2024 experience: Some items not as advertised and shipping can take over 6 weeks
I saw a product I'd been meaning to buy for a while on, advertised on Tumblr and got the impression that the items were handmade to some extent. After browsing the online catalogue, I figured that probably wasn't the case, and the relatively high prices also made me suspicious. However,2 I wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt and bought the item I'd been looking for and a couple of other items to make the shipping costs worthwhile. Nearly every item was shipped separately, and arrived in separate packages at different times. Most of the items were fine, so I don't feel I was scammed per se, but one set was poorly made, its pieces were ill-fitting, making the objects flimsy and some unusable. Another was a piece of jewelry with nonsensical engravings, which was different than advertised (engravings were supposed to be the 12 signs of the zodiac). I found the same jewelry on Aliexpress, with zodiac engravings and thus matching the advertised item. This made me feel disappointed, considering I had basically paid $30 for an item that didn't carry the meaning it would have, if it had the zodiac engravings. This was especially important to me, as astrology was once a big part of my life and my philosophy has always been to not focus on your sun sign, but to be aware that all of the signs are present in you in some way.
On the positive side, the customer service was very kind and responded swiftly. However, I didn't feel the return process was worthwhile considering the high costs already paid. I received status updates on the packages that were still on the way (some arrived after 6 weeks and one item even later), which I appreciated. All in all, shop is legit in the sense that they do sell these items and they seem to mostly be as advertised but the quality control isn't very good and wrong items are sometimes dispatched. With this in mind, the costs are too high to consider shopping at Lavender Constellation again. At the moment the website is closed, I sincerely hope they will consider the reviews left about them and improve the business model.
May 9, 2024
Unprompted review