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Vitacost Reviews Summary

Vitacost has a rating of 2.2 stars from 415 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Vitacost most frequently mention customer service, credit card and long time. Vitacost ranks 532nd among Vitamins & Supplements sites.

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136
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returns
102
quality
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New York
5 reviews
10 helpful votes
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If you value your time and money save yourself a headache and go to a real merchant like amazon rather than these clowns.

Date of experience: November 10, 2019
Indiana
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Great selection
October 23, 2019

Great selection, prices and after the sale service! I even appreciate the option to be notified when out of stock items are available.

Date of experience: October 22, 2019
Sweden
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Poor service, not professionals. Don't waste your time
I order several things which took me more than an hour, after 5 hours I get an email saying that my order was cancelled because all was out of stock... Checked again on the site and all is in stock. I had a coupon so I suspect they did not want to honor it. I contacted the chat support, to understand what happened. Glenn the person in charged asked the same questions over and over, did not act on my order number which I provided, he blamed other departments but never apologized, and he just disconnected himself from the chat. If indeed it was a mistake of the company because they don't have a good inventory system, I expect much better handling on this situation and would love to have chatted to a customer "care" department that cares about the time I put in their website and the trust I gave them.

Date of experience: October 4, 2019
Illinois
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Vitacost Is running a fraud!
They had my package rerouted back to them and then refused to refund me, I spoke with multiple agents: "Julie, Linda and Danielle." They refused to get me a supervisor and "Julia and Linda" disconnected the chat when I asked for a supervisor instead they gave me the run around, how request for "refund has been submitted." And, "Linda" stated "warehouse will refund me." and, they spew so much bs over a course of week and NEVER RECeived a refund for the package that was NEVER DELIVERED, rude and incompetent customer service and "Danielle"had the nerve to tell me to be "professional" yet won't issue a refund, this company clearly has rude and incompetent employees and on top of that, they are stealing from customers, and I had to dispute the charge at last resort, do not shop with fraudulent company

Date of experience: September 9, 2019
Jamaica
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Changed my mine
August 19, 2019

I was going to order something and reading these comments just changed my mind. I don't want to loose my money at all so it's best I avoid vitacost and move on.

Date of experience: August 19, 2019
Israel
1 review
1 helpful vote
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They charged me 40$ more than they had to, without mentioning the shipping cost up until they actually charged me! I have even sent them screenshots of this - and they don't reply. Poor customer service and site, will never buy again.

Date of experience: August 10, 2019
West Virginia
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I just found out about Vitacost due to their booklet in the mail as I moved to the new location but every time I place my oder they keep cancelling it, first I thought nothing of it and then I placed it again after a few days, same thing happened and the worst part is their customer service reps have no idea, they wont provide any solutions! Very annoying, whoever is cancelling my orders, maybe send an email why? It's a building, if you had an issue with any other customers in the past, dont just randomly cancel anyone's order, who has the same building address, so annoying and ridiculous, DONT Shop them, customer service sucks

Date of experience: August 7, 2019
Colorado
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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I shop here often for my vitamins, health & beauty, food, household etc. They have mostly all natural, organic, vegan, good for you products at reasonable prices. And they ship it out to you fast too! I love how nicely they pack everything and put spillable items in ziplock bags that I can reuse for other items. I've been shopping from their site for close to 4 years now and so glad I discovered them!

Date of experience: August 5, 2019
Minnesota
4 reviews
19 helpful votes
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Fast Shipping, Great Customer service. I spoke with Customer Service a few times always felt they really appreciated my business. Great value for the money, A little pricey, but still worth it... I'll pay a little more for great service which Vitacost Delivers.

Date of experience: July 6, 2019
Hawaii
4 reviews
9 helpful votes
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The BEST!
July 5, 2019

Vitacost is the BOMB!

They are way better than Amazon. Ever since I found out Amazon's fulfillment centers have the highest rate of suicides due to their horrible work conditions & extremely low pay, I've looked elsewhere to get my sundries.

Vitacost packs my items with care. All glass bottles are wrapped in a plastic bag then insulation. And everything is intact & as ordered.

Best part of all, their prices are great & I've been meaning to thank them for a long time. I saw the negative reviews that are just hateful & almost fabricated & decided to share my positive experiences.

Vitacost is no scam, they are a legit business who does good for the customer.

