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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Very efficient service and great prices from guys who are true professionals. Very pleased I found them!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great communication. They immediately checked if the product was in stock and gave me every confidence that it would arrive within a specified time which it did. Very professional would highly recomme... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

When ordering the G3 Sennheiser mics, you are obliged to opt for the express / next day delivery, even though the items has to come from Germany and takes three to four days. It is a little unclear a... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

An excellent experience shopping with 3D Broadcast. Martin was brilliant from start to finish with my recent purchases and his colleague Phillip was great in allowing me to view the kit myself in per... See more

4.9

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Helpful staff

Helpful staff, quick handling of orders and great comms to let you know what's happening.

June 1, 2017
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Reply from 3D Broadcast Ltd

Thanks for the order, much appreciated, Cheers

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Carriage Costs

Excellent product
Excellent service
Carriage expensive?

May 27, 2017
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Reply from 3D Broadcast Ltd

Thanks for the review, all equipment is sent out by couriers for secure and safe delivery and not in the post and as such this does equate to more cost I’m afraid. We do look at our shipping costs and do try to keep them as competitive possible.

Once again thanks for the review

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Best service ever!

Best service ever!

So efficient!

May 25, 2017
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Reply from 3D Broadcast Ltd

Well i would not go that far, we do have our off days too! Thanks for the order, Cheers

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Fast and friendly service.

Great business who accommodated my requirements and had equipment in stock and available when others didn't.

May 11, 2017
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Reply from 3D Broadcast Ltd

Many thanks for the review glad we could have been of service on this occasion

Cheers

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

One of the worst companies I have ever …

One of the worst companies I have ever dealt with. Very keen to get the sale but the after sales when things go wrong were appalling. I purchased about £2,000 worth of kit from them, and was looking to spend another £20,000, but because of the service, I went to ProAV which have been great with me. Shame they don't understand that in business if you keep the customer happy they will return. time and time again.

May 9, 2017
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Reply from 3D Broadcast Ltd

Hi Adam

I am sorry you feel our service was not up to our usual standard, but thank you for the review. You did place an order with us on the 15/03 for various video kit and then another order on the 23/03 which we thank you for. The order you placed on the 23/03 was then cancelled by you as we were unable to supply the item within your time frame and we refunded you your payment forthwith. You then sent us an email on the 28/03 which turned into a bit of an email thread and we gave you various options regarding an issue you had with a tripod and alternatives we offered. I was away on holiday from the 01/04-08/04. You did send emails to my email address during this week, but did not speak to anybody in the office and once I was back from Holiday I responded and resent the info on the Miller Tripods and used tripod we had available. I sent the info to the 2 email addresses we have for you as you did say, you did not receive some of my mails, again even though we have an email thread with answers by yourself?. This was the last correspondence we have had from you until now. You did say you wanted to send the Tripod back to us which we accepted in the emails but as of yet you have not received this. I am very sorry that you feel you have to write this review.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great service

Great service, friendly staff, amazing prices.. What more could you want..

May 2, 2017
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

A pleasure to deal with...

Always a pleasure to order from 3D Broadcast Ltd. Their customer service is fantastic, always getting in touch to update you about any order you've requested - you always know where you're at when you're ordering from them. Highly recommended!

April 28, 2017
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Terrible experience with this "company"

Their site has payment issues with SagePay which can result in them taking your money and then refusing to complete the order or refund you.
Call your bank and the Visa fraud section and they will revoke the payment and get you your money back, takes 4 or 5 calls.
BEWARE - not helpful guy at all

(1 man band who buys from ProAV as should you imho)

update///i can't seem to reply to his further lies
the bank has since compensated me for his attempted fraud £39
i bought the item from ProAV which is the same shop this guy buys from, main difference is buying from ProAV means you get the manu warranty, buying from this crook means you don't (i checked with JVC to make sure)
Do not buy from him. you have been warned.

fyi no threats were "made down the phone", i don't threaten, i do, and in this case it was to contact RBS fraud department who cleaned up his mess.

