I have used Orvis products for years I have used Orvis products for years - but no more. The quality has fallen far below acceptable. A pair of waders that leak this year and then I tried the Hydros Cold Water Intermediate and the loop at the end of the line separated on my second day out. Very poor quality. Additionally, the shipping is awful. $9.95 for a small box - a fly line. One order took 11 days and the next good 12 days. Orvis has lost it.

Returns Portal Down? Really? My sister gave me a pair of gloves for Christmas I wanted to exchange for a different size. I go on their website and type the return number in, only to get no match. So I email customer service with my issue. No answer. Then a week later. No answer. Four times I try over several weeks, then finally forward all the emails from another email address. I'm told sorry, they checked and they never saw my emails, but somehow they did today from an AOL address. They send me a return email label. Great, maybe they didn't see it for whatever reason. In the interim, I order a shirt, but it does not fit. So I go to return, and the same thing, order not recognized. I respond to the email I received earlier today with the return label indicating again my order number is not showing a match, and the message I get back starts with this: "I am so sorry but our returns portal is down at the moment undergoing some maintenance. This is why it did not work on your end." Is it really down "at the moment," or has it been down for a while, like since I've been trying to return the gloves for the past month? And if it's truly down, then why not just post that information on the returns page, rather than have every customer with a return get an "order not found" result when attempting a return? I expect that post-December is the highest volume return period of the year. Is the "returns portal" down coincidental, or is it to get customers to just give up? Sadly, I must assume the latter based on recent reviews on this site. If it's not intentional, then why not be upfront with customers and say you're having issues with returns? Why make the customer think he/she is the one somehow not entering something right or messing up? I don't know the answer, all I know is Orvis is not thinking about their customers first. And that is the downfall of any business...

In my opinion.. In my opinion... the absolute worst and most overrated company on the planet in regard to their fishing products. Orvis is truly clinging to their old identity when they were the only player in town. This is the go to for clueless old men who had no other options, wanted to show off for their old friends and online shopping wasn't available. If you need anything fishing related, buy Simms, G Loomis, Scott, and Hardy.

Take care of your customers past or… Take care of your customers past or present! I’ve tried REPEATEDLY, to get off their mailing list! I bought in 2019 through a job and left that job AND HAVE BEEN UNSUCCESSFUL IN GETTING OFF THEIR MAILING LIST EVER SINCE! I just asked them a few days ago again - after receiving a “thank you for your order” when I had not ordered - to remove me from the account it was attached to. I was assured they would! And just a few days later: “Thank you for your order!” AGAIN! Please disconnect my email to this account LIKE YOU HAVE PROMISED TO DO MORE THAN TWICE! Maybe they don’t care about my inconvenience because I didn’t give them any business - but you never know who you’re messing with. I NEVER WILL NOW shop Orvis! I will continue to avoid your merchandise; like I have done since you started ignoring my requests for my email to be removed from this Account OVER 4 YEARS AGO! … $ have the POWER NOT to go to you. I know, harder to feel, but I also have influence into choosing alternatives; which are out there and who exceed your products on many levels; AND which I have been BUYING INSTEAD OF YOUR PRODUCTS. It’s that simple. As a professional costume buyer for over 25 YEARS, my advice is Don’t ignore your customers! Annoyed ones won’t come back! And some of us spend A LOT - elsewhere!

Failed zipper on pants leg I bought a pair of pants for a safari in Tanzania, the kind with a zipper around each leg so you can make them shorts? Just a few wears in, the left leg zipper failed and became unstuck. Required constant manipulation to keep the lower half zipped to the upper half. Plastic zippers!( REI uses metal zippers) These pants cost over &100 and of course once you are out on safari there is no where to return or replace. Boo! (PS photo safari no animals injured or inconvenienced.)