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Anonymous  // 01/01/2019
Ordered a break for a gift , Standard delivery was 4 - 5 days so I paid for next day delivery , it turned up 6 days later , a day after the party . Emailed twice and got zero response , rubbish
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Posted 5 years ago
Hi there, thank you for your review. I'm sorry to hear you were not happy with your experience with us, please contact our customer service department on 0345 640 8000 and we can investigate this for you.
Posted 5 years ago
STILL having trouble using website? Keeps on saying my card is invalid!!! Spoke last year to the team but was laughed at and did told obviously I didn’t have the money!! Suffice to say went elsewhere and used my card to buy gifts no problem, have been using other sites no problem , so thought is give buy a gift another go, guess what my card was invalid again!! This time I called up and bought the gift over the phone , a birthday present and it came but spelt completely incorrectly!!!!! It’s gonna look really good thanks team will go back to virgin experiences there wen site works!!!
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Posted 5 years ago
Hi there, thank you for your review. I'm sorry to hear you were not happy with your purchasing experience, please contact our customer service department on 0345 640 8000 and we can investigate this for you.
Posted 5 years ago
DO NOT USE TO BUY ACCOMMODATION. You will not be able to use the voucher in a nice(ish) hotel and certainly not on a weekend or during any time of year except maybe a Wednesday mid-winter. Then your voucher will expire and they will charge you £20 to try and use it on something else.
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Posted 5 years ago
Hi there, thank you for your feedback. I am very sorry to hear you did not enjoy your purchasing experience fully. I have passed your comments to our marketing team to ensure they are aware of your comments and future improvements can be made. Thanks again for taking the time to leave your feedback.
Posted 5 years ago
Avoid them. I combined two vouchers and put my own money in as well to book a deluxe night in a hotel, including dinner and breakfast - it total about £200. The hotel choice in Cornwall, where I wanted to go, was poor. In the end I chose a Bodmin hotel (not somewhere I wanted to stay, but the hotel looked reasonable). The hotel was not keen to accept the vouchers as it was peak season (September?!?) and when the did it was on the basis that I booked and paid for two other nights. The hotel are now querying with Buyagift how much they will be paid to cover the nights stay. Strikes me nobody wins out of the other than Buyagift. I did try phoning them for help - that was a waste of time!
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Posted 5 years ago
Hi there, thank you for your feedback. I am very sorry to hear you did not enjoy your experience with us fully. I have passed your comments to our marketing team to ensure they are aware of your comments. Any comments we receive are automatically logged on our system against the experience supplier. Thanks again for taking the time to leave your feedback.
Posted 5 years ago
Beware! They don't deserve your patronage. The organisation appear to be dysfunctional and definitely unreliable. For your safety, make sure you have confirmation of every dealings with this unreliable organisation in writing. I contacted the organisation a few weeks before the expiration of my combined experience vouchers; an employee of buyagift advised me that my vouchers are extended until December this year 2019. About two weeks ago, I discovered that only one of the combined vouchers was extended. Subsequently, I contacted the organisation and a manager informed me that the extension was made in error by an employee who no longer works at the organisation. Finally, she advised me to go online to extend the voucher by another £20. I have already paid £40 previously to extend the voucher on the top of the actual cost of the voucher. Don't waste your hard earned cash with this organisation. Stay off, there are better and reliable alternatives to buyagift.
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Posted 5 years ago
Hi Andrew, Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. I’m sorry to hear that you have been left feeling disappointed by your experience. At Buyagift we take our customer service very seriously, and we never like to hear of any negative feedback. Your comments have been passed on to our management team to review and ensure future improvements are made. If you would like to discuss your experience further, please do not hesitate to get back in touch!
Posted 5 years ago
Bought a voucher for a B&B stay. What a waste of time it cost £60 more than it would have done if I had booked with the B&B direct.
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Posted 5 years ago
Hi there, At Buyagift.com we pride ourselves in offering the best value for money and quality of service for our customers. We work as an agent for over 1,500 carefully selected activity providers across the UK. All prices are signed-off by our suppliers before the vouchers are released for sale, and although we are not a discount site, we do strive to reach the best deal possible for our customers. The experiences we sell are aimed as gifts for recipients or for personal use but our site is not aimed at providing experiences for a cheaper price. We are constantly checking prices to ensure that we always offer our customers amazing value. The rates we agree with our partners are fixed and do not fluctuate based on seasonality or popularity. What we offer is a 10 month flexible voucher allowing the recipient of the gift to book their experience within this time-frame. Our prices reflect the prices we are charged by our supplier and we must add our own costing's on top of this such as our marketing costs. Although there may be some rare occasions when an individual supplier is offering a lower rate on a specific date, all our vouchers have additional benefits, such as unlimited free of charge exchanges that would not be provided when booking directly through our supplier. I am very sorry that you feel the pricing of this experience is not quite right, so I have passed your feedback across to our marketing and buying teams who continuously review our customer feedback. I hope this helps!
