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Homebase Reviews

1.9 Rating 946 Reviews
21 %
of reviewers recommend Homebase
1.9
Based on 946 reviews
Shipping & Delivery
Delivery Methods
Courier
Average Delivery Time
Over A Month
On-time Delivery
Greater than 13%
Accurate And Undamaged Orders
Greater than 58%
Customer Service
Communication Channels
Live Chat, Email, Telephone
Queries Resolved In
Over A Week
Customer Service
1.3 out of 5
Returns & Refunds
Refunds Process
Difficult
Returns Process
Could Be Better
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Anonymous  // 01/01/2019
Only part of my order was delivered. They refused to credit me for the part that did not arrive unless I reported it to the police as a crime - it was only a few solar jars and I am not going to waste police time over £20.00. I will not buy anything from them again and advise you not to either.
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Posted 1 year ago
Customer service orientation of store manager was simply ludicrous. We were trying to get our paid for Click & Collect paint order sorted - issue with product not being fully available despite have received sms & email confirmation - and manager insisting we took a dented/pre-opened tin we were not happy with to help fill the order. Long story short, and nearly 45+,minutes of waiting around, we are told we either accept the dented tin or he cancels order and refunds us. Wow... really? He then tells us that he has had a long day, he's tired and wants to go home, so agrees we can take smaller tins of paint to complete the overall order. Really good store leadership qualities on full display for staff and customers to witness! It gets even crazier. Homebase sends out an sms invite for customer experience feedback. Of course they need to hear about this because it is just so not a customer oriented experience delivery they have to sort this out; I work extensively in this field and know that this sort of experience will absolutely cost them customers and market share. SMG provides their feedback platform which is really out-dated, and not customer friendly to use, but I persist and get my feedback to Homebase with the option checked for someone to call me so I can explain the episode clearly. I believed Homebase should genuinely be interested. Within 30 minutes I get a phone call from Matt from Homebase! But it turns out the guy calling me is actually the manager we had the issue with at the store --- he's completing the resolution of his own performance issue. Wow!!!! Anyway, he proceeds to tell me he disagrees with what I say he said -- in fact he simply denies it outright but says he's sorry I felt it wasn't a good experience. Then tells me I raised the issue so he is following procedure and calling back, he has said sorry, and reiterates he disagrees with my assessment, and hopes the rest of my weekend is good. End of call. And that is how Homebase delivers customer service and deals with customer feedback. What a joke. Seriously. I wouldn't be surprised if they are non-existent within the next 3 years. Of course I really don't care as I will never be going Homebase Aylesford or any other Homebase stores again.
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Posted 1 year ago
Poor Customer Service -On 01 August, my husband and I purchased a Florence Gazebo from Homebase Cambridge. After a long store search to find a store rep, Gavin was very helpful. However, we had to go to customer service to pay for it, as it was the last gazebo. We were then told, that we could get the Gazebo to take with us, if we dismantled it ourselves! We declined that dangerous offer, just in case we hurt another shopper with the large metal parts! Next, we were informed that we had to arrange our own collection/delivery, with 'Shift' but had to wait until the store found someone to dismantle it! It is now, 06 August and we still have no idea when we will get the item which we paid for. What a death wish-inducing scenario!
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Posted 1 year ago
****AVOID Buying Homebase Kitchens**** Full New Kitchen / Wrong/Faulty Worktops 2 Occasions - Still not resolved after 7 weeks Shocking Company Ordered a complete new kitchen and the worktops were wrong or faulty on two occasions, the store wont even give me contact details for head office complaints. This is still ongoing with no resolution or contact. I would avoid ordering a kitchen or any products from Homebase as when things go wrong they seem to ignore you and bury their heads in the sand. ***AVOID HOMEBASE AT ALL COSTS - POOR CUSTOMER SERVICE*** Homebase if you could get your director/s to contact me that would be appreciated before I look to take legal action.
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Posted 1 year ago
Ordered some products which they cancelled, they are yet to refund me 2 weeks later. BUYER BEWARE!!!!
