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New York
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Very disappointing.
February 5, 2022

Seller canceled my purchase without any note or explanation, and then blocked my account so I couldn't communicate to ask why. No penalty for the seller. Mercari has no customer service. Total waste of time. Reading other reviews, apparently it's common practice for sellers to not ship items on the site. Very disappointing.

Date of experience: February 5, 2022
Missouri
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Used to love mercari, have been using it for a few years now. I recently bought a pair air jordans off here. When they arrived, they were clearly not the ones shown in the picture - they're reps, and pretty bad ones too. I requested a refund (something I have done before with no problem), and provided pictures from every angle very clearly showing what was wrong with the item. After waiting a day, they finally responded, saying I had to provide even more photos, which wouldn't have been an issue, but I was visiting family for the weekend and couldn't send them within 24hr. I asked if I could have longer and they told me I could, then closed my return request after the original 24hr window.

Date of experience: May 22, 2023
Georgia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I bought a coach wallet from Mercari I received it reaping with cigarette when i asked for a refund customer service told me no since they could not smell it. Unbelievable it smell like a wet ashtray i gag when i opened the package it was really bad they told me to sell it to someone else knowing what it smell like. So I advistise it being a ashtray wallet they will not give me my $50.00 back

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Date of experience: July 22, 2023
Colorado
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Disappointed
December 5, 2017

Paid $111.00 on the 2nd only to have seller cancel on 4th. Had no clue as no email. Weeks to get my money back, yet taken from my acct in seconds! How unfair. As the one who lost out, they should act promptly. Past had no refund on broken, counterfeit item as only a 3 day window to get it back. Watch didn't even work. I'm sure some good sellers (experienced a few plus I am an honest seller) things happen but this is unacceptable. Gave several chances, no more! Goodbye Mercari. Please send my refund!

Date of experience: December 5, 2017
Mercari R. Mercari Rep
over a year old

We're sorry you had a transaction cancelled a couples days after it was purchased. When a purchase is made, Mercari charges the buyer immediately but holds the funds until the item is delivered and a rating is issued. When a transaction is cancelled we issue a refund immediately, but it can take 5-10 days for funds to reflect in your account depending on your bank. If you have further questions or concerns regarding your refund or return requests, please reach out to us by emailing contact@mercari.com. Thanks!^DE

Illinois
2 reviews
5 helpful votes
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The buyers on Mercari becomes a scam as well. The buyer acted as if she wanted to purchase a item she even directed me where to buy the vanilla go card at Walmart. My mind was so vulnerable at the time going through other issues in my life not thinking the buyer scamming with Mercari to get more money After purchasing my gift card, buyer or Mercari doesn't exist. Please help. I just want my refund to continue to take care my babies. Also Mecari blocked all our messages which is still shown in my email. They have multiple emails an most of them are scams

Date of experience: March 16, 2022
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Love This Site/App
July 2, 2018

I've had really good experiences with this site/app both as a buyer and a seller. They charge a fee of 10% to the seller and release the funds within 3 days of the buyer receiving the item, or when review reciprocation is complete (the buyer provides a positive review plus seller provides a positive review of the buyer), whichever comes first. I've had no problems with any of my sales or purchases except I could not get a coupon code to work on my first order. I found out later that it was because the coupon worked only on the app, and not on the website. This site is a great alternative to eBay and other online stores.

Date of experience: July 2, 2018
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over a year old

Hi Michelle,

Thanks for the kind words! We appreciate you using our platform, and hope you have a fun time buying and selling!

Best,
Team Mercari

New Jersey
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Mercari sucks
April 22, 2023

Mercari cut me permanently because of a credit card situation that happened having to do with my credit card. Someone had stolen the card and racked tons of money using Mercari. They didn't want to hear that and cut me off for good. Don't bother with these people. They're just as crooked as Ebay is. No other online shopping website does what theses low class jackasses did. I explained the situation to them thoroughly and the next day with no warning whatsoever they cut me off from buying and/or selling on their website. They don't care about the customer only how much they can fit in their wallets. I was humiliated and embarassed. If you don't want what happened to me than don't do business with this website.

Date of experience: April 22, 2023
Washington
1 review
0 helpful votes
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SUPPORTS SCAMMERS
December 19, 2023

Mercari doesn't do jack about scam seller accounts. It doesn't matter how many reports these accounts' listings get, these profiles get to stay up and keep scamming people and Mercari doesn't care. Scammers can block user's warning comments immediately but Mercari never reviews reports on these accounts. DON'T trust buying from a company that supports scammers like this.

