Hi Stephen, I am sorry for your negative experience with Aqua Amore, something which we always aim to prevent. I would also like to thank you for responding to our flagging (TP listed as defamatory) and revising the review to remove personal information relating to our customer service representative and to outline that we have never considered you to be 'a fraudster', you remain a valued customer.
Reading the Trustpilot feedback, I feel that the interaction has been misrepresented and positive actions before, during and after were omitted. However, we respect your communication and reflections.
During your conversation with the customer service representative, it was made clear that a refund could not be immediately issued over the phone as the delivery was still in transit but 'delayed', so we needed to speak with UPS to understand if the items were still due for delivery that day (as we are unable to prevent a third party courier driver delivering at such short notice) before promising to revert back to you before your time deadline.
Within 17 minutes of the conversation this had been escalated to UPS management and we called you, following up with an email giving you several options and leaving the decision completely with you as our customer - promising to act according to your response.
I wish to assure you that we most certainly do want to make you and our customers happy, but during this conversation the customer service representative voiced their discomfort with threated actions and did not need to 'Google' you in order to have motivation to make you happy - our objective is and was to find a positive resolution for you as our customer once we had all information available - something we presented very soon after the conversation.
At your request, we issued a refund but our customer service representative outlined in prior communication immediately after the phone call, "Thanks for your time earlier. I understand your concern, and I genuinely care and seek to find a resolution for you." This is very true - Aqua Amore genuinely do care for our customers and work hard to find solutions, promptly.
It is also worth noting that following the refund, our customer service representative contacted you unprompted to check if it had been received and offering to check further with PayPal if it had not been, as well as offering to personally manage any future order with the internal delivery team to ensure no repeat of the delivery delay experienced with UPS. They did so because they cared and wanted to actively demonstrate positive customer service.
We are sorry for the confusion and inconvenience caused by the backorder. Backorder products are reflected on the product page as being available 'in our warehouse soon', with a similar message in the checkout basket and a confirmation on the email received immediately upon placing an order. This is also mentioned within our 'Delivery Information' section. Nonetheless, we have taken your feedback on board and will aim to make these items clearer on our site very soon.
We always want our customers to have a positive experience, and it is evident that with this particular order you experienced the opposite after five years - this is something we are sorry about. As our customer service representative outlined, should you ever require another delivery, you are very welcome to contact us and we'll manage the order with our internal delivery drivers to ensure that you do not experience similar delays.
I have written to you personally and have also offered to provide Trustpilot evidence of the written correspondence to verify the above.
Finally, should we indeed have lost you as a customer, we would like to sincerely thank you for your custom and to wish you all the very best - throughout the years you have tried many wonderful natural mineral and spring waters, and we value your communication which will always help us to improve.