The Mini Social

I hope we find this information earlier. We also shipped the good to them and
did not get pay. Tried to contact the owner Melinda. She will not return email.
Don’t ship them… they are the bad apple in the business…

The Mini Social is a scam. My company agreed to do a sale with them in April and gave a steep discount to Melinda (owner) in order to build brand recognition in our off season. They take the orders online and then place the order with the vendor. In other words, Zero risk to them. They have sold your product and collected the money before you even ship to them. And then, they refuse to pay. We even made a payment schedule for them which they have utterly failed to adhere to. If you consider selling your product on their site, it is an absolute MUST that you receive full payment before shipping goods to them.

I wish I would have read these reviews before I agreed to have my company run a sales event with them. Like the others have said, The Mini Social has stopped paying their vendors and give no timeline as to when, if ever, they will be paid. I went on their website and there are still sales events going on. I sure hope these new vendors understand they are falling prey to a company that is no good. Melinda and Dominque have been emailed several times and give excuses as to why they can’t pay my company. As a small independent company, financial losses damage my company.

I would also give them zero stars if I could. Like one of the other reviewers, I also placed an order on their website more than ONE month in advance in order to allow for plenty of time for Christmas delivery. Needless to say my order arrived AFTER the holiday. I contacted customer service to ask if they would consider refunding my shipping fee– it only seemed fair, since my stuff didn’t arrive in the time frame they promised– right? The answer was «no», but we’ll just give you a $ 10 credit on your next purchase! As if I plan to buy from them again? I contacted them again to ask them to reconsider their stance on the matter– I even included a link to their reviews on Unilocal.I thought maybe the owner would want to know what people were saying about the business. Apparently not, because no one even bothered to contact me back! UNSUBSCRIBE– I’m taking my business elsewhere!

If I could give this place 0 stars, I would.
I placed an order consisting of about 7 – 10 items, most of which were Christmas gifts. There was also a little Xmas tree hat for my toddler to wear during the Holidays. I bought them on 11/​26, thinking that that was plenty of time to ship. In fact, that day was Cyber Monday. I did most of my shopping online… gilt, Hautelook, amazon, Zulilly, Target. They all came through and delivered on time. I discovered that I was missing a shipment and it was from MS the 20^th of Dec. I emailed their customer service and tried to track my shipment (it said it was to mail out on ¹²⁄₂₁). I asked why it was so late when they said 10 – 15 business days on their site. I got an email back saying it’ll actually ship out on ¹²⁄₂₆! ¹²⁄₂₆!!! A full month after I ordered them! And no explanation why. Just some stupid apology and they couldn’t even get the spelling of my name right! I had to keep complaining and saying to cancel that order for them to tell me that it was near impossible to cancel a shipment that was going to mail out. Oh really!!! How about getting it right the first time, is it impossible then!!! I asked to be taken off the mailing list — they said I had to do that myself. Don’t tell me you can’t do such a simple thing yourself. Then she offered a $ 10 credit on my next purchase. BUWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! As if! I asked for the person in charge and then I was told she was the manager all along. When I finally got an explanation of why my order was so late (after a few more emails), I was told that the vendors were late. I’m not sure if any of you are familiar with sites like this one or Gilt or Hautelook but like I said, the other companies shipped out on time and got my orders straightened out, never got my name wrong, and if an order was accidentally lost or delayed, automatically contacted me and gave me credit on my account.

actually make that 6 weeks. item still hasn’t arrived.

I love their selection, and I haven’t really had any problems with late shipping.

The mini social is a mini disaster. First you wait a month to receive your items. When they arrive, the quality is not as good as that of other items in the same brands you already own. When you get your return authorization, it costs a fortune to send he sub par items back (at your expense) and when you complain, you get fed a load of bs from customer service. Save your money and spare yourself the aggravation! You can do better.

Super cute clothes and I love that many of the brands are unique and not available elsewhere easily (this is why I am over zulily.) HOWEVER. It takes FOREVER to get your order. They always say 10 – 14 business days and never once in 10 orders have they met this for me. I always call, get the excuse that one of the brands didn’t fulfill on time, blah blah blah. It’s infuriating and enough to take my business elsewhere. Sad.

when i first discovered this site i was extremely excited. they had some super cute things at great prices. then i ordered something and it took FOREVER to be delivered. i ordered again and once again it took FOREVER to arrive and what they delivered was totally different from the picture. i called and they the person on the phone was rude and not helpful at all. they would not take the items back. the woman was sooooo rude and that i didnt even want to take it. so now i have unsubscribed to this site and will only be shopping at ZULILY for kid stuff!

I would spend your online dollars elsewhere. There are a couple major issues here.
1. They do not allow returns in most cases. Which, if you have kids, you know sizing by brands can be dicey.
2. When they allow returns it is only for credit — no refunds are given.
3. If you use your credit for another order, they still charge you the standard 6.95 shipping fee. In other words, you can’t use your money to pay for shipping.
4. Orders can take 3 – 4 weeks to arrive — which can mean you miss the season the clothes you purchased were good for, or you kid had a growth spurt in the meantime.
Love the concept, just archaic shipping, returns and refund policies make this tempting, but seems every time I order I regret it.

So, after having kids, you definitely start shopping online. a LOT more than you used to.
This means a LOT of amazon orders, a LOT of online orders from baby gap, gymboree, and the like.
And this can be MIND-​NUMBING.
Enter the mini social.
Every few days, there are various brands that are offered 40−60% off usual prices… and these are unique items that you’ll not find elsewhere (every kid in SF is wearing the SAME Baby Gap sweatshirt and Tea Collection T, I swear to GOD.). for an amazing price!
–1 star for their somewhat buggy website.
I ordered 10 pairs of socks and somehow my cart checked out with half my order… I was able to resubmit my order with no shipping, but it was a little annoying that their site didn’t run seamlessly.
You’ll definitely get a lot of emails from them, so be sure to bookmark the site and send the emails to your spam email address. You’ve been warned…