//update2 - the more you try and slag me off the more facts of the case i will publish.
call JVC, you are not able to offer or pass on the warranty, they will tell you.
my experience of dealing with you is getting worse by the day.
and again, as i had to prove to Turst pilot for this review, the bank systems all said that you had the money, the bank even gave me a code for you to release the funds, all you, i have no interest in your website mis-configurations or your attempt to blame everyone but yourself. I base my facts on what RBS told me and the actions their fraud team had to preform to retrieve the money from you.

you can post all my emails, i stand by every one of them. you are a crook, rather than listen to the facts as supplied by RBS you wen't off on one saying that you didn't have the money so you wouldn't take any actions and that i may get the money back within a few weeks.
fraud team took it back from you within hours and then compensated me for the issue.
If you have an issue with whatever payment processor you use then go and call them, it has nothing to do with me and they don't appear on any of my documentation or discussions with RBS.
I accept the word of RBS over the likes of you.

good bye and good riddance, my advice, go direct, buy from ProAV or similar reputable manufacturer approved dealer and ensure you get your warranty.

//update3

so you blame sage, they blame the bank meanwhile it was your site that messed up the transaction and required the RBS fraud team to step in and take control. According to RBS you had the funds until they terminated the transaction and took it back from you "3dbroadcast"
fix your site, use a different payment processor, whatever.
i certainly won't ever be back to you.

April 6, 2017
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Reply from 3D Broadcast Ltd

Simon,

Despite your swearing and abusive manner on the phone I understand your frustration though not of our making it is just an anomaly of the banking system .

I tried to explain to you but you continued to shout me down and not listen to my explanation.

The order you tried to place on our website failed according to Sage Pay because the address you put on your order does not match the address held by your bank for this card hence the money wasn't taken.

Your bank mistakenly will tell you that the money has been taken by Sage Pay but I can assure you it hasn't and your bank will take it back and return it to you normally within 72 hours.

No doubt when the money is returned to you the bank will not apologise for miss informing you or indeed you will not feel the need to contact us to apologise for the abuse and threats made down the phone.

I suggest when you get the money back you go and make your purchase elsewhere.


Re your Reply

Simon here is the copy below of the email you sent us after we sent you your our email above explaining the issue you were having placing the order on our system. For you to say that you Bank has told you WE have your money, this is just not true at all. Once again let me explain the online process to you.

We use SagPay as our Gateway provider and as such we do NOT process any Card payments. This is all taken care of by SagePay. You have failed our security that has been set up on our web to protect customers and ourselves against fraudulent activity. and is monitored by SagePay. The address you provided did not match with that, that SagePay/Bank have issued to each other. When you make a transaction and if your transaction fails for whatever reason your issuing Bank/Card provider is not aware of this (SagePay are). Your money is set aside by your issuing bank/card provider and then this money is ring fenced for want of a better term, this is so you can only spend what is available on said card. SagePay know you have failed the security and will not collect this payment, so at this point their is a bit of a grey area between card providers and gateway providers. (at NO stage do WE get given any payments or monies from SagePay regarding failed transactions). When SagePay then do not collect this money that has been set aside form the card providers it will appear back on the said card. This is an automated process and depending on card providers this can take anything up to 72 hours or so. Again I must reiterate that at no stage during a failed transaction over our web do WE take any payments. A failed order is a failed order. We are unable to activate any manual payments over our web despite what you bank may tell you, this is not the case. We again for security do not have access to your credit card numbers so it is impossible for us to do any manual transactions through our web site.

Also all dealers buy and cross sell between themselves and as such there are no warranty issues with items that are purchased. And just for you information we are not a "One man Band" "Crooks" or Fraudsters.

Once again there are always two sides to every story. We tried to explain this to you over the phone when you called us when the problem first arose but you were adamant that WE had your money and would not listen to our explanation..



