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Vestiaire Collective

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casual, general, classic men, womenAge 4-12, 13-18, 19-25, 26-45, 46-60
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VestiaireCollective.com, the best of pre-owned fashion at 30 to 70% off original retail price.


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Business Highlights

General

Year Founded: 2009
Target Gender: men, women
Target Age Group: 4-12, 13-18, 19-25, 26-45, 46-60

Shipping

Shipping Cost: $9.95
Free Shipping: sometimes
Free Shipping Detail: for orders over $200

Returns

Return Policy: no returns
Restocking Fees: no
Refund Policy: no returns for refunds

Sustainability

Recycling Program: no

Product

Style: casual, general, classic
Body Fit: regular, plus size, petite & short
Available Sizes: Men's (4XS, 3XS, 2XS, XS, S, M, L, XL, XXL, 3XL, 4XL, 5XL, 6XL, 7XL, 8XL, 9XL), Women's (4XS, 3XS, 2XS, XS, S, M, L, XL, XXL, 3XL, 4XL, 5XL, 6XL, 7XL, 8XL, 9XL)

Customer Service

Support Channels: contact form

Payment Options

Payment Methods: card payments, Alipay, financing, PayPal, Google Pay, Apple Pay
Buy Now Pay Later: Affirm, Klarna, Split It

Membership Programs

Rewards Program: Active Junky, Rakuten, Swagbucks

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Vestiaire Collective Reviews Summary

The overall reputation of the company reflects a mix of strong customer satisfaction and notable concerns. Positive feedback highlights the platform's reliability, thorough authentication process, and a seamless purchasing experience, which many users appreciate. Customers value the wide variety of products and the ability to negotiate prices. However, negative aspects include frustrations over service delays, issues with returns, and a perceived lack of direct customer support. Additionally, some sellers express dissatisfaction with the platform's pricing and commission structure. These insights suggest a need for improved communication and support to enhance the overall customer experience.

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GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Terrible experience - I purchased an item from Vestiaire, then re-listed it immediately as it was not as expected. I then get told by Vestiaire it is non compliant and I cannot sell it via them, when I bought the item via them in the first place!
Their customer service is terrible and it is impossible to resolve the issue. Very frustrating and disappointing situation

Date of experience: June 13, 2021
Vestiaire C. Vestiaire Collective Rep
over a year old

Dear Scarlett, we are sorry to hear that your experience as a seller has not been positive. As we would like to check your case, could you please provide us with a reference for verification purposes? Thank you for your cooperation, the Vestiaire Collective team

Florida
1 review
11 helpful votes
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French business at its worst
June 12, 2021

Outdated and faulty software. Ignorant and disinterested staff that know they won't be fired for incompetence. Responses either slow or non-existent. Clueless as to how an entrepreneurial business should be run.

Date of experience: June 12, 2021
Vestiaire C. Vestiaire Collective Rep
over a year old

Dear Richard, we are sorry to hear that the service you have received didn't meet our standards of quality and would like to look into what happened. Upon verification, we indeed could not identify your contacts with our Customer Care and will kindly invite you to provide us with the item or order# that was addressed when you contacted our Team. Thank you beforehand for your understanding,
The Vestiaire Collective team

California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Customer service is bad, when you're a buyer! Not helpful at all!

Date of experience: June 7, 2021
Vestiaire C. Vestiaire Collective Rep
over a year old

Dear Kenny, thank you for taking the time to bring this matter to our attention. Upon verification of your order's processing, please note that your current estimated delivery date is June 11 via our Direct Shipping program. You will be able to find this information really soon on your account, as soon as it is refreshed and displayed on your timeline. We also kindly inform that sellers have between 7 and 14 days to ship their sold items and will remain available to you should you need any further support or information!
The Vestiaire Collective team

Sweden
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Vestiaire Collective did not pay me!
July 4, 2021

I sold an item on Vestiaire Collective in January and I still didn't get my money. I wrote a message to complain on their website and no one responded me.

