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DO NOT BUY FROM JOHN LEWIS!

I urge anybody considering buying from John Lewis to buy elsewhere! And this is why:

I brought a washing machine from John Lewis as I was under the impression that John Lewis was a major retail company that looked after their customers and would be a pleasure to buy from. How wrong I was!
My washing machine was installed by a professional plumber, it was levelled to the ground and connected perfectly. Since the first use, the washing machine has banged from within the drum - sometimes at the beginning of a cycle, sometimes in the middle and always at the end. I have clearly been sold a faulty product!
I contacted John Lewis within the time frame JohnLewis advise that I can return my item and I am disgusted at the level of customer service I received! No one should ever be treated with as much disrespect and be helped as little as I was- not to mention how rude, obnoxious, and disinterested the customer service team at John Lewis were - especially@ Aaron Partridge and Gemma Manley! My experience has been horrendous, and especially considering my circumstances:

Just a a few weeks ago, my partner had major brain surgery to remove a cancerous tumour. He lost all movement on his left hand side and is currently undergoing radiotherapy and chemotherapy treatment. When John Lewis delivered our machine, my partner wore a mask, and asked the delivery men to please wear masks - My partner explained his situation to them and asked for some help getting the machine into the kitchen considering his circumstances at the moment. They didn't have masks to wear, and they also wore no shoe coverings and were off hand at my partner asking them to hand sanitise on their way into our house. They thought that it was acceptable to move a large and very heavy chest of drawers out of the way in order to get the machine into the kitchen and then claim that they can't help to move it back - instead leave it in the middle of the kitchen with barely room to move. You can imagine my struggle at moving it back to the front door!
John Lewis response to my concerns over the delivery of the product was that "regardless of my circumstances, masks are not mandatory anymore". Never mind that my partner is extremely vulnerable and should he catch so much as a sniffle at the moment, he could find himself in a very serious situation.

Things just got worse from here …

I phoned John Lewis customer service to return my washing machine, and I explained that it is faulty, and that I'd like a refund.
John Lewis told me that I need to arrange an engineer visit and have the machine taken apart, the fault found, and either repaired or replaced. I didn't want the machine repaired (it was brand new!) or replaced, I wanted to return it for a full refund to buy a different machine. Why was I not allowed to do this? I still don't know the answer to that!

I expressed my concern at having to have engineers visit the house, and also how difficult this would be for me to arrange at the moment - I am taking my partner to and from radiotherapy and chemotherapy treatment appointments Monday to Friday for the next six and a half weeks, and I work weekends. We have an 11 month old daughter as well!
I asked John Lewis if there was anything they could do to help me - to provide an alternative resolution than having to have engineers in the house. You would assume that once someone is told they are dealing with a vulnerable cancer patient that they would not hesitate to take precautionary measures but following the shocking delivery of our product, I had my reservations! And understandably so!
John Lewis refused to help me, they told me that my circumstances are irrelevant. I asked them what is going to happen if I can't arrange an engineer visit for the next two months at least and they unbelievably told me that that would only make the situation harder to deal with.
I wish anyone who tries to contact John Lewis all the luck that I can - at this point I had been on and off the phone to the customer service team for days and hours at a time - continually put on hold and the call put down on me more times than I can count on both hands. As you can imagine, with our life already turned upside down at the moment, that was all I needed!

I reluctantly agreed to an engineer visit, which John Lewis claimed they had booked for me with Bosch, for the 11th. I phoned Bosch and they were gobsmacked that John Lewis had told me the information they had, and that I am within my consumer rights to be able to return my product but that John Lewis will do everything that they can to avoid this so that they don't have to foot the bill. They also hadn't booked a visit for me, like they had assured me and the next available visit was the 19th. I had been being put on hold for almost an hour at a time on numerous occasions while John Lewis supposedly spoke with Bosh - yet Bosch had no recollection of our faulty product or an engineer visit being booked on our behalf.

I have been left having been sold a faulty product, given no help or support in rectifying the issue, given false information and lied to.

