• Society6

Society6

Overview

Society6 has a rating of 2.77 stars from 1,530 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about Society6 most frequently mention phone number, poor quality, and iphone case problems. Society6 ranks 33rd among Home Decor sites.

  • Service
    229
  • Value
    207
  • Shipping
    216
  • Returns
    148
  • Quality
    199

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Positive reviews (last 12 months): 14.3%
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What reviewers want you to know

Positive highlights

  • Quick, on point and courteous... awesome customer service!
  • The iPhone case shipped on the 16th, also notified via email containing tracking number.

Critical highlights

  • The shower curtain is okay, but for the amount of money I spent on it I'm surprised by how crappy the quality is.
  • So I contacted them by the chat, there is no telephone number (RED FLAG).
How would you rate Society6?
Top Positive Review

“Poor quality and can't return”

Joan J.
1/5/24

I finally did Christmas shopping early and I am being punished for doing so. Gift given after 90 days. Ripped immediately, but can't return since past 90 days. Moral don't shop too early Avoid pillows. Poor quality.

Top Critical Review

“DO NOT TRUST THIS COMPANY”

N S.
2/2/24

I purchased a bench one and was charged for two. I emailed the company explain something went wrong. I only want one and asked to return slip it the same day they arrived. I was then emailed No refunds. This is horrible.

Reviews (1,530)

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customer service (805) phone case (65) customer support (47) support team (23) quality products (29) shower curtain (32) phone number (14)
Thumbnail of user ns344
1 review
1 helpful vote
February 2nd, 2024

I purchased a bench one and was charged for two. I emailed the company explain something went wrong. I only want one and asked to return slip it the same day they arrived. I was then emailed No refunds. This is horrible.

Tip for consumers:
Do NOT trust...they take your money and run!!! No live people. only email communication.

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The bench

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Thumbnail of user michaels11670
1 review
2 helpful votes
September 17th, 2023

Update 09/18/23: Society 6 made full refund (less shipping costs), of course after this review was posted! Sad they didn't do that in the first place.
Recently purchased king duvet cover, shams and matching shower curtain. Arrived with dark brown print blotches in various areas on it. When requesting refund they indicated it was exactly like their picture on web site! Only offered a 20% discount. These items are unusable because they look like crap and I lost $205.00.

Tip for consumers:
Won't refund for printing issues. - Update 08/18/23 Society 6 issues refund, less shipping after this review was posted.

Products used:
None...was matching set

Thumbnail of user joanj574
1 review
0 helpful votes
January 5th, 2024

I finally did Christmas shopping early and I am being punished for doing so. Gift given after 90 days. Ripped immediately, but can't return since past 90 days. Moral don't shop too early Avoid pillows. Poor quality.

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Could not use. Ripped immediately

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Thumbnail of user davidj3985
1 review
2 helpful votes
February 9th, 2024

Society6 used to be great now its gone downhill, what customers do not know is that society6 around 6 months ago started charging artists for part of the shipping costs, so those people that failed to get a shipping cost refunded, means that society6 profited from this fact, society 6 now charge artists around 180 dollars per year otherwise their portfolios will be stripped down to 10 images, Society6 will also have a computer algorithm that decides what is going on the main site mainly in views, so someone putting on sub standard work can buy a package of instagram followers this will generate lots of views and then sub standard work will be offered, I have been on society6 for 12 years I am a full time processional photographer, I also use drones and my work is not published, so those 6000 images will be removed as i close the account and society6 do not care, they make their income from artist subscriptions, they have made around ******* dollars profit from myself and their mentality is that they wont add my images onto the main site and I can go, avoid unless you want pixelated and often copyrighted images lifted off of the internet

Thumbnail of user jenk195
1 review
0 helpful votes
August 23rd, 2023

I see a ton a bad reviews here. I've bought several items from society6 over the past 4 or so years, and I've maybe been disappointed once with a clock that started to lag after a year. I've bought tote bags, bath mats, and other items, and generally I've liked them. I see reviews that say this is all overpriced, which is ridiculous to me if you want customized items. Custom means it costs more. If you're looking for cheap stuff it's not going to be customized.

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Thumbnail of user marshallc117
1 review
0 helpful votes
February 8th, 2023
Verified purchase

I ordered a "Tooled Cowhide Leather" iPhone case on 1/26/23, what I received yesterday was a polycarbonate case with a cowhide design. I'm in the process of contacting Society6 to see how issue can be resolved.
Update 2/9/23 Contacted Society6 via email and issued was resolved in less than an hour!
Refunded FULL amount of order and did not want iPhone case returned.
Great to see a company that takes care of customer issues without a fight.

