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iHerb Reviews Summary

iHerb has a rating of 1.6 stars from 1,051 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with iHerb most frequently mention customer service, credit card and phone number. iHerb ranks 521st among Vitamins & Supplements sites.

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value
173
shipping
195
returns
140
quality
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Canada
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Scam
May 5, 2018

Product took 2.5 months to arrive when i was promised delivery within 4 weeks.
I ordered on Canadian website with delivery in toronto and ordered for over $50 to get free shipping. Still i had to pay $15.00 additional to receive this package.

Date of experience: May 5, 2018
Tennessee
1 review
7 helpful votes
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IHerb cancelled my confirmed order. When disputed immediately, iHerb took more than 10 days to give a terse and obscure response. When the response challenged, iHerb admitted the mistake but the order remained cancelled.

Date of experience: May 2, 2018
Australia
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I ordered five bottles of Paradise Turmeric Capsules from I Herb Inc on 14/4/2018 (via PayPal). As I had not received a delivery, or any tracking information by 30/4/2018, I sent a request to obtain this information. I was informed by the company, that as I had not used the email address that was utilised when the order was made they would not provide me with the information. I explained to the company that I had a number of email addresses that could have been used and even supplied the Transaction ID as I obtained from my PayPal transaction account - still no tracking information was provided. As the tracking information has not been provided I have been left to assume that it has not been dispatched from I Herb and will contact PayPal. Robert U.

Date of experience: April 30, 2018
New Zealand
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Iherb cancelled my order in error. Paypal was ready and set to go and said merchant did not process order to generate payment. Iherb made no attempt to fix their mistake and instead told me to re-order. Why should I fix iherb's mistake? The whole idea of online ordering is convenience! Iherb stuffed up and then the follow up, they stuffed up again. Mistakes happen and the true quality of this company would have been shown in how they went about fixing their mistake. Well, they simply didn't and just sent email platitudes with no action. They have shown they are completely incompetent and definitely don't care at all about the individual order. Iherb have certainly lost my custom, but I know they don't care. Buyer beware. There are other customer companies you can use, use them rather. As you can see by the other reviews, a lot of unhappy customer.

Date of experience: April 27, 2018
GB
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I ordered from the uk website, the invoice clearly stated zero taxes and duties, the parcel arrived and dhl demanded an extra £16 for tax or they would send my parcel back. I refused and am now fighting for a refund but after contacting the terrible customer service department it is looking unlikely. Dont bother wasting your time or money on this site!

Date of experience: April 27, 2018
Brazil
2 reviews
6 helpful votes
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No refund
April 25, 2018

I have ordered once and the package hasn't arrived, and they refunded me.

This time, they just said they would not refund, after 3 months that the package was ordered. They are just taking the money from the customer and also from the courier, that pays them insurance for lost packages.

This is the way they are doing to get money, as their reputation is getting worse and worse each day.

Date of experience: April 25, 2018
Mexico
1 review
3 helpful votes
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My order was cancelled without notification. I found out when I was tracking the order. No answers to my several requests. Guess I will be taking my business elsewhere.

Date of experience: April 24, 2018
Italy
2 reviews
7 helpful votes
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I bought 4 bottles of progesterone cream last november: never arrived, but I was refunded. I ordered another similar box: the box never arrived and I got NO refund. I ordered AGAIN (last January) another vitamin: it never arrived and no refund, too!
Now I order from another firm and progesterone cream arrives regularly.
NEVER MORE with Iherbs.

Date of experience: April 7, 2018
Canada
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Please do yourself a favor and never buy from Iherb. They are con artists. I bought from them for years and all of a sudden they refuse to ship products to Canada saying that it is prohibited by customs. These are vitamins, what could possibly be prohibited? It's a way for big companies to make you buy locally so you pay 2x or 3x the price.

Date of experience: March 30, 2018
California
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I was a loyal customer but they have lost me because their customer service is virtually inaccessible. I am not willing to spend hours (which is how long it was starting to take) to remedy a company's technical issues. I can get all of their products on other sites for slightly more ($1 or $2) with better technical functionality and actual customer service.

