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Fanatics is the leading online retailer of officially licensed sports merchandise and provides the ultimate shopping experience to sports fans.


fanatics.com
Founded in 1995
Jacksonville, FL, United States
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Fanatics Reviews Summary

Fanatics has a rating of 1.7 stars from 3,945 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Fanatics most frequently mention customer service, day shipping and business days. Fanatics ranks 147th among Jersey sites.

service
910
value
627
shipping
699
returns
508
quality
538
This company responds to reviews on average within 1 day
Australia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I'm really concerned about my order! I ordered a Spurs cap, key ring, hoodie and a beach towel in early November so that i could receive my order before Christmas. The only thing that i have received is the key ring last week. I've contacted your Chat center because there is no other way to contact your customer services, and they can only tell me that they can't track the packages once it leaves your border. I'm in Australia and this was Christmas present for my son! I obviously wont be able to give this present to him :(

Date of experience: December 19, 2017
Nigel P. — Fanatics Rep
over a year old

Hello Bianca, thank you for your feedback! We are so sorry for causing you this anxiety so close to the holidays. Unfortunately, the shipping method your package shipped with only includes tracking information up to the point the package leaves the domestic United States, and further tracking is not available at this time. Your package should have arrived by this time, and we urge you to check with your local post office to see if they have received the package. If you are unable to recover the order from the post office, please reach back out via Private Message and let us know and it would be our pleasure to work with you to resolve this matter. Thank you again, we hope to hear from you soon! Sincerely, Sarah

Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Awesome!
December 20, 2017

I have to say... I was nervous to order after seeing the reviews about this website but I did it anyway... I ordered a sweater and a winter hat... my order came quick and amazing quality! Very happy with my purchases! :)

Date of experience: December 19, 2017
Nigel P. — Fanatics Rep
over a year old

Hello Robynn, thank you for your feedback! We are so happy to hear that you are so pleased with your purchase! We look forward to the opportunity to serve you again in the future, and if there is anything we can help you with, please do not hesitate to reach out! Sincerely, Sarah

California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I have ordered from Football Fanatics for many years. Five years ago FF had excellent service and products, but now a significant decline. The communication was poor regarding arrival dates on the recent order I placed. Not the end of the world. A little later, I was considering buying a few of the College Football Playoff Shirts with the 4 teams on the back. I wanted to know 1) if there was one in dri-fit and 2) what was the cotton quality of the one by Football Fanatics. With the dri-fit and the cotton blend shirts that are really light, I don't want those heavy cheap cotton shirts anymore. I called FF. The line kept saying we are unusually busy and hung up. I then started a chat. The FF rep was nice but didn't know anything about the products. I had to look up numbers for her. She kept saying shirt was available in dri-fit. It wasn't and her instructions were erroneous. She took my contact information to have someone from FF get back with me. No one has. But I sure get spam from them at an alarming rate. I look on-line and see dozens of reviews with similar experiences. My conclusion is a company in decline.

Date of experience: December 19, 2017
Nigel P. — Fanatics Rep
over a year old

Hello Harold, thank you for your feedback! We are truly sorry that you had trouble getting information about the items you were interested in. During this time of year we hire many new seasonal employees to help with the holiday volume, and with so many products available it is hard to be completely knowledgeable about all items we sell. We would love to look into this issue for you further and find the details you are looking for. You should have been provided with an reference # - we ask that you please reach out via private message her on SiteJabber and provide that reference number and we would be happy to look this up for you. Thank you again, we hope to hear from you soon! Sincerely, Sarah

Pennsylvania
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Save your hard earned $$
December 19, 2017

I ordered four items on December 4th. Three items stated "ready to ship" the 4th item said special event ship by Dec15th. Cool plenty of time before Christmas right? WRONG! So far, I've received an email telling one item was delayed then 10 minutes later received another email telling me the item is no longer available and I was refunded. Disappointing but I have time to replace the item. I kept waiting for my other 3 items to ship. Nothing. I did an online Chat and was told my order was located and they will upgrade me to Express shipping for free. I receive the email and a day later a package is delivered. To my surprise, only 2 items are in the package. I do another online chat yesterday and was told the last item was located and will be shipped overnight. I will again receive an email when its shipped. Guess what no email no package. Terrible. I've spent so much time dealing with this ONE order and only getting half the items and now 6 days before Christmas I'm left scrambling to replace the gift items. This company has no problem filling my inbox with emails and promotions when they should be spending the time actually fulfilling the orders already paid for. Cant wait to try to get my $$ back for the last item in the order. Obviously its not coming!

