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Lids.com sells licensed caps, jerseys and fan gear for professional and collegiate sports teams. The company offers custom embroidery services and a wide selection of official team merchandise, catering to sports enthusiasts seeking to show their team spirit.

Pros
  • Good product quality
  • Fast shipping on some orders
Cons
  • Poor communication from support
  • Inconsistent inventory management

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    Customer ServicePriceRates

    Reviewed Dec. 21, 2024

    I purchased a Ja Morant Jersey through Lids.com. They charged my card and say they have shipped it, but I have never received it. The tracking show a delivery date, but it just gets pushed back every day. Their customer service is only an automated chat bot and is worthless. For the ridiculous price they are charging for this jersey they should have better customer service.

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    Reviewed Dec. 17, 2024

    I purchased this hat from a mall in West Palm Beach. Thought nothing of it until I saw the back of the hat. This is incompetence in the worst form. I still can’t believe they made this hat, especially being a die hard Cardinals fan!!!

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    Reviewed Dec. 16, 2024

    They sent another $74 shirt with stains on it. I did not know that Lids was affiliated with or actually is Fanatics but apparently, they are. I'd previously returned an expensive shirt with stains from Fanatics and found the same shirt on Lids. Not knowing the affiliation, I ordered a replacement shirt and it came from Fanatics. After over two weeks of waiting, it arrived. The replacement shirt is stained but it is too late to return it before Christmas. These two companies have no quality control whatsoever and have ZERO concerns about the overpriced garbage they sell. I will never do business with such a disgusting bunch of low-lives again and will never stop spreading the word about the trash they sell.

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    Reviewed Dec. 14, 2024

    Purchased a Lebron jersey for my son and hoped to have it by his birthday. Site said 3-5 buisness days, but it actually took 2 weeks. I actually forgot I even ordered it. Once received, it was to small. I paid $71 for it, but to return it, I would have to pay $9.99 for shipping and my refund would have been $53. If I accepted an ereturn, shipping was free, but the e credit would have been $63. Why do online sales if you are not going to operate like the actual stores? In addition I just wanted to exchange it for a bigger jersey, and you would think I could exchange it in store, but nope. I will never do buisness online with them again.

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    Reviewed Nov. 5, 2024

    This company is ridiculous, bought 4 hats from them. All were listed in stock at the time of purchase and my credit card was charged. Now looking at my order they are saying 2 hats are now out of stock and it’ll take over a month if not more to receive my order. How do you allow someone to purchase an item if it’s out of stock? To blatantly mislead customers is absurd and gladly take money without actually having a product is in my mind stealing. I’ll look elsewhere when I want new hats.

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    Customer ServicePricePunctuality & SpeedRefunds & PayoutsStaffBillingTransparencyCommunication

    Reviewed Nov. 2, 2024

    "I placed my order on October 16th and was expecting it to ship by October 23rd, as stated in the confirmation email. However, it's now been close to 3 weeks, and I still haven't received any updates on shipping. When I called the customer service representative, they informed me that they don't have the items in stock and are waiting on the warehouse to restock. No estimated timeline was provided.

    What's even more frustrating is that my credit card was charged immediately, but I'm still waiting for the products to arrive. I've tried to cancel the order, but was told that I need to wait until I receive the items to initiate the return and refund process. I'm extremely disappointed in the lack of communication and transparency throughout this process. I hope that the company takes steps to improve their inventory management and customer service."

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    Customer ServiceRefunds & PayoutsStaff

    Reviewed Oct. 23, 2024

    I've been trying to get my return refunded for almost two months. They sent me a fake egift card that had no funds on it. This company is a fraud, wouldn't recommend ordering from here. I can't even get a hold of a customer service rep. Their agents are not helpful at all.

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    Customer ServicePriceRefunds & PayoutsStaffTimeliness

    Reviewed Oct. 7, 2024

    This review is one for Locker Room by Lids. I've visited this business twice in my life and the experience from a customer service/staff perspective has been awful, mainly at the Town Center Mall in Kennesaw GA. It seems as if Lids hires kids who have no clue in customer service. My wife and I visited this said location on Sat. 10/5 and purchased about $100 worth of product (which we returned after the poor service), including a custom hat, which I paid additional $12 for.

    I kindly asked to be shown how it would look, how large the logo would be and I was totally ignored by the associate, Cammy (Cashier # **). After it was completed, it looked absolutely awful and I asked for a refund and she mumbled that it can't be done on custom goods. I mentioned to her that the actual associate who helped me told me that if it didn't turn out the way I wanted it could be returned. Her response was no response. I could go into more detail here, but bottom-line is I will never shop with Locker Room by Lids again. If you don't mind spending money and receive poor service, then this is your place.

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    Contract & TermsPriceRefunds & Payouts

    Reviewed Sept. 27, 2024

    The quality of my purchase was not as expected so I thought it would be an easy Amazon return. NOT so. Nightmare! May have to keep the junk. We are very unhappy with the whole experience, just want a refund. And that will cost another 10.00

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    Sales & MarketingPricePunctuality & SpeedRefunds & PayoutsBilling

    Reviewed Sept. 25, 2024

    I ordered from this company online four hats that were discounted. After charging my credit card and the charge going through 3 days later they canceled my order. They did not give me a reason as to why and now I am trying to find out why my card has not been reimbursed yet. I do not recommend this company to anyone.

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    Reviewed July 8, 2024

    They mishandled my hat. Now I'm out of 50 bucks and stuck with a warped hat. Never again will I trust these incompetent fools. I mean come on how difficult is it to properly package a hat. Bunch of idiots is an understatement.

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    Customer ServicePriceStaff

    Reviewed July 4, 2024

    If negative stars were possible I'd give it, this place is a total rip off. Ordered 3 hats from them in one order, received and hat fits weird, decided to return, first you can't return a online order in store, Secondly they charge $10 return shipping, ok, I still decided to return despite their $10 shipping. Contacted customer support for return, agent puts it in as 3 separate returns charging me 3 separate $10 shipping charge for 3 separate return label even though it was all ordered in one and shipped as one order, after that the agent went ghost on the chat and refused to reply as to why it's 3 separate returns oppose to one return for all 3 products. This place is a shameless rip off, STAY AWAY!

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    Customer ServicePriceOnline & App

    Reviewed June 28, 2024

    If I could give this place a neg 0 I would. I ordered 2 shirts from their website and neither one look like what was sent to me. I checked the tags, the shirts they sent were $1 shirts I've seen at the dollar tree. The graphics are so cheap and look like a 5 yr designed it. Each shirt was $34 plus shipping and I'm sure they made them for $2. They won't accept returns unless you pay the 9.99 for the label, which is rip off. DO NOT, I REPEAT DO NOT ORDER FROM THIS SITE, your child will do a better job at making you a t shirt. Also their customer sucks, they won't respond. My cc said I was charged $190 when all I bought was 2 shirts. Buy local even It cost more.. I'm reporting the additional charges to my cc too. They overcharged my cc almost 120 bucks. RIP OFF COMPANY!

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    Punctuality & SpeedOnline & AppRefunds & Payouts

    Reviewed June 24, 2024

    I always order my husband's hats from Lids.com, never had any issues, till this year 2024. I ordered him a NFL hat for Father's Day, the hat was suppose to be here June 15, 2024 and never received, Lids.com sent a replacement that was suppose to be received by June 22, 2024, and still no hat, USP states that they're waiting on the package still and ONLY created a shipping label, same as the original order which still haven't received the original product. Now they are wanting to reship a 3rd time for the product to be here by July 2, 2024, and giving us a run a round about the current tracking of the hat, and a refund. LIDS are saying different information than the actual USP tracking information they provided, trying to say it's out and should be here tomorrow but the website is saying it hasn't been received. Bad business right here. I once was a happy customer and recommended Lids, not anymore. Lids is going down hill.

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    Punctuality & SpeedTransparency

    Reviewed June 18, 2024

    Ordered a custom jersey. Already a week late and tracking has not been updated. Been trying to contact them for days to resolve the issue and getting nowhere. An order over $200 missing and can't get answers at all. Will never order from them again.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed April 5, 2024

    I've bought many I mean many hats from Lids in St. Cloud MN. But have always had trouble finding a team and the correct size everytime and have asked each person working there what was going on with that and their response was, "They won't let us get other than what we have," so with that said crazy poor management I guess. Good luck if you love baseball!

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    Staff

    Reviewed Feb. 24, 2024

    Worker Ricky ** treated me so well and helped us with everything we needed, he definitely deserves a raise! He knows all the ins and outs of different hats and has expert opinion on which hat suits you best!

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    Reviewed Jan. 24, 2024

    Had to exchange a gift and although the sizing of MLB 59fifty Hats is terrible. Lids exchanged 2 times till I received a hat that fit correctly. Appreciate the service and helping me get the gift I originally wanted. Thanks.

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    Reviewed Jan. 6, 2024

    Received a gift card as present. When completing order online, a message popped up that said card was "not active." Called customer service who verified gift card balance. The agent stated card was "inactive "and they would put in a ticket to resolve the issue. Two week later, I called again because I received the same "inactive" message and was not able to complete online transactions. Agent verified gift card balance and stated the gift card showed "active status" and I should be able to place an order online. Card still does not work online. Agent said she would try to place on her end, however, later said she was unable to do so, and is unable to help further without order number from original purchaser. I find this strange, because the agent was to verify the card has funds and validity of gift card.

    Agent refused to escalate call to management because they are all in a "private meeting" for the next three hours. I tried to call again and get the same agent again and again. I would not recommend purchasing anything from this company. I feel like it is a scam. If it is a legitimate business, then their customer service and policies simply stink!

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    Customer ServicePriceRates

    Reviewed Dec. 13, 2023

    Don't shop Here! They will do whatever possible to stop a return. Went to exchange 2 hats I bought for my son's bday. Had receipt but because the price was removed they won’t allow it. None of the disclaimers mention this. To top it off the Manager at Market Mall had terrible service skills in arguing this is the way it is everywhere which it is not. Not where I will shop!

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    Sales & Marketing

    Reviewed Nov. 26, 2023

    At store buy 1, get 1 50% percent off. The manager and worker says it's not for jacksonville or Miami teams since they are winning. I have informed my 42,000 followers to not go to this Lids store for they are using false sales ads.

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    Customer ServiceContract & TermsPricePunctuality & SpeedRefunds & PayoutsStaff

    Reviewed Nov. 21, 2023

    I ordered a hat that took over 2 weeks to receive, got the wrong size when I finally received it. I got my money back and was thinking about reordering the right size after they removed the $10 dollar fee to ship it back but, luckily I didn't get another because they say they take the fee off but in reality, they don't refund the full amount spent so they may even not fully refund your amount plus charge you $10 if you return it and that's basically $20 so if you end up getting the wrong hat because they send the wrong hat or size you pay extra just to get the hat you originally ordered. I think that's crazy a company charges you for a mistake on their end. I don't care if it's shipping or whatever it is. I feel if it's a mistake on the company's end they should be the ones taking a loss but, if you want to pay extra $10 - $20 for a company mistake I guess go for this company.

    I knew something told me wait until my refund hit my account before I reordered the right size because the guy who I spoke to on the phone was sure trying to get me to reorder the right size right then and I'm so glad I didn't because they was just trying to finesse me before I realized they still penalized me for them screwing up by refunding me less. The shipping fee with this company is crazy. I know 2 sites better that don't even charge for shipping and it gets shipped way faster. LIDS IS BAD BUSINESS, BEWARE!!!!!!!

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    Refunds & PayoutsResolution

    Reviewed Oct. 23, 2023

    I am extremely disappointed with the service I received from Lids. I ordered custom jerseys, and despite providing my unit number for shipping, the labels were incorrectly printed, resulting in my items being returned to your facility. To make matters worse, when I reached out, I was informed that nothing could be done to rectify the situation. It's baffling to me that such a simple request to include the unit number on the label was mishandled. The lack of attention to detail and the failure to meet basic customer expectations have left me thoroughly dissatisfied. This entire process has been a frustrating and inconvenient experience.

    I'm thoroughly displeased with the way my order was handled, and I cannot in good conscience recommend your company to anyone. This ordeal has left a sour taste in my mouth, and I would not wish this level of incompetence and disregard for customer satisfaction on anyone, not even someone I strongly dislike. I also showed Lids the confirmation it was returned who signed for it - when but they refuse to refund me on their error.

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    Sales & MarketingPriceBillingRates

    Reviewed Sept. 18, 2023

    Buyer beware of Lids "Free Shipping". All thru the selection/purchase process I entered a discount code which was for "free shipping". After the credit card purchase process was satisfied the purchase summary showed the purchase price had included the shipping cost.

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    Customer ServiceTechPriceStaffHonesty & Transparency

    Reviewed Aug. 25, 2023

    I ordered 3 items. One was a piece of jewelry that was barely the size of my pinkie nail and extremely misleading. 2 were shirts. One of the shirts I didn't like the fit and the other I wanted to exchange for a smaller size. I tried to do the return online and couldn't so I had to call in. The rep assisted with the return of the 2 items at a cost of $9.99 (which wasn't that clear when ordering), and they proceeded to process the exchange. She then came back and said that they don't do exchanges - I would have to return the shirt and reorder. To process this return now would be an additional $9.99 because she processed the other one already - and reordering the shirt would cost shipping fees as it wasn't now eligible for free shipping. I will definitely be more mindful of return policies in future, but will never order from here again.

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    Customer ServiceSales & MarketingPunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed Aug. 3, 2023

    Today I'm making a purchase of a hat. Upon entering a store employee stops me from coming in. He says they're going on lunch. Yet 4 other people are in there buying. Whatever happened to good customer service? I thought it was about making a sale. He basically said you have to wait until lunch is over. I'm busy and I'm not living on their time. It would of only been two minutes for a sale. These kids are so lazy today. This is a second time I've been denied a sale. Never will I go there again.

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    Punctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed July 12, 2023

    I did not have a good experience. I was waiting and waiting and never asked if I needed assistance. I stood in front of the desk waiting to purchase a hat and not once was I was if I needed help. I definitely think there needs to be more than 1 employee as that employee was not helpful.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Feb. 8, 2023

    I needed a birthday gift for Feb 6th, ordered on Feb 1, paid $24.99 for 2 business day delivery, expecting to see it by Feb 3rd. Did not receive it and there was no option to cancel. Spoke with an agent on Feb 4th who said she will submit a ticket to cancel. Received an email on Feb 6th that they are still working to ship the order?? I called and the agent said she will submit a cancellation, but could not provide a confirmation # or email to capture this. This is frustrating. (Both agents were super polite, the process is what needs improvement).

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    Reviewed Dec. 8, 2022

    I ordered two hats for a gift for my husband. Both hats were ordered in the size 7 3/8. When the hats arrived, one was the correct size, the other was 7 1/8. I called customer service, who was kind, and noted that the receipt and the order invoice had 7 3/8 on it. She resent the hat with 2 day delivery. The hat arrived and again in the wrong size 7 1/8. I called and was told that I now have to receive a refund and if I want another hat I have to reorder and pay for it. Such a bunch of crock. You suffer for their ignorance. To make it worse, the young lady hung up on me. I would go to a thrift store and purchase a hat before I pay another dime to Fanatics!!

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    Reviewed Oct. 24, 2022

    Purchased a fitted LA Dodger cap online. Absolutely said cap will get to me next day. Had a game to go to, so I pulled the trigger. Cap delivered 8 days later. Tried cap, fit was too tight. Check website & online instructions & states you can return to store. I was upset about delivery but thought a quick exchange would make up for it. Drive to Brea Lids store & told online order can only be returned online. Lids online only using Lids name (as explained by salesperson). Pretty much shady retail policy. Don’t think I’ll do business with Lids in the future.

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    Reviewed June 16, 2022

    Tried to return a hat, which I purchased two of different sizes, and decided to keep one. Lids.com denied my request, being 5 days late from their own "policy". For the record, Fanatics, which owns Lids, has a 365-day return policy, while Lids has a 90-day. Confusing, being the same company. Could've at least offered a exchange credit, in my opinion. Within the same week, back with customer service, on why a hat wasn't delivered yet. Stated it would be delivered in 3-7 business days. Now on day 14. I would not recommend to shop here.

