted an order on January 22 and after I hit submit, something showed up on the screen stating they would not be processing orders until Jan 26 due to the holiday. I messaged them immediately when I saw the message, they assured me my items would arrive. Today is January 27th and I had gotten notice yesterday that my items shipped. Today- nothing. No update other than it's being shipped via DHL. No update on the DHL site or the Shein site. Whenever I try to contact customer service I get the same run around. I spent $200 so I qualified for Express Shipping... my co-workers have ordered things AFTER I did and they have tracking information. I am leaving for a cruise on Thursday and trying to pack. Kinda hard when you don't know if your order will arrive in time. I am very unimpressed. Especially when every time I contact them I get a generic message in return. Oh and not to mention that my swimsuits CANNOT be returned so I'm basically stuck with the order when I get it.

***UPDATE*** DHL shipping was finally updated. My order is due to arrive on Feb 7- this is with express shipping. What a joke. That's over 2 weeks after I ordered. My co-workers that ordered AFTER me will get their items this week. I messaged them via Facebook messenger again (it's the only form of contact that I can find) and yet again, received a robotic message stating "please allow for 2-4 days for shipping". I think Feb 7 is quite a bit longer than 2-4 days. Only after leaving a review on this site has someone really answered me asking for my order number etc. I will probably never order from this company again. Their customer service is horrible and express shipping is NOT express what so ever!

Date of experience: January 27, 2020
Viviana F. Shein Rep
over a year old

Dear Sarah,

A member of Shein's US Team has sent you an email from [email protected].

New York
2 reviews
9 helpful votes
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SHADY
January 21, 2020

I ordered 10 items from this website. They came in 3 business days. They look like whats on the site for the most part. But when i went to do my reviews, they only let me review the items I decided to keep. I inquired about how to review the items i wanted to return and they told me this wouldn't be possible. When I asked how to edit my previous reviews to inform customers of this policy, they told me this wouldn't be possible. SO ALL THE REVIEWS for items are only from people who are happy with them. The people who hated the items and returned them CANNOT inform others of their unhappiness with the items. SO SHADY! Explains why every item on the site has 5 star reviews.

Date of experience: January 20, 2020
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!

Washington
1 review
9 helpful votes
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I received an email that said my refund that I requested was being credited to my card. I never requested a refund and do not know why the order that was in process of being shipped or had been shipped was stopped midway into the process. I have not been able to contact anyone. There is no phone number and no one has responded to my email. There is an option to reorder at a higher price, but I am not even assured that if I do reorder the same thing wouldn't happen again. This was my first order and probably my last!

Date of experience: January 19, 2020
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!

Canada
1 review
59 helpful votes
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I ordered several bikinis in medium [i usually wear small bottoms and medium tops]. When i opened the packaging from one of them... the string instantly fell off the ring as i picked it up... the other bikinis came so small... smaller than my hand. They are simply unwearable. I made sure to look at all of the sizing charts and reviews for them to order the right size and it was so inaccurate. Very disappointed to say the least.

Date of experience: January 17, 2020
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!

Oklahoma
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I posted a review out of anger yesterday. I would like to change it since my card was hacked. This was not the company. We were both scammed.
I followed the information on the statement, and sent them an email begging them to stop the shipment on that order because it was fraudulent. If it mails out, were both going to be scammed. I'll eventually get my money back but they wont get payment or product back. Fast Foward to today.
The money was back in my account. The email worked. I provided them with everything I could to help them find the order to stop it.

Date of experience: January 15, 2020
Viviana F. Shein Rep
over a year old

Dear Mindy,

I hope this message finds you well. I apologize for this situation. I looked into the transaction with the screenshot you provided and it appears it may have been a fraudulent transaction by someone who has obtained your credit card information. Could you please send me an email at [email protected] so we can make sure the money is refunded back to your account.

-Alexis

Tennessee
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Won a $100 gift card
January 14, 2020

Wonderful experience! Code worked right away, definitely not a scam and very cute reasonable items.

Date of experience: January 10, 2020
Germany
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Great service
January 13, 2020

Love SHEIN! Great items at a great price. Customer service is always great! Love purchasing from SHEIN.

Date of experience: January 9, 2020
Canada
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Great
January 12, 2020

It's been a good experience so far... although I ordered a couple of things that weren't true to my size but the others were perfect... you offer quality things at cheap prices which is great for ya students... I like shopping with you guys

Date of experience: January 9, 2020
Michigan
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Amazing
January 12, 2020

They always do their best to make sure their customers are taken care of. I've never been disappointed by customer service or the items I receive.

Date of experience: January 9, 2020