Date of experience: December 19, 2017
Nigel P. — Fanatics Rep
over a year old

Hello Jennifer, thank you for your feedback. We are so sorry that we have failed you this holiday season. We have reviewed your order and clearly see some significant delays in shipping. After you contacted our service center this afternoon, the order was escalated to our warehouse and shipped right away, aside from the item that was out of stock and refunded on 12/12. As a courtesy we have refunded your shipping costs as well as 30% of the remaining value of your order. We understand this may not be satisfactory, but we do hope it will help. Please let us know if there is anything else we can assist you with and we would be happy to help. Sincerely, Sarah

Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Stay away!
December 18, 2017

Ordered on December 13th... paid for 2 day shipping... tracking says will be here December 26th... what a joke... custom service and corporate just give redundant responses. Corporate wanted me to purchase another item after explaining it can't get a refund or credit for the item I already paid for until late it arrives... I return it... then wait 10 days for them to check the item and then 2 to 7 days for it to be posted to my bank! I called my bank and filed a dispute... that took 5 minutes

Date of experience: December 18, 2017
Nigel P. — Fanatics Rep
over a year old

Hello Melissa, thank you for your feedback. We are so sorry that we failed to meet your expectations with regards to shipping your order. We understand completely how upsetting it can be to not receive an item within the time frame you expected, especially at the holidays. Unfortunately, as the item is now out of stock our options to resolve are truly limited. As advised, we have refunded the shipping costs you paid and would be happy to issue the partial refund that was offered to you on 12/18. We understand this may not be suitable to you and we welcome you to return the item once it is received, and we will issue a full refund when the return is received. We have waived the fee associated with our prepaid label so you may return the item at no additional cost to you. Please let us know if there is anything else we can assist you with and we would be happy to help. Sincerely, Sarah

South Carolina
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I placed an order on Dec. 7th. Received an email that my order would ship no later than Dec. 13th, Well, it is now Dec. 18th and no word on my order as to when it will ship. I have called three times and each time I get the run around. This was a Christmas gift. Sure wish I had read the reviews before I ordered from this company. I cannot even give this company one star! Terrible way to run a business! This was a gift for my grandson and I am sick over this treatment.

Date of experience: December 18, 2017
Nigel P. — Fanatics Rep
over a year old

Hello Barbara! Thank you so much for your feedback. We are so sorry that we failed to get your order shipped within a reasonable amount of time. On review, it looks like the package experienced an error and never properly dropped into our warehouse system for shipment. We understand how frustrating this is, and wanted to let you know that we finally got the package properly allocated, and it was shipped with an overnight service, just this morning! The package should arrive tomorrow, 12/21. Additionally, we refunded your shipping costs + 20% of the remaining order value as a courtesy for the inconvenience we caused you. We understand you are weary to shop with us again, but we hope you will allow us an opportunity to WOW you on a future order! If there is anything else we can assist you with please let us know and we would be happy to help. Sincerely, Sarah

Ohio
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Did not receive my gift
December 18, 2017

Wish I would have read these reviews before ordering a gift card on 12/8. Got an email that it shipped12/13. Shop runner gave me a 2 day delivery. Turns out that was an error because gift cards don't qualify. Spoke with 5 or 6 different people. Was hung up on by a manager. I did not raise my voice or swear. Now I am told I should get my gift by the 27th. Hello it was a xmas gift.

Date of experience: December 18, 2017
Nigel P. — Fanatics Rep
over a year old

Hello Penny, thank you for your feedback. We are so sorry for any confusion regarding your purchase, we understand that being able to apply your Shop Runner on the purchase could easily have lead to this confusion. Since our Gift Cards do require additional time to produce and ship, normal upgraded shipping options are not available - however, you can still use your ShopRunner account to get free shipping on the order. We do see that you spoke to an agent in our service center, and that you were advised to contact us if the card does not arrive by Thursday, December 21 so that alternative arrangements can be made. We are hopeful the item arrived in time, but please do let us know if any further assistance is needed. We value your business and hope to serve you again soon! Sincerely, Sarah

Texas
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Placed an order for a few Christmas items, one of which I found out later I did not need. Called to cancel that item - easy and painless process. Lauren Alfonzo was very helpful in the remedy of my mistake!

For the future, as a suggestion, it may help customers to remedy this even quicker if the online orders had a cancel button rather than only being able to do this over the phone.

Date of experience: December 18, 2017
Nigel P. — Fanatics Rep
over a year old

Hello Holly, thank you for taking your time to share your feedback! We are so happy to learn that calling in and getting your item cancelled was such a quick and easy process! We thank you for the suggested feature we could include on our site - we are constantly adding new upgrades and features to our site on the front and back end, and we do hope to have these kinds of automated and intuitive options in the future! Please let us know if there is anything else we can assist with and we would be happy to help. Sincerely, Sarah

Pennsylvania
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Do not buy from Fanatics! They have NO exchange policy! We received a gift that was too large and needed to exchange for a smaller size and they don't do exchanges. We would have to return and wait for a merchandise credit in the mail. Really? In today's day and age? I'm shocked!