My complaint with John Lewis was risen to the most senior member of staff who barely responded to me when I spoke to him, had nothing more to say than "there is nothing they can do to help me" and spent the entire phone call coughing over me as I spoke. In the midst of speaking to an unhappy customer who was asking for help partly because her partner was undergoing cancer treatment, the manager of John Lewis thought it acceptable to complain that he himself was "not very well at the moment with a cold" and his tone reflected that he couldn't care less that I was struggling to meet his requirements in order to return the faulty product that they had sold me!
I asked to speak to a senior member of staff, or for contact details of either head office or the managing director, Pippa Wicks - to which I was laughed at and told they had no contact details for and that the manager - Aaron Partridge was the highest level of staff I would be able to speak to.

By the time an engineer visits on the 19th, I will have been without a washing machine for the best part of 6 weeks, through no fault of my own. I brought what I thought would be a reliable machine from a reliable store, paying over £400.

The level of stress and upset that John Lewis have caused us is so upsetting, we have been reduced to tears! I don't wish anyone have to be made to feel as unworthy and disregarded as we have by this company.
*So please, don't buy from John Lewis without caution! *

Absolutely horrendous never had worse service reported low speed (2.5meg) several times during contract never sorted changed to talk talk hope this is better

Is absolutely disgusting what I have had from my purchased from Jhon Lewis recently very bad experience! Bought a wach machine (BECO) after one month using it 4-5 times washes is broke, engine making noise after 20 min washing! And unfortunately jhon Lewis and Beco avoided the warranty is really weirded on these days work very hard for our money and is going to the drain! SO WHOS NEXT! DONT BE A VICTIM!

