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5 Connie  · They have everything , pricing is really good and good quality of products I used them forlong time now really satisfied
5 Allan  · I have had good service from I herb. & good prices & quick postage
1 Benjamin H.  · Received a melted and ruined product. Can't get a refund or even a response. Do yourself a favor and buy from an actual store.
5 Glynis B.  · First time ordering from iherb. I was impressed! My parcel arrived in 5 days, everything in tact. Happy customer and will order again.
1 Mel  · I will never understand why l haven’t got my refund back,no package no refund, never use lherb in my life company that can’t be trusted!Nothing else to say!
5 Lubomir D.  · The order was delayed by 1 month, but I got my money back. I recommend it, fair service
John C.
John C.NSW9 posts
 

I have used iHerb for almost 20 years... What a disappointment this company has become... I ordered my supplements with a 20% discount. The order arrived in Australia but the carrier reported it as damaged, iHerb requested that the carrier return the order. So I received none of my order... nearly a week after order arrived in Australia I found… Read more

this all out... Jumped onto support to find out how ot fix this...

They took my details and the Anti Intelligence Bot (seriously the annoying Microsoft Paper Clip 30 years agi had more intelligence!) told me I cannot be put through to a human... and to wait for 2-4 hours for an email. I told the chat bot (for want of a better term) that I needed it reshipped... it said the notes were added to the ticket...

I waited...waited... 2am... still no email... later in the day a refund goes through... clearly they do not care about customer or customer needs... when thing work.. they work well.. although I note nearly 20 years ago the value was real but today to get decent value you need to subscribe to products etc.. they even renegged on their lifetime membership discount they offered me if I soent X dollars within a specific time which I did... the company has continually declined as they grow larger.. I even called the US number and only automated and voice mails... you cannot speak to anyone... so don't even try...

Fleeced
Fleeced39 posts
 

I have a problem with a recent purchase from iHerb. They have now become a nightmare to deal with if there is a problem. It has to be done by chat and I just kept being taken around in circles. I have dealt with them for over 10 years and they were great but now terrible

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Alethea
AletheaSouth Australia2 posts
 

Will never buy off then again. Purchased a product worth $67. It never arrived. After anout 5 attempts to contact them via their support, I was promised a store credit. 6 months later, another 5 attempts to contact them... nothing. Disgusting!!!

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Bippy
Bippy10 posts
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Made a purchase, never recieved. Have tried all contact point but cant contact. This company is to hard to deal with if you have an issue. They have certain quiterias for contact and parcel not delivered is not one. The only response l have recieved is on my account saying refund refused. This is crazy because previous to this l have purchased a lot of items thru them, but will never purchase of them again.

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Tom S
Tom SNSW
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I have a really bad experience with this company. First of all, I ordered more than $100 ++ tablets from it. I'm ordering from Australia. My parcel was meant to be sent in a rural town in NSW. However, the parcel was send to Melbourne in Victoria - an entire state away. I have contacted Auspost who advised to contact iHerb. Contacted iHerb support… Read more

by emails (they don't have phone) who then declined to refund or resend the items. The items are just pending collection "Ready to pick up" somewhere in Melbourne. I have flagged it multiple time to them, but request was "denied" and advised to "ready to pick up" the items in Melbourne. Completely preposterous. I would strongly not recommend anyone to buy from IHerb online. Completely unaccountable and the money is just wasted away.

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Maree Kirk
Maree KirkNSW14 posts
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Beware they do not meet Australian required standard for labelling of expiry dates. Very disappointed in iHerb not having expiry date on my vitamins just received. Expiry dates are required on vitamins in Australia to ensure the quality, safety, potency & effectiveness. After many attempts to get thru to iHerb to query why it was missing I was… Read more

advised some don’t have it & to contact the manufacturer.. r u serious!!! Surely iHerb know the legal requirements of the countries they sell to and follow those requirements. Eventually got to chat with a human and received a refund. Will never buy from them again and have reported them. .. and they now appear to be blocking me to write a review on their site.. KEEP AWAY FROM THEM!!!

