Hireapitch Reviews 207

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Been playing with hireapitch for a number of years across different locations. Always a great service and they've got access to top venues. Easy to book and play. Only ever been smooth processes

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I booked a pitch weeks in advance for 6pm. Since that booking temperatures are now predicted at 34 degrees which the government has said is unsafe to exercise in. When I contacted them to rearrange, I... See more

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Superb customer service. Very easy booking system and helpful team that made the booking amendments I requested. Great facilities at the venue on the day! Will deffo use again

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Hire a Pitch charge high fees for appalling service. They seem very happy to turn a blind eye to homophobic abuse and trespassers on their site, their staff are poorly trained and rude. If you hav... See more

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  1. Sports Complex

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Hireapitch provides a booking platform for venues across the UK and runs its own licensed venues. Book a pitch, court or indoor space locally to you with a simple and easy system or if your stuck give us a call or come through via chat support. We also offer team building days and coach/referee hire as well as birthday parties. All events are fully organised so you have to do nothing and just enjoy.


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3.2

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

The customer team is not the…

The customer team is not the great.Responses are really bad and they not willing to help.

I’ve booked a pitch and I was trying to explain to their customer team that due to Covid cases we had in our team we couldn’t make it on that day and we would like to arrange for a future day.

We didn’t ask for refund we just wanted to arrange the game for another day as we couldn’t make due to the above.

Their customer team was really unhelpful and didn’t want to help us out, they just responded to us we can’t make that because you already booked a pitch and we can’t find anyone else to come at this time.The result of this was that I lost the amount of the money I paid them and they didn’t bothered at all to help me sort it out.

I am really unhappy as I have booked a quite few times with them but I am not going to do it anymore.

Please reconsider your customer service team and the way you respond to people that are giving you money.

-Hi there,

Thanks for your response.

I will not take down the review as your response is really unprofessional.
I haven’t asked for refund I just wanted to rebook the pitch at another date.

In regards to you saying that we could find more players unfortunately we couldn’t find more players as all of us are working in the same office and 4 of our players got Covid.This is a team building activity.

I will keep my initial opinion that you need to be more helpful and reconsider your customer service team and policy.

Thanks

April 28, 2022
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Reply from Hireapitch

Your review is grossly incorrect.
1) You made the booking in advance fully aware of our cancellation policy which is on the receipt
2) We did our best to sell the pitch for you

You cannot expect us to take a loss when you are unable to play, COVID has wiped out many businesses small and large if we operated a no pay policy due to covid we would be bankrupt. Similarly not all your players had COVID or came into contact with the player who had COVID so a game could have happened, where possible we can also lend players.

We implore you to take this false review down as we did our best to help you.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Very good service

We received a very good service for the hall hire.
Communication was brilliant and got the needed assistance on time.
We will be happy to use your services again.

April 21, 2022
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Happy with the company so far

Very happy with the company since they took over the school that I have block bookings. Quick reply, very nice staff, and well look after existing clients. I am happy to do more bookings with them. Just a suggestion, that I have a lot of bookings with other letting agents and they normally invoice monthly and never charge any direct debit fee, also accept shorter cancellation notice, maybe this is something you can look into, to help clients with cash flow, thus provide even better service.

April 13, 2022
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Your booking and money isn’t safe

They do not honour their block bookings and the refund policy is very shifty. They cancelled our booking with a weeks notice despite us having another few weeks left which we had pre-paid for, and there is no sign of a refund weeks later.
It’s all fine until you actually have to deal with them; the customer service is extremely rude and demonstrates a clear lack of care for their paying customers. Just see the recent Sky News article about them and their appalling customer service which says it all.
I will never be using this unethical service again.

April 13, 2022
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Reply from Hireapitch

HI Charlotte. Thanks for your review. Can we politely request you and all other south london laces just stop posting your reviews. Its having absolutely no impact and you clearly dont know the facts of what has been discussed on email and the dynamics on why it has come to this. We are running near 100% capacity at all our venues and we appreciate you are bitter, so our customer service and venues speak for themselves. The more attention you wish to draw to it the more free publicity we are getting so you might think its having a negative impact but its actually resulting in more traffic to our site and more bookings. So thank you.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

So bad they made national news

So bad they made national news (search Sky News Hire a Pitch)

Regardless of their lack of honouring contracts and prioritising corporate/men's leagues, look no further than the replies to 1 star reviews to get an idea of the customer service. Petty, childish, dishonest, and unprofessional.

Please do not give this company your custom.

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Edit in response to HireAPitch: What's more likely, that there are a stream of dissatisfied customers or that there is a national conspiracy against you? Take some responsibility.

April 13, 2022
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Reply from Hireapitch

Thanks for your review. I trust you have had a bad experience of bookings with us? If so can you please let me know what you have booked? If you are just a passer-by responding to a sky news article and have not placed any bookings or experienced hireapitch then we find it rather odd you would go out of your way to post a review? Contrary to the 1 stars there are also 5 stars. All 1 star reviews have come as a direct result of SKY NEWS and "jumping on the band wagon" which I am guessing you are doing also. If you are a customer, we have no problem trying to set it right.
Response 2:
Honestly Conor you have too much free time on your hands, our venues being at near 100% capacity speak for themselves, so enjoy posting your 1 star review, hopefully it makes you feel better. Makes absolutely no difference to us as your not a genuine customer and just trying to create more negative press, get a life please!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Impressed

Pitches were incredible and the service was wonderful. Would recommend them 100%

April 10, 2022
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

You only need to read any of…

You only need to read any of Hireapitch’s responses to bad reviews on this platform to understand how they will deal with you as a customer. I have never encountered a business so unprofessional.

