#inuinu

There is a company regularly advertising their clothing on Tumblr, and I’ve been waiting on an order (that cost £30+ from my unemployed student pockets) for almost a month that was supposed to be here by now- and then I found out that they’ve stolen thousands of people’s money, don’t pay their distributors, steal other company’s images, and are basically one big scam. 

Do not order anything from inuinu, they are a scam. They’ll tell you that your order is being shipped/processed, but it is not. I ordered 2 t-shirts- just t-shirts!- on May 7th, and my order still hasn’t even been processed, even after 3 customer reviews and 2 emails- and yet they still took the money from my account (which isn’t technically allowed until an order has been processed).

Do not fall for their scam, please. My mother was scammed around Christmas, it hurts like hell knowing that your hard earned money has gone to an order thousands of miles away that you’re never going to see and they probably don’t actually sell.

i’ve never heard anything but good things about dog dog--and they’re the exact same products for a lower price, as dog dog was one of inu inu’s suppliers. most people who have sent in asks who have purchased from them have said the service is a lot better and the shipping is faster, so i think you’d be good with them!

Artemis Cat Hoodie

so, facebook just gave me a suggested link/advertisement for highway robbery??

this is just a reminder for everyone who buys from ‘kawaii fashion’ reseller shops on places like storeenvy and whatnot -- you are getting horribly, horribly ripped off. 

I did a reverse image search on this coat (which I love, and wanted to buy) that ‘inuinu.com’ is selling for $100, expecting to find some sort of discrepency/markup--

but I wasn’t expecting to see that the original taobao seller,  森女部落, had the same coat avaliable for $81 cheaper. I’ve seen big markups by taobao resellers, but this is literally absurd.

so remember kids-- do your research, and cut out the middle-man when you buy chinese/taobao products. I ended up buying the exact coat pictured in this post, PLUS a pair of leggings, sweatpants, jumpershorts, t-shirt, two thermoses, and a backpack for LESS than inu inu was selling JUST the marked-up coat for-- with shopping service and handling fees included.

as inu inu doesn’t have like, a specific plus sized section for me to easily go at and see what all they’ve placed in that category, it’s a bit harder for me to see everything they offer at once to assess the problem accurately, but here are some of the issues you might be running into:

inu inu has original products produced for them that are exclusively sold on their website. there aren’t many of them, but there are enough that i feel like this could be the issue you’re running into. i really wish that they had these things listed out because an original line is smth to be proud of! but…it would probably be disadvantageous since a lot of their more popular items are not exclusives, lol. it’s pretty easy to tell the difference with 90% of their products, and the majority of their items are not originals. most of the things that Are inuinu originals are their more simple pieces like their tshirts or sweatshirts. items with basic silhouettes, with images you’ve seen on tumblr that have either been lifted wholesale or traced and slightly altered, items that appear to be very poorly photoshopped, or items with graphics primarily appearing on the chest in a typical printing area for a tshirt are likely in-house inuinu items. items that are more complex in terms of construction/materials, that have all over prints, detailed items like jackets, or items that are not sweatshirts and tees like skirts or socks, are all sourced products. those sourced products are what you are likely to find on aliexpress. you can also sometimes tell if an item uses vastly different model photography than what they typically post on their instagram. 

different aliexpress listings have different size ranges–you can sometimes find the same tshirt just as a one-size listing, but other places have S-L, and you could find some items that have plus sizes listed from XS - XXL, and others that might list an item as having like a huge range of extended items, sometimes up to a Chinese 8L (about an american 3/4X). the search results when you search by image generally give you a long list, and so you might have to just scroll through a lot before finding one that has your size. it also might just have sizes listed in terms of measurements rather than american sizes–inu inu has quite a few items that they tout as “plus size friendly” that would never be actually listed as plus sized on aliexpress because things are often listed as free size instead. 

some items might still be from aliexpress, but inu inu could have contacted the seller and may be getting custom sized pieces to resell. some sellers on aliexpress are factory direct, and individuals are also able to give them measurements and order custom sized garments through them–not just shops with wholesale items. you can look through an item’s listing or ask a seller to find out more information to see if that’s an option. 

since inu inu has claimed a lot of aliexpress items as being their own original designs (read my initial review for more details on this) various chinese based wholesellers HAVE actually ripped off several inu inu designs, within the past few months. you might be seeing an inu inu original that is a chinese knock off being manufactured in chinese sizes, but this would only apply to their most popular original designs, and only to the tshirts that i’ve described earlier.

if you cared about getting something but didn’t want to continue to support inu inu and wanted to link me a specific item for me to see if i can find it, i’m happy to help with that sort of thing. i know i make the same offer all the time (for various reasons, not just this one) but i really do mean it! i’m here to help.