Mercari

I bought some blocks for my 3rd graders to use in their lesson from a five star rated seller. They are supposed to ship within three days of the purchase. 9 days later the seller has only answered me once claiming to have left the package in a drop box but refusing to provide any tracking details. I send more messages all ignored. The customer service reps are polite but only make excuses for the seller. If I had bought from a reputable platform I would have what I need right now for my students. Mercari has a rating system that is worthless and engage with sellers who have no accountability. I do NOT recommend these people at all!

Ridiculous customer service, very frustrating site. People report your items all the time and get removed, you get suspended for no reason and lose sales, they rip you off, customer service do not read your messaged properly and reply any rubbish with you having to repeat yourself. Silly site that hasn't been thought through properly and needs better customer service staff.

I purchased a laptop for $100. It did not have a charger or a charge to see if it worked. The site requires a review within 3 days so seller can be paid. There was no way to purchase and receive a charger within that period... yet the site and seller expected me to ok the purchase saying the laptop worked. Impossible. I asked for a refund as directed and was told they would pay the seller without me verifying that it worked. This seems to be fraud in that I was sold a non working laptop.
There are over 1000 complaints here and at Better Business Bureau against Mercari. Also. The color was bright orange. Not pink as stated.

If there was an option to give this company zero stars I would. Horrible customer service. Tried to buy a sweater. Error code pops up, can't purchase. Talk to customer service literally 8x throughout this fiasco as not counting email. Tried using a different credit card. Each time i spoke with customer service they said the problem has been fixed and it never was. Customer service is useless. Get email accusing me of fraud due to multiple times trying to purchase item with no success. Then after wasting all this time I receive another email saying my account has been removed... somehow I committed "fraud" and endangered their community without even getting past the make offer page. Please don't waste your time like I wasted mine. Stick with poshmark or ebay. Mercari is a joke

I sent an offer to a seller after asking a bunch of questions about their product. They accepted my offer, then canceled it immediately and relisted the item for $210 more. Don't even waste your time. This ap is a joke.

Be very careful on this site I was just robbed by a Nicole Kristine Creed from Spring Texas. She ordered a lot of merchandise. Which I shipped together and I am new to the site and this nor know this was not allowed This woman took advantage. She also is a seller as well. She claimed to have not received her goods and was refunded her money.So she is keeping the goods and the money

Terrible place to do business. Have zeros customer service... my bank account was charged with items I didn't order, products being sold that aren't what they were advertised, and you never get phone calls answered, and emails are never returned... when you try to close out your account, that device doesn't work either... RUN away from this website.

It's great to sell online that is until you make sales and don't get paid. Sold item was rated. Got an email from Mercari starting I had a balance. Nope. Nada. I've been selling on Mercari for over a year without issue's. Now their just stealing my money. No More sellers fees for you Mercari. Closing my account. Someone needs to start a class action suit against Mercari. Crappy Service Crappy Company. Don't trust this company and before doing ANY business with them look them up at the BBB.

It's hit OR miss on an extreme scale with this app.
The tech support is kind-of okay after having to research HOW to use it.
Buyers & Sellers HOWEVER... that's an integrity issue of the individual... yet Mercari should protect merchants from the types that sell junk (hurts the marketplace) as operational & buyers that constantly cancel... or low-ball offer (hurts the marketplace).
Mercari doesn't only charge 10% for completed sales as they claim, though... you'll get hammered by their S&H system in overcharges.

My first ever complete purchase was glowing because of a great seller nonetheless.

STILL ***(3) overall

During this covid 19 my kid is stuck home asked to buy this old school system paid over $100 and never got the item and mercari said they will do nothing because i did not contact them in the 3 days. Wow straight trash stealing from kids.

There's zero accountability when this company has an issue a transaction. Phones don't get answered, emails go unanswered and inquiries thru the site takes 2-3 times to contact only to receive a we can't help you response. Doesn't matter what you find on here. It's crap - look elsewhere. I've made two purchases and both were the worst. Having to dispute with my credit for card this last one who sent me a broken item and Mercari bascially told me tough luck even though I alerted them within the specified time period.

