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# orvis.com

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## Website

orvis.com

Orvis: Quality Clothing, Fly-Fishing Gear & More Since 1856 | Orvis Since 1856, Orvis has offered our customers distinctive clothing, the world's finest fly fishing rods and tackle, upland hunting gear, dog beds, luggage, and unique gifts.

Checked on 12 Nov 2026, 22:55 Unclaimed

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## Truth score

Truth score 81 out of 100, High truth signals. Customer satisfaction: mostly dissatisfied

81 / 100

High truth signals

## Business details

Category: Fishing

Founded: 1856

Sells to: The public

Kind of seller: Sells its own goods or services

Licensed trade: No licence normally needed

Domain age: 31 years

Address: [1711 Blue Hills Drive Roanoke, VA 24012-8613](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=1711%20Blue%20Hills%20Drive%20Roanoke%2C%20VA%2024012-8613)

Email address: customerservice@orvis.com

Phone number: [+1 888-235-9763](tel:+1%20888-235-9763)

Contact page: [orvis.com/contact-us.html](https://orvis.com/contact-us.html)

Website: [orvis.com](https://orvis.com/?utm_source=truthsignal.com&utm_medium=referral)

Social media: Not found

## Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints

Site Reviews Rating

[SmartCustomer](https://www.smartcustomer.com/reviews/orvis.com) · Read 12 November 2026 · 17 reviews · 2.5 out of 5 stars

[Reviews.io](https://www.reviews.io/company-reviews/store/orvis) · Read 12 November 2026 · 18 reviews · 3.6 out of 5 stars

Total 35 3.1 out of 5 stars

Trustpilot reviews are not included in this assessment. This business also has a [Trustpilot page](https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.orvis.com), which may contain additional customer reviews. We recommend checking these alongside the reviews shown here.

[Better Business Bureau](https://www.bbb.org/us/la/baton-rouge/profile/sporting-goods-retail/the-orvis-co-0835-90031624)

Customer satisfaction Mostly dissatisfied · Low confidence · From 35 reviews on 2 independent review sites

App experience Insufficient evidence · No app ratings found

## Summary

Is orvis.com legit and trustworthy? Truth score 81 out of 100, high truth signals: 6 public checks clear, 1 to be cautious about, 1 not found, 2 for information. Legitimacy confidence: high. App experience: insufficient evidence. Customer satisfaction: mostly dissatisfied, low confidence.

We read 6 of its pages: contact, about, returns, delivery, terms and privacy. Its website address was registered 31 years ago, and is locked against transfer to someone else. No malware or phishing warnings found for its website. Be cautious: its 17 reviews on SmartCustomer average only 2.5 stars out of 5. We could not find social media profiles.

### Positives

- We read 6 of its pages · contact, about, returns, delivery, terms and privacy.
- Its website address was registered 31 years ago.
- No malware or phishing warnings found for its website.

### Be cautious

- A low number of independent reviews (17 on [SmartCustomer](https://www.smartcustomer.com/reviews/orvis.com) ), but it falls short with only 2.5 stars out of 5.

### Not found

- Social presence information was not found from our checks.

Our technical team has been informed.

Important context: Truth Signal weighs public evidence about this business. A high score means strong evidence that the business is established and legitimate, not a promise that it is safe to buy from or that every purchase will go well. A low score means the evidence is thin or raises concerns, not that the business is unsafe or a scam.

### What they offer

Since 1856, Orvis has offered our customers distinctive clothing, the world's finest fly fishing rods and tackle, upland hunting gear, dog beds, luggage, and unique gifts.

— Orvis, in their own words

Sources [Its homepage](https://www.orvis.com/)

### How to check if orvis.com is legit

To check if orvis.com is legit yourself, look at the same public records we did: the company register, who owns the web address and since when, customer reviews (where buyers leave praise and complaints), visitor numbers, how long the site has existed, social profiles, malware lists, data breaches and email security. Each row below shows what that record says about orvis.com; open a row to see the facts and the source to check them yourself. Step by step: [how to know if a shopping site is legit](https://truthsignal.com/guides/how-to-know-if-a-shopping-site-is-legit).

