What Customer Service?
Laptop ok but the service has a lot to be desired.
1. checked with person who dealt with the sale if we could have the 2 year Currys Repair/Service contract start at the END of the manufacture period so that we would have total of 3 years coverage - he said yes it would be OK. After checking the paperwork at home the next day I saw that he had started the Currys guarantee straight away, I rang and got it cancelled as it seems that they DON'T have a system to start after the Manufacture guarantee expires.
2. For a company selling technology they are behind the times in refunding customers, I now have to wait upto 28 days for a CHEQUE to be sent out (they say that it depends on the postal system LOL). As it is it has now been a week since I cancelled their repair contract and I have not received a refund.
3. There was a money off code when I was going to buy online which would have been £20 off when buying Microsoft 365 Personal in conjunction with specific hardware, unfortunately because their system was down I couldn't verify that it could be used with my laptop, so I went to the local Currys and hoped they could discount it there, NO. So I went online and chatted to a lovely lad who checked and verified that their system was down (I even had to give him the link to check) and I'd be advised when it was back online...nothing, so I checked Friday and system was back online, went back to the shop, but because I had activated the MS package they couldn't do anything... ring customer service.
After being bounced around by customer service for half an hour with no one taking ownership of the issues encountered (what a joke) I ended up with Retail who finally said that they had asked the accounts dept to deal with the issue of a refund/credit and gave me a reference # and told they would ring me back to get details, so far they haven't contacted me.
Customer service is a joke, sales staff are useless and the whole company belongs in the stone age (cheque indeed, I used my credit card they should have been able to credit the card for the Repair/Service contract £170 is not to be sniffed at).
As for some of the Customer service staff, if they want people on the phones helping people in the UK then they should use staff who's first language is English, I struggled trying to understand them and they constantly kept asking me to repeat my problem, try saying the same thing 5 times to diff people, it gets frustrating especially as she couldn't even type the postcode correctly and said my address didn't exist !!!
UPDATE : Customer service now dealt with money off issue and vouchers to be sent within 14 days.
But I was rather upset when a strange man was passed onto my personal mobile by Currys colleagues in error (I hope) and whilst quite upset at being bumped around their phone system was polite.
I asked your colleague dealing with the voucher issue..... later I had confirmation that the vouchers were being sent and HE acknowledged that there is an issue with Currys phone transfer system!!
How can my phone be on their transfer system database??? Very worrying as I expect personal data to be secure.
November 14, 2023
Unprompted review