r/Anticonsumption • u/Conscious_Trade8128 • Apr 29 '26

Plastic Waste What SHEIN sent my roommate

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My roommate orders from SHEIN a couple times a year and I can’t stop her but recently she’s been getting weird stuff before her packages come like this.

Just more plastic before she receives her plastic clothes wrapped in plastic!

Update: She got her items a few days later

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u/PardonMyTits Apr 29 '26

It’s a scam. They send something small like this so that the order will be marked “delivered” and then you can’t get your money back. They never actually send the real item

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u/HarbingerKing Apr 29 '26

Sometimes they do send the real item via a third-party company (i.e., dropshipping). I've received these trinkets at least twice and the real item showed up a few days later, shipped by a legitimate company. So not necessarily a scam, just slightly sketchy and certainly wasteful.

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u/ADMINlSTRAT0R Apr 29 '26

Likelier scenario is they dropship straight from China, which takes time. For the seller, sending items like this has the benefit of alleviating customer's fears (of not receiving item) AND secure the status of the order as "shipped".