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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Bought our sideboard, TV unit and side tables from Heartland Interiors back in 2014. They are all beautifully made and are really solid pieces of furniture. They still look like new. I was about to bu... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I can't add much more than others - they took my order and money a little over a week ago and the only way I find out by chance that they ceased trading is here. No notice posted on the website to ex... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Whilst it is easy to complain when things go wrong, it is even better to applaud when things go right and in this case, exceed expectations. The book case is extremely well made with careful att... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

wonderful customer service. excellent delivery. it was carried in and put where i wanted. its a lovely colour. smells amazing i had oak hidden computer desk/cupboard. plenty of room for printer and fi... See more

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Bespoke Bookcase

Very competitive price for a bespoke item, well made, delivery guys very helpful and professional, would highly recommend this company.

April 13, 2018
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Low bookcase

Took a while to arrive, as it was a busy time of year, but it looks really good and is well finished. Good value for money. Customer service and delivery team were very friendly and helpful too. I would recommend Heartland to friends and family.

April 13, 2018
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Took 12 weeks with poor customer service.

When I placed the order the website estimated 6-8 weeks for delivery. It took 12 weeks 4 days.

This company are unprofessional in every aspect of their business and in particular they have poor customer service skills. I didn't hear anything from them for 8 weeks. I then had to chase them by email and phone for 4 weeks to find out when the delivery was going to happen.

When I finally received a call from them regarding the delivery date the follow up email confirmation they promised didn't arrive because there were typos in my email address.

A catalogue of errors from start to finish. This company do not care about their customers all you get is load of excuses and never a sincere apology. I would have cancelled this order but it was the only one I could find that was the correct size.

April 12, 2018
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Reply from Heartland Interiors

All of us here really are genuinely sorry that this order, like others this winter, took so much longer than our standard estimates. We’ve tried to explain how we work and what slows us down in honest answers to other posts here and there’s lots more information about contacting us or our delivery service on our website. We just try to work through our build queue in order as quickly as we can, and because our deliveries are planned as blocks within multi drop routes we usually simply can’t give an individual date on demand until the logistics work is done for a route as a whole – no matter how many times someone calls out of turn or how aggressive the demand might be. Two of the 12 weeks quoted here by F. Richardson will be weather related of course.
 

It’s simply not true and grossly unfair to say that as a company we don’t care about our customers, we’re grateful for every order we receive and try our very best to build them on time to a very high standard. F. Richardson may have had a bad experience with us but over the same time period we’ll have built and delivered over a thousand orders, the vast majority on time and in good order. Our testimonials are unsolicited and genuine with emails of thanks arriving daily from happy customers we think of as friends of the business, and repeat business being at the core of our work. As always we’ll learn all we can from this negative review and move on with a smile.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Bookcase

Although I had to wait a little longer for my book case to arrive due to the Christmas break, it was well worth it as my bookcase is just perfect. The deliver men were very nice and placed it just where it was needed.
Excellent !!!

March 31, 2018
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

A good website

A good website, excellent customer service from pleasant and helpful staff. Excellent delivery service. Really good quality and well made goods. A pleasure to deal with this company and I will highly recommend them to all

March 30, 2018
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

New Bookcase March 2018.

First class service from the team at Heartland! From my initial enquiries to the delivery team bringing our new bookcase - fantastic. We are delighted with our bookcase, an excellent quality product..

March 30, 2018
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Contains an Update - Slow grown pine - even slower DELIVERY!!!!!

I am writing this review on 29 March 2018. I ordered a 7ft x 9ft bookcase on 15 January 2018. I have contacted Heartland Interiors 10 times but still have no delivery date. Over 10 weeks! Every time I speak to them they promise delivery will be scheduled for the following week. I emailed them on Wednesday morning (the persons name is Dee) and have received no response. I ordered in good faith and duly paid my £1050.00. Every time I receive an apology it is in a couldn't-care-less voice from someone who just can't wait to put the phone down. Be warned, the so-called customer service is a joke. No one has done anything to expedite this order despite my many, many attempts to get a delivery date. My advice is AVOID unless you can wait three months or more without any news! Don't believe the 6 to 8 weeks rubbish. As you can probably tell I am seriously peed off. On the phone line they say, "your order is important to us". It's the MONEY that's important! The customer can go to hell!

UPDATE
The slightly bad-tempered reply I received is I fear inaccurate. I only received a delivery date the morning after I left a review on Trustpilot. Funny that. I regret having had to take that step but at least it worked. I will not be made the villain because I had a legitimate gripe about my order. It only takes a minute to call someone and keep them in the loop. Or give an honest answer when they phone about their order, rather than promise next week, next week..... It's the lies that have made me angry but now I am the unreasonable bad guy. This is unadulterated humbug I'm afraid.