Posted a Wilson Cell Phone Signal Booster for sale. Me Artie stated this was an illegal item to sell. Provided them web site showing both on line and in store sales. Showed that FCC had approved this item. Never would provide reason for cancellation of my account.

Only site I have ever visited requesting additional verifications for credit card; system would not accept legitimate verification amounts. No way to speak to a live person to resolve this issue :(( ((

1) no buyer protection: easy to scam. Sides with sellers even with photo proof and its easy to misrepresent and lose money (horrible personal experience with it recently)
2) ugly/ limited site and app design: only allows 4 photos and messaging is restricted
3) Long transactions: takes up to 10 days sometimes for money from both earnings or refunds to appear back in the bank. Also they changed shipping and allowed the option of FedEx Smartpost which takes weeks extra sometimes
Really unsupportive staff

The order arrived today. It was a larger box than I expected. Inside was my product and nicely folded brown paper not crumpled or folded too much. Then beyond that was the two items. Both were bubble wrapped together and underneath all that bubble wrap was each piece individually wrapped an excessive amount. If this package fell out of a plane at eight hundred thousand feet, the items inside would still be intact! Gosh! The shipping and handling is far cheaper than what is to expected of this high quality packing work. It took a bit to unwrap everything but was well worth it. Kinda like an extended Christmas morning with just one box. So happy to see this come in like it did. Thank you Mecari for going above and beyond!

I placed an order and weeks later, no items shipped, no update. No help from customer service. I have resent my info to them several times now. Completely disgusted.

Item details

Set of 14 Cherished Teddies Collectibles

ID: m*******332

For some reason, over half the items i buy on mercari do not pan out (Seller never shipped and disappeared, seller sends defective item...). I only made less than 10 purchases so that's enough for me to stop using them. No matter how tempting the price/deal, u'll get more than u paid for! (hold my money for 3 weeks until issuing credit, which takes another billing cycle/month to receive the credit sheesh)

Their website says that you have 72 hours to rate a product with it exception for Sundays and holidays. They did not honor that and are only giving me 48 hours to write a product. This is what is on their website "Federal holidays and all Sundays are excluded from this time frame."

Purchased an item that was listed as great condition with lots of life left in it.
The item wasn't even usable. Uneducated employee closed the return and left the seller positive feedback. BS responses from the "customer" service team.
Contacted seller and they stated they knew nothing about the item and don't accept returns so wasn't their problem!

Was psyched to find this seasonal item from christmas and Never received confirmation or any advance communication but money was taken out immediately. I had to search & question (no way to get in touch with seller on this site) for two days until 5 days after I found a message on site stating ONLY "Seller could not ship item" That's it. No reason. So they have $135.00 of mine with a vague explanation of your money will be returned in 30-45 business days. Holy rip-off batman! Out of the blue my purchase and money are gone. This was my first time using Mercadi... and the last. Hope I get my hard earned money back so I can find another pallet.

I'm sick and tired of the sellers canceling my orders. Do they get a higher private offer? Why not give me first rights to reject? It's obnoxious and bad business! MERCARI needs to tighten this problem up. I could have purchased the same thing somewhere else in a timely manner but I forced to wait to see if the seller is going to flake out. See ya Mercari... there are much better sites that are reputable.

I signed up, and after signing up a friend told me to use their coupon code. Apparently, you can only load coupons when you first sign up... I deleted my account but couldn't make a new account because my phone was already registered or something. Really terrible app and website. Not user friendly AT ALL. Will never be purchasing anything from this website. Just use eBay instead, it's better anyway.

I'm new to mercari and thought I'd give it a try over ebay, my two purchases went terribly wrong... first order got lost, tracking said delivered same state as the seller go figure (probably scammed me) and second order was just randomly canceled, no communication to me whatsoever. And now I'm out $60 bucks waiting on mercari's investigation before I can get my money back... its been a terrible experience! I'm going back to ebay.