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.
Mercari allows false advertising from sellers. Seller advertised a good, fully functional phone. It is in poor condition. Charging port is damaged, volume control doesn't work, discharges quickly. BUYER BEWARE!
I have been buying and selling on online resale platforms since dial up. I can tell you that Mercari is by far the best one. I have been with Mercari since 2016 and have had nothing but outstanding customer service and excellent experiences. I recommend Mercari to everyone I know. I've made over 100 transactions and any issues I had Mercari immediately resolved. Mercaris customer service has always responded within 24hrs. Any negative reviews I believe are due to self error. I couldnt be more happy with Mercari. Its by far the most trustworthy resale platform available.
Date of experience: November 5, 2018
I have been a customer since 2018 and when I went to buy a ps4 for my grandson in another state they cancelled my order flagged as fraudulent credit because of address. Instead of looking at my order history that shows I have bought things before and sent them to that address they just cancelled it. Trying to talk to a person on the phone is impossible and the email or message they act like they cant read and understand whats going on. I have been trying with no luck to explain that this is me and its my credit card. While they may have good deals they dont have good custermer service your on your own.
Date of experience: November 27, 2021
What is the scam?... hedging their bets with multiple listing of the SAME item on many platforms.
1. Lists TONS of items, gets paid, never ships item and does not reply to messages, hopes buyer will not message Mercari, seller keeps money.
2. Lists items on Mercari, in addition to Ebay, Amazon, etc. Cancels your Mercari order if the same items sell for a higher price on another platform.
This how the scammers of Mercari con buyers. These low-life scammers 'sell' you an item. The buyer pays. Then after 3 to 5 days the buyer will message the seller asking for tracking information. The seller does not reply to the messages from the buyer. One to two weeks after no reply, buyer sends a complaint to Mercari. A few hours later the buyer receives the "cancelled order" email. Takes up to one to two weeks for the refund.
Date of experience: April 24, 2019
Ipad seemed to work the first 3 days. Then the glass screen came off and the touch screen hardly responded! I bought the warranty, too. No response from the ShiSh Corporation, which has no website, or Mercari! This is a lost I will have to eat!
Date of experience: March 17, 2020
This online site has zero protection for the buyer. I purchase received a Patrick Ta Major Dimensions eyeshadow palette. The packaging was in excellent condition and the palette was secured so well that you could throw it and the palette wouldn't be affected at all. I wish I could post a photo. So I made a claim with Mercari, sent them all of the photos they requested of the palette and packaging. One week later my claim was declined because they stated it could have happened in shipping, mind you- there wasn't a dent, tear, rip or damage to the packaging. Nope, seller made out with my money. The pictures below show the palette and packaging. The one pan in the palette that was completely shattered I cleaned up and salvaged as much as I could.
Tip for consumers:
If your purchase is damaged in any way, if you receive a replica and not the authentic product, it does not matter, the seller will win no matter how many pictures, videos, etc. that you provide, you will not receive a refund for your purchase. This I promise. Shop at your own risk. I’ve had this and a problem with half used beauty products. My loss.
Products used:
Patrick Ta Major Dimensions I Eyeshadow Palette that was damaged. I just had surgery, was depressed and have been wanting this palette so bad but couldn’t afford paying full price.
Date of experience: September 6, 2022
I've been using Mercari for 5 years, I recently ordered a pair of 40.00 shoes that never came. They just told me to call the police. They used to protect there buyers, they don't anymore if you don't get it they don't care. Just use EBAY they will protect you.
Date of experience: May 22, 2020
I have sold and bought on Mercari for a few years now. However recently I received a review of 4 stars telling me shipping was slow! I sent it within hours of it being purchased and the user received it on the next business day. WTF! It doesn't get any faster then that! I had another user tear off the security seal to steal parts off of the unit. When i wouldn't accept it back after that, they bad mouthed my reviews. Mercari does nothing about it.
