Incompetent, condescending, racist, scam of a service!
I think Zalado and Zalando Lounge must have entirely separate management, seeing that I've generally had positive experience with Zalando. But my experience with Zalando Lounge was generally hit and miss, right up to my latest transaction with them which has been an utter nightmare. From the borderline scam to the condescending racist treatment.
I ordered a fitness tool from them which arrived with an essential piece missing. Picture of the said piece is all-over the packaging and was included in the description of the item. There was no notice of any kind as to the item having any defects or missing bits on the description. Well, seeing that the item page is now expired and I no longer can prove anything, customer support conveniently claims that this essential piece was never supposed to be a part of the package, an entirely unbelievable claim.
But it gets better. The woman on the phone with me decided to speak to me as if she was speaking to a child [or perhaps an idiot] right after she realised I have a foreign name that was making things oh so difficult for her. [Poor thing, having to deal with a foreign name, huh?] Mind you, having lived and worked in a German speaking country for a decade I can perfectly well speak the language, which is what I was doing. But every time I spoke a word in English, she would interrupt me and give me warning that I had to speak in German because she spoke no English. Said English words being words like "computer" and "item", which the last time I checked very much appear in the German dictionary too. Seriously, what kind of uneducated close-minded person doesn't know what a computer is, and keeps issuing warnings because I used such "English language" words?
Of course I then stopped the conversation and asked to speak to someone else. After waiting an eternity on the phone, I was connected to someone who told me she had been told I needed to speak to someone in English! Are you kidding me? I didn't need to speak with someone in English, just because I'm a foreigner it doesn't automatically mean that I can't speak the language of the country. I simply needed to speak to someone who knew what a bloody computer is!
So in the end not only was I scammed by Zalando Lounge, I also had to deal with their rude condescending racist behaviour.
March 15, 2022
Unprompted review