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LightInTheBox is a global online retail company that delivers products directly to consumers around the world. Founded in 2007, LightInTheBox has offered customers a convenient way to shop for a wide selection of lifestyle products at attractive prices through www.lightinthebox.com, www.miniinthebox.com, and other websites, which are available in multiple major languages. LightInTheBox offers products in the three core categories of apparel, small accessories and gadgets and home and garden. LightInTheBox's innovative data-driven business model allows itself to offer customized products, such as wedding dress and evening dress, at scale for optimal marketing, merchandising and fulfillment.


lightinthebox.com
Founded in 2007
singapore, Singapore, China
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LightInTheBox Reviews Summary

The company has garnered a mixed reputation among customers, with notable strengths in product variety, competitive pricing, and satisfactory quality for many items. Customers appreciate the ease of navigation on the site and the responsiveness of customer service when issues arise. However, concerns frequently arise regarding delivery delays, particularly during peak seasons, and complications with returns, including high shipping costs and poor communication about refund processes. While some customers express a willingness to continue shopping due to positive experiences, others indicate significant dissatisfaction, particularly regarding product discrepancies and customer support challenges.

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GB
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I bought a union jack duvet set from them, which ironically came from overseas. I was charged £23 duty on top of the £65 I had paid for the item and Light in the box didn't warn me of this payment or refund it.

Date of experience: March 17, 2016
Germany
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Lightinthebox is scam.!
Never use this site! Be careful never buy anything. I have tried to buy above 800 dress. They immediately deducted the money from credit card, but refused to send the items because of payment verification. I cancelled the order, it is now more then one month. They never returned the money.
They will rip you off. Be careful.

Date of experience: March 17, 2016
Virginia
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Worked well for me
March 15, 2016

I ordered a dress for my brothers wedding. It was a custom size and it came in perfectly as pictured and the quality was decent. No issues and will order again.

Date of experience: March 14, 2016
Washington
1 review
13 helpful votes
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Is your reputation really worth less than $26 dollars, which is the amount you withdrew from my bank account? I waited three months, as you requested, and have received nothing but pathetic excuses from your customer service idiots. All I wanted was a stinking flashlight at a good price. You must be sitting back laughing at all the stupid Americans you're ripping off! I am a home inspector and I receive calls every day from new inspectors asking me where to by their inspection flashlights, because of my online blogs. Just think of the hundreds of prospective inspectors you could have screwed had you only satisfied me and my orders! I will make it one of my personal projects to inform everyone I can, through daily online blogs, inspector schools, and any internet review site available, what a total piece of crap your company and your products are. I will not rest until I am assured that your company has lost at least one thousand times the amount of money you stole from me!

Date of experience: March 12, 2016
California
2 reviews
16 helpful votes
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Buyer beware
March 12, 2016

I ordered a pair of dance sneakers but they won't work for ballroom dance because the sole have a rubber bottom that acts like suction cups. I wanted to return them and my receipt said to go to my order and contact customer service from the order page. This was impossible to do as there wasn't an icon and when I touched the customer service section nothing would come up. Additionally they don't have a phone number for you to call. So I'm stuck with the shoes

Date of experience: March 12, 2016
Washington
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Timing of my order
March 10, 2016

I asked for expidicted shipping what company are you shipping with and are my order getting here in 3to4 days

Date of experience: March 10, 2016
China
3 reviews
18 helpful votes
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I bought several items at miniinthebox over the course of several months.
Their items proved to be of very poor quality and broke after few times of use.
I bought:
- 5 x micro SD cards: 2 of them did not work.
- A torch light: wrong item description and it broke after 2 times I used it.
- Toothbrush heads for an electric toothbrush: the brushes were getting loose inside your mouth during use.
- Camera screen protector: upon removal it irreparably damaged the screen of the camera.

I was promised a coupon of 8 euro. When I was given only 2.84 euro and asked what happened to the remaining 5.16 euro, I was told by the customer support lead that I was complaining too much.

This store is very bad and I will never order anything from them anymore.
It really gives an infamous reputation to Chinese made products.

Date of experience: March 10, 2016
GB
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Stupidly bought a projector. Got landed with a bill of £40.00 from UPS. Projector is totally useless. Cannot project an image 2 feet. Unit is very cheap and its ended up costing me almost the same price as a decent epson projector from currys.

Lesson learned. Stick with quality brands.

Light in the box. Haha package from UPS just contained $#*!e in the box.

