Review of BUY FIREWOOD DIRECT


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

'Kiln Dried' logs don't appear to be dry, and no response to complaint.

We've been burning only kiln-dried oak logs, for several years, on our wood burner, so we're very familiar with the product, which we've purchased from most of the well known on-line retailers at one time or another.
We've also purchased from this company once before, and received a satisfactory product.
A recent crate has been very disappointing, though.
The wood's much harder to burn, and burns with a lower temperature than we've ever had before. The burn is also sooty & smoky.
It seems likely that the wood's not been kiln dried properly, or worse, not at all.
The logs are more dense than kiln dried oak normally is, and some even have blue mould on their surface; that did well to survive the 'Kiln Drying' process!

Whilst we appreciate that things go wrong sometimes, the quality of a company can be gauged by how they deal with problems.
Despite their website advertising that emails will be responded to 'within 2 business hours', we've had no response to our email highlighting the poor product quality, since sending it a week ago!
'Customer Services' turns out to be a 3rd party telephone answering service, who can only offer to send an email to this company, so the 'Help & Support' guidance on the website is misleading to say the least.

We'll send another email in the hope that we get a satisfactory response, but in the meantime, we have to warn other potential buyers, that there have been other, similar reviews over the last couple of months, which follow a similar thread...

Hopefully, directors Anna Ozolina, Dace Birstina, or Martins Sprancis will be in touch soon, to arrange a refund, or replacement crate.

April 18, 2024
Unprompted review

Reply from BUY FIREWOOD DIRECT

Dear,
We requested additional information from you and, upon receiving it, proceeded to escalate a full refund and collect the consignment. Your claim was premised on the assumption that the logs were not kiln dried, yet no moisture content readings were supplied. We acknowledged your assumption and processed the refund accordingly.
However, after retrieving the consignment, we conducted a moisture content test and can confirm that the moisture levels did not exceed 14%.
Given that the issue has been completely resolved, we kindly request that the review owner remove their complaint, which was written in an extremely atypical manner.