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Shein

shein.com
casual, preppy, streetwear, general men, womenAge 0-3, 4-12, 13-18, 19-25, 26-45, 46-60
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About the Business

Shein is a global online fast-fashion retailer. It utilizes an on-demand business model, providing a vast selection of affordable clothing and accessories. Shein serves customers across numerous countries, primarily targeting younger demographics with its trend-focused offerings.


shein.com
China
Shein is part of Nanjing Lingtian Information Technology Co., Ltd.
Founded in 2008
Clothing item from SheinFashion apparel by SheinMerchandise from Shein clothing lineShein fashion product

Business Highlights

General

Parent Company: Nanjing Lingtian Information Technology Co., Ltd.
Year Founded: 2008
Target Gender: men, women

Shipping

Shipping Cost: $3.99
Free Shipping: sometimes
Free Shipping Detail: for orders over $29

Returns

Return Policy: free
Return Instructions: items must be returned in new, unworn, unwashed, undamaged, and unaltered condition and have the original tags attached and the hygiene sticker
Return Cost: free for the first return only, then returns are $7.99

Sustainability

Sustainability Score: We avoid
Recycling Program: no

Product

Style: casual, preppy, streetwear, general
Body Fit: regular, plus size, petite & short
Available Sizes: Men's (2XS, XS, S, M, L, 0XL, XL, 1XL, XXL, 2XL, XXXL, 3XL, XXXXL, 4XL, 5XL), Women's (2XS, XS, S, M, L, 0XL, XL, 1XL, XXL, 2XL, XXXL, 3XL, XXXXL, 4XL, 5XL)

Customer Service

Support Channels: chat

Payment Options

Payment Methods: card payments, financing, Google Pay, Apple Pay, PayPal, Venmo, Affirm
Buy Now Pay Later: Afterpay, Klarna, Zip Pay

Membership Programs

Rewards Program: Rakuten, TopCashback, Mr. Rebates, Active Junky

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Reviews Summary

Shein has a rating of 1.8 stars from 4,925 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Shein most frequently mention customer service, tracking number and credit card. Shein ranks 1962nd among Women's Clothing sites.

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Florida
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I signed up for SHEIN text messages per a prompted request on the app, in order to receive a 15% discount on my next purchase. The following day began a long barrage of emails and phone calls from so many different solicitors. Never once had that problem before I agree to texts from SHEIN. It's quite clear that they are selling customers personal information to solicitors without customer consent.

Date of experience: March 3, 2024
molly m. Shein Rep
over a year old

Hi! Hope you have a nice shopping experience here.
For any issues, you may contact Customer Service by app.
Click "me"-->support-->customer service-->type your question directly in the message box to get an answer or solution. If the answers don't match, please go ahead and describe the issue in detail.
We'll be glad to help you further.

Pennsylvania
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Missing order
February 8, 2023

I placed an order for two dresses on December 30,2022. I received one dress on January 12,2023. Then on January 17th, I was notified that there is a delay in delivery of the second order. When I check the tracking, it indicates that it is "in transit" and still not delivered. Is this normal? And will I ever receive my product? When notified about the delay, they indicated that I would receive 50 points compensation but I hesitate to place any other orders until I receive the one ordered in December.

Date of experience: February 8, 2023
molly m. Shein Rep
over a year old

Hello, sorry for the inconvenience. For any issues, you may contact Customer Service in app for assistance. We are happy to assist you! Please click "me"-->support-->customer service to enter 【Contact Agent】and submit a ticket to us.

New Jersey
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Issue
#1. You do not know what type of material you are getting. Alot of this stuff is cheap, thin, polyester type fabric.
#2. What you see and what you get, may not be the same. Colors are off. Workmanship is bad in some cases, or material makes the item look bad.
#3 Return requirement is a joke. I started a returned, then was expected to take a picture of everything I was returning. In total I purchased 22 items and had to return 13 items. I did the return as I was on my way out of the door only to discover that lame requirement. I did not have time to take pictures, missed the deadline to return, and now am stuck with pure crap!
#4. The items that were acceptable, were actually nice. Since over 50% of the stuff is unacceptable, I would not recommend.
#5. Shipping was fast.