March 29, 2018
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Reply from Heartland Interiors

It’s certainly true to say that this is the worst winter we’ve had in terms of keeping to our estimated delivery schedules and I’m very sorry to see that we’ve made this gentleman so angry with us that he has chosen to name one of our colleagues in this way. On 29 March as his review was being written the customer’s order was one of several dozens being signed off in batches by the factory managers so that bookings could be confirmed; purely by coincidence the gentleman already has his delivery date should he choose to accept it. We’ve struggled all year with some atrocious weather, in one case leading to a nasty accident in which our crew were injured and the van written off, also with sickness, bereavement, maternity and paternity – a perfect storm in fact during which it’s been very difficult to plan. Almost all our customers have been terrific about this. We build beautiful cabinet furniture to order ( a 7’ x 9’ library bookcase in this case) and deliver nationwide using our own vans, so there will always be lead times, We’re also usually half the price or less of conventional like for like retailers – we can offer these cost savings because, as usual when buying online, our customers pay when ordering and we don’t employ a small army of telesales reps. Of course if delays do build up then we can struggle to keep in touch, but most people seem to prefer to work with us should this happen rather than boost a £1000 sale to £1800 to pay salaries for staff who talk rather than build. We’re very open about lead times and possible delays on our website and ask all our customers to read the links to it that we send when saying thank you for every new order. The text is copied below too. The only way we could have been any faster for this customer would have been to push him up the queue past others who had been waiting longer, we just won’t do this even though by email he’d threatened a negative review elsewhere. At least we were warned I suppose.

"We always try to be as fast as we possibly can without compromising on quality, but there will usually be a waiting period. We’re often pretty quick with smaller pieces or items from stock, but for others or at busy periods lead times will often be around 30 to 40 working days (usually around six to eight weeks) and may even stretch a little beyond this at peak times or in unusual circumstances. Waiting times of this length are pretty normal for our part of the industry and really turn on the number of customers in the queue ahead. All we can honestly say is that lead time estimates represent our best guess given in good faith at the time of ordering, but so many other factors can come into play, for example sickness, accidents or winter weather, that we can’t guarantee them and so they don’t form part of the contract between us. Within the bespoke industry as a whole we know we’re pretty fast but if you don’t like to wait we’re really sorry but we may not be for you.”

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Excellent quality furniture

Excellent quality furniture. I would happily recommend this company to others despite the little issues along the way. I ordered 4 pieces of furniture in total: A 3ft bureau desk (Wonderful), a 900 CD display case(Actually holds 930 cds!), a low level TV stand and a multimedia case (Records and DVD storage(Holds 600 LP's and 200 DVD's)). The niggles: In my case from the point of ordering it was 3 months before I received the items. When the multimedia case arrived it was not the dimensions advertised. The vinyl sections were 31 cm high instead of 33 cm, which meant that the records would not fit.
But hats off to Heartland. They replaced the incorrect item without fuss within 30 days.
I am very happy with my furniture from Heartland, but this is not Argos or IKEA flat pack, so be prepared to wait. BUT it was worth the wait!

March 27, 2018
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Reply from Heartland Interiors

Thanks, Teccy. We got there, in the end, didn't we :) I think we had a bit of a dyslexia moment with that one item. Silly mistake and apologies once more for the additional delay. 930? That's a lot of cd's! A "Pop master" in the making I'm sure!

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I've been waiting since January for…

I've been waiting since January for delivery. I've made several telephone enquiries and been promised twice someone would call me back with further information but they don't, which is poor customer service. Am also thinking about cancelling if I could get them to answer the phone?

March 26, 2018
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Reply from Heartland Interiors

There’s no doubt we’ve struggled to keep up with demand at peak times this winter and we’re really sorry – the snow this month has been quite a handicap for our delivery vans too with many runs cancelled and, sadly, one nasty accident, so we’ve even more catching up to do. We do try to build really good quality furniture to order at very fair prices but a service like this does mean a wait sometimes I’m afraid – we’re not much into boxes from China sent by parcel vans, and say so here, https://heartland-interiors.co.uk/delivery-information.html. We’re online traders working primarily by email to control costs so a message from this lady would have received a reply no later than the next working day. None of the ladies currently working the phones has any recollection of speaking with D.Phipps in person about delivery or promising a call back, the order was placed on 20 January, delivery queried the same day and again on 6 March when alterations were discussed, email responses sent on each occasion. Customer is a very long way from our usual routes but if she does choose to continue we’ll be there with a smile pretty soon now.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Excellent

My bookcase was well made, beautifully finished and delivered most efficiently by a very pleasant and helpful driver. Excellent service, would definitely recommend this company.

February 19, 2018
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Highly recommended, time after time

This is my third purchase from this excellent company – a bookcase and two storage cupboards. The quality of the workmanship is excellent and the painted wood finishes (I’ve had custom painted and stained) are really well done. Communication and notifications throughout the process from ordering to delivery is good and on each delivery the drivers have been extremely polite and helpful. I cannot fault their prices for such great furniture.

February 19, 2018
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Long wait but very happy with bookcase

Bookcase is excellent quality and well made. The delivery men were very pleasant and polite even at 12.30 at night. A long wait for delivery.
Ordered 2nd November and delivered 3rd February. It would be better to give people a longer date for delivery. Staff were very pleasant at all times when I telephoned or emailed to get information.

February 11, 2018
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Reply from Heartland Interiors

Glad you happy with it Geraldine. Christmas holidays and the resulting factory shutdown affected some lead times with orders taken around that time of year. We shall look at our information flow to customers over the following months. Perhaps we may need to hire more admin staff but really we need to hire more cabinet makers to reduce our lead times. All options are being considered.

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