Mercari has a rating of 1.2 stars from 2,367 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about Mercari most frequently mention customer service, credit card, and phone number problems. Mercari ranks 592nd among Marketplace sites.
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Initially customer service gave me some trouble due to mistaken identity, however the (frustrating) problem was resolved. I must say that I enjoy the simplicity of Mercari. It is a more streamlined method of buying and selling than Ebay.
This web site is terrible. They have pictures of the item but sends you something totally different. For example. The bags are clearly vintage but you receive a brand new fake bag plastic bag. They have so many sellers websites doing this. They are are usually shipping out of Chino, California. You order one thing and receive another. They don't refund money instead they credit.
I have contacted CHANEL, GUCCI, FENDI, BURBERRY, LOUIS VUITTON IN REGARDS TO mercari allowing fake sellers sell fake items. There is a big class action lawsuit in the works. Everyones job in SF is at risk
Date of experience: August 7, 2018
I bought a bird feeder that the birds were not attracted to. Mercari wouldn't accept a return so I just threw $30 down the drain. I will NEVER buy from this company again... or sell either!
Date of experience: January 31, 2020
THEY DONT REFUND YOUR PURCHASE IF YOU SHIP ITEM LATER JUST ONE DAY, SO THEY RECEIVED MY RETURN WITH ALL TRACKING DETAILS, AND KEPT MY MONEY.
SO I LOST THE ITEM AND LOST MONEY.
THIS IS A SCAM TERRIBLE SITE!
HORRIBLE DISGRACE!
Date of experience: October 25, 2022
I've been a member since 2016 and have listed over 150 items and sold over 123 items on Mercari. Last Thursday, I received an offer for $12 on a pair of kids UGG boots. I declined the offer because it stated that my earnings would be $10.50. A half hour later I noticed that the buyer purchased the item for the $15 listed price. I printed out the label and shipped the boots off the same day. On Saturday, I received a notification that the buyer received the item and accepted it. She gave me a five star rating. When I logged into the site the very next day to check my earnings, it stated that my earnings was 50 cents. I sent Mercari an email explaining the situation. They sent me a response saying the shipping was free and paid by me. Say what now? I have never offered free shipping on any of my items that are listed under $100. Why would i sell a pair of UGG boots that is in great condition to only earn 50 cents? They said that they cannot reimburse my shipping because of their policy. That's when I decided that I would delete my account. I went in to delete my account but kept getting a message saying, I could not delete my account because there are items that were listed less than 2 weeks ago. I then decided to delete each individual item and noticed that 99% of my items had free shipping, when I've never offered or listed my items as seller pays shipping. They changed all of my items from 2016 to free shipping. This is very deceiving! How dare them! I deleted all of my items and will tell my friends and family to delete theirs as well. I will stick to Poshmark only. The nerve of those people!
Date of experience: October 16, 2018
Mercari's legal counsel has not met our deadline to respond to our legal notice to remove counterfeits of our brand from their website. One of the WORST corporations with this business model of online retailing. Even eBay removes counterfeits in less than 24 hours. Mercari is blatantly engaging in illegal, willful counterfeiting and failing to take any action. We have contacted their web host, Amazon Web Services, and will demand they remove the counterfeits. DO NOT BUY FROM THIS WEBSITE!
Date of experience: December 3, 2020
I have been selling on mercari for a long time and they have had no issues with taking the almost 15% DONT LET THEM FOOL YOU THEY CHARGE A PROCESSING FEE ON TOP OF THE 10% They just notified me that my account was shut down because I was a previous user. AND YHEY WOMT RELEASE MY BALANCE OF OVER $1670. 00!
Tip for consumers:
SELLER BEWARE
Products used:
Sold a lot and bought a kate Spade purse which was a fake and they made me go through a huge ordeal to get my money back
Date of experience: January 9, 2022
I have ordered the sonus subwoofer Gen. 3 from 4 different people and all 4 were shipped and shipped to a different address and confirming with Post Office. Neither package was mine or even resembled mine. I even went to a couple of the addresses the post office gave me and talked to the owner of the property never seen a package for me. Every time they sent me an email with the excuse. Wasn't sure if packets were sent, so they canceled my order and refunded my money.
Tip for consumers:
I took a chance four different times. Four different customers.