Date of experience: May 16, 2019
I have over 200 positive reviews. I was asked to trade and denied due to mercari rules. The next day my account was deactivated for 24 hours because the word TRADE was mentioned in the exchange. Hundreds of scammers and dishonest people on the site and they do NOTHING. What kind of customer service do they employ_ another time they held up a direct deposit because someone disputed the item after they had rated and released funds. Although the item was $250 in question they held up $350 that was coming to me. Ended up getting resolved but a week passed before I got my money. Mercari is dishonest and scammers themselves.
Date of experience: September 5, 2016
Purchased item arrived broken, filed claim via Mercari they rated the customer on my behalf. Tried to contact no response. Filed PayPal claim. Paid myself to mail item to Mercari. I won the case. I got banned. Thats the whole story folks!
Date of experience: January 11, 2018
We're sorry to hear you've had an issue with your transaction! Please email us at contact@mercari.com if you'd like us to take another look at your issue. Thanks!^DE
I was brand new to their service I messed up on the shipping and instead of working with me and telling me how to fix it or how to prevent that from happening - they kept the vase and didn't pay me anything.
Date of experience: February 13, 2020
If i can give this app zero stars I would. Way too many scammers and absolutely no protection for the seller. Unless you like getting ripped off and scammed please stay away. Once I get the shoes I bought and I'm able to rate the seller I will be deactivating my account, and Mercari you scammers you can keep the money you stole from me and that lying scammer of a customer can keep that $50 chemise she stole. I am officially done with this lack of customer service and your rules that let scammers run rampant in this app ripping off honest people
Date of experience: September 7, 2016
Waist of money, Mercari will not backup the buyer all they care about is making commission from bunch thieves scammers sellers.
Most of the seller sells stolen phones, do not buy from this website, waist of money.
Tip for consumers:
Don't buy from this site , waist of money seller that are not approved to sell anywhere else they'll go to Mercari , Stolen merchandise
Products used:
I phone
Date of experience: October 25, 2022
It's so annoying. I will never going to use it. I ordered to buy something but I have to be away from home when the thing is delivered to me. So I want to contact them or the seller to send it later like few days later. But there's no way to contact or let them know. It's like talking to a wall. I am sure there's a lot of fraud because we can never contact the customer service or the seller to talk about the product they are selling.
Tip for consumers:
Let me talk to seller. I just want to ask her to send it slowly because I am not home next week.
Date of experience: July 2, 2021
I purchased a pair of sneakers (Nike Panda Dunks) From a seller in February of this year. I came to find out about 3 months later that the sneakers were fake/counterfeit. I reached out to Mercari on several occasions since because I did in fact spend $170 on the sneakers that are FAKE (fake panda dunks sell for $20-$30 on DH Gate) and they will not do anything about it whatsoever. The seller can keep selling fake items and they will not let me return them. They also will not allow me to change the rating I left for the seller. They're pretty much allowing this to happen and they're not protecting the buyer in any way. I am disgusted by this company and will never purchase
Anything from the site again.
Products used:
Clothing
Date of experience: September 2, 2022
I order a soap/lotion caddy. It arrived July 25th while I was out of town. I returned home July 28th and opened the package. After filling the dispenser with soap and filling the lotion dispenser I had a hard time screwing the lid on the lotion container. Then, the top came off and I realized the lid had been glued on. And, to make matters worse lotion oozed out of the stem. Apparently you have three days to write a review and/or ask for a refund. Mercari gave my purchase five stars. I contacted them asking that the review be changed and they refused to help me. Lesson learned. Buyer beware.
Products used:
Soap dispenser
Date of experience: July 29, 2022
I ordered an item on Mercari sold by BestArkDeals. It was advertised for $60 with free shipping. When the item came, it was with $8 postage due! They must do this on a regular basis as they even have a section for "Why was I charged for overdue postage?" in their Q&A. This is intentionally misleading.
