eBags has a rating of 2.0 stars from 136 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about eBags most frequently mention customer service, credit card, and return policy problems. eBags ranks 57th among Luggage sites.
I bought a MotherLode Medium 13 years ago and have made 2-3 trips per year internationally. I love its clamshell design with a hard and soft side which easily holds all my stuff, plus a couple of exterior pockets for things you need to store or retrieve while in transit. But after 13 years, the main zipper started to come apart at the bottom. Contacted eBags, sent requested info and pics, and got a new one of same model. Can't beat that!
I've been an eBags customer for a number of years. Always had previous (before COVID) great experiences with them. But eBags has gone downhill. * When you place an order, the tracking status on the eBags site will not correspond to the tracking status on UPS * In fact the tracking number eBags gives isn't even a valid number on the UPS site. * The tracking status page on eBags dot com says my order will be delivered yesterday. It's not here and UPS doesn't know. * There's no customer support -- there's no number to call and the chat function on the webpage doesn't work. I sent an email to eBags -- since that seems to be the only way to talk to them, and all you get is a form letter in reply that says, "our team is experiencing higher than normal volume due to the peak shopping season." Really? March is peak shopping time?
Horrible horrible HORRIBLE Experience with this company. We ordered new luggage (excited) for a future trip we are going on. Paid extra to have it overnighted and be here on the 9th. Being that we were leaving on the 11th. 9th came and at the end of the day I was starting to worry. So I called their customer service number. They said they were sorry and that the brand who we bought from was backed up. They promised it would be here by the 10th. 10th came and I checked my tracking number that EBAGS gave me was for ANOTHER ORDER IN SC I live in Key west! So i call again... they then tell me that "we are so sorry but the brand just told us they are running behind schedule... we will send it to you right away. I said at this point please cancel my order I will call the brand directly and go through them. I called the brand and ordered another set of luggage directly through them which i received 2 DAYS later. Thinking that this was great, all was good, only to wake up this morning to a CREDIT CARD THAT WAS BILLED BY EBAGS... for bags never sent or received... throwing my credit card into a major overdraft (being that was had just ordered the bags through the vendor directly.) I called the bags and they are now telling me I have to wait 3-5 days to get this credit. NEVER NEVER NEVER again ebags... I will tell the world about how poorly you treat customers who spend $1000 with you!
I ordered a Oakley Kitchen Sink Back Pack on October 27th 2017. It was pending for several days. On their website it stated to wait 6-7 businees day for the item to process. So with this being said I chatted online with one of the sales representives and he stated I would get an email the next dy with the status. Of course the next day I get email saying that the item i was requesting was out of stock. So i decided to look up the same item on their website to try to reorder it. Yes it climed to be instock. So being suspicious of the situation I decided to call ebags and speak to one of their represenatives to see if the bag was instock. She said let me check. There was 26 bags instock. The only issue is that the bag went up almost $50 from when I originally purchased the bag a week and a half prior. When I explained this to the sales rep she strted to back track and proceed to tell me that the bag is not available and tht the warehouse was closing for 10 days to do inventory and would not be able to ship out any product. This company clearly screwed up with the original pricing and failed to honor the price. Instead they decided to screw over the consumer. I even asked to speak to one of the managers and was told they were all in a sales meeting. I requeste to get a call back and then was told that the manager was on the road all week. I was promised a call and never got it. It is at this point I really believe this company is ran from someones mother basement. Ill never order from this place again.
This was absolutely the WORST experience I have ever received from a Google Trusted and BBB company in my entire life. I ordered a backpack on November 21,2014. When checking out, the delivery date said it would be before thanksgiving (27th) in which I was leaving on for vacation. I constantly checked the tracking of the package and UPS had an estimated delivery of Tuesday, November 25th. It never arrived. I waited and called Wednesday night as we were leaving Thursday morning. UPS said they had never even received the package. My fiance then called Ebags customer service line, and the woman she spoke to told her that package hadn't even left the WAREHOUSE! I was very upset, since I needed the backpack for luggage for my computer and other items. We then had it shipped to our Disney hotel because the package wasn't in my possession. We were told it would arrive on Monday, December 1. She then called back two days later and said it would actually arrive on Tuesday, December 2. That Tuesday came, and still no package. Wasn't at the hotel. Called Ebags again, they said UPS had it and it was out for delivery. We left on Friday, December 5 and never received the package. When we called for a fourth time, a representative told us and I quote "the package is somewhere in Orlando, we just do not know where it is". It was the must frustrating purchase I have ever dealt with. I did get a refund, but the whole purpose of getting a backpack for my new computer is down the drain. I chose Ebags because of their excellent reviews. I will NEVER shop with this company again. I also recommend to others that you get the name and phone representatives' ID number before you hang up. They promised us packages would be certain places multiple times and my package is floating somewhere in the many lakes of Florida or delivered to someone else.
On the 19th of May, 2022, I ordered a Backpack (Mother Lode Travel) Backpack from Ebags, the order number: Ebg*******. The order was placed after I had read the reviews from several customers (supposedly) about how good them item is. However; I doubt, those reviews are from the REAL customers.
Few days later, the Backpack arrived and to my greatest surprise, it was a PIECE of trash. I immediately contacted Ebags and registered my dissatisfaction with the item. Through an e-mail and over the phone, I was instructed on how to return the item. The next day, yes next day after I received the item, I returned the Backpack through the UPS store.
On the 26th of May, 2022, Ebags received the item as the tracking record showed. After not receiving my refund through my Credit card, I called Ebags to know why my Credit card has not been credited. In response, Ebags confirmed receiving the bags, but that its policy is to process the refund after 14days has pasted as is listed in its RETURN POLICY guidelines, else they will NOT process the refund
Today, it is way past 14days and Ebags has not credited my Credit card. At the time of writing this complaint, the charge is already accruing interest on my Credit Card, yet I have returned the item to Ebags over three weeks ago.
Please DO NOT buy anything for this company. They are thieves. Obviously, holding-on to customers' monies for weeks is where their profit is coming from, as the customers pay INTEREST on monies they do NOT owe.
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Backpack
Superb. Easy return, Easy Price match policy refund and simply great customer support.
I ordered a wallet for my husband and it came within a week. It was exactly what I expected
Prices are definitely lower than retail. My messenger bag was exactly as pictured and described.
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