It's not so much money but stil! How can I trust this website anymore and sell even more expensive stuffs if they don't even pay me after 5 months!

I'm now starting to complain this everywhere I find optunities untill they give my money back!

Vestiaire Collective attempted to help this customer through the SmartCustomer Resolution Center, but the customer did not respond
Date of experience: June 4, 2021
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Didn't know sites like this existed! I'm hooked. Great service, quick shipping and great products.

Date of experience: May 31, 2021
Customer C. Vestiaire Collective Rep
over a year old

Hi dear Member, thanks a lot for sharing your feedback with us! We are glad to hear you loved it and hope to see you soon,
Have a lovely day! The Vestiaire Collective team

New Jersey
6 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Fabulous!
June 1, 2021

Fabulous! Super great quality for super great prices!

Date of experience: May 31, 2021
California
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Seamless process very happy with the pricing I could never get these boots for the price that I did absolutely fabulous

Date of experience: May 31, 2021
New York
4 reviews
11 helpful votes
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Buyer beware. If you live in the U.S., this resale site is not for you. I bought a top only to discover that there was a $20 shipping fee plus a $14.99 "inspection" fee. The top arrived and while the designer is correct, it is a totally different top than the one listed and the top is missing parts. I've now sent them ELEVEN emails with multiple photos and screenshots of my order and receipt, to which I received eleven nonsensical replies where Vestiaire either willfully misunderstands me or the person replying simply does not speak English. If empty apologies and no resolution and wasting your time makes you happy, you'll love this site. Otherwise, avoid.

Vestiaire Collective attempted to help this customer through the SmartCustomer Resolution Center, but the customer did not respond
Date of experience: May 30, 2021
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Very good service
May 20, 2021

Excellent service. Customer service is exceptionally good. Prompt service and attention to detail is priortised.

Date of experience: May 20, 2021
Customer C. Vestiaire Collective Rep
over a year old

Hi Michelle, we wanted to thank you for taking the time to share with us your feedback on our services and platform! We wish you a lovely day and hope to see you soon!
The Vestiaire Collective team

Colorado
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I just started using Vestiaire, in one week I've realized the company is unorganized with bad customer service, although it's easy to reach someone through chat. Within two days of posting a large amount of items, I had to reach out to customer service 4 times due to the poor PS skills and their vague poor policies. Not sure about the buyer side, but from a seller's point of view it is really hard to use - a seller can not modify her own items, must reach out to customer service, which explains why they could be reached easily through chat. However, more than half of the representatives I had encountered were lazy/untrained, I could tell they didn't want to help and just sent out some pre-written messages. For the amount of fee they charge I would expect customer service to be better, I had to repeat myself over and over and insist for them to help me or else they would find some excuse not to help. The chats were re-routed to another country I believe.

Also the items that were rejected by them had no explanations, they looked perfectly fine to me, no one could tell, they just asked me to take new pictures, which didn't even worth my time. Within a week of using the site I already don't like it.

Vestiaire Collective attempted to help this customer through the SmartCustomer Resolution Center, but the customer did not respond
Date of experience: May 20, 2021
France
1 review
0 helpful votes
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So many items to buy!
May 19, 2021

So many items to buy! Easy to use app, good experience!

Date of experience: May 19, 2021
Illinois
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Purchased a MAX MARA TEddy coat from an "expert seller." Supposed to be a size FR40. When it arrived it was substantially smaller than my other 2 authentic MAX MARA TEDDY COATS in a size Medium. Took photos and customer service agreed, however, when I mailed the coat back, Quality Control didn't even bother to look at the comparison photos! Said I could "relist it." Why would I relist an item I did not pay for!?! I received an item that was different than what I thought I was paying for. THAT is the store's responsibility to rectify this, NOT the purchasing customer. That's like me ordering a size 8 shoe and the store sending me a size 6, then saying, "well you can resell it or give it to someone else."
UPDATE: Vestaire responded stating seller listed measurements in posting, however, the measurements listed STILL DO NOT MATCH the actual measurements of the garment. Either Vestaire's quality control never checked the measurements, or they don't know how the measure a garment properly. THE COLLAR IS NOT INCLUDED IN THE LENGTH OF A GARMENT. The seller stated the garment's length was 105cm, but it is clearly less than that. Anyone who knows anything about Max Mara coats knows that a difference in cm means a lot when it comes to how the coat will hang on you and the sleeve length [(especially a Teddy coat size Small (which is what the pink coat turned out to be) verses a Teddy coat Size medium (of which I own 2 tags and labels still attached)]. Teddy coats in a size small verses medium fit drastically different.
This company is so unprofessional and they lack customer service and accountability.

