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AE
1 review
17 helpful votes
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They deduct the amount before issuing order confirmation, which booked my card over a thousand dollars without making an order for me. Great job Lancome.

Date of experience: December 2, 2019
Hawaii
1 review
20 helpful votes
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DO NOT ORDER ONLINE
June 13, 2020

ORDER PLACED MAY 29. STILL NO PRODUCT JUNE 13 OR ANY UPDATE. NO ONE RESPONDS BY EMAIL, CHAT, TOLL FREE NUMBER. TRACKING JUST SAYS PROCESSING. BUY PRODUCTS IN A DEPARTMENT STORE. YOU WILL NEVER GET YOUR ODER FROM ONLINE. THERE IS NO CUSTOMER SERVICE At LANCOME! SHAMEFUL LANCOME!

Date of experience: June 13, 2020
Arkansas
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Severe allergic reaction and a terrible burn on my face and eyes, where applied. Expense lesson learn. Hopefully they will refund me. Doctor' appointment tomorrow!

Date of experience: February 15, 2017
Texas
1 review
16 helpful votes
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It is June 4, and the order has not been received by the carrier (order placed May 14). Still "processing". My recommendation: DON'T LIE THE CUSTOMERS, WE ARE NOT STUPID. What a misery of so called "elite" company.

Date of experience: June 4, 2020

If possible, I would give negative stars for their policies and ignorant customer service, I ordered May 14 a product that was allegedly discounted (total $145). After 2 weeks, it would still show processing. In the meanwhile, the product's price was reduced to $108. I did chat with them, asking when can I expect the product. The person had no clue. I asked her if I could cancel the order-the answer was lancome's policy was not to change anything for a processing order. That included a "no" for changing the price of the total order. Given that I already waited 2 weeks and they were still "processing" (not shipped, but processing), it is only logical that they apply the price that is current at the day of processing. The same day, they emailed me that the order was shipped. That was 3 days ago. Well, when I checked ups tracking number today, it said, the product is not yet received for shipping (just label created). What a misery of a company. I expected more.

Date of experience: May 30, 2020
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I placed my order for an expensive item and was told I could select from several "free gifts". One of the gifts had nice travel size versions of cleansers that I use routinely, while I had no interest in the rest of the gifts. I placed my order. When it arrived, it was missing the gift I wanted but had the gifts I did not want. I called Lancome and they said they were out of my requested gift as it was only offered for a "limited time". I asked why they failed to notify me and received no answer. I asked if they would offer me anything else and they said "No". So I said I wanted to return the order and was I HAD TO PAY RETURN SHIPPING. I informed them that I would put a Hold on my credit card, return the items, and never order from them again.

Date of experience: October 24, 2020
California
15 reviews
52 helpful votes
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Deceiving
April 17, 2017

When I write a review I try to be helpful to other consumers, I myself check reviews before I buy I read reviews and take them seriously, with that said I do use SOME Lancome products however I bought an eye shadow primer that burned my skin, when I called them the only thing they did was give me credit, when I posted a review in their website they did not publish it I received an e mail saying that it had to be " modified', how can you modify a review saying my results with that product? So if is anything negative Lancome will not publish it.

Date of experience: April 17, 2017
GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I bought this item in debenhams, got recommended by the employee that this would make my eyelashes look natural, when I got home I tried the item out and saw that the eyelashes looked horrible and looks like I used a extremely cheap mascara and it doesn't come of with special waterproof makeup remover, while I was trying to wipe of the mascara half of my real eyelashes fell out because of the mascara. After a while of wearing it my eyes started itching a lot and became very red, I got told that I wouldn't have any reactions or allergies. When I was buying this product they said I would definitely be allowed to return it of i wasn't satisfied with the product, but when I tried returning it I got told i was not allowed to return it because of covid-19, I bought this item last week. The item is definitely not worth the amount of money, definitely not buying this again.

Date of experience: August 29, 2020
GB
1 review
4 helpful votes
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PLEASE BE AWARE!
This company helped themselves to 2 payments out my account on 2 different days for 1 products they won't answer my emails, this has been going on since the 15/11/21 I've emailed them ever second day as according to their customer service note it will take 24 hours to hear back I've sent screen shots of my account to show 1 order and screen shots of them taking 2 payments on the 15th then again on the 19th, don't buy from them you can get better products else where!

