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Virginia
1 review
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Service unreliable
March 29, 2025

Food is good "when you get it". Their delivery service really sucks. They lost or damaged 2 deliveries in 6 weeks.

Date of experience: March 29, 2025
New York
2 reviews
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Hello fresh is rotten
January 5, 2025

If you like past due or damaged fruit and vegetables you will love hello fresh they base there deliverys on it.its by far the worst company on the web today

Date of experience: January 1, 2025
GB
1 review
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Scammeeeeeeers
December 15, 2024

What a slammers!avoid!saying one thing and do other,don't order from them stilling money.i wasn't able to get recieve a box so the agent canceled the delivery but I still recieved it and had to give it away to my neighbour so as it wasn't my fault I was given a credit of £67.we agreed that I wiudo ve able to use it on my next delivery but instead they've charged me for my next box and changed their mind and get me the credit after using another couple of boxes.so as I stopped the delivery, they started to threatening me to send my account to debt collectors

Date of experience: December 1, 2024
Ireland
1 review
0 helpful votes
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It's impossible to pause or cancel membership. They asked me money after I was asking for cancellation. I'm very disappointed

Date of experience: December 20, 2024
Florida
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TERRIBLE company
November 17, 2024

Several days ago, I logged in and tried various promo codes to find the best deal. But I didnt commit so I was surprise today when I got a HelloFresh box. I tried to log into the account, but was asked to input a zip code to see if HelloFresh delivers in my area. Had I not just logged in a few days ago? So how was my account now closed? I quickly checked my bank account and saw that I was charged for the box. I am not sure how, because I never entered a credit card when I was trying out the promo codes. I was charged on the same credit card I had used years ago to pay for the service.
I called customer service to find out what was going on. How could I be charged if I had not entered a credit card and did not have an active account? The rep kept telling me that I had reactivated the account, had chosen my meals and an add-on. I was very frustrated but said that I was going to sign up anyways, so if she could please retroactively apply the promo code I wanted and get me access to the account. She kept saying she could not. I asked for her supervisor or someone who could help me, but I was given the same answer that no-one with HelloFresh could help me. I just gave up and asked to cancel the account and said that HelloFresh had lost me permanently as a customer.
I asked the rep to put me through to the 'review your experience' survey. She said OK but then promptly hung up on me. Giving her the benefit of the doubt, I called back and briefly gave a summary to the new rep and asked for the "review your experience" phone tree as I had been hung up on before. She said OK and then hung up on me. Wow. I am simply amazed at how much the company's customer service has degraded since my experience with them years ago. I am also deeply concerned about the security of my personal info since no-one knew anything.
This is not the same HelloFresh from years ago. Beware if you have any issues becasue you will be given the run around.

Date of experience: November 17, 2024
Colorado
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Beware Food is tainted
February 27, 2024

Food looked nasty, tasted even worse, it was tainted. Hello fresh has no fresh vegetables, in fact hardly any veggies at all but if you do get some they're spoiled. One week after eating this food, I got a bad GI bug requiring me to get a 7 hour surgery in a hospital. Stay away for real

Date of experience: February 27, 2024
Canada
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Hello Fresh Scam
March 11, 2024

Be aware if you look at HelloFresh they consider your account to be activated and will send food regardless charging your credit card…. I had not used this service since 2019 was thinking about it / they arbitrarily sent an order for $82.99 to my old residents even though I never claimed to order anything. The new occupants called me to say there was a delivery not a good delivery just a delivery - it had since gone bad as I didn't pick up from my old home until 2 days later. The fact that my looking at an account and Hello Fresh automatically shipped goods is bull$#*!!

Date of experience: March 11, 2024
Texas
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Signed up May 4,2024, hello fresh picked 2 meals. I was not interested. Emptied the cart, looked at other meals did not find anything I was interested in. Several hours later I noticed 2 unauthorized charges on my debit card to HelloFresh. Cancelled subscription. Customer Service is awful!
Still attempting to obtain refund.

Date of experience: May 5, 2024
Virginia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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After ordering their products we have not even had time to cook one of their meals and they are billing me again in the same month via a subscription. We don't have the space to store all this food that I didn't even order yet. It's just a money thing with these people. Do not get involved with this subscription.

Date of experience: February 29, 2024
North Carolina
1 review
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I recently have moved and have been declining hello fresh boxes for months. This week I apparently forgot to skip and when I called customer service they informed me I could not get a refund because it was already being prepared. I informed them I didn't pick any of the meals and it was being shipped to an address I no longer live at and they told me I could change the recipes and the address of the box but not receive a refund. This tells me no box has been shipped yet and you just want to keep my money. I am absurdly frustrated and will never be ordering from hello fresh again. I hope this helps others when making their decisions about subscription boxes!

Date of experience: May 3, 2024
California
1 review
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Once you sign up it's very hard to make changes in time for your next delivery. They don't send a reminder email that you need to do this within a time frame to ensure you don't get foods you don't want! I think that's their big mistake and I will not be using them any further.

