Review of Farnell CPC


Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Not the best experience.

I initially ordered something and payed for express shipping, it was pointless of me buying this as it still took them 3/4 days to ship the item. (Not express as purchased.)

Item received and was faulty.

Contacted CPC via email and they were quite slow at replying initially. (Explained with a sorry we're experiencing high customer service enquiries.) (Actually automatically replied on every message.)
Return intiated with the first contact, unfortunately this was booked for 2 days away for collection and I was not at home. Contacted them back and got a new returns label. (UPS issue here not cpc's, but ups failed to collect and instead of waiting another day I returned to a UPS access point authorized from UPS).

They received my return on a Monday. No confirmation or anything from them until I had to contact them on the Friday. Another sorry we're busy email but they refunded me on the Monday with no response to my email. (Not the full amount though..?). I am so glad I paid via PayPal, because I opened a PayPal case up for the missing refund amount and less than 36 hours after submitting it, I finally received a full refund. (I contacted CPC about this but no reply. So decided I didn't want to wait and went via PayPal for the remainder.)

Honestly the only reason I've given 2 stars is because they initially delivered the item at a good price, and when being replied to the service was good. But the no replies to messages, *Express* shipping taking forever to actually ship, and to top it off not issuing a full refund for the amount.

Not the greatest service, won't be ordering from them again due to this experience.

June 13, 2023
Unprompted review

Reply from Farnell CPC

Thank you for your feedback.
Please do accept our apologies for the delay in communication. The auto response is sent to all emails received as we do get high traffic through the sales@cpc.co.uk email address.
There is a contact number that's provided on this auto response advising if you would like a quicker resolution then just to give us a call and one of the team would be happy to help.

This however does not explain as to why the delivery was longer than it should have been and this is something that we would need to take up with UPS.
If you could please email the order confirmation number , when you have time , to customersupport@cpc.co.uk , we can look into this.
Kind regards
The CPC team