Wee update for you guys .... (and a bit of a rant too)
I realised last night I hadnt received the confirmation email for the order ... tried to call them for over an hour, phone kept ringing and ringing then cutting off ARGH (only tried option 2 on the order line once, because you are charged for the 7 mins you are left hanging on before they cut you off on that line, all other calls were made via customer service, not answered, just ringing and ringing and ringing and ringing, then cut off, so were free....)
Tried emailing, didnt hear a thing, so called them today after lunch to be told that as I had ordered over the phone I wouldnt get an email - they 'are soo busy they dont have time to send out emails to everyone' only people who order on the web ... hmmm ... told her that I had received emails in the past that it was in the t&c's, they had my email address and that I should get an email, to which the reply was 'dont know about that, you dont get one if its ordered on the phone' that ' they are too busy to send emails to people all day' (counted to 10) asked her if the order was ok, if it had been processed as today was day 3 and its 3-5 working days, was told delivery within 7 working days, mentioned I was told 3-5 and that after day 5 (as mentioned on their own t&c) if you havent received an order, to call ... was told they are too busy, the order hadnt been dispatched yet and that if I hadnt received anything by next Friday (day 10) I could call back then..... WHAT?
I asked if I would get an email confirming dispatch, was told no as I hadnt ordered over web ... again I mentioned T&c's was told she didnt know about that, but to phone again next Friday ...
I asked if she thought it was ok to ask someome to sit in for the next 7 working days in case there could be a delivery, nothing, so I asked if it would be easy to cancel the order, was told it was, told them to do it
I asked the old chestnut ..... 'when will the funds be released to my card', the reply was (yep you guessed it) 'but we havent taken any money yet' (deja vu time now) I said I know you hadnt taken the money but you had put it on hold, when will you send the order releasing the money you have on hold' was told 'should be done straight away so its up to your bank' am soo sick of it, enoughs enough
I have tried ordering on the web on NUMEROUS occasions, but by the time I click checkout (when the buy now screen had refreshed), the items are removed from my basket ... this has happened on auctions with 1 item, fair enough, maybe someone has ordered on the phone at the same time, but I have tried to order from an auction, with 'quantity' as they say, and they still take items out after a few seconds!!!!!
I think nearly a year in they should have had these problems fixed (was told by Andrew would be the end of Feb, my bad though, never thought to ask which year!!!) their web ordering is a disgrace, you need to check out straight away to secure but you need to pay for seperate postage's??? Its hit or miss with telephone ordering because unless you can stay home every day, chances are you are gonna miss signing for delivery anyway
so am helping them out a wee bit, wont order from them again, might make them a bit less busy huh?
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oh, thanks for the replys re the quality though, wont get to see it for myself now ....