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    Reviewed June 15, 2022

    I made a purchase of a custom jersey as a birthday present. The website told me that it would ship the next day, so I ordered as I needed it in a week. When I received the email confirmation it told me that the shipping date would be more than a month later. I immediately called to cancel the order, but was told that the order was already started, and couldn't be cancelled. (If it takes a month to put custom name and numbers on a jersey, then they have bigger issues than customer service).

    Once the Jersey arrived I tried to return it, but was told that custom orders can't be returned. I have argued relentlessly that their website promised next day shipping on the order, and that was the only reason that I bought it. They don't want to stand by the promise that the website makes, and refuse to refund my money. Lids is a shady unethical company that lures you in with false shipping dates. I will not buy from Lids again, and would advise anyone not to shop there.

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    Sales & MarketingPunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed Jan. 13, 2022

    Worst shopping experience of my life. Lids.com (AKA Fanatics) should have a disclaimer on every product page that states that it will take over a month for orders to be delivered (if at all). Please DO NOT order from this site or you will wait endlessly for a product that is never coming. Waited over a month, only for their support team to tell me that my order was "Lost in transit" twice. It's basically a scam website that doesn't honor any delivery commitment. You have been warned.

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    Reviewed Sept. 13, 2021

    Scammed me out of $150 and then refused to refund me. Worst company I have come across. Do not shop here unless you want to be ripped off. Hours of my time and hundreds of dollars wasted on a company that does not care about customer service.

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    Reviewed Aug. 28, 2021

    I ordered a jersey from them. I ordered on August 12th, and the shipping time said 3-7 days. I waited a month to finally receive my order. When I opened the package the jersey wasn’t there! Very shady.

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    Customer ServiceSales & MarketingPriceStaff

    Reviewed Aug. 18, 2021

    I'm 55, so talked to many Customer Service agents in my life. Lids is the WORST I have EVER encountered. Their CR people are rude, unhelpful, inept (I had to give them the product ID - they couldn't find it). They did bait & switch with coupons. God forbid you have a return - that will cost you $9.99 for shipping!!! No one should EVER purchase from this company. Class Action lawsuit should be filed for deceptive practices. BUYER BEWARE!!

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    Reviewed March 23, 2021

    I made a return and asked for my receipt back and I was denied... When I came in the associate was on a personal call and I waited although I shouldn't have to. I greeted her and she didn't greet me back... Fine. I explained I had a return. She asked why, I stated it had nothing to do with the hat. She snatched my receipt and I asked her "Did you just snatch my receipt ma'am?" And she said, "No why would I do that"? I stated, "You did, so only you can answer that." I explained she didn't greet a customer and made me wait for her on a personal phone call.

    I explained that, "I am the only customer so you can continue your call when your done with me so please don't be rude"... She abruptly wanted me to sign a receipt and said, "Have a good day!" I asked for my original receipt with the returned receipt and she gave me nothing!! She stated, "Store policy is no return receipts!!" I have never heard of such.. I asked her name and she refused. She stated she does not give her information out.. I expressed I would be lodging a complaint and it was then I asked to take a picture of my receipt and also recorded her disgusting customer service. She then states her name is Taylor.... I will NEVER SPEND MY MONEY HERE AGAIN....

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed Dec. 30, 2020

    I went to Lids at Concord Mills and the worker had an attitude before I even went inside. Because of Covid, they only allowed a few people inside at a time, which I understood so I did not mind waiting. He first had an attitude when he let the door down and told me I had to wait. Once I went inside, I politely asked for help with customizing a hat and he still acted as if he did not want to help me so I just said thank you and left empty handed. This experience bothered me because I work in customer service as well so I understand how annoying it can be at times, but treating customers poorly when they’re being nothing but respectful to you is unacceptable. This is not how you should treat people who are coming to spend money with you.

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    Reviewed Dec. 8, 2020

    My son went into Lids to have a picture put on a hat. They told him that they needed to convert a file for him so he can have it printed on a hat. They charged him $25 to convert his picture in a different format. He went there in November and never heard back from them. He tried multiple times to call the Palisades store and never got an answer. When he finally got the salespersons whose name is Brandon on the phone, Brandon told him he didn't want to do business with my son and hung up on him. I then called the store myself and spoke with Brandon. Before I can finish my sentence Brandon hung up on me. I called back and got Brandon again, he said for me to call back tomorrow to speak with someone else because he didn't want to deal with me. He then hung up on me again before I could ask why. I called a 3rd time and got no answer so I continued to call until they answered.

    I asked Brandon to not hang up on me since I was not disrespectful and just wanted answers. He finally spoke to me and still had an attitude. After asking him nicely to please assist me he did forward the file to another store since he was not going to be of any assistance to us. I find this extremely unprofessional and lacking any type of customer service that you would expect from a company with a long reputation. I was extremely shocked with this entire experience and cannot understand how Lids can have an employee with such a bad attitude working for their company.

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    Reviewed Dec. 2, 2020

    I stopped in Lids in the Asheville mall to check out some hats and I was being helped by a gentleman named Chevis and he kept being interrupted by another worker named Jess who was being rude. I thought she was being very unprofessional and lacks the respect for her fellow co-workers when he was answering all my questions and was very helpful, I got slightly upset with her and left without purchasing anything.

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    Reviewed Nov. 3, 2020

    I ordered some hats from Fanatics yesterday and they automatically entered a expedited shipping cost of 14.99 to my order which I didn't order or see until I paid already so I called back and canceled the order. I then ordered from Lids thinking they were a different company and they didn't apply my discount code from their website even though it said it was applied but after I punished complete order it removed it. I found out Fanatics and Lids are the SAME company and they both tried to scam me out of my money. I canceled that order too. They play games on their website to get you to pay more so be very careful when ordering and check your receipt.

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    Reviewed July 28, 2020

    I ordered two hats, the ones that came were not the ones I wanted. Tried to return but their site will not recognize my order number of my email. No phone number to to call. Stuck with 2 hats that worthless... DO NOT ORDER FROM LIDS.COM.

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    Reviewed June 26, 2020

    Today my 16 year old wanted to purchase a hat from Lids since he's never owned one. We shopped at Lids at the Square1 Mall In Saugus MA. I felt very proud allowing him to feel independent, and do his own shopping while I waited for him right outside the store. Until, he was told by the Lids employee who typically introduce themselves with the “Hello, can I help you?” Line.??? That she was not interested in helping him. She told him he could not try on the hats, and she could not tell him his size. (NOT EVEN A GUESS??)? She walked away from him leaving him with no choice but to walk out.

    I decided to go in with him and help him in getting a hat Because it broke my heart to see the disappointment in his face. This employee ignored me while speaking on the phone the whole time, then refused to help me when I asked for her help directly at her. The worker fixing the store door helped us!!!! While she stood behind the counter. I am raising my kids to know when and how to approach these situations especially in these trying times, but for a 16 year old brown kid to think his skin had something to do with the poor customer service is REAL ENOUGH FOR ME TO WRITE A Review!

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    Reviewed April 11, 2020

    I ordered a baseball shirt with my fiancee's name on it on February 19. 2 months later they tell me it will be another 2 months. I asked for a refund several times but when called they denied it. I have several letters of request one point telling me my email was not on file. Frauds and liars all.

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    Reviewed March 19, 2020

    I ordered two hats for $41.98 plus $7.99 shipping, a total of $49.97. When I received the hats in two separate boxes, they were a size too small for my head. I took a trip to a Lids location to make an exchange and they claimed I could not do it in store and had to ship the hats back. I followed the prompts on Lids.com to initiate a return. I found out that return shipping would cost $9.99. That’s an absurd amount for a package that weighs well under a pound. They populated two return labels, one for each hat. I only used one label and put both hats in one box with the other label because I thought they might charge me twice. To get the right size, I’d have to make a new order and pay $7.99 shipping again. That’s $25.97 in shipping for a simple exchange for size. That’s a lot of money to ship two hats that weigh next to nothing.

    But it gets better... they did charge me $9.99 twice for shipping despite me sending the two hats in one box. Out of the $49.97 I paid initially, I received $18.03 refunded to me. So two hats that did not fit which I simply wanted to exchange cost me $31.94 only to end up empty handed. I recommend you do everything you can to avoid shopping online with this company. They are clearly thieves and can’t be trusted to provide quality service. I’ve never seen anything like this before. Their customer service never responded to my message about this theft. I will never do business with this company ever again.

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    Reviewed Jan. 24, 2020

    Order was said to have been delivered, but after two days of searching, it showed up at the post office. It was originally shipped by FedEx with a FedEx tracking number, and Lids email said it had been delivered. Called FedEx and found my order was shipped via something called "smart post." FedEx delivers it to the post office which is then supposed to deliver it to the customer. As a customer, I'm wondering how I was supposed to know this. I called Lids and the customer service rep was snotty and claimed "everyone else gets their packages," so no restitution offered, no real care and no apologies.

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    Price

    Reviewed Jan. 8, 2020

    Lids wants to charge me $9.99 for shipping to return a hat. I can mail it on my own for $3.00, but you have to use their site in order to get the address for shipping. I will never use this company again. Buyer beware!

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    Reviewed Dec. 27, 2019

    Terrible company. I have never heard of a company that has both online and retail locations, and you can't return items in store. Got this for my husband for Christmas, and he didn't like the print, so we tried to return in store. No can do. I started the online return process, and they want to charge $9.99 for a return label, when I already paid them shipping in the first place to get this piece of crap here. Never will buy from them again.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Dec. 27, 2019

    I ordered 2 separate autographed NHL shirts for Christmas for my 2 grandsons. Both were over $250.00 each. I received them but they shoved both into 1 nice presentation box. How do I choose which grandson gets the nice display and the other a generic box. For that price 2 boxes would be expected. I called Lids more than 1 week before Christmas to ask for another box. They were very nice but did nothing. I purchase a lot of sports related items for my grand-kids and I will never purchase from LIDS again.

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    Reviewed Dec. 27, 2019

    Ordered stocking cap 19.99 with 5.00 off promo and free shipping, was charged on my PayPal additional 24.99 for expedited shipping!!! Customer service says part of a promo to be delivered by 24th was nowhere on my receipt for Lids but showed up on PayPal receipt after processing. I would never pay almost 3 times cost of hat for expedited shipping. What a stinking con artist company at Christmas time sticks it to customer!!!

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    Reviewed Dec. 27, 2019

    I received the wrong hat from Lids after they had charged me $23 for shipping in order to receive the item before Christmas. When you receive the item, there is no return label, and if you have to make a return, you must contact the help center just to obtain a return label. There is no call line, you have to join an online chat. I went on in the afternoon, and the chat line turned me away because there was no one to help. It wouldn't even put me in line. I went on at midnight assuming that there would be no wait. It finally put me in line, and I waited about 5 minutes before it said that there was no one to help me, and it directed me to the "submit a question" page. I tried again a few minutes later and was finally connected with a customer service representative. However, the representative was largely unhelpful and quite incompetent.

    First, I requested to exchange the wrong item for the correct one. Second, I requested a refund on the Guaranteed by Christmas shipping because I could not give my uncle his gift on Christmas. I am almost convinced the representative was a robot because I explained the items that I had received versus the items I was should have received 4 times before claimed she was able to understand the situation. After this, she sent the return label for the incorrect item, so I explained to her that it was wrong. Once she finally understood, she said that the item I had received was out of stock and she could only offer me a refund. After this, she explained that she had put in an order for the hat that I had already received (I ordered two; one was sent correctly). She said that once it came in the mail, I would have to return that one as well so I wouldn't be charged for it; and when I asked her to just cancel that order, she said she couldn't.

    Now I have to send two orders back and will not be receiving the item I originally ordered. She said someone else would be emailing me about getting a refund on my shipping, so she couldn't even take care of that for me. The entire chat took over an hour for nothing to really be taken care of. The inaccessibility of help and the incompetence on every level is almost inconceivable. I am extremely unhappy with this experience and will not be ordering from Lids again.

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    Reviewed Dec. 24, 2019

    I placed an order on Thursday added one day 15.99 shipping was supposed to arrive Friday afternoon. Never received it. I didn’t get no notification that they changed to Saturday. I call Lids they tell me to call another line to get tracking information because they didn’t know why or where the package was at the moment. I call the LS line that they gave me. They couldn’t even tell why the driver didn’t deliver the package. She continues to tell me wait till the end of Saturday to see if I get the package if not call them back and she took my number to pass the message to the driver.

    Saturday arrives and nothing gets delivered again! I call lids once again because at this point I had to go to the mall and purchase the items to make sure I had them. They tell me it was delivered at a different location than the address I PROVIDED! && I couldn’t get a refund till a whole 24hrs from the time it was “delivered” to the made up location because it’s one of the policy’s. So I call Sunday to get my refund and the man on the phone proceed to process another order instead of refunding the amount! Horrible experience. Never again will I shop online with lids. Horrible service!

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Dec. 24, 2019

    My online order was supposed to be delivered today by FedEx. My tracking number states the store was closed at 6:05pm which the mall is open tonight until 11pm so the driver is lying. I called FedEx. Great customer service. I call Lids.com and HORRIBLE to deal with. Won't even pick up the phone to call FedEx. Oh sorry maybe it will get there tomorrow. This is a Christmas gift with a guaranteed delivery. I am sure that is BS too!

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Nov. 24, 2019

    We had a hat embroidered today and it looked awful. They would not re-do the work nor give us our money back. The girl doing it seemed to be a newbie and was constantly on the phone with her manager for help. The thread broke and stopped at least 15-20 times just on the first letter of embroidery. That was while we were there. Who knows how many it times it stopped for the rest of the letters. The girl was having problems with the machine the whole time and kept adjusting it. The embroidery on the hat looks shoddy and not fluid. It looks like a kid tried doing it. She called her manager who wouldn’t do anything remaking or refunding. Said store policy is no returns. We were told to pay for the hat before it was made and weren’t told anything about any ‘store policy’. We Spent $43 for a hat that will never be worn!!

    The girl's excuse was that the letters were big and that’s why it looks the way it does. If it was a seasoned employee they could have warned us about that issue and we would have gladly had the font smaller. Truth is was the machine kept breaking the thread so she had to keep starting over and adjusting the hat so it missed areas. She didn’t seem concerned about it and she saw what the first hat we had done there years ago looked and how precise the stitching is. The dark gray hat is the one that the embroidery didnt turn out good. The light gray is the one that we had done about 5 years ago. The light gray hat embroidery was crisp and flows well. The one we had done today is very sporadic with the stitches.

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    Staff

    Reviewed Nov. 8, 2019

    I'm a CUSTOMER of 6 yrs buying online, all was good, ton of hats of all variety. Now just sports. Had a access pass to buy things at 10% apparel. 20% for hats in the clearance area. Every 100.00 dollars spent you get 10.00 coupon. Now this company was brought out by Fanatics. All change for the worst. They don't even send you a invoice on what you brought. You have to figure out which item goes with order. Disaster! I wish they never sold out. They were better than Fanatics.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Oct. 16, 2019

    I placed an online order for $100 gift certificate paid with PayPal. It was for my son's birthday. I put his email, name and a message in the form. It has now been 36 hours and I've spent at least 1.5 hours talking to customer service that can't help me. Apparently they are sending it to me and then I must forward it to my son. Live chat for 40 minutes and the girl was no help. Today on the phone for 30 minutes (mostly on hold), no help. I guess I'm the first one ever to buy an online gift certificate because they have no idea how to process one or even the procedure. Just wait 24hrs is the answer. Never Again.

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    Online & App

    Reviewed Oct. 9, 2019

    I ordered a jersey with the expected shipping date of no later than September 30th. On October 3rd I received an email letting me know that the jersey will not be shipping until further notice. It is now October 10th and they are still unable to specify when the jersey will even begin the shipping process. Their website is still promising shipping dates 7-days after order but, they still aren’t fulfilling orders from weeks previous.

