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Tom Bochynek
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It麓s Monday and I just received a 2nd alert that my order will not arrive until Thursday. This is NOT 2-day delivery! This is the last time I shop with Guess Factory. I look forward to receiving a full refund of the 2-day delivery charge.
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I have been shopping at GUESS Factory for about three years, now, and I have recently signed up for their loyalty card.
After having read the reviews on this site, I feel I should contribute.
My contribution, then, is this, namely:
(1) The styles are great and GUESS Factory never fails to make me look great.
(2) I have had one occasion where I bought expensive skinny-pants and within one week all of the buttons/studs (like, the metal circles that are sewed onto the pocket corners) had fallen off. I returned the product at a store location for being defective and a new product was sent my way at no extra charge.
(3) I have had one occasion where I left a logo tee-shirt, that had the plastic/rubber/decal sort of material on the front of it, folded properly in my dresser for perhaps a month or two. When I pulled the shirt from my dresser, the decal had literally crumbled off. If my shirt once looked like a sidewalk square, now it looks like a sidewalk square which had had a jackhammer taken to it.
(4) I had bought pants which had thick rubber decals/designs which were embossed or elevated from the fabric, if that makes sense. Within one week (two wears) and one wash, the rubber decals/designs had become lifted or frayed or, indeed, removed from at the edges. I must accordingly be extremely careful not to touch the decal for fear it will slide off—then boom, why did I even pay the extra $20 for a logo?
(5) I have placed an order before wher ei accidentally ordered two of the same item. Within about thirty seconds of placing the order, I immediately began emailing customer service. Over the course of that hour, I desperately attempted to email customer service and received no reply. The order was shipped as ordered, despite my request to adjust the order coming in about thirty seconds after placing the order. (One reviewer mentioned that the trick is to call before the confirmation email has been placed—ha! Not for all of us, but I sincerely appreciate that the other reviewer shared her experience.)
(6) $125 minimum order in order to receive free shopping. This is nonsense, for many stores (including GUESS's own GBYGUESS) provide free shipping with orders totalling, at a minimum, $70 or $75. This makes for frustrating shopping because I buy clothes less frequently than I plan to because I must wait for there to be enough products that I like all at once, and this is difficult sometimes with sales coming and going. This is, of course, as they say, as "iss-me" and not an "issue."
(7) I too have received notifications that one or more of my ordered products is out of stock. I do not recall if I was refunded or not. I should go berserk, as they say, if I had not been refunded. Unlike the other reviewer who mentioned the out of stock issue, I was notified, if I recall correctly, within a couple of days.
(8) This one connects to the point (7) just above. I can happily say that I have always recivied my GUESS Factory packages within AT MOST seven days of placing the order. The product usually arrives the week after I have placed the order. This I find very impressive because I attend school at Sudbury, Ontario where the nearest GUESS Factory, I think, is in Cookstown, Ontario.
(9) I have purchased Sammy Coated Skinny Jeans in black coating and, within 4-8 washes, the black coating has completely disappeared and I am no longer looking at black coated jeans but am looking at black fabric jeans. The black is still dark, the fabric is black, every single seam/pocket/zipper area is faded at the edges from (apparently?) wear and tear, and the shine or reflection from the (lost) coating is obviously much more dull than when the coating was still present. There was the odd occasion where a friend tossed my jeans in with their own laundry, and it is possible, then, that on these odd occasions my friend might have used the "hot water" and the "vigourous wash" settings without turning my jeans inside-out (which I would have done for them, anyway). TL;DR, The coated jeans were like a dalliance—passionate, exciting, but ever so short lived.
(10) GUESS Factory used to offer a "Gift" option when making an online order. I always select this option because updating my wardrobe, despite how shallow it sounds, is a congratulatory occasion for me. I love buying clothes, but I spend usually over a month just making a perfevt Cart and ensuring all the items I want are on sale and such, so I always feel like I need a pat on the back after placing an order. But, only recently, the Gift option has simply disappeared from the website, for me, anyway.