+6
Date of experience: May 12, 2021
NL
1 review
12 helpful votes
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After receiving an e-mail saying I've sold an item, I printed the shipping label which was very invalid when DHL scanned the QR code. I've tried to contact customer service, who told me I needed to arrange a pick up first. I've never had to do so, and this thing took me two hours of my precious life. $#*!ing annoying. Great fact that they've left me the contact information on the "shipping label", so I can handle this order myself without having to pay this insane fee. From now on I will use another website for selling designer pieces.

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Date of experience: May 12, 2021
France
1 review
2 helpful votes
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The experience was awesome
May 10, 2021
Updated review

The experience was awesome. I really like the sweatshirt!

Date of experience: May 10, 2021

Very happy buyer and seller for 3 years!
February 5, 2021
Previous review

I have now been buying and selling on Vestiaire app for more than 3 years.
I have always been very satisfied with my purchases or sales and with the level of service they have provided me with.
They don't say it enough, but you can purchase any local item (in your country) without any fee (shipping or authentication), which is the case in no other similar platform as far as I know.

Date of experience: February 4, 2021
Switzerland
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I sold a coat via vestiaire for over a 1000 dollars. I sent it just a day after, but vestiaire canceled the order when the parcel arrived at the french border, because they didn't want to pay costum duties. Afterwards they blamed me for not sending the parcel within 5 day, which was simply no true - I sent them the receipt of the shipping confirmation, they simply ignored it.
I payed 50 dollars to send the order from Switzerland to France. Money I will not get back from them as communication with them is incredibly difficult and frustrating.

Their costumer service lives up to it's bad reputation. It is difficult to communicate with the via costumer service, as they remain unreachable and if the reply, they keep their answers to empty phrases and shallow promises. One answer of them was so irrelevant to my actual question, that it made me wonder if they even read my email.

As many of you, I'd strongly adivse agains using Vestiaire Collective as a selling plattform. They are unreliable.

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Date of experience: May 5, 2021
New York
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Terrible
May 6, 2021

Terrible customer service. Unprofessional sellers, ordered an item that didn't ship and turned out 8 days later that it wasn't even available. For this canceled order, I was refunded less than what I paid. Apparently this happens if you ordered from a seller outside of your home country. Policies not transparent.

Date of experience: May 4, 2021
Vestiaire C. Vestiaire Collective Rep
over a year old

Hi Olivia, we're so sorry to hear about your experience. If your request has not been already handled by our team, please let us know your order number for verification purposes, and we will proceed to resolve it. Please note that if a single-item order is canceled, the amount of the refund should correspond the paid amount.
The Vestiaire Collective team

Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Scam
May 31, 2021

Scam, didn't get paid for my sold item
Since Dec 2020 trying to contact customer support, no help, I don't trust this website anymore

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Date of experience: May 1, 2021
Singapore
5 reviews
25 helpful votes
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Can't trust their team
May 4, 2021
Updated review

My horrible experience with Vestiaire as a seller.

I sold a necklace which had an additional safety pin installed on it. I have shown it in great detail in the photos and wrote about it in the description to make sure the buyer knows what he/she is buying. There is absolutely no doubt about it because as a long term seller I sell on multiple platforms and use the same description across all of them.

