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John Lewis Reviews

2.7 Rating 2,421 Reviews
41 %
of reviewers recommend John Lewis
2.7
Based on 2,421 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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Anonymous  // 01/01/2019
I have ordered a sofa from John Lewis for “guaranteed” Christmas delivery. They lied and misled me to take my money and make the sale. I am told it will not now arrive before Christmas as promised. Now we have nothing to sit on over Christmas, this has to be the worst service ever and disgrace to a British institution that they do a promotional campaign that they can’t not uphold. Greed to get my sale and let me and my family down. I will seek legal action but it will not solve my Christmas upset. No wonder they are in such a financial state. Knowingly oversold !
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Posted 6 years ago
Ordered click and collect items to be delivered to a nearby pick up point. Received no email from Collect+ to give delivery code or collection code. Shop owner couldn't release item without code. Emailed customer services and would be told we would receive reply within 24 hours, 24 hours later received an email in barely readable English to say they had forwarded message to another department and would get reply after 48 hours! Well 72 hours passes and no reply so we took to tweeting, they told us they would look into it but again no reply. Rang customer services they said they would ring courier service and reply, gave us £5 goodwill gesture off the bill. Still no reply Awful, John Lewis there are people who work for a lot less money than you who do a lot better job. Never again!
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Posted 6 years ago
I love John Lewis but was sad to see that they were using the awful DPD courier service to make deliveries.Have never had a good experience with that company and needless to say they have not delivered my packages and said that they have.Im out £35 pounds and despite a very nice lady on the John Lewis helpline it looks like they aren’t going to help.DPD consistently loses packages or delivers them to the wrong address or just doesn’t turn up.They are a disgraceful company and I won’t be using John Lewis deliveries again while they still use DPD
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Posted 6 years ago
Excellent service. All products arrived exactly when promised. I have always found the delivery service to be very reliable. Thank you.
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Posted 6 years ago
bought dishwasher from John Lewis. 2 faults in 2 months refusing to take back 3 hours on hold. Customer care shocking, still without working dishwasher, been dragging on for over a week..... absolutely disgusted
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Posted 6 years ago
I have to complain about your customer service. Bought a Bosch washing machine in November it has never worked properly I have video evidence and despite 4 engineers visiting still no replacement. Appalling service.
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Posted 6 years ago
most frustrating company to deal with. Everything is the customers fault. Damands payment aggressively, fails to take money through internal gibberish. Blames customer, repeat till customer is sure to never return. #everythingisjargon #fail
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Posted 6 years ago
I bought a "design project " swivel chair in May, not cheap at £900. Delivered at the end of June but missing a couple of bolts so waited for spares sent in July. Put the chair together and must say it looked great and was very comfy. A couple of months later the material on the back and seat started to get very loose and creased as though the stuffing had gone out of it and it looked very messy. called customer services and they asked me to send pictures so they could raise the issue with the manufacturer. I sent pictures which clearly shows the problem. A couple of weeks later they called me and said that the manufacturer says that there is nothing wrong with the chair, but that it would need to be dressed after sitting in it, plumping up! I explained that the chair has a straight back with a sleek design and there is no cushion to "plump up". She said that she would send a technician to inspect the chair. 3 weeks later technician arrived, turned the chair upside down, took it apart and repositioned the material so it was smooth again. He explained that there was some velcro inside that should keep the material from moving but that this would very likely happen again unless an adjustment was made. He said that he would report back to JL. A week later customer service person called to say that the technician reported back that there is no manufacturing fault with the chair, that it's the nature of the fabric, that it will become loose as in all sofas and she repeated the thing about "dressing " the chair. When I said that in order to get the chair to look like it was when I bought it, he had to turn it over and pull the material tight, she said that he was doing this to see if there was a fault. I wish I'd recorded my conversation with the technician as what customer service told me he reported back was completely different from what he said to me. They said as there's no fault with the chair then the matters closed, but I could pay for an independent technician's report and they'd look at it again. Totally beaten down by their lack of reason and therefore I won't be buying from JL again
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Posted 6 years ago
Great store with lovely products and ace staff but they must get with the program and stop all the ghastly plastic. Not a plain roll of Christmas paper to be found and loads of ghastly , soon to be land fill , glitter and tinsel. THINK before you order more of this tat PLEASE
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Posted 6 years ago
I was sad to have had a bad experience today at lunchtime in the Norwich store. Over time we have loyally spent many thousands of pounds in Cambridge branch, Norwich and others but will think twice now. The reason being the 'gentleman' who totally ignored me ( I am a placid, gentle and learned man) when trying clothes on. It cannot surely be common practice to not respond to someone who has tried to speak to you, but was left feeling as though I didn't exist. Three times I engaged this hirsute and black bearded person; the time was around 1 pm.