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Posted 1 year ago
Ordered parasol 2nd June and paid £6 delivery fir following day 3rd June rang customer help line mid afternoon and told out fir delivery but when I checked tracking stated still at depot and gas not been delivered- disappointing to say the least!
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Posted 1 year ago
Our kitchen was supplied and fitted by Homebase 6 years ago (10 year guarantee). Just before Easter a wall unit, with wine racks attached each side, simply fell off the wall and smashed on the floor with such force that the unit shattered. Had we been in the kitchen we would have been severely injured - our small grandchildren would probably have been killed. Despite lengthy debate since then Homebase’s continued response has been that the installation was only guaranteed for 3 years, so tough luck. We have argued that this is an exceptional occurrence and so should be treated differently. Every other major kitchen retailer we have spoken to has said this should never happen at any time and it is due to bad workmanship. Homebase said we should have checked at time of completion which of course we did, but we don’t have x-ray vision to see that a wall unit has been correctly bolted to the wall behind it! Our insurers will pay for a new floor as it has been extensively damaged but not for the shattered unit because it’s bad workmanship not an accident, but that holds no sway with Homebase. We have lost valuable and personal contents from inside the cupboard, we cannot find a replacement that matches the rest of the kitchen, and the floor units will all have to be taken out to remove the old flooring, as it was already laid over previous tiles so this cannot be done again. Appalling attitude from Homebase. We are now going to the ombudsman and the small claims court.
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Posted 1 year ago
Avoid at all costs if you order and pay with the expectation of it arriving on the stated day. It won't happen! Just cancelled my order due to non-delivery and awaiting refund. Feel sorry for the customer services staff in India ... who were polite and tried to be as helpful as possible in trying to sort out what is the carnage of the Homebase online operation. Going to order my item from Argos even though it costs £40 more....a small price to pay to be stress free, not have to make numerous phone calls and waste my precious time. At least I know it will arrive when they say.
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Posted 1 year ago
Awful experience with Homebase-the plan for our kitchen had missing units, a breakfast bar placed 25cm into the dining room, asymmetrical wall unit due to misuse of measurements and incorrect advice given at every stage. They shared our information with someone who was not our fitter and at every stage after raising our initial compaint about this shoddy experience they said it was our fault for not checking their plan even though they did not tell us to and for not getting our fitter to check even though this was not made clear to us! Terrible. I am so angry I cannot begin to describe.
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Posted 1 year ago
Ordered a £400 lawn mover online, delivery was received within a week, but the package was open and upside down on delivery with a damaged lawnmower. I called Customer Services, who arranged to collect and send out a replacement. The replacement arrives a few days later, but again the box was delivered upside down and open. I have refused to accept the 2nd delivery based on the fact that I don't know why again the box is open and upside down, and uncertain as to whether there may be missing parts or if the mower is damaged or faulty! This is an appalling service - why would you ship an open package upside down? Awful ! I think the Customer Services team is ok, but the service of sending out the delivery is awful and not one I would trust in future.
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Posted 1 year ago
Ordered a ladder from Homebase which took over a month to arrive (I'm a UK resident). I ended up dealing with one of their suppliers directly. Homebase just kept e mailing me with stock excuses/scripts with no mention of what they were actually doing to resolve the situation. The supplier was brillient and very pro active. I'll never order anything from Homebase again.
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Posted 1 year ago
Ordered garden furniture and picked a delivery date for two weeks time. The delivery date came and received nothing. We then received another date for a week later, again, nothing. We were then given another delivery date for 6 days later, again, the courier company cancelled coming to deliver it even though homebase said they had put it through as a priority parcel and assured us it would come. We ordered about 4 weeks ago now and just got a refund as we do not think it would ever be delivered. AWFUL EXPERIENCE and wasted 3 days of my life waiting in for something that was never going to come anyway. Do not buy from here.
