Absolutely terrible quality control and terrible online customer service
Absolutely terrible quality control. I llaced an order on a Thursday and surpringly it arrived on Saturday ---very happy with the quick shipping! I irdered 3 items that arrived in two different packages from UPS----2 were wrapped in additional plastic, while another one was just the garment (a navy dress) in the shipping bag. The navy dress had CLEARLY been worn, as evidenced by the deodorant stains all over the bottom front of the dress. There were also deodorant stains on the inside armpit area. Since the navy dress must have been shipped directly from a store, it is beyond bonkers that someone thought it was an acceptable condition to be sold and shipped.
I reached out to customer service and chatted online with a "live representative" who was obviously just clicking on pre-written responses. That alone was frustrating, but the "solution" to my problem was for me to return the item and pay for shipping and then reorder the item and they would give me the "standard" shipping rate-----my original order was free shipping so obviously this did not make any sense. I do not have any Banana Republic factory stores close to me, so this entire situation reminded me of why I stopped purchasing from them in the first place. Their quality control and quality of overall items has gone so far downhill in the past six or so years. This is actually the first time I have bought anything from them in a few years and I will not be purchasing anything from them again. I'm not sure what is more frustrating.. the fact that someone put a used dress in a shipping bag to send to a paying customer or the fact that live representative is completely useless.