Date of experience: December 18, 2017
Nigel P. — Fanatics Rep
over a year old

Hello Stephanie, thank you for your feedback! We are so sorry to have failed to meet your expectations with our return policy. Unfortunately, we do NOT offer exchanges, as you were advised. However, we do offer the option to return the items for a gift certificate which you can then use to place a new order. We understand this may be unusual and frustrating to you, but it is quite standard in online retail to offer this kind of returns policy. When you return the merchandise, please make sure that you indicate the item is a gift and include your own e-mail address along with the return so that the credit can be issued properly to you, and not the original purchaser. Please let us know if there is anything else we can do to assist you and we would be happy to help! Sincerely, Sarah B.

Colorado
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Terrible customer service
December 16, 2017

Terrible customer service. I placed an order with them for Christmas presents. My tracking information stated ready to ship. I assumed it shipped. I checked my tracking earlier this week and it states it will arrive December 16 end of day. When no package arrived on the 15th, I check my tracking again and it states my custom order will arrive on the 22nd but now now hoodie won't arrive until after christmas. I contact customer service. He didn't answer my questions, and wouldn't tell me why my items were arriving so late. He didn't resolve anything. All he did was send me my tracking information, and then asked how can he help me, when i asked why wwre my items shipped so late, and arriving after christmas, he waited a few minutes and disconncted the chat. Needless to say I am Never purchasing anything from them again.
I'm very disappointed.

Date of experience: December 16, 2017
Nigel P. — Fanatics Rep
over a year old

Hello Kalei, we would love to make this right. Upon reviewing we do see the delivery date states 12/26 but that is only the ETA. Your order can arrive before that date. We give that date due to the delays we have been experiencing with orders. Please allow package to be delivered. Sincerely, Brandon.

Georgia
3 reviews
9 helpful votes
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I contacted their chat representatives 3 times and each time was terrible. My biggest concern is that I ordered items that said, "Ready to Ship" (or something similar) thinking that'd mean it would get shipped out quickly and in time for Christmas. However after speaking to a chat representative today I find out that the date my items will get shipped out will be delayed and arrive after Christmas.
I should not have had to find that information out through contacting them, they should have sent out a notification stating that there might be order delays, even if you ordered within the "Get it before/by Christmas" Window.
Also, they don't provide proper status updates on your order, which is why I continue to contact their chat representative. I was hoping to make adjustments to my order since one chat representative said no status means it hasn't been shipped but, the one I spoke to today said it's too far in the delivery process to change despite, the order not even been shipped out yet.
The chat representatives don't try to help you and all they seem to be able to do is apologize for the inconvenience which does absolutely nothing other than provide lip service.

Date of experience: December 15, 2017
Nigel P. — Fanatics Rep
over a year old

Hello Alexander. Thank you for reaching out regarding your experience. We truly apologize for the inconvenience this has caused you. What were you trying to change on the order? Thank you, Brandon.

New York
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Extremely Disappointed
December 15, 2017

MLB sweatshirt arrived today. Very cheap material - size medium ordered but looks like extra small. Bought for gift and probably won't fit recipient. Paid $60 and expected heavy, nice quality product. Embarrassed to give as gift as so chintzy. Shop elsewhere!

Date of experience: December 15, 2017
Nigel P. — Fanatics Rep
over a year old

Hello Gail. Thank you for your feedback! Would you like me to send you a return label to return merchandise for a refund? Sincerely, Brandon.

Canada
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Awful service
December 14, 2017

Two months ago I ordered a jersey, and twice had the wrong one shipped to me. It's taken me weeks to fight to get my money back after dealing with over 7 different people via the online chat. I am from Canada which made it especially difficult and long to return the wrong products. I definitely would not recommend using this site to anyone.

Date of experience: December 14, 2017
Nigel P. — Fanatics Rep
over a year old

Hello Brianne, we are terribly sorry for the inconvenience this has caused you. The order number you provided does not locate an order. Please make sure you are not missing any numbers. I will like to look into this to get this issue resolved. Thank you, Brandon.

Georgia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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OKAY and thats it
December 14, 2017

Shipping was ok, arrived within a decent time frame, but quality of the clothes are not worth the price. Not even sure if it is really a genuine nike brand sweatshirt or just a hoodie with an ironed on logo.

Date of experience: December 14, 2017
Nigel P. — Fanatics Rep
over a year old

Hello Lauren, we would love to make this right. Would you like to return the merchandise for a refund? I will waive the return label fee if you would like to return merchandise. We also can reship you another item if you think the item you received is just defective. We truly apologize for the inconvenience this has caused you. Thank you, Brandon.

