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urbanoutfitters.com
casual, general, vintage & retro, swimwear men, womenAge 26-45
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urbanoutfitters.com
+1 800-282-2200
USA
Urban Outfitters is part of URBN Urban Outfitters, Inc.
Clothing item from Urban OutfittersFashion apparel by Urban OutfittersMerchandise from Urban Outfitters clothing lineUrban Outfitters fashion product

Business Highlights

General

Parent Company: URBN Urban Outfitters, Inc.
Target Gender: men, women
Target Age Group: 26-45

Shipping

Shipping Cost: free
Free Shipping: sometimes
Free Shipping Detail: for orders over $50

Returns

Return Policy: not free
Return Instructions: the items must either be unused or defective merchandise
Return Cost: $5 restocking fee

Sustainability

Sustainability Score: Not Good Enough
Recycling Program: no

Product

Style: casual, general, vintage & retro, swimwear
Body Fit: regular
Available Sizes: Men's (XS, S, M, L, XL, XXL), Women's (XS, S, M, L, XL)

Customer Service

Support Channels: chat, phone
Support Phone: +1 800-282-2200

Payment Options

Payment Methods: card payments, financing, PayPal
Buy Now Pay Later: Klarna, Afterpay

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Urban Outfitters Reviews Summary

Urban Outfitters has a rating of 1.5 stars from 485 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Urban Outfitters most frequently mention customer service, credit card and order online. Urban Outfitters ranks 374th among General Apparel sites.

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Australia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Returned two items I had bought online via the Urban Outfitters using Collect Plus. DO NOT RETURN ANYTHING TO URBAN OUTFITTERS BY POST. I sent back two items IN THE SAME PACKAGE but they only claim to have received one. When I complained they emailed me back a scan of a hand-written note which (I supposedly wrote) and which only states one item is being returned. The hand-written note is not in my hand-writing. Which means someone at UO is stealing clothing coming through via postal returns and then falsifying returns notes. BEWARE BEWARE BEWARE BEWARE

Date of experience: March 10, 2014
Australia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Never again will I order from this establishment, the customer service is beyond appalling. I still haven't received my package that was meant to arrive over two weeks ago. Previously I complained in relation to the late arrival of my order and was actually provided with a 15% refund, at this stage the package wasn't too late so I didn't mind waiting. Now that the package is beyond late I once again complain but yet to my surprise receive an email stating the issue has been solved! 'Solved' what about my $300 I spent, which I cannot even receive a refund for? Forgot to mention the tracking is not useful either it has been stuck for a week.

DO NOT SHOP ONLINE!

Date of experience: February 18, 2014
California
1 review
2 helpful votes
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NEVER ORDER ONLINE!
January 23, 2014

NEVER ORDER ONLINE! I ordered once before and was told my item was on back order cool I'll wait, weeks later nothing! I come to find out they were never getting the item back in stock! I tried stupidly once again to order online, I found the shirt I wanted in a store hours after I placed my order online. I contact UO asked if I could cancel my order. I was told my order was to far along to be cancelled. I checked my order status the next day to see if it shipped and NO I see "back ordered"! I called right away and was told there was an error in the system and my item was not in stock and they would not be restocking the item! I ask the rep to check if any store may still have it, but no of course he couldn't because "their system was down"! Urban Outfitter needs to get a new "system" and their $#*! together! Do not order online! Always check in stores first and drive! Do not take a chance ordering on their crappy site!

Date of experience: January 22, 2014
Kansas
3 reviews
8 helpful votes
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I recently ordered 2 items from their online store. I got both in record time, and, they were amazing quality, I got a burnout tank for $2.99 and a summer dress for $9.99! Their online sales are AMAZING! When I ordered, all of their sale items were another 50% off the sale price! The shipping is quite cheap, if not free. I will definitely be ordering from them again sometime soon.

Date of experience: January 11, 2014
KR
5 reviews
6 helpful votes
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I've bought plenty of clothing from this store and never had any problems, thumbs up from me.

