Dear Mary,
We’re sorry to hear that you were unhappy with your experience shopping with us, however we would like to clarify a few points from our side.
Your order for the skirt was received on December 20th and returned to us on December 29th. The item left our store in perfect, unworn condition. Upon return, the skirt had a substantial amount of sequins missing from the back, a heavily bent and damaged garment tag, and a very strong food odour which was noted by multiple staff members and a customer present at the time the return was opened.
Additionally, the skirt was originally dispatched carefully packaged in a box but was returned scrunched into a postal bag and heavily taped.
As soon as we received and inspected the return, we contacted you with photographs of the damage and explained that, due to the condition differing from how the item left our store, we were unable to accept it for a refund and it would therefore need to be returned to you.
Following several emails back and forth, despite the fact that the skirt was unsuitable for re-sell, we offered a goodwill credit note to use against a future purchase from our website. This offer was declined and you instead requested that the skirt be returned to you.
As outlined in our terms and conditions, return postage costs in circumstances such as this are the responsibility of the customer. However, as a gesture of goodwill, we covered the return postage cost ourselves despite the damage not occurring on our side.
We would also like to clarify that we absolutely do accept returns, provided items are returned unworn and in the same condition in which they were dispatched.
Kind regards,
Sister