Unacceptable quality, absent customer service. A borderline scam.
I ordered a wedding dress from LightInDreaming. I sent them my measurements and expected a thusly-tailored dress to my residence in Estonia within 15 days, as claimed on their website. The first disappointment with LightInDreaming was to receive the dress only on the 34th day after my order — the dress had not even left their premises by the fifteenth day.
Immediately having opened the box I understood that this dress was not the same design as the one I ordered. Instead of the attractive lace decoration advertised in the picture, a hand-cut sheet of lace was lazily attached to the top of it. Cheap-looking glass beads adorned the dress in several places, also clearly not present in the picture. Most egregiously, despite my measurements being correct and unlike the tidy, reserved fastenings visible online, this dress had a line of buttons extending far below my waist and onto my buttocks. Every detail on this dress was obviously a corner cut, an error, or at the least a significant departure from the original design. It was not remotely attractive.
LightInDreaming claims in their terms and conditions that you can send the dress back under certain conditions (read on) if you contact them within two days of receipt. I informed them promptly that I would require a return address. No response. A day later I called them, then again two days after that. No response on any front.
I finally received a reply from their customer support ten days after my inquiry -- they informed me that, in fact, they would not accept any return as the dress had been tailored to my measurements ("Any tailored dress cannot be returned."). There is no mention of this in their terms, which (albeit in poor, ambiguous English) suggest only that they were not liable for mistakes in the provided measurements. In this case, the measurements were fine, but the quality and fidelity of the product were unacceptable. Nevertheless, they refused my refund.
Given the excruciating waits between customer contacts, I eventually ate my $300 purchase and will simply agree never to do business with them again. Based on the poor quality and nonexistent service I received, I cannot recommend LightInDreaming to anyone.
10 March 2015
Unprompted review