€84.70 refund still owed but no response
One month on from my return and I am still owed €84.70 for return shipping labels which I did not use. I got advice from the company via email before doing my return, as I wanted to use my own cheaper shipping method instead of using their return labels priced at £70 (€84.70) in total. They advised that if I did not use their labels I wouldn’t be charged for them, but I have been charged and now when emailing the company to resolve this, nobody is responding.
In full - I am an overseas customer and I noticed that the company was set up well for overseas orders with items listed in € and free delivery to the EU, but that’s where it ends as the company’s ‘subsidised’ return labels, which you are encouraged to use are £35 each, meaning my return in total would cost me £70 (€84.70) as I placed 2 orders. I understand that the company outlines in their T&Cs that returns are not free, however this does not necessary justify the cost of the returns that the customer is then responsible for, especially as I found that I could send both items back with the Dutch equivalent of Royal Mail (PostNL) - fully legit, tracked, insured up to €5500, signed for etc for just under half the price at £34.12. I emailed the company to ask them how to go about registering my returns in this case, as their returns portal automatically deducts the cost of their own return labels from your refund amount. They advised me that I register the returns on the portal as normal and I would only be charged for their labels if I actually went ahead and used them. I wrote back to confirm if I’d understood correctly and they wrote back to say that I had. I have now received my refund but the €84.70 for return labels, which I did not use, has still been deducted. I have since emailed twice to request the money back but no one is answering me, it feels like I’m being ignored. I will have to go to an ombudsman if the refund is not paid back in full as agreed.