(11) The Gift option provided this: On your receipt, which lists all of the prices of everything, there is at the bottom a tiny, and I mean tiny, strip of text which is your Gift message. GUESS Factory, this is, like, seriously, it's dumb as hell; "Happy Birthday! Look at all the money I spent on you (ouch), and look at YOUR beautiful plain-text message in size 8 font at the very bottom of MY receipt! How exciting!"
(12) Once upon a time, a GUESS Factory order would come packaged in a nice Marciano – GUESS branded box with GUESS wrapping paper and plastic-wrapped clothes and a GUESS sticker which had stuck a copy-and-paste gratitude letter from the CEO or one of the Founders. This sticker and letter of gratitude no longer appear despite this sticker and letter of gratitude being a sort of "cherry on top," if you will, to a successful shopping experience.
(13) I have, on one occasion and for only one single item of a multiple-item order, received a weathered-plastic plastic-wrapped "rag" covered in dust which was supposed to be my underwear (I think it was my underwear). This is extremely unprofessional (savage, as we youngsters say!), for, if you're going to pick my new clothes off your dirty floor, at least wipe them off and put them in fresh plastic like any sly businessman would do.
(14) Sometime last year or the year before, the XS size for men was changed. The XS size for men is no longer a men's size, but is a boys' size, that is, the small shirt might fit, for example, at my waist; the medium sits, say, one inch below my waist; the extra small fits, say, two to three inches above my waist. What I am trying to illustrate here is that the XS for men is no longer "one size down from small" but seems to me to be "at least two to three sizes down from small." So, gentlemen, when you see a $115 jacket on sale for $19.99, and it's in XS, its that cheap because it's XS (which few men can fit into). This new XS size, however, might be perfect for teenaged boys who tend not to fit into the boys' sizes of clothes.
I think this is all, then. Thank you for reading my review. My biggest piece of advice with GUESS Factory is: caveat emptor, that is, buyer beware; it is your job as a customer to make absolutely zero mistakes and to plan ahead for GUESS Factory making a mistake and being heartless savages about fixing their own mistake. And God forbid you make a mistake yourself, because you might as well just send GUESS Factory an extra $20 to apologise for your own mistake because you will find no help from them.
So, if you are (1) a wise shopper, who is (2) willing to take what has been for me a very small risk of receiving a butchered order, and who is (3) willing to take the frustrating risk that some (maybe around 33%) of the clothes ordered will simply fall apart, or alternatively deteriorate drastically, within weeks to months of wearing them, then (4) have a blast, because you honestly will enjoy your ordered clothes.
IMPORTANT EXTRA INFO:
The belts for men are freaking great-looking. However, every single belt I have bought has, without fail, within three months MAXIMUM of purchasing, either (1) completely fallen apart literally into its constituent pieces, or (2) the buckle literally popped out and is on the ground somewhere in Ontario and now I have a belt the buckle whereof is missing. I have bought a total of only four or five belts, so perhaps I only bought the defective styles?
MORE EXTRA INFO:
The jackets I have bought (two of them) are warm enough for Ontarian winters, have not yet fallen apart, are worn almost daily in the winter and fall and spring, retain colour and feel like new, and have not had any pieces fall off. The jackets, however, are short: one of my jackets at its lowest point is JUST TO SAY at my waist, but this is the style and is not a defect, and I receive compliments from, honestly, the majority of people who see me wearing the jacket who know me. (The jacket is a hooded bomber jacket of sorts made from faux leather or "suede" which is totally not suede-like in the least.) My other jacket is a topcoat and so one would expect it to fall quite low, but the lowest point of the topcoat is, and do not quote me on this, a bit higher than the average topcoat.
FINAL EXTRA INFO:
The underwear for men, at least a year or two ago, used to fit about one size smaller than the listed size.
RATINGS:
Service (online) = 1.
Value (WITH SALES ONLY) = 4.
Shipping = 3
Returns (N/A; one good in-store experience) = N/A
Quality (including 1/3 # of clothes being duds) = 3
Refund (one time in-store experience) = Full Refund
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What I got.. IMG_1280.HEIC. What I ordered IMG_1281.PNG