### Who they are

Company details Based in the US; serves the US; founded in 1856 (Wikipedia)

Country

Where the company is based: US

Why we believe that: the site's structured data states its country, its legal pages give an address in United States, its phone number starts +1, its postcode is a US zip code, its Better Business Bureau profile is a US listing

Which countries the company serves: US

Why we believe that: $ prices on its homepage, its delivery page says it ships to the US

From Wikipedia

Industry: retail

Founded: 1856

Sources [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orvis)

Domain registration Its website address was registered 31 years ago

- Its website address is locked against being transferred to someone else

Domain age: 31 years

Domain transfer lock enabled: Yes

Sources [ICANN Lookup](https://lookup.icann.org/en/lookup?name=orvis.com)

Website details We read 6 of its pages: contact, about, returns, delivery, terms and privacy

- Company contact email is available

HTTPS enabled: Yes

Contact phone number found: [+1 888-235-9763](tel:+18882359763)

Contact page found: Yes

Hosting company: Cloudflare, Inc.

What its pages say

In their own words: “From scheming that first permit with the crew, to paddling missions close to home, to dialing in your perfect kit—here’s to the thrill of the buildup. 160+ years of adventure and wonder in nature. Orvis founded the Orvis Company in Manchester, Vermont, offering superior fly fishing equipment and priding himself on customer satisfaction and service.”

Do returns cost anything: “Please note: Return shipping charges are your responsibility.”

Delivery cost: “Shipping Costs For United States & Territories”

Sources [Homepage](https://orvis.com/) [Contact page](https://orvis.com/contact-us.html) [About page](https://orvis.com/about-us.html) [Returns page](https://orvis.com/returns-exchanges.html) [Delivery page](https://orvis.com/order-shipping-and-payment-information.html) [Terms page](https://orvis.com/terms-of-use.html) [Privacy page](https://orvis.com/privacy-policy.html)

Search engines and AI Lets in every search engine and AI tool

Which search engines and AI tools its robots.txt file lets read the website. Search engines list it in results; AI training tools learn from it; AI answer tools read it to answer someone’s question.

Search engines

All allowed

Google Search: Allowed by default Googlebot

Bing: Allowed by default Bingbot

AI training

All allowed

OpenAI: Allowed by default GPTBot

Anthropic: Allowed by default ClaudeBot

Google AI: Allowed by default Google-Extended

Apple AI: Allowed by default Applebot-Extended

Common Crawl: Allowed by default CCBot

Meta: Allowed by default meta-externalagent

ByteDance (TikTok): Allowed by default Bytespider

AI answers

All allowed

ChatGPT search: Allowed by default OAI-SearchBot

ChatGPT: Allowed by default ChatGPT-User

Claude search: Allowed by default Claude-SearchBot

Claude: Allowed by default Claude-User

Perplexity: Allowed by default PerplexityBot

Sources [robots.txt](https://orvis.com/robots.txt)

### Reputation and track record

Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints 35 reviews across 2 platforms, rated 2.5 to 3.6 out of 5

Platform · Rating · Reviews

[Trustpilot](https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.orvis.com) · Unknown · Unknown

[SmartCustomer](https://www.smartcustomer.com/reviews/orvis.com) · 2.5 out of 5 stars · 17

[Reviews.io](https://www.reviews.io/company-reviews/store/orvis) · 3.6 out of 5 stars · 18

Total · 3.1 out of 5 stars · 35

[Better Business Bureau](https://www.bbb.org/us/la/baton-rouge/profile/sporting-goods-retail/the-orvis-co-0835-90031624)

Visitor traffic Real people visited its website in 24 of the last 24 months

- Real people have visited its website since February 2021 or earlier
- It is among the 200,000 most-visited sites on the internet (Cloudflare Radar)

Monthly visitor data

Popularity among Chrome users: top 100,000 sites

First known user traffic: Feb 2021 or earlier

Months with real traffic, of the last 24: 24

Traffic pattern: sustained

Rank jump in the last 12 months: none

Rank drop in the last 12 months: none

Cloudflare Radar

Popularity across the internet: top 200,000 sites

Where its visitors are

Share of people looking up orvis.com, by country, over the last 2 days.