Date of experience: February 25, 2024
New York
1 review
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Cheating & Fooling New Customer
Last week I have seen their offer for new subscription for $21.96 for 4 meals in a week, but NO WHERE they have mentioned that the subscription will be doubled from 2nd week onwards. They have charged $45.46 for 2nd week. After checking with their call centre support, he said that they have added shipping, handling, packaging, etc? So why its not been cleared in their communication on 1st instance only, why kepy all hidden and cheating/fooling customers? Pathetic experience

Date of experience: May 13, 2024
Michigan
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Credit Card Theft
April 13, 2024

Someone got ahold of my credit card information and has been charging food, total of1800.00 plus. I have contacted Hello Fresh and they keep telling me contact my bank. They either laugh at me or hang up. I had to cancel one card, and my new card gets charged. Beware if who you do business with.

Date of experience: April 13, 2024
Florida
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Cracker Jack box HELLOFRESH
August 21, 2022

If you're confused at all by the title and allow me to explain. Improper ingredients in bags. Extra ingredients I don't know what they went to. And rotten vegetables. Carrots were fermenting along with green beans and others. Distinct smell of vinegar.
Vegetables are not supposed to smell of vinegar it is indicative of bacteria and rotting. Photos

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Date of experience: August 21, 2022
Sydney S. HelloFresh Rep
over a year old

Hi Garry- Thank you so much for bringing this quality issue you have experienced to our attention. This is not HelloFresh approved and is sub-par on the standard that we follow. We appreciate your feedback so we can make our service better and will pass along your comments to our quality control team. Our policy is to refund and or credit you for boxes that are not delivered fresh or are missing ingresdients. Please call #646-846-3663 and we will do our best to make this up to you and get you back cooking with us soon. Thanks

Michigan
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Trash
April 7, 2024

Hello fresh sent me a package full of things I don't eat, and didn't pick. Now they won't return it. Thanks to hello fresh I'll never use another meal prep.

Date of experience: April 7, 2024
New Jersey
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Nothing in life is free
July 8, 2022

I submitted this same review to their main distributor and it was taken down with 24 hours because they know it's true but it looks bad for their business. I saw an ad on youtube for 16 free meals plus 3 free gifts for hello fresh so I did what most people would do and went to the website to get my free stuff thanks to that youtube code. Submitted my email, contact info and cc information for future purchases. Selected the type of meals I wanted and...$36 with free shipping!? Ok ok go back, select different options...$36!? Ah, I get it. Just another scam to lure people in. Source local produce for your meals and you'll pay half that for 16 meals. Yes I know you're paying for the convenience of not having to leave your couch but come on. LIVE LIFE! Stop paying people and bad capitalistic companies like hello fresh so you can be lazy.

Date of experience: July 8, 2022
Sydney S. HelloFresh Rep
over a year old

Thanks for taking the time to review us, although we are really sorry to hear that you had this experience with us., You receive all the free meals just not all at once. The 17 free meals are spread throughout a 5-week period. To speak directly to a member of our team please call #646-846-3663 or DM us on Facebook so we can get this sorted out for you. Thanks

Australia
1 review
13 helpful votes
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It took me 3 times before my order was properly cancelled and only after they sent me a box I did not want. Sub standard communications, customer service reps speak very poor English and do not deviate from their set dialogue. Also sick of the substitutions they conveniently don't let you know until you have the box. No updated menus saw me with lots of celery (I hate celery) left over.

Date of experience: October 1, 2022
Canada
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I was offered a promotion to try hello fresh at 36$ a week for 3 meals with 2 portions each. What I received was the smallest portions of food imaginable- it honestly reminded me of the easy bake oven recipes from fisher price but meals instead of dessert. I made my first meal- it took far longer than the 25 minute estimated time on the recipe card- and woke up the next with the most violent case of food poisoning. I'm so upset as I don't want to throw away the remaining food but the level of discomfort, illness and anxiety I'm experiencing from the first meal even days later is not worth the risk. Save your stomach, energy and money! Buying a bag of groceries and making a simple recipe that provides some leftovers is so much better than risking any of this nonsense.

Date of experience: July 20, 2023
Florida
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Near CONSISTENT Errors - Frequent Shipping Delays
December 29, 2022

Hello Fresh has a 50% chance of making an error with your weekly meal kit. Either they pack the wrong menu item or about 80% of time there will be missing ingredients. I've been a customer 2 years and they promise to "look into" these problems, yet they occur almost WEEKLY. Also, if there is a holiday they will often mis ship date by 2 or 3 full days. Try Instacart and order your own stuff. That gets there faster and is cheaper

Date of experience: December 29, 2022
Iowa
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Nightmare
May 2, 2021

It comes all boxed up w/ recipes and usually the correct amount of ingredients. It's advertised as fast and easy but it's not always; problems w/ missing ingredients. Furthermore even if they perfected this I still have such a disdain for the product I'd never recommend it in any way. It requires the "chef" to dirty a bunch of cups, pots, cutting bored. Which is a burden latter naturally. If you would like to dirty a bunch of kitchen utensils on recipes that are fluffed up go for it. It has led me to nearly having a full blown aneurysm w/ the tedium of it all.

Date of experience: May 2, 2021

Overview

HelloFresh has a rating of 1.5 stars from 803 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with HelloFresh most frequently mention customer service, credit card and free meals. HelloFresh ranks 172nd among Food Delivery sites.

service
448
value
442
shipping
419
returns
333
quality
407
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