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Urban Outfitters

urbanoutfitters.com
casual, general, vintage & retro men, womenAge 26-45
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About the Business

Urban Outfitters is a leading American lifestyle retail corporation founded in 1970 and headquartered in Philadelphia. It operates three main brands—Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, and Free People—offering a diverse range of fashion, accessories, and home decor, while emphasizing sustainability and unique collaborations.


urbanoutfitters.com
+1 800-282-2200
USA
Urban Outfitters is part of URBN Urban Outfitters, Inc.
Founded in 1970
Clothing item from Urban OutfittersFashion apparel by Urban OutfittersMerchandise from Urban Outfitters clothing lineUrban Outfitters fashion product

Business Highlights

General

Parent Company: URBN Urban Outfitters, Inc.
Year Founded: 1970
Target Gender: men, women

Shipping

Shipping Cost: free
Free Shipping: sometimes
Free Shipping Detail: for orders over $50

Returns

Return Policy: not free
Return Instructions: the items must either be unused or defective merchandise
Return Cost: $5 restocking fee

Sustainability

Sustainability Score: Not Good Enough
Recycling Program: no

Product

Style: casual, general, vintage & retro
Body Fit: regular
Available Sizes: Men's (XS, S, M, L, XL, XXL), Women's (XS, S, M, L, XL)

Customer Service

Support Channels: chat, phone
Support Phone: +1 800-282-2200

Payment Options

Payment Methods: card payments, financing, PayPal
Buy Now Pay Later: Klarna, Afterpay

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Reviews Summary

Urban Outfitters has a rating of 1.5 stars from 485 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Urban Outfitters most frequently mention customer service, credit card and order online. Urban Outfitters ranks 373rd among General Apparel sites.

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69
New York
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Website is HORRIBLE
September 23, 2021

All im going to say is, fix your fu*king website. Within the first two minutes of getting onto the website the page becomes unresponsive. Its literally impossible to do anything before it shuts down. Sooooo annoying. Once it gives you the option to "wait for the page to respond" even if you wait awhile, like 30 minutes, it still cant seem to be able to fix itself. Very very very frustrating.

Date of experience: September 22, 2021
Canada
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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Charged me double
April 20, 2017

I ordered $360 worth of products and they charged me double. I am getting nowhere with them when it comes to getting one of the charges reversed. This company therefore stole $360 from me. I will never order from them again.

Date of experience: April 19, 2017
Virginia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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If you buy at a store, you'll need to exchange your item at the store even if it is a gift. We traveled to Austin from VA and my daughter got a sweater that was too big for her. We tried to exchange it but they will not exchange it at the store we have here. I'm stuck with a $90 sweater that is too big.

Date of experience: December 30, 2017
New York
1 review
5 helpful votes
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I paid for 2 day shipping to get this dress for a wedding before I leave. Doesn't ship out for 5 days, then I'm told it is being delayed and won't arrive for another week. I leave tomorrow, my rush to find a dress is on. Screw this

Date of experience: July 8, 2016
North Carolina
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Body Discrimination
August 10, 2016

I went onto their website today and I am extremely upset that all of their models are a size zero. This is completely discriminatory against body sizes of all types, not a single girl was bigger than a twig. This is not a positive promotion or realistic goal for any one. Plus the majority of this website is over priced anyway and I wouldn't promote them.

Date of experience: August 10, 2016
South Carolina
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I bought a billie eilish album for 20 dollars and was extremely careful with it. I didn't touch the grooves or cause any harm- yet the album stutters and jumps. All my other records work perfectly fine. Money wasted on a crappy product.

Date of experience: June 17, 2021
Minnesota
1 review
0 helpful votes
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After 3 months I am still waiting for my dresser. I have been in contact with support for 3 months and they give me nothing but vague answers. They literally lost the product in their warehouse. I had to ask them to do a dock search to find it... once they did it was broken. They had to order another one and now wont tell me when I can expect it.

I am so miserable talking to them. DO NOT ORDER FROM THEM.

Date of experience: August 17, 2023
New York
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Ordering sucks
March 10, 2015

Their whole ordering system sucks. I ordered a pair of shoes as a gift only to find out I got the size wrong. So I asked if they could change the order (note this was 5 mins after I ordered it) they said they could not because it was too far processed. When I asked for advice they said "There was nothing they could do" The next day I found out I could cancel my order. So when I asked to cancel, they said the order was far too processed to cancel.? When I asked when I was allowed to cancel orders they said immediately. Because people make mistakes and realize it at that moment. Good $#*!ing job Urban Outfitters. Never buying from here again. I would give 0 stars if I could.

Date of experience: March 10, 2015
Hawaii
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I purchased a shirt a month prior to a trip and got standard shipping which states 7-10 business days. After 3 WEEKS of waiting I finally contacted them via email 3 times and they did not get back to me, when their website states "you will receive a response within 24-48 hours". Did not receive any response so I called their customer service line, which they gave me express shipping and states it should get to me before my trip, 2-3 business days. It is a WEEK later, and tracking through USPS it now updated stating I am recieving my item the day after I leave. This company is extremely frustrating. They obviously do not care about customers as well as you can see how many times I have attempted to contact them with no reply. The amount their clothing costs is not worth it.

Date of experience: September 7, 2018
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Force to have email receipt
September 25, 2022

Today at the Oxford Circus store I was forced by the cashier (No. *******) to have my receipt emailed to me. I refused, and she told me I MUST to give her my personal email if not then I don't get any receipt. She said the store does not have any paper for receipts and was very rude and lazy.
I think this is against the law to force customers to give up their personal email address and then receive unwanted marketing.
I had to call the manager to a paper copy of my receipt. I will never return to this store.