Products used:
Sonos Gen 3 subwoofer
Date of experience: July 7, 2023
I purchased a Louis Vitton bag from seller, when it arrived it was as fake as they come, i called Mercari and spoke to rep and I was instructed to wait for mailing sticker from them, send item back and immediately received my monies back, A few pointers, when purchasing something make sure its authentic and state that in message, this way of not they will refund money back
Date of experience: December 22, 2017
Decorating Bliss store sent me a broken house. Knowing it was broken. And I have proof. I contacted mercari customer service to report my item was damaged. I sent tons of pictures and noted that shipping was not up to par with the packing inside of box. The out come was I got a refund and the product could be disposal of my choice. So I decided to take the pieces out and glue the house back together and see what the results would be. I discovered the house was shipped out broken and did not happen with delivery. And how you might ask? Because there were lots of pieces missing. Now how could that happen unless it was shipped already broken. There was also a delay in shipping item in the first place and seller has the choice to ship even if you cancel which is what happened. Good and bad in my opinion. Good I was able to obtain a refund and Bad because this seller is not trustworthy. I will not do business with mercari after this. SO BUYER BEWARE. THIS COULD BE YOU AND THE OUTCOME COULD BE BAD.
Tip for consumers:
it's very hard to navigate though mercari website to get help.
Products used:
household items
Date of experience: November 22, 2023
I purchased 2 items from this site, total purchase was a little under $800 usd. I asked the seller, before my purchase for the measurements of both items, so I could make sure of fit. No measurements were given, however, the seller told me the skirts were "adjustable", so sizing is not an issue. I purchased with confidence, received the skirts. They were NOT adjustable. I could make the skirts smaller, but NOT larger. The merchandise was misrepresented by the seller, as I was led to believe they would fit. I told seller before purchase, making the skirts larger was my main concern.
I initiated 2 returns for both skirts through Mercari. Mercari took 10 days to get back to me, denying my return because they claim my reason for the returns; "merchandise was misrepresented by the seller," does not fit under the company's return policy. I read Mercari's return policy and buyer policy, BOTH clearly state, returns are allowed if merchandise is not as stated or misrepresented. They have refused my refund 3 times, the seller will not respond to me either. I have escalated the issue to PayPal, and am praying they force this company to refund me.
Mercari also slapped me in the face by emailing me, telling me I was free to relist the merchandise, for sale on their platform and sent me a 5% discount code. I am disgusted and will NEVER do business with Mercari again.
Tip for consumers:
DO NOT BUY THROUGH MERCARI
Products used:
Nothing, forcing PayPal to make a decision on my behalf for refund
Date of experience: February 10, 2021
I am a mother of 3 young children, I have selling many things on mercari for about 4 month everything seems to be fine but last two weeks I selling my purses make about 1661$ than mercari contact me my account suspended because I have another account is well but I never we can't have more than one account but fair enough they say after my deposit complete to my bank them will delete my account, I transfer money to my bank and mercari say it's will deposit on 11-7-16 than I get message from mercari on that day say deposit complete but I check my bank 3 days later the money not come in to my bank and mercari is delete my account already, so I have no way to contact them I try to contact customer service but nothing back to me, we are broke now, not sure what to do next, it's totally scams
Date of experience: November 11, 2016
Items on Mercari can be slightly cheaper as they charge less of a fee than some other sites, but it is not worth it! Their customer service is horrible (and this is after the improvements that they made after they first launched the application. I sold and item on Mercari and they allowed the buyer to cancel the transaction AFTER I had shipped the item, so the buyer never had to pay and I was out the item - No one in customer service ever responded to me or even addressed the issue I had.
I recently bought an item that turned out to be damaged. When I contacted the seller she said she was more than okay with a return and issuing a refund. However, Mercari has you open a dispute through the app. If you cannot provide adequate pictures they make it very difficult to make a return as they have to 'approve' the return versus allowing the seller to do so. I have never had such a horrible customer service experience. Once this issue is resolved I will be deleting my account and never bother with it again. Save yourself time and frustration and do not bother with this app.
Date of experience: March 10, 2017
A tons of scammer buyers and company is not a professional, start-up. Firstly, it was such a good app for selling items. However, it now became terrible app, BUT it's better than Poshmark for sure!
Date of experience: February 1, 2018
Hi Anna,
Thank you for your feedback! We are sorry to hear you have not enjoyed your experience with Mercari. We would love to hear more about your experience and how we can improve! If you could, send us an email to contact@mercari.com and we will be happy to take a closer look at what went south. Thank you!^WM
Heads up to everyone who was using the great flat shipping rates offered by this app. They have completely changed it. It's now worse than eBay which is why so many sellers moved from EBay to Mercari. They have RUINED THIS APP FOR EVERYONE. This app will now FAIL and sellers will go elsewhere like OfferUp. BAD CHOICE MERCARI. YOU JUST TANKED YOUR BUSINESS. EPIC FAIL!