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    Reviewed Sept. 16, 2019

    Bought a few shirts for my wife. She wears a medium everyday of the week but I wanted her to be able to put some insulation underneath the items so I ordered her a large. Guess what? I guess Pakistan or wherever doesn’t have our size charts here and it was still too small! Here is the crime....so it Lids charges me 5 dollars to ship and of course bills me for it, when I return it, you download a label which is prepaid but Lids charges you and takes it out of your refund money!!!! They charged me 11.50 to ship it back hence they took 11.50 from my refund! What a ** company.

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    Customer ServicePrice

    Reviewed Aug. 28, 2019

    - Noticed shipping takes way longer than before Fanatics bought them. (Avg. 7-9 business days.)
    - Packaging is lazy. (Caps just in the box without plastic cover OR invoices.)
    - Refunding is ridiculous. They charge you for the return label which was 14$ plus sales tax??

    - Customer service is extremely hard to get a hold of.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Aug. 24, 2019

    I've never experienced this. I always shop at Lids but this time I decided to go online and order... I was checking my order and I notice it's still says pending. I went to live chat and was told this BS about Security Credit Check. WTH does that have to do with me purchasing a hat online. I buy stuff online all the time but this really threw me off... I've never went through nothing like this before. Well I know one thing I will never purchase online again. I should have went into the store like always. It's always something.

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    Sales & Marketing

    Reviewed Aug. 10, 2019

    I sent back several items that I ordered. Upon receipt got the wrong order. Used the label that Lids provided and it showed returned. After Lids received the box they never refunded any of the money after 7 days. I think this a scam that the new owners fanatics are doing in order to cut down on return costs. If they send you the wrong item and you used their label to return it expect not to get a refund. I would avoid this company if you are a consumer reading this review. Lids service has really went down the toilet.

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    Price

    Reviewed Aug. 8, 2019

    Very disappointed in Lids policy as of March to no longer ship to store free. They now charge $3.99 unless you order at least $35 worth of merchandise. This is only $1 less than shipping directly to your house. Almost every major retail store offers free shipping to their stores at no charge. Since the company's sale and part ownership by Fanatics, Fanatics now holds a monopoly on MLB and NFL sports caps etc. I guess they feel you have no choice but to pay for this service. No longer a customer after many years. Thanks.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Aug. 3, 2019

    Now that they no longer provide free shipping to store...I will no longer shop online with them. Less personal service means worse service as seen in other reviews. Live chat that never seems to be available.

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    Customer ServicePrice

    Reviewed Aug. 2, 2019

    I ordered the Raptors championship gear on the night they won the title. But it took a month to come. I ordered a tshirt and a hat. The hat never came, yet they charged me for both. The delivery fee was also significant and I do not know why they charged because it says 2-7 business days, but it took a month to get here. I called them and they said they can give a refund for the item that I did not received, but not a refund for the delivery fee or the shirt. Because it took such a long time, I ended up buying another Tshirt at Sport Chek. Why would you even offer online service if you are not capable of carrying out a simple order? So even if I were to return my products, I would still be scammed off the delivery fee that took much longer than it was expected. Very dissatisfied, will never order from Lids again and I will make sure my friends and family will never order from Lids again.

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    Price

    Reviewed Aug. 1, 2019

    Purchased two snap-backs and had it shipped to the store for pick up. Once there I decided I did not want one of the caps. I was told Lids.com and the actual Lids store are no longer the same. The online site was bought out by a company named "Fanatics" therefore I could no longer return the item at the store. When I went online to start the return process, they wanted to refund me only $14.00 for a cap I paid 23.99 for. They were charging me $9.99 to send the cap back! That's ridiculous and turned me off to the website. I will not purchase online again.

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    Customer ServiceContract & Terms

    Reviewed July 19, 2019

    Purchased a hoodie in June and still haven't received it by July. Shipment date keeps getting pushed back. Live chat is never available. When I pay for shipping I expect the guaranteed shipping terms to be kept.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed July 17, 2019

    Bought some Raptors championship gear but they kept delaying the ship date so I just wanted my order cancelled. My initial call had them falsely proclaim that I will get my refund in 2-7 days. Turns out they shipped half my order anyways and wants me to pay for the shipping costs. After some persistence they refunding my shipping but not the tax from it. In order to get my full refund I have to wait another 3 weeks. Pretty embarrassing and a likelihood that I'll never buy from Lids again.

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    Reviewed July 17, 2019

    No delivering. Two times I tried to order items, two times they cancelled my order even by using two different addresses. That's what they said: "Unfortunately we were unable to verify your order with the information provided and your order has been canceled and refunded".

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    Staff

    Reviewed July 8, 2019

    Very disappointed in the last 2 interactions with the support team that informed me that I could not cancel my order despite the website saying that an order can be cancelled at any time. Essentially I placed an order almost 3 1/2 weeks ago with no update on shipping and the standard shipping time is supposed to be within 3 to 7 business days. After 3 weeks of waiting, I realized that I would probably be better off going into the store to purchase these in stock items, and tried three separate times to contact support, explicitly letting them know that I no longer wanted the order. I asked them to mark this on the account and they claimed it would unlikely the items would be shipped since there was this issue flagged on my account. To my surprise, coincidentally both items have shipped and no I have no recourse but to wait until they arrive, meaning I need to wait even longer for a refund to be processed which I think is unacceptable.

    It's now going to be such a hassle to refund the items when I stated I no longer wanted in the first place -- they should not have been shipped. I suspect I was given the runaround on purpose as this should be a deference tactic to prevent me from following through with a refund. Interesting that only when I attempted to cancel the order, the items mysteriously shipped on a Saturday and Monday respectively no less.

    Heads up for other customers, if you try to cancel an order, doesn't seem like their order fulfillment and sales systems talk to one another and they will still proceed with the shipment of an order you attempted to cancel. Definitely would not purchase again. Buyer beware -- do yourself a favor and just go into one of the stores where refunds are much more straightforward. Also the customer agents will claim they can't do certain things on an account and say you'll hear back regarding an escalation in however many hours -- do not trust this. This business is deceptive with their support messaging. Again BUYER BEWARE.

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    Price

    Reviewed July 8, 2019

    I ordered a hat and used the sizing chart to help measure since it was a fitted hat. The hat came and it too big. I saw that they wanted to charge $10 for a printing label that I have to print or go to a store for them to print. I asked if I could return to a store and was told no had to do it online. So, to return the hat it will cost almost the same amount as buying the hat since you are out the shipping cost plus the cost of the label.

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    Reviewed July 6, 2019

    I don't know what all of the complaints are about. I was given a due date as to when the items would arrive and I received both items on the date or beforehand. The items are exactly as described and fit to a tee. The only issue I have is that the parcels were left out in the open as if they were just tossed toward the door. I am glad I noticed it before someone scooped it up. It would have been nice if the delivery guy came to the door? At any rate, everything else was fine.

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    Punctuality & Speed

    Reviewed June 29, 2019

    Wow, where do I begin.... I pay for my merch. on Monday and pay 36 bucks to get it on Thursday. Waited three days for no update on when my stuff was going to show up on Thursday all while calling about 80! times to get a confirmation. All in all the worst service I've ever had to deal with, while being told that no one can talk to any other department because of space satellites and aliens and blah blah blah.... Well I say yellow purple monkey dishwasher to that!

    And then when I've had enough and want to cancel, I'm told that they can't cancel because! Wait for it.... it's in process! The kicker is this is Sat. now and it hasn't been processed yet, and I've finally got an update to tell me! It's still in the works and you guessed it. Not processed yet! Turnips could do a better job than this place! First time and last time I'll ever use you donkeys. Hats off to you, but I can't because my hat is still "in process". Smell yeah!

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    Customer ServiceOnline & App

    Reviewed June 16, 2019

    I recently found out Lids which is owned by Genesco which happens to be in my hometown of Nashville, TN sold Lids to Fanatics or Fanzz, Inc. Since the sale it is a complete nightmare to use the app. The app was great before all this. Now it’s impossible to find anything. You can’t select your hat size to narrow down the search. On top of that Fanatics are greedy ** and will now only email a code for a 20% discount on your hats. Complete **! You used to have the discount automatically applied and therefore could save on shipping and other various discounts.

    The sale of the company was for only $100 million. In the day and age of giant corporations shelling out billions for companies Fanatics is killing their own company currently. There are so many complaints being received currently that they won’t even allow you to access the chat online. Piss Poor Business practices Fanzz! I have not purchased any merchandise since this transaction as it’s so difficult to do anything online. I usually purchase something every month. Look at the poor reviews pile in and yet nothing is being improved for months. ** off you Corporate **!!

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    Reviewed May 27, 2019

    I dropped off a brand new under Armour polo to be stitched 4 days before I needed it. I went it and they designed it and said it would be ready the next day at a certain time; so I went in and nothing not even started so they said the next day it would be ready and nothing again and the same until today. Went in today to pick it up (mind you it is Memorial Day) and I have been to the store now three times in one day and still not ready. I went in after an hour or so and there it was, the worst stitching job I had ever seen. Everything was uneven shoddy work and the placement was not in line, even worse it was on the shoulder. Now I have to wait and have my brand new shirt reimbursed and the service reimbursed. What a joke... NEVER use this store for Embroidery. Lets see if I even get my money back.

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    Reviewed May 8, 2019

    I don't know what happened but I use to buy all my hats from Lids' online website. Recently they have changed the site and I cannot find anything. I literally haven't been able to spend money even though I want to buy new hats. What company would want to stop customers from spending money on their site? I don't understand. Time to find a new online hat store.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed May 7, 2019

    Lids was recently bought out by Fanatics. Now you cannot use your Access Pass when you want. They email you a 20% off code every month which sucks. Before once you logged on the discount was applied to the cart. You use to get the 20% off even on the new hats now the new ones are exempt from the discount. Way to go Fanatics on screwing up a good thing for the consumers.

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    Price

    Reviewed April 22, 2019

    I have really fallen in love with this website. They used to do a great job with the clearance section but now since they’ve done this new update it is extremely difficult to find the products I want. I used to be able to do a search and have my favorite three teams listed in the search however now that is not possible because the filter is extremely specific. Also I noticed the selection is extremely limited now and the bargain prices are used to get no longer exist or even close to what I paid.

    Another great thing I loved about the old site is for every purchase of $50 or more it was free shipping. Now That option is no longer available and the shipping prices are ridiculous. I would like to support Lids but this site is unacceptable and a very big let down to loyal customers. I will wait a few months and check back to see if anything has changed.

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    Online & App

    Reviewed April 17, 2019

    This new website is horrible and is very difficult to find items as before. The clearance section is gone? What happened to the free shipping to the store? What happened to our rewards to be used online? Whoever did the rebranding or restructuring should be fired! Simply awful! This need to be fixed ASAP! Won't shop here anymore!

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    Reviewed April 15, 2019

    Went to return a hat which was a gift. Hat had never been worn and I had receipt in hand. I had met all the requirements needed to receive a refund as printed on the back of their receipt. Manager advises me that she cannot perform a return since the product is missing a sticker. So I press her to show me where it states that in the return policy. She advises me that the cashier should have told when I purchased the hat. I replied that I did not personally make the purchase and that I did not remove anything attached to the hat. Yet she stood firm and said it is a new policy and there is nothing she could do.

    This was an everyday $30 hat, not some exclusive collectible that might be showcased and put up for display. Anyway after some back and forth and realizing that I was wasting my efforts to make her see my side I gave in. I stuck around for a few minutes to watch two transactions by cashier and nothing was mentioned about removing said sticker. WILL NEVER SHOP AT LIDS EVER AGAIN.

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    Reviewed April 9, 2019

    The Lids store in I went to does not return hats if it does not have a sticker still on the hat even if you have a receipt. They would not even give store credit. My sons complained that the hat I purchased was itchy and would not wear the hat. It was brand new and had not been worn for more than 10 min. I feel it is poor service to the customer when the product you sell cannot be returned without a particular sticker. Many stores allow returns on items or at least store credit when you are not satisfied. Very disappointing and we will not shop there again.

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    Reviewed April 8, 2019

    Used to enjoy the website as well until they refuse to let you use rewards online. They don't have what I want instore. Stores have very limited stock and sizes. Bad move upgrading the site. Feels more like a downgrade if anything.

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    Customer ServiceOnline & AppStaff

    Reviewed April 7, 2019

    I ordered a $50 gift certificate online for my son-in-law; entered all info including cc# etc, then went back to update email address. Once email was updated, I had to re-enter all info again & hit apply. When my confirmation was generated, it duplicated the first order, hence generating two exact gift certificates, same amount, same recipient, same Happy Birthday message but now totaling $100. I phoned company immediately stating the issue and that I wanted to keep one gift certificate but cancel the duplicate.

    The first agent refused so I requested a supervisor. The supervisor gave me rehearsed, perfunctory, "no refunds policy" stating it was in the print on the website. After much back and forth and pointing out it's clear this is a duplication, and I would be forced to dispute the 2nd charge, she told me they had resources to combat any disputes. She basically told me she was there to assist me and she did assist me by informing me that nothing could be done so she had done her job. It was after this call, I read the other reviews online and in my angst and incredulousness of Lids to not just cancel one certificate, I decided to review.

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    Reviewed April 5, 2019

    Don’t buy from Lids. I have $30 on a Lids gift card. I am unable to use it online to get the product I want. The physical store is unable to get the product I want in. Customer service tells me there is nothing they can do to help or make this right. I’m left with Lids having taken my money, and me being completely unable to buy the product I want with their gift card. Horrible experience. Don’t buy from Lids.

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    Reviewed April 5, 2019

    Used to enjoy the website. Easy to find and use. But really slipped with a update. Completely useless. Searched Jordan hats. The top result was a Calgary flames hat. Not worth using. Just go in store, much better experience.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed March 13, 2019

    Ordered 2 custom embroidered bucket hats from Lids.com. Site says 24/48 hours to process. Waited 6 days before emailing them about updates. No reply but a day later I received notice from FedEx that items were shipped. No other updates until today (7 additional days). Hats arrived with today's mail. Total of 14 days from order to arrival. In today's world of online shopping 14 days wait is unheard of. The good news is they did a great job on both hats and I'm very pleased with them. They just need to work on turnaround time and communications with customers.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed March 9, 2019

    I have used several other Lids locations and the one close to my home is this store in San Ysidro. Never had an issue before. I was looking forward to get 5 hats, get my sons two initials on each hat and purchase hats also. Instead I walked in with my sons and hoping they would help me when I walked in, instead I stood by the entrance. And two men not greeting us or saying anything instead one was counting the cash drawer and the other on his personal phone. I said, "Hello. Are you open?" And Steven said, "We are going to close soon." Not what I asked. I asked I had a few questions and getting hats with initials and they said, "No we can’t." I asked, "Please can you do one? You're still open. We still have about ten minutes."

    So finally all this talk about they can’t go overtime and they can’t do it they got two other customers and so the store was still open but they kept looking at the time on the person phones and looked very upset about helping out customers and making money for the store. I think Gabe was more willing to help me out and decide to convince the Manager Steve. I still not sure if that was his name cause Gabe didn’t have a name tag only Steve. One more thing when he finished and I paid Steve still was upset and said "Do you want a bag," with a big attitude. I would hope someone could take this matter seriously and coach him to be more helpful and explain So we can understand not get upset and have customer with this bad image of your employees. If you like to call me feel free. Am a member. My email **. Thank you.

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    Reviewed March 2, 2019

    Spent $60+ on a few hats, and they definitely aren't true to size. I have 17 hats. All the same size. These three are the only ones that don't fit. And their return policy doesn't allow me to get a refund. I feel jipped.

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    Reviewed Feb. 27, 2019

    I ordered a Dodgers windbreaker on Lids.com and opted for Second Day Air Mail because I needed it by a certain day. As soon as I ordered, I checked on here and got nervous. I ordered on a Saturday and i didn’t get any shipping notifications until Tuesday. I needed the jacket by Thursday so I had accepted that I probably wouldn’t receive it in time, especially after seeing upset customers on this site. However, my item arrived the very next day after I got the shipping notification, and everything was correct. Maybe they figured out their issues.

