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Buyagift 1 star review on 25th May 2024
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Buyagift 1 star review on 25th May 2024
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Buyagift 1 star review on 25th May 2024
Rick
Buyagift 1 star review on 25th May 2024
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Anonymous  // 01/01/2019
Absolute rip off - most of the deals are unavailable or you have to add money to feels like throwing good money after bad or you end up with some left over which isn’t enough to book anything. We booked an overnight stay which would have been much cheaper than the cost of the voucher had we gone direct
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Posted 2 weeks ago
My voucher didn't work and staff are unwilling to help. They are unable to pass complaints up to a manager, and give conflicting and untrue answers to queries. It's not worth the risk using this company even though reviews are sometimes favourable. If your voucher doesn't work however, you've lost your money. This company does not care whether or not you get your paid-for experience
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Posted 2 months ago
Please dont use this company they need to go bankrupt as soon as possible. I have voucher for £140, yet when I try and use it im charged over the odds. Its actually cheaper to go direct to a hotel website.
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Posted 3 months ago
I decided to buy an early Christmas Present for my partner and her best friend and Bought a Voucher for 2 people only to discover that the experience I had booked requires additional payments and is not covered completely by the Voucher, unless I have misunderstood the instructions and directions
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Posted 4 months ago
I paid £111.48 (according to my bank statement) for a triple supercar driving experience for my partner and she also received a birthday voucher for £80 from a friend. So when it came to booking her experiences, firstly I want to say how absolutely confusing and convoluted the whole website is, to the point where booking anything is almost impossible. Secondly, where are the customer service staff to help in these situations? They don't even have a phone number. She managed to book the car experience, where she received a confirmation email and she also booked a two night hotel stay at the Days Inn, which she had to pay an extra £24 towards. Now we find out that apparently at the time of booking we combined the two vouchers to pay for the hotel stay and that the car experience is no longer valid. I am completely bemused! Since when did I agree to combine the two vouchers? AND since when did the Days Inn cost £215?? This isn't The Ritz! Also looking on the hotel website, the dates that I want will cost £97, so where has the other £118 gone? This is modern day robbery here. And to make matters worse, customer service was quite possibly the worst help imaginable. I don't even think they really knew what they were talking about themselves as the whole situation is so confusing. I can safely say I will NEVER use this company ever again and will strongly advise everyone else to steer clear, unless you want to be defrauded, of course.
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Posted 4 months ago
Honestly don't buy these vouchers for anyone. They're so complicated to use. Complete waste of time and money.
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Posted 5 months ago
Buyagift is absolutely shambolic. It is a long process to obtain the gift. Enter email---sign-up---request gift--enter voucher code--enter email again--enter pin--enter again--fill in personnel details---select location--enter code--enter e-mail--select date--enter email--Print off--fill in personnel details--- wait for a reply--no replay--start over gain!!! No reply. I would strongly recommend to everybody. DO NOT USE BUYAGIFT!!
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Posted 5 months ago
Just to be clear .... this is a review of the buy a gift website and service ..... NOT a comment on any of the experience providers ! My partner bought me a voucher so I'd like to be nice but really its difficult find anything good to say. Lots of very negative reviews, although I think the website would be a lot slicker if it was just a scam. Navigating the site is awful - example ask for locations in the south west and you get hotels in places like Westmoreland. For a lot of experiences there is an additional premium on Fridays and Saturdays. Its not clear how much your voucher has been purchased for so how can you be sure you're getting a reasonable deal. Its not made clear that once you redeem your voucher (for which you get “ANOTHER VOUCHER”!!!) you have to contact the experience provider direct – then you may find all sorts of limitations. There’s a chat bot that can’t understand simple questions. I can’t imagine what phoning the helpline might be like! So just a rubbish site and (although its not quite a scam) once your kind friend has parted with their money the best outcome for this company is an unused voucher cos they already have the money. Next best outcome is that their partner companies can fill capacity at slow times and out of season. Getting a good outcome for the recipient won’t matter too much. (Until the negative reviews start to stack up!!) Best idea - use the site as an ideas generator ( if you're short on imagination) and buy direct so you still have the cash and the bargaining power that goes with it. (I phoned one of the experience providers and that’s exactly what they advised!!!) If you’re lumbered with one of these “gifts” I’d suggest: 1) Click the “Fully flexible” option before you start searching and set it to list prices in ascending order to find something you won’t have to pay a premium for. 2) Contact the experience provider FIRST to check whether they know about “buy a gift.com” vouchers and what restrictions they may place on their use. (This is a whole lot easier if there’s only one provider listed!! If you’re thinking of buying one of these ‘gift experiences’ for someone …. just don’t…. ( Watch out for the attractively packaged boxes displayed in supermarkets along with the standard gift cards for Halfords, Next et al ) . If your friend is a normal polite person they will of course thank you but there’ll be a haunted look about their eyes that’ll tell you their true feelings !!!!
