1 Jan, 2018 → by ClaimboUser374078
Unreliable communications & untrustworthy service & 10 pound cancellation charge
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Useless company - unreliable communications & untrustworthy service & 10 pound cancellation charge – avoid at all costs! I ordered a coffee table from this company over the web and got an email receipt but then heard nothing back from them. So 2 days later I got in touch to find out what was going on with my delivery. I was told they had checked their stock and found one in the warehouse but it had a scratched glass shelf so they would have to backorder a new one which would take 5-10 days. Fair enough I thought, I would rather wait a week for a new item then get a scratched one. So the following week I still had not heard anything so I got in touch again. I was then told it would take 10-15 days plus another week for delivery. OK I thought I’m gonna have to wait because I don’t seem to have much choice. Finally after waiting for 3 weeks I phoned again. I was then told that item was on order and would be arriving in another 5 days and would then be sent out. At this point I told them I wanted to cancel my order as I was sick of waiting and being fobbed off. They then made it clear that they couldn’t take cancellations on the phone and I would have to raise a ticket which I duly did, but then didn’t hear anything again for another 2 days! So I phoned them up feeling pretty angry and asked them to cancel my order and send me confirmation by email. Eventually someone said they would do this and issue a full refund. Later that day I received another call from a desperate sounding salesman – lo and behold - they'd looked in their warehouse and found the glass shelf for the coffee table. Apparently it had been missing all this time and was not, as I was previously told, so scratched that they couldn’t send it out. Hmmmm, this bunch of liars can’t even get their story straight! Anyway eventually I received a refund, minus 10 pounds as a standard cancellation fee. So my experience of this company is that they make no effort to keep you informed of what’s going on, they make it difficult to get a refund and they make stuff up to keep you happy. All in all a very stressful experience which resulted in me being 10 pounds poorer. Happily though after all of this had happened I then found another store (quatropi.com) which was selling the same item at just over half the price (189GBP vs 335GBP). I ordered and had it delivered within a week :-)