I placed an order on
www.veja-store.com online when it arrived it came with an additional bill of 71$ on top of the shoes. So i contacted customer service and asked to return the item because i didn't anticipated the additional cost. They were Rude and unaccommodating and blamed me for not going thru their FAQ fine print notices and said that they will charge me a return fee. Why the misleading fine print when they can simply advise international clients at the checkout process.
After asking to talk to a manager, I received an email that explained that I could return the shoes to the store by shipping them at my own cost. I had to send pictures of the shoes to prove that they were in original condition and send them the tracking number. We promptly received our refund once we shipped the shoes. The resolution was good, it just took a lot more work to get there than it should have.
Veja has only one store in the United States - New York City. During a vacation in NYC we went shopping and we bought a pair of shoes at Veja (after waiting in line for over an hour to get into the store). After returning home, we decided to return the shoes so I contacted customer support to get a return authorization number. I was told that they only accept returns for items bought in the store at the store where they were purchased - no option to return them via mail even though they have an online store and I offered to pay for the shipping. After a few emails back and forth, I now have a pair of Veja shoes I do not want with no way of returning them.
VEJA shoes are very expensive but they are not produced to last. We bought the shoes for my daughter in April 2022 and by December 2022 the sole of the shoe had cracked and water seeped in. My daughter is neither a marathon runner nor a jogger, so the use of the shoes was of the ordinary type (casual walking around) but Veja warranty is for 6 months. These shoes seem to be produced to last the 6-months of warranty. Our recommendation: buy your expensive shoes at the competitors.
At the beginning of the COVID lockdown, in April, I ordered a pair of shoes that didn't fit so I sent them back. I then spent the next six months dealing with their terrible email-only customer service attempting to get my refund. To be fair to them, I didn't have the mail tracking number any more but it seemed ridiculous to me that they had no way of tracking the shoes based on the order number. In the end I didn't get the refund, but my main complaint is how incompetent the customer service was. I had to explain the situation at least five times, and never got to speak to anyone with authority as they don't even have a customer service phone number.