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    Reviewed Feb. 26, 2019

    Ordered 3 hats in a single order. One came in for pickup at local Lids about 2 weeks after I ordered which is fine. One month since order placed, 2 of 3 hats not in and no correspondence from company. I had to reach out to their customer care who proceeded to tell me they no longer have those in stock. They only notified me after I reached out. Now they say my refund will be credited to my card in 3-5 days. Would they have just kept this money if I hadn’t emailed them? Ridiculous. When I picked up my first and only hat, the employee said the company had recently been bought. I hope whoever bought the company got it for a song. The average 1 star reviews on Consumeraffairs.com for Lids all makes sense to me now.

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    Reviewed Feb. 11, 2019

    Don't order from Lids unless you have AT LEAST a month to wait on your order. I ordered a customized hat for my husband for Valentine's Day 2 weeks beforehand, thinking surely that would give them plenty of time to get the hat to me. When I ordered the hat it said on the site I should get it between the 11-13. About 5 days after I ordered it, I started to get concerned because my product still hadn't been shipped, it was still in the "processing" stage, so I called. The lady apologized and said the hat should be shipped soon and would get to me by the 13th at the latest.

    Friday the 8th rolls around and my product STILL hasn't been shipped!!! I call again and they tell me I should get an email within the next 24 hours saying the product has been shipped. Monday the 11th rolls around and guess what. STILL PROCESSING!! I called once again and they are still feeding me bull about how custom hats take longer to process. Longer than 10 days??? Seriously?? She also told me that my hat was ready but still hasn't been shipped. She said she would leave a note asking them to ship immediately and expedite shipping but I'm not holding my breath. So far I am super disappointed in this company.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Feb. 9, 2019

    Lids just cancel my order simply because I call them and complain about the delay of sending my merchandise. Is not fair to cancel my order as a punishment. But is fine. I am done with this company. Have a great day.

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    Reviewed Jan. 31, 2019

    I ordered this hat on January 15th as a birthday gift on the 22nd for a very excited boy. My order was being shipped to the local store at a mall about 20-30 minutes away where I was to pick it up. My order stated in 5-7 days so enough time for me to get by the 22nd- 7 days later. I called the store- they didn't have my order, I called again on the 23rd- no order. I asked if it could then be shipped to my house as they'd missed the birthday deadline. They said they would ship to my house but it would take an additional 24 hours which I agreed to. It's January 31st and still nothing. They charged my card and I just called to see where it is... It's at the store and no-one has contacted me. They won't ship to me now and the gift is over 2 weeks late! AMAZON WOULD HAVE BEEN A BETTER OPTION! Terrible experience and do not order from them. NO ACCOUNTABILITY AND TERRIBLE SERVICE. WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY.

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    After a positive interaction with Lids.com, J increased their star rating.

    Reviewed Jan. 25, 2019

    I have been an avid devoted shopper with business for over a decade. I recently went on the website for the jersey sale of up to 50% off. When I clicked on a Patrick Kane home authentic pro jersey it gave me a price of $112.50. I then added a Jonathan Toews authentic away jersey and it adjust the price of the Kane jersey to $22.50 and the Toews jersey to $157.50. I took screen shots of the basket with item numbers individual item prices and the total of $180.00. Once I went to finalize the deal the price jumped to $335.00. I then wrote customer service and advised them of what happened and that I would make a purchase that was advertised to me of $180.00 then add tax.

    I received this response the next day 1-23-19. "Thank you for contacting Lids Customer Care! You will receive the sale price of the items once you complete the order. If the prices is not correct after placing the order, please call in with the order number and we can make the proper adjustments to the price. If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact our Customer Care Center at 1-888-564-HATS (4287)."

    I then immediately made the purchase and called for the adjustment. I was advised after the agent talked to his supervisor for several minutes they would do an adjustment of $175.00 and bring the price down to $180.00 then add tax. I asked for an email with a transcript showing they agreed to the adjustment. I was advised the email showing the adjustment will get to me in the next 48 hours.

    I then receive this email on 1-24-19. "I apologize that you were having checkout issues! After reviewing your order, Unfortunately we won't be able to honor the price that was given to you before. I apologize that there was a system glitch in the system! I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. 1-888-564-HATS (4287) or reply to this email."

    I called and was asked what did I want done and asked for them to follow the law and comply with the fact that three agents one being the website agree to the price that was offered to me. They stated they wouldn’t. I advised them they are violating several laws with their deceptive pricing and not agreeing to prices their agents have agreed to and their website advertised. I then stated I wanted my money refunded immediately as I would never have made the purchase. They stated they couldn’t cancel the order and that they would have to send it to corporate.

    If I wanted my money back I would have to wait for corporate or to wait if for the items to get to me which takes a week then return it to a Locker Room only store not just a Lids which is more than an hour away or mail it back and God knows when I will get my money back. I will no longer shop at Lids and I use to drop a grand a year there for my family's favorite teams gear. Guess I will stick with Dick's - they at least honor their advertised prices.

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    Reviewed Jan. 9, 2019

    I saw that Lids had the best deals for Cyber Monday. I made an order of 150. Saved a great deal on a Jersey. My son wanted the same jersey so I told his grandmother to buy it from them as well, she went ahead and bought three more item, this came out to more than 200 dollars. Unfortunately my sweatshirt (she purchased for me) is too tight, which is the same size I wear most places. I ordered a medium but I need a large. I asked her for the order number and email she ordered with thinking that would be fine, turns out that I cannot make an exchange for the same exact item unless I now ask her for the email/or packing slip.

    I was fine asking her for the order number but not for the email/purchase. I'm sure others will feel the same that it is uncomfortable asking for this information when someone buys you a gift. Basically if you know this information BEFORE you purchase gifts please give everyone you are buying for a copy of the email (odd right). A merchandise credit would make it so I could exchange and not have to bother asking some for personal info and how much they spent on me.

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    Reviewed Jan. 8, 2019

    This company is omitting fraud!!! When you make a purchase in the online store you will Not get your money back when the item is returned. Talking to their customer service is useless. They will lie saying your return is being processed, well over 1 month now I am still waiting on a refund. And calling their corporate office is a joke. They will take forever to answer the phone or not answer at all. If the government wasn't on a shut down I would report them to the Federal Trade Commission. NEVER WILL I SUPPORT THIS BUSINESS AGAIN AND I HAVE LET MANY PEOPLE KNOW TO DO THE SAME.

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    Jaron increased rating by 3 stars.
    After a positive interaction with Lids.com, Jaron increased their star rating.

    Reviewed Jan. 6, 2019

    TERRIBLE. DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH THEM. They send out a receipt making the return process look super easy. The hat the sent me was too small even though I ordered an XL. Customer care is anything but caring. When speaking with a supervisor they argued with me that the hat was a clearance item so no refunds. Didn't offer me an exchange or a credit towards another hat that would fit. How is somebody supposed to buy something to wear online with confidence with a company that does not stand behind their product. SHOP ON AMAZON!!! LIDS SUCKS AND WILL NEVER GET MY BUSINESS AGAIN EVEN IF I GO BALD!!! ZERO STARS!!!

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    Reviewed Dec. 29, 2018

    My overall experience shopping at Lids in one word is terrible. I mostly shop online for their products as the variety is far greater than that of my local store. Most of my orders that I have ordered online have been shipped and as described. However out of the blue, I have had 2 occasions where I have ordered a hat on sale and my order is randomly cancelled for no apparent reason. When I contact customer service as to why my order randomly cancelled they give me an excuse saying it is "out of stock." I go and check if the hat is truly out of stock and according to their website it is still in stock, and trust me I have checked over several days to verify what they said. I went back to customer service asking them if I would receive the hat for the price I ordered it for but they rejected my request.

    In conclusion, ordering with Lids was very frustrating for me. My order felt like a toss up either it was going to be shipped and received or it would be cancelled for some random reason (even though the hats I ordered are still in stock). Lids no longer has my business and I'll gladly shop at other stores who don't practice shady dealings like Lids does.

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    Reviewed Dec. 27, 2018

    Terrible customer service. Terrible everything. Find your hat at one of the other 8 million stores that sell hats. In this day and age, a company with customer service this inept and indifferent should be out of business. I look forward to the day in the near future when this company is shuttered and everyone associated with it is put out of work. Happy New Year.

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    Reviewed Dec. 27, 2018

    Ordered a Warriors shirt 2 weeks ago. They debited my account the next day but when I track the order the status shows that it’s ready, exactly what it has shown for 2 weeks. I've called and am placed on hold for ridiculous amounts of time. I've emailed 3 times without a response. Save yourself money and the hassle of dealing with them and get your gear somewhere else.

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    Reviewed Dec. 20, 2018

    Don't buy from them! They don't care about their customers! Ordered 2 day air on the 18th. Checked tracking today to see it arriving on the 27th via ground shipping... Contacted them with no resolve. Basically told me it is what it is & didn't care at all. These were Christmas gifts... Thanks Lids!

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    Reviewed Dec. 17, 2018

    So I ordered 2 Dallas Cowboys caps online one for my husband and one for my nephew. I received my husband's cap first which sort of surprised me that I hadn’t received the second cap in which I had ordered them both at the same time, anyway I do get a tracking status showing the second cap was on its way so I’m like okay well it’s coming... Two days pass and the delivery status is stuck on “pending delivery”... then five days pass and still stuck on that.

    So I emailed, messaged both FedEx and Lids about the situation and not one could tell me where my package was. So I let it go and think we’ll maybe since the holidays are coming up it’s probably backed up somewhere... Next thing I see is an email saying I was getting a refund because something about the material it was packaged in? Not sure what so I thought great I’ll just get my money back and go to the Lids store myself and buy the cap there. Nope. A day after that I get another tracking number status saying my item is on its way being shipped. At this point I was so over it, just wanted it all to end. Which it did 21 days later after buying the cap I did receive it just not at the time I really wanted it. It was suppose to be a birthday gift for my nephew and wasn’t even here on time. So never will I ever order online from Lids again.

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    Manju increased rating by 3 stars.
    After a positive interaction with Lids.com, Manju increased their star rating.

    Reviewed Dec. 8, 2018

    I have opened a case and they said that item is delivered and door was locked. They closed case and asked us to file police complaint. My $60 gone. There is something fishy with either LIDS or USPS. I have received all other packages till date. Why only this will be missing. LIDS knows that many customers are reporting this often. They should have alternative or some solution. Not just leave it. I regret for not reading the reviews before ordering. I wish I had and could have saved $62. Also I have to go without the gifts. As I will not find that deals now and also no time to get that. I would advise everyone not to shop with LIDS ever.

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    Reviewed Dec. 7, 2018

    I placed an order for 4 NFL Salute to Service Hoodie sweatshirts, 2 hats. Big chunk of change as we are a HUGE Military Family. My husband and I are both Veteran's, my two daughters are currently Active Duty and my Son-In-Law is as well. I received my order, one of the Hoodie's had a stain, I called within 3 min of the delivery to ask for a new one, of course they have none in stock. I asked if I could return to a LIDS store and they stated I could NOT as they only sell hats, then proceed to tell me it will take 2-3 days to get me a label to return this item. I informed her I need the LABEL TODAY, this is going overseas as a Christmas gift for one of mine that is deployed.

    I have a Lids store an hour from me, would have been glad to drive there, get my $ put back on my card and purchase another elsewhere, but instead I have to wait for the label, ship it, and wait for the processing of refund. VERY DISAPPOINTED. I will be returning over 550.00 worth of merchandise and will never purchase from LIDS or LIDS.COM again. I have purchased several items in the past, it's a shame! Wouldn't even try to work with me knowing this had to be shipped overseas, just "I will put in a request for a return label", then it should be taken care of in 10 days, NOT ACCEPTABLE!

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    Reviewed Dec. 5, 2018

    I custom designed a hat for my fiancé to give as a Christmas present this year. It’s safe to say I spend at least $50-$60 on it after shipping. It shipped fairly quickly which pleased me at first. However, when going to the leasing office to retrieve my package, they informed it was not there and no one had signed a drop statement for it. Now 3 days after the “delivery”, it is still lost. I filed a Lost Package claim through Lids, only to be informed that they will NOT claim responsibility for this issue and they will not give me a refund since they see it was “delivered” on their end.

    Personally, I think this is a huge disservice to their customers. I know it is the holiday season and bad people often steal mail, but what happened to “the customer is always right”. They could easily send me a gift card or give me some kind of credit, but no. I know it might even be the mail courier, especially since LIDS ships through USPS. How sad for such a pricey order. All I can say is, DO BETTER LIDS. Honor your customers' words, especially if they even took the time to initiate a lost package claim through on online representative from their company. I will not be a returning customer ever again.

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    Reviewed Nov. 27, 2018

    I ordered a hat from Lids.com. When I got the email 2 minutes later confirming my order I noticed they had the wrong sports team (I ordered a Steelers hat, they had a cowboys hat). I immediately called to let them know and their response was... "The order is already processed there’s nothing we can do." I said, "There’s no way - I ordered it like 4 minutes ago and you have the wrong team." They refused to cancel or change my order. This is absurd!!! I will NEVER buy anything from Lids again!!!

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    Reviewed Nov. 13, 2018

    I purchased 4 hats, three were delivered together and one was delivered separately. I received the three, but the fourth one was delivered to the wrong house. I called Lids told them I did not receive the fourth hat, they opened a case and closed it within hours saying USPS delivered it. I told Lids I never received it, they told me to file a police report. REALLY! Bottom line. It was delivered to my neighbor and he was nice enough to give it to me. So buyer beware if they mess up they don’t take any responsibility. It’s not worth the aggravation buying from this poor customer service company. They lost a loyal customer.

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    Reviewed Oct. 21, 2018

    I purchased a pair of LARGE basketball shorts, instead they send me out a pair of Small. When I called to request an exchange I was told that I needed to send the shorts back with tracking then 1 to 2 days after they receive the shorts they would return the funds to my Paypal (which could take up to 30 days).Then I had to place the order all over again. This is ridiculous! I tried speaking to a supervisor and expressing how deceptive of a practice this was and how much of an inconvenience it was and they did not care. This is their policy to make it hard on customers. I will never make another purchase from Lids again as they obviously don't care about the customer experience. I will also make sure to post negative reviews everywhere possible to warn other consumers of LIDS terrible business practices. Do yourself a favor and go elsewhere and support a company that realizes the importance of making their clients happy. SHAME ON YOU LIDS!

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    Reviewed Oct. 4, 2018

    I ordered a $100 football jersey and what I received was 2 pairs of 76ers socks. They sent me a return slip. I sent the socks back, but never received my jersey. It has been 3 weeks. I called to ask about my jersey. They said they never sent it and never refunded me. I told the customer rep please send the jersey because I still want it and never paid. Waiting several days now and no confirmation that it was sent out. I will call again. These customer service hood rats are incompetent. Shame on you Lids! Calling back today to get my refund *middle finger*.

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    Reviewed Sept. 26, 2018

    Placed a $350 order with a coupon that required me to ship it to the flagship store in NYC. I got an email one of the items had shipped, but had 5 so 2 weeks later called back and was told they'd all ship and be available for pickup. I got no confirmation email, but called and was told they were all in the store and to walk the 1.5 miles over to 437 Madison Avenue at noon on a Monday. The store was closed. I called, and was told that was a mistake and to return the next day so I walked 1.5 miles again. It was still close. I approached a police officer and told him I had merchandise inside the store to pickup. He said the store was closed for about a week, and customers had repeatedly tried unsuccessfully to pick up online orders.

    I called LIDS, and was told that they now see the store has been closed for unknown reasons (then how did they get in touch with them the day before!). They have NO IDEA what is going on with the store or the online orders, but cannot send replacement items due to back ordering and cannot open the store to let customers get their items. I don't even know how the store could have received the merchandise if they aren't open? They now say they need to check with the corporate office to figure out why the flagship LIDS store has been closed for the past week, and whether they have/lost the previous orders. So ridiculous!! With so many competitors, how is LIDS in business? I was a loyal fan, not anymore. I paid for products they refuse to let me have, and I'm supposed to wait while they figure out why their flagship store is closed. I'm supposed to wait for a callback. Crazy.