Date of experience: January 2, 2014
Virginia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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DO NOT ORDER ONLINE
December 27, 2013

DO NOT ORDER ONLINE. I ordered a pair of shoes from urban with my visa gift card, and gift card to urban outfitters that i had gotten for christmas. I then received an email telling me that the order could not be confirmed because my credit card holder had not confirmed the purchase. So i called urban outfitters customer service, and I was on hold for atleast 45 minutes. And then finally when i got helped, the woman was trying to be helpful but just didn't know how to work the system. She proceeded to tell me that my purchase had been fully refunded, but in reality she had only taken off 30$ and had canceled my purchase. So i ended up paying 30$ for nothing. Thanks urban outfitters ((((((((((:

Date of experience: December 26, 2013
North Carolina
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Ordered 9 items, only got 1.30 days later still waiting for over $500 they STOLE from me. They say I have to 'contact my credit card company for a refund now' even though they've promised twice to issue a refund saying they're so sorry for the mix up.
DO NOT ORDER ONLINE. THEY KEEP & STEAL YOUR MONEY!

Date of experience: November 19, 2013
Australia
4 reviews
18 helpful votes
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Design is good but the quality is not that i expect

Date of experience: November 7, 2013
North Carolina
1 review
6 helpful votes
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HORRIBLE STORE AND CORPORATION, HIGHLY RECOMMEND NOT SHOPPING ONLINE! I CALLED MORE THAN 3 TIMES, EMAILED, AND ONLINE CHATTED AND STILL NO PACKAGE WAS RECEIVED. NOW A MONTH AND A HALF LATER THEY ARE NOW TELLING ME I NEVER CALLED AND THERES NOTHING THEY CAN DO ABOUT IT. SO I LOST OVER $350 ON A PURCHASE THAT NEVER ARRIVED AND AFTER TRYING TO CONTACT IN EVERY WAY POSSIBLE STILL NOTHING AND NO HELP.

HORRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE, THIS IS COMING FROM SOMEONE WHO USE TO BE A MANAGER AT A RETAIL STORE.

I RECEIVED ONLY 3 ITEMS OUT OF 18 ITEMS FROM AN OVER PRICED STORE SOMEONE TOLD ME TO TRY AFTER ENTERING THE STORE IN PERSON.

STAY AWAY, SAVE MONEY, GO TO PIER ONE OR FOREVER 21 SAME QUALITY LOWER PRICES.

Date of experience: November 3, 2013
Maryland
1 review
2 helpful votes
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This company authorized payments for two online transactions on my card but cancelled them without reason. I called everyday for 3 days, spoke to 2 departments to be told by everyone a "coordinator" would contact me to get to the bottom of the cancellations. A week later, I still haven't been contacted and the money still has not been refunded. This company is great about taking your money for sales but horrible with customer service and escalations. During my call the rep told me "unfortunately there is no one to help you at this time." I'm still trying to remove a hold for $600 from my card. I wouldn't suggest using this site at all. If you can't get to one of their locations, do not spend your money with this company.

Date of experience: September 30, 2013
Massachusetts
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I ordered a ring in store using a gift card but never received order confirmation email or ring and it's been 2 weeks. I didn't get a receipt either. I emailed them but they just sent order number of another transaction I ordered.

DO NOT MAKE ORDERS IN STORE. Just do it yourself at home.

Date of experience: August 19, 2013
California
7 reviews
37 helpful votes
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Urban Outfitters is run by ultra-conservatives who supported anti-gay presidential candidate Rick Santorum. If you're okay with that, then by all means shop at Urban Outfitters. If you're not okay with that, then boycott Urban Outfitters.

Date of experience: August 10, 2013
Singapore
4 reviews
17 helpful votes
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One of my favorite!
August 1, 2013

One of my favorite! The only bad thing is it's not like ASOS which has free worldwide shipping and all their shoes size starts from US6, I'm a US5, so can't buy any.