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Posted 6 months ago
Dad brought me a flying lesson for my birthday during the pandemic. When lockdown was over I tried to redeem only to find that the location the lesson was supposed to be no longer did them. Paid extra to upgrade the voucher to helicopter flight at a closer location. Tried to redeem the voucher only for the website to state that "this voucher has already been booked". Which it hadn't. No way to phone buy a gift. None of the options in "live chat" applied. Dad now distraught at being scammed out of his money, and I never got my birthday gift.
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Posted 7 months ago
An absolute scam. You purchase a spa day and then are expected to pay £180 upward for any decent actual spa with the treatment that is advertised. It’s so embarrassing if you give this as a gift because the person will not be able to use unless they have their own money to add to it.
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Posted 7 months ago
SO MANY HIDDEN COSTS You find something, then find out that there's an extra £30 or £50 payable. It is such a headache. Only buy this for someone you hate!
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Posted 7 months ago
Scam website - when redeeming a voucher for a hotel stay, the hotel prices are 50% over what is the market rate on other online booking option, which means if, for example, you buy a voucher for £100 and you select a hotel option that requires a surcharge of £200 (£300 in total), is likely you can find the same hotel/same dates and room type, for £200! Basically a scam - do not buy this as a gift for your friend/family as it is a waste of money for both you and them!
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Posted 7 months ago
Seems almost impossible to get through to book anything site is not designed to make booking anything easy. No one gets back to you when you press on icon. Wish the kids hadn’t wasted their money
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Posted 8 months ago
Very poor helpline takes you round and round in circles, then they want to make a charge for you to get in contact with a real person. Impossible to book an experience and they now have my money.
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Posted 8 months ago
Wish I could give zero stars. I’ve used the site to buy gifts for others and it seems great, but as a recipient it is awful. I’m now so sorry to anyone I’ve ever given a voucher to and will never use them again. When you actually go to redeem a voucher (I received a 2 night hotel stay and dinner voucher) they advertise lovely hotels in the Cotswolds and Lake District, but it is impossible to book anything that isn’t a weeknight stay at a seedy looking run-down hostel in Blackpool, unless you pay a lot more to upgrade. I would be wary of paying any more to upgrade, as even then there is no guarantee that the hotel you like will accept the voucher. We tried to book with 3 different hotels and none of them accepted the voucher and said on the phone they had asked to be removed from Buyagift directory months ago. You can swap the vouchers for other experiences but the prices are so inflated and the experiences are so awkward to book that it makes the vouchers pretty much worthless. I’m pretty sure they make most of their money from making it so awkward that people forget to book it before it expires. Complete scam - AVOID.
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Posted 8 months ago
Bought my husband a driving experience. Limited dates available with a start time of 8.30 a.m. Arrived and told there was a £2 fee to park, we were told the fee was on the paperwork, it wasn't, so we went to park 20 yards up the road for free. The instructors knew nothing about the cars and were only interested in charging for extra laps, insurance at £30 for each car (total £120 which we declined) so they told us to leave an open card payment for £5K written on a piece of paper with the CVS number. They tried to sell your journey in the cars but the camera wasn't even pointing the right way. A disgusting waste of money, really would never do again.
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Posted 9 months ago
My experience mirrors many of the others listed here. Site won’t let me register and want more money to extend it. Not going to throw good money after bad that was mentioned to be a gift to me.
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Posted 9 months ago
This company is a scam! Impossible to redeem their gift vouchers. Please do not buy their vouchers, read all the reviews on here. Think I have just lost £180😡 Daylight robbery!!! PLEASE DO NOT WASTE YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY!