Date of experience: March 8, 2016
Texas
1 review
12 helpful votes
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Total Scam
March 8, 2016

Do not EVER buy from this site! It has been over a month since i have ordered and i STILL have not received my package! I am a patient person but this is just getting ridiculous! Now I'm pissed and will never buy from this site again. And since it's coming from china i cannot track my package. So now I'm left thinking where it is! Did it get stolen out of my mailbox or is it their fault? And everyday my day revolves around checking the mail waiting for my package and every day it never comes.

Date of experience: March 8, 2016
Italy
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Reliability
March 8, 2016

Dear all, I have to say that I am happy to deal with this company
Good prices alligned with the quality offered, good customer service level (keen on customer needs and requests) expecially in case of complaints etc.

Date of experience: March 8, 2016
Florida
1 review
8 helpful votes
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BEWARE!
March 7, 2016

Paid 137 dollars for a split canvas ocean scene. They used a photo to represent this. It turned out to be a painting that looked like the artist was about 6 years old! TOTAL JUNK! Spread the word... NEVER ORDER FROM HERE!

Date of experience: March 7, 2016
GB
1 review
6 helpful votes
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WORST COMPANY!
March 7, 2016

Took payment not received order. Been shipped. No reply to emails. Do not recommend this company and would never use it ever again!
NEEDS CLOSED DOWN!

Date of experience: March 7, 2016
Minnesota
6 reviews
17 helpful votes
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Takes forever...
March 7, 2016

As was the case with another review that I had read on here, I didn't realize that the company ships from Asia until it was too late. I suppose I should have done a little digging first, but the price was good. It's been going on two weeks now and I am still waiting for my order. It wouldn't be a huge deal, but being as there is virtually no way to track the shipment, I have no idea what is happening with my order. Lesson learned I guess. In the future I wll pay the extra few dollars to have something shipped from a company in the U.S. that arrives promptly and provides tracking information. Also, the website claimed to have free shipping, but once I got to the final order page they charged me shipping. Only a few dollars, but "Free Shipping" usually means free shipping.

Date of experience: March 7, 2016
California
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Not even a good word to describe this company they are bad

Date of experience: March 3, 2016
Tunisia
15 reviews
45 helpful votes
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MEH! Not impressed!
March 1, 2016

I ordered a few shirts, under $10 each, and I did receive my order, but it took 5 weeks. The quality is not that great, but this was to be expected, as cheap fabric, poor workmanship and small sizes seems to be a standard for China-made clothing items. Shirts were cheaper than I would have paid here, and the shipping was free but super slow. Not incredibly happy with my order, but not totally disgusted either... MEH is just about right! I don't think I will be shopping there again.

Date of experience: March 1, 2016
Canada
1 review
7 helpful votes
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YOU WILL GET CHARGED 40% IN DUTIES ON THE PURCHASE PRICE, THE SHIPPING IS NOT FAST AND THE PRODUCT DOES NOT LOOK THE SAME LIKE IN THE PICTURE BESIDES BEING DAMAGED! GOOD LUCK TRYING TO CALL CUSTOMER SERVICE. DO NOT SAY I DID NOT WARN YOU!

Date of experience: March 1, 2016
Canada
1 review
8 helpful votes
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I have paid CAN$21.00 for shipping costs for my order and now that my order has arrived, I receive a text from DHL that I should pay an extra $20 for shipping and delivery costs! I find this absurd! Why am I paying over $40 just for shipping?

Date of experience: March 1, 2016
California
1 review
7 helpful votes
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HORRIBLE COMPANY
February 29, 2016

I placed an order on 2/5 and they are still processing it. Im very unhappy with their customer service especially since they don't even have a phone number to call. The estimated ship date was supposed to be 2/28 and they still haven't shipped it. HORRIBLE COMPANY. Will never order from these crooks again!

Date of experience: February 29, 2016
Malta
5 reviews
7 helpful votes
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Extensive range of cheap but good products backed by prompt shipping service.

Date of experience: February 29, 2016
Illinois
11 reviews
16 helpful votes
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NEVER RECEIVED ORDER
February 27, 2016

Cannot contact customer service to try to find out what happened to my order of 2/3/16, order #**************

NEVER RECEIVED ORDER

I click on order number and I get this response:
No Order Found

Because of this I am unable to start a ticket to make a complaint. I have several items that I was considering buying, but will not if I cannot get satisfaction... it's not too much to ask to have a customer service phone number.

2/29 update, got an email from the company saying that the order had been shipped and that their 10-20 business days equalled up to 28 days shipping. They did offer a refund of less than 1/2 of what I paid after they took out the UPS shipping fee. I declined the offer, but am still upset that they have no customer service number to resolve issues quicker.

The prices are good, you need to decide if its worth the wait and lack of customer service.

Date of experience: February 27, 2016