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After complaining to Trustpilot I've…
After complaining to Trustpilot I've got my missing packages in a record time (5 days).
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Dutyfreedepot (dutyfreedepot.com) has 333 customer reviews on Five Star Index, with an average rating of 3.2 out of 5.
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After complaining to Trustpilot I've got my missing packages in a record time (5 days).
Thomaz P.
I always bought with them without any problem, but last year on 10/17/2018 I bought three lighters, but they never arrived. I thought it was some mistake, so I bought it again, but I looked at the status of the order and saw that it had been canceled. I do not know if they charged me, and they did not give me any satisfaction by email.
Donnie S.
hello...I had ordered 4 cartons of Pall mall blue shorts in august of last year...I received 2 of the cartons,and they would tell me that the other two cartons were being sent out....I still haven't received them....I still love your site, and will order from you again,,,,but is my order still in your system? it's Order Number:404195...I don't like to talk bad about companies....i don't see the point....maybe we can get this straightened out?
Jeff
I ordered on Jan 17 and order shipped on Jan 24. Waited 30 days and no package. Contacted via email and phone, product was reshipped on Feb 23 and now as of March 27 still no product. Third shipment sent on March 29th and received on April 6th.
Response from DutyfreedepotMar 28, 2017
Jeff, I am sorry to hear and see the problems you are having with your order. Now, I can see you have only sent us one email 6 hours ago (1 hour before you posted this review) which received a response just a short while ago so lets try to be honest here. Also regarding your claim of no reply to your phone calls, I checked our call log and can see someone from your location called in about 5:30 AM our local time which is off hours and also around the time you posted this review. I am assuming it is you as no one else from your area called during that time which coincides with the time of your email and review. We clearly write our operating hours on our site. If you call during off hours, you may not receive a response due to limited staff. I am sorry that you still have not received your order but to claim what you are claiming here is simply not honest and a misrepresentation of the facts. It also does not help us resolve your order issue. I understand you are frustrated you have not received your order and we are too. We want all of our customers to receive orders as quickly and trouble free as possible but sometimes due to the nature of the products we send and due to local postal services like the USPS, problems and delays may occur in transit. This is why we pour a lot of time and effort in to our customer support team and try to respond to every complaint or question as fast as possible. In any case, please respond to our email and we will help you receive your order or your money back. From, Daniel Customer Support Manager
Poomi P.
Firstly, I read alot of reviews on this site which give me confident with this seller. So I went ahead and placed my order. 2 months passed by and I haven't received my order. I do understand that this seller deal with unconventional product which hard to guarantee shipment, so I took their suggestion to buy extra insurance. I've emailed their customer service after delivery time frame given by the seller (30days), and ask for refund because I thought I have an insurance and I haven't received the order. But this is what I got from the customer service team in reply email. "Please note that it is clearly stated that we will not be held responsible for any lost/missing/seized item that was sent to the UK. However, we would like to issue you a reshipment at our own expense. If the reshipment fails to arrive, we will not be able to issue a second reshipment but will be forced to issue you store credits for the missing items -$9 per carton for shipping expenses as stated in our terms of use." I really want to understand what kind of insurance is this? money back guarantee? or shipment guarantee? and If look into detail, the seller will grant me $9 discount per carton for the next order? are you kidding me? I placed an order for $73.97, and if I haven't received the order, I'm going to have $9 back for next order? Seriously, who will place another order with the store that couldn't manage to deliver the product? Last week I just sent an email to customer service time for confirmation on reshipment, however, I just read through a review here by 'Magnolia Gonzalez' (6days ago). And I noticed that he placed his order nearly the same time as me which is late October (29 Oct for me), and haven't received it too. I read through reply from Daniel, Customer support Manager and found a huge different between the email I got from them and the reply from Daniel. "Due to the nature of the products we send we know this kind of thing may occur which is why we offer things like insurance which guarantees you a refund if your order is not received (for any reason) or is received damaged." This one if from Daniel. "Please note that it is clearly stated that we will not be held responsible for any lost/missing/seized item that was sent to the UK." This one is from his team. Anyway as I sent the reshipment confirmation email back to their customer support already, I don't know if it possible for me to change from reshipment to "full refund" or not. (I can bet that they will not grant me a full refund and will come up with something like 'the reshipment has been issued already') But if I could, I would like to get a 'full refund' back and stay away from this seller ever. So to sum up for anyone who interest in this seller, I would like to suggest several things before you trust the 5-star and place order. 