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United Kingdom

Reviews

Review of Heinnie Haynes


Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Customer focussed

Ordered a Traser watch. Very helpful and polite interaction. Fast delivery. Definitely recommended.

September 22, 2025
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Reply from Heinnie Haynes

Thank you for your order and review

Review of C W Sellors Jewellers


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Truly appalling service

Ordered a watch back in June on the basis that they could supply it. Month after month of delay and excuses. Zero communications from them without me persevering on emails which go unanswered. Finally 3 months later I've cancelled the order. These people don't deserve to be in business. Ordered the same watch from another online company which arrived with 48 hours! RESPONSE TO CW SELLOR'S COMMENTS. Your absolutely DIDN'T response to my comments within a few days!! - it typically took more than 5 emails each time over days and days for a response and hours of trying to get through to you on calls to find out what is going on. Your dishonest comments are yet another reason why people should avoid purchasing from you!

June 19, 2025
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Reply from C W Sellors Jewellers

Hello Richard, our team did advise rough times and we apologise that your order was taking longer to fulfil than we anticipated. Our team responded to your emails within a couple of working days each time.

Review of meridien.co.uk


Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great dealership and experience

Traded in my previous Ferrari and purchased a pre-owned Ferrari Roma Spider from the team here. Shout out to Matt. Constructive negotiation, first rate delivery experience and follow-up. Very positive experience and they definitely went the extra mile with the sale and delivery.

September 11, 2025
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Review of silentpooldistillers.com


Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Outstanding

Went on the distillery tour. Hanna was an amazing guide. Learned a lot and tasted a lot! Great experience and super interesting.

August 25, 2025
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Review of FRASERS


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

False Advertising: You Can’t Buy at the Price Shown

Frasers advertise products at one price, but you cannot actually buy them at that price. A compulsory £4.99 charge is added whether you choose delivery (understandable) or even collect from the store.
That means the advertised price is false – every item costs at least £4.99 more than shown. There is no way to avoid this hidden charge. It’s misleading and feels dishonest.
Customers deserve transparent pricing that reflects the true cost, not a system where the headline price is never the real price payable.

August 27, 2025
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Review of Berry Thames Ditton BMW


Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Very positive customer experience

Took my BMW X5 in for repair. Positive experience from start to finish. Very polite, courteous and helpful. I particularly appreciated being given a loan car during the repair. Would definitely recommend the body shop team.

January 21, 2025
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Reply from Berry Thames Ditton BMW

Hi, thank you for sharing your positive experience with us. We are thrilled to hear that our team at Berry Thames Ditton provided polite, courteous, and helpful service throughout your BMW X5 repair. It's great to know the loan car made things more convenient for you during the process.

Your recommendation means a lot to us, especially to our dedicated Bodyshop team - we will pass on your kind words. If there is anything else we can do for you in the future, please don't hesitate to reach out. We look forward to welcoming you back soon.

Review of The Ivy


Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Ivy Cobham

Consistently good food and good service. Shout out to Harry Young, the General Manager who is always helpful and goes above and beyond to help out customers with bookings etc.

January 19, 2025
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Review of AXA Health


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

A truly dreadful service provider say our employees

Our experience with AXA Healthcare has been profoundly disappointing. The company’s bureaucratic claims processes and web site are cumbersome, often requiring us to repeatedly submit the same information, due to an underlying assumption that customer-provided information is inherently dishonest. Despite numerous requests, AXA either ignore emails or consistently refuse to engaged in direct conversations to address our concerns, highlighting a significant lack of customer service. It appears that AXA employs as many barriers as possible to delay or deny claims, leading to widespread dissatisfaction among our employees who have interacted with them. Consequently, as a Company, we have decided to cancel our policy with AXA and have transitioned to another insurer that offers a significantly better service. My advice would be to avoid AXA at all cost if you are looking for a reliable insurance provider.
RE AXA COMMENT: Trust me AXA (a concept clearly missing here!), this has nothing to do with your underwriting policies or 'clarity'!- it's about putting as many barriers in the way of a claim as possible. Our employee's have already complained numerous times about your service and like my own personal complaints, they are totally ignored. Please don't pretend that you are interested in answering their complaints or addressing their concerns - when clearly that isn't the case! If you want to address complaints then maybe start with answering those already raised!! In the meantime we have now had enough of AXA and will never contract with you again due to your appalling service afforded to our company and our employees.
COMMENT RE AXA REPLY:
Totally tone deaf to any customer feedback. Raising a complaint is pointless - they don't even bother replying to those! Avoid at all cost is my advice and that of our emplyees.