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Posted 10 months ago
I have two buyagift vouchers which I attempted to redeem today. One with £49.99 value, one with £43.99 value. Entered the two vouchers totalling £93.98, and browsed through options I can use the vouchers for. All options on the website required me to pay something extra, ranging from about £9 to £200+ extra. Came across a "Overnight stay with dinner for two at moor hall hotel and spa" which required me to pay £46.01 extra to book it. That's fine, I click on "Buy now" to try to book this and the site is forcing me to buy yet another voucher called "One night country escape with dinner for two" to pay the £46.01 extra, which would exchange the value of the previous two vouchers + the £46.01 extra into one combined new voucher totalling £139.99, before even showing me if the dates I want to book the hotel for are even available. Contacted customer service via their annoying robot live chat box (no contact number to call them on - I wonder why?), and useless Thomas pops up. I ask how do I check if the hotel is even available to book on the dates I require before paying £46.01 extra for another voucher. He states I have to call the hotel and ask if the dates I want are available, then buy this new voucher at additional cost and then use that voucher to book the hotel. Bit of a long winded way to do it, when any other site allows you to check dates availability first and then use the voucher to book and just pay any extra without having to buy another voucher first. I checked availability with the hotel, and then paid buyagift the extra £46.01 for this new "One night country escape with dinner for two" voucher as instructed by Thomas. I get sent a new voucher totalling £139.99, go back onto the buyagift site to redeem the voucher and first thing I see is I still need to pay extra for every available option on there? Hang on, I now have £139.99 on my voucher, where are all the options which should now be fully covered by this total which I saw previously when I had £93.98 voucher total? All those previous options prior to topping up the voucher are no longer showing, and completely different more expensive options are only showing. This is a clear SCAM, as the website will only show you options that are more expensive than your total voucher(s) value and not items that are within your voucher value, forcing you to pay extra to book anything. I manage to find the "Overnight stay with dinner for two at moor hall hotel and spa" again which was a pain in the backside as their search on the site is useless, only to find it's now telling me I need to pay another £20+ pound for another new voucher in order to book it! I get back onto useless Thomas stating the situation, only for him to talk out of his backside stating I'd bought the wrong voucher and would need to pay extra. Utter nonsense, when I told him what I'm trying to book and he instructed me to get that voucher in order to book it. I request a call from his manager, and magically he claims he can exchange this so called wrong voucher for the correct one and waiver any additional charges, whilst dodging answering my questions on how it could possibly be the wrong voucher when the website forced me to pay £46.01 extra to book the " Overnight stay with dinner for two at moor hall hotel and spa" venue and gave me that voucher? Useless Thomas then sends me a new voucher, which has the exact same voucher code and pin as the previous voucher. Still can't book the hotel. When I now select the hotel and try to book it, it's now trying to make me buy another voucher at £0. I'm going round in circles, why can't I just book the hotel? Go back to useless Thomas stating the problem who now just tries to ghost me, like as if ignoring the live chat would make the problem go away. By this point I've had enough and want my money back, I state I want my £46.01 back along with the value of my two original vouchers of £93.98 as buyagift have made it impossible for me to redeem them and by this point I've already wasted a good hour or so. I again state I want a call from a manager. No response for at least a good 20 mins, have to keep responding to the chat with ??? to try and get a reply out of the wet lettuce. Then he finally replies with a generic copy and paste reply sending me to a link to submit a complaint online who will aim to reply in 72 hours. No answer to my questions about why I still can't book this venue, no response to me wanting a refund. Not good enough. I then outline how utterly useless he is and has been, pointing out his total incompetence, and state I will be posting a screenshot of the whole chat history on every review site possible and will be calling him out in them. The clown then just closes the chat. I will be doing a section 75 chargeback through my credit card to get my £46.01 back. The two vouchers totalling £93.98 will go in the bin, money lost to these SCAMMERS. Horrendous service.
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Posted 10 months ago
I have two Buy a Gift vouchers, and have been trying to redeem them for 18 months. Now they say they have expired and want anther £20, do not use this company.
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Posted 10 months ago
Buyagift is rated 4.5 based on 11,721 reviews