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zenmicro
zenmicro2 posts
 

STAY AWAY - Purchased over a $1000 worth of suppliments. Pooly packaged with a few bits of crumpled paper a 5 year old through in. Box was damaged in transit, tape busted and white powder inside the box due to 2 suppliments being damaged. Contacted iHerb Via chat as NO phone support is available. Chat crashed 20 to 30 times ( lost count ) while… Read more

discussing issue. They offered a $20 credit - knowing I need to spend over $80 to get free shipping - finally they offered to replace the damaged goods. Extremely disappointed I spent so much money and had such a poor experience. Never again iHerb.

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Melody P.
Melody P.NSW
 

When searching for Moringa Leaf from MRM Nutrition on their site I noticed that a crucial information on the label about the product containing chemicals including led has been erased. It is impossible to contact them, they don't allow any email communication, and the only customer service available is a non-human chat that cannot help at all. I… Read more

attached 2 photos from the product advertised by IHerb (without the warning) and 1 photo of the same product I bought from GoVita health food store, which contains the warning. I consider this a very serious issue that can affect people's health as they are purchasing the product without knowing there is led in it. There are Moringa products available on the Internet that are tested for chemicals and should not have led.

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ABC
ABCQLD36 posts
 

Cant stop autoship - doesnt show up in account and yet it keeps coming and I keep being charged. definitely would not do a regular order with them , this has been a nightmare and cant contact a human to stop it.

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Bee T.
Bee T.SA4 posts
 

I'm a regular customer and have been happy to far. However I had a notification that my autoship order can't be shipped and there is no human I can reach out to , to find the reason why it can't be shipped. Just a merry go round of chats with a chatbot called joy.

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Lana
Lana
 

I have experience purchasing tea from iherb. Some teas very poor quality. They will make you sick, vomiting. They trust ingredients. They are never tried products themselves.The ingredient list is incomplete. Many teas contain caffeine and black tea. They doesn’t mention it in ingredients list. Don’t trust description. Customer support is useless.

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Gogo
GogoVIC7 posts
 

I have purchased from iHerb for many years, however recently they have started a rewards program where 'verified purchases' leave a review for an item. So I started paying attention to the 'verified reviews'. People are being monetarily rewarded for leaving reviews and if you start reading them, a lot of the reviews aren't even relating to the… Read more

product! I have seen reviews where people are saying the composition of ingredients are great...on a thermometer. Most other reviews are just ChatGPT copy and paste. And they are identical for different products. Due to this rewards program where people are being PAID, I can no longer accurately rely on reviews for products...which is the whole point of iHerb....

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Robbie
RobbieSA6 posts
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I have been using melatonin for a number of years now and I herb now have stopped delivering to Australia. Boycott I herb

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Graeme F.
Graeme F.2 posts
 

Contains bovine gelatine capsule ( from waste cow flesh skin etc read almost hidden fine print. Why not be upfront and tell people before they order?

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Douglas J.
Douglas J.7 posts
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Terrible service Still waiting on my delivery Over 2 months Requested a refund - it’s been declined No phone contact They don’t follow up on deliveries

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Russell Williams
Russell Williams3 posts
 

Pah... this site based in the USA and decided to send me a message asking for a review. For one thing its probably not a good prompt to do this for someone unhappy with your customer service and trading policy. I am disturbed by the stupidity of… Read more

your refund process(actually when I think of it it is just a matter of not being bothered to fulfil the replacement as it may cost them more to di this then to have one very unhappy customer. My preference for a damaged ie empty item was replacement but no common sense did not prevail and I was forced into a refund. You really need to look at this IHERB. I ordered two identical items and one turned up fine and the other was empty/ Looking at the packaging I daresay it was leaking in transit. I opted for a fulfilment of my order not a refund as I wanted the item. Instead this was refused and I was forced into a refund or nothing I guess. Whatever happened to customer service and fulfilling valid orders? Did they think i claimed one item was empty when it wasnt? Who knows... I realise it would probably cost the company to resend the item but isnt that was this company is supposed to do... Anyway I gave it one star because a poor showing at meeting a customers expectation. Cant say Ill use it again unless there is no other option which of course in this world of customer fulfilment there absolutely is. POOR SHOW IHERB!!!!!

 Follow-up  · I have been asked for a follow up from product review. I have decided to give this company a miss in future and wont be putting any further business its way.