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    Reviewed Sept. 12, 2018

    Placed an order for a hat my son has been wanting for his birthday a 2 weeks ahead of time. His party is this weekend and they are telling me now that it won't be here until the following Monday. This is ridiculous and needs to be fixed. This seems to happen a lot and I will never order or shop from Lids again.

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    Reviewed July 27, 2018

    I was given a sales pitch to sign up for "Premium Access Pass" for a 20% discount on all hats, and told that the 20% would stack with sale prices as well. After a few visits, that was proven to be false. Buy one get one 50% off in the store, or 25% off on the website did not stack with my Access Pass discount. It just gives you the one discount that would be the most off. If you're planning only to buy when there are sales, it seems like the premium pass is not going to help you very much.

    The website is very misleading when choosing "Pick Up In-Store" as your shipping option. You can see what a store has in stock, and CLEARLY see a difference when choosing - "Pick Up Today In-Store" and if they don't have it, it will say "Ship to Store - 5 to 7 days." I saw a hat I liked in store and opted to pay for it online to get a better discount, and the cashier told me I would have to wait several days for it to be shipped to the store, regardless that my order confirmation said 'pick up today'. It doesn't help that every time I go in the store, it's the cashier's first day on the job.

    Clearly, Lids has a long way to go when connecting their online system to their stores. Wal-Mart, Target and others are able to prepare an order for you in store that you've placed online. I understand they are larger companies, but Lids doesn't have nearly as much volume as those stores to be concerned with. If you're going to tell me on your website that a specific store has an item in stock and I can pick it up today, then you should be able to deliver on that.

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    Reviewed July 21, 2018

    Living in a rural area often forces me to shop online, especially for niche goods like official MLB New Era hats. My first $100+ order was unceremoniously cancelled, with no warning to me. Ironically, I’d attempted to change that same order just 3 hours after I placed it (I accidentally ordered black instead of dark navy blue) and was told it was too late, as my order was already processed and shipped! So I was lied to. Hoping for better luck, I placed a new order... It arrived okay, but I only received 2 of the 4 hats ordered. Again, no email or text message informing of the change and all the website said was “order completed.”

    I complained and they grudgingly gave me a $10 electronic gift card to use on my next order. I’d already purchased their paid premium access membership that gives me 20% off, so their offer of 20% off my next order was of zero use. Taking advantage of their limited time free shipping, no minimum order promotion, I placed an order for 2 hats yesterday. I just checked and my order has been canceled yet again! I’m done! I’d rather pay a premium and shop elsewhere, or take my chances on Amazon with all the counterfeit Chinese New Era knockoffs. Avoid Lids.com/Lids.ca like the plague! After five weeks I’m still without the hats I originally wanted.

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    Reviewed May 31, 2018

    I went to Lids and Ford City Mall to get embroidery on to blank hats. The embroidery machine is not working properly. When they got done with my hats they looked horrible. Very unprofessional job but when I take my hat downtown to Lids they are perfect. The salesperson acted as if it wasn't a big deal. I pay $20 a piece for two leather hats and they are ruined.

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    Reviewed April 27, 2018

    Hello everyone, my name is Alexia. I made a purchase on March 5th. A baseball jersey for my cousin. It simply did not fit him, so I went to get a refund. Now I used 2 transactions. A $5 remaining balance off of my Amex card and the rest, which was $30.23, on my bank card. The manager of the store #8043 decided to refund me all my money on the Amex card. Now let me tell you, the Amex card only holds $25, so since she refunded $35.24 on it, the card got suspended due to exceeding the limit the card could hold. (I only found this out a week later). So basically my money was in limbo. I contacted the customer service twice.

    I was finally reached out by an email. Philip **. Now I’m glad he was here to help, but he made it an absolute hassle. All I needed was a complete and constructed instruction. But he simply could not make it simple. His last request was for me to send him my bank statement (which I did) but for some reason I did not get a response, nor an email confirmation or an “Okay thanks, we’ll be giving you that refund check soon!” Nothing. Nada. It also took 2 weeks for Lids to actually decide to send me a refund check. This is my last year of high school and I only wanted a simple refund. Okay quality. Not okay service.

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    Reviewed April 13, 2018

    I ordered 2 hats over a week ago. After getting tired of waiting, I call customer service. They tell me part of the original order (2 hats) was missing and that they were sending out a new order. No one contacted me about my order and my tracking info never worked. They run a terrible operation and I will never order anything from them again.

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    Reviewed April 11, 2018

    Absolutely horrible customer service. I ordered a hat in which the address was incorrect, so I call immediately. They tell me I can call tomorrow once it ships. I call and they say, "You have to call FedEx" (I placed my order with Lids not FedEx) so I call FedEx and they say call Lids. WTF! I call Lids back. They say, "Call FedEx." They don’t ship products. FedEx does. Circus act at best... I call FedEx again and they say the post office is delivering so you have to go to the office... I will never shop Lids online or in store again. Service sucks.

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    Reviewed April 4, 2018

    I recently ordered 2 hats 1 day shipping. I found out 1 day shipping is 4 days and waiting. I spent a great deal on phone to customer service. I was told there is a 2 to 3 day processing time. I didn't realize that when I paid the extra fee. I will not in the future waste my money on anything but standard shipping because I have no idea when shipment will arrive. All other vendors I've used 1 day is 1 day.

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    Reviewed Feb. 4, 2018

    Paid willingly for Next Day Air to get hat for Super Bowl. Received shipping notice and delivery wasn't going to be til next week. I contacted them to cancel "no can do." I suppose it could be my fault that I didn't read reviews in advance, but I assumed they were reputable. Assuming it arrives when it is now scheduled, I will have paid the highest premium, for a service level that it's typically free or nominal with these types of online merchants.

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    Reviewed Jan. 9, 2018

    My hatter said it had shipped from Williston VT and I live in a town about 30 mins away from there. I re-check shipping the next day and had them shipped from VT to CT and my shipping got pushed out 3 more days. Why the hell would you ship it to CT if it was already in my state and only 30 mins away???

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    Reviewed Dec. 27, 2017

    Been trying to have part left out of order sent for a month. Numerous emails and 40 and 50 minute wait for customer service. Promised 2 day air a week ago. Far beyond disappointed. Would like to rate no star.

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    Reviewed Dec. 15, 2017

    I placed an order for in store pick up. When ordering it does not say time frame but a logical person would think in store pick up means in store pick up. It does not. It means they will ship it to the store. Why on earth would anyone do that? You would just have it ship right to your house. Since I thought in store meant in store I ordered. I called what they call "Customer service" and they basically told me to figure it out myself. They said I have to call the store to see if they have it. My response was, "Why would I call, you are customer service right?"

    I then ask, "Can you give me the phone number or do I have to look that up?" Sends me a number that is in a completely different state and not a store. The store has no clue where anything is. I tell the "Customer service" rep to cancel my order and she says she cannot. Terrible service, nobody knows what is going on and really does not care. All I was told was to figure it out on my own. I am not picking up the order, calling my credit card company to tell them to deny the charge and telling everyone I know not to do any business with Lids.

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    Reviewed Nov. 27, 2017

    I just had a very bad experience with the company and customer service. They were very unhelpful. I ordered something at 10AM. Fifteen minutes later I noticed a mistake. I waited more than three hours to speak to a person and then their response was they cannot help you. They said, "it began processing already." I tried to cancel. They said no. I spoke to a manager who was even less helpful. I will not use them again and I recommend strongly that you do not.

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    Reviewed Nov. 16, 2017

    I ordered a hat on Sunday afternoon and paid for two day shipping. The hat wasn’t sent to me till Wednesday at almost 6pm according to the tracking. Good luck ever getting in touch with customer service. I would give them 0 stars but you have to give at least 1 to continue.

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    Reviewed Nov. 6, 2017

    This was the first time using Lids. I bought 2 Vegas Golden Knights hats. Luckily I didn't read the negative reviews here. The price was excellent (with coupon) and the product was as described. The real surprise was that the hats arrived within a week of ordering. Amazing. Strangely there was no email confirming the purchase or shipping dates. I thought "there is no way I am going to get this". But here it is!! And in less than a week. I am no way connected to Lids or have any deal with them. I am an extremely satisfied customer. Highly recommended.

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    Reviewed Oct. 10, 2017

    I tried giving them multiple chances but the customer service will always say they can’t do anything because it's processing. Also the last order that made me snap is they screwed up my address and they said that they have no way to correct their mistake and I should call UPS to fix it. I told them they shipped it and made the mistake, address they’ve shipped to before, I shouldn’t have to call. They told me they couldn’t do it or it would be fraud.

    I then told them to cancel it and refund me. I didn’t want anything to do with them and they said they couldn’t, that I would have to refuse the shipment or they would have to wait for it to be returned. I told them to call UPS and figure it out. They told me UPS is open 24/7 that I have to call them. Order before this one they told me they shipped my salute to service sweater and hat to come. Find out they never did and took my two weeks of calling them to find that out and when I canceled that order out of frustration they told me they could look up a nearby store with those item in stock. No "I’m sorry" or "we will correct order and have it shipped next day". They just basically told me to go to their store and get it. Their physical stores employees are great and good selection but online is horrible. Do yourself a favor and if you have to buy online go through anyone but these guys.

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    Reviewed Sept. 14, 2017

    This will be the 4th time I have contacted Lids on this issue. I had this hat made on the date listed on the Receipt in the Greenwood Mall while there with my family for a basketball tournament. This hat is junk! We live in Knoxville, TN But we was at the Lids 1645 Parkway #1040, Sevierville, TN 37862 about a month ago looking and my wife pointed how good they did on someone's Hat. They embroider and I made the comment, “Wished mine would have looked that way.” When the gentleman behind counter overheard my comment he asked me what happened and I explained. His name was **. He advised me he would make it right if I would bring the hat back and he would take care of me. I made a special trip to the store yesterday 9-4-17 and went to the store and spoke with the manager and explained the situation. Once he told me ** no longer works there, So he said they could fix it and I was happy to finally get what I wanted a usable $40.00 hat.

    He went and the same brand hat and came back and explained, "It will only cost you $27.50 today?" I was like, “Are you serious?” He said, “Yes!” I explained, “That isn't right. If I had to pay that I would have $70.00 in a hat” and explained to him I was told it would be fixed at no charge to me by Nick and that is when he decided to let me know why Nick was fired which is totally unprofessional. I am a sales manager and I would Fire an employee who shared that with a customer!! He was very rude from that point on and told there is no way to do a hat for free. It would mess the inventory up like I am some idiot!

    I have sent now 4 emails to Lids and have never had anyone contact me with an answer. Always says someone will contact me! I was going to chalk this up as a loss until yesterday and the rude manager you have working at that store. Worst customer service I have ever came across. You do not treat customers that way nor do you tell a customer why someone was fired. That is illegal. I will be posting all details on Facebook today. I have been buying from Lids for over 20 years and after yesterday I will never buy again nor will I let my sons buy from there either. Question Reference # **. Been going on for 4 months no response.

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    Reviewed Aug. 26, 2017

    I placed an order and realized that I already had the same hat. I then tried to cancel the order two hours later but they told me it was being processed and they could not cancel. So you can't cancel an order two hours after it's placed. Lids has a lot to learn about customer service. They should take lessons from Amazon. Do yourself a favor and just order what you need from Amazon and forget the terrible customers service of Lids.

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    Reviewed June 15, 2017

    I purchased a hat on Lids the other day. I'm like ok, it's still processing, so I get on the live chat with this lady and she said "Well it takes 1 to 2 days to process." Well that would have been nice to know under the product I'm buying not on a FAQ screen. Because then I wouldn't have paid extra shipping to have it this week which is the week I need it and end up having delivered next week when the occasion has already passed.

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    Reviewed May 5, 2017

    I placed an order on 4/27 for 2 hats and a t shirt. I opted to have the items shipped to the nearby mall versus having it sent to my home. I was aware that my items may ship at different times which was fine with me. The first hat shipped on 4/28 and I received a phone call on 5/1 from the store letting me know to come pick it up which I did. I got an email on 4/29 that the shirt had shipped, but it had no tracking number. On 5/2 I received an email stating that my last hat shipped, but this time I did not receive a phone call. I tracked the package on UPS and it said that it arrived in the store on 5/3, so I went to pick it up.

    No one in the store knew where my package was or who had signed for it. Fine, maybe the UPS driver took it to the wrong store, fine. So on 5/4 I received a phone call from the store and they tell me that I have a package there, but it is just a t shirt. No hat. I go online to chat with a representative who tells me that the reason why I did not receive a tracking number for the shirt is because it was sent with a store shipment and due to security reasons I could not have a tracking number for that (again, fine but that would have been nice to know). He tells me that he can have the hat that was lost can be processed in 2-3 days and have it sent back out. I thought that we had this all cleared up, but the very next day, I receive a notification that my order is being processed for the wrong damn hat, the one that I already have.

    At this point I am furious and I go online to chat once again with a representative only for him to tell me that he cannot stop the order for the wrong hat and that he will put a note in the account so that I can get the correct hat. No apology or anything. I ask him if he can see where the error is made and he decided to be a jerk. This is ridiculous. I will never order anything from this company again.

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    Reviewed March 11, 2017

    So my roommate got me a Lids gift card for Christmas. She told me that the cashier had a difficult time getting the money on the card. Anyway, they managed to get the money on the card. I finally decided to use the gift card after receiving an email from Lids about 30% off clearance. So on the last day of the sale I spent hours searching through clearance sales. I finally manage to get 5 hats and 2 shirts for under $40. I click "confirm purchase". It tells me that I have no funds on my gift card. Umm? Wtf. So I try 2 more times. Still didn't go through. I call customer service and tell the guy what happened. He tells me I need to find out where it was purchased, when it was purchased, and for how much. Smh after waiting on hold. Now, I have to find out all the info regarding my card.

    I call my roommate who is at work. She tells me she has the receipt in her room. This receipt is from three months ago. THANK GOD she is a hoarder. So I get the receipt and call them back. Tell the next person what's going on. They need all the info on the recent. INCLUDING the exact time of purchase. I'm a little angry at this point. I tell her that I'm also upset because this is the last day of the clearance sale. She promises me that when everything is worked out that she will honor the clearance prices for me. I wanted these items ASAP. So, I hear nothing for 2 days. So I message the customer service department. The lady says "It turns out that the card has been used at our Las Americas location in San Diego." Umm, I live in South Carolina and have NEVER been to San Diego. Haven't even left SC except to go to Virginia. So I message her back and ask "how is this possible?" That was yesterday. Still waiting on a response.

    I tell my roommate what happened. And she is FUMING. So she calls as well. Gets the same "We will send it to the financial department." I am at a loss for words and do not understand how the hell this happened! And they keep sending us to customer service instead of giving us someone who can actually do something about it. Forget saying "I will never use Lids online again." As I will never go to Lids again period! This would have been my first purchase from them. Horrible.

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    Reviewed Feb. 27, 2017

    So I ordered 2 Cleveland Cavs puffball hats over Presidents' Day weekend because the two hats were $10 each for a sale. So I order the two. I get an email giving me the tracking number. I'm in Ohio right now and when I look at the tracking number on the UPS site, it said instead of going from Illinois to Ohio, it shipped to California first for some unknown reason. So I wait a until the day it was supposed to be here. I get another email saying that the delivery was rescheduled to 3 days later. I'm furious at this point. First it was supposed to take 7-10 days and the day it was supposed to come was the 9th day. Then they rescheduled the delivery for 3 days later. Why did they not just ship it from Illinois to Ohio. They just "had" to ship it to California all the way across the country just to ship it back. I could have just waited to get it in the store. I'm never buying online ever again.

