Order not recieved or dispatched and zero communication
I placed my order on the 16th, i have had no emails or updates. i have emailed twice, the first time to check if my order has been dispatched and if likely to come in time for xmas and second time to request to cancel and a refund as the order status has not changed and had to purchase an alternative xmas gift. I've searched the net to try find a contact number but seems impossible to get in touch.
i appreciate its a busy time of year, for ecommerce and there can be unpredictable delays and issues but communication is essential, xmas is stressful and expensive enough as it is.
if anyone from custom-items.co.uk see this review i would be grateful if you could cancel and refund my order (JC11507)
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wendy D.
Where is my order that was placed and…
Where is my order that was placed and paid on 9th December 21. To date I have not had a reply to the 3 emails sent to you chasing an update on when I can either expect the item ordered or a refund. Terrible service I would not recommend purchasing from this company. It’s awful.
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Megan
Ordered beginning of dec, no product arrived and now ignoring emails
I ordered on the 5 of December, still no
Sign of my necklace I ordered as a Christmas present for my mum. I’ve emailed three times, 1st was replied to basically a generic email saying it will be here for Christmas.. I doubt it as I don’t live in England. 2nd and 3rd email have been ignored. I’ve very disappointed at them and annoyed at myself for ordering the necklace before googling the company and reading the reviews. The money was taken from account right after I ordered and I doubt il get a refund ? Avoid this company if you’ve any sense
**updating review in reply
To custom items right to reply : I don’t See why you are taking on so many new orders when you can’t fulfil your current ones/delayed etc . I’m aware of busy Christmas periods however a bit of an update on the product status isn’t hard to do or a lot to ask Very unprofessional service from custom items, I don’t like leaving negative reviews on small business but when I feel I have to I will, others need to Know before they waste their time and hard earned money. M **
Ps: I think there are fake “positive “ reviews being added as they seem to appear once a negative appears. 🤣
*edited the second time in response to your reply on the 21 dec* I replied to your first reply last night, before I had a chance to check my email you sent right before your response on here. I don’t see a point in replying to emails as they are ignored anyway like my previous 2. Il take it at face value it has been dispatched like you said.. and il not be keeping my hopes up for a quick Delivery now. I just hope the product is nice on its eventual
Arrival to me.. Like I said I don’t like leave negative reviews on businesses but anyone reading this think before you order as customer service and communication isn’t a strong point of this small company and as someone else stated need to employ more people. I won’t be replying any more unless my product doesn’t arrive. Thankfully trust pilot is here to get a response from custom
Items.
Response from Hidden ForeverDec 20, 2021
Hello Megan,
Thank you for your review. We can see you placed your order on the 4th of December for a custom necklace. As stated on our website at the time of your order:
"Due to the popularity of this item, we are experiencing delays adding up to 5 working days to the creation of this item upon receiving your picture - please take this into consideration when ordering.
Once receiving your order, we will process it and ensure the image is of the right quality taking approx 2 working days. Once ready, we take approximately 5-7 working days to create the photo projection jewellery, and ship it out with an economic service via local courier which can take 3-5 working days".
We are currently on the 20th of December which is 11 working days after you placed your order meaning we are well within our processing and delivery times stated on the custom necklace product page at the time you placed your order.
We are experiencing a high amount of emails at the moment as you can probably imagine with Christmas coming up. As we are a relatively new, family run business we currently have a 3 day delay on emails. I can see that you first emailed on the 14th of December and you got a reply on the same day stating our delivery and processing times. You then messaged again on the 18th and again, today, on the 20th. Please be patient and allow us to respond to your emails as well as our other customers. We know it is very important for people to receive their gifts by Christmas or for other occasions as they are special sentimental items, and we really are trying our very best.
We hope you have a wonderful Christmas and New Year and hope you enjoy your necklace when it arrives.
Once again, thanks for your feedback.
Best Wishes,
Custom Items
** updated reply
Hi Megan,
Thanks again for you second review. We can see that you chose to reply to us via review rather than via email.
We haven't "taken on so many new orders" when we "can't fulfil your current ones". Your order, is still well within our processing and delivery times stated at the time you placed your order.
In fact, your order has been dispatched and I have relayed this to you via email. Please check your inbox.
Best regards,
Custom Items
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David H.
A shambles of a company
Order placed at the start of November, delivery tracking email received 2 weeks later advising item Has been shipped and with a tracking link (the link never tracked anything). I contacted them to be advised item hasn’t been sent which I queried why would I have received an email advising it had. They tried to delay by lying in their emails and leaving my emails unread, fast forward another 4 weeks and all of a sudden the item has been lost while out for delivery but I thought it had never been sent out on delivery 🤪
A shambles of a company I would avoid at all costs
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Alison K.
Absolutely shocking service
Absolutely shocking service! Ordered on the 2nd of October and my order hasn't even shipped yet! All they say is they have a backlog and it will be sent and will take 7-14 days after shipping. They don't tell you this when you place your order, they just take your money and don't care.
My order was for my daughters birthday, I'd saved for weeks and I didn't receive it in time.
Avoid this company. I'm not even sure if I'll receive anything.
Update....its now been 17 days since I ordered and I've emailed numerous times with no reply. They took my money the day I ordered and I have nothing to show for it.
Please don't order from this company, they are horrendous.
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Anthony M.
Devoid of customer service.
If your too busy to complete the orders in a timely fashion then why accept the payment without warning? At the very least respond to emails.
Expect to wait for your purchase.
Just received this from Trust Pilot:
Hi Anthony Mullen,
Thanks for writing a review about custom-items.co.uk on Trustpilot.
We recently got in touch to let you know that custom-items.co.uk would like some more info about your experience, to help them join the dots. Unfortunately they’re no closer to solving the mystery, and they’ve now asked us to verify your review.
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