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Very long lead times.
Only after ordering, I learned that their "partner" will ship in 10-12 days.
Not a serious store. Avoid!

Update:
Shipping was an additional 4 days.
However, the package came with an apologetic letter and a free additional specimen of the ordered item. Kind gesture from the partner.

Reviews are all fake. We know this because there are no negative reviews and because it is impossible to leave a review (after typing a review, it just gives an error).

Products come from China, so you wait forever for your product to arrive.

Last week, due to an "IT problem" at UBS, many debit cards were blocked, including mine.
Mistakes happen, but instead of informing me and sending me a new card, they waited for my payments to be declined and forced me to call and wait in a queue for half an hour.

Still waiting for a shipping *confirmation* after 3 working days, despite promise to *deliver* in 1-3 days.

All 40 items were delayed.
Because the Ex Libris suppliers did not deliver.

I needed them for a party, but had to cancel them all.
Luckily I purchased many items from a real store as well, so it was not a complete disaster.

Auszahlung nicht möglich, weil mein Konto "nicht verifiziert" sei. Ist es aber, sagt das grüne Banner.

Heute ein Email geschickt mit dem Malta Cyber Crime Unit im CC.

Malta ist eben wo Interwetten Holding Ltd. registriert sei (siehe offshoreleaks.icij.org).

When we didn't answer the door, instead of leaving the packages in the hallway, ParcelForce brought the packages to a postoffice, where we had only days to
pick it up. The packages ended up being shipped back to England! 14 kg of urgently needed baby formula...

Useless for US stocks:

- Cannot trade options on individual US stocks.
- Unusual *monthly* fee (around $20) just to access the US stock market.

Considering the pain of opening an account, they should have shouted a big warning up front about these limitations.

Aimee was amazing, very professional and nice and even found my package lost by the unprofessional MyUSA.

Package lost

The MyUS UK branch changed their warehouse address, so that packages sent to the old address are lost. Customer Service confirmed this but refused to pay the value of the lost package.

A responsible company would have set up a 6- or 12-month forwarding service, and add a big note to the box warning of the address change. Instead, they sent an inconspicuous email that looked like the usual spam.

Unprofessional. AVOID!

Multiple deliveries took longer than promised for international shipping.

Strangely, on my last order, Parcel Force claim they collected 3 days after Express Chemist claimed they despatched it to Parcel Force.

Payment webpage broken: after payment process starts, nothing happens: no payment confirmation, no purchase confirmation.

My girlfriend and I both tried independently, one week apart:
- Both the farmae.eu and farmae.de websites.
- Three different credit cards and PayPal, all of which normally work for us.
- A laptop and a mobile phone, on two different accounts.

Flight attendants Corina Stocki und Emanuel Bischof gave me exceptionally good service today.

"Shingirl.de" is a shady front for a Chinese company.

Lead times are intentionally hidden and misleading: "please allow 3-5 working days for the production" translates to 8-23 days to receive the package from China (standard shipping)!

Smooth transaction and assembly, high quality garden furniture.

Used DHgate to purchased a bubble tent for $400 from a seller with a fake name (meow_householdes, Sichuan, China). DHgate confirms shipment including a fake tracking number. When it doesn't arrive, I see that the seller wrote that I only purchased 1 m^2 of a tent. The minimum area would be 6 m^2. If I could please pay another $2k. For a cheap plastic tent!

Also, all product reviews are fake (100% 5 star); it is not even possible to leave a review!
Purchase history of items: also fake.

DHgate openly pays $5 for fake 5-star reviews on Trustpilot. See DHgate's replies to the reviews from Andzz. And still, they only manage an average of 2 out of 5 stars! :D

I nominate swiss.com for the title of "Worst website of 2022".

Bakker Switzerland never respond to messages.
One time, they suddenly delivered half a dozen plants after 2 weeks, and just left them in the building without a note or email. Most had died by the time we found them. Again they could not be contacted to discuss the matter.

Club is like a mafia family. You can never leave.
There is an online leaving form, which is only a request to leave. Then you have to wait for them to contact you, which they don't.

After selecting the presents, the "Confirm" button was missing when entering new credit card details. (On Chrome and Edge.) Customer Service said there was no way for me now to buy the presents.

Also, a search for "leuk kadootje voor een 4-jarige jongen" (fun present for a 4-year-old boy) produced a list of piggy banks. Really? :)