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John Lewis Reviews

2.7 Rating 2,416 Reviews
41 %
of reviewers recommend John Lewis
2.7
Based on 2,416 reviews
Shipping & Delivery
Delivery Methods
Courier, Own Driver
Average Delivery Time
Over A Month
On-time Delivery
Greater than 40%
Accurate And Undamaged Orders
Greater than 67%
Customer Service
Communication Channels
Telephone, Email, Live Chat
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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John Lewis 1 star review on 18th October 2024
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John Lewis 1 star review on 18th October 2024
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Anonymous  // 01/01/2019
My niece ordered an Apple Macbook Pro online on Sat 29th with delivery to a local store on Monday. She received a confirmation email from John Lewis confirming the order and delivery for Mon evening. On Monday she had an email telling her that there was an issue and could she call, which she did and was then told she had to answer some security questions. When she questioned this she was told it was due to a technical issue with their system and she did not actually need to answer the questions. She was then told that because of this the order would be delayed to which she replied that this was ok as long as the price that her order was confirmed at would be honoured (Apple had put all their UK prices up this week). She next received an email telling her that because she failed to answer the security questions her order had been automatically cancelled. She has talked to a supposed senior sales manager but has not been able to get a decision to agree to honour the order at the price confirmed and has not achieved a call promised last Friday from this sales Manager. It appears that John Lewis is not interested in customer service, rather they are trying to charge the new price for an in stock item through poor sales practice.
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Posted 8 years ago
Dear John Lewis Customer Care Reference:84525216 On 10th July I placed the attached order with you for a wardrobe fitted with 4 shelves and two rails, plus two packs of three shelves for which I paid in advance. The wardrobe with 4 shelves and two rails was fitted, plus one more shelf. The remaining 5 shelves have still not been delivered. A specific time for delivery was agreed (8 weeks) that has not been met. Under the Consumer Rights Act goods must be delivered within the timeframe agreed with the retailer. As this delivery date has now been missed, you have failed to fulfil this statutory requirement and are therefore in breach of contract. In accordance with the Regulations I have already provided you with a further reasonable deadline by which the goods had to be delivered. I consider our contract at an end, as I am entitled to do under the Regulations, and will expect you to refund me the full purchase price of 5 shelves £122. Yours sincerely David
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Posted 8 years ago
Bought a phone which broke under warranty. Due to me living in channel islands, I couldn't go to any store, so I had to take care of everything online. After sending the phone to Southampton they gave me a 1 month period o which they would fix it. After 1 month I called again to which they said it would take up to a month, again. In the meantime the phone arrived, in a box with the letters BER written on it, which I later found out to be Beyond Economical Repair. I went ahead and still opened the package, and suprise surprise, the phone wouldn't even turn on. After calling support they said they would call me in a week. They didn't. I called again. They said they were going to get back to me within 48 hours. They still didn't. I called once again to which the person behind the phone actually tried to have my case fixed, and called a branch to call me back and arrange something. I get a missed phonecall but it goes on my voicemail. It states that I have to send the phone back so that they can (and this is the fun part) check the fault and if it is the same fault as when I sent it back the first time. I get sent a phone back still damaged and they have the nerve to say they are going to test it again. On the following week I get a phonecall to arrange the refund (only took 3 months!) but couldnt pick up due to my spare phone having its screen damaged. I call back on a friends phone and make sure to say that I can only talk with the phone and phone number that I'm currently using while talking to them. But my friends balance ran out before completing the call (now I admit that I have a bit of fault on this, beside the part where they put me on hold 7+ minutes and burn my friends balance. Since communication is a great part of the John Lewis moto, they go ah9ead and call me on the number that is on the phone that I just said that I couldn't use. Now I have to wait til I get a working phone to call them back and this is still ongoing.
