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Olga Timofeyeva

United Kingdom

Reviews

Review of REVOLVE


Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Poor and careless packaging

I purchased from Revolve for the first time. My order total for £330 for 3 items, so an average of £100+ per item. The clothes arrived stuffed into a DHL box that was clearly too small to fit the order. I wish I could attached a photo of what I received. Mass market brands whose items are worth 1/5 of this price pack and ship with more respect and diligence to their buyers. How is one supposed to enjoy or even try on a purchase when it's received in such state? I will be returning the entire order and needless to say I also won't be your customer in future.

June 16, 2025
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Review of Desmond & Dempsey


Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I’m on my third pj set

I’m on my third pj set. Amazing product, excellent presentation, beautiful packaging. 10/10!

November 5, 2024

Reply from Desmond & Dempsey

Dear Olga,

Thanks so much for taking out the time and writing us a review.

We are delighted to hear that you love your D&D's. We always try to make sure we give our lovely customers an amazing experience so they can enjoy their downtime and un-wind in the most relaxing way possible!

Hope you have some lovely sleeps in your D&D's!

Take Care,

Review of Revolut


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Account suspended for months, Revolut continues to charge service fees

UPD: Revolut - to your point, no one is going to send yet another email to your "help@..." inbox because it's a waste of time. While all banks are regulated, only you take months to investigate a case without any communication back. There's a reason why a vast majority of complaints that your regulator, Bank of Lithuania, receives are related to Revolut. This review intends to show how terrible you are at managing customer queries, in a market where your competitors are currently advertising themselves as fintechs with human cs support. Trying to get to anyone who can give a coherent update on a case with you was akin to smashing one's head against a wall. Instead, we sent a formal account termination request as we no longer want you to keep and manage our money.

To anyone reading - consider alternatives to Revolut, thank god there's plenty on the market today.

My mother has a Revolut account registered in Slovenia where she is a permanent resident. She had her card reissues and mistakenly it has been done twice - therefore she received two cards in the post. Having reported this to customer services she immediately had her account suspended, and obviously all the money that was on it. It has now been suspended "for security checks" for over two (!) months. Response from the so called customer services are akin to something chat GPT would write, and is not only useless but by now if became insulting. Believe it or not but Revolut also continues to charge her a monthly account fee for a product the can't ever use anymore. Both the app and the web version of the account page crash and log out every 5 minutes, which makes the whole experience look like it's some sort of sham website. I honestly can't think of any other app or website that would crash at such frequency - it is absolutely unusable.

With our patience getting paper thin, I proceeded to ask your chatbot "customer services" agents what is the formal escalation and grievance procedure in Revolut, to which I had no reply. If I continue to have no reply I am taking this case to a regulator and a court. Maybe the fact you got your banking license was a mistake.

August 28, 2023
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Reply from Revolut

Hi there!

Thank you for taking time to leave us a review, and I'm sorry to hear about, both, you and your mother's experience that resulted in it.

As a regulated company, we have procedures which we can’t avoid. We uphold these to maintain the highest regulatory standards and protect the security of our customers' accounts.

Due to the strict data protection rules that we must follow, we can only discuss the account with its owner - so your mother, in this case. Kindly ask her to contact us directly by sending an email to help@revolut.com with a brief explanation of the issue, and the following reference in the email's subject line: TP516284. One of my colleagues will be able to take a closer look at her case there.

Please note that, at any time, if you would like to escalate this claim formally (which will be handled by our Complaint department separately), you can do it by following the steps provided here: https://help.revolut.com/help/more/legal-topics/how-do-i-complain/.

Regards,
Siv from Revolut

Review of Handbag Clinic


Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Restoration takes forever, poor communication

I sent two Celine bags for repairs, one required new edging around top handle (£80, took ~2 months), the second bag was a complete restoration (£300, took ~4 months).

The services are not cheap and the timelines provided were not respected on both occasions - I had to chase both orders and it felt like had I not chased, no one would have bothered to return my bags. Delivery fee is charged to the client as part of the services and is something Handbag Clinic bears responsibility for up until the goods are received. UPS claimed that the business address (office building with a concierge) to which they were meant to deliver to was closed at 3pm on a Wednesday... I had to call and sort out the delivery which is not ideal.

Restoration quality is okay, not 5/5 and definitely not exceptional. Little details were missed out (e.g. stitches on leather zippers were not fixed and there are loose ripped up threads hanging), restored leather has a feel of gouache paint applied and I suspect it will rub off in no time. But let's see.

Overall I am not satisfied with the process and not entirely satisfied with the quality of the restoration. I was considering sending more expensive Chanel bags for restoration, but probably won't risk it given the quality of work I have so far seen.

