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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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South Carolina
1 review
4 helpful votes
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What in the world is REALLY going on?! On february 27, I was searching for my dream wedding dress. I found that dress on lightinthebox. I ordered the dress on the very same day. My payment was confirmed and received on that very same day. The status read that my order would be shipped around april 5. Well, it is april 6 and the status of my order has not changed since the 27th of february. I have not received an email or a telephone call and no one is responding to my "tickets." Which is a request that we have to submit after an order is placed. Once an order is placed you cannot talk to customer service apparently. Anyway I would just like some type of status update. I mean, come on, this is my WEDDING DRESS! Lastly, I submitted a review similiar to this on their site and I promise you! Within 10 minutes they erased my post off the site. I am very worried. At this point I am not requesting my money back or anything of the sort... just the dress, at least an update of the status:-(

Date of experience: April 6, 2011
California
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Don't buy anything from www.lightinthebox.com. Let me tell my story. I bought this tablet from Lightinthebox.com. It is more expensive than that from other sellers. I would have paid more to get higher quality product. However I was wrong. It took three weeks to receive this tablet. When I got it, I found it was a defective product, which was a block spot on screen. I can send you the pictures I took on black spot if you want to see. I contacted seller to tell them it was a defective product. No response. I went online to chat with seller. They said that you had to wait until response. If you did not like to wait, you could sue us. Does any buyer tolerate this ridicules answer? I had no choice to contact Paypal and hold my payment. Seller immediately responded. Then I returned this tablet via USPS. It took other 4 weeks to get refund and reimbursement for return cost. However, Paypal charged me a fee $11.4 for refund and reimbursement of return cost. I contacted seller to argue on the fee. Seller said they don't want pay the fee. Does any buyer want to pay a fee for refund and return cost when you receive a defective product? It was seller's fault to send a defective product. Seller should pay for everything. If you don't care about your money, you buy it from Lightinthebox.com.

Date of experience: March 7, 2011
China
1 review
3 helpful votes
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The reviewfbi.com gives so much positive comment, obviously it's written by their own staffs, who totally submit poor reviews for any other website besides itself. So IGNOBLE motives!
I have bought cell phones from them, at the first sight of it. I was so angry. Thoroughly different from what I saw from their website. Beautiful pic but poor product, totally RUBBISH. Without the EU charge, what's more, can't use in my country. Oh, my god, I can't bear it...
Contacting their customer service, no one respond to me the whole day. With great difficulty, a fellow gave me an answer. But he said he can't refund me, said that there is no proof of it... I'm so regret that I didn't pay though paypal! It's a big fraud! Poor product, poor service! RUBBISH! I will never have a look of it from now on.
Be cautious about it!

Date of experience: November 30, 2010
GB
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Despite payment through Paypal, the product I ordered never arrived. When I contacted customer service, they said they need a photocopy of my credit card and passport.

Luckily Paypal has a good dispute resolution mechanism and I was given a refund.
BEWARE!

Date of experience: November 18, 2010
LightInTheBox F. — LightInTheBox Rep
over a year old

Dear Michael K,

I would like to apologize for the inconvenience you have experienced while shopping at LightInTheBox.

Please allow me to explain why you were asked for extra identification. We do not ask for extra information unless our finance department deems there is something wrong with the payment (eg. Wrong billing address, etc). The extra information helps us confirm that the customer is in fact the one making the purchase. This is solely to protect our customers from others who might be making fraudulent purchases.

Regards,

Diana
LightInTheBox

Alaska
3 reviews
18 helpful votes
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I ABSOLUTELY NOT RECOMMEND TO SHOP IN LIGHTINTHEBOX WEBSITES items looks good only in the sites and when you received after waiting for several weeks late? It is just a piece of junk... My dress and shoes order came one week late for the occasion, the quality is not that good for the asking price { which I think it's too pricey} and it is bigger than they stated on the website dress size charts, and the shoes is one size smaller. The customer service through email will take you in a wheel of circle until you run out of the 7days return policy, you have to pay for S/H to return which you don't know if will make it back safe to China AND GET YOUR MONEY BACK, it will just make you angry dealing with them...

Date of experience: October 25, 2010
North Carolina
1 review
5 helpful votes
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I ordered a lit faucet from the company. I installed it after a little trouble adapting it to my system. After a week of use, it started leaking in a couple of points and before I could find a way to repair it, the lighting system shorted out. I asked for their assistance repairing it and their only response was "sorry, the company won't let us do that outside of the SEVEN (7) day return policy, would you like $50 gift certificate to buy more things from us."

Date of experience: October 6, 2010
North Carolina
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I ordered from this company on the 7th, it is now the 23 and my order STILL HAS NOT SHIPPED! I have tried contacting them about getting my money back, and they keep pushing back my shipping date and tell me if they don't get it shipped by X date my money will be refunded! IT STILL HAS NOT HAPPENED! On top of that i tried to get a phone number from this company to call them and THEY DO NOT contact their customers by phone... what the hell is that? This is very suspicious to me. I finally got a hold of someone through the live service thing and was told my order was packaged on the 20th and 'going' to ship today or tomorrow... im not holding my breath and im now out almost $500.00! I will NEVER order from this company again, nor will i EVER recommend them to anyone i know. Order # **************

Date of experience: February 23, 2010
GB
1 review
18 helpful votes
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It is a website based in China selling different type of products such as clothing, computers, cell phones, etc... Prices are reasonable but I can't say cheap. I ordered 2 evening dresses because of their beautiful designs, but I was not happy with what I received at all. One of them has nothing to do with the picture they had put on the website and both had the worst fabric and tailoring quality. The problem is they were really friendly and helpful before sale but they were rude after sale, I tried to chat with them online but they disconnected me. I put 2 messages asking them to instruct me how to return the dresses but they just keep ignoring me. There is no telephone number on the website. After 2 weeks I finally decided to put a review for the dress but they have not upload my review. So this is the only way I could tell other people to prevent this website as I have already lost £184.
Thank you!

Date of experience: October 27, 2009
Illinois
1 review
7 helpful votes
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I have to return two cell phones to this website located in china. These cell phones cost $139.99 but
Does not detect AT&T sim cards. It took them more than two weeks to reply with
Forms to exchange the defective cell phones. The website says it will only take 24 hours for customer service to get back to you but it took me more than 12 e-mails in 2 weeks. The worst part is that they already received the item back which I spend $40 with tracking but they never get back for status pass 2 weeks until this date. They have phone numbers but only if you can speak chinese and only for pre-sale inquiry One thing I learn do not buy imitated products from China..

Date of experience: October 25, 2009