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Posted 2 years ago
Ordered a tall bathroom cabinet from the Truro store. It arrived with the packaging in an awful state. Parts were damaged and other parts were missing. Reported to customer service who said they would arrange collection of the damaged unit and deliver another one. Another cabinet was duly delivered the same parts were missing along with the door hinges. Reported to customer services they said they would send out hinges by return and see if the missing draw parts could be sent seperatley they would call me and let me know later that day. No phone call received. The next day 2 hinges arrived which was fine except I needed 3!!!!!. and the original cabinet still here a week later. Fed up now called cutomer services to cancel the order and ask for a refund. Told I had to contact the store to do that and was duly was told a refund would be issued once the second cabinet had been collected which is now going to be on the 4th May 12 days from now.!!!!!!! This is one of the worst experience I have had with any company which I did not expect from Homebase. Buyers beware. abysmal company to deal with.
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Posted 2 years ago
Beyond poor from beginning to end!! DO NOT ORDER THROUGH THEIR WEBSITE. It will never arrive and the customer service is non existent.
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Posted 2 years ago
DO NOT BUY A BATHROOM FROM HOMEBASE. ABSOLUTE NIGHTMARE We had a bathroom design consultation with Homebase after which we ordered what we had selected based on the consultant's advice and our bathroom measurements. For the installation Homebase advised we use their sponsored platform 'Protect My Install' and recommended a company. Homebase were in an indecent haste to take our money and deliver the bathroom items which were delivered and stored in our garage within 5 days of the consultation. Unfortunately getting the installer in place using Homebase's platform was not so speedy with it taking 2 months to even receive the quote. By which time we had already fallen foul of the 30 day return on all the items delivered but did not know this at the time. The installation platform only allows you to get one quote at a time and the suppliers on it know they have no competition. Our quote was at the extreme high end of what the job should have cost but we accepted, rather than start again, even though we would have to wait 3 months for the job to start. Time rolls. On and 2 weeks before the job was due to start the installer tells us it will be another 3 months before he could start work. So we said no, left Homebase's platform and got a local installer to do the work at at a cost of around 50% less than the previous inflated quote. Once having started the job our installer finds that we don't have enough splash panels to cover the walls because Homebase didn't order the right quantity based on our correct measurements. Also one panel was found to be damaged when unpacked. So we were forced to switch to tiles as our installer would have started his next job and we would been without our bathroom for many more weeks had we waited for Homebase to deliver replacement panels. We are now left with nearly £1,000 of splash panels we have no use for and Homebase have washed their hands of the matter because we have had the panels for way longer than the 30 day returns policy. Nothing is their fault; it is all down to us. It is our fault we didn't spot that Homebase's consultant had got the quantities wrong. It is our fault we didn't remove the packing from every bulky item delivered to inspect for damage. It is our fault that the original installer the Homebase consultant recommended (he gave us his card!) was so useless and unreliable. And it is our fault Homebase delivered the items before we had an installer on board. We don't accept this but we do accept that we are at fault for not reading reviews on Homebase before ordering from them. Had we checked out reviewcentre.com and noted that out of Homebase's 541 reviews some 438 (81%) were just one star then we wouldn't have gone anywhere near them. Totally useless and incompetent so beware.
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Posted 2 years ago
Don't expect to get your delivery on the arranged day. Long story but expect delays
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Posted 2 years ago
Near buy a kitchen for homebase,I have purchased a kitchen from them when delivered we have a side panel missing from one of the unit been trying to get in touch with them,left massage and email no reply.