Posted 5 years ago
I’m sure the actual day out will be amazing but the delivery is awful. Paid £7.50 for next day delivery and that was 17 days ago. No idea where it is 👍🏻 Great
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Posted 5 years ago
Hi There, Thank you for leaving your feedback. I am sorry to hear your order still hasn't arrived! So that we can look into this for you and confirm the delivery details, please call us on 020 8275 5220 and we will get this looked into for you. I hope this has helped and apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused.
Posted 5 years ago
Had a voucher tried to convert to indoor skydiving couldn’t make use of discounted offer Tried to book hotel, Novotel Blackfriars, really looking forward to it booked Globe theatre to tie in with date 29 August when I wanted to go, converted my voucher but date not available despite being a Thursday two months ahead, they had not got buy a gift availability at hotel despite hotel not being full !!! Totally frustrated!
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Posted 5 years ago
Hi Kim, Thank you for taking the time to leave your feedback. I'm sorry to hear you've had problems trying to book a date for your hotel stay. All the hotels that we work with do aim to accommodate as many Buyagift customer bookings as possible, but some hotels may be fully booked at certain times. The hotels do have a set number of room allocations for Buyagift vouchers and once this quota has been filled they may have to advise certain dates are fully booked. To minimise any disappointment this may cause, the hotels will always try to make extra rooms available where possible. In addition to this, Buyagift always aim to add information regarding limited availability to the product webpage and also to the My Voucher site. If you are unable to make a booking with any of the hotels of your choice on your preferred dates, you are always welcome to extend or exchange your voucher. Simply log into www.buyagift.com/myvoucher We apologise for any disappointment caused but hope the above information has been helpful.
Posted 5 years ago
I bought a meal for 2 deal from you for my sons birthday. I gave him the gift card and he went ahead and booked the restaurant in London, booked a hotel nearby, booked trains etc. He then got a message from the restaurant saying that they had cancelled his booking due to fraudulent behavior! At no point was I contacted by yourselves, the mess up was at your end as you had sent the wrong voucher out. Your customer service needs improvement. I shall use a different company from now on.
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Posted 5 years ago
Hi there, Thank you for leaving your review. I am sorry to hear you have had trouble with your voucher. Please contact us on 020 8275 5220 so that we can get this looked into for you. We look forward to hearing from you and assisting you further.
Posted 5 years ago
Item turned up never took them of the van as they were totally smashed the packaging for them item was diabolical no protection at all very disappointed
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Posted 5 years ago
Hi there, We are really sorry to hear your order arrived damaged. Please contact a friendly member of our team on 02082755220 and we can dispatch a replacement. We look forward to hearing from you!
Posted 5 years ago
The voucher we purchased was not valid in many of the locations that it was advertised for (only 8 out of 21 advertised locations accept the voucher). Nearly a week later they are still advertising the voucher for use in places which have stopped accepting them.
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Posted 5 years ago
Hi there, We are sorry to see you are disappointed with your voucher. Despite our best efforts, there are occasionally circumstances beyond our control that can lead to a voucher no longer being possible at specific locations given the length of time our vouchers are valid for. If none of the other locations are suitable, It's really easy to exchange your voucher! Just visit www.buyagift.com/myvoucher and once logged in click 'exchange my voucher' and you'll be able to browse all the experiences available to exchange to. You can search for a new experience by category or keyword/product code. I hope the above helps!
Posted 5 years ago
Online booking easy to use. Next day delivery not so good. 5 days after ordering, it still has not arrived. I wouldn’t use if you’re in a hurry!
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Posted 5 years ago
Hi there, We are sorry to hear your order did not arrive when expected. Usually the voucher is dispatched on time, however delayed with the courier. In these instances please get in touch as soon as possible , so we can dispatch a next day delivery replacement and refund the cost of delivery. I hope this helps and apologise for the inconvenience caused!
Posted 5 years ago
Gift was not delivered. Could not contact Customer Service for HELP. Things just don't seem above board. Jane Todaro
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Posted 5 years ago
Hi Jane, We are so sorry to hear your order has not yet arrived. Please contact a friendly member of our team on 02082755220 and we can send out a next day delivery replacement! We look forward to hearing from you!
Posted 5 years ago
I’ve still not received my voucher and i ordered it like 1/2 weeks ago?
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Posted 5 years ago
Hi there, You should have definitely received your voucher by now, we are really sorry to hear you haven't. Please contact a friendly member of our team on 02082755220 and we can assist you over the phone.
