Mercari

This is a follow up to one of my other reviews about this crap site. Some other things that I don't get are stock photos and just people buying the dumbest stuff. I see ads of shoes and clothes all using stock internet photos. Why would I buy that from you if you don't even show pictures taken from you? And people STILL buy it... And another thing, I saw a bland pink kappa sweater for over $50. Nothing special about it at all and it sold. Fifty bucks for a sweater? What kind of idiot is buying these things? And a yellow sweater with a big adidas logo on it, sold a minute ago with NO likes, for $80. REALLY? And to top things off (for now because I'm sure there are more stupid ads) I just saw someone sell two Resident Evil 3 games for the original playstation, USED and probably from gamestop because it had used price tags on them, which were $7.99, and the guy sold them a minute ago for $32. I don't know who's dumber: The seller or the buyer. Give me a break with this BS app. Eff you Mercari for supporting this garbage

I recently bought some Bose Soundsport headphones from this app. Before I purchased the item, I checked the photos to make sure that I would be satisfied with the item before purchasing. The condition on the item said it was good, and there were a couple pictures on there about the item. It had no notes other than, "look at the photos". I looked at the photos and they looked normal to me although one side was missing the bose logo. I purchased them and when I received the item, the headphones were falling apart! The volume button doesn't work, the headphones' volume is laughable (I fixed it along with other issues). I rated the seller 2 stars because the service was fast and I wrote a review on why I was displeased with the product. After I submitted my review, the seller sends a message on one of my items about how I posted an unfair review and that I should've looked before buying and that they'll be contacting mercari to delete my review. I attempted to respond, but the user blocked me from doing so. If you're wondering, yes my review was deleted and I lost the honest review. I am very disgusted that mercari did this and it is very unprofessional.

I used to love mercari i sold many things on there and bought many things also. But recently i have ran into a problem what MANY MANY others have also experienced. So i sold a PlayStation on the platform and then tried to buy another console and the same minute that i bought another console with the money i earned from selling stuff on THEIR APP they canceled my orders, revoked my privileges and suspended my account. When contacting customer support to see what was wrong and i received an automated response with the EXTREMELY VAGUE explanation "unusual payment activity". The money in my account has no way of getting out and they are just gonna take that once they delete my account. I hope this despicable app gets shut down.

I sign up for this website to sell my designer item. But what happened is after I sold the item they blocked my account that my item was counterfeit. So the item was shipped to the buyer but I cannot write a message nor to transfer the money to my bank account. They asked for the authentication for the item such as proof of receipt. Who has the receipt for the old item you bought. I also purchased the Moncler jacket from this website and find out the this coat the counterfeit but I cannot contact the seller about this and get a refund.

I used to eBay for long time but they never hold funds or block the account for ridiculous reason. You really have to watch out selling at this place. There's no phone number to call the customer service and you really have to rely on the emails and this is messed up. I will never ever deal with this website and you should not either. Going back to my old friend E-Bay! Seller! You will loose your money they will black your account and you can't not do anything or transferred the money to you bank.

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Today 6-22-2018 They just trying to help you but no, now they asking me for a Driver license. Still block the money the worker is very RUDE! They
Will treat like a thief.

Over a month ago, I ordered a bag from Mercari, and the item never arrived. I contacted Mercari within 1 day of USPS being marked as delivered. They said they followed up with USPS and paid the seller. I noticed the seller had the exact same item still on her site, pointed it out to Mercari, and they ignored me. So, I contacted my bank to dispute this claim. Mercari immediately suspended my account telling me why. I had a previous account and dealt with a very aggressive and angry seller so I opened another account - never used the other one again. I had sold a bad on my new account and couldn't take out my funds bc the bank account was used twice. And then I noticed my account was suspended. They said it was because I disputed with my bank and immediately asked me to reverse. I said I would not, and they sent me paragraphs stating they used my funds to pay for the claim by the bank, and immediately shut down my account. I haven't been able to get in touch with anyone since then. They violated their own terms many times (not granting buyer protection), suspended my account without warning, and then force closed my account without permission. I was reading their policies and they list, in capital, no law suits and no class action suits. They must realize that these 700+ people giving them 1 stars would take them out of business. Truly a terrible and disgusting website. Becareful! I'm glad mine was only $90! I saw people lose hundreds to thousands after having their account closed and money stolen.