From: S L [mailto:simonlott@hotmail.com]
Sent: 06 April 2017 10:36
To: Sales@3dbroadcastsales.com
Cc: martin@3dbroadcastsales.com
Subject: Re: jvc gy hm 200 purchase

Hi,
I apologise for swearing like a typical uncultured jock. I did not threaten
you, i don't make threats.

The bank categorically told me the YOU had the payment, not Sage, YOU!
And that the payment reference number was all you would require to complete
the sale manually The bank/Visa have now returned the funds and apologised
on your behalf.

Like you I have purchased from ProAV and won't ever be back to you, any
activity on the card by you will be, as requested by Visa, treated as fraud.

S.


Simon further to your 2 failed attempts on 06/042017 at 0122 am and 0127 am we have contacted Sage Pay our gateway provider for a report on this and they have issued us with this reply.

From: "Support@sagepay.com" <support@sagepay.com> [mailto:support@sagepay.com]
Sent: 22 May 2017 10:40
To: martin@3dbroadcastsales.com
Subject: (Case: ********)

Good Morning,

Thank you for your call.

When a transaction fails on our payment pages the transaction will show up in the vendors sage pay account with a brief description of why this has happened.

Depending on why the transaction failed and at what point, there could be allocated funds showing against the customers card account. Please note this allocation of funds can only be allocated by the card holders bank and therefore can only be removed by the cardholders bank.

Using Simon as an example, his first transaction attempt failed before any bank authorization therefore there will be no allocated funds for this one. His second transaction attempt was authorized (therefore allocated funds) by his card holding bank, but your fraud rules declined the transaction because Simon did not provide the correct address information. This means he will have the funds allocated on his account until his card holding bank removes the allocation or he can wait until the allocation is naturally removed, please note this is again dependent on his card holding bank.

If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact us.

Kind regards,

Emily Somerville
Customer Service Aprrentice, Sage Pay Support
Sage

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Rude customer service

I placed an order with the company for some lights and paid for next day delivery (£11)
I had a call the following day to say they were waiting on the stock and it would be a several days before delivery. When I asked to be refunded the delivery cost they were pretty rude. He kept telling me it's not their fault as it's the supplier but I had to point out that I was the customer and that's not my problem. It's their issue to discuss with the supplier. He was very dismissive of my comments and spoke as if I was an inconvenience. He eventually said he'll try to refund me but only if he could get a refund from the supplier company.

I then had another call later that day and when I answered the phone he said "I'll be cancelling the order as the product wont be available until March" (at least a month away). No apolagies or anything. He was very abrupt. Despite my needed the product that day (as originally expected) I was actually relieved to not be giving my money to this company. Disappointing customer service.

February 11, 2017
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Reply from 3D Broadcast Ltd

Hi Molly,
You did place an order with us late on Monday after the offices had closed at 1838pm, We did get back to you first thing on the Tuesday morning, I am sorry you were unhappy with the fact your lights were not available I did speak to you to let you know the UK distributor was out of stock of the lights, and I did apologise for this at the time as I always do. I under stand you did pay for a next day delivery, as i explained to you the lights still have to be delivered by secure couriers and there is still a cost to this. I did put your delivery refund back on to your PayPal account, as i said I would during our conversation. Holdan normally do hold a number of light in stock and I did explain that we don't hold the lights here and that they normally get drop shipped direct to customers from the UK distributor. I also did explain that, it did state on our web "please call for lead time on this product", which obviously did not happen on this occasion. We then got an email from Holdan later in the day Tuesday, letting us know that the shipment of the lights had been delayed and as soon as we were made aware of this I did call you personally (and not just an email) to let you know the new dates. I did not say I was cancelling your order. I made you aware of the new incoming dates and gave you an option that if you wished we could continue with the lights with the new lead time or if you wished to cancel the lights then that was not an issue. You wished to do the latter and your refund went back on to your PayPal account the same day.

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