You've Got To Laugh Haven't You?
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Hi folks, does anyone shop online with Shein? Is it all it's cracked up to be, please? The prices are so low, that it makes me wonder... "I can't believe it's not butter" sort of thing...
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Just like eBay, Amazon Marketplace, Temu and Àli Èxpress, Shein doesn't actually sell anything which appears on its website. Instead, it operates on a 'marketplace' model, enabling vast numbers of different vendors to advertise their goods throuh the site. (Those vendors can also have their products stored in, and despatched from, Shein's own warehouses).
So, just as when buying on eBay or Amazon Marketplace, for example, some vendors will be excellent, whereas others might not be.
Shein was founded in China but its HQ is now in Singapore. It uses warehouses across the world to despatch goods from, so shipping times can vary quite a lot.
In the past, people buying fashion items from the Far East have experienced problems with the the clothes that they've purchased turning out to be far smaller than they'd expected but that seem to be less of a problem these days.
Some Chinese manufacturers have been known to make inferior copies of western products and then use photos taken from the western manufacturers' own webites (rather than photos of the poor quality stuff that they've actually made themselves) on sites such as Shein, Temu and Àli Èxpress. So there's a possibility that what you see might not be exactly what you get.
If you're having goods shipped from China, India or wherever, there could be problems with returning any items that don't fit. (i.e. the costs of shipping might be prohibitive).
Having said all of that though, I've bought plenty of goods from the Far East (usually through Àli Èxpress) without any problems. However, as I'm not buying fashion items (as a Shein customer would be), I don't have to worry about the problem of ordering the correct size.