Jordan
JordanQLD16 posts
 

I Can buy from iHerb in Australian dollars AUD. I can see the cost in AUD and I can easily get enough product to achieve free delivery. The products arrive in a few days. The product range is very extensive and great quality and well priced. I buy a… Read more

number of products from iHerb that I cannot get elsewhere. Based on great prices and great products and extensive range, I get nearly $100 AUD of products every month from iHerb. This is made even better by their further discounting of the price when bought on automatic ordering, and within this I have total freedom to skip any product at any time.

 Follow-up  · Here is a comment presented as a follow-up on my earlier comments. I continue to prefer to buy from iHerb because their range of products is quality and extensive, their information provided about each product helps me to be sure that is the product I want, and they sell great brands that I already have confidence in. Alongside that, there is… Read more

Sally H.
Sally H.
 

Horrible, dishonest company and zero customer support – This is the absolute WORST most unprofessional company I have ever dealt with. I found them in IDme as giving military discounts. So I assumed they were legit and I was excited to start getting my supplements from a company that honored those who… Read more

serve. I signed up and made my first order (which totaled $220 with the discount) and got a confirmation and shipping notice. The day it was to be delivered, my husband and I were both here and even working on our front porch painting the shutters. Yet, when I checked the tracking at the end of the day to find out where the package was, I saw "attempted delivery, Unsuccessful." I then checked our security cameras to confirm there was no attempt (so their carrier Tforce lies!) and then called the carrier who said, too late we already sent it back. So then I tried to contact iHerb to find out how soon I could get another shipment and discover this is no way to speak to a human being. I understand not having agents take orders but if there is a problem with an order, they need to make a person available. I had 3 tries with the message system and 2 tries with the chat feature. I thought I had finally succeeded in getting it worked out but then got an e-mail that said the refund was cancelled (as I didn't want a refund, I wanted a reshipment) but a new order made that was charging me again. I tried desperately to reach someone and even found their corporate number for the HR dept and left a message that was never returned. It was an unbelievable sequence of frustrating and confusing mistakes made as a result of a lying carrier and a company too cheap to provide even the slightest customer support. To top it off, when I went to log in to check to see if they might have shipped a 2nd order, which they never actually shipped, I found they had deactivated my account. Unbelievable. Thankfully, credit card companies reverse charges. This company should be shut down.

 Follow-up  · was asked to write a follow up. My review remains the same. This company is still the worst based on my experience. I would never trust them to make an order for anything again.

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Emily M.
Emily M.
 

If I could give a negative number, I would. I used Vitacost a lot, then they must have been taken over by iHerb. There was a coupon to try iHerb, so I did. EACH TIME, the order was immediately canceled. (Dates 5/8, 5/9, 5/17). I reached out via their "leave us a message" and got an email "answer" DAYS later telling me it was just a glitch & to… Read more

"try later." Well, it was obvious they hadn't read the message which explained that I'd already tried a day later with the same result! Then, I tried a week later. Still immediately canceled! Then, to crown it all, they place THREE CHARGES to my CC...on the canceled orders. Did not reverse the charges. They have ZERO customer service, just chat bots that are not well trained. DO NOT USE THEM. AVOID THEM AT ALL COSTS.

darren
darrenSA2 posts
 

The product range is great but delivery is atrocious in Australia it travels around Australia into interstate to different States goes on a goat track delivery people leave products outside in the rain which should be taking care of and taken them back to the post office if no one's home not a great company to deal with there is no care once a product leaves their warehouse

Justin
JustinSA13 posts
 

I was meant to be delivered 13-15th, ordered 8th. It's now showing up to the 20th! I ordered something from the well-known A**z*n on Sunday afternoon and had it delivered Monday lunchtime - that's how you operate a ecomm business - not give it to AusPost and fingers crossed.

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B Vaughn
B VaughnNSW24 posts
 

So sick of the non-existent customer service with this mob. Getting a refund is a nightmare despite them professing it to be easy. I'll be using other companies from now on. Strange how everything is shipped from South Korea too.

