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Colorado
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Always broken
November 13, 2018

Every time I order Yankee candles online, they arrive broken. What's worse is that customer service doesn't care. I will never order online again.

Date of experience: November 13, 2018
Tennessee
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Poor burn quality
June 7, 2015

Not what they are cracked up to be anymore! They used to be average and now they are very poor quality! Not worthy of the high price

Date of experience: June 7, 2015
Washington
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Terrible return policy
December 21, 2018

My shipment was damaged and I had to return it for a replacement. It cost me $50.50 to return it because they don't supply a return shipping label.

Date of experience: December 21, 2018
Massachusetts
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Horrible customer service. Store manager and staff need a refresher on empathy and customer service.

Date of experience: March 21, 2016
Florida
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Very disappointed.
January 28, 2018

As usual, bought two large Christmas candles this year, Balsam & Cedar and Shimmering Pine. No scent. Will find another candle source.

Date of experience: January 28, 2018
Florida
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Been buying yankee for 25 years, not same product, no smell. Bought my last McIntosh apple. Will just do electric candles going forward

Date of experience: October 29, 2018
New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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The absolute worst customer service. From not having the answer to supervisors not returning calls to NEVER receiving your order!

Date of experience: March 27, 2023
New Jersey
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Not Pleased
September 13, 2019

I have to say, I love Yankee Candles. They always burn the longest and have the best scents. I recently placed an online order with yankeecandles.com and it said 6-8 day shipping. No problem. I received an email shortly after I placed my order that one of the candles was out of stock. Again, no problem, I'll just let my other five candles ship. Then it was crickets. I never received an order confirmation for the other candles and/or tracking information. I also looked up the order information on their website and it still showed candles in warehouse 6 days after I placed my order. So I chatted with them online and they said my order was pending shipment and she clarified that it shipped out and I should receive it any day now. I was asked if I wanted to order a different candle in place of the one that was out of stock and so I did. She called me and took my credit card information and the order was processed. I finally received my tracking information for the initial order and it was JUST shipped out the same day of my complaint. Again, WTF! I also did not receive my order confirmation for the new candle. The next day I received a message on Facebook from a girl with my same name and said she received an email from Yankee Candle that was an order confirmation for MY order. She managed to find me on Facebook by the name, address, and phone number in the email. I am livid. I contacted Yankee Candle and all they said was they have their IT department looking into it but it looks like the system generated an order confirmation to the wrong Megan Bishop. Thankfully it did not have any sensitive information in the email but it very well could have and it would have been completely their fault. I am not pleased with their service and will never order online from them again.

Date of experience: September 13, 2019
Poland
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I am writing this opinion I think is important to warn other customers about the danger of using small Yankee candles. As a designer, I am aware that companies should be responsible for what they design, and that products that are not safe should not be sold!
One evening I put a Yankee candle in a warmer like I always do. I fell asleep and a few hours later I woke up terrified in room filled with dark smoke and with a burned closet (see photos).

After almost having a fire in my house, I contacted the company to let them know that something is seriously wrong with their product. I sent them photos of what happened in my house
They said that the fragrant tea light candles have oils that make the fragrance and since it was used to warm up the oil in a closed compartment of the wax warmer, the vapors from the oils in the candle and the oil in the upper open compartment can result in fire and it is a probable safety hazard, so their best advice is not to use a fragrant tea light candle for warming up oil or wax.
They also offered me a big candle for free but I didn't take it. A real problem was ignored by the company, and not by mere consumer service, but by quality control.
It's obvious that people may use that in a warmer as it looks like a regular tea light. It's very misleading because Yankee also sells warmers that look like mine. The information on their website is also confusing and even if the information is written on the candle, I think the company should foresee these problems, which arise from a normal use of the candle.
Also these small candles on the Polish website are called podgrzewacze" and warmer in Polish is called podgrzewacz". So it seems to be obvious you can use them together.
I am not expert but the regular tea lights are in aluminium and I never had problems with them. Even the chapest candles in plastic containers that we use in cementary candles they don't't burn to zero
I am really disappointment I hope that this mistake will be fixed before someone burns their whole house and get hurt.

Date of experience: April 8, 2020
New Jersey
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I HATE YANKEE CANDLE
November 20, 2019

THOSE JERKS LEFT ME ON HOLD FOR 3 HOURS. I HAD ONE OF MY CANDLES TOTTALY SMASHED. I HATE THIS PLACE IM SO SICK OF THIS CRAP.

Date of experience: November 20, 2019
Illinois
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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I placed my order and received my order in a very quick and easy manner!

Date of experience: June 27, 2016
Indiana
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Horrible company..
May 15, 2019

Can't get a replacement or can't BUY a replacement basket. Called. Emailed. No help at all...

Date of experience: May 15, 2019

Overview

Yankee Candle has a rating of 1.6 stars from 197 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Yankee Candle most frequently mention customer service, credit card and order online. Yankee Candle ranks 110th among Candles sites.

service
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value
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shipping
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returns
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quality
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