Lyst: Shop Fashion Brands

Lyst is an extremely well designed fashion retail application that allows you to shop from various men's and women fashion brands, as well as stores and even designers. The app can be used just to shop from or you can create an account, personalize the brands and stores you want to follow and shop from curated results. The design is a large improvement from older versions of the app. The app itself is almost like a high end store with a modernistic sleekness that allows you to quickly navigate the UI or find products that you like. The app also works to save you money by comparing prices of the goods listed from sources all around the marketplace so it should be both easy on the eyes and the wallet.

I like the idea of Lyst but I am giving it 3 stars because: 1. You can’t filter the results by condition. I don’t want to see the used merchandise and there is no option to remove it. You can filter by store but how do I know which store is second-hand? 2. Items don’t update as quickly as they should. If you want to get a real bargain you will probably see it on Lyst when it’s already sold out. It doesn’t update momentarily so I still have to check the retailer’s website one by one when I know they are having a sale. 3. Not all the results appear when you search something on the Lyst. I don’t know why but some items are missing while I see them on the retailer’s website. This is probably because they don’t update it hourly or so. 4. When I get a notification that some of my favorite items went on sale, I click on the notification and it just takes me to the start page, so I don’t see which items the notification was for. I go to “my favorites” and look them up one by one. If you could fix all mentioned above you would be my number 1 app. But as for the moment I have been using Yelp for a month and never managed to find a good deal. I still shop like I used to shop online before downloading Lyst.

This app is fun to use for window shopping; I haven’t used it to actually make any purchases yet but it’s fun to look around and useful to see where the big sales are happening. It could be improved in 2 major ways: 1. Allow searches to be unisex. Currently the app requires you to choose between searching for men’s fashions or women’s fashions. I wear both so I want to be able to search for both. I’m sure that many people feel the same way. 2. More flexible search functions, especially the ability to exclude certain results from searches. For example, if I’m not interested in buying from a certain store that’s heavily featured on the site then I’d like to be able to exclude them from my searches so I can find more stuff I’d like.

response required

Up until today I had several, at least 100, items saved and tracking, getting updates for them, etc. Today I logged on and they were all gone! It said I haven’t saved anything. Thankfully when I logged onto the desktop version they were there, however after logging in and out on the iOS version they still aren’t. I hope I don’t lose my saves because that would absolutely ensure me deleting this app.

response required

I tried to order a hoodie off of here. When the order was canceled they told me it was because Barney’s changed their prices. Fine. But now it has been two weeks and I have not gotten a refund. I’ve emailed them multiple times. The last I heard was it would only take 5-7 business days and they stopped replying after that time was up. It’s not the banks fault either because I tried this order with two cards an the same thing has happened. LYST IS A SCAM.