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Posted 2 years ago
Here is the communication with the customer services team. Delivery date 6th Feb. After waiting in for the 2nd day. Get told that it will be the 9th. IKEA delivered their items on time. Never again will I use Homebase. Chat to us at Homebase 14:06 Homebase Harry Homebase Harry says: Hi there, I'm Harry, your virtual assistant. Please pick one of the options below and I'll try to help says: Order Query Homebase Harry Homebase Harry says: Please select one of the below says: Talk to a team member Homebase Harry Homebase Harry says: We just need to take a few details from you Homebase Harry Name James Flatman Email jim_flatman@hotmail.com Postcode NR7 0DY Query When will I receive my order? Homebase Harry Homebase Harry says: Thank you, I will connect you to our next free team member. Sohel Sohel says: Hi James. Good Afternoon. Hope you are keeping well. Sohel says: How may I help you? says: I haven’t received any notification about my order being delivered Sohel Sohel says: I am sorry to hear that you have not received any notification for delivery. Let me quickly check the details for you. Give me a moment please. says: Ok Sohel Sohel says: As I can see you have placed an order (465510856) for 1 QTY of CLEVER CUBE 2X2 WHITE and 1 QTY of CLEVER CUBE 2X4 WHITE. Are you referring about the same order? says: Yes - I’m supposed to receive information from your courier but have received nothing Sohel Sohel says: I totally understand your concern and please accept my apologies. As I can see your order will be delivered by our carrier DX and the promise date for delivery is 9th February. Normally the tracking number gets generated a day before the delivery date and hence you have not received any update from DX. Sohel says: They will send you a 2 hour window for delivery on the delivery date. says: The delivery from yourselves was the 6th February- waited in all day yesterday, waited in so far today. This is not acceptable says: This is what is on my order says: Clever Cube 2x2 Storage Unit - White Clever Cube 2x2 Storage Unit - White Quantity 1 Price £55.00 Delivered on Monday 6th February Clever Cube 4x2 Storage Unit - White Clever Cube 4x2 Storage Unit - White Quantity 1 Price £85.00 Delivered on Monday 6th February Sohel Sohel says: I can totally relate to your situation James and please accept my apologies for the delay but it has already moved out from our warehouse and still in transit to DX depot. Once it reached the depot, your tracking number will be generated and DX will get in touch with you regarding the delivery window. says: But this isn’t acceptable says: You committed to delivery on the 6th. Named day Sohel Sohel says: I agree to you on this James. I will go ahead and share your feedback with our team in regards to this. says: I ordered items from IKEA on the same day as I ordered from yourselves- they arrived this morning as promised. This is unacceptable so wjhat are you going to do about it- I want results not feedback Sohel Sohel says: Please accept my apologies for this James. The parcel has already moved out from our depot and the promise date is for 9th February. You can be rest assured and we will make sure it will be delivered on that date. says: I want it today not the 9th. You promised me the 6th. So how are you going to fix this and when please Sohel Sohel says: I am afraid but the parcel is still in transit and it cannot be delivered today. It is still in transit James and we do not want to give you any fake promises as we understand that it was not delivered as per the expectations. says: You interface with your delivery agents and you can asked them to expedite. Why was I given the 6th as delivery date- you are noting getting my frustration Sohel Sohel says: I can sense your frustration James and if that would have been possible for us to arrange delivery today, we would have definately dont that for you but as the parcel is still in transit, there is no tracking number generated with DX that we can ask them to expedite the delivery. says: You have a tracking order for the delivery. Your agents wouldn’t have accepted this without it. I want this fixed and you haven’t told me why I was given the 6th as delivery date. This is costing me money. Sohel Sohel says: I can give you the order tracking number of Homebase which you can use with DX to track your parcel but you will be able to track it only once the consignment number is generated with DX. I totally understand that you have been promised delivery date as 6th February but due to some reasons it has been delayed. As I mentioned if this would have been possible for us to arrange the delivery by today or tomorrow, we would have definitely done that for you. I will go ahead and share your feedback with our team to make sure that this does not happen again. 14:34 Type a message
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Posted 2 years ago
We bought an artificial Christmas Tree and Wicker base surround to disguise the triangular base at the tree bottom. We didn’t like the look so tried to return the base but the shop refused to accept it without the receipt which my wife had lost. This is despite her phoning the store beforehand and getting approval from the assistant manager to return it. Absolutely horrible and embarrassing customer service will never buy anything from them again.
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Posted 2 years ago
We ordered approximately $25,000 of special made cabinets and other items in the May 22 timeframe. The cabinets arrived at our home in the early timeframe of July. The boxes sit in my living room until middle to late Aug timeframe. The cabinets are up as of last month. We are now being told the cabinet tops will not be ready until sometime in January. We have been without our kitchen for months and our Thanksgiving and Christmas are ruined! This really sucks and we should be awarded for what we are going through to this date! Last time we will use your company for major projects!
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Posted 2 years ago
Homebase is rated 1.9 based on 946 reviews