Date of experience: July 4, 2019
Illinois
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Fraudulent
July 3, 2019

Few times ordered from them as got their coupon in the building mail. And all those times they had the package rerouted but didnt even refund and I had to contact the customer service for the refund, at least, refund me if you are going to have the packages sent back to your warehouse. The rep didnt even have any reason... whoever idiot is rerouted the packages without refund needs to be fired. Sticking with iHerb... and dummies, this is a building so you cant just reroute everyone's packages from at the same location...

Date of experience: July 2, 2019
Jenny D.
California
8 reviews
20 helpful votes
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Everything is okay only that the free shipping puts your things any where but there! Customer service does not want to state their rules for refund other than asking you the remaining left over and then tells you not to send them back. At other times, you do. Kind of makes you think that you are asking for them to give you the items FOC? (Free Of Charge in exchange for calling them.)

Date of experience: April 26, 2019
Colorado
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Ordered four bottles of a pricey supplement. Delivery service lied and said it was delivered to my main lobby of my apartment complex. I have no main lobby! There is a rental office here that closes at 5pm and they do not accept deliveries for residents. The delivery was supposedly delivered at 8pm! Pretty interesting considering they don't accept packages and it was three hours after they close.

Dealing with customer service is like pulling teeth. Hours after I contact them about the issue, they send me an email asking for my shipping address to double check. It's on the order receipt you idiots! They are clearly wasting time until they go home, this could have already been resolved by a competent person.

I should have come here before I placed my order. I will never order from them again, this has been a terrible waste of time. From now on I'm sticking to Amazon.

Date of experience: April 19, 2019
Ohio
1 review
3 helpful votes
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DOUBLE BILLED
April 18, 2019

I will NEVER order from them again. It's not worth the discount. I ordered March 24,2019 & received my order & never thought about it again, till I went to account I paid it on & seen they had double billed me. This was April 5,2019 I found out. I called & they said it would be back in account in 48 hours. I have called 2 more times & been told the same thing. I still don't have my money.It is now April 18,2019 & I want my $119.60 back.

Date of experience: April 17, 2019
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I've ordered from Vitacost every once in a while across the span of the past 2 years and often there were items that arrived damaged. The company advertises a flexible return policy and so I contacted their customer support each time there were damaged products. Their support staff treated me like a swindler.
They didn't improve the manner in which they package items at the warehouse, because damaged product deliveries continued after I raised my concerns.
They maintained their flexible return policy in this time, yet I was treated like a second-rate shopper.
Aim to deliver intact items or stop antagonizing customers who expect you will follow through.

Date of experience: April 15, 2019
Georgia
3 reviews
0 helpful votes
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I have been using Vitacost for several years for my supplements and vitamins. Check their website because they also sell other products. They have so many things that you can get in a standing store. I do not have to drive to these stores and pay a lot more for the products that I can get by shopping Vitacost. Vitacost products will save you so much more!

Date of experience: March 25, 2019
Ohio
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Would not let me cancel an order after 2 hours of placing it. Telephone rep said it was already packed for shipment yet still said not shipped.

1 item ordered was twice the cost of both Walmart and Amazon. Yet other item from same brand was similar in price. So including shipping I overpaid by $10 for 2 items costing $12. Ripoff.

Date of experience: January 23, 2019
AE
2 reviews
5 helpful votes
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They overcharged me for shipping yet I had still pay VAT and admin fees on arrival and it took ages, I contacted vitacost and they told me shipping could take up to 60 days which is totally unacceptable. I had much better experience with IHERB in terms of shipping cost and time, they deliver at cheaper cost with DHL.

Date of experience: January 14, 2019
Florida
1 review
4 helpful votes
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WOW!
January 1, 2019

I had planned on placing an order with this company but decided to check their reviews first before sending them any money. What an eye opener. After seeing all the negative reviews I WILL NOT order from this company. How are they still conducting business? Seems like someone should take the initiative to fine and/or close this company.

Date of experience: January 1, 2019
Washington
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Now not so much. Products not listed as being out of stock and are, then items are shipped slow boat (even though you had "free two day shipping" you receive item 6 days later. You spend the required amount for two day shipping and receive an email on due date saying its late but tracking number doesnt work so no idea when it will arrive. This is the new norm. Again corporate profitability trumps all else including customer satisfaction. This is also dishonest practice to get customers to spend more to get two day shipping and then dont deliver. Vitacost email doesnt work, either does chat. Guess that way they dont have to hear the complaints.

Date of experience: December 28, 2018

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Founded in 1994
Boca Raton, FL, United States