August 9, 2023
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Reply from Handbag Clinic

Dear Olga,
Thank you for taking the time to leave your feedback. We are sorry to hear that you felt your customer experience could have been improved and the overall result did fully meet expectation.

On investigating this further, we can see that you did experience a slight extension on your estimated lead times. On your initial order, this was quoted at a estimated 6-8 week lead time and your second order 10-12 weeks due to this being a full leather colour restoration. Our Updates Team did contact all clients to inform them that the Clinic had experienced an influx in the demand for our services and in addition to this we were experiencing changes within our staff base which would impact select orders.

We sincerely apologise this did not come through to you and that you felt gaining further information regarding your orders challenging. We do always aim to be proactive with our communications, so this is important feedback. Since your items were booked in, we have launched a new repairs system which enables us to communicate more frequently throughout the repairs process to enhance that customer journey.

Regarding the outcome of the restoration to your second item, we do always ask any client if they feel this has not met expectation, to contact our Aftersales Team within 72 hours of receiving their item and do include a card in all parcels to help clients in doing this. This is because we are dedicated to customer satisfaction and would always want the opportunity to go through the agreed works and remedy anything a client feels is not quite right.

We can assure you the team are the best in their field, and the products used are curated in house by leather experts. We also offer a full 12 month warranty on the workmanship we carry out as we are confident in the results we achieve. The service selected was colour restoration, where the team do address damage to the leather itself and the faded colour therefore stitching would not be directly addressed under this. However, had this been raised with our team on receipt they would of course made any small adjustments on request. If you would still like someone to look at the loose stitch and threads, please do let our Customer Care Team know and they will be happy to arrange this.

We are sorry to hear that your delivery was not successful on first attempt. Unfortunately, once an item is in the care of our courier, we are limited in what we can do to prevent any internal operational issues. The Handbag Clinic however will always do what they can to do all the calls to correct any delivery issues and had they been notified of this, would have done to correct this for you.

We hope this helps and thank you again for your feedback. We do hope you would reconsider using our services in the future.

Kind regards
The Handbag Clinic Customer Support

Review of TNT UK


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Driver took a picture of his thumb to claim undelivered

The truth is - for as long as TNT has their governmental contracts they just wouldn't care about these 1 star reviews. In fact, it's very likely that they will only keep getting worse until they hit the absolute rock bottom and some court case takes them out. You are handling documents, not amazon boxes. Not only did your driver never even try to deliver my BRP, they took a picture of their thumb covering the camera to log as a 'proof' of apparently me not being home (spoiler - I was home, waiting for my documents). Is this rock bottom or not yet?

June 14, 2023
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Review of Farfetch


Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Very complex process for aftercare

Purchased a pair of Marsell boots which were around €1,000. After wearing them for a couple of months a rear seam on one of the boots came apart. It was likely a manufacturing defect as I've never had that happening before, even after decades of wear. I contacted Marsell being unhappy with the price/quality ratio. They said that they are willing to repair the boots free of charge, but Farfetch has to handle the logistics as they sold me the product. I had my boots repaired so it's a happy ending, but I must say the process was unnecessarily complex. At the beginning I wasn't even sure whether anything will happen at all and I was prepared to ship the boots at my own expense because Farfetch had to connect so many dots before acting (they are the marketplace, there's also a vendor boutique that sold the product and than there's a manufacturer who made the product...). In total it took 3 months to get the boots fixed!

May 31, 2023
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Reply from Farfetch

Hi Olga,

Thank you so much for taking the time to share your amazing feedback. It means a lot to us that you had a positive experience and we hope you continue to choose FARFETCH as your luxury fashion destination.

We appreciate you taking the time to share your feedback and we'll be using your comments to improve our service.

If there is anything else we can help you with, please send us an email with the subject “Trustpilot Review: Order ____” to customerservice@farfetch.com. We'll be glad to help you!

FARFETCH

Review of NICHE-BEAUTY.COM


Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Very positive experience despite negative reviews

I was a bit concerned to order from them after reading the reviews, but decided to give it a go anyway. They stock all the brands I wanted, and there was a good discount. I ordered £200 worth and shipping was to the UK. Got my parcel on time, no issues at all - products looks good, nothing is damaged etc. No customs troubles either. Very happy so far and will likely order again.

May 11, 2023
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Reply from NICHE-BEAUTY.COM

Dear Customer,

thank you very much for your positive review!
We are very pleased that you received your goods so quickly and that you are satisfied with the products.
We are looking forward to your next visit to Niche-Beauty!

