clear and misleading information about “free returns”
I ordered a jacket from Mey & Edlich which did not fit.
The invoice and enclosed documents explicitly state:
“The return itself is free of charge for you.”
At the primary point of reference for returns, there is no clear and immediate disclosure that this statement applies exclusively to returns within Germany. The information that international return shipping costs must be borne by the customer is placed in a secondary section and is not presented prominently or contextually alongside the above statement.
As a customer based in Greece, and in the absence of a timely response to my inquiry, I arranged the return independently and incurred €28.50 in shipping costs. Only after the return was completed was I informed of the applicable policy for returns from abroad.
This is not an issue of return policy itself, but of adequate and timely pre-contractual information. A minimal and clearly visible clarification at the main returns section would have prevented this situation entirely.
Transparency is determined at the first point of reading, not in fine print or secondary disclosures.
For a company of this size and history, the lack of clear differentiation between domestic and international return conditions is a serious shortcoming.