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Posted 8 years ago
Atrocious customer service spent half an hour on hold as they were unable to find the orders on their system then got disconcerted and has to explain it all again and was again on hold whilst they struggled to find my orders hopeless and incompetent
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Posted 8 years ago
John Lewis has got the worst customer service you can think of. The staff are very rude and if you try to call them, the calls goes through call centre who has got no clue about the company policy
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Posted 8 years ago
Awful delivery service and customer service assistance. Completely unexpected from John Lewis. I ordered two separate orders with a total value of around £1,500 and specified delivery on a certain day, which involved me taking a day off work to receive the items. I was delivered a wardrobe door instead of the storage side table that I had ordered from one batch, and the second (DPD) batch was missing three of the six items in my order. Trying to arrange redelivery has been a nightmare, having to speak to at least half a dozen phone operatives and trying to explain the issue each time. I was promised various call backs which never materialised. I have now managed to organise re-delivery of the missing items for the following Thursday (almost a week later), but was not offered a convenient delivery time which has meant that I have had to take a further day off work in order to take delivery. DPD's excuse for failing to deliver three items was that "they didn't have a large enough vehicle" which was patently untrue considering that the same order contained a 2mx3m rug which was in fact delivered. John Lewis have failed to offer any explanation whatsoever for their delivery mistakes. Genuinely awful experience with them, very inconvenient and frustrating, and my customer service complaint has not been dealt with adequately (I have received an email reply basically saying "your items have been delivered now, so we hope you're happy).
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Posted 8 years ago
I bought two laptops, though they were cheaper in currys and Tesco because I like the 2 year cover and the price match promise. John Lewis failed to keep the price match promise and the 2 Lenova laptops, which were apparently quite old stock have pitifully poor batteries built in batteries. Complaints made several times but passed over and ignored.
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Posted 8 years ago
ordered a fridge freezer three weeks nothing got money back stay away from john lewis won't buy from john lewis again stars 000
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Posted 8 years ago
What has happened to John lewis !! 3 years ago I was praising John lewis for customer service and delivery service to waitrose stores , now f you pay by paypal you have to jump through hoops to get refund , customer service are not very helpful, in fact to get my refund on two items I had to contact head office for support . I did get my refund ( also apology and buch of flower ) I now try not to order from John Lewis if I can find else where , I don't know who deals with refunds by paypal at John Lewis - somebody needs to look at what they are doing !!
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Posted 8 years ago
Bought a Lenovo laptop online from John Lewis, purely because of the extended 2 year warranty they give. Had it for 13 months and the screen stopped working, so phoned their tech support who confirmed it was in warranty, and diagnosed a faulty connector from the screen to the motherboard. They come loose all the time, apparently, should be a quick fix. I connected the laptop to an external monitor and it worked perfectly, so its definitely a screen problem. After a week I got a call from tech support who said there were multiple problems, various parts needed, and as they believed there had been water damage my warranty was invalid. If I want them to fix it they want £220 plus VAT. I'm the only one who uses that laptop, and there's never been anything spilled on it. I told them I won't pay anything, and I'll be sending it in to a local repair shop in town for a second opinion. I'll lay odds there wont be any water damage and it'll be a quick and simple fix. What's the point of a two year warranty if they wont honour it? I'll never buy anything from John Lewis ever again.
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Posted 8 years ago
The delivery arrangements to the customers home are awful. I waited in from 2pm for a mattress which arrived at 9pm. When I checked with John Lewis they described this as a 'standard window'. Apparently they can give more specific times - at a cost.
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Posted 8 years ago
I am currently trying to resolve an issue with J L at the momemt, have been on the phone to them repeatedly, and have not revieved the promised call back within 24 hours as promised, so far 3 times. I will update with further details in due course, as this has yet to be resolved, but so far I am very disappointed with how their customer service has dealt with things. I have always considered Jl as a first choice store when considering purchases, not any more. I am strongly considering a complete boycott and returning my partnership card in pieces, I expected a lot more from them. Update to follow
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Posted 8 years ago
Firstly wardrobe delivered was damaged therefore requested another to be delivered. I was told this was only happen if I was to pack down the damaged one and tie it together which I was unable to do. I told them this was not possible and spent an hour on the phone trying to negotiate a solution. Due to this I decided that it was just easier to keep the damaged one so cancelled the replacement. Couple of days later check my bank account and John Lewis have taken the full amount of the wardrobe off me again leaving me with no money in my bank account. Informed by John Lewis that a mistake had been made and the money would be refunded in 3-5 days. Not a good enough answer for me as I had no money for 3 days. Appalling customer service especially when the customer has been so badly inconvenienced. Funny how they can take money off you so quickly but not able to give it back quickly. As I had spent so much time phoning them I requested to be called back as it was my phone bill only to be told that outbound calls could not be made!!!. I'm never ordering from John Lewis again - definitely lost it's 5 star customer service standard.