Georgia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Don't even bother
December 13, 2017

I have had multiple issues with fanatics most recently I bought a item for my dad and had them ship it to his address but they instead sent it to me and said it was because they send it to the credit card address not the shipping. Why even bother to have that there then, absolute trash stay as far away as possible it's a shame that now run most of the online shops of the major stores.

Date of experience: December 13, 2017
Nigel P. — Fanatics Rep
over a year old

Hello Andrew. Would like to review this order with you. Can you please update your review with your order number?

Ohio
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Spent 32 minutes on the phone attempting to place an order with a fanatics gift card code. Rep I spoke with couldn't get the gift card code entered in the correct area. When he finally did, he couldn't confirm my email or mailing address that the order would be shipped to. Requested to speak to a "supervisor", after waiting on hold for 5 minutes, supposed supervisor couldn't get the order completed b/c their system was slow and apparently crashing. I told the "supervisor" to call me back when their system was operational and I'd consider placing my order again. In the meantime, i am stuck with a gift card that I have zero confidence in the ability to use! Disappointed to see the least!

Date of experience: December 12, 2017
Nigel P. — Fanatics Rep
over a year old

Kimberly, we are terribly sorry to hear about your less than satisfactory experience with Fanatic. Would you like me to help you with placing the order?

Texas
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Do not buy from this site
December 11, 2017

Products are low quality, you pay to have them shipped to you & then when your not happy with them they charge you an analysis 5.50 too ship then back. Basically I just donated 10.50 to this company! I tried working with customer service, that was a joke! I will never buy from this company again!

Date of experience: December 11, 2017
Nigel P. — Fanatics Rep
over a year old

Hello Molly. Thank you for your feedback. I am sorry that your return fees were not waived for you. I have now waived all return fees so that the $5.50 will not be deducted for your refund. Sincerely, Karmen

Germany
1 review
2 helpful votes
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This company is garbage
December 10, 2017

Our order was placed on 11/29. We never recieved a order confirmation email or an email notifying us that the order had shipped. The only way we found out it had shipped on 11/30 is because we looked the order number up ourself. Next, the company nevers entered a house number into the system when shipped... only our street, therefore our package was declined by the post office and sent back! Fanatics is unwilling to help in any way and all they day is there is nothing they can do. They say both items we ordered are now out of stock and it will take 3-4 weeks to get the original order back, re entered into the system and sent back out. This company and their customer service is garbage and will never use them again!

Date of experience: December 10, 2017
Nigel P. — Fanatics Rep
over a year old

Hello Joe. Thank you for your feedback. I apologize that your package is being returned to us for an incomplete shipping address. However, I see that this order was not placed by us. We did not enter the address at all. Since we cannot send you replacements I have gone ahead and issued your refund for the order. Please allow 2-7 business days for the refund to post back to your original form of payment. Sincerely, Karmen

Ohio
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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I had ordered several items for my husband for christmas but the way this is going, I'm not sure I'll get this by christmas! I did get a package delivered from fanatics but to my disappointment, it was someone else's order that was supposed to be shipped to South or North Carolina. So I contacted customer service and explained what had happen and he apologized. I figured this things can happen and the customer service representative seemed friendly. So I sent off the wrong package and to my surprise they processed my order quickly and I received an email saying that it was shipped out on the 6th of December. I was even more surprised when I received notification at work that my package was delivered the day after it was shipped. Well, there was no package when i got home. I. know it didn't get stolen because we have been receiving packages all week long and they were all left in front of my door. I just don't think it got delivered to my house! Contacted customer service again but this one wasn't as friendly or helpful. Now I have to wait 3-5 days to hear back from them; by then it will be possibly December 15 and I am very worried that it will not get here by christmas. At this point I am just very disappointed with this company!

Date of experience: December 10, 2017
Nigel P. — Fanatics Rep
over a year old

Hello Sandra. Thank you for your feedback. I apologize for any inconvenience regarding your order. However, only the coaster set is still available to reship to you and our policy is to refund after 2 incidents. Therefore, I have now issued a full and complete refund for your order that will post back to the original form of payment within 2-7 business days. And again, I am very sorry for this inconvenience. Sincerely, Karmen

New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Bah Humbug!
December 9, 2017

Ordered an item Nov. 27th. Said it was being prepared for shipment and I would receive it Dec. 6th. Credit card was charged. Email on Dec. 7th was ignored.! St phone call on Dec. 8th said my order was cancelled. Upon further questioning, I was told they never even had my item in stock. It took them 12 days to figure that out! They couldn't contact me to tell me. They say my credit card charge was returned on the 8th and takes a few days, so we will see. Never again! Stay away! And when they want to help, it is only to say they apologize.
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Date of experience: December 9, 2017
Nigel P. — Fanatics Rep
over a year old

Hello Lauren, we are terribly sorry for the inconvenience. Would like to review this order with you. Can you please update your review with your order number?