Date of experience: December 19, 2023
Virginia
1 review
8 helpful votes
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I would give -1 star if I could. They banned my Account for no reason and said I can get the deposit after 180 days.
Okay, so I waited and the release date finally came. I receive an email from Mercari saying "you can request a direct deposit now, and we will delete your account after the deposit". So I was try to logging in the app and found the app logged me out automatically already, then I'm not able to login again. So I reset my password 5 times, even use a password easy like "qqqqqq", the app still give me message saying invalid email or password.
Well, obviously, they delete my account and rob my money in the account. Well play Mercari

Date of experience: August 31, 2017
Virginia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Rip off
September 25, 2023

Bought food processor which did not work. Emailed them and my request was denied. They claimed they emailed me for additional info but they did not. Then said time limit up = denied. 1st and last time I buy from their site

Date of experience: September 25, 2023
Kentucky
2 reviews
28 helpful votes
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False Advertisement
January 4, 2020

They say they offer $200 shipping insurance so sellers can feel comfortable shipping items, but they find every way to get out of protecting sellers' items if they are damaged during shipping. First time buyers can claim damage and get to keep the item for free. Ridiculous!

Date of experience: January 4, 2020
New York
2 reviews
14 helpful votes
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Mercari is totally partial to buyers. There is no protection for sellers whatsoever.
They allow blatant lies to be posted on the seller's feedback destroying the reputation of the seller and harming their prospective sales. By Mercari's own admition 'other sellers have asked for a change in rating policy' but for now 'they're unable to remove or modify any feedback after it's been posted'. They actually send you to deal with your own hostile buyer yourself!
If I'd be Mercari owner I would think twice how to resolve such conflicts when it's actually the sellers who brings them profit. Moving on to other platforms! Goodbuy Mercari!

Date of experience: November 26, 2019
Japan
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Used mericari in japan, only really good for selling small items. High shipping cost for non small items makes this non economical. You will encounter Ppl begging for half the asking price and requesting authenticity for products that are 10years old.

Dont use it unless you want to experience annoying buyers and sell at high discount. Mericari support is, please follow link here for more info. If you have dispute with seller/buyer, please resolve among yourselves..

Date of experience: March 7, 2022
Illinois
1 review
3 helpful votes
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DVD's I ordered
February 10, 2023

I ordered a set of DVD's and was sent the wrong DVD's. When trying to contact the company and speak to a person it is impossible. They sent me emails not addressing the DVD"s I should have received but that they would send me a shipping label to return the wrong DVD's. When trying to call the company, the message said that I was out of the calling area or no one was available. Not pleased at all :(( (

Date of experience: February 10, 2023
Texas
1 review
11 helpful votes
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I didn't receive a purchase even though post office says delivered. Seller insured it but Mercari won't credit my credit card and will only give credits to their site for future purchase. They tell me to work with the post office. The post office isn't going to do anything for me. It's the seller who shipped and had the insurance. This is not the first time post office didn't deliver a package to its intended party. Do not buy from them. They are not honest and do not want to work with a customer!

Date of experience: May 22, 2020
Rhode Island
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Don't download app
July 9, 2022

Don't download this your better off selling on Poshmark or on marketplace on Facebook. They let buyers take what ever they need out of the product you send them and let them send back useless product. Bery disappointed in this company -App

Date of experience: July 9, 2022
New York
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Be aware
September 26, 2017

Buyers and sellers be aware. They will suspend and revoke you in the blink of a eye without explaining! And accuse you of such horrible things without ever asking you! Customer service is impossible! They take 10 percent of the sales and take forever to respond which is never a detail response always super vague and normally unhelpful in my experience! You can never be careful enough! Rank up 100s of great rating for them just to take it all in blink of a eye for false assumptions on there part!

Date of experience: September 26, 2017
California
1 review
2 helpful votes
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BEWARE of MERICARI! Use ebay instead as they provide protection against funds. I paid for an item - and only received partial item - also paid for delivery but postage was due in order for me to receive my item. Customer service rated the seller 5 stars even without my consent. Read the reviews - you'll see there are tons of scams like this out there!

Date of experience: September 21, 2020
Illinois
2 reviews
8 helpful votes
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I like them
March 10, 2016

After being on Poshmark you would appreciate Mercari. I love that you have options with shipping and that there's no commission fee currently. I also like that you can leave feedback or send a dispute straight to support. For myself I have had a decent costumer service experience may twice. Twice they refunded me although one time an item I bought was against their rules (didn't know). That was awesome of them. I also like how you can message a buy or seller once you made a purchase. I would recommend them but I do not recommend buy or selling anything expensive on these apps because I'm sure no company wants to refund that much money although they should. I personally chose to stay away from buying/selling anything too expensive. Luckily for me I have had mostly great experiences and just a few bad out of about 20 purchases and only 5 sells. Simple app I like it. Hope it will add a feature where you could use emojis that's one thing I did like about Poshmark.

Date of experience: March 10, 2016
Minnesota
2 reviews
3 helpful votes
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There is no help. I try to edit my listings and get errors. No way to find out why. I have 2900 listings on Poshmark I guess they don't want any of them. They won't let me sell Gucci shoes that I paid hundreds for at estate sales. Only help I found was for only 2 reasons that had nothing to do with why I couldn't lower a sales price. Don't have time to try and find impossible help

Date of experience: August 8, 2022

Overview

Mercari has a rating of 1.2 stars from 2,394 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Mercari most frequently mention customer service, credit card and phone number. Mercari ranks 588th among Marketplace sites.

service
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value
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shipping
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returns
825
quality
799
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