January 16, 2025
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Reply from AXA Health

Good afternoon.

We are sorry to hear you are unhappy with your recent claim experience and feel that there was a lack of communication.
Due to the underwriting on some of our policies, we may have to request additional information for clarity. We understand that this can be frustrating, but we must comply with the setting of your policy.
If you would like us to look into anything further for you, please contact us directly on: www.axahealth.co.uk/makeacomplaint

Kind regards, Jess.

Review of Spence Willard


Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Very good service

Very good service. Excellent communications when the sale was underway. Shout out to David Langford for very helpful interaction.

October 31, 2024
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Reply from Spence Willard

Thank you for your kind review of our Freshwater office and in particular David.
With best wishes,
Spence Willard

Review of Etherington Meats

Review of HSBC UK


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Truly appalling consistently dreadful…

Truly appalling consistently dreadful service on every level. An absolute nightmare to deal with. Call centre in India and if you want to spend hours and hours wasting your life with people who have no idea what customer service looks like then you these are the people you need to speak to!
FOLLOW-UP ON HSBC COMMENTS: I don't have those social media accounts. I called the Indian call centre who told me that they could only raise a complaint and mark it as resolved - which clearly it isn't as that is why I was calling up! Another 2 hours of my life wasted. This is no way to treat a bereavement matter. Your 'customer service' is a disgrace!

August 2, 2024
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Reply from HSBC UK

Hi there, thank you for taking the time to write a review. I am sorry to hear you about the experience you've had, I would like to put this right, please reach out to us via Social Media (X, Instagram & Facebook). If you would like to log this experience as feedback or a complaint with us, please visit the help section on our website, followed by feedback and complaints. Thank you. - Haz

Review of Swoon


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Absolute rubbish quality and even worse…

Absolute rubbish quality and even worse customer support. Sofas not built to last - use very cheap wood and sofa legs have collapsed on several occasions injuring occupants. Definitely avoid this company if you want reasonable products and reasonable customer support. Just Google 'Swoon reviews' to see the appalling feedback from their customers! Just wish I could upload my photos of the rubbish quality and the broken sofas on this website! You're well aware of the issues and have received all the photos already. (Order was placed via your supplier)
COMMENT RE SWOON REPLY:
You contacted me to tell me you weren't prepared to help. Absolutely dreadful quality, not built to last and appalling customer service to match!

July 1, 2024
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Reply from Swoon

Hi,

Thank you for taking the time to leave a review,

If you could please update the review with your order number,

One of our Complaints Team will reach out to you to see if they can assist you further,

Sorry again for the issues caused!

Warm wishes,

The Swoon Team

Review of The Wine Society

Review of Swoon


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Absolute garbage

Sofa legs have broken off several times now. Cheap and thin plywood used in the construction, splinters and legs fall off and you end up on the floor. Sofas rarely used as they are in our holiday house. Very cheap and poor build quality and trying to get Swoon to do anything about them is a nightmare. Shame you can't upload the photos on this website as reader would be able to see the poor quality for themselves. Definitely look elsewhere would be my advice!
Post review update: Your team didn't reach out to me on Saturday to discuss, they sent me an email saying someone would be in touch and I am still waiting.....please be honest with your comments. 10/10 customers say they prefer it that way!
POST REPLY FROM SWOON NOTE: Swoon didn't contact me to offer any assistance in repairing their rubbish quality sofas.

June 27, 2024
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Reply from Swoon

Hi Richard

Thanks for getting back to us .

After checking I can see our complaints team reached to you on Saturday to discuss.

We will attempt again and happy to assist further.

Warm wishes
The Swoon Team

Review of NatWest


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

A truly appalling bank with customer…

A truly appalling bank with customer service staff who are an absolute disgrace to the brand. Have just moved over to First Direct - wow! what a refreshing experience - would encourage all of Nat West customers to do the same.