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    Reviewed Feb. 12, 2017

    I ordered a blank Scarlet Red 'New Era - 59fifty' fitted wool hat online (from New Era) for approx $40. Once I received it I took the hat to my local Lids for embroidery. I order the words "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN" and agreed on the layout. I paid $22 (and I was accidentally double charged). I was told to wait 20 mins. I waited 40 mins and the young man explained it would take a little while longer, please stop in later. I left for work and waited for his call. Over 5 hours later he calls to say it's complete. I sent my wife in to pick it up. She text me a photo of the hat, it's destroyed. She said the man admitted to removing the embroidery 4 times and going over the job trying to "make it look right" which pulled the red wool apart on the cap.

    I asked him to simply replace the hat, and refund my embroidery- he said that's not an option. I called customer service directly to demand a refund. It took 20 minutes to continuously explain a very simple story to them - the end result thus far is I need to wait 48 business hours for a phone call from an investigator to further evaluate their liability and responsibility with their employee destroying my ball cap in their Smith Haven Mall location, charging my card over $40 for a $20 service, refunding me altogether, and finally, reimbursing me for the replacement value of my brand new Scarlet Red blank New Era 59fifty (size 7-1/2). This terrible experience caused me the loss of half a day's pay, it caused stress and aggravation for my family, and delayed my owning this ball cap for another week.

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    Reviewed Jan. 25, 2017

    I went to the Lids store in my hometown and tried to find Pittsburgh Steelers knit hat. I was told you can order it from the kiosk. I put my info and used my bank card. Got a confirmation on my order with an order number. 1-14-17 I was told it takes 7 to 10 days, went by following Saturday and was told it will be in Monday. I called Tuesday and they said my order was canceled. 1-16-17 I got no email saying it was canceled. My bank statement shows on 1-17-17 that 32.46 was taken out by Lids and it was never put back in . Why was money taken out when my order was canceled on the 16th? They were not helpful. Now I have to go to my bank and get a copy and fax it to them before I get money back. I didn't receive a hat. That's stealing if they canceled on 16th. Beware of buying from Lids.

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    Reviewed Dec. 28, 2016

    If they have your hat available I suggest you find the closest Lids in your area and buy it in the store rather than buying it online. I spent over $100 plus I spent the extra $20 for overnight shipping just to find out that they didn't ship it overnight. I called the customer service for Lids.com and I spoke with an employee who was extremely rude and had an attitude with me because I was asking when my order was going to be shipped because I paid for overnight shipping and come to tell me that my order is not going to get there until about 4 days after I ordered it so I asked why am I paying overnight shipping if I'm not going to get my order for 4 days. It makes no sense to me and she said I had to order it the day of before 10 a.m.

    Well the day that I did order it – I actually ordered it at 12 a.m. which would be about 10 hours before I needed to order it in order to get the overnight shipping but she apparently can't tell time and didn't understand what I was trying to tell her that I ordered it at 12 a.m. which would be that same day 10 hours before the 10 a.m. but I guess apparently Lids can't tell time either and it doesn't work that way so I asked for the money back and she went to tell me that "Oh I'll just cancel your whole order since you have issues with it." I was like “No, I'm asking for my shipping charge back. I'm not asking you to cancel my whole order.” She had the biggest attitude ever like I was an inconvenience to her. All I can say is they are zero help and from what I'm reading on other reports I'm not the only person and I'm not the first and I definitely probably won't be the last.

    Do not order from them. Or until they can get some employees that don’t treat their consumers like garbage. I'm a customer service manager myself and the way that the employee talked was just was very unprofessional. I can hear the attitude in the voice not very understanding or apologetic at all. They need to reevaluate the employees that they hire for their call center because this is straight ridiculous us. As consumers we are keeping the company going! We spend our money there. If you keep hiring these crappy employees your business is going nowhere. Oh and that shipping charge the best back for still hasn't been credited to my card yet I was charged the full amount. Thanks Lids.

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    Reviewed Dec. 26, 2016

    Have placed 2 orders with Lids for a total of 6 hats (2 & 4 per order). 1st order, received 1 of 2 hats, and was notified that 1 hat was out of stock. 2nd order was for 4 hats and 1 of 4 hats was for wrong team. Called customer "service" and was told "sorry about the mistake" and "hat ordered is out of stock". So for their error, I got to waste time calling and now get to ship the hat back. Absolutely no effort in finding something to accommodate, just "sooo sorry for the inconvenience". Since when did empty apologies become good customer service? Support your local stores and avoid Lids. You'll be glad you didn't waste your time with their ineptitude.

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    Reviewed Dec. 25, 2016

    This is what you state on your website: "Our website is designed so that once the last available style or size has been ordered, that product is instantly removed from the site. Therefore, you are only shown inventory that is available." I placed an order on an item that was available on 12/19 and they was told on 12/23 that it would not be shipped because it was not in stock. I could have placed an order somewhere else, but I trusted that you had the item and that what you stated was accurate. Now I have no item when I could have gone to someone else to get it. You guys need to be honest about how your operations REALLY run. I'm so pissed. I could have gotten it somewhere else, but you tied me up thinking that I was getting the item.

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    Reviewed Dec. 24, 2016

    Lids is the worst online business ever. I go buy a classic Vince Carter jersey; 12/22/16 I use the one day over shipping option 20 dollars extra because I wanted it before Christmas and so it's the next day when the package is suppose to arrive so I go online to see the tracking number and where it's at and it directs me to Fedex the delivery service ever and it's says it's coming the 12/27/16.

    I was in so much rage so I called lids. I had to wait a hour to get someone on the phone (probably because so many people called because how bad their online service is). Anyways someone picks up very polite and apologized this happened and said, "We have no control over it." So I asked for the refund and they gave it to me so the next day which is today for me 12/24/16 I call them about to ask them, "What's the point of adding those shipping options in if you have absolutely no control of when it comes?"

    So this guy picks up and I told the situation and what happened I told him I already got my refund and I asked him the question and he says, "We have no control over what time the delivery comes." And I said I know that and I repeated the question again and he said the same thing so at this point I realized he's a hard-headed ** so I hung up and decided to write a review. I still haven't got my package and hopefully it contains the thing I ordered because I read some reviews and people got random things they didn't order and if I could I would give this negative or 0 stars. NEVER BUY FROM HERE!!!

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    Reviewed Dec. 22, 2016

    First off, do yourself a favor & NEVER order anything from Lids online. Their service was just as described on this site, TERRIBLE, & completely unprofessional. I made the mistake of looking up reviews after I already ordered. I purchased a hat on Tuesday, 12/13 & even paid two-day shipping for it to arrive sooner. I had plans to wear it on Friday 12/16 so I expected it to get there on Thursday, it did not. So I called customer service & she told me the hat would arrive on Friday as it was shipping locally from a store in my town. OK, understandable but that should have been my first red flag as the hat I wanted was ONLY available online - there were none in any store. When I got the hat Friday it was obviously the wrong item - a completely different brand of hat. So I called again, the wait was so long they have a call back list. Though they never called me back.

    A few days go by & I figure I'll just return it at the store. Even a bigger mistake as their employees seem incompetent & were ultimately useless - I was told I could only receive store credit. I quickly rejected. The manager then proceeded to call the same customer service I had already been calling. Saying until they call him back there's nothing he could do which only made me more pissed. I wasn't going to wait any longer, I left & called customer service myself AGAIN with no results. I tried again the next morning & they have finally agreed to give me my refund & possibly a gift card but after all the bs I went thru I have no desire to spend a penny more with them. I'll get my hats elsewhere.

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    Reviewed Dec. 22, 2016

    (Long story short I received my order after 7 business days). On Sunday 12-11-16 I placed an order for a vintage 90's Tracy McGrady Toronto Raptors jersey that I had a hard time finding anywhere else. The next day I received a e-mail stating my order had been confirmed. Shortly after, that same day I came across this review page about Lids and became extremely nervous. So nervous that I emailed Lids asking to cancel my order. I never got an email back from them so I assumed my package would be shipped which it was. On Tuesday I received a DHL shipping tracking number. I read DHL shipping reviews and I completely lost hope.

    Then my DHL tracking number informed me that it had been passed on to USPS to handle the rest of the shipping. And it had. Was smooth and regular updated. It told me it had been delivered at my door at 4:03 Tuesday 12-20-16. And when I came home it was there waiting for me in the perfect condition. Let me remind you this was around holiday season as well. I don't know if I got lucky or what, but I can not complain. (DHL shipping had slightly weird formatting for the tracking, but nothing major.)

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    Reviewed Dec. 1, 2016

    NEVER order from the online site. If you really want that hat, I suggest you walk into the store and buy it personally. The way they handle the online orders is disturbing. They are not helpful and you get the run around for weeks no matter how understanding you are about shipping and mailing and all that good stuff. They are just ridiculous.

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    Reviewed Nov. 22, 2016

    I ordered two hats from Lids.com. I received a notice the following day that one of my hats was not available so I decided to order three more hats that were on sale instead. Weeks later, I contacted Lids to see why my new order was never shipped and they told me that all three hats were not available. Not only was it unprofessional for them not to contact me and tell me my order was canceled but they shouldn't advertise products that they do not have in stock. The represented I spoke to, did offer his apologies but he also disconnected from our live chat immediately after apologizing and I didn't even get to ask him where I could file a complaint.

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    Reviewed Oct. 30, 2016

    Ordered 2 items from Lids and didn't receive them and noticed that they had refunded my order due to a "shipping error" and didn't contact me about it until I figured it out. Very disappointed and will NEVER order from them again. Think wisely before purchasing anything from them online. Most likely something will go wrong! Definitely a lesson learned.

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    Reviewed Oct. 29, 2016

    If I could give them 0 stars I would. I ordered a Chicago Cubs track jacket that was $79.99 and received instead a Colorado Rockies t-shirt. I called them and was on hold for around 15-20 minutes. I finally get someone on the phone and she apologizes and says "Ok, I'll just resend the item you originally ordered." Oh but wait, conveniently that item was out of stock! They also will not refund me my money until I send that t-shirt back! As I read the other similar reviews on here that customers shared the exact same thing about this company sending wrong merchandise, I began to feel like something is fishy about this place. This company seems shady! I am just going to contact my credit card company and let them know that this transaction wasn't authorized. I never ordered an $80 t-shirt! I hope nobody orders from here again. I should've stick to ordering from FansEdge!

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    Reviewed Aug. 18, 2016

    I want to start off that I have spoken to two customer service reps and both have been more than helpful. Some how the USPS delivered or the driver kept the hat I ordered online. I normally shop Lids stores in the malls in my city but this one hat I ordered was only available online. I took the chance and lo and behold it goes missing. My wife is a huge online shopper and never has had anything go "missing". Apparently our post office is privately owned? WTF? They suck big **! Let me get back to Lids and their great customer service so far. They are sending me a replacement as they told me today. I do hope they keep their word. Happy dude so far. I will keep you posted.

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    Reviewed July 20, 2016

    My husband just got his new debit card with a chip in it. Apparently there is a way for those to be read and used by others even when the card is your possession. This is what happened to us, several purchases made to various merchants. All the other merchants involved made sure to hold the transaction number so it didn't go through or reverse the charges back to my account. Lids.com refused to intervene in any way until the bank contacted them and a police report had been made. This means not only did a $300.00 charge come through, create a negative balance in my account, and created overdraft charges for legitimate bills, but the purchase wasn't held so the person who stole the merchandise is more likely to get it actually shipped to him.

    I work full time but am now on surgical leave so I only get 60% of my paycheck and I am the sole breadwinner at this time. My daughter is hospitalized with a breathing disorder so I have my grandkids right now who are 8 and 10 and this couldn't have come at a worse time! In my mind, a responsible merchant would at least hold a transaction until the details were worked out. Maybe make credit card purchases a little more complicated to protect consumers since the chips make everything so easy. Maybe protect the consumers funds instead of the thieves rights. Ridiculous.

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    Reviewed June 24, 2016

    Order a hat online in-store. A $50 hat that wasn't in stock in the store but available online. What did we receive? A clearance hat for $15. You cannot get hold of a rep over the phone. You have to wait 20 min to speak to a rep on live chat. Waste of time. They cannot do exchanges online. Only returns. They do not know why they sent the wrong hat when they had it in stock. I asked and they said, "I don't know, but we do have it in stock". Then I asked "well why was this one sent?" And their response, "Oh because the one you ordered is limited". Okay, so send me a random cheap hat? I paid for it in full at the store and this is what I get.

    They have no clue of policies and they told me to search for stores that carry the hat when they have the hat in-stock at their facility but can't do an exchange? No way am I going to cruise the Bay Area to look for this hat when they could just simply send the correct item. It was a waste of my time. Now I have to go to the store to get a refund. Such an inconvenience.

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    Reviewed June 4, 2016

    I'm very upset about the way this company handles their online orders. I placed an online order thinking that when I paid for my hat online then I could just go to the store with an order # and pick it up (like most companies do) since the web page sends you to a "see if it's in stock at the store" page... Well that's not the case with Lids. They actually send the one hat that you ordered from the warehouse... Well problem is, it's been almost 3 weeks and it still has not made it to the store. They give you no shipping number... So basically you're just stuck wondering, "Where's my hat?" I'm pissed because I had an event to do and was gonna wear that hat and I ordered it way ahead of time and still came up short of the hat that was gonna match my outfit. And I refuse to go and spend extra just to get another one of the same hat that should of been here weeks ago... Pissed customer!!! I might just have to deal with the other hat companies online.

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    Reviewed May 6, 2016

    I have made one previous order with Lids.com before making this recent order. I found some "discount" items I just had to have 1) LA Kings ball cap, 2) LA Kings tank top. Upon arrival, I open my package to find the tank top, and that the items had been shipped separately. I throw on the tank top and notice the logo is tilted and not sitting straight on the tank top. It's not horribly off, but, it's enough to disappoint you for an 18$ "sale price" tank top. I contact customer service knowing that they do not take returns/refunds on sale items. This is fine with me as I don't want a refund, just a tank top without a tilted logo. Numerous emails were exchanged which resulted in me sending pictures of the tilted logo tank top I received. Customer service simply tells me they cannot do anything as the tank top is as pictured on the site and all discounted sale orders are final. Okay, so I bite the bullet for that one.

    Now, nearly 3 weeks later, I received my ball cap. My 25$ "Sale" price ball cap has horrible stitching around the band portion which actually sits around your head which led to the material bunching up and causing creases to run from the bottom band of the cap up to the top near the button. I have not contacted customer service as of receiving the cap, but will do so in the morning. With these poor quality items sent to me, it makes me wonder if Lids is selling returned "damaged, but good enough" store items as "discounted" items. Just horrible.

    Bottom line: Lids has extremely poor delivery on anything more than one item, extremely poor customer service, very bad quality control. I will no longer be doing business with them and have spoken to many friends, family and coworkers about my experience whom will also not be doing business with them either. I'd recommend the same. What should you do? Personally, I've been getting my favorite sports memorabilia through the NHL online store through my LA Kings app. Might not be a bad idea for to do the same. First two pics show how off center and tilted the logo is on the tank top. I folded the shirt for better reference points. Last shows the stitching in the hat seems. Unfortunately, I am only able to post three photos.

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    Reviewed Feb. 16, 2016

    I placed an online order on Thursday, 2/4/2016 9:44 AM. It's now Tuesday 2/16/2016 9:30 AM. The order still shows as "processing". It has been almost two weeks since the order was placed. I followed up on Thursday of last week (Feb. 11th), and was told "You should receive this order by 2/15" (I have this in chat transcript still). According to the website, "orders of $60 or more, deliver in 9-12 business days, including order processing time, which is 1-2 days for in-stock items". But, we are on the 9th business day now, and it still shows as processing. All items on this order were indeed in-stock items.

    Anyway, I called to cancel the order this morning, which again, according to the site, as long as it's still processing, and has not shipped, is allowed. I was told when I contacted the chat agent this morning, that she would put in the request, but can't guarantee a cancel. What??? If it has not shipped yet, there's absolutely no reason why you shouldn't be able to cancel the order. This is absurd. "You can cancel an order that does not contain embroidery only if it has not entered the shipping process. It is often too late to cancel an order because we start processing orders for 'In Stock' items within 24 hours. Once an order has been processed and it's too late to cancel, you will need to return the item once it is received."