MY HORROR STORY - I WILL NEVER BUY FROM JOHN LEWIS OR WAITROSE OR ANYTHING WITHIN THAT GROUP AGAIN: Here's the story (names removed)
This is taken from a complaint email I sent via John Lewis' online
31 Jan 17: Ordered £50 of shopping for my wife and daughter online from John Lewis' website.
An email from Hermes suggested that JohnLewis were supposed to deliver on Friday 3 Feb. In fact the email, sent at 11.51 claimed that delivery has been attempted by Hermes. I had been in all morning and my wife had been back since 10 a.m. Note that despite, John Lewis email of 2 Feb saying Your order includes items that may be left in a safe location if there is no one available at the delivery address. Hermes will leave a card with further instructions if they're unable to complete the delivery or to let you know the item has been left in a safe location or with a neighbour no note was left and although at least a couple of our neighbours were in and no attempt was made to leave any parcel with them.
Also from the tracking information on the Hermes website it showed that the driver should have sent an email or text at 09:18 and that a delivery attempt had been made at 11:33. This was impossible as my wife had been in the kitchen preparing scrambled eggs at that time and the kitchen window looks out onto the front where the delivery van would have arrived. Even if the driver had missed the bell we would still have heard him knock and seen him. It is clear to us that the driver is mistaken about delivery to our house.
At 12.21 I called John Lewis customer services number to find out what was going on and expected to receive the outstanding customer service that I had received in the past. Sadly not!. The John Lewis customer services attendant, only gave his first name which was okay by me as long as he could identify himself further which he did by giving me his employee id (fake I believe from subsequent conversations). He was flippant, totally lacking any empathy, unhelpful and unapologetic in fact his tone was that these things happen and delivery would be reattempted the next day. He was not interested in the fact that the driver had obviously lied to us, Hermes and John Lewis. I asked to speak to his manager and he was resistant. In the end he said he would put me through to his manager. Instead he put me through to a totally different department - the Case Management Team. So here was another person in this delivery chain misleading me the customer.
CASEMANAGER was a much better listener and did apologize but again did not seem to take the matter of the potential fraud committed by the Hermes driver seriously and said he could not guarantee delivery today. I explained that in my opinion given that the driver appeared to have simply lied and Hermes are John Lewis customer and we are yours, the least that Hermes should be liable to do is to immediately rectify the situation and deliver today. Again he said he could not guarantee this. I asked to speak to his manager who I was told is called XXXX and is on holiday. So I asked to speak to his managers manager and was told CASEMANAGER would fetch him and I would have to wait. I requested that CASEMANAGER speak with Hermes whilst I spoke to his manager and was told this would not be possible as I would be on the line. So I asked him to get his manager to call me back after listening to the calls and speaking with both CASEMANAGER and FIRSTPERSONISPOKETO. I asked for the name of his managers manager and was told that it would actually be another Team Leader so it seems I had been misled. CASEMANAGER said MANAGER would be dealing with this. He would call Hermes and call me straight back in the meantime. I have had no call back from MANAGER.
I wrote the above in a complaint letter as noted above and this is the response I got at at 23:30:
Thank you for your email regarding your customer service experience with John Lewis.
At John Lewis, we aspire to offer the highest level of service and we are terribly sorry that, on this occasion, we have not met your expectations.
Having reviewed your case, I can see that our Management team are currently investigating this matter. I can confirm that redelivery of your order was attempted at 3pm today and that another attempt is arranged for tomorrow, Saturday 4 February 2017.
I hope this information proves useful. If we can assist you any further, please do not hesitate to contact us again.
Yours sincerely,
FIRSTNAME
JohnLewis.com
In fact this is what happened:
13:04 CASEMANAGER called back to say delivery would be made by another driver artless around 15:00 on the same day. Hermes had acknowledged that the first driver had failed and had been asked to return the package to the depot for the second driver to deliver it.
14:50 15:58 I sat in the kitchen and worked facing the window in case the package arrived. It did not.
15:59 I called the John Lewis customer services line and a lady took the call and said she would put me through to speak to CASEMANAGER whose extension I gave her was on hold with horrid music for 12 mins. Ended the call and called back more music.
16:13 Called again got a lady who was lovely and said he was only a couple of desks away and actually went over to him (without putting the horrid music on) and gave him details. She came back and asked me to hang up so CASEMANAGER could call me directly. He did about five minutes later and said he had spoken to Hermes and said they had said that they could not locate the new driver had texted, emailed and left messages for him.
16.49 CASEMANAGER called again and assured me delivery would be made. This last call interrupted an important business call that I had already postponed by half an hour and which has not been finished as a result of having to speak with your offices for so long.
18:21 as no delivery had been made I called again and was put on hold again by ANOTHERPERSON while he transferred me to CASEMANAGER. Instead of transferring me he came back and said that he had been speaking to a manager about protocol so again a lie and that after putting me on hold for 4 minutes he needed to take some more information. I asked for the name of the manager he had been speaking to and he said it was a large department and he did not know every managers name. I was waiting for a call from my wife so I did not have time to be put on hold again and cut the call short.
19:17 I called again and spoke with YETANOTHERPERSON who refused to give me any form of identification other than her FIRST name and said that she was in customer services but would not say where. She also said that she would not give me her team leaders name. She also made it clear that she was not aware of the calls are recorded by John Lewis and said that she did not give me a permission to record the call although I didn't say I was recording call. I said that these calls are being recorded by which I meant that the recording wad been done by John Lewis - she argued.
19:21 FINALCUSTOMERSERVICESPERSON dealt with the call very professionally (except again refusing to provide more than a first name) but I was kept on the phone for half an hour at the end of which all he could offer was that Hermes (who he had been speaking with whilst I held) wanted my number so they could call me to arrange delivery. He said Hermes had told him that the drivers only worked till 8 pm so unlikely the delivery would be made then as it was 7.45 p.m. and so it would be tomorrow probably. I reiterated that no one might be in my daughter and I are going to London and my wife has a lot of things to do out of the house. I said that I felt I had given Hermes sufficient opportunity to remedy the crime committed by their driver and that I would need to refer the matter to the Police for resolution if they did not address the matter. I also suggested that the order be redirected to a Waitrose or John Lewis store for collection by us. I suggested that without prejudice you waive the order cost and give us a good will gesture on top. I asked that these matters be passed onto CASEMANAGER.
I think it is shocking that a customer should be lied to and treated this way I have shopped at John Lewis for many, many years and am an occasional Waitrose customer. I was about to get John Lewis broadband but had been put off by a lot of bad reviews now I understand why. This is not the brand I grew up with and came to see as synonymous with quality and assurance. It is rather the brand that hates its customer and lies, is complicit in fraud and worse.