Thumbnail of user karendonofrio4
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
November 7th, 2023

I was wanting a William Morris bed spread comforter and I found this on society 6 web site, I also ordered pillows because I loved the William Morris artist design. The pillows were fabulous but the comforter was awful. All out of scale even the colors were nothing like the web site pictures, so now I have wonderful pillows but nothing to match it to use on my bed,
Buyer beware photos on the web site are nothing like the finished product.
Thus was so very disappointing, I will not buy from this company again.
False advertising is used in the web site. The first photo is what was suppose to get. The second picture is what this cheap comforter looked like. The scale of the fabric is all deluded and the quality is like something from the dollar store. Very poor deceptive advertising.

Tip for consumers:
False advertising showing a beautiful comforter on the web site it was nothing like the finished product.

Products used:
Just the pillows the comforter was awful

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Thumbnail of user nicolet1435
1 review
2 helpful votes
March 1st, 2024

The site looks neat and all, but when I became a paid member and was trying to sell my art, the pages would run with major errors, both on the phone and on the computer, that occurred over and over after continued attempts to resolve. Communicating with the service personnel via email was all right, but I was not satisfied with the fact the actual problems were not pointed out and dealt with in a clear and direct way. The issues had to do with editing items in the artist studio as well as the webpages themselves not loading properly which hindered even approaching my shop correctly. I wanted to share my experience, for people looking for effective online services to sell their art in ways other than traditional, as I was. Society6 is not one that I would recommend, all the more when you're to subscribe and pay however small the amount may be.

Thumbnail of user davids11382
1 review
2 helpful votes
December 11th, 2023

Difficult to get them to listen, help and actually understand the issue. They offer payment through Amazon, which we all know allows returns on all items - but when I made this point to Sociaty6 they still pretty much said "tough luck". Very unwilling to help in anyway. They should be called sociaty zero in my opionion - I will never ever buying anything from these guys again.

Thumbnail of user karinc136
1 review
0 helpful votes
March 8th, 2024

I ordered a towel sets and got 3 bath mats and no one ever called I never got any response from them at all

Thumbnail of user bilham1
1 review
1 helpful vote
October 16th, 2023
Verified purchase

I was actually pretty disappointed. I love that it's a canvas material and the make them by order. But for the price the print image should be more vibrant rather than dull and a bleeding look. White area also looks grayish/ murky.

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Stay beetle backpack

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Thumbnail of user fayea46
3 reviews
1 helpful vote
November 21st, 2023

I ordered a rug from Society 6. They sent it to the wrong city and address. When they finally sent me the right item to the correct address it arrived. The colors of the rug all ran into each other. Absolutely unable to use. A piece of garbage. They refused to refund my money saying I was too late to put in for a refund. I'm elderly and had been in the hospital and was unable to unroll it in a timely manner. I bought stools there and they were not in any way the same as pictured in their photos.

Thumbnail of user annas2079
1 review
1 helpful vote
July 3rd, 2023
Verified purchase

I bought 3 cotton totes from them 2 years ago. The fabric is great, plus a full separate cotton lining. I just ordered 2 more, which are a stiff, thin, cotton bonded to a cotton backing. It's a much cheaper quality.

I will not buy from them again. I'd rather pay a more for a quality product.

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Tote

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Thumbnail of user juliep616
1 review
1 helpful vote
December 26th, 2020

We ordered the wrong product on accident, and we inquired about an exchange, and got back to us right away and made sure we get the one we need. Thank you!

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Thumbnail of user allag12
1 review
2 helpful votes
September 17th, 2023

Just awful! I ordered a painting size 24/36, framed. So the painting itself was tiny and the white paper around it was huge, so that the size of the frame would be 24/36. The frame itself was made terribly and it fell apart before I could hang the painting. Terribly made, unbelievable! Getting in touch with the company is also a big problem: you cannot email them and there is no phone number as well. Cheapest material, poorly made and cheating with size

Thumbnail of user helenap62
1 review
0 helpful votes
January 29th, 2023

This Laptop Skin is so so gorgeous and glamorous on my 17" pC Just to look at it the colors pops at me with the pink, Lavender, and purple. Thank you for doing a wonderful and splendid job of sending out to me Keep up the good work

Tip for consumers:
None

Products used:
The Fantastic Skyline 2 Laptop Skin

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Thumbnail of user ae163
1 review
2 helpful votes
October 26th, 2023

Wow, terrible. Ordered 8x10" art prints that arrived as 7.68x10" that didn't fit into the 8x10" frames I purchased. They refused to replace them since variation "within a fraction of an inch" is normal.

Excuse me? 8x10" is an exceedingly common print size and it's the one advertised on the page. I understand mistakes in the print job can happen, but the correct course of action would be to send a reprint in the case of an error. But accordingly to them "with a replacement, there is a chance you will receive a size variation," which I guess is another way of saying "We don't do quality control."