1.) Go for any seller that has Paypal (I learnt it hard way). 2.) Read terms and agreement every time before place order (even the insurance coverage). 3.) Try other seller if you want it to deliver to UK, this one has problem of 'lack of cooperation between the local and UK postal service'. To be honest, I was going to give up on my order, until I read through Daniel reply to Magnolia Gonzalez here, so I decided that I need to tell all other users about this first. ------------------------------ Dear Daniel, Thank you for your fast response and very helpful information. Could you provide any evidence or email that you've managed to cancelled my reshipment and issued the full refund for me? I believe that you have my contact detail on your hand already. (Hope you understand that I need something as a evidence of conversation or communication with you which more solid than this review and reply, an email would be the best) Replying for the points I've made, 1.) As what Daniel stated, it is strictly prohibit by Paypal to buy/sell tobacco and alcohol, but there're alot of seller out there that still be able to use Paypal as a payment method which would be an option for buyers. The point for this is I recommend every buyers to use Paypal even wiring money, because they are easier to talk to if you came up with a problem (personal experience compare to using Visa/Master credit cards) 2.) I really agreed with Daniel on this point. 3.) Speaking from my experience, the order from DFD was my first order that I've tried order from online, which gave me the bad experience. But later that I found it's taking too long to deliver to my address, then I decided to try and order from other seller (will not given name). The order arrived within a week, so I keep order more and more (got delivered everytime haven't bump into problem yet). I would love to share my experience or detail which I got from other seller with DFD if you want, so if you can take something from it and improve your service (this is because you always taking feedback and saying that you want to make it better) You have my contact, looking forward to receive an email from you or your team. Another star for your fast and helpful response ------------------------------ Updates I just checked my email and there's an email from DFD stating about refund already made. I would say that even I had a bad experience about the shipment, but their customer service is very professional. The email said that the refund will be back to my account in 14 business days, I will keep update if I got the refund or the time frame has been met. Another star for your email stating about the refund.
Response from DutyfreedepotJan 12, 2017
Poomi Phanutaiwat, I'm sorry to hear and see you have not received your order to the UK. We offer insurance which guarantees you a refund if the order is not received (for any reason) or damaged. You requested a refund and we offered you a reshipment with certain terms but if you did not agree to these terms we would have issued you a full refund as you have insurance and did not receive your order. As your reshipment has not been sent, it has been cancelled and I am having a full refund issued as guaranteed with insurance. Now in regards to the other review you read, that customer is located in the US, not the UK. We have different rules regarding reshipment and other things of that nature depending on the country and region due to the differing rules and regulations from country to country. We state this in our terms of use. Now regarding the points you make at the end of your review. 1. Regarding payment, no tobacco company can take PayPal as payment due to PayPals strict rules and regulations regarding the sale of Alcohol and Tobacco. If you find one that does, be aware that it may cause problems for your PayPal account. 2. Always always read the terms of use of any website you order from or use. It is simply good practice and one we encourage when using our site. Unlike most terms of use, ours is one page and in regular words (not 5,000 pages of crazy legal jargon you get from companies like Apple). 3. Any company sending Tobacco to the UK will run in to trouble, this is just a fact of tobacco shipments to the UK. The customs in the UK are very strict and the slightest issue with package labeling and other things of that nature may (more often then not) lead to the package being seized. Once seized, it is just about impossible to have the items released (even if you pay the insane undemocratic fee's they levy). We do have a good delivery rate to the UK but, not every shipment will make it. This is simply a fact of doing business in the UK. This is why we have insurance (like you purchased) just in case something goes wrong with your shipment and you want a refund, you can get one. As for tracking to the UK, we usually get updates from Royal Mail once a package arrives to Heathrow (which is available on their tracking website) and we get delivery confirmations per request but, we cannot see where a package is when it is in transit in the UK which is a problem. We are working with our local mail carrier and trying to solve this issue so we can get full tracking when a package is in transit in the UK. In any case, I am sorry to see you had a bad experience with our company. I will take a look at the email exchanges you had with my support team and see if there was a better way to handle your order issue. I thank you for your feedback. Best regards, Daniel Customer Support Manager Hey Poomi Phanutaiwat, I'll send you an email shortly so you can tell me about the other place you ordered from and I will see what improvements we as a company can make to have the UK shipping process run smoother. I want to thank you for your understanding and for your feedback, I appreciate it. I'll be in touch with you shortly. Best regards, Daniel Customer Support Manager
Riyadh C.
