Don't ... just don't
In a nutshell:
1 Expensive items. 2 Expensive shipping. 3 Deceptive pricing. 4 They have a .eu suffix on their web address but they are not in the EU. 5 Too many get-out clauses. 6 Slow. 7 Imaginative sizing.
In detail:
1 Expensive items
37 Euros for a T shirt is quite a lot.
2 Expensive shipping
10 Euros for shipping 2 lightweight T shirts is also pretty steep.
3 Deceptive pricing
Prices shown in pounds sterling but are converted to Euros in the checkout process. I used a credit card that gives a good exchange rate and doesn't charge a flat fee, but the unwary could definitely lose out in the currency conversion.
4 .eu suffix
This is a US company with admin done in the Ukraine. Ukraine is not in the EU. This is relevant to point 5. There is also much less consumer protection from outside the EU.
5 Too many get-out clauses
I did not notice the small print that says customs duties could be charged on top of their expensive prices. You may know how expensive that can be because carriers, including Royal Mail, charge admin fees as well as any customs duties - £8 'handling' in the case of Royal Mail. These charges wouldn't apply if they were in the EU - but neither the US nor Ukraine are in the EU. Fortunately, I wasn't charged. Then there’s the sizing clause. See point 7, and the delivery clause, see point 6, ‘Usually we ship orders on the next work day, but in some cases this will take up 7 days.’ 7 DAYS!!
6 Slow
I ordered 2 T-shirts on 20 October. 2 days later it was ‘awaiting pickup’. On 29 October it had been ‘shipped’ and a tracking number was given. 2 days after that the message was ‘….is about to ship. USPS has received shipping information from the shipper, and will usually pick up the shipment within a few hours.’ On the same day: ‘Shipment Received, Package Acceptance Pending’ from location ‘JAMAICA, NY, 11430’ via USPS, (USPS is just the standard US postal service). No further information, other than status ‘shipped’, until today, 10 November, when it was delivered – by our regular postman. That’s 3 full weeks. Good thing I ordered in time for Christmas.
7 Imaginative sizing
Another get-out clause: they give sizes in inches and cm to 2 decimal places (!) but they say they can vary by 5% on the width and 7% on the length due to the manufacturing process. That may not sound a lot but actually it gives them a huge leeway, for instance the given length of an adult 5XL at 92.71 cm could be anything from 86 to 99 cm, so they have covered themselves well, if not the poor 5XL sized man.
The goods
Now, having vented my spleen and said all that, I should probably comment on the T-shirts themselves. They are OK. The material is thin-ish. The printing of the animal faces is great. I wasn’t expecting real 3D (though some other commenters obviously were) but they do actually look quite 3D from a distance. The brown background looks a much lighter brown than online but that could be down to my PC monitor. There is no indication that the non-animal part of the garment is not a solid colour. On one of the T-shirts it just looks like it has just been dyed badly but on the other it is actually quite a pleasing jungle-y pattern. The hem of the smaller T shirt curves up in the middle of the front and I can’t tell if this is going to be permanent. Then there’s the sizing. In general, they look pretty big but I wouldn’t rule out shrinkage in the (cold) wash. I ordered one each of children’s L and XL. The XL looks massively bigger but in fact they are more or less the same width and the XL is MUCH longer. Given their sizing get-out clause, they are only off by about 1 cm on the length of the larger one so I won’t be returning them. Can you imagine what a nightmare that would be?
I don’t think they are a scam but I would advise everyone to avoid them like the plague.
(Normally I only give positive reviews but sometimes people need to be warned.)