Mercari does nothing about scammers on their app. Beware sellers do not sell your expensive stuff on Mercari! That's why they only take 10% versus poshmark who takes 20%. Well becasue Mercari has the utt most worst customer service ever. They're quick to flag your account and suspend it if you create another listing just to upload more photos for a potential buyer who request to see to make sure they're buying the real deal. Which is understandable. Per listing you can only measly upload 4 photos! The heck can you show with 4 photos?! So when you upload another listing for additional photos they suspend your account immediately. So buyer would ask for you to email them additional photos and they'll suspend the buyers account. They're on top of stupid stuff like that but once when you contact them for other problems they have this vague automated reply. That's it! A lot of scammers on Mercari. Scammer Buyers who buy your item and then claim the package was empty!. Mercari refunds them back right away and you as a seller lose the money and your item! Mercari does nothing to protect you as a seller. They don't investigate or anything! Sellers do not sell on this app! Fair warning!

After finding out what Mercari was, I really wanted to buy some rare items for my collection, when I created my account everything was going all as well intel at some ponit, I get log out by Mercari and every time I try to login they don't allow me in because I'm not in their region. I contacted them and they told me that you should not be using a VPN emulator or changer. I said that I wasn't using that, I explained that I was a Canadian and I want to buy stuff off of their market, they came back at me saying that their was nothing they can do to solve the issue I was having and instead apologized and closed my case. Know after a half a year went by and what do I see, oh yes, "they advertised their app or website on TV in Canada" This makes me so angary because know I can't even use their app and just seeing that they think they can advertise like that in Canada and get away with it makes me sick. If your a Canadian don't use this app or website because they can't help you.

I have tried REPEATEDLY to access the Mercari website from my PC and after re-setting my Password 2Xs, I was still unable to access their site. When asked WHY this was so... I received NO response. Evidently, Mercari believes that EVERYONE wants to access their site from a mobile device. NOPE! Here's the deal... I DON'T WANT TO USE MY PHONE TO ACCESS THEIR SITE, I WANT TO USE MY PC.

I have been on Marcari for years, have sold and purchased thousands of $$ worth of items. Their costs keep increasing but that's not the worst of it. Their customer service is criminal and the business is a scam, they do not protect their buyers and refuse to do legitimate returns simply to make money and avoid paying shipping fees. This has happened on multiple occasions over the past year with me when they used to be much better about returns. The last item was completely disgusting, dirty, pilled and the seller listed it as "Like New" and they refused the return and paid the seller. This time, I purchased a Blue and Black camp chair bundle for $100. I received a RED and black chair, in their return policy it says if the item received is a vastly different color, it qualifies for a return. I sent them photos of the red chair I received, which also had HOLES IN IT even though it was listed as new, and they're refusing the return it and releasing payment to the seller again! If you want to lose money on items you didn't purchase/that weren't as described then, by all means, use Mercari. Because your purchase is not protected as they lie and say it is.

A greedy Mercari scammer is offering $5 on Craiglist if you use his/her referral link and send screenshots but they get the referral rewards but don't send the $5. The ad said if its still up the ad is still good. They ignored emails and then later pulled the add. It should be hard for Mercari to find the user through their referral code RTKAWU which I reported. This is not the way I want to try a new website by being tricked and scammed so I won't use Mercari and boycott it until they fix this matter. This user shouldn't get referral rewards by scamming potential new customers that should be against TOS and get them banned. Lets see if Mercari cares about the info I sent them by email.

Only reason I gave 1 star is because I can't go any lower. This site is terrible. Costumer service is awful. They make up rules as they go. Just absolutely pathetic!

Upon tracking an item that I paid for on the Mercari app, I discovered that the item was in fact delivered by UPS post office. However, I never received the item. I contacted the post office that said all they know it was delivered because it said it was. I have emailed Mercari the same day it say it was delivered Mercari emailed me saying that they would do something about it after I had brought it to their attention when it came time to "rate the seller". But Mercari did nothing for me. I don't even know if they released my money (the cost of the item) to the seller, since I would not give them a rating. Packages should not be delivered unless someone is there to sign for it, unless other arrangements were made in advance. The only thanking Mercari suggestioned for me was changing my address Thank you for letting me know. I understand that this is frustrating as a buyer.

We offer advice on changing your address in situations like this because you can choose to have your packages delivered to another location, like your workplace or a friend you trust.

We don't want you to end up in a situation like this again.

We're happy to review cases for buyers and sellers but we never guarantee that we will approve claims. Only that we will review the claim.

I'm sorry that this didn't work out for you.

