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Zoro Reviews Summary

Positive Highlights

  • Zoro offers a wide range of tools, parts, and supplies for businesses.
  • The company provides free shipping on orders over $50.
  • Net 30 terms are available for business customers.

Negative Highlights

  • Customer service representatives are described as incompetent and unhelpful in resolving issues.
  • Orders split across warehouses may result in double billing on credit cards.
  • Some products arrive damaged or non-functional, with no troubleshooting support.
This summary is generated by AI, based on customer reviews from the past year

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Aug 30, 2025

One of the reasons I tried Zoro in this competitive market was because of their participation in the "Fuel Rewards" program. Sadly, these rewards have not come thru to-date.

Jan 7, 2026

I dealt with the 3 most incompetent persons within the Zoro customer service department concerning a Werner ladder that was delivered severely damaged as well as a second Werner ladder that was delivered severely damaged as well. 16 days from the day I placed my order and the only compensation offered was waiving the freight charges and a minuscule 10% off the ladder purchase price. As a customer for 15 years, this is how Zoro deals with a repeat customer who spent hundreds of thousands of dollars with their company! I requested a full refund and will be closing out my account!

Dec 7, 2025

If your order is split into separate shipments from separate warehouses, your credit card gets double billed as the full total, then each shipment, then finally they reverse the full total. When I called they told me that they had 10 days to reverse the full change. I told them they are violating their agreement with MasterCard and Visa. I have used PayPal with them in the past and PayPal does not allow these deceptive business practices, so I recommend avoiding them or using PayPal.

Aug 25, 2025

I used to use zoro everyday. Search now returns unusable results. I refuse to dig through 100s of results to find the one I want. Stop dumping trash into my search results.

Dec 13, 2025

Received product in good condition when I went to use it it did not work no help on line and no trouble shooting instruction on package

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Iowa
1 review
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Delivery Damaged item
August 3, 2022

Upon notification Zoro did a great job of addressing the issue unfortunately after being burdened with report-calling, the emailing photos of the damage, needing to print attach, load a truck cart and then drive this cart back for a round trip of 44 miles to the nearest FedEx center-with no assurances the next replacement would not arrive with similar or worse damages—I decided to forget-it just don't buy shipped stuff from Zoro again! And all they need fo was throw a couple dollars to us for touch up paint and we'd call it even—Zoro balked at that suggestion.

Date of experience: August 3, 2022
Missouri
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Made a purchase on a fan motor on 6/24/22, still no package or tracking or response from customer service. It is now 7/19/22. Pathetic, will not order from again.

Date of experience: July 19, 2022
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Order filled correctly and promptly
July 14, 2022

I was a little reluctant to try ordering from Zoro because of all the negative reviews here, but I decided to take a chance because I was ordering something simple that didn't cost much money. This is one of the very few web sites I could find claiming to have in stock baby wipes in plastic tubs. (It appears that these formerly common products are no longer sold most places, presumably due to the pandemic and supply chain problems.)

Zoro's price was very reasonable, and I received my order just 3 days after placing it. They did a great job.

Date of experience: July 13, 2022
Colorado
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Tried once, won't try again
June 21, 2022

I have been in the market for a gas powered pressure washer, so I did my due diligence in reviewing the best options and landed on one. I went to Amazon first because most of my review of the product led me there. But it was available through all the big name brand hardware stores. If either of those stires had one in stock I would've bought it. But, alas, I reluctantly went back to Amazon (on verge of cancelling Prime and going elsewhere, but that's another review). While about to checkout my Capital One shopping bot popped up and told me Zoro.com had a better price because I could apply a coupon plus get a rebate through Caputal One in a promotion. So, off to Zoro to check them and the product out. The site isn't fancy, has a lot of product, and seems fairly easy to use but feels dedicated to an industrial company first like many of Grainger's customers. The item was listed, there was no picture but no big deal, the price was as described by Capital One, and the product was drop-shipping from the manufacturer with a guaranteed shipping day of one business day. Awesome. Order placed no problem, 6/6/22. Confirmation came to email quickly confirming all information from the product page. Then silence. 5 days later there was no follow up and the charge remained in pending status on my credo card. So, I called customer service. They were dumbfounded the product hadn't shipped yet, claimed to contact the vendor and confirmed a delivery date 5 days later and asked me to wait. 5 days go by, still nothing. On 6/16/22 I call again, they claim the product should ship, they have no back order notice. I cancel the order, customer service offered nothing, but they "understand my frustration." So, on 6/16 I go back to Amazon, order the product and here we are, 6/21 and it was delivered. Zoro said it would take 7 days for the charge to release from my credit card, definitely unacceptable, credit card company removed it when I called. They never communicated any changes to delivery as required and never helped get me the product they sold me. I would not use them again, thank goodness for virtual credit card numbers for online purchases because if they can't get purchase orders to their vendors and communicate their supply chain results to customers, I can't imagine their cybersecurity is great. Will not try them again regardless of price. Your word to me means a lot and execution means more. Zoro.com missed the mark on both.

Date of experience: June 21, 2022
Michigan
2 reviews
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Great 1st purchase
June 17, 2022

Called for information on specific product. Nice customer service, called twice. Order arrived early, same product I ordered, Cheaper (with coupon), and arrived 1 week ahead of what Amazon claimed they would deliver.
Pleasantly pleased!