Date of experience: December 6, 2021
New Jersey
1 review
18 helpful votes
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Bad batch of perfume
January 30, 2020

I've been wanting the Jasmins MARZIPANE perfume since they sent me a sample of it. Looked in all the retail stores and couldn't find it, so I had to order it online.
Well let me tell you, I paid $200.00 for this fragrance and it lasts for 10 minutes! I kid you not! I've never experienced this before from Lancome perfume. I honestly think some employee gave me FEAK perfume! Not only that I was supposed to receive 15 free samples and I only got 4! I called customer service today and they weren't helpful at all. The Guy pit me on hold like 10 times! I know this perfume is wonderful IF it wasn't replaced with FEAK stuff. I'm very disappointed, as I have used Lancome for many years.
Like I said, they definitely need to look at their employees... On the shipping end AND customer service end.

Date of experience: January 30, 2020
Canada
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Poor customer service. I ordered online 15 days ago not shipped yet and I asked them to cancel my order they said they can't.bye-bye lencome.

Date of experience: June 6, 2023
Illinois
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Hi, I placed this online order. I received the package today. One of the bonus items that i order was missing. I only ordered 1 item and i had 4 more bonus items on my order because of that order. One of the bonus items was LA VIE EST BELLE EAU DE PARFUM 1OZ. However, instead I only got LA VIE EST BELLE EAU DE PARFUM 0.04 OZ. And when i talk to Lancome representatives, they told me that it was caused by a mistake on the website. But it is not my problem. The representative that i talk to offered me %10 coupon for this inconvenience which can not be used with other promotions. Lancome is one of the largest cosmetic companies I am very dissatisfied because of this situation and i don't think that i will order from Lancome again. I do not care about your problem on your website you should have fixed it before i place the order. However, If i see that i will get LA VIE EST BELLE EAU DE PARFUM 1OZ I am expecting to get it. I was expecting Lancome to send me LA VIE EST BELLE EAU DE PARFUM 1OZ after their fault instead of just saying it was caused by an error on the website. My trust to Lancome is completely broken.

Date of experience: November 21, 2023
California
2 reviews
11 helpful votes
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I'm a long-time customer of Lancôme. I've got in excess of 50,000 rewards points. Problem is, trying to claim a reward using the points. You can't directly use the rewards from the website. You must first "redeem" the points and the points are immediately deducted from your account, but then you must retrieve a special code from an email they send in order to actually get the reward. I've tried to claim rewards for one of their higher ticket items 3 times. Each time, they deduct my account, send me a code that doesn't work, and then I spend 30-40 minutes online, by phone, or through email trying to get matters worked out. I just did this again today. Although they show the item as being available, it has never been available when I claimed it. And, they don't automatically restore your points even thought they don't send the item! After this last experience, I received an email saying they were sorry for the inconvenience, they restored the 15,000 points, and offered me a 15% discount available for two weeks. Right. They don't really honor the reward request but instead try to get you to buy more items at a 15% discount. I don't think so. It's the most user unfriendly reward program I've ever seen and at best, it's dishonest. You don't get the reward you really want. They give you what they want and if the item you choose is one of their more expensive products, you obviously won't get it. My days with Lancôme are over.

Date of experience: March 6, 2017
Canada
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I really like Lancome products but I have used Genifique eye serum for about a year and it had done nothing! It seems I am using water under my eyes, it couldnt repair even my fine lines!

Date of experience: January 17, 2022
Arkansas
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I regularly receive emails of specials of their products available. Approximately mid-April, I received one offering buy one get one free. I immediately tried to login to my online account and was denied access. I called customer service to assist and they could not facilitate my accessing my account to order. I was told that the website was down and they "were working on it". I repeated this process for several days and was then given a number of "higher" customer service who could place the order for me -- they couldn't get online either. So for the next two weeks I continued to work with their customer service being told that they would do their best to fulfill the offer. The end of April my case was "escalated" and that they would get back to me. I just (May 6) called since I had not heard from the escalation and was told that no action had been taken yet! When asked what I should do, I was very coldly told "just hope someone gets back to you"! I never knew it was so difficult to spend money with a company! Customer Service for Lancome is TERRIBLE and they don't seem to care about keeping a customer!