Best,
Shan
Team Mercari

Three days on Mecari and they deleted my account entirely for selling non-authentic card but the card is sealed and authenticated by SGC so I've had to deal with pore costumer service and had to redirect packages I shipped. When they shut my account off for no reason they also refunded the buyer so hopefully I'll get my cards back?but I had to pay $34 in USPS fees to intercept the packages plus I lost $10.34 in original shipping cost. I have created a case at the Better Business Bureau. What a nightmare read the reviews and roll the dice! If your selling on Mercari your chances of loosing money are greater than you making money! This isn't the first complaint I've seen for someone getting suspended for no reason! Stick with eBay and Etsy they are safe and secure places to sell unlike Mercari! I still haven't received my cards back and there was two sales I had to intercept using USPS. It's your nightmare if you choose to trust this company! Only one breaking any policies here is Mercari! SELLERS BEWARE!

I bought an Arlo camera from customer, but I didnt receive anything. I even went to my nearest usps and checked with them but they said the tracking # was used before. I contacted my bank and disputed the transaction due to not received the item I paid for. After I disputed, mercari gave me a refund as credit. I saw the credit so I called my bank again and cancelled the disputed transaction. However, mercari limited my account right after that and asked for verification information. The credit was expired during the time I was waiting for Mercari verified my information. After all, my account was back to normal but the credit was expired and I could not use it. I contacted Mercari to ask for issue the credit again but they said they could not re- issue the credit! So Mercari cheated and stole $103 from me! I was super mad and definitely would call the bank for dispute the transaction as well as never use them again!
Mercari took fee from selling and dont want to solve problem when things happened!

Won't show me my buyer... keeps telling me there are network problems. This has been 17 hours now... only on this Shop4U buyer. Can you please help me? Thank you

Bought a shirt for my son. Did not ship no response from seller and no attempt from the company after 2 weeks to cancel the sale or close the seller account. No customer service to talk to and one of the wosr companies I have ever worked with. DO NOT BUY FROM THIA SITE. GARBAGE

Absolutely awful customer service. We've sold several used products over the years and less expensive products without much issue. We had an order that was destroyed by UPS or FedEx, reopened by them and packaged back up broken, but Mercari didn't do anything out it. That was frustrating but ultimately the shipper's fault. However, we had a new in box collector's item sold to a buyer. The buyer had the item a few days, opened the box, damaged the box, and then told us there was a slight manufacturer's defect with the product. They attempted to fix the defect, further damaging it, and then proceeded to instead initiate a return stating "the item was not listed correctly." We flagged the return, but they accepted it immediately. We reached out to customer service multiple times during this process, explaining the situation, telling them what happened, and that we had messages in the Mercari chat from buyer stating they opened the box and stating they attempted to fix defect and we're messing with product. None of this stopped the return. Eventually, when the returned item came back to us, we photographed it immediately and sent in a complaint about the return. They investigated it, and of course, found nothing wrong, despite all the evidence given and the pictures, etc. DO NOT SELL COLLECTOR'S ITEMS WITH MERCARI! Do not sell new in box products! Buyers can damage the product and return no questions asked, losing HUNDREDS of dollars in value. Mercari will do NOTHING.

I ordered a shirt from Mercari which appeared to be a dark charcoal gray or possibly black. When I received it, the shirt was actually a very faded out light blue color and totally different from how it had been presented in the listing.

At first, I thought maybe the seller just didn't have a good camera, so I politely asked how to go about sending it back for a refund. She told me she was under no obligation to take it back.

Here's the thing - on the item listing there's a badge which says, "BUYER PROTECTION GUARANTEE Receive your item as listed, or we'll reimburse you." So I contacted Mercari's customer service to ask how to send the item back for a refund. A representative responded to me promptly, asking me to send photos, which I did.

Mercari then told me that I could not send my item back for a refund unless the seller agreed to take it back. They didn't even care that the color was wrong.

I realize now that the whole thing was a scam from the getgo. There is no buyer guarantee, and Mercari's sellers can put any old thing into a box and ship it to you, then refuse to take it back. Please learn from my loss and do not shop at Mercari!

I PAID FOR A BROTHER SCAN AND CUT BUT I NEVER RECEIVED IT, THE SELLER NEVER ANSWER MY MESSAGES, AND THE MERCARI CO. NEVER ANSWER, AND THEY CANCELED THE PURCHASE WITHOUT NOTICE BECAUSE THE SELLER IS A FICTITIOUS PERSON.
MERCARI DOES THAT JUST TO GET MORE MEMBERS. ALSO, I TRIED TO POST A BAD RATING, BUT THEY DON'T ALLOW ME TO POST BAD RATINGS! CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT? RIDICULOUS.
I TRIED TO CANCEL MY ACCOUNT AND THEY DON'T ALLOW ME TO CANCEL THE ACCOUNT!
BE CAREFUL EVERYBODY WITH THIS CAVE OF SCAMMERS. DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME AND MONEY.