Date of experience: June 17, 2022
Florida
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Lies
June 10, 2022

I found the parts on their site yesterday and called to verify that they had it in stock before I ordered. I asked do they have it or do they order direct from the manufacturer. He stated let me check. He stated that they have plenty in stock at their other warehouse. Five minutes later I had my order in. I get an email this morning stating that the new expected delivery date is 7/29/22. Are you kidding me. I called and was told that they ran out of stock before my order was placed. How is it possible going from plenty in stock to five minutes later out of stock. Liars. They didn't have it in stock. I will never place an order with them again.

Date of experience: June 10, 2022
New York
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Misrepresented products
June 2, 2022

Misrepresented item as 10 reams of paper, was shipped a box of 3 reams 2 times and refused to ship the rest of the order or offer a partial refund.

Date of experience: June 2, 2022
GB
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Terrible experience!
May 24, 2022

Part order received. I had to chase up for missing items after a further week. Excuse was that they were moving warehouse but items would be despatched within the week. No delivery again and no explanation. After another follow up email I was then informed that they were not getting further supplies from the supplier.
They are taking orders for products they don't have and are not keeping the customer notified of ant delays.
You might hit lucky (as per some reviews) but do you want to take part in this lottery?

Date of experience: May 24, 2022
Washington
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Worthless
May 17, 2022

I've been waiting three weeks for a $9 part, finally told them to go fck themselves after I decided to make my own part

Date of experience: May 17, 2022
Oregon
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Never again
April 4, 2022

Ordered a replacement ceiling fan from this company because they advertised Fast shipping. Was on the phone with customer service for over a week trying to get information about my order, I was lied to, given fake information and misled. I requested to cancel my order and was told that they would be in the request but that too, had a process time of at least a day. (?) Will never buy from this company again. Buyer bewere.

Date of experience: April 4, 2022
Ohio
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Good Experience
April 1, 2022

Before ordering from Zoro, I read the reviews which were generally negative. The main issue seemed to be damaged goods. Since I was just ordering latex gloves and they had them at a competitive price, I went ahead and placed an order. It took them just 1 day to fill the order and 2 days to ship. The box it came in was packaged well and had no damage. I am satisfied with the order and can only think of 1 issue that was not worth subtracting a star. When clicking the submit order button, the site was a little flakey and didn't go thru the first time. The second time it worked.

Date of experience: March 31, 2022
Virginia
3 reviews
2 helpful votes
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Love this Place...
March 27, 2022

Once you get the item in your cart it's easy sailing. My problem is the website.
It is determined not to show pics., item descriptions, or Place in Cart button - a bit hard to sell online with a place in Cart? Please help - if it's mine it's only occuring on Zoro.com.

Date of experience: March 27, 2022
GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Avoid this seller
March 25, 2022

The picture description did not accurately match the delivered item. Zoro then denied that was a misrepresentation and told me I had to pay the return postage. Will never use this company again.

Date of experience: March 25, 2022
Florida
1 review
2 helpful votes
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"3 day ship"
March 17, 2022

Your customer service people were certainly "nice" but gave me the runaround. This product was guaranteed to ship in "3 days" but nobody could ever produce a tracking number. One of your reps even told me(Monday) that it would ship before end of day(the 4th day). That was not true because you evidently never shipped it at all. Another rep actually gave me a bogus "PO#" to use when contacting the manufacturer directly in my efforts to get a shipment confirmation and tracking number. They had no record of such number so that was a lie as well. Evidently a ploy to just get me off the phone. So after wrestling with your illustrious team for several days I finally ordered from "E-trailer". They sent a confirmation#, a tracking # and it's scheduled to arrive tomorrow. I'm done with Zoro.com. Sincerely.

Date of experience: March 17, 2022
Indiana
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Pathetic lying company
March 16, 2022

Place a order that says in stock. Ship date is a month later. They are a middleman ordering from the manufacturer and don't actually have it in stock. Thank you for wasting my time I should send you a bill

Date of experience: March 16, 2022
New Jersey
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Order was shipped fast
March 15, 2022

I ordered from Zoro paver borders on A Saturday. I admit I was a bit nervous because of the poor reviews and did not see the order appear til Monday but i have to say this was shipped fast and received tjempn Tuesday. 5 Stars..

Date of experience: March 15, 2022
GB
1 review
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Online order
March 15, 2022

Ordered from Zoro.com today, to receive an email stating unless i ring them they would cancel order. I paid in full for the goods which they did not have and would be 25 days from the manufacturer. Another one of those websites that sells stuff they don't actually have, the email said i had 5 days to ring them, 10 minutes later i receive another email stating they have cancelled order, will now have to open a Paypal dispute to get my money back now.!

Date of experience: March 15, 2022
Minnesota
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Fast, easy, will use again
March 4, 2022

Ordered a (in-sink) waste disposal unit for under the sink, Zoro had several options to choose from, after deciding on a unit, the order was placed. A few days later the product arrived with no issues. Now I'm getting ready to shop for an Espresso machine.

Date of experience: March 4, 2022
Oregon
1 review
1 helpful vote
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This company will NOT get you any merchandise you buy, they continually will make excuses and not refund you, i ordered a simple item in Dec. Its now Feb they keep saying it will ship then another excuse already purchased the item from TGW had it in a week, Zoro says no refunds and still have no eta THIS IS A SCAM COMPANY, WORST EVER

Date of experience: February 26, 2022
New York
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Useless idiots!
February 8, 2022

Do not waste your time with this company! Not one rating to base this on but many! USELESS! Will expand for any other poor souls that waste their time here!

Date of experience: February 8, 2022

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Business History

  • (855) 289-9676
  • Chicago, Illinois, United States
  • Founded in 2010