They are also bribing users of their facilities with 3 free football games if they leave a 5 star review - might want to look into that one Trust Pilot! Stay away at all costs - this company only cares about money, not about its customers!

April 9, 2022
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Reply from Hireapitch

Hi Matt thanks for your review.
1) hireapitch has plenty 5 star genuine reviews. We dont need to "bribe" our users. Yes we do hope that users will post and if they do we can offer them a free game, its not forced. Its called marketing not bribery. The reason we have to do that is to void bitter reviews like yourselves that dont state facts.

2) your obviously very bitter, again your not stating facts. If youve ever been removed youd have been given an alternate and more likely than not, you dont have a contract.

You need to post clear and concise facts, your 1 star review whilst may make you feel better will not deter our loyal users from booking. We have over 1000 venues we cant please everyone and apologise for your experience, however posting 1 star reviews is not the solution especially if your not stating what happened.

Good luck in finding a new pitch we do advise you email us to see if we can help.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Amazing

Amazing! Very friendly people, very good referees (hard job, they have) and incredible atmosphere :)

April 9, 2022
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

They did it again

I just read the amateur women's football team kicked off the pitch article on the news and bloody hell it's exactly what happened to us on the very same facility.
We got our refund at least but let me say cancelling our block booking this way, out of the blue, for long-term customers like us is not only unprofessional but awful.

Before any response to this comment:
- NO the replacement pitch offered was unacceptable
- NO there was no real desire to help us or accomodate
- NO this is not acceptable in any possible way

I guess the gentlemen of Hireapitch would not have liked themselves this treatment if they were us or other teams involved.

It is just about money, greedy.

It is fair to say the pandemic was tough for all of us but at least the decency to give us notice on our block booking not going to be renewed and let us finish.
Instead kicked out straightaway because "the league" pays better and was kicked out from another facility for complains about lightning.

---edit after response---
If "this" only impacted 1 venue ain't difficult...

In case you didn't read it:
news.sky.com -> story
row-as-amateur-womens-football-team-kicked-off-training-facility-and-replaced-by-corporate-mens-league-12579650

Keep playing the fake dumb card cos it suits this business to perfection. Ofc there is no record of my name. If there was another chance to have to deal with this business I'd have asked everybody to take the same reservation .. 16 names for a single reservation .. jeezz

---final edit---
Don't get me wrong, as long as you acknowledge we were kicked out, despite a bulk booking, offering in change the pitch with lightening issues, due residents complains, where the league couldn't take place (so unacceptable for us as well) I'm good. I wish you all the best for the future.

April 8, 2022
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Reply from Hireapitch

HI Vincenzo, we have no record of a vincenzo booked in. This only impacted 1 venue and we have over 1000 venues, are you saying you were our customer and this happened to you. Be great if you could be clear about your experience?
Thanks for your edited response, you are still making no sense and are clearly bitter. We have offered a solution for your team but if it gives you joy posting 1 star on trust pilot, we wish you all the best. We are fully booked at all our facilities so clearly we are doing something right ;) even though you disagree. Guess what some of them are womens teams :o OMG!!!

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Avoid

As with many others cancelled our batch booking in the middle of it because another league was offering more money. A good company would honour your agreement and payment of multiple weeks and let you finish the booking rather than cancel it in the middle of it.

It has been in sky news this companies malpractice and because another team has publicised their dismay, they seem to think they are being bullied. Bit pathetic really.

They are also begging league teams to leave 5 star reviews which I imagine is against Trust Pilots rules and regulations of being listed on the website .

April 8, 2022
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Cancelled subscription

We were their customers in the same pitch for the past few years (Same from the Sky news article that came out on Wed 6th about @southlondonlacesfc). We had a rolling subscription with them but as they found someone who'd paid them more, they had no issues with cancelling our already paid subscription. They did offer alternative pitches but they were of way lower quality.
I understand that anyone who owns a business wants to make a profit, specially after Covid, but you'd expect some 'love' after being their customers for so long.
I hope it's worth it Hireapitch. Your lack of business ethics is appalling. And there are no T&Cs that will change that.

April 8, 2022
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Reply from Hireapitch

HI Matt, we have no record of a Matt booked in. This only impacted 1 venue and we have over 1000 venues, are you saying you were our customer and this happened to you? Be great if you could be clear about your experience? We appreciate your feedback but we dont need to beg anyone to leave reviews. You have an opinion and rightly so, but unfortunately you are jumping on the south london laces band wagon, we have ample positive reviews and if you will look at all the negative reviews this is just south london laces telling their friends and friends of friends to post.
We do apologise what happened to you, we do have new venues opening soon and would appreciate an open discussion as to how we can help. Sorry we have not been able to assist you thus far.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Good experience

Good experience. The organisers have daily games all across london and you chose what days you want to go. Very convenient. Also have a groupchats. Would highly recommend if you want to play ball on a regular.
Massive shout out to David the main organiser I know.

April 8, 2022
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