    My order shows as processing still. I have received no shipment notification. So, according to the above, then they should be able to cancel it. The chat agent countered with "well, it's already processing, so I can send the request to the warehouse, but it's up to them if they cancel or not. If it's meant to say that it can't be cancelled once processing has BEGUN, then they need to re-word the policy, as that's not what it says. The policy states that it can be cancelled as long as it has not entered the shipping process. My order has not entered shipping, and is still processing.

    I can honestly say that I am extremely disappointed with this online shopping experience. Truth be told, it is probably the worst online shopping experience that I've ever actually had. I do a lot of online shopping, as do most people these days. I would have definitely been a valuable repeat customer. But given this situation, and depending on the outcome, I'm highly unlikely to ever shop at Lids again (online or in store), and will definitely be sharing this experience with my peers so that they can avoid experiencing similar headaches.

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    Reviewed Feb. 9, 2016

    I purchased 5 hats on 2/27/16; order#**. I picked up my order in store (Oxford Valley Mall) to find only 2 hats had been delivered. The store manager called whomever and got my other 3 hats reordered and I was to pick them up the following week. I never heard from anyone so I called Lids customer service and I was told there was never another order put in and that my hats were sold; they had no more in stock. I was then placed on hold and then told that they found 3 hats at a store and they would ship them directly to me overnight; Order Number **.

    I received an email today stating that my Credit Card had been refunded and the hats would not be sent to me because they were out of stock. I go on the phone with Lids.com customer service and they were unwilling to help me. I DID NOT approve a refund. I need 5 identical hats for my wedding and this whole process has become a nightmare. I was told on 3 separate occasions that my hats were there; I should be given the 3 hats or 3 similar hats to make up for it. I also, never received the refund on my credit card and I called my credit card company and they said they have had no processes or information from them of any kind since the 27.

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    Reviewed Feb. 4, 2016

    After reading some of these reviews, I had the same exact experience as JJ in Dallas who paid in full for an order, got it piecemeal & never got the rest of the order. No matter how much I email to ask about the missing items they can't find any of the orders I placed by my name, by phone #, or by my email, yet every 5 minutes they send me new emails about their new sales. I am so done with these people. I got most of my stuff so I'll live but this is called highway robbery when you pay for something & it is not sent to you. DON'T EVER ORDER FROM THIS SITE. If you want to give away your money, donate it to animal rescue because these people have stolen enough!

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    Reviewed Dec. 31, 2015

    Purchased an NBA hoodie online. Later I received the wrong style/model and 3 sizes smaller. I emailed customer service and after not receiving a reply for almost a week I filled out the enclosed return form and shipped it back to them. I later received an email stating they would refund my money, minus the $9 I had to pay for shipping. Eight days later and I still haven't received my refund. They lost a customer forever over $9 dollars. What terrible "customer service."

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    Reviewed Dec. 30, 2015

    I am not kidding when I say this is the absolute worst company to order ANYTHING from. A month wait time no refund and I mean even 20 mins after you place your order. No phone call back. Absolutely rudest customer services reps. It's really shock me. I shop from home for my kids every day all day long. Every website from cookieskids, jcpenney, Macy's, old navy, Carter , Wal-Mart, target etc I have never had to wait this long with no answer or get the run around. I repeat do not waste your time. Do not think for one second your order or experience will be different. You or anyone else will be VERY disappointment. THIS just can't be a real company for real?

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    Reviewed Dec. 29, 2015

    Worst online experience ever. I tried to order a hat online for a Xmas gift for my son. Received an email stating my order was in, but when I went to store I discovered it was not. Staff in Peabody, MA store was rude and useless. 2 hrs wait on CS phone call. I canceled order after not getting it in time for Xmas.

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    Reviewed Dec. 28, 2015

    On 12/8 I visited the downstairs Lids location at the Holyoke mall. Not only was I not greeted when I went in, but there was a guy and a girl working. The girl was up on the top of a ladder on a phone talking to someone and it was obviously a personal call, talking about "I love you" and more and I was in that store for more than a half hour and she was on the phone the entire time. I got the attention of the male associate and asked for help in locating a certain Montreal Expos that my wife had seen. I got the deer in the headlights look. He had no idea what I was talking about so he asked the female associate. She motioned to the other part of the store and looked upset that we were disturbing her phone call.

    I went to that area and found the hats I was searching for by myself hidden behind other teams and hats. I bought the hat I found but it was not the exact one so I inquired about the return policy, paid and left. I then went online and found the correct hat and ordered it. On 12/15 I got a call from the Lids store that my hat had arrived.

    Today, 12/16 I went to the mall. I parked on the upper level so I decided to check and see if the upper level store location had received the hat as the message never indicated which of the two stores it was sent to. As I walked up, there were two male associates. One was making inappropriate comments about some girls that had just left and there was a Bluetooth speaker blasting out rap music with inappropriate language. ** and such.

    I asked if they had my delivery or if it was downstairs and they asked me which phone number had called me. I had to pull out my phone and search for the call. I found it and they acknowledged it was this location so with that done, the "supervisor" of the two went into the small storage area and came out with the it in seconds. He handed it to me and I mentioned I'd like to return the first one I'd bought as it was not the right one. He looked at the receipt and told me I had to go to the other location to make the return as "it would mess up his inventory". So, off I go to the other location on the other floor and performed the return with no issue.

    Now, about me. I'm a multi store retail manager for a company. I've had more than 22 years of customer service, 15 years in mall locations. I've run stores with more than $10m in sales and have had locations with more than 35 associates under my supervision. It takes a lot for me to go through this effort to communicate my displeasure but to top it all off, I called customer service twice tonight after all of this and after 13 minutes on hold in total and being told all personnel were busy, I had had enough.

    Your company has never been known for hiring the brightest shining stars in the retail world to staff your stores, but guys wearing baggy pants and white t-shirts blasting rap music with explicit lyrics doing a disservice to a paying customer is worse than I would have expected. The culture in your stores and the store standards are below par and should be addressed.

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    Reviewed Dec. 22, 2015

    Wow! I placed my order online and thought all was well. I tracked my order online and it got to the Lids store near me, free shipping and I thought "great". I went to the store and 2 of 3 items were there. It took 3 calls to customer service, 3 emails and no answer at the store itself to find out order was split, credit card was charged immediately for the full order, and no answer on the phone at the store still. Things should not be this hard. Lids lost a customer for good based on this painful experience.

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    Reviewed Dec. 21, 2015

    Tried to call customer service for the last 3 days, waited each for countless amounts of time - today I am on my 50th minute on hold waiting for someone to answer. Left my number each day for callback, nothing. Tried the Chatline, it says I'm 2nd in queue and counts down from 10 mins then of course at 10 seconds and resets back to 10 and says I'm still 2nd in queue. There has to be a better way to deal with customers. I have been charged but my confirmation email went into the trash folder by accident and now I have nothing to reference :(

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    Reviewed Dec. 21, 2015

    Like many other complaints on here, the processing time is extremely long. Order two items for Christmas on Dec15 with free shipping. Based on their website regular ground shipping takes 5-7 days, well in time for Christmas. Called on the 21st still being processed for shipping and the customer rep had no idea when it might ship. I tried to cancel the order and was told once it was ordered it cannot be cancelled.... really this is the 2015. Avoid this place. There are plenty of other places to purchase team hats, jerseys and such.

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    Reviewed Dec. 19, 2015

    Ordered a hat 11/23, got a tracking number 11/25, contacted them 12/6 since the status of the tracking haven't changed. Contacted them again 12/13 because it still hasn't updated. Finally talked to them 12/17 and they said my order has been in the store since 12/15 and the tracking number they gave me was different from what I got on the email. They gave me a free express shipping code for all the trouble but the online customer service is really bad.

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    Reviewed Dec. 17, 2015

    After paying for my online purchase, I was advised that the item would take 11 business days or more to ship. As I needed it before Christmas, I decided to immediately cancel the order. This is something that is easily done with most companies-- but not with Lids. After a lengthy wait for customer service, I was informed that it was not possible to cancel the item because it was already in process. It seems that "in process" starts the moment they have your money (given that I had placed the order only minutes earlier). The customer service rep's advice to me was to refuse delivery when the item arrived- a poor and unconvincing solution. Surely, in 2015, an immediate cancellation should be just a click away.

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    Reviewed Dec. 10, 2015

    Placed an order on November 20th. (Its December 10 as of this posting) Almost 3 weeks and no notification about my order being shipped. Then out of nowhere, an email from PayPal stating that one of my items was REFUNDED. No reason given. Had to contact Lids to inquire in which they state: "Your item was refunded because it was marked as missing. This usually happens when we have an incorrect count in our inventory, or if the item was damaged when we tried to fulfill your order, so we had to refund you." Am I missing something here? How does a site show 'in stock' then suddenly not? As of this moment the item I had refunded still shows 'in stock'. Wow.

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    Reviewed Dec. 7, 2015

    I placed an order and it said estimated 11-14 day shipping. Reasonable as it was free. However I needed it within 16 business days. The order took 10 days to be "processed" followed by 16 business days to ship afterwards. All throughout the process I was emailing and calling asking if I could change the shipping address and I was not allowed to because the order was already in the system. When I complained about the length of processing time they just kept telling me "the website says all orders take between 24-48 hours to ship".

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    Reviewed Dec. 5, 2015

    To start, two items on my order were canceled due to low inventory. I don't understand why companies sell a product that they don't have. Once I received the other items I ordered, one of the shirts was of the wrong team. When I called to ask about it, I was told that they were out of the team I ordered so they sent a similar item. WHAT? I don't want another team! As a side note, when I called customer service the first time, I was forced to take a survey to receive a "free" cruise. Are you kidding me? This may be the least professional company I have ever dealt with. I will never spend another dime with this company.

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    Reviewed Dec. 4, 2015

    I've placed an order with Lids and it was the worst experience. First of all, if you don't have the hats in stock, simply refund the money and ship what you've got. Don't wait 3 weeks, waste customers time then refund and ship. I didn't get to bring my hats on vacation with me because they took so damn long. Guaranteed any customer would be happy to have their items even though 1 is missing due to not being in stock, then have them wait almost a month because of it. Wake up Lids. Stop slacking.

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    Reviewed Nov. 21, 2015

    I ordered a sports shirt from Lids.com. Paid for two day shipping and it didn't ship. When I finally got it (too late for my event) it was the wrong shirt, not what I had ordered at all. This really ruined my day! They tell me I can return it but what good does that do me now? Bummed.

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    Reviewed Nov. 16, 2015

    I ordered two items. One of them was canceled because it was not in inventory, but was for sale. And the second article is almost month and half and still have not RECEIVED. And they made me more discounts and the item does not arrive. It is an article for winter, not summer. I check in the website and still in processing...

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    Reviewed Nov. 6, 2015

    Have bought a few hats from this site and the first two didn't have any issues. The third time the order didn't process for a week, and customer service would not allow me to cancel the order. Hold times to reach someone were over 15 minutes. It should not take this long to deliver one item.

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    Reviewed Nov. 1, 2015

    Made an online purchase from Lids, to be delivered to a store about 25 miles away. Since I needed to go to that mall sometime anyway, would pick the order up when I went. Got several emails, and two phone calls that my order had arrived, so I went to the mall for that and stuff from Sears. When I went to get the order, they said it had not arrived, so I showed them the tracking and the guy who told me that it had not arrived was the one who signed for it!

    He searched for it and found one item out of four... said the others were not coming in for a few days. So I asked why I got emails and phone calls saying the order had arrived, and was told, that is the way it is and I would have to make the 50 mile round trip again... I told him that I would not, and to cancel the entire order. They said they cannot cancel orders that are already in the store, but mine was NOT in the store. He said that he cannot and would not cancel the order, so I refused the one item they already had and called Discover to dispute the charge as not ever being delivered. Worst. Buying. Experience. Ever.

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    Reviewed Oct. 23, 2015

    9-12 business days, my order still hasn't come in. I log in to my account to track my order and I find out the transaction is still being processed. I called the store and asked what was going on. They told me that the hat I ordered WAS NOT EVEN IN STOCK! They also made excuses stating that shipping is very slow! I am now waiting on a cancellation email. I wonder how long it takes... DO NOT BUY ONLINE FROM LIDS.COM.

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    Reviewed Oct. 21, 2015

    You can go to the store and get a hat in thirty minutes but if you order online and pay for expedited production and express shipping, you still need to wait seven business days for your hat to even ship. That is the most ridiculous turn around time and I highly suggest you don't use Lids. Other companies can turn around a hat order in two to three business days online. Lids really should update their customer service ordering turn around time and not just take it for granted. They're a big company and can do whatever but instead stay competitive in the customer satisfaction department.

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    Reviewed Oct. 11, 2015

    Although I still order loads of hats from Lids, I must say it takes FOREVER for the hats to ship to the store!! Then when they actually arrive at the store, it takes the lazy employees days, even up to a week to actually open the box and call you to tell you to come get it! Drives me INSANE! The store I go to, goes through employees like contact lenses! They usually have their friends hanging out at the store like it's a high school lunch room! That are always cool but it's extremely unprofessional! I love the discount card and all it saves me but they seriously need to tighten up on how they run this company before it falls apart!

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    Reviewed Oct. 9, 2015

    I ordered an in-stock item, a cap, with standard delivery in 5-7 business days shipping confirmation by email. No shipping confirmation, no order status, no date, no merchandise, no money back. PayPal got me my money back eventually. I did get the opportunity to write to customer service: over a dozen emails. What happened: I wrote asking about my order, they "escalated" the order. When nothing happened, I cancelled my order and asked for my money back. They

    apologized for the delay and appreciated my business and loyalty and my fandom. I cancelled my order again and they assured me they were doing everything in their power to get my order filled and truly appreciated me etc. including my fandom.

    Twelve days later, I cancelled again - first they couldn't help me as they didn't have enough information on my order. (The order and incident numbers were in the subject of the mail, in the form and format their mail help system provides...) So resend, pointing these numbers out - asking for my money back once again. They "escalated" a request to have my order closed out. But they can't give my money back right away, for some reason to do with their order system. They are busy appreciating my patience though.

    Six days later, I ask about my money and ask for a date for my money to turn up and that I will ask PayPal to give me my money back as they haven't delivered for eight weeks. They tell me: if I do complain to PayPal, I won't get the money back from Paypal as "the refund will be rejected by their system". So they have the money, don't send the merchandise in the agreed time, don't give a date for the merchandise to turn up, don't honor a cancellation, and tell me that a PayPal refund request will lead to my not getting my money back.

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    Reviewed Oct. 5, 2015

    Tried buying a birthday gift 2 week in advance and have it shipped to the store. I had to find out 5 days before the birthday that my order was cancelled and I STILL haven't gotten my money back. What a joke. I've called customer service a couple times now and each time I've been put on hold for more than half an hour. I'm gonna try calling again but one thing's for sure, I will never buy from Lids again.

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    Reviewed Oct. 4, 2015

    I was with my husband when we discreetly went to back of store to try on my t-shirt (there was no-one else in the store) when we were screamed at to not take off my clothes in store (there are no dressing rooms) and that he would be calling security. The manager 'Dan', was like a pit bull, would not let it go. I told him we just traveled 30 minutes to the store and I did not want to go home to find the expensive t-shirt did not fit. He was enraged that I did that in his store and was still threatening to call security! Unfortunately we still went ahead with our purchase of $78.00. We wanted the merchandise more than our dignity. We will not do any business with them in the future.

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    Reviewed Sept. 29, 2015

    About a month ago, I ordered 3 hats from the Lids website as I was traveling to Toronto to watch Blue Jays games. Two weeks after my order I was still anxiously waiting for the order to arrive. I received a unexplained refund from Lids to my PayPal account and when I contacted them, they advised it was because two out of the three hats were no longer in stock. When I checked their website after my money was refunded, both hats still showed in stock two weeks after I ordered them - obviously a huge failure to do inventory management and setting lots of customers up for disappointment.

