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Pellemiele

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Bad experience with Stylekorean

I won a giveaway from them, it was quite big with 10 products, they warned about potential custom fees so I knew I was going to pay some, but they asked for 194 euros (which now are also 194 dollars more or less). The value of the box was 135€... Maybe it's just a problem when they ship to my country (Italy) however DHL contacted me several times through email and phone to ask for details, because they just wrote "beauty box" ten times, without the name of the products, and they didn't even put the harmonizing code... And the graphic overall was quite bad, my name had weird characters in between and my phone number was cut, rounded up, had decimals and an exponent (it was written in bad scientific notation lol). I mean I've won some giveaways from Korea but I've never had to pay so much and also never seen documents written so badly. Also wasted a lot of time. Oh, i contacted them on Instagram on tuesday and they didn't reply (it's Saturday and they had seen it, i also added some documentation). I see a lot of people having a good experience with them so although I knew I was going to pay more i still didn't expect this :S
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FrenchyPeach19

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I've seen this happening several times with my mutuals on insta😬😬 and I think it was StyleKorean too. I don't understand WHY these online shops are messing the documentation so stupidly so many times??? Also, I don't understand why you have to pay 194€ when the value of your package is less than that. Do you have a detailed fee from DHL??
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OMG noooo!!! Why the 250€ value??? This is messed up from start to finish!😱 And I know there are warehouse fees sometimes but 99€ seems so excessive!πŸ˜¬πŸ€” my mutuals are in France and they had to pay something like 50€. The documentation was also messed up by StyleKorean. These online shops literally write a lot of bullsh*t on these documents idk why!? Isn't it easier for everyone to write the right things?😭🀌🏼 I hope this problem will be solved soonπŸ™πŸΌπŸ™πŸΌπŸ™πŸΌπŸ™πŸΌπŸ™πŸΌ
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Tolly

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sorry about your experience maybe you can contact them through their website
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Pellemiele user profile picture

Pellemiele

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thank you, i sent an email, however on the website they seem not too helpful, these fees are all on the receiver...
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Sherri4g

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An Instagram friend also had a problematic giveaway experience with them and high custom fees (Canada). She was able to get the documents needed to pay directly at customs and reduce the cost so not to pay DHL's added fees.
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Pellemiele

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that's a great idea, i tried to contact Italian customs but they didn't reply this time... but I'll try again and ask what do i have to do to talk directly to them without having to use DHL or other couriers for the documentation. thank you
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oh no! I’m sorry I don’t know what to suggest other than contacting Stylekorean but I hope you can resolve the problem.
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Pellemiele

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thank you, I'm waiting for a reply!
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I am so sorry to hear about your experience. I only had positive experience with Stylekorean giveaways. I hope this gets resolved soon!
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I live in the Midwest. Thus must be so frustrating.
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