Date of experience: May 30, 2023
molly m. Shein Rep
over a year old

Hello, sorry for any inconvenience. For any issues, you may contact Customer Service in app for assistance. We are happy to assist you! Please click "me"-->support-->customer service to enter 【Contact Agent】and submit a ticket to us.

Colorado
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Wouldn't Recommend
October 27, 2019

I bought a four swimming suits from Shien for a fun winter trip I have coming up! A couple of them fit but the rest of them were not true to size at all! Some of the swim suits were meant to be worn as mediums, but were cut at very strange angles.
The other issue that came up was customer service. It is very hard to reach Shein regarding an order and there are little to no details on their website regarding fixing orders or unhappy customers. Very poor customer service. The bags they send your products in are from some development not from a Shein store and the packaging has no receipt, no order information, and no shipping information!
My swimming suits that I received were stringing out and pieces were actually detaching from the swimming suits themselves. They were very poorly manufactured in their warehouse which they are shipped out from and no thought is put into them from developing, manufacturing, to the way the companies customer service and other services work as a whole!

Shein attempted to help this customer through the Sitejabber Resolution Center, but the customer did not respond
Date of experience: October 24, 2019
molly m. Shein Rep
over a year old

Dear Angela,

A member of Shein's US Team has sent you an email from dispute@shein.com.

Texas
3 reviews
3 helpful votes
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Purchased the Black Lapel Long Sleeve Buttons Woolen Coat and OMG it is awesome! It was easy finding plain wool coats in stores but wanted something more stylish and fun. Quality is good, weight was perfect for the last cold front that rolled into Texas. Buttons are nice. Shipment was right on time, item was well packaged and not smashed and wrinkled even after the mail man squished it in my box. Love and highly recommend

Date of experience: November 26, 2014
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Ordered almost $200 CAD worth of clothes a little over a week ago and was given express shipping. It still says processing and one item isn't even processed. When I shop at Romwe they take 2 weeks to get to my house. Why is Shein taking more than a week to process little orders? I need my packages by the 15th and I haven't even gotten a confirmation number let alone a tracking number! There's not even a number or an agent to contact! Never shopping here again!

Date of experience: May 3, 2017
JUDY G. Shein Rep
over a year old

Dear Angela,

Thank you for ordering from our website, and we are so sorry for keeping you waiting.
Normally, it takes us 3-7 business days to process the order.
But because we are upgrading our warehouse, there is some delay of your order.
Except the item (RJUM170413101), all the other items are ready.
We will ship the ready items out as soon as possible, but we could not promise you that it will arrive before May 15.
If you are not willing to wait, we can cancel the order and issue the refund to you. Is that okay for you?

Looking forward to your reply!

New Jersey
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Returns are impossible!
February 9, 2017

I bought 3 items and need to return 2 items because they're too small; website pictures don't really do a good job of reflecting actual fit and/or look. I have tried multiple times to get a return label and the Shein return website keeps stating "Oops. Something went wrong. Please try again later." I am very frustrated and wouldn't recommend this site in future.

Shein attempted to help this customer through the Sitejabber Resolution Center, but the customer did not respond
Date of experience: February 7, 2017
molly m. Shein Rep
over a year old

Dear Ann,

Thank you for ordering from our website, and we are so sorry for all the inconvenience.

We will keep on improving our return system, and make it easier for our customers.
Please check your email and see the return label in the attachment, print it and paste on the package.
To enhance the refund, please also confirm with us which two items you want to return?

Looking forward to your reply!

Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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You will never see your money but they will have told you it's in your the Shein wallet. When u want to use it they will say it's not received. Their customer service will email back and forth with stupid questions like which shipping company you used…. Theirs Duh. Free shipping and label provided. Biggest crooks around. Clothes are cheap and will last a couple of washes. Rather shop with Pretty Little Thing.

Date of experience: December 10, 2021
molly m. Shein Rep
over a year old

Hello, sorry for any inconvenience. For better service, we suggest you contact our customer service via: https://sourl.cn/AVmS3g. We'll offer a proper solution for you asap. Thank you and have a nice day! ❤️Please enter【Contact Agent】and submit a ticket to us.