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Posted 8 years ago
Awful service and attitude from delivery men. - Delivery failed to arrive within promised 4-hour slot and I received no call to explain. - After I called John Lewis, the delivery man finally rang two hours late and was rude when I said it would take me a few minutes to get home. - When I arrived at the property, the two men were initially reticent to take the two wardrobes I'd ordered upstairs and complained that they were heavy. They then made it clear that they would not take the chest of drawers I had ordered upstairs, so I had no choice but to have it left in my living room and to take it upstairs myself piece by piece. I really hadn't expected this dreadful service from John Lewis - rude, late and lazy deliverymen and no apology for the inconvenience.
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Posted 8 years ago
I have to say the service at John Lewis in Milton Keynes few weeks ago was incredibly poor! The Staff couldn't be bothered to look for a smaller size coat for my daughter in their computer, sending me back & forward from the till to their little useless desk were they apparently couldn't help or even move from to do the searches on an other computer just in front of them!And the girl didn't understand why I was so annoyed! However, a lovely lady called MARYANN asked me if I was ok when I was moaning while leaving the shop in the escalator. Maryann took the time to find a computer, do the searches for the correct size coat, went in the stockroom & found me the coat I wanted! If it wasn't for her kind rescue I would have certainly left the £50 kettle I had in my hands and the £40 coat too because I had the wrong size! So I WISH TO ANY SHOPPER A MARYANN on their way out! THANK YOU SO MUCH AGAIN, John Lewis should employ more employees like you on the children floor PLEASE! Because between the scream of the children and the unhelpfulness of the staff I couldn't wait to escape the chaos and run very fast!!!!
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Posted 8 years ago
We bought a ZANUSSI Freezer in June 2016. It lasted 3 months before breaking down. Service Engineers don't work at weekends so we lost a full freezer of food. We wanted to return the product but John Lewis insisted that it be repaired, it will take several days to get the part and not sure when the repair will be completed. Customer Services were very unhelpful and appeared to be repeating a pre written script! John Lewis are just the same as any other company now.
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Posted 8 years ago
Great freezer for the price, but I phoned customer services before ordering this freezer to check the hinge was on the right as indicated in the pic.after reading the other review, the person I spoke to said she would phone Beko to confirm, she then phoned me back to confirm the hinge was definely on the right, when I got the freezer, yes you've guessed,it was on the left, someone at John Lewis needs to get their finger out, this is not good enough.
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Posted 8 years ago
Not only have thy managed to take 2 X the amount from my account and fobbed me off on resolving it, they managed a no show on delivery. Customer service is shocking, they point blank lie, I work in custome service so know all the typical lies. Shocked at the service from such a big business
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Posted 8 years ago
Customer Service Outsourced to CAPITA – A marriage made in Hell! Purchased 3 items of clothing from J L online on 25th June 2016. When they arrived, I could see that they were way over-sized, so without opening the plastic sleeves, (the 3 items were not packed in a box, but had 3 coat hangers which were folded and wrapped around each other and placed in a large plastic bag) I sent them back 3 days later - was able to collect them from a Waitrose shop in St. Albans and took them back to the same shop to be returned to the warehouse of which I was given a receipt. Now, here we go with this fiasco. When the returned goods were received by J L, they updated the return of only 2 items and I received a partial refund to my PayPal account for, you’ve guessed it, 2 items, leaving me £39.00 short for the 3rd item which was not updated as a return on their system - this they admitted! In fact, initially, I did have a lovely email from one of their Customer Services representatives who apologised and said that “the refund had not been set up properly and has now been sorted”, so I took it that my problems would end there, but this was not to be! Following that and numerous emails and calls to customer service, on each occasion was told, 'refund processed and should be in your PayPal account' and need to wait 3-5 days! On one particular occasion was told there had been an 'error and refund did not go