I would have given this review a minus …
I would have given this review a minus 10 if I was able to.
I have only ever ordered from Boohoo twice, and had no problems, in fact I was really impressed. However I am not exactly sure what has happen over the past few weeks as I would describe the service as way below standards, extremely poor! I so wish that I had read the reviews on this company before I placed my order.
On the 4th December. I ordered a jacket from Boohoo, at the time there was no indication that it was out of stock. On the 10th December I received an e-mail saying that it had been cancelled either at my request or due to no stock availability. I wasn’t happy, but I went back into the system and checked the stock levels, and I could see that there were still a handful in stock, so I placed another order thinking that maybe the first time it had something to do with my payment method. The order was confirmed, but 20 minutes later I received another e-mail to say that yet again the order had been cancelled without any explanation. I definitely knew at this point that this had nothing to do with my payment.
I went back into the system, to see if there was a similar jacket, and I found one that looked quite similar. This time I made double sure that I checked the stock levels before pressing the button, there were 9 in stock, so I paid for next day delivery. (Incidentally after I placed my order I went back into check and there were 8 in stock, which indicated that mine had been allocated).
The following day I received an e-mail saying that they were unable to honour the next day delivery, but that they would refund me, and that the jacket was still on the way but by standard delivery.
Surprise surprise on the 13th December I received another cancellation e-mail, again saying that they had received my returned order, and would refund me! I was so angry at this point, I tried to find a customer service number in order to call them, but apparently there is no way of speaking to some-one directly, so I filled out a complaint form on their website, only to receive a standard computerised e-mail about UK returns!!!
With persistence I Eventually I received an e-mail from their customer services department apologising and basically said that the items were not in stock, hence why they had been cancelled! Apparently I have been refunded for all of the orders that I had placed, so I am hoping that this is the case, as I have not had my bank statement as yet. If for some reason I don’t receive my refunds, I will be taking this straight to Trading Standards! Because I cannot believe how incompetent they are. It really does not take a genius to work out that if an item is not in stock, you remove it from the website, otherwise you are misleading your customers! And to make matters even worse, they keep sending me their marketing e-mails, which I have since blocked!
Judging by all of the negative reviews that I have just read before writing mine, I think It is a question of making other people aware of how horrendous this company is, the fact that there is not a front of house customer service number to call, should send alarm bells ringing!
December 20, 2017
Unprompted review