Today's post is a PSA for all my fellow bloggers who work with online retailers and for all my readers who buy clothes and accessories online. As you all know, I work with brands and retailers on a regular basis. I love to find new stores and stylish stuff and love to share them on Style Delights. Therefore when I got an opportunity to introduce an online retailer reecn.com to my readers, I accepted it. Their website looked professional, their merchandise looked beautiful and my preliminary research about them showed that some pretty established blogs also have worked with them. So I decided to host a giveaway for them on my blog - afterall, who doesn't like their readers to win giftcards? As with all my giveaways, when a winner was chosen by random.org (in this case a lovely reader Lorna), I contacted the Reecn.com representative who had been emailing me to check that Lorna met all the requirements (that she liked their FB page etc). They did not reply. I contacted Lorna and told her that I am waiting to hear from them. We both waited for few more days. I contacted them thru all their social media channels and contact forms, but surprise - no reply! Then I contacted the bloggers who have worked with reecn.com and found out Reecn.com are less than stellar in terms of their professionalism. When I sent them a message saying I'll let my readers know about them, they sent me a shirt to style! This shirt is one of the shoddiest pieces of workmanship I have ever seen! Its ill fitting, ill-sewn and just plain un-wearable.
The buttons and the panels of the shirt are not aligned, the sleeves are asymmetrical - not for the style though! |
BTW, here are their fake social media profiles - if you like them, please unlike/unfollow so that you don't accidentally advertise them to your friends and followers.
Reecn Facebook (Fakebook, more like!)
Reecn Pinterest (THEY ARE NOT LOCATED IN USA AS THEY CLAIM HERE!)
Reecn Twitter (lying birdie!)
So please beware of this online retailer, and share about their scam to your friends.If you are a blogger, share it with your readers too! During my research about Reecn.com, I came across some other fraudulent and unprofessional retailer via some other consumer alert websites. Here is a list of some more fake retailers who are trying to work with bloggers to gain trust among their readers.As always, Style Delights vows to keep the readers informed and the reviews honest! Till we talk again!!
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Goddddd... Thank you so much for the awareness!
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Really useful post. I'm thankful to never had been scammed online.
ReplyDeletethat shirt definitely looks crazy! and it's a good thing that you inform your readers about incidents like this. if noone is interested in their crap, they'll probably stop bothering bloggers and other potential customers.
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Yikes and double yikes! Thank you for taking the time to dig around and find out more bout this company, rather than just say that "they're okay and looks nice." I always prefect to read honest bloggers and you do your readers a great service with this!
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Omg! they have done same thing to me. they asked me to host a giveaway, but i said no because they first lied to me that thy are sending me a necklace for the review and its been an ages but i didn't received the product when i asked them they did'n replay thanks for letting us know
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Thank you so much for this post, Jyoti. With innumerable online shops mushrooming , it is very important for the buyers to be ware of such fakes. I saw their website, it looks so neat and well arranged, its a shame they don't keep up to the image they have created. Thanks again.
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ReplyDeleteOne of the worst companies I worked with was actually one of the biggest women's clothing stores in the country! They never fulfilled a giveaway, then they were supposed to send me a gift card as payment (never happened). Lesson learned!!!
Hi sweetie!
ReplyDeletethanks for letting your readers know about this. Two days ago I emailed another blogger who hosted a Reecn giveaway to warn her about this scam too.
Those of us who buy online should be very careful before any purchase. The most important thing is to talk to other people who have previously bought from that online store to see if it's worth it or not.
Once again, thank you!
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Wow thank you for the heads up on scammers with this post. Since I'm new to blogging, I probably wouldn't have known any better had they approached me!
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thanks a ton for this post!!!i am a blogger and this is immensely helpful to watch out during shopping or blog partnerships!
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Thanks for sharing Jyoti, it's so difficult to make sure that you are safe when buying on-line these days!
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Wow...thank you so much for spreading the awareness!
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Oh my goodness! I think I've seen this site, or an advertisement on a sidebar on a blog and I am sorry to hear it wasn't a good experience. Thank you for letting us know!
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Oh wow, thank you for the heads up! That is crazy!
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Thank you for the heads-up! Smh, people are ridiculous!
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I'm so happy you wrote this post, Jyoti! I thought Reecn was going to be like working with Oasap or Sheinside, but I quickly found out that it wasn't. They have a blogger program on their site that is a complete fake. They just want you to post their ad on your blog's sidebar and then they never get back to you. I had it up on my blog for about 5 days before realizing that no one was going to respond to my emails so I took it down and left Reecn in my rearview.
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OMG! Thanks a lot for notifying! Grrrr
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Hi sweetie! So glad you did this post because I was actually on their site last week and thought they had one of the nicest sites out there for us bloggers! Hmm.... well you are awesome for doing this post and being so amazingly real girl! Love you! Hope your week is going well! Sorry I haven't visited in a bit! xx Pip
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I am sharing this on my FB page if you would allow for my readers as well.
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