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Posted 6 years ago
I generally like their products and consider them good quality. Cannot say the same for their online service. Completely unreliable, especially since they decided to use DPD for the deliveries. My Christmas shopping never arrived on the nominated day of delivery and on the system it appears that I signed for receiving the goods- this is fraud! Have made several calls but nobody seems able to know or do anything about it. I cannot get a refund either until DPD investigate what happened to it - this can take several days! John Lewis I am not shopping from you again until you stop using DPD for your deliveries.
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Posted 6 years ago
Be careful before ordering electrical white goods from John Lewis. We purchased a Samsung Tumble Dryer, which broke after 6-weeks. John Lewis passed us over to Samsung for a warranty repair, which took a further 3-weeks to complete. John Lewis were unconcerned and uncaring, choosing not to live up to the higher level of customer service we had come to expect from this premiumly priced company. In the future we will be buying from cheaper sources.
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Posted 6 years ago
I guess I was lucky, or possibly I just received the service I expected of John Lewis. From the original call 24 hours before my new TV and soundbar were to be delivered giving me a 2 hour window, through the follow up call giving me an eta on the day, to the two cheerful guys who did everything I asked, unpacking, moving the old kit, connecting up the new stuff and demonstrating it, I could not have been more pleased with the process. Thank you JL, and your crew.
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Posted 6 years ago
Shambolic - avoid AT ALL COSTS DONT BUY FROM JOHN LEWIS!!!! they failed to deliver products they never had in stock failed to refund my money stating they wanted the goods returned that they never delivered in 1st place!! Customers services useless!! This company will go out of business soon as they are below poor
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Posted 6 years ago
John Lewis is my go to shop. If I can’t get it from JL or Waitrose it’s not worth having. However I was disappointed with a turkey, stuffing and cranberry baguette I bought recently in the Southampton store restaurant and which I shared with my mum. The bread was nice, there was plenty of turkey and stuffing too but the one cranberry and a very faint smear of sauce didn’t cut the mustard if you get my drift and the soggy apology of rocket garnish turned my stomach. Not the usual quality I like and expect from my favourite shop. I couldn’t complain because there was only one girl serving, she had a long queue and I knew people were getting ratty as I’d waited ages to get served and was in a hurry to get to my grandchildren. The baguette was edible - I removed the soggy rocket and I didn’t want a refund because we ate most of it.
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Posted 6 years ago
At John Lewis at Tunbridge Wells a young lady called Alesia she was extremely helpful and help me order my product using my discount card as I was a partner at waitrose. It is good to know that the ethos of John Lewis and Waitrose is still out there.
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Posted 6 years ago
Everything. From placing order in store where server did not know how to apply gift cards to incorrect delivery issues to false promises never delivered. #Disgracefulservice #nobrandvalue #treatyourcustomersbetter
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Posted 6 years ago
Ordered 2 products on November 20th.. Recieved 1st order within 2 days..Fantastic...Only to find out it was left outside all day in cardboard box in heavy rain.....Product inside ruined... Trying for explanation and refund....Nightmare 2nd product..It’s nowDec 13th andno sign of it....Contacted customer service. The said it’s not don’t to them the supplier .. So why didn’t they inform us of that....It was a present whosbirthday it was 1st week December Shocking customer service ...And we are still waiting for reply now....
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Posted 6 years ago
I spent £3,500 on an old TV and wall mount. The TV developed a problem after 2 weeks. I had a nightmare in getting them to sort it out. They had no record of the sale, after showing my receipt they acknowledged my purchase, then proceeded to put every obstickle they could in the way of replacing the TV. I almost lost the will to live over the problems they caused me and time I spent sorting the problem. To say their customer service was bad is an under statement. All the worst trait are practiced there, not returning emails and phone calls, making false promises etc. etc.. I made each person I spoke to put the call details on their system using a reference they gave me. Then on the next call I was told the reference number was not found. In short, don't buy there unless you want an unbelievably bad experience! The only good thing to say is their delivery drivers are brilliant.
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Posted 6 years ago
Tried to order online, order accepted and then rejected . Told I had failed security check . Does not make sense more than adequate funds in account and also I order numerous items on line with other companies without problem. Then read Trust Pilot reviews and was shocked by the many negative reviews
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Posted 6 years ago
John Lewis is rated 2.7 based on 2,421 reviews