Heather M
Heather M38 posts
 

Have been a customer for about 20 years. Delivery is 5-9 days by Aust Post with tracking, and cheap or free if you spend more than $80 (the amount changes sometimes). I've no delivery issues. I choose Global Air for shipping, and Aust Post deliver those orders. I've never had any problems with delivery. You can shop in AU dollars. A signature is… Read more

required and can't be left if not home, although I've asked my postie to leave my iherb packages if I'm not home and he does that. All ingredients are listed, not so for Australian and NZ products, where only active ones are on the label. Huge brand range and authentic, no counterfeits guaranteed. I've had no delivery issues in Aust. Melatonin shipping has resumed. All product pages show expiry dates and it's on the bottles. CONS- 1. Previously you would receive a discount on your next order depending on how much you spent on your previous order. Then that was replaced with $1 off for writing a review. There are now 1,000s of 5 star reviews with most being poor quality. People write anything just to get paid, and even saying they haven't started using it yet, or too soon to tell, or cut and paste other people's reviews! Honestly, most of the reviews are useless. iherb give ideas on what to write, with useless stuff like mention the quality of the product (how would you really know without lab testing it?), and to comment on the packaging, which is just a plastic bottle. If you put in effort to write a helpful detailed review, it will only be read for maybe a month and then go into the abyss with so many reviews being written, as people will only read the first 2-3 pages of reviews. UPDATE: The new terms for the review points is that they now have an expiry date, which in ONLY 30 days! That means you'll have to make a purchase within 30 days for every review you write to use the $1 reward. This was brought to my attention 27.6.26 when I was looking at the current specials on the site and saw a notice saying my reward points will expire in 4 days. My last purchase was 5.6.26. I looked up the info on rewards, and saw the new information on expiry dates. 2. Email support has been scrapped. You can only talk to a bot now and who doesn't hate that?!! Usually frustrating and a waste of time. E.g. IT issues, problems with autoship, and website errors can't be reported, etc. Bot said it can't report my issue that My Answers edits say Updated after I've completed them, but are not consistently being published. 3. Inner parcel filling is plastic pillows. Should be paper, especially with all those supplement plastic bottles they sell, that are often 1/4-1/2 full.!

betamax
betamaxNSW11 posts
  Verified

Long time iHerb customer. Their shipping is very quick, and they have a huge range of vitamin supplements. I recently logged into my account to order, not realising my old address was on their records (I often checkout as guest so I don't get to see what address was at their end!), and they were extremely helpful in contacting AMS to get my… Read more

parcel re-routed. Took a while due to Australia Post incompetence, but it go here. It was my fault, but iHerb were great in helping me sort it out.

Liana P.
Liana P.
 

Ordered a blood test kit, it came back A positive. It didn’t seem right so I got it done at my doctors, and it came back o positive. Wouldn’t trust these guys lol

vandoorn1953
vandoorn1953WA15 posts
 

I was doing well with this Company until I went onto Autoship andSave and there true colours show. I found that autoship was being received long before I ran out of suppliments. I have been trying to cancel. What they do not tell you is that you cant cancel. Their instructions dont work.. The only thing I can do now is try to close the account.

Vinnie P.
Vinnie P.3 posts
 

Having been informed about the excellent quality of the iHerb products, I recently made an order of the incorrect item. iHerb were absolutely fantastic!!! Being a weekend even they rectified the error within hours. Their customer service is absolutely fantastic! I am eagerly awaiting my product and will happily write a review regarding the result of taking their scientifically proven product! Thank you iHerb!

Adriana L.
Adriana L.
 

I bought one product in IHerb. I told them that i am NEVER home because i work during the entire day. They keep coming to my address and they expecting me to be home to deliver the PROduct. As Im never home, the product is being sent to AUS POST. I don’t have time to go to AUS POST, that’s why i buy things online. I asked for refund and they dinied, they say the product is at the AUS POST.

Stop_shonky_sellers
Stop_shonky_sellers20 posts
 

Very poor search. Search for Vitamin E from Life Extension (a US based company with exceptional quality of supplements) and a mass of other Vitamin E's show up. OK, I'll search for just 'Life Extension'. Now I get 7 pages of their vitamins to scroll through to locate the pic go the vitamin E bottle. Amazon and others have easy to use websites 20 years ago.

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