    I made a second order two weeks ago - two jerseys. Last week, I received a notification that one of the jerseys could not be delivered because it was out of stock. A few days later, I was notified that the second jersey also wouldn't be delivered because of an issue with the delivery truck. This time, my money has yet to be refunded despite lids customer service saying they would do so.

    Between two orders in the span of a couple weeks, they were unable to deliver 4 out of the 5 items I ordered. It was a very misleading experience and I would never do business with them again. When I contacted customer service, they offered "free express shipping" on my next order which is laughable. Regular shipping was already free on both of my previous orders that they failed to deliver so why on earth would I order from them again. I would avoid ordering anything from their website - highly unreliable, poor communication, and zero effort on customer recovery.

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    Reviewed Sept. 28, 2015

    Looks like I ended up better off than most reviewers. I purchased a $6 hat (on clearance) and was irritated when I saw that I would have to pay $5 shipping. Oh, well, still seemed like a good deal so I ordered it. Hat arrived a few days later than I assumed it would, so I was a little annoyed after paying $5 shipping. However, when I got the hat it was a terrible fit. I figured that it was no big deal, I'd just exchange it. I contacted customer service and was told that all clearance sales are final, so they couldn't do anything. Wow!! I didn't know that there were any online retailers still operating on such an inflexible model. Oh, well. Lesson learned. That's the last I'll ever consider shopping LIDS. Too bad, I had quite a few items I had marked down to order from them.

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    Reviewed Sept. 25, 2015

    I placed an order online 7 days ago. I called phone # listed 24 hrs 7 days available. I tried 5xs, was automatically put on hold and no one ever answered. I pressed option for callback and no one did. I sent 2 emails and also no response. Finally I called a local store in the mall nearby and the associate was kind enough to contact corporate office for information of my order. She then told me my order was not shipped yet after 7 days and was just now being processed. Why was my monies deducted if order wasn't processed? Bad customer service. Well actually there was no customer service!

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    Reviewed Sept. 25, 2015

    I put in an online order for one single hat on September 15th. It is now September 25th and the order is still "processing". They ignore shipping times like they don't matter. They refuse to cancel the order or give me my money back. I have contacted them 4 times. I expect I'll never get the hat or my money. Lids is the worst retail company I have ever dealt with. Do not order anything online from Lids!

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    Reviewed Sept. 24, 2015

    I went into the Lids location at Park Meadows Mall in Colorado on September 1, 2015 and purchased two hats for a total of $56.06. When I checked my bank account the next day, I saw that the charge was ran twice and that both charges had cleared my account. I contacted Lids at their corporate phone number to let them know about this issue the following day. I was told to fax in a copy of my receipt and my bank statement and somebody would contact me within 24-48 hours. I waited until September 9, 2015 before I called back because I had not received any contact from the company. I was told they did not receive my fax and to please send it again and also email a copy to them, which I promptly did. I received an email from a Lids representative stating I would be contacted within 24-48 hours.

    Again, I received no follow up from the company so I called back on September 14, 2015. I was told by their representative that they were working with the store to resolve my issue and I would be contacted within 24-48 hours. I still had not heard anything by September 21, 2015, so I again called Lids. The representative said he was adding additional notes about my frustrating experience and that my refund needed to be processed ASAP. He stated that again, somebody would contact me within 24-48 hours.

    Today, September 24, 2015, I again called Lids because again, nobody had contacted me. The representative placed me on hold to speak with her supervisor. After returning she informed me that the issue was now being handled by their corporate location in Indiana and I should receive my refund around October 1st. I have provided Lids with the documentation they requested almost a month ago now and am still getting the run around on getting my money back from them. They have promised to contact me several times during this dispute and have failed to do so every time. They acknowledge that they owe me a refund of $56.06 but have not handled this situation appropriately in my opinion.

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    Reviewed Sept. 23, 2015

    Lids is the worst company I've ever shopped from. The customer service is a giant joke!! Spend your money somewhere else. Horrible company. I will never shop there again. Lids sucks, Lids sucks, Lids sucks. Beware do not shop from them!

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    Reviewed Sept. 22, 2015

    I ordered two hats for my sons on September 1st so they can have these for the first week of school. I live close to the store so I chose the ship to store option. I can't believe it takes 14 days to ship to the store. I contacted customer service about a week after the order date and was told that they are allowed 14 business days. Today is September 21st and I still haven't gotten a notice to go pick up the hats. Today I checked my email and noticed I was refunded $30 for one of the hats. Apparently they were out of stock on one of them? Why did it take 14 business days to notice this? Also I didn't even get an email or notice to tell me the item that I had ordered 3 weeks ago is not available? Any honorable merchant will at least have the decency to apologize and perhaps offer a coupon on a future item. I will never purchase from this website again. Horrible business. They don't even care.

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    Reviewed Sept. 17, 2015

    Have been a long standing life member of Lids and must say they do not answer the phone. When orders are lost or incomplete it is impossible to speak with someone intelligent enough to understand your concerns. This is a chronic problem and has been getting progressively worse to the point I refuse to do anymore business with this company. It's too bad that someone has to take the time to write a negative feedback due to the lack of customer service at Lids.com. Thanks. I hope this helps.

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    Reviewed Sept. 15, 2015

    I placed an order 8 days ago for some clothes for my family for a party that had a Chicago Bears theme. On placing the order I paid extra for 2nd day delivery. Not only did it not arrive on time, but on day 5 when I called to cancel, I was told it was not even processed. So I told him to cancel it which I was assured he did. Now day 8 they delivered and charged me and are expecting me to waste more time on this so I can get a refund. I will never purchase from them again. They have poor customer service and follow through. She offered me a $10 gift card. I explained to her if she even offers me a $100 gift card I would not shop with their organization.

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    Reviewed Sept. 13, 2015

    All reviews are correct. Ordered 5 items from the website, ship to store. Store called, went to pick up, and it was 1 shirt. Called help desk. They said my 1st item was shipped from a store and the remaining is coming from their warehouse. Easy enough. A week later, store called. Order is in! Asked the associate how many items. "Was that 1 you said? That can't be right?" Called help desk. "Here is a $10 gift card!" Um, thanks but no thanks? Seriously, keep it. "You'll have them in a week". Thought about it and decided to just get a refund. Emailed and emailed and emailed. No response. Online chat said they will process it. 2-10 business days. In total this has been 4 weeks, about 10 emails, 2 phone calls, 3 online chats. Not sure how a business gets away with all this. I will never shop there again. I've told everyone that will listen NOT to shop at Lids.

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    Reviewed Sept. 9, 2015

    I bought $100 gift card for my husband in addition to a $70 gift card he had received from another family member for his birthday. Employee at the store didn't issue it correctly, resulting in his having to return to the store to have it reissued. Missed out on a holiday discount (significant -25% off entire purchase). Contacted customer service who said they'd honor it, but when he went to place the order after waiting on hold for 40 minutes, they wanted us to pay the DIFFERENCE before discount would be applied and wait for a refund! This was a GIFT and they had said in the cust. service email that they would just discount the items, but when it came down to it, they wouldn't!

    Employees at the store where card was purchased were very unprofessional, complaining about both the company - they hadn't repaired the internet which has been down for a week, and the employee who issued the card in the first place - who apparently FREQUENTLY incorrectly issues gift cards, leaving them blank. Absolutely ridiculous customer service both online and in store. Each person in our immediate family (4 of us) have purchased several hats per year for the last couple of years, have bought into their loyalty program for the last couple of years and this was a $170 purchase.

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    Reviewed Aug. 28, 2015

    You will not get your items if you order anything online from them. You won't talk to anyone in their customer service dept. They say people are there 24/7 but that is false. They don't respond to emails or phone calls.

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    Reviewed Aug. 21, 2015

    I am going to add to the other 56 terrible reviews of Lids... That should tell you people something! I ordered two hats August 9th. Immediately I got the automatic email reply and they withdrew money that hour from my bank account. And then it was quiet... I waited 7 business days and got no further updates, whether the items were shipped or not in stock. After phoning multiple times, never leave your number for a callback! I did so four times and they never return the call. Two days later I get the one hat, turns it was shipped from just down the road.

    So it took a week and half to ship something across town, only after I phoned multiple times. I only got one of the two hats I ordered, so I phoned again. To see what the heck is going on? They said my order was still being processed after 10 business days... Later that day I get an email, saying my item is not in stock. I will get a refund in another 6-8 business days! How nice of them? Why would have items on your website that are available for purchase when you don't have them in stock? Why does it take almost two weeks to figure that out? Why do you only process my order and update me after I have phoned multiple times? Please if you need hats read the other reviews and look elsewhere. Serious Lids.com is a waste of your time! All the hassle to get service it's just not worth it! Try Zazzle, eBay or Amazon instead.

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    Reviewed Aug. 13, 2015

    I ordered 11 items from Lids.com on July 22nd. After a week of my order being "in processing", I emailed Lids. I was assured that I would get my products "very soon" as they put in a request to the warehouse to expedite the process. A week later, I reach out again as the order is still "in processing" and this time they offer me a $10 gift card for my troubles - because I really want to have to deal with them again with another order? Yesterday, August 12, I finally got notice that my order was shipped. The best part, they only had 3 of the 11 things that I had ordered... I can't even explain how angry I am with this terrible company. I will never, and would recommend no one else ever order from them.

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    Reviewed July 31, 2015

    Ordered 4 hats totaling almost $100 on Saturday 7/25. Wanted the items before I leave for vacation on 8/11 so I thought there was plenty of time to get them. Now I am not so sure. After not receiving a shipping confirmation I called on Wed 7/29. At the same time I logged onto Lids.com and saw that my order was still being processed as the woman explained to me on the phone after being on hold for 66 minutes. She ensured me that everything was fine and that I should receive my order by 8/4 even with standard shipping (3-7 bus. days). As of 7/31, my order was still being processed? How long does it take to put 4 hats in a box? My card was sure charged right away!

    Since they will be closed Saturday and Sunday, I see no reason to believe why I would receive them by wed 8/4. After reading many other similar and worse complaints online (should have read prior), I decided to just cancel my order. I was told by the agent on the phone, they may not accept my cancellation request and I still may receive the items? WTF? I asked how that was possible since they had not fulfilled the order yet as it was only in the processing stage? Did not get a real answer to that.

    I have ordered plenty of things online before and never experienced anything like this. As a matter of fact, I ordered some other clothing items online somewhere else the same day and received my shipping notice two days later. I just checked my tracking number and it is already at the UPS facility in my city. Something tells me my battle has just begun as even if they do accept my request, it will take another 3-5 business days to see my money refunded. It has taken them 5 days just to process my initial order. I have already notified my credit card company that there may be a dispute coming. I do not get how a company can continue doing business this way. Not only do I not recommend ordering from Lids.com, I will walk right past their store at the mall every time.

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    Reviewed July 23, 2015

    Ordered two hats totaling nearly $100 with the tax. Was suppose to receive them no later than June 17. Called June 22 as we have yet to receive them. Found out they not yet been shipped! Called again a week later and still not shipped! It is now July 23, over a full month of delivery date and still no hats!

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    Reviewed July 22, 2015

    Worst customer service ever! Not only have I been on the phone for 30+ minutes but when I spoke to the "customer care" rep she stated my order had already been processed when I had only placed the order about 30 minutes previous. I am leaving the country on Friday and have no time to wait 10-14 days for a hat to ship. She stated she couldn't cancel it and when I asked to speak to a supervisor she said they couldn't do anything. On Lids website it states that processing takes about 1-2 business days. Still on hold as we speak. I will NEVER buy anything from Lids again! If I could give no stars I would.

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    Reviewed July 15, 2015

    "Manager" late to work and staff not properly trained. Staff very nice. Manager condescending and arrogant.

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    Reviewed July 3, 2015

    I ordered a few hats through the website. They front a great selection but I suspect in reality that a fraction of those hats are not, and have not ever been in stock. I had the message that due to "Inventory Issues" they cannot ship and they refunded my order. Not that they will ship it when they become available (those are not "rare hats"). Or the case is that they simply thought my order was not attractive or big enough and just simply cancelled it. Will not be shopping there again. Thanks for wasting my time.

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    Reviewed June 24, 2015

    I had a great experience. I have ordered a few things from the site and have had no problems. I only have two complaints. One they do not have MLL gear, and two my Genesco employee discount doesn't work on the website only in stores. Outside of that it is a good company.

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    Reviewed May 30, 2015

    I ordered two ball caps as a gift at 1:00 am Pacific Daylight Time. About 30 minutes later, I checked to be sure that their "ship to store" option would arrive in time for next weekend. After seeing that their "ship to store" option is actually their SLOWEST means, I did their online customer service chat to upgrade to two-day shipping. They refused to change anything but said the order wouldn't ship out until Monday as they don't ship on the weekends. So how can you not change shipping on an item that is still sitting in the warehouse?!? The person (?) on the chat would not even consider checking to see if there was something they could do... she/he "**" was probably a bot. Anyway, I promised him/her/it that I would now make it a pastime, giving them poor reviews everywhere possible. Its/Her/His response? "Thanks for being a fan."

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    Reviewed May 29, 2015

    I placed an order a week ago promised shipping in 2 business days. Called customer service several times with no reply. I asked to cancel and like many others here they won't cancel and my items are on sale so I can't return them. The items had a time sensitive requirement, very frustrating. When you have companies like Amazon who ship same day Lids needs to step it up. This is the last time I order from them. Sorry I didn't look at feedback first.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed May 29, 2015

    1st order. My boyfriend went into the store, he did not see the hats he wanted so the LIDS rep told him that they will order them online for my bf and the hats would be sent to our home address. LIDS rep took all of the bf's information and a month later, out of 3 of the hats he paid for, only one came. They gave some bogus refund excuse and all in all, my bf still hasn't gotten a refund or the other 2 hats. The LIDS rep did not put the correct address, he actually just put for the hats to be sent to the local mall..

    2nd and last order. Me and my bf ordered a few more hats. Waiting and waiting for a confirmation. It never showed up until 4 days later. I called and stayed on hold for 30 minutes before hanging up, then all of a sudden confirmation emails were sent. My order was placed on the 25th of a month. Money was taken from my account immediately but order wasn't processed for shipping until 5 days later, for the hats to be sent next month. Any where else I order from it is instant, you take my money, my order is processed and shipped. But not with LIDS. I will never ever order from LIDS. If it is not in their store, I will not get a hat. They can never get my money again. It's no excuse. People spend their money and have to be treated this way. It's a shame.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedStaffProcess

    Reviewed May 18, 2015

    I ordered a hat in store in April, the store customer service was fine very friendly staff. 8 business days later my package has yet to arrive when I was told 5-7 business days. So I email them and receive no response (big surprise) so I go onto their live chat and was told my order was being processed. And I should receive an email when shipped. 10 business days later still no email. I go back into the live chat and am now told that my order was cancelled the day after I placed it!! So not only was I not notified I was lied to about it still being processed and if I never contacted them they probably would have not notified me.

    2 days later I get a response to my original email stating my order has been cancelled, sorry I wasn't told. Keep in mind I paid cash in the store and have all of my documentation. I ask how I'm going to be refunded and they say a check should be mailed and I will get it 10-20 business days. 10-20!!! Guess what 25 business days later, still no check!!! Can't wait to hear the excuse this time. But I will never purchase from this so called business again!

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    Customer ServiceSales & Marketing

    Reviewed May 13, 2015

    I bought a hat online. I got the order confirmation by email. The amount showed up on my credit card, then... nothing. No shipping confirmation, no email, no hat, niet. But, a couple days later, Lids email spam by email, and hard to unsubscribe from their mailing list. In conclusion, no hat, no service, but email spam. Thanks LIDS!

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed May 7, 2015

    Ordered a $20 hat from the website. 5 weeks and 4 customer service e-mails later, the hat still has not shipped and I have not gotten the "update in 3 days" like I was promised a week ago. They refuse to cancel the order (needed the hat 2 weeks ago) but won't give an update as to when it will be shipped, if at ever. I will never look at a Lids store or website again. Awful service.

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