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Homebase Reviews

1.9 Rating 945 Reviews
21 %
of reviewers recommend Homebase
1.9
Based on 945 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
3 weeks for a bed delivery. At £8.95 I would expect it to be a bit sooner
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Posted 9 years ago
Absolute Incompetence from start to (still not) finish !!!! What can I say. 8 Weeks without a kitchen, 9 seperate deliveries (and every one wrong). The final delivery received today and suprise, suprise, one of the items missing. To say this has been a nightmare is an understatement. I apologised to the helpline girl as I said I felt sorry for how much she had to apologise.. Supposedly the Odina kitchen would be the best option. It would have been if Homebase could ever manage to co-ordinate, ship and manage it. So far I have received over £ 1,000 in compensation (which I wouldn't have got if I hadn't ask for it)... Would I recommend Homebase ? Only to someone I hated !! Don't do it to yourself !!!!
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Posted 9 years ago
I have just had my kitchen delivered and what a fantastic service. Homebase telephoned me a week before delivery to make sure it was still ok for that day. The night before they telephoned again to give a time. The morning of delivery i got a call from the driver to say will arrive within the hour. Lastly i received a text to say who the driver was and gave me the number plate of the lorry. There were two of them and they were extremely polite, the girls i have spoken with in the call centre have also been very polite. Sorry but i cannot fault them in any way i must of been lucky .
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Posted 9 years ago
Placed order and had confirmation that delivery would be within 14 days. Delivery then amended to 2x months and customer services very rude saying "not their problem"
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Posted 9 years ago
I not sure some of the staff in this store want a job! Averted eyes when seeking attention and can't be bothered to check stock! I found what I was looking for eventually, after being told by one sullen young lady that it was out of stock - Not it wasn't she just could not be bothered to look. Well, I only used this store as it was a matter of convenience, I will go elsewhere from now on.
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Posted 9 years ago
Absolutely appalling. Ordered stock, waited about a week and then recieved a call to say it was out of stock. Had another order already placed, was supposed to arrive yesterday but didn't. Have phoned them twice now and both times been told they would give me a call back. No one is well trained at the call centre, the people I've spoke to have been absolutely clueless.
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Posted 9 years ago
I purchased two front bath panels and one end panel from homebase. I was then practically harassed by the sheer number of calls, texts and emails to inform me of the delivery date- even including three on the day itself. Finally the items arrived. I inspected them and found that two of the panels were damaged with very noticeable chips and what made it worse was that one of the panels had a quality assurance sticker over a very noticeable chip! We contacted Homebase at 9:20am and were told that it was too late for next day delivery, however the replacement items would be with us on Tuesday. I arranged a second day off work for Tuesday on the Friday based on the information given. Unfortunately I received a phone call, late on Monday to say that delivery would be on Thursday. I asked why as I had been told Tuesday and arranged time off work accordingly and wouldn't now be able to re-arrange. I was told that it was because there were no delivery drivers in my area and that was why. I asked for a manager to call back- but they didn't, so again I contacted them and finally spoke to the customer service manager, who did nothing to help. He hid behind policies of '5 days to replace' meaning 5 working days as they will not deliver at the weekend. I explained that I has specifically taken time off work on Tuesday for the replacement items, however he did not understand that I simply couldn't just take additional time off on Thursday and insinuated that it was my problem if I couldn't get time off (no apologies for the poor products, being lied to by the person on Friday). I asked if I could find out the probable delivery time 9within a 4 hr block) to hopefully sort out work but was told that I'd only find that out at 7am on Thursday! How do Homebase expect working people to manage their deliveries? They are obviously much better employers than most, who allow their employees time off at the drop of a hat (or maybe just expect the rest of society to do so). The so called manager could not manage anything; hiding behind policies, which are quite clearly not shared with their employees promising things that are then changed days later. Even the manager stated that the company are dictated to by their courier service (choosing cheap budget couriers over customer service) I have never been so infuriated with a deliver service or (lack of) customer care as I have with Homebase- the managers state that they do it for financial gain and are clearly not interested in customer satisfaction at all. I certainly will not use Homebase again and warn others of doing so.
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Posted 9 years ago
This company needs to get on top of their online business and customer service!! I ordered habitat stools that were 'in stock' on their website and it was stated in the receipt and confirmation email that they would be delivered in 14 days. After 18 days I contacted them to find out when I would receive my order, only to be told it was out of stock and would be delivered in the next few weeks. Unethical to take consumers money and incorrectly advertise such products as available - how can they not manage online business in this day and age! After another phone call a week later I was told that the item was in stock and would be delivered soonest, in 8 days! Like the other people on this forum - no contact to inform me at any stage. Now I'm wasting my time trying to call Homebase and Habitat stores to find out if it will be quicker for me to collect (another waste of time. At no point was I offered anything but an apology - not even a refund on the delivery cost.
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Posted 9 years ago
Hygena luxury vinyl flooring - AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE. We purchased the vinyl flooring from Homebase, it seemed good quality with a 15 year guarantee so felt that it offered protection against poor manufacturing quality. We hired a professional fitter as this was to go in our kitchen and dining area. The fitter laid it exactly to the instructions on the box. Now that we've had some sunshine the floor by the back door has rippled so much so that it burst the click joints. Homebase came out to have a look and after constant chasing (four weeks) have said that it was not laid correctly and that if I didn't like the outcome I should seek independent advice and submit a report back to them. They then went on to say that they may or may not agree with our findings, leaving us nowhere to go. This is defintely a manufacturing fault as it appears the vinyl has expanded more than expected and also appears that the surface has come away from the backing. Moreover, Homebase customer service is so poor and not helpful. Buy at your peril.