Massachusetts
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Do NOT order here!
April 12, 2016

My daughters placed an order for 23 items on 4/1/16. We just received 6 items. Who knows where the others are! I can't contact live chat it doesn't work. But oops can't contact them anyway about existing orders or problems! Have to send a ticket! I want to cancel entire order, but no response. I do not want shein dollars items awful. I want full refund to card i purchased on. But beware you have to state this or you get useless shein dollars! I am so frustrated. My advice stay away! Still waiting for a resolution, this site gets "nice" repsonses, so i will wait and see, and keep you posted if this ever gets resolved. In the meantime, i am contacting my credit card company.

Date of experience: April 12, 2016
molly m. Shein Rep
over a year old

Hi Karen,

Sorry to hear that you want to cancel the order.

The order was placed on April 3rd including 23 items. It normally would take 3-7 business days for the order to get ready and then 3-5 business days to arrive with express shipping.

Considering the order contains a lot of items, we shipped part of your order (6 items) first with express shipping, which you found not fitting after you received the package. Our customer service representative is already working on that and offered you the returned address. We will process the refund for the 6 items to your credit card once we receive the returned package.

The rest of the order was already packed and ready for shipment, but we have applied the refund of $241.69 per your request. It normally would take 15-20 business days for the funds to appear on your credit card since it would need reviews and approval at many levels, please check then.

Apologies again for the trouble, don’t hesitate to contact us if anything.

Pakistan
1 review
0 helpful votes
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We were confuse when visited the website shein.com because we saw large catalog and couldnt decide what to buy, finally we ordered a casual dress. But I was surprised when my wife received the package. The order delivered timely it was more then our expectations. Color and stuff was same as described and shown in the images. Outstanding experience of online shopping from shein. Going to next order sooooon :)

Date of experience: April 20, 2016
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Good quality of clothes with cheap price.
I was buying the dress and when the dress comes up, it's just the same as the display on the site with the best quality material.
This store was giving me great experience of shopping. They have an updated collection, never been so oldish in this store. The customer support service was very nice and very responsive. Fast in delivery.
I bought a dress from sheinside to use for our event party the dress was really beautiful a I think am gonna order it again. Thank you for the smooth an fast transaction keep it up!
I recommend this store to my bestfriend and she was satisfied too.

Date of experience: October 28, 2014
Nevada
2 reviews
4 helpful votes
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FRAUDULENT
March 5, 2015

It's a roll of the dice as to wether or not you'll even receive your purchase, but I guarantee that you will pay for it promptly. This site is fraudulent and because they ship so little product they keep the revenue to pay for people to write broken English, positive reviews to offset the honest negative ones.
Why would so many people write negative reviews about their experience? No negative reviews mention any other business; so this isn't a business tactic from a rivaling company. They all give unique details explaining their specific, albeit horrible, experience. They kept my money I wrote them and reviews about them on several sites, everyday.
Why do the vast majority of the positive reviews sound the same?

Date of experience: March 2, 2015
JUDY G. Shein Rep
over a year old

Dear customer,
Sorry for leaving you such negative impression and we sincerely apologize for that.

But please understand that all of our customers are important for us and we will never ever try to deceive you or to ignore your problems. All our staffs are sparing no efforts to meet your requirements and to offer you better shopping experience than other stores.
And we will do better in future.
We have checked for you and found that your order has been canceled already and the refund will be back to your account soon.
Maybe you can check it later.

If you need any further assistance, please feel free to contact us via dispute@sheinside.com.
Thank you for your support.
Best regards.

Italy
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Sheinside is awesome website for online shopping"I've ordered many times so far from SheInside. The first was a big order, the second was one item and so was my other orders. I've had a great experience!. So affordable and good quality and whenever I have a question they respond quickly to my emails :), great customer services, I love how you can accumulate points and how there are always sales and promo codes, they help a lot. I love shopping from SheInside and I have not been disappointed. After my great experience I love shopping through sheinside now! Great prices and still great quality! The user interface of sheinside.com is also very nice and smooth which helps me to select the items easily"

Date of experience: May 21, 2015
Estonia
1 review
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My worst experience in online shopping. 10 days after i have placed an order on their website they informed me that one of the items was out of stock.so i exchanged that item for some other clothes, i had to choose from the items that were supposed to be shipped during 24 hours(their advice so they could ship all my clothes together). However they were not shipped together. After about 7 weeks one part of the order arrived, but one blouse was the wrong size, L instead of S. I tried to contact them twice but no responce, online chat support didn`t answer neither.the second parcel never arrived, and i no more expect it, as i have made an order before christmas.it`s 14 february now)

Date of experience: February 14, 2014
molly m. Shein Rep
over a year old

Sorry for the late response, hope your problem was solved already. For further issues, you may contact Customer Service in SHEIN app, or simply click https://www.shein.com/robot?page=navigationBar. We'd be happy to assist you! Thank you and have a nice day! Please enter 【Contact Agent】and submit a ticket to us.