Date of experience: September 25, 2022
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Poor customer assurance
January 14, 2021

I ordered a vinyl back in november though paypal. Due to me living in the uk i had to pay 30 pounds shipping, compared to the 15 pounds for the vinyl. Then a week ago i got an email saying i need to authorise my payment. They then tried multiple times to grab 45 pounds out of my debit card throughout the week. Luckily i didnt have enough money in that account for them to take. After trying multiple times to contact them on email, online chat and phone they basically only gave me the option to cancel my order, or pay another 45 pounds to "authorise the payment".

Another thing im not happy with is how the UK support line is in america. Which means the times dont line up at all and it is awkward to call them at the times theyre open.

Another problem was i emailed them 3 times with my problem, and everytime i got an automated response saying i should look at online guides.

Date of experience: January 14, 2021
Texas
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Scammers
March 22, 2022

I dont Give a sh** if this place is a legit company, they take your money and don't return it, then ask for money again. But still won't send you your original money. Don't waste time and money with this company, cheap, scamming people. If i could I'd leave 0 stars, i hope urban outfitters burns to the ground

Date of experience: March 21, 2022
Pennsylvania
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Ordered several items from this store over a month ago with all the items in stock. Reached out to customer service several times to find out where pieces were from my order as my order stated "has yet to ship". They told the items were in stock and would ship. Today I receive an email saying the items are now out of stock. They are horrible! It took over a month to now have the items out of stock. Thanks for a Mery Christmas. Will never shop here again!

Date of experience: December 15, 2020
Florida
2 reviews
4 helpful votes
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Disappointed
February 28, 2017

This was my first time ordering from Urban outfitters and my last. I received my order and sent it back requesting a smaller size. I never received my order back so eventually I called to check on it and found out it was cancelled. They didn't have the size I requested so instead of communicating that to me and asking how I would like to proceed they just refunded my card and cancelled the order. Originally the items were on sale and because it was my first time ordering I got an additional percentage off. Now they will not honor those prices anymore for the same item. I tried contacting the company via email and phone to reprocess the order I originally placed and they refused to offer a resolution. I never got my outfit or a resolution.

Date of experience: February 28, 2017
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I ordered a coat for my granddaughter for Christmas on 20th November 2021.
Delivery time was quoted 3-5 days
Kept looking at their tracking system as advised and kept sending e mails for an update on my order every week leading up to Christmas. Unfortunately as I have seen in other reviews we did not receive the item ordered and finally was informed that it went missing in transit to their couriers.
This was just before Christmas.
Asked me if I want to re-order the Coat and I asked to let me know if it was in stock and or refund me.
Never answered my question if it's in stock just informed me today 7th Jan 2022 that I will be refunded in around 5 days.
Their care for customers is non existent and looking at most reviews this is common practice. Appalled at the fact that the owners of this company are not looking at these reviews and seem not to care!
Avoid ordering anything on line as it's likely to happen to you as well.

Date of experience: January 7, 2022
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I ordered a dress and two pairs of jeans (they were on sale for 50% off) back in March and because I was on exchange, I didn't actually get to open my package until I got home around June... only to find the dress and ONE PAIR of the two jeans that I had ordered... I called in and they said they could only do something about it if it were within 30 days of receiving the package? They couldn't reimburse me or even offer any kind of store credit... so at the end of the day I paid for a full priced pair of jeans when it was their mistake and only gave me one. Terrible and unprofessional.

Date of experience: June 21, 2015
Australia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Cancellation and sales
October 27, 2016

I ordered a cute record player and 5 of my favourite albums... thinking okay well I've wanted all this for ages.
4 of my albums have been shipped, but my absolute favourite one is on a 'back order' for a week now.
To top it off out of no where my record player was cancelled, no explanation just cancelled... so I have albums shipped to me but I can't play them because I have no player and this forced me to look for another type of player on their site $10 more than I wanted... they had then updated the previous player I wanted from cream to silver coloured same price and product! I am so confused whether they cancelled my order because the product change who knows. Atleast they didn't charge me for the player only the albums!

But never again will I shop here and don't bother shipping, pricing, products and cancellation you'll never win!

Date of experience: October 27, 2016
Pennsylvania
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Urban Outfitters states when your shipment will arrive but it means nothing. Their warehouse takes several days to process your order (and no weekend work) and they don't use "expected arrival between x-x", but rather state exactly when your order will arrive which is misleading. Basically, you'll get your package when you get your package. Awful and unhelpful customer service when you try to call about your order.

Date of experience: September 18, 2018
Illinois
1 review
1 helpful vote
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They are horrible at handling orders and will push back or cancel anything they can just to get more and more money from people. They don't care about quality control or satisfying customers and are very unprofessional.

Date of experience: July 5, 2021
Massachusetts
1 review
2 helpful votes
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DO NOT ORDER ONLINE
March 13, 2014

DO NOT ORDER ONLINE. I ordered items online and they charged my credit card. However, when I checked my urban account for transactions they did not show up. I also typed in my zip code and order number and the order did not show up. I emailed them, but they did not respond. A day later I used live chat to complain, and they told me that the order never got sent to the warehouse. Lastly, now the items I want are sold out so I can't even order them. I don't understand why I received an order number and receipt and my credit card got charged, but my order just didn't go through the warehouse. All the person I was talking to said was "I'm sorry." Sorry doesn't fix it.

Date of experience: March 12, 2014