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Posted 9 years ago
ordered new kitchen and bathroom 28th jan 2015, was told kitchen would start 14th April infact they started the bathroom first. Thank god they did, it took 5 baths to get it right, The first one they damaged the 2nd and 3rd arrived damaged 4th they sent the wrong bath 5th was fitted but had been put in too high so the panel didn't fit they ordered an MDF panel which I told them I did NOT want, BUT they fitted it anyway. It took them 3 months to complete this farce and many many more mistakes and cowboy jobs. I finally told them I could not have them do the kitchen my health has already suffered. They are now trying to get £909 from me which I know I do not owe them. They told the finance company the kitchen and bathroom were complete, and with that the finance company forwarded the loan, apparently my signature was on the completion note to say both were completed, I HAVE NOT signed ANY completion notes at all. Luckily I have all the receipts etc and have now taken professional advice. I could have bought the goods anyway but did not want Homebase to sit on my money for almost 4 months. Please let this be a warning to all potential buyers from Homebase, the majority of the work is substandard, and they tell LIES..................
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Posted 9 years ago
Customer service appalling. Cooker that should have been delivered on a specified date 14 days after ordering, didn't arrive. No contact to inform me. New date offered another 16 days. Approx 2 1/2 hours on the phone trying to resolve problem, mostly on hold. Return calls promised but not received. Deliberate or incompetent information regarding my consumer rights. Order now cancelled. I will never shop at Homebase again.
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Posted 9 years ago
I am not impressed. On Wednesday 5th August I ordered a toilet seat, and paid extra for it to be delivered the next day. Despite my paying extra, this was not delivered until Friday evening - I might as well have just paid for normal delivery. I shan't be using Homebase again.
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Posted 9 years ago
Half my order turned up initially with no issues but the other half has gone missing! Customer services say my order number doesn't exist and don't know why my plants are just stuck on 'delayed' via the courier. Courier say it has nothing to do with them as they haven't got order from Homebase yet. Lady on phone has promised to try and get plants reserved at my local Homebase as an alternative but I'm skeptical.
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Posted 9 years ago
I placed my order last Saturday (this is the following Thursday). The mower I ordered had a delivery of "within three days". I am a sensible person, in fact I run my own online business so I know perfectly well what is involved in delivering on time with good customers support. It is just a pity that Homebase do not seem to have this knowledge. Sp I did not really expect delivery Monday, or even Tuesday but Wednesday was the third working day after the order and so I thought it was reasonable to expect delivery by then, especially as a smaller item on the same order had arrived on the Tuesday. By Wednesday afternoon I was getting that uneasy feeling that something had gone wrong. I went back to the Homebase site but there was no order progress information. So I emailed them. Two hours later I emailed again as clearly my first email had disappeared into the ether. Then I got a standard reply saying they would respond within three days! So then I phone... got the usual automatic selection, with the almost inevitable response "all our operators are busy please hold or call back".... I held for ten minutes. I hung up and waited a while before trying again. Three calls and about 20 minutes holding time later I got to speak to a person. It took some fairly direct question to find out that the mower had not been despatch until that very day.... clearly Homebase do not understand the difference between delivery and despatch. I requested the tracking number and later Wednesday even received the notification from Yodel that the order would be delivered on Thursday 6th... four working days after the order. So here we are on the 6th and guess what? The Yodel van has broken down and the delivery delayed by a further 24 hours. Homebase used to have a local store where I would either buy online and collect or visit and shop there. They closed the local branch and so I thought I would try the full online shopping experience with them as I had always been happy with their products. I will never shop online from Homebase ever again. There customer service is non existant.
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Posted 9 years ago
Don't even bother wasting your time and petrol with the Waltham Cross branch, rude and unhelpful customer service .. Drive anywhere but there..
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Posted 9 years ago
Homebase is total rip off. Please please don't shop there. I renovated my kitchen and bathroom , I am absolutely angry with myself for my dumbest plan ever.Wish I could undo. ;(
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Posted 9 years ago
I have bought goods from CURRYS and JOHN LEWIS, the persons delivering took it the room, unpacked the items and took away the packaging but couple of days ago I made purchase of Freezer and Fridge Freezer from HOMEBASE, their delivery boys took it to the room and one of them dropped the freezer 6 nches away from the floor and when I complained, the person who had dropped it denied that he had dropped it, his colleague looked embarrassed but said nothing. They did not bother to unpack it and immediately left! I will not buy anything from HOMEBASE again.
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Posted 9 years ago
Tried calling Homebase, Truro, to check their stock on some Farrow and Ball paint. After I navigating their telephone options system I was cut off after 3 rings having spoken to nobody. This happened 5 times over the course of an hour. Simply pitiful Customer Service. No wonder they are closing stores.
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Posted 9 years ago
Very rude and unfriendly staff, the member of staff named Wendy at the norwich store should have a lesson in customer service, or even just a lesson on using manors would be a start, very disappointed at her foul mouth how she talks to customers especially as young children were about. She should not be aloud on the shop floor, and worse she was serving at the tills.
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Posted 9 years ago
Just like to say I received excellent customer service at the Berwick upon Tweed branch on Sunday morning by a shop assistant called Kirsty,I was only after a lampshade but she really went out of her way to track the one I wanted down,it wasn't even an expensive one so 10 out of 10 for your customer service
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Posted 9 years ago
Homebase is rated 1.9 based on 945 reviews