Sometimes they have bloopers, like once they send me the wrong color, but they refunded me pretty fast and cover my shipping back to them. So I have no issue with that. And the recent order I received, there's a big hole in the jacket and the jacket didn't look the same as on the website. Once again they refunded me pretty fast and ask me to throw away that jacket, don't bother to send them back. I also have a few items that I bought for my sis, it's too big for her as she's too petite. So I just shipped it back, as what I know UO doesn't have free return shipping unless it's their fault like sending wrong item. Hence I have to pay SGD$21 for the shipping to return the items, which I guess another downside.

But overall I love UO. Love their style and pretty good quality for certain brands!

Date of experience: July 31, 2013
California
12 reviews
31 helpful votes
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I really like the clothes at urban outfitters. I have ordered stuff online. Sometimes, items aren't in stock, which is sad. However, I have been very happy with the clothes that I have received that were in stock. I really like this store. The clothes are very cute, fashionable, and reasonably priced.

Date of experience: June 24, 2013
New York
11 reviews
29 helpful votes
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I love this store, but why is everything so ridiculously overpriced? Seriously, there is no point in ordering stuff from urban outfitter, apparently all their sales only happy and are applied in-store.

Date of experience: April 9, 2013
Pennsylvania
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I placed an order for the rainbow rag rug online, and they sent me the wrong item. I paid $10 in shipping and waited for over a week for my item; therefore, I was highly disappointed when I unwrapped the package to find that they sent me the wrong thing. Instead of a brightly colored 2 x 3 rug, I received a dull tiny rug that looked like a place mat, which looked nothing like the picture online and didn't match the size. The customer service I received was terrible. They never acknowledged the fact that they sent me the wrong item, but they offered a free return. Two weeks later I receive an e-mail telling me that they refunded the items from my order to my original pay method instead of exchanging them as I requested. The only choice I have is to wait three days for the money to go back into my account, place the order all over again and wish for the best, or to take the money refund minus the high shipping price I originally paid. I will never do service with Urban Outfitters again, since they obviously don't care about good customer service.

Date of experience: April 3, 2013
Canada
43 reviews
206 helpful votes
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I was pissed when I had ordered a pair of shoes from Urbanoutfitters.com that was clearly advertised as an ONLINE ONLY SPECIAL... which means that particular shoe style wasn't available anywhere in the stores... only to stumble upon the SAME style at my local downtown Urban Outfitters store! Not only that, the ones in the store were 1/3 of the price I had paid for them online. False advertising much?!?! After that bad experience, it left a sour taste in my mouth and now I'm wary of their so-called 'online only' specials. Hmmmm.

UPDATE: But since that time, I've placed over 30 orders with them and things have gone smoothly without a hitch. So, UO has redeemed themselves in my eyes. Keep up the great work, UO! :)

Date of experience: January 14, 2013
Brazil
3 reviews
6 helpful votes
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Great store
January 7, 2013

Great store. They don't have such a great options as Nastygal or ASOS for example, but still lots of good items.

I'm a client since 05/25/2012 and I've had 12 orders in this period.

Once they sent me an item in a wrong color (a pair of glasses). I emailed them about and they quickly solved the problem giving me a full refund with no need to return the item because its value was under $50.00.

Problems happen but me, personally think the most important is the behavior of the store under a problem. So we can see the real store.

Date of experience: January 6, 2013
Rhode Island
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Their clothes are top quality, yet it was incredibly hard to place one of my order. All I wanted to order was a pair of riding boots and I cannot even explain what the site put me through to order those shoes. I had to sign in, then out, then in, then into another account (at one point they asked me to create a new account), and by the end of this the quantity of the boots mysteriously changed to 7. I still love the site though, just because of their clothes.

Date of experience: July 31, 2012
Wisconsin
6 reviews
13 helpful votes
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Very easy to follow
March 6, 2012

Very easy to follow. Attractive but simple layout.
I love the new paypal option! The shipping has always been very quick. I usually receive my order faster than expected!
The only issue I've encountered is the packaging itself. One of my recent orders was a small concealable wall shelf (no more than 6 inches long/tall). It came in a 2 foot long box, which I thought was a bit unnecessary and weird.

Date of experience: March 6, 2012