Date of experience: March 29, 2018
GB
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Con merchants
March 29, 2018

Don't bother with shop/site... Daylight robbery... expect to get fobbed off with useless excuses when then fleece you of your heard earned cash. Ridiculous site that does not inform you of extortionate costs and are absolutely no help. Definitely take your business else where

Date of experience: March 29, 2018
New Jersey
3 reviews
7 helpful votes
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I have been a customer for years. I don't know what happened but once I saw that they were using LaserShip I knew I was in trouble. Package destroyed and sent back to iHerb. Never arrived at my location. All of this documented in the tracking log. Since there is not number to contact the company, I initiated on-line chat. What a nightmare. Told it was in customs (um I live in the US). Told I would have to take a picture of the damage and they would look into it. Proceeded to state that I never received the package. Told to contact shipper to receive picture of damage. Seriously! Ended up opening a PayPal dispute and got a refund immediately.

Date of experience: March 27, 2018
Germany
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Reason for elimination of product: Keep animal diseases out of Switzerland. Product will not be re-imbursed by IHerb... NEVER AGAIN

Customer Service sucks as they say even though they pay for custom fees that it is my job to review if I can import goods.

WHAT A JOKE

USD 65 LOST, what a dissapointment...

Date of experience: March 23, 2018
GB
1 review
8 helpful votes
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I ordered from iherb on a Friday morning and my goods were ready to deliver on Saturday morning. Great I hear you say until I get a text from DHL saying I had to pay £17 customs charges to have it released. Hang on tho I bought it from a site that was in British pounds and I already paid £3.99 delivery charges ( that was the price for delivery quoted) but now I find out its been shipped from USA (which I find hard to believe that quickly) but nevertheless I then email them to see what the hell is going on and am advised to pay the charges and shut up as if I refuse to the package will go back and I will incur return charges and they will amount to the whole amount Id paid in the first place. So basically I had no choice but to pay the charge and receive the package of or I would be £ 55 out of pocket with no supplement. This is utterly disgraceful, unashamedly, guiltless selling of the worst kind. It should not be allowed someone needs to put a stop to this before more people are scammed out of their money for things that most people need to try and live a healthier lifestyle or help a health problem that they are trying to live with. Angry just doesnt describe it

Date of experience: March 20, 2018
Mexico
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Im so shock right now, was my first time and LAST ordering on this website, and its a JOKE! Really I dont even understand whats happening with them, I placed an order twice and they cancelled my orders and after that they deleted my account, I really wanted those products and a I make another account with my moms name and her credit card, totally new account, and they cancelled and deleted my account AGAIN, so one last time I did another new account with my sisters name and her credit card and again they did the SAME!

So obviously wanted so bad those products but this is TOO MUCH! I cant handle this!

Obviously every time I was contacting them throw their chat but they said that cant tell me why they did that. So basically they just make me waste my time a LOT, im soooo dissapointing and frustrating that really this is a joke, so really is by your own risk to buy them,

Also if you want to contact them and talk with real people I leave bellow their live chat,

https://chat56a.livechatinc.com/licence/*******/open_chat.cgi?groups=0

Date of experience: March 14, 2018
California
1 review
5 helpful votes
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So disappointed
March 9, 2018

I have been a loyal iherb user for years ~ placed an order almost every week. However, the last 2 orders I received were missing an item and the last one had something I didn't order. Now, in trying to rectify this, I see that there is no way to communicate with anyone about it. I can't believe this company has no way to talk to a human being. Ridiculous! I will just be upset by my losses and move on. They have lost a very loyal customer.

Date of experience: March 9, 2018
California
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Bad news
March 8, 2018

Took payment, cancelled order. Zero communication. Had to use PayPal to get my payment back. Stay away.

Date of experience: March 8, 2018
Mexico
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Very unprofessional
March 8, 2018

I've been a long time, iHerb customer. No loyalty whatsoever. Currently, they have no 800 number, you have to communicate via chat or email. Very disappointed with their recent service.

Date of experience: March 8, 2018
Canada
1 review
4 helpful votes
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So upset with this place. Waited long but nothing. They dont even tell u that my order was returned! Then they give me money back less shipping. I asked to show me the proof of the address and returned. Coz never happened to me before. They can't give u answer.
It is totally bs. Scam.
Should be out of business!

Date of experience: March 5, 2018
New Jersey
3 reviews
7 helpful votes
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Not only that they sent to the wrong address. They also refuse to communicate on theirs own website. You suppose to talking to someone on the other end, and then they drop you like a bad habit and no answers or fallow up at all.

Date of experience: February 28, 2018

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