Date of experience: November 22, 2019
Mercari is a horrible website when it comes to protecting sellers! I have a 70 feedback all positive and recently packed carefully a tested and working Wii console with games controllers etc, When buyer received it she claimed it did not read discs or eject them. I test ALL items before shipping as I sell both on Ebay, craigslist, Facebook marketplace and never do i have an issue. I explained I would be happy to have buyer file a claim with FedEx as I can only imagine it was dropped and caused the issue. So she requested a return not even 8 hours later before I could even email Mercari about getting ahead of the problem the grant her request, and It will be over my dead body before I let them make me lose $40 profit. Its just not right I am planning on pressing this one until I get satisfaction. According to their policy if an item is returned and not functioning as you sent it then I should be able to pursue it. How can they expect an honest seller to bear the burden of eating the cost of an item that was working when shipped and packed properly?
Date of experience: May 19, 2019
My experience and I only wish I came across this site to warn me of Mercari and their horrible business practices. Mercari acts on an all sales are final after you give a review of your item. So I never gave a review and I refuse too. I warned them ahead of time that if they didn't want to refund me even though it clearly states defective items are refundable. So let me get to my experience so you can hopefully avoid something similar.
I was looking for a replace laptop after mine died. I came across Mercari after a TV ad. So I used it to get an apple g4 laptop. I waited the shipping time of five days and when it got here I used it for ten minutes and it died. I had to tell the customer service for almost a month the product was defective and the refused to give me a refund even though their own policy states they could give me back my money. The seller I got the item from refused to take the item back but Mercari would take it back. Nope. I'm going to fix it on my own and sell it locally. Get my money back. Don't do business with these people. I lost 75.50 and my item was defective and refundable and refused. So just save yourself the trouble and spread the word to put these people out of business forever!
Date of experience: April 1, 2019
I sell on Mercari for 8 months and I love it. I sell a lot very satisfied everyone is nice you received payment when the buyer received the item. Everything goes according to plan. I STOP SELLING ON EBAY.
Date of experience: October 17, 2017
THIS SITE IS A TOTAL SCAM SITE... I DID BUSINESS WITH THEM FOR YEARS... THEY SOLD ME FAKE BAGS LEFT AND RIGHT... WHEN I PURCHASED THE LAST FAKE WHICH I BELIEVED WAS AUTHENTIC, I WENT TO RESELL BECAUSE I DID NOT LIKE THE SIZE THEY SAID IT WAS COUNTERFEIT AND CLOSED MY ACCOUNT! THE SO CALLED FAKE BAG I PURCHASED ON MERCARI AND I SHOWED THEM PROOF, I WENT TO RESELL AND THEY SAID IT WAS COUNTERFEIT AND KICKED ME OFF THEIR SITE! BUYER HAS NO PROTECTION... I HAD 300 REVIEWS AND 296 WERE 5 STAR PERFECT REVIEWS! I WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND POSHMARK OVER THIS PATHETIC SITE ANY DAY OF THE WEEK! DONT GIVE THIS COMPANY BUSINESS UNLESS YOU WANT TO BE SCAMMED THEN KICKED OFF. MOST PATHETIC SITE IVE EVER DEALT WITH!
Date of experience: February 23, 2020
I sold an item and shipment kept stating the item was sitting at the buyer's post office, and therefore Mercari wouldn't release my finds. I reached out to the buyer to see if there was an error in tracking and perhaps they actually did receive it. No response at all. Christmas had come and gone... I'm only assuming with zero contact from them, it's been received. Then one day the app had completely deleted the transaction. Gone completely. I reached out to mercari and was told that it basically timed out and they recommended I file with USPS. Here's the kicker. With my transaction completely gone, I don't have a record showing how much the buyer paid, so I can't file at all. Mercari has closed out my case when I inquired the first time. I have reopened it, and they have seized assisting me. It is mind-boggling to me that they would just completely delete a transaction, instead of archiving it. Their lack of communication and assistance is also very concerning. At no point did they confess that their practices are wrong. It's hard to believe that them deleting the transaction is anything different than a hope that it'll be "out of sight, out of mind" and that people would just forget about a missing transaction that they were never paid for. I don't recommend them at all.