Review of Feel Good Contacts


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

No lenses, no refund - taking them to court. AVOID

Placed an order on Monday with paid delivery expected by Friday same week. No shipment confirmation for days, phoned up customer services on Thursday and got through to what seemed to be a contact center in India... as you can imagine I got nothing out of that conversation. Lying about lead times hasn't helped a single business to date guys, won't order from you ever and won't recommend. To those reading - please save yourself the stress, pay £10 more and order from one of the trusted UK suppliers to get your lenses the next day.

UPDATE: today is April 5th, it has been 13 working days since I placed my order and there's no sight of receiving it. Customer service is refusing to process a full refund, even when quoted consumer right act. If you keep refusing I will take you to court - I have done so before and won agains dodgy businesses like yours, and I will do so again if needed.

March 20, 2023
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Reply from Feel Good Contacts

Hello Olga

I appreciate your review and apologise for not being able to get your lenses to you right away in this particular instance.

I see that the expected shipment date of March 24, which indicated that the items were out of stock, was supplied to you when you placed your order. I'm disappointed to find out that the manufacturer has extended the back order on your lenses because of problems with the global supply.

We'll provide you with another update in the hopes that we can earn back your trust in our service.

Best regards
FGC

Review of La Gent


Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Good experience, shipping wrap could be better

I purchased from La agent several times and had smooth experience all round. My most recent parcel came with slight damage to the outer packaging (perfume box), which is Royal Mail’s fault but worth mentioning anyway. It might be worth rethinking how you pack the orders (I know the aspect of using as little wrap/packaging as possible to reduce waste) so that they arrive undamaged.

December 15, 2022

Review of ihateironing


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Got it wrong three times in two days

Had a very short first (and last) engagement with this business. I booked a same day collection for early afternoon and by the evening of that day it became obvious that no one's going to come. Interestingly I did get half a dozen of random emails from them thanking me for various things, automatically opening an account for me, etc - all kinds of services but not the collection itself. In the evening I went ahead and changed the collection slot of the existing 'order' for next day. Apparently the system didn't change an existing order but created a new one, so all my notes as to what to do with my items were lost. Later that day I receive an invoice in which a suit jacket is called a blouse and two cotton office shirts are claimed to be blouses and require a dry clean at £6 each... Well guys - you've managed to get it wrong three times in two days, I'm impressed. I have requested to receive my items back (and don't forget to give them back to me in the same bag) and I will delete my account afterwards. What I've experienced is not a service, but a headache

August 2, 2022
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Reply from ihateironing

Dear Olga,

We are sorry to hear you have not had a good experience with our service. This is not in line with the high standards we are known for and strive hard to achieve.

We have been in touch with you personally over the phone to talk through your issues, and please rest assured that we will continue to work hard to make the necessary improvements to our service.

Best regards,
IHI Customer Care

Review of MATCHES


Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great service, smooth delivery

Happy with my purchase and the service. Wishlist back in stock updates a super helpful. Overall consistently good experience with Matches. Would be great is you fix wishlist browsing in the app so that it doesn’t send you back to the main page each time you hit the ‘back’ button.

July 28, 2022

Review of DPD UK

Review of NET-A-PORTER


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Net-A-Porter has been bad at timing the…

Net-A-Porter has been bad at timing the shipments even during the best of times (a year ago I waited for two weeks for my purchase to be shipped), but covid made this situation utterly ridiculous. I could accept the wait, fine, but the passive-aggressive customer service team on the phone is something truly shocking. "Oh you say you don't want to be our customer anymore? Yeah, whatever. No big deal." I was waiting for them to get back to my email complaint and all I got was a cold apology from CS lead. Guess what? Maybe you didn't have a lot of competitors back in the early 2000s, but now you do. And I'm not shopping with Net-A-Porter again.

July 16, 2020
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Reply from NET-A-PORTER

Hi Olga,

Thank you for your review. We're sorry to hear about your latest shopping experience with us.

We take complaints such as yours very seriously and will be looking into this further. Please contact our Customer Care team with any future inquiries, we hope to see you again soon.

Best regards,
The NET-A-PORTER team

Review of DHL Express UK


Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Professional and polite customer service

This is probably the first time I am leaving a review like this, but in my mind DHL deserves it. They screwed up my shipment, but have managed to address the problem in a polite and professional manner. They were in touch with me regularly over the phone and email, and they made sure that everything possible is being done to keep me informed and get the parcel delivered to me. I was even offered a reimbursement for phone charges and travel costs to the warehouse. This wasn't the smoothest experience, so I think it's fair to give 4 stars, but DHL definitely did well.

July 10, 2020
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