June 8, 2024
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Review of Nphoto Lab

Review of my-picture.co.uk


Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Excellent quality printing on an…

Excellent quality printing on an aluminium background with a large wall print. I've used quite a few different photographic printers over the years and my-picture are definitely pros. Will definitely use again

March 22, 2024
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Reply from my-picture.co.uk

We're thrilled to hear that you appreciate the quality of our printing and consider us professionals in the field. Thank you for your kind words and we look forward to serving you in the future.

Review of NatWest


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Non existant customer approach

Non existant customer approach. Rude and condescending staff. Take it or leave it approach. A truly dreadful unreformed bank. After 40 years as a Premium account holder I've had enough abuse and am moving all my accounts from NatWest.

March 22, 2024
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Review of Pure Renewables


Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Outstanding customer service and workmanship

These guys did a very professional installation of a complex ground source heat pump system with two very deep boreholes in the front garden. Great communications from start to finish and the workmanship on the pipes was outstanding (it was a shame that it had to be covered up with insulation it was so good!). Great to find such a customer-focussed company with an installation team that really took pride in doing a good job. Highly recommended!

February 1, 2024
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Review of ivie


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Products dont work + aggressive and unhelpful customer support

You can check on their website that the Ivie Bud meter works at your home. Turns out it doesn't work. Ivie blamed everyone bar themselves. Argued like mad rather than provide any form of assistance or refund. Had to threaten legal action to get them to do anything. Nasty people to deal with. Shout out to 'Alex' at the Ivie team, would wouldn't recognise a customer if he fell over one. Definitely avoid this company - not a recommended experience.
AND A COMMENT ON IVIE'S DISHONEST REPLY
Your web site confirmed that the meter at my address would work fine with the Ivie Bud. It didn't. It's down to Ivie to organise with the energy suppliers you work with the interface with the meter - it has nothing to do with your customers. As established, the unit failed within the 12 month warranty period. I contacted you and you refused to do anything whatsoever to help. It was only when I threatened to take you the the small claims court that you made any progress, because yes third parties including the Ombudsman were indeed holding you to account! As you correctly state, this is an excellent result for me as a customer, however it was brought about entirely buy my threats of legal action to get you to address your legal responsibilities. Shame on you for your dishonesty but at least everyone gets to see your deluded response and the type of company you are when it comes to dealing with customers. BUYER BEWARE!!!

February 10, 2024
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Reply from ivie

Good Morning,

Thank you so much for taking the time to leave a review. We are very sorry that you feel on this occasion that you did not receive the customer service you would expect. We will clarify a few points in the interest of transparency and to assist with your understanding of our responses on this occasion.

Like all products and services, the ivie Bud comes with a warranty period, which you the customer agree to in the T's and C's signed at the time of purchase. You contacted us over a year after purchase, having never got in touch previously to highlight any issues, and asked for a refund for your ivie Bud.

We asked the appropriate questions for a refund request outside of warranty, to establish whether the display had any kind of fault or if we had acted in error in any way. It was established from your answers that the display was not faulty, but that there was an issue with the application of the tariff information on your smart meters on the wall. This is a process managed by your energy supplier, and we repeatedly explained this, whilst also offering to escalate your case with your energy supplier directly in the hopes of a swift resolution.

Your threats of legal action and emails from the ombudsman unfortunately meant that we had to go back and forth with you more than we would have liked, as your claims that third parties were holding us accountable had to be evidenced and understood before we could address them.

You agreed to give us until the end of February to resolve the problem with your energy supplier, after which you would go to the small claims court. We took this seriously and escalated directly with your energy supplier at a senior level to ask for movement on your case.

We are aware (via your energy supplier) that based on the above, they have now contacted you to apologize, admit fault for the tariff issues you were having and have themselves refunded you in full for the purchase of the ivie Bud.

This is an excellent result for you as a customer, brought about by our dedicated and efficient customer service and willingness to take action to try and resolve issues for consumers even when the ivie Bud is not at fault. The lengthy explanation that you received from your energy supplier, and the refund, would not have happened without our intervention and we are very sorry that you have felt the need to omit the above from your review.

Thanks,

The Team at ivie