West Virginia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Order not received
May 22, 2023

I placed a order for over $80.00 and only received 5 items I'm missing the rest of my order that is over $78.00. I can't get a hold of anyone so I can report it. What few items I did get is okay but I really would like to have all the other items I paid for.

Date of experience: May 22, 2023
molly m. Shein Rep
over a year old

Hello, sorry for any inconvenience. For any issues, you may contact Customer Service in app for assistance. We are happy to assist you! Please click "me"-->support-->customer service to enter 【Contact Agent】and submit a ticket to us.

Australia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Also not sure why there are any bad reviews, I have had nothing but good experiences with She Inside. I mean anything coming from China will take a little longer but I made sure that I wasn't in any rush for it. The items I ordered, most are dresses, are now some of my favourite outfits and staple wardrobe pieces for me. My favourite is a black sleeveless dress with an open scalloped back.

They fit well and looked as good on me as in the pictures, and that is incredibly hard to find especially in an online store. They were helpful when I asked about sizing and I was able to find the right size for me according to their information.

I will definitely be using them in the future, they're fantastic!

Date of experience: October 9, 2014
California
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Made a mistake
October 16, 2015

After I wrote a bad review c/s replied to me and said the item that took forever to get was on backorder. Sorry Shein my mistake. BTW the blouse is very cute can't wait for the weather to cool down so I can wear it.

Date of experience: October 13, 2015
JUDY G. Shein Rep
over a year old

Dear customer,
Nice day.

Sorry for all the misunderstandings between us and keeping you waiting so long time.
We have checked for you, and found the second item that you ordered belongs to the pre-sale item, so we need more time to customize and stock it. Moreover, our web also has marked that item is pre-sale when you placed the order before. You are important for us, we never deceive you. Hope you can trust us.
We noticed that your package has been shipped on Oct 7th. Because the logistics company needs time to update the information, sometimes we may not be able to get the detailed tracking information until it has been arrived at your country. That is why you could not track it at that time. We found the logistics of your package has been updated, we believe that you will receive your package very soon. In order to protect your personal privacy, we will send the email to you about the tracking information. Hope you can understand. Sorry for the waiting time, but we did not do it on purpose. We will communicate with our colleagues in the logistics department and find a way to speed up the transportation and do better in the future. Hope you can give us once chance again.

If there is any problem, please feel free to contact us via dispute@shein.com.
Thank you for your support.
Best regards.

Tennessee
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Missing items
July 5, 2020

I ordered 27 items (15 jewelry and 12 clothing) from Shein. Several weeks later, I received a delivery and 7 of my clothing items (the most expensive items) were missing. Customer service is nonexistent and the website claims everything was delivered. Not the case. I need my items or a refund!

Date of experience: July 5, 2020
molly m. Shein Rep
over a year old

Hello, sorry for the inconvenience. You may contact Customer Service in SHEIN app, or simply click https://www.shein.com/robot?page=navigationBar. We'd be happy to assist you! Thank you and have a nice day!

India
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Pathetic service
August 23, 2018

There was measurement problem in the jacket which I placed order from shein and for return pickup they charging, why should I pay this pick up amount, none of the other giant website charges for this. Which is really very Unethical. Very very bad experience. Plz don't buy nd waste your money. Disgusting..

Date of experience: August 20, 2018
molly m. Shein Rep
over a year old

Dear Triveni,

Our team has emailed you via Dispute@Shein.Com regarding your order. Kindly respond at your earliest convenience. We hope to hear from you soon!

Rhode Island
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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I ordered the Navy Hooded Long Sleeve Tribal Embroidery Sweater Coat and absolutely love it! Very pretty and exactly as pictured/described.The price was great, as was the customer service. They were prompt and polite, and resolved my one tiny issue (question about sizing) with no fuss or muss. I will be ordering from them again! Great clothes and better prices!

Date of experience: December 30, 2014