Other people reported it before but it has never happened to me that VC changes descriptions of some of the items before placing them online. I have never bothered to check mine and learned to do it this hard way.

I shipped my item and I've got all these requests from VC asking for receipts and other evidence (like servicing which was done by the original brand) which I've provided although the necklace had all the original hallmarks etc. This is where I was puzzled on what the whole fuss about and then discovered that the description of my item is severely trimmed. The sale has been cancelled due to "item does not perfectly match the description". There were like 20 super clear high res photos of the item from all the angles. And I know what I am talking about because I see the photos that other people provide.

How is this possible that I DO write about my product in great detail and then this information just disappears?
How is this possible that I provide a ton of super clear photos of the exact same product I am selling and it "does not perfectly match the description"?

I am so fed up with Vestiaire and their "expertise"!

+1
Date of experience: April 30, 2021
Vestiaire C. Vestiaire Collective Rep
over a year old

Hi Julia, we're so sorry to hear about your experience with our quality and authentication teams.

Our experts have a solid fashion background and are constantly trained to meticulously check and identify the items that go through our warehouse. However, we sometimes have to cancel sales that raise doubts to guarantee 100% safe transactions.

We are always willing to reconsider our expertise, so please, for future sales do not hesitate to provide as much information as possible to avoid any confusion from our side.

We remain available if needed, the Vestiaire Collective team


Buying and selling there
July 9, 2020
Previous review

I am on VC since quite some time and has been buying and selling as well (selling mostly). What I must say:
- make your own judgment carefully before buying the item. VC does not check authenticity of the items which are posted online. I've seen many times fake Van Cleef and Arpels items advertised, for example. VC is supposed to pick these issues up during authentication process but you never know and your time and money will be lost.
- I am not sure about authentication process. Obviously many people complain that fakes and items in bad condition get through to the buyers which is not acceptable on any level. However, in my case I have also seen signs of incompetence from another side where real authentic items were rejected because "authentication team" simply did not know how to verify authenticity. They would ask you for extra documents/receipts etc although this you clearly write in your ad what comes with the item.
This is a second hand/vintage market and obviously receipts are not always available. If I had a full set, I would not need a third party authentication agency taking 25% off my sale to sell my item to the client and for this amount of money making a fuss and not only simply showing their incompetence but also affecting my status as a seller.

Date of experience: July 8, 2020
Australia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Don't trust this app!

I resell second hand designer/vintage clothing.
I live in Australia, however, all my items are listed in EURO not AUD.
Vestiaire confirmed this with me multiple times and on the emails and app it showed as EURO.

On one email, it showed as AUD and I quickly went to their support chat to rectify this.

The difference between AUD and EURO is quite substantial, so instead of receiving $200AUD I ended up receiving $126AUD. I was under the impression I was selling my items as EURO, not AUD.

They then said no it's all in AUD and the app was wrong - what? How? I put it in myself how is it wrong?

Now everytime I join an online chat to ask them for an update, every customer support agent would leave the chat and not help me.
It has been almost 7 months now and they still haven't responded or bothered to help me.

Just use depop or grailed, literally craigslist is a better option.

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Date of experience: April 28, 2021
Finland
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Bought a Burberry Jacket for 250€ and this is what I got after the "quality authentication". Seller's description literally said that it is a 'relatively thin jacket that can be also worn a a shirt' and I got a one-layer shirt that you wear under a suit/blazer and I'm skinny, but can barely fit a long-sleeve t-shirt under it. I've spend over a grand in the past year and never buying from them again.

Date of experience: April 27, 2021
Vestiaire C. Vestiaire Collective Rep
over a year old

Hi Eetu,
We're so sorry to hear that you're not pleased with your last purchase. The jacket does indeed meet the seller's description since the size was shown in the pictures, and the seller mentioned that it was thin. We can see that you already put it back on sale in your account. This option is free of charge within 72 hours of delivery. Make sure to check our return policy in our Help Center > What is Vestiaire Collective’s return policy?
Thank you for your understanding, The Vestiaire Collective team