Date of experience: March 25, 2019
Beware of selling on this site! This use to be a great place to sell things but now they've started scamming people on shipping! Keep your receipt at drop off. They will almost always try to charge you shipping overage when your item is under the weight and you will have to dispute it. It is up to you to prove the weight and it takes days to get it fixed! This app has went down hill and is no longer a safe platform to sell on.
Date of experience: October 13, 2021
All of these Chinese companies are taking the western world to the bank with their cheap products! I ordered a bedding set a year ago. Never received and showed sitting in Bulaliccadan somewhere for 6mos. Customer service replied once with "We are researching" and never answered me again.
My fault! They know we westerners are suckers for cheap goods! Never again!
Date of experience: December 23, 2022
Ordered from a Mercari merchant. Never received my product. Difficult to contact customer service. Customer service was not very helpful and actually closed my case as "resolved" without getting my product or a refund.
Date of experience: April 21, 2020
I sent the wrong item on accident and refunded the buyer. I went to email the buyer but mercari turned off the chat and now I can't explain what happened! I've emailed mercari TWICE and get a stupid response about the buyer has been refunded.
This site is a joke
Date of experience: May 27, 2019
If you have a family member who has an bad account with them or issues. Or use the same address they will sent you the right to open an account. Without even collecting enough evidence to see if this is the same person trying to open an secondary account z..
Date of experience: February 3, 2020
I have been selling on here for over a year, and they are horrible, when you sell something and something happens during shipping like gets crushed at the Ups and i had another Barbie that got legs and walked off the cost for both Barbies were 350.00 and they would not pay me but we pay for protection fees lol they told me i dont pack right but have had 215 sales and many repeat buyers, and good ratings so thats a lie they dont have a phone number and send the same reply which is bad the problem is solved lol nothing gets done. I even had UPS to check my box before i send them and they said they were fine. Even write FRAGILE all over the box. They rip the srllers off like they do the buyers shame on yall.
Tip for consumers:
If something happens to your stuff you will not get your money they have beat me out of 2 expensive Barbie Dolls that i shipped and they were 350.00 worth of Barbies, they told me the one never came though but i have the paperwork and UPS paided on the claim but Marcari kept the money and stole from UPS
Products used:
Barbie Dolls
Date of experience: May 6, 2021
Few things happened. I sold an item that first of all, the buyer received it and did not rate me as a seller, which is stupid because the buyer needs to rate you as great or poor seller before you get paid. So after waiting and waiting to be paid, or be reviewed, they buyer requested a refund. Great! Ship my stuff back and you can have your money screw this site. What a dumb rule after being rated get paid. Anyhow, there is no way to accept the return. Its been requested and I cannot approve it. I want to badly, get my stuff back because I paid for it to! Then all of a sudden I ghet a message saying its been cancelled.? So what now theres no way to get my money back? They can buy from you, not review you as a seller and request a return or a cancel? Well guess im out money and that buyer scammed me. Bull$#*! site. Should have just stuck with EBAY
Date of experience: June 25, 2017
Mecari is ok if you don't want customer service that can help you. They refuse to do anything to help you with any issues. If there is a problem it is yours to fix not theirs even though there may be no other way to fix it but have them do so. I was liking it but poor customer service is where I draw the line. I don't expect that from sellers and I don't give that to my buyers. I will continue to use all other platforms except for Mecari.
Tip for consumers:
Don’t you are better off using other platforms.
Date of experience: July 28, 2022
I bought an item that arrived in a condition I did not expect. I simply wanted to return the item. Mercari refused to accept the return stating they felt the item fit the description. I disagree. I don't think it is unreasonable for me to say o would not have bought the item had I know it were in this condition. If I return the item, how does that hurt the seller? I don't understand their ethical stance or their plan to compete in this market. Reading other reviews it seems they have earned their low standing.
Date of experience: January 10, 2023
This is Mercari: The Selling App. The fast and easy way to sell or buy almost anything.
Hello Ashley,
Thank you for your review! We're so happy to hear about your positive experience selling on the app and to have you as part of the Mercari Community.
Happy selling!
Best Regards,
Team Mercari