Worst online shopping ever.
I bought a pair of Sebago shoes from these people in September 2022, and I began using them in July 2023. After a few weeks only and not even wetting them, the lower seams did fail on both sides and the sole began to get lose. Clearly a fault by construction.
I asked for an exchange, but these people refused, saying they'd reimburse me and then I'd have to buy a new pair. Meanwhile their price had gone up from 99€ to 129€... I refused, and asked for an exchange as is mandatory by law in priority in case of a defective product, or in the worst case a discount of 30 euros, but they refused.
Meanwhile they said they had reimbursed me via my Mastercard despite my refusal.
But after weeks the money was not on my account.
My bank said the money was not visible from their side, and the Compass24 people did not what had to be done in direction of their bank to track it efficiently: they simply said I had to check with my bank and delivered very slowly and reluctantly some incomplete transaction data I had to beg for.
after many email exchanges and hours of time lost, my bank finally found the money, more then one month later, checking with Mastercard but clearly the fault was at emitter's side.
To sum it up:
a) worst experience in online-shopping EVER, esp. as these people had sold me a defective product. No decent support, no adequate service, no real follow-up of complaints, except via push-backs.
b)I'll never again buy Sebagos: I was a customer for 35 years, with dozens of pairs, but I now switched to Sperry.
Edit as of 051123: as Compass24 answered below by saying "we would have refunded the difference to you for a new order. Possibly a misunderstanding in communication. " I want to stress that, no, this happened in writing, management in copy, and there was absolutely no miscommunications: I asked three times for such a refund, and they wrote me back three times that it was not company policy and that I could only get the 5% discount everybody gets when subscribing to their newsletter. Anyhow, I got my new Sperrys from another more reliable and customer friendly shop and am fully happy with them: they are much better under all aspects than the nowadays low quality Sebagos.
October 1, 2023
Unprompted review