Nordstrom: price dropped after purchase
Ask within 10 days of purchase or shipment when Nordstrom lowers the price of a full-price item; no competitor price matching.
What does this mean?
Grade A (high: almost everything comes from official pages read directly). 100% of 18 sources are the organization's own pages or government sites.
Collect
- order number or receipt
- the lower price on nordstrom.com
- same color and size
Steps
Submit the Request a Price Adjustment form within 10 days of the in-store purchase or shipment date.
Or call Customer Service and ask for the adjustment.
More contacts for this issue
Facts you can cite
- Deadline
Price adjustments must be requested "within 10 days of your in-store purchase or shipment date", for items bought at full price that Nordstrom later lowers, while the same color and size are available.
Source: nordstrom.com, verified 2026-10-13
- Limit
Not eligible: items originally bought on sale, items from third-party sellers, a second adjustment on the same item, and automated requests from third-party services. "We don't price match other retailers." Approved adjustments are credited to the original form of payment.
Source: nordstrom.com, verified 2026-10-13
If that fails, escalate
Go up one step at a time. Keep the reference numbers and dates from each contact.
Customer service
Supervisor
Written complaint
Card or bank dispute
Fair Credit Billing Act billing-error and purchase-dispute rights (Regulation Z)
Electronic Fund Transfer Act error resolution and unauthorized-transfer liability (Regulation E)
State agency
Your state’s attorney general. Find it in the list of state agencies (also as JSON:
states/<code>.json, for example states/ny.json).Public complaint
RegulatorBetter Business Bureau
Watch out
- Online returns and price adjustment requests use the Nordstrom account pages (sign-in or order lookup).
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