Date of experience: January 15, 2018
Although the platform should be good the customer service is horrible if you want to sell products and not make a lot of money than this is the right place for you the fact that the charger so much money to sell your item is not my favorite. However I want to make a purchase they automatically take your money out and if that seller does not ship you your item now you're waiting for weeks to receive your money back the customer service is horrible there's no communication there's no one to talk to you and once you receive the item you cannot receive your money back Someone sent me a pair of shoes that smell like someone crawled inside of them and died and he consciously wrapped them up in the box put my address on them and mail them to me and when I requested a refund through the company explaining why instead of the pictures of the nasty dirty filthy disgusting shoes they told me that I cannot have a refund because I confirm that I received the order. Although maybe the intentions of the platform were good it's not being executed that way they need a lot of work they need new management 100% unprofessional unreliable and there's no one to speak to about your problems however they have no problem taking your money right out of your account
Tip for consumers:
Be careful
Products used:
I purchased sneakers for both of my children.
Date of experience: September 17, 2022
Ordered the movie Battleship. Portrayed as cover worn but was great. The Movie skips every 2 sec. "0" Ask them to replace it and send a prepaid label to return the one shipped. We'lll see
Date of experience: March 30, 2019
Look at all the Michael Jordan / Kobe Bryant # 8 of 10 Upper Deck Dual Counterfeit Fakes on Mercari.
I just reported around 40 of the same # 8 of 10 counterfeit. Think Mercari will do anything.
These are unlicensed, unapproved counterfeits that infringe on the copyrights and trademarks of
Upper Deck and the NBA.
I wish the next TV or radio ad I see/hear from Mercari would lay out that there site is full of counterfeits.
What a great reputation to put dollars over people selling counterfeits.
These counterfeits are easy to spot. They contain:
- cloned / duplicated serial numbers
- Upper Deck Security Holofoils that are not real - just copied or photocopied.
- Contain statements of authencity that if a reprint are not true.
- Contain no disclaimers about authencity (fraud) and Reprint is not printed on the card.
Look at the 3 rd image. 20 of 22 in the image are sold counterfeits - and those are from one seller.
How can one seller continue to get away with selling counterfeit after counterfeit.
Tip for consumers:
Avoid purchasing counterfeits on Mercari, Etsy, and eBay. Please report counterfeit items.
The more people report the more something might happen.
Products used:
No refund. Yet a counterfeit and should have not been allowed in the first place.
Date of experience: January 4, 2022
I hate Mercari. They treat you like crap. They kick you off the first time you make a mistake such as your item no being authentic even though you don't claim it to be. They are ride and I hate them.
Tip for consumers:
Mercari will kick you off if you ask them to authenticate a purse and it turns out not. They're rude.
Products used:
Selling purses
Date of experience: September 22, 2021
I have been a seller on Poshmark for several years now and have had great success. Recently I looked into MECARI to try and increase the rate of my sales. Sold a pair of brand new shoes, sadly the buyer requested an immediate refund which was granted. When I received my shoes back they were not the shoes I sent, they were worn out and old shoes. I immediately contacted customer service and was told they could offer me no help since "the buyers complaints were the same discrepancies I had listed" of course, the buyer had the same shoes I had listed only old and worn, she simply took my brand new shoes and replaced them and requested a refund using the old shoes. Mind blown I assumed customer service would offer some assistance but absolutely none. I am completely disgusted and disappointed by the Mercari website. How can you offer protection from scammers and not back it up. I had proof of my shoes that were brand new and spotless and also the shoes I received which were torn up and obviously worn.
I will never sell another item on this site.
Sellers BEWARE!
Date of experience: April 26, 2020
After leaving a phone message, they issued me a full refund in Mercari Credits. "You can use these Credit for purchases on Mercari, but don't forget they expire after 30 days".
Date of experience: April 4, 2019
Received defective camera on Friday - the lens cover curtains are not opening.
Tried to return it on Sunday and received "Item is ineligible for return" message. I did not rate the seller yet, but their website says "This item doesn't qualify for a return".
Date of experience: March 31, 2019
This is Mercari: The Selling App. The fast and easy way to sell or buy almost anything.
Hey Stephane,
So sorry to hear that!
If you see any items you believe to be counterfeit, please feel free to report them and our team will be happy to take care of it!
If you have any other questions or concerns, you're more than welcome to send us an email to contact@mercari.com.
Best,
Team Mercari