through’, another occasion was told that 'refund was stuck in the system', but now processed and refunded to your PayPal account and I should again wait another 5 days for it to go through. I constantly checked my PayPal account, but to no avail, as no refund was forthcoming! Some of my emails were completely ignored and promises of getting back to me also broken! I have been incredibly stressed out and frustrated in trying to get this resolved and wasted a lot of my valuable time, but all they say is, “refund has been processed and it must now show in your account”. On one particular occasion, I asked them to check with their refund department for the date of refund, so I can pass this to PayPal, but was told that they are not allowed to divulge this kind of information. I replied to the representative, that without this information, I am not going to be able to approach PayPal; the representative then reluctantly agreed to check with the refunds department, so proceeded to put me on hold - 3 minutes later the representative came back with the information, "refunded between 22nd to 29th July" and that’s all he could tell me. Said "PayPal must have your money so check with them". Thank my lucky stars that my purchase was paid with PayPal. I felt that J L were withholding my refund for no reason, so opened a claim with PayPal. Contacted PayPal on 5th August 2016 and they gave J L 10 days to resolve the issue. J L declined to respond, so PayPal automatically ruled in my favour, reversed the transaction and recovered the £39.00 from J L and credited my account on 16th August 2016 - you can’t keep my money J L - it’s unlawful! Without the intervention of PayPal, I would never have seen my money again! Looking back at other reviews on Trust Pilot, it would appear that refunds have not been forthcoming and other experiences have been incredibly similar to my own. How much money has been retained from customer refunds and, how many customers have given up hope of ever seeing their money again? So, when you are sick to the core and have had enough of the spiralling frustration with 'JL/CAPITA Customer Services of Incompetence' and feel like you are giving way to the stark recesses of irrationality and futility, do not be afraid of taking your issue to the 'Small Claims Court' 'Ombudsman', 'Trading Standards', or even to your payment provider. Don’t let them keep your hard earned money – I was determined that they should not keep my £39.00 - Surely under 'THE CONSUMER RIGHTS ACT OF 2015’ AND THE CONSUMER CONTRACTS REGULATIONS OF 2013', justifiably, I am entitled to a refund! To assist other customers, this is an extract from 'The Consumer Contracts Regulations' concerning refunds and compliance to this Contract: “You are responsible for returning the item within 14 calendar days of cancelling and Refunds must be paid within 14 calendar days after returning the goods, or evidence that they were returned” I always sang the praises of JL to all and always shopped there because of their exclusivity in incredible customer service, but the customer service outsourcing to ‘Capita’ is a mistake that will have far reaching consequences and will prove costly to their reputation. The marriage of JL and Capita has produced a shambolic and 'not fit for purpose’ service and fails to instil any confidence to their customers of ever having any of their issues addressed and dealt with in the professional way they should be, and I will not be using JL online again (I have spent thousands of pounds over last 5 years). I work with several hundred people and will be spreading the word to ensure no-one has to go through this dreadful and painful experience! Please also take the time to read the other 'TRUST PILOT' Reviews - many frustrating stressful and unhappy experiences - REALLY INCREDIBLY SHOCKING and SHAMEFUL. Currently, I would recommend that you remove them completely from your merchant list - my experience is one I will never forget, and it is astonishing for such a trusted name on the high street 'going to the dogs'. I have received so much better service from much smaller companies and also 1 Giant and will do my shopping on-line with these – I have had refunds within 3 days and 5 days JL, but not from you – you fail to give any customer service and no refunds forthcoming! “The online retailing industry is changing and those that offer a ‘Positive Customer Experience’ will increase their market share and lead the way” A lesson to be learned JL - 'never outsource your hard earned reputation'
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Posted 8 years ago
I would have chosen 0 out of 5 if I could. The order arrived two weeks late, broken, reordered and late again. It was 7 weeks late and the customer service woman was so rude that she hanged up on her customer!
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Posted 8 years ago
John Lewis is rated 2.7 based on 2,416 reviews