i got my order but this time I got fake cigarettes because why I m saying?? I order silk cut sliver and also saying at add made in U.K. But I got other slik cut where it should be 1 mg tar, 0.1 mg nicotine, 1 mg carbon monoxide!! But duty free depot given me slik cut sliver it is 1 mg tar,0.1mg nicotine and 2 mg carbon monoxide?? Why it is 2 mg carbon monoxide in it ?? Silk cut sliver always comes 1 mg carbon monoxide!!That my question to duty free depot company, plz answer it
Response from DutyfreedepotDec 8, 2016
Hey Riyadh, I'm sorry to hear you have not received your order. I will have one of my support reps. contact you to help you with your order so we can resolve any issue that may have occurred as quickly as possible. Please note if you have any sort of problem with our site or an order with us, you can call to 1800-865-7043 for immediate assistance during our operating hours, send us an email to [email protected], send us a msg. using our contact us page (when you are logged in to your DFD account) and, you can even send a msg. to us on our Facebook page and we will assist you. You can rest assured we will do everything in our power to resolve your order issue and get you your order as quickly and trouble free as possible or your money back. Best regards, Daniel Customer Support Manager Riyadh, I'm happy to hear you received your order but I'm sorry to hear you feel this way. I can assure you we only sell genuine duty free products. The packaging (including tar / nicotine levels) and taste may be slightly different then the ones you buy locally as these are duty-free products and packaging and taste (blends of tobacco and/or tobacco spicing) may be slightly different from country to country. For example, if you buy Camels in the US, they will taste different and may have different packaging then the ones you buy in the UK, Japan, and other parts of the world. This is how tobacco manufacturers target potential customers in different markets and parts of the world to sell the most amount of tobacco as they can. You can feel free to send the product you have received to the manufacturer to confirm that the item you received is in fact genuine. From, Daniel Customer Support Manager
Jacqui Mchale R.
I Have ordered 4 or 5 times with this company...first one took a while but since then they have been fine fast delivery. Until now..my order has been seized by customs 8 sleeves..problem now is i am running out of my order that i did receive im owed 1600 cigarettes i dont really want to re order again. E mailed a few times but no reply...must admit i have e mailed them many times and have never had a reply. Will see how i get on and update.
Response from DutyfreedepotOct 18, 2016
Jacqui, I am sorry to hear you are having problems with receiving part of your order to the UK. As far as customs is concerned like any tobacco company, we have some problems with them here and there as we ship alcohol and tobacco products, not books or DVD's. As we know there may be a few bumps along the road for some, we offer things like insurance which guarantees you a refund if the items are not received (for any reason) or damaged. We also reship or offer compensation for missing items. Note you sent your last email to us yesterday (10/17) and we have responded to it today (10/18). If you send us an email, please allow a little bit of time for a response. Also note we have responded to all of your emails. If you do not see a response from us, please check your spam folder. If you need immediate assistance, you can always call our US toll free number during operation hours. Our US toll free number is 1800-865-7043. You can rest assured we will do everything we can to ensure you receive the rest of your order as quickly and trouble free as possible. Thank you for your feedback. Best regards, Daniel Customer Support Manager
Bernie
The products/brands are what I need, although the prices have risen, but the value is still better than retail. Shipping is another problem sometimes. My orders have not been delivered and had to be tracked and reshipped a second time. I think the company may need another shipper? The rep that I speak with is Great and attentive with my needs, she is really Good. Customer service is readily available and responds to my inquiry's quickly! Thanks to you all!