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Soft Surroundings

1.4

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Soft Surroundings Reviews Summary

Soft Surroundings has a rating of 1.4 stars from 169 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Soft Surroundings most frequently mention customer service, credit card and post office. Soft Surroundings ranks 1919th among Women's Clothing sites.

service
50
value
51
shipping
54
returns
40
quality
45

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Maryland
1 review
2 helpful votes
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This company is AWFUL! In a time of a global pandemic when most companies make shopping easier for their customers this company makes them more difficult. Most companies offer free shipping to your home. This one doesn't no matter how much you are purchasing. They ship it to a store where you have to pick it up. They use fed ex which means it will take a very long time. So you go to the store which the website says it offers curbside pick up. You call them and they tell you that they don't offer curbside. After you point out their website they reluctantly agree to do it but they make you wait in your car for like an hour before they bring it out. If some of the things don't fit and you have to return them then you go through all of this again. They return the items but don't give you a receipt for them because they say that their printer doesn't work. When you insist that you must have a receipt proving that the return was made and ask them to simply copy all the information down from the computer onto a piece of paper the assistant manager refuses saying that it is too much trouble! This company has the WORST customer service I have ever seen. I will never buy from them again and am very sorry for spending so much money with them. They deserve to go out of business because they are so bad! I hope that they do!

Date of experience: August 28, 2020
Washington
1 review
14 helpful votes
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I purchased clothing for my wife's birthday from Soft Surroundings. Its been more than two weeks from the shipping date and a week after my wife's birthday and I still don't have the package. Its one delay after another during shipping. I never liked FedEx. Now I will avoid them at all cost. Totally awful service compared to other options. We are talking Missouri to the West Coast.

Date of experience: August 27, 2020
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Love, get more stores
August 25, 2020

I absolutely LOVE this site, but I desperately wish you would open a store In the Roseville area. This area is BOOMING and has lots of new developments that could be perfect locations for a shop like yours. So come out here PLEASE!

Date of experience: August 24, 2020
Oregon
1 review
8 helpful votes
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This company has the worst return policy ever you return a item expecting the amount you paid less $7.95 because that's what it says on the return policy but no! You also have to pay the original amount of your shipping in other words you are going to be out a minimum of 20 to 25% of your original purchase what a joke and the quality is not that good I will never buy from them again and believe me I will tell anyone in my path to never ever ever buy from soft surroundings! EVER!

Date of experience: August 5, 2020
New Jersey
1 review
13 helpful votes
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I waited months for an item that I ordered. I eventually received an email stating they couldn't deliver it. I asked for a substantial discount to be used on a future order to make up for the inconvenience. The customer service representative only offered me 10%. Not even free shipping. They send me emails at least once a month offering 30,40, sometimes even 50% off. When I insisted they could do better than 10% she just blew me off with "Sorry, no." The long wait and then the customer service experience left me with a negative feelings toward Soft Surroundings.

Date of experience: July 27, 2020
Texas
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Clothes are generally overpriced and in store and phone service is not very customer friendly. Even when returning an item to a store directly, it can take a week or so to get a credit on your credit card. Other vendors do much better.

Date of experience: July 23, 2020
California
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Give them a break
July 22, 2020

I love soft surroundings! I love their clothing! Yes, there have been some problems with timeliness in my returns during Covid, but we all have struggled, so please give them a pass on this one. They are wonderfully helpful on the phone When I've placed orders that they have not been able to fulfill due to demand, they have compensated me for these inconveniences. I will continue to shop there because their clothes are beautifully unique thank you Soft Surroundungs!

Date of experience: July 20, 2020
Washington
1 review
6 helpful votes
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First off I used to love Soft Surroundings. I'm not sure what has happened but they have gone to overpriced cheap clothes that if they aren't backordered for months they just rarely fit right! My husband bought me a 250. Gift card 3 years ago and I have only purchased a lousy overpriced tshirt with it and somewhere lost 50. At least! They don't credit the gift card back they send you "gift certificates" with odd amounts on them with no dates. You can't look up your past purchases on their website. Its ridiculous! The customer service people are so rude!

Date of experience: June 17, 2020
Arizona
2 reviews
3 helpful votes
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I returned two items I did not like. They charged me $10.86 shipping fee and a "label fee", which I printed out myself, of $7.95. Almost $20 for nothing! Goodbye soft surroundings.

Date of experience: June 6, 2020
Florida
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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No Response
May 29, 2020

Ordered 6 items, 5 came. Tried to contact customer service via 4 emails no response no refund no item. Horrible service. Next time read reviews. Never again.