I just recently decided to try selling some items on Mercari after a couple years of mostly good buying experiences. Sold my first item without issue, but my second sale was an infuriating! After I took pictures of my items, I carefully packaged each one so they were ready for shipment. To be able to choose the best shipping option, I weighed each item AFTER it was packed. I KNOW my weight was accurate. However, 3 days after the item was delivered I received a message from Mercari saying the package was overweight by 2 ounces, so they charged me an additional $7 for shipping. Bringing the shipping cost to $14 for a 5x5 inch tile! Surely this must be a mistake? Giving them the benefit of the doubt, I emailed customer service. I explained the situation… only to be spammed with a bunch of automatic responses. No customer service. No f*cks given. They do admit that if the buyer overpays for shipping, they keep the excess money. So, they are bullying sellers into overcharging for shipping so they can keep the "extra" money. So sleazy, it should be illegal. I will not be using this app as a buyer or seller going forward.

ZERO stars should be a option for this app. Do NOT trust them. I've sold and bought many things on Mercari. I go to use my husbands card to purchase an item and without warning (or just having my husband verify himself) which I found out was a option, they suspended my account which in turn canceled ALL of my orders that I had paid for but had not been shipped (about 6 items with a total of around $150) and now I have to wait 5-10 days for my refund (which I'm very skeptical I'll get.) I mentioned to their *******@ss customer service that I will just delete my account after I get my refunds so I don't have to deal with them anymore and they decide to take matters into their own hands and delete MY account anyway without my permission. Which to me, is very SKETCHY considering I haven't gotten my money back at this point. I get emails to rate sellers who I was still dealing with (had shipped the items before they suspended the account) and I can't even rate them, leave a review, or have the ability to dispute a item if I need to. I believe they are giving out the automated 5 star reviews without me even being able to look over an item I purchased, because of how much they have my account all jacked up from taking matters into their own hands and obviously not knowing what they are doing. Mercari seems to hire anyone where the only requirement is that they breathe oxygen and know their ABC's to work for their "customer service" department. You've been warned.

This app is unacceptable. I would give them 0 stars if i could. First of all their customer service has got to be the worst i have ever experienced. They dont have a phone number (they do but when you call it just says to go through the apps 24 hour help center) but the help center is def not 24 hours because they NEVER answer me! Middle of the day or evening they never answer. I have come into several incidences where i get a warning for a "prohibited item" based on ingredients. And instead of them deleting that ONE item they go through and delete ALL my listings i just took hours posting! I post great descriptions of my items and many pictures and take a lot of time to do so and they have several times deleted all my listings wasting hours of my time. And when i try to contact them nobody ever answers! And if i take my time to post them again they delete them again but still dont answer me. And these arent bad items, they are face creams or oils and serums. Nothing other people arent selling on the app... to make things worse I understand them deleting the one item i got a notification for but why delete all the other stuff?! I contact their email as well and still never a response! When they finally do answer (days later if they answer at all) they reply and say that the issue has been resolved (even if it hasnt) and then once they say the issue has been resolved you cant reply back! I want my listings to be put back up. Absolutely the worst customer service.

I thought I would try Mercari and sold a small item to see how this works. The buyer was not happy as the item was not what he expected (even though my post was very accurate). To be nice, I refunded his money by cancelling the order (even through he already had the product and I probably would not get it back). I tried to contact Mercari to explain (since they don't encourage cancellations and I was doing so after delivery). What a wild goose chase. Usually when clicking on Contact with any company, you can immediately send a message. Not on this platform. When I finally was able to (click, click, click) I got a worthless response saying how sorry they were about my experience without addressing my comment/question on whether they expedited the refund and the fact that since I cancelled the order I could not send a message to the Buyer. They never mentioned anything. I sent another message to be told I canceled the order (Duh!) and the buyer was getting a refund. (Never commented on what happens to my product.) What a waste! First and last time I try this. The platform is not user friendly. Not worth the effort. I will stick to LetGo and OfferUp and just sell locally. So much easier. Mercari should take some of the money they waste on all their commercials and make their platform user friendly. Click contact and just send a message. Customers should not have to work so hard to contact them.