- Over 50%
- 5 to 50%
- 1 to 5%
- 0.2 to 1%
- Under 0.2%
- None seen

- 1 United States 56.3%
- 2 Singapore 23.8%
- 3 Brazil 3.2%
- 4 Germany 2.4%
- 5 Argentina 1.6%
- 6 Finland 1.6%
- 7 United Kingdom 1.6%
- 8 Hong Kong 1.6%
- 9 Colombia 0.8%
- 10 Hungary 0.8%

Top 10 of 18 countries.

Sources [Chrome UX Report](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux) [Cloudflare Radar](https://radar.cloudflare.com/domains/domain/orvis.com)

Web history and authority The Internet Archive first saved a copy of its website 29 years ago

Website archive history: 29 years

Sources [First archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/19970411/orvis.com)

Social presence We could not check how big its social media following is: the check ran out of time.

### What data this site collects about you

Tracking tools on its homepage Google Tag Manager and Klaviyo

Named in its homepage's code when we read it. Others may load later, so this list may not be complete.

Google Tag Manager: Loads other tracking tools, which may not be listed here.

Klaviyo: Tracks what you look at, for its marketing emails.

Uses OneTrust to ask which cookies you allow.

Source [Its homepage](https://orvis.com/)

### Safety

Malware and phishing No malware or phishing warnings found for its website This check is not perfect: it can miss a harmful site, and it can wrongly warn about a safe one.

Malware or phishing threat status: None found

Sources [Google Web Risk](https://docs.cloud.google.com/web-risk/docs/advisory)

Data breach history No known data breach involving the company

Known data breaches found: 0

Sources [Have I Been Pwned](https://haveibeenpwned.com/)

Domain and email security Its email is protected: mail forged in its name is blocked

Email

MX records: Yes

SPF record: Yes

DKIM key: Yes

DMARC record: Yes

DMARC policy: reject

Certificate

Security certificate browsers warn about: No

Certificate issuer: Let's Encrypt

Certificate type: DV

Certificate expires: 7 Jan 2027

Hosting

Nameservers: evan.ns.cloudflare.com
linda.ns.cloudflare.com

Address: 104.17.188.105
104.17.189.105

Sources [Its DNS records](https://dns.google/query?name=orvis.com&rr_type=TXT)

### Proof of ownership

What the business has done to prove it runs this website. Each proof adds points to its truth score, up to 5. A proof it has not added is never counted against it.

DNS record Not added yet +3 possible

What we check: A record the business adds in its domain's settings. Only someone who runs the website can add one.

When we check: On every check. The points stay only while the record is there.

Points: 0 of 3 added

Source orvis.com's DNS records

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Email at its own domain Not added yet +1 possible

What we check: That someone at the business has confirmed an email address at its own website's domain.

When we check: When the address is confirmed. It counts from then on.

Points: 0 of 1 added

Source Truth Signal's own records

Run orvis.com? Confirm an email address at the domain and 1 point is added to its truth score. [Prove you run this website](https://truthsignal.com/claim/orvis.com)

Lets our checker read it Not added yet +1 possible

What we check: That its robots.txt file names our checker, TruthSignal, and lets it read the whole website.

When we check: On every check. The point stays only while the file allows it.

Points: 0 of 1 added

Source orvis.com/robots.txt

Run orvis.com? Let our checker read the whole website and 1 point is added to its truth score. [Prove you run this website](https://truthsignal.com/claim/orvis.com)

Points added to its truth score 0 of 5

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### Change over time

- Truth score
- Social Followers
- Data points

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## Past reports

The report as it read each month, newest first:

- 2026-11: truth score 81, High: https://truthsignal.com/business/orvis.com/report/2026-11.md

## How the customers' Total rating is worked out

Bayesian average: 7 reviews at 3.5 stars added, so a few reviews move it less. The 7 added reviews at 3.5 stars are the weighting Trustpilot publishes for its TrustScore. With this business's figures:

(7 × 3.5 + 2.5 × 17 (SmartCustomer) + 3.6 × 18 (Reviews.io)) ÷ (7 + 35) = 3.1, to one decimal place

## Cite

Truth Signal, Orvis: truth score 81 out of 100, legitimacy confidence High, assessed 2026-11-12, https://truthsignal.com/business/orvis.com. Licence Truth Signal terms: free to read and quote with a link back; bulk copying, data sets, resale, white-label and model training need the paid API plan (https://truthsignal.com/terms). The same report as JSON: https://truthsignal.com/business/orvis.com.json