Date of experience: May 29, 2020
New York
2 reviews
22 helpful votes
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I never actually received anything from 3 orders I placed. After waiting some time I finally got a hold of them and there was no longer an order, cancelled. They seemed genuinely confused that I wished to know that and confirmed they sent no notice. So, very poor service.

I decided to give one more try today since a brand new catalog arrived in today's mail. It had two really nice hoodies perfect for summer nights and right now too. Great, will order them immediately.

Both out of stock until the end of summer LOL why even send a catalog out that arrives today and things are not in stock until after the season ends?

I am officially done now.

Date of experience: May 27, 2020
Georgia
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I couldn't wait to receive my order, well my order arrived an I disappointing in quality an colors of the clothes, I thought Soft Surrounding were the same quality clothing as Anthropologie, my favorites store... No just the same price, as Anthropologie. Ill fitting clothes, long in places an short in length,

Date of experience: May 25, 2020
Washington
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Merchandise
May 18, 2020

I placed an order for two items on April 5th. One item came right away, the other back ordered and was to be shipped May 15th. I waited but no order or email explanation. Could not phone them because if Covid. Emailed customer service- my order will not be shipped until July 29 th. An almost 4 month wait is unacceptable. Canceled my order.

Date of experience: May 18, 2020
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I have been trying for months to get a return label. My last round of 4 emails has not elicited a response. One star is even giving them the benefit of the doubt. Working through bank now.

Date of experience: May 5, 2020
Texas
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Refund
May 4, 2020

It has been over a month since I promptly & correctly returned 5 items that did not fit, but I have received not response to ten emails, and a written letter, requesting my full refund. I'm sending a second letter tomorrow. They did, however, promptly charge me.

Date of experience: May 4, 2020
California
1 review
7 helpful votes
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I bought a sweater. It was beautiful and fit great so, I threw away the packaging. This is what the sweater looks like after wearing it twice. It was never washed. They are not answering phones and I'm waiting now 4 days for a response.

Date of experience: April 14, 2020
Maryland
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Placed an order on 3/17 that was to ship to the store. I was told it shipped on the 18th, but just got an email on the 31st that it arrived at the store that is now closed. No one to talk to and have sent 3 emails asking that the items be shipped to me instead under the circumstances. No response from anyone. Even the store manager who I spoke to twice and was aware of the order is unresponsive now. I know the unexpected closures are challenging but expected more from this store. Very disappointed. UPDATE- out of the blue my order arrived at my doorstep. No notice or reply from customer service. They must be swamped! My items are nice and only going to return two things that I just don't like. I'll upgrade my review to 2 stars.

Date of experience: April 1, 2020
New York
1 review
20 helpful votes
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Extremely Dissatisfied
February 25, 2020

I ordered several items. All but one item was available for shipping. Yet nothing was ever shipped to me. Customer Service claimed they left me a VM that since my shipping address was different from my mailing, they would not ship until they spoke to me. No one from the company ever called me or left me a VM. I cancelled the order they never shipped. Horrible service!

Date of experience: February 24, 2020
California
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Big Disapointment
February 20, 2020

I impatiently weighted for Soft Surroundings to come to my town. When they finally opened their store, it was a BIG disappointment. The material of clothes is very cheap. Their clothes are cut for one type of body build only-- tall, slim, long necked women. Even their petite sizes fall in the above category. Their clothes are worse than Macy's maybe at the level of JC Penney. I went there many times with the hope to like and buy something. Never found anything that would fit me. I do my shopping at Anthropologie and they have clothes for literally every body. I was hoping Soft Surroundings would be a less expensive version of Anthropologie. What a disappointment... I better spend 2X more in stores that offer quality that buying the trash that this store offers. Ah, another thing is that they offer exactly the same items multiple seasons. It is really strange.

Date of experience: February 20, 2020
California
1 review
17 helpful votes
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Didn't receive it!
February 3, 2020

I got my Mom a sweater fo Christmas that she never received. I called and they said she would get it end of January, it was back ordered. Fine... Just called and they said they cancelled the order because they will never get the sweater in... was I ever told of this? No! Wish I had read these reviews before this... I will never order anything from them ever...

Date of experience: February 3, 2020

From the business

Soft Surroundings offers stylish, luxurious & comfortable women's clothes for every size. Feel your best in the softest fabrics from Soft Surroundings.


softsurroundings.com
St. Louis, MO, United States