Date of experience: May 6, 2021
Texas
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I placed an order on lancome.com on 11/30/12 and was very unhappy with the customer service of it. Website got frozen and it was the last day for a 20% off on each product. I then called lancome toll free number to place the order. Within 2 hrs, I received three notification of duplicate orders thru emails. I then called lancome toll free to cancel two out of those three duplicate. I called a total of 4 times during those 2 days and each time I got connected to a difference representative. Each told me diffferent situation: two duplicated orders were cancelled; I was not be able to cancel the orders because they have been processed; I was not be able to cancel the orders because they have been shipped. Finally, I received all three duplicated orders within the same 2 business days thru UPS. I had a chance to return but I did not trust lancome.com just in case they said I returned less than what I actually returned. Bottom line, I rather go to the counter in a department store to purchase lancome than purchase it online/thru their toll free number.

Date of experience: December 17, 2012
Tennessee
7 reviews
5 helpful votes
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Always Happy!
December 27, 2016

They are so great! I always get excellent service and they always give out samples. Orders always delivered on time, within a couple of days! Always a pleasure!

Date of experience: December 26, 2016
Clara R.
Oregon
514 reviews
611 helpful votes
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Free samples
September 4, 2018

Now through the 22nd in stores you can ask f o r sample and recieve up to as much as five auch as serums..creams..mini swipe lipsticks..mini perfumes..and foundaton samples with no purchase

Date of experience: September 4, 2018
Virginia
5 reviews
10 helpful votes
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DIDN'T SEND MY SERUM!
August 4, 2020

I ordered a large size lancome genefique serum only to find out it was NOT sent in the package along with the other items I purchased. Also two of the samples were replaced with something else I didn't pick because apparently they were out of stock. Not only was the package late to arrive then when I opened it it was not in the package! I WANT MY MONEY BACK AND I'M NEVER ORDERING FROM THEM AGAIN!

Update: They sent the serum only after I called to complain about not receiving it. I actually wanted a REFUND but they were quick to not refund me first and decided to send me the serum instead - BAD SERVICE. NEVER AGAIN.

Date of experience: August 4, 2020
AE
4 reviews
9 helpful votes
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Empty liner
August 16, 2015

I was loyal for Lancome, but wen I went to buy the last Eyeliner, I forgot about lancome, the bottle is almost empty and I just used it 2 times.
How will i trust lancome again in the future.

Date of experience: August 16, 2015
Australia
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Worst Customer Service for a Global Brand
March 28, 2021

We made an order with order number LAN*******. This order was made on 23/03/2021 at 17:11PM. Unfortunately, this order was cancelled by Lancôme system twenty-one (21) hours later on 24/03/2021 at 14:35PM.

We managed to chat and talk with Alicia from your online chat department, and two (2) other telephone operators in relation to reinstating this order. Regrettable, the only answer we received is 'bad luck'. We were advised to place a new order without the benefit from the promotion when we initially placed our order.

We wrote a complaint to *******@lancome.com.au explaining our bad purchase experience with a reputable brand name such and Lancôme. However, the respond we received is simply a copy-and-paste stating that This could be due to one of the common reasons below:

- It appears that you are ordering from a location outside Australia or requesting delivery to an address outside of Australia
- Ordering from a mobile device that is experiencing technical difficulties,
- Information provided has been incorrectly entered and cannot be verified.

None of these were true as we placed the order within Australia; the delivery address is within Australia, the place the order on a PC; and the credit card information is correct. It is very disappointing on how much the different between Lancôme's customer service in Australia compare to the rest of the world. It has become more irritating to see the bigger picture that Lancôme indeed make great product, while its Australian customer service level is so disgraceful.

Date of experience: March 28, 2021

Overview

Lancome has a rating of 1.6 stars from 120 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Lancome most frequently mention customer service, credit card and free gift. Lancome ranks 1064th among Skin Care sites.

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