1/5 Alan M. 3 years ago on Google
4
weeks
of
wasted
time
&
nerves!
On
23rd
February
I
placed
an
online
order
via
Lancashire
Lighting's
(LL)
website
for
a
Table
Lamp
-
I
had
beforehand
asked
via
their
website
chat
function
if
the
Lamp
in
question
was
in
stock
and
was
told
that
one
Lamp
remained
in
stock.
On
their
"Delivery
And
Carriage
Charges"
page
they
claim
to
ship
to
Ireland.
That
page
claimed
(and
still
does!)
that
LL
aim
for
next
day
delivery
and
that
an
email
would
be
sent
when
they
dispatch
the
item
with
a
tracking
number.
Four
days
later
on
26th
February
I
received
an
email
from
Trust
Pilot
asking
me
to
rate
LL.
I
then
sent
an
email
to
LL
asking
if
the
item
had
been
dispatched
yet.
On
27th
February
I
received
a
reply
email
from
LL
stating
that
"...
we
are
unable
to
ship
to
you
as
our
couriers
are
currently
not
delivering
to
Ireland"!
I
was
asked
if
I
have
an
eBay
account.
On
1st
March,
via
a
combination
of
website
chat,
email
and
phone
call,
LL
clarified
that
I
should
place
a
dummy
order
via
eBay,
which
I
did
and
which
would
generate
an
order
number
which
would
allow
them
to
send
the
Lamp
via
eBay's
Global
Shipping
Programme.
After
delivery
of
the
Lamp
I
would
be
refunded
for
the
eBay
dummy
order.
For
the
next
8
days
I
was
bombarded
by
emails
from
eBay
telling
me
the
delivery
status
-
they
did
everything
but
that,
but
that's
another
story!
Finally
on
9th
March
the
Lamp
arrived
-
badly
damaged,
wouldn't
work,
therefore
unusable!
I
informed
LL
about
the
damage
via
email
with
photos
on
the
same
day
and
asked
for
a
refund
for
my
online
order
with
LL
and
the
dummy
eBay
order!
To
shorten
this
review,
after
numerous
email
exchanges
with
LL
I
finally
got
their
refund
on
16th
March.
After
further
email
ping
pong
for
several
days,
on
23rd
March
LL
finally
made
me
aware
that
I
had
to
initiate
the
eBay
refund,
which
I
did
on
the
same
day.
Finally
on
24th
March
the
refund
via
eBay
was
credited
to
my
Bank
account
to
bring
this
4
week
long
nightmare
transaction
to
an
end!
Nothing
went
smoothly
from
LL's
side
-
I
had
to
push
every
tiny
step
costing
me
time
and
nerves.
As
I
indicated
earlier,
LL's
website
page
for
"Delivery
And
Carriage
Charges"
is
still
unchanged
-
beware
if
you
live
in
Ireland
and
want
to
place
an
online
order
directly
with
them.
Also
the
Table
Lamp
of
which
they
only
had
one
left
on
23rd
February,
appears
to
be
still
available
on
their
website
today
with
the
remarks
"Business
as
usual
-
We
aim
to
dispatch
this
product
same
day".
In
summary
-
never
again
with
this
outfit!
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