Thumbnail of user johnw7824
1 review
0 helpful votes
January 1st, 2024

After i told him the website is so bad for artists, i dont sell anything last month with 600+ designs, and they put new stuff on website where i have to PAY subscribtion to sell my designs, i pay for that, and after 1 month i told him to delete my account, they dont do it, because i have to do it BUT somehow i got 5 sales, i guess they hide sales before, and making artists fools, or finally they work for me to keep me on website, anyway, they suck hard, because for 7 years i never see they put my really good designs in home page, they always put a "politics correct" artists, they promote woman, LGBTIQIUEAI+, black artists, but never a man, this is FFKN discrimination!

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Thumbnail of user jennyr345
2 reviews
3 helpful votes
September 26th, 2023

Imagine you need blackout curtains and have something in mind. It's a nightmare to keep your search on track. You can either just scroll for days through every single option you would never want or else the system will keep throwing you back to all kinds of mugs and cups and other products you can't use … it won't let you just STAY on blackout curtains and narrow searches within that. The artists are great, but the technology is too stunted to find what you need.

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All

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Thumbnail of user emmab894
1 review
2 helpful votes
September 13th, 2023
Verified purchase

I have not received my order yet, but i did just want to let everyone know that even if you order things of the same design from the same artist (I ordered a shower curtain and bathmat) you will get separate shipping charges for each. I was not aware until after my purchase was complete that the $20+ shipping charge was because they split my cart into two separate orders after purchase and charged me separate shipping on each. From the same artist, for the exact same design, just two different items. Super scammy on that. Also the artists only get 10% commission for each purchase so the company selling is taking money from them and you wherever they can. After reading more reviews, if I could go back I would look to purchase from the artists directly if you can.

Thumbnail of user myoregon10
1 review
2 helpful votes
August 12th, 2023

I ordered 2 tapestries. They aren't what I'd call "tapestry". They're see-through. The fabric feels like a thin cheap bed sheet. Not worth the money. I wanted to hide a small accent wall I'm not allowed to paint. But you could see through to the color and pattern. Disappointing.

Tip for consumers:
There are better tapestries found if you search photo backdrops instead of tapestries. They aren’t see-through.

Products used:
I did not use either tapestry I ordered. They went immediately in my garage sale. I did not return them because I was moving and didn’t have the time.

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Thumbnail of user maryjanes28
1 review
4 helpful votes
January 3rd, 2022

Guaranteed my item before Christmas it is now 2 weeks later no item. Terrible customer service! I will not be refunded for my item they are instead sending it to me AGAIN where it will not arrive until mid January. I reached out to the company VIA customer service email and on their live chat and was ignored. Horrible horrible horrible. I would never order from here again because it feels like a scam. They cannot guarantee you anything and will not help you when their "guarantees" fall through.

Tip for consumers:
Don’t use it!

Products used:
Mug.

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Thumbnail of user darlenes430
1 review
9 helpful votes
January 25th, 2022
Verified purchase

I ordered some throw pillows with inserts. They look terrible. The covers are ill-fitting over the pillow inserts and the fabric is thin and washed-out looking and NOTHING like the colors pictured online. I would not order from this site again. The jury is still out on the returns process, but I am guessing they are going to suck in that area too. I paid a fortune in shipping because their shipping fees are per item and not scalable to larger orders.

Tip for consumers:
Don't buy anything here

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Thumbnail of user carolc1353
1 review
0 helpful votes
February 14th, 2021
Verified purchase

I can't say enough about this site. I am addicted. It would be nice to know ahead of time which items may be charged duty, but it's never been cost-prohibitive, so I am not overly concerned by that. I have ordered phone cases, travel mugs, carry-all cases, blanket, pillows, notebooks, masks... I said I was addicted, right! Very happy with the quality, and the service of everything I've ordered so far.

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pillows, blankets, travel mugs, notebooks, masks, carry-all cases, phone cover

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Thumbnail of user kennedyb40
1 review
1 helpful vote
June 22nd, 2023
Verified purchase

I got this cute mushroom yoga mat. My personal recommendation is not to buy one- they quality is poor and after only a couple of months, it's already torn. The pieces that come off get all over my clothes, the yoga studio floor, and the overall design no longer looks good.

Tip for consumers:
I don't recommend Society6. Look into your other options.

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Yoga mat

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From the business

Society6 is an online marketplace that empowers artists to make their artwork available for sale as a variety of products (for example Art Prints, T-Shirts, iPhone Cases, Throw Pillows, and more).

The artwork on Society6 is created by hundreds of thousands of artists from around the world.

When you buy a product from Society6, we produce it using only the highest quality materials, and ship it to you on behalf of the artist.

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