Posted 5 years ago
Hi there, You should have definitely received your voucher by now, we are really sorry to hear you haven't. Please contact a friendly member of our team on 02082755220 and we can assist you over the phone.
Posted 5 years ago
Not good value for money in comparison to making the booking direct. Two night stay at Stradley Park Hotel in a standard double on Buy a Gift is £220. Buy direct is £170 and this includes dinner for two on the Thursday night that we are staying. For the £220 that the voucher cost if I had gone direct I would have had a superior spa double and dinner for two. My children bought the voucher and it was a significant sum of money for them, I don’t like to see them being ripped off.
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Posted 5 years ago
Hi Gill, Thank you for taking the time to leave your feedback. At Buyagift.com we pride ourselves in offering the best value for money and quality of service for our customers. We work as an agent for over 1,500 carefully selected activity providers across the UK. All prices are signed-off by our suppliers before the vouchers are released for sale, and although we are not a discount site, we do strive to reach the best deal possible for our customers. The experiences we sell are aimed as gifts for recipients or for personal use but our site is not aimed at providing experiences for a cheaper price. We are constantly checking prices to ensure that we always offer our customers amazing value. The rates we agree with our partners are fixed and do not fluctuate based on seasonality or popularity. What we offer is a 10 month flexible voucher allowing the recipient of the gift to book their experience within this time-frame. Our prices reflect the prices we are charged by our supplier and we must add our own costing's on top of this such as our marketing costs. Although there may be some rare occasions when an individual supplier is offering a lower rate on a specific date, all our vouchers have additional benefits, such as unlimited free of charge exchanges that would not be provided when booking directly through our supplier. I am very sorry that you feel the pricing of this experience is not quite right, so I have passed your feedback across to our marketing and buying teams who continuously review our customer feedback.
Posted 5 years ago
The gifts are not good value for money and are a significant premium on the price that you would pay direct with the hotel. 2 night stay at Stradley Park Hotel in a standard double on Buy a Gift is £220. Book direct is £170 and includes dinner for two on the Thursday evening. One night in the Hackness Grange is £209 on Buy a Gift and £165 bought direct. £200 was a significant gift from my children and Buy a Gift are not giving a good deal just a big mark up for themselves. I don’t like to be ripped off and certainly don’t want my children to be who thought it was a good gift.
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Posted 5 years ago
I purchased the 2 night stay for £99. Yes, a bargain especially as I received an extra 20% off. Unfortunately when I visited the choices of hotels nearly all of them would not accept my voucher unless I paid a nightly supplement at the weekends and also, now, a nightly supplement from May-September. Not quite the bargain advertised! I have requested a refund of which has been issued, but not received as yet.
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Posted 5 years ago
Hi There, Thank you for taking the time to leave your feedback. I am sorry to hear your voucher needed to be refunded. We do aim to make it as clear as possible the supplement fees and any exclusion dates set by the supplier. If there are any issues with the suppliers we are more than happy to take a closer look into this. Please do let us know if you require any further assistance.
Posted 5 years ago
Paid for next day delivery which wasn’t cheap and got it 3 days later than what I was meant to.
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Posted 5 years ago
Hi Nicole, We are very sorry to hear your order did not arrive when expected. Please could you please contact us on 02082755220 and we can refund your delivery fee. We look forward to hearing from you!
Posted 5 years ago
Still waiting for gift to arrive. Order placed on 28th April & it is now 11th May not a speedy service. It was going to be a birthday surprise for a friend but the Birthday is tomorrow & without a voucher to give it is a little late after the event! I paid £3.50 for Gift Pack + £1.99 Delivery & still no gift. Not impressed. Still waiting to receive
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Posted 5 years ago
Hi there, We are sorry to hear your voucher has not yet arrived, please contact a friendly member of our team on 02082755220 and we can dispatch a next day replacement. We look forward to hearing from you!
Posted 5 years ago
I paid for a guaranteed Saturday delivery for my father’s birthday. It didn't arrive and in fact still hasn’t arrived. When I called to find out where the delivery was I was initially put on hold and then cut off. I then spoke to a girl who could barely disguise her dislike for me/her job/who knows! I live in Hong Kong and as an expat we are reliant on services like this to actually work. Needless to say I won’t be a returning customer.
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Posted 5 years ago
Hi there, We are so sorry to hear you have had such a disappointing experience with us. At Buyagift we take all customer service very seriously and never like to hear of negative feedback. Usually our vouchers are dispatched on time, however there can occasionally be a delay with the courier service. We have passed your comments on to the courier to ensure future improvements are made. Once again we are so sorry for the inconvenience caused and thank you for taking the time to leave a review.
Posted 5 years ago
Buyagift is rated 4.5 based on 11,725 reviews