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John Lewis Reviews

2.7 Rating 2,422 Reviews
41 %
of reviewers recommend John Lewis
2.7
Based on 2,422 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
Despite starting the carpet order process in October and being assured it would be fitted before xmas I have just been informed that unless I accept someone else's cancelled fitting appt at 36 hours notice I will have to wait until after Xmas for my fitting. I had to chase them to place my order as the estimator forgot to upload my order, I then chased my carpet order after 2 weeks to be told it had arrived a week previous. Have now found my own fitter but wasted 3 hours on the phone to get the carpets delivered to me and then a fitting refund. Have now found out that fitting is a huge issue and they ate failing customers left right and centre, wish I had known before I ordered. Lesson learnt but hopefully I've warned others
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Posted 6 years ago
the short time it took to deliver my order, well packed, They will pay for returns .
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Posted 6 years ago
I cannot begin to say how awful my experience with John lewis has been. I began the process of ordering curtains in September. It is now November. I have emailed countless times. I have tried to ring many times, soft furnishing don't answer the phone. Customer services assure you that somebody will get back to you and they never do. John Lewis used to be a brand you could trust. They are terrible now and on principle I will not spend any money with them. I will also tell all friends and colleagues not to waste their time and money. Truly, truly awful.
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Posted 6 years ago
I placed an order for £558.00, worth of goods and 50% turned up damaged and i could not give the gifts out which i wanted to do, I was asked to take photos which i have done and sent them in, but this should not be the case, in fact i would expect a lot better service from John Lewis. My experience in ordering gift has been extremely poor, and have thus rated them with One star, if the option was 0'0' i would have placed that.
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Posted 6 years ago
Great customer service. Their warranty service for TV's are really reliable. They offered to fix my TV for free. Parts weren't available for it so they refunded the money I paid for the TV initially. The people at the call centers were really nice and helpful. No stress. Whatsoever.
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Posted 6 years ago
Excellent customer service! They have staff working around the store making sure everything is okay.Also they were there making sure that I knew what I was looking for and then they helped look around the store to find the place of my item.
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Posted 6 years ago
JL Broadband should have connected me on Sunday but hey have not been in touch. They cannot be contacted as there is normally a 60 minuted wait, when I did get through they put the phone down on me, John Lewis.com complaints staff seem to have the same problem reaching them by phone, I gave up after holding for 25 minutes while they were trying to make contact with JLB.
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Posted 6 years ago
I bought a brand new computer which turned out to be faulty. I have been refused a replacement or a refund. Instead, I returned the product to the store to be repaired. After 3 days the product went wrong again, and John Lewis still refused to give me a replacement or a refund. They insisted that I return the product to the store again so that they could send it to be repaired. Five weeks on I have had confirmation from John Lewis that the product is faulty (which I told them several times) and that it has been repaired (which I don't trust). I have had to run my business (for which I bought the computer) without a computer now for five weeks and the repaired computer has still not been returned to me. The lack of customer care is appalling. I'd advise anyone to stay away from John Lewis. I bought the product there because I thought I could trust them if anything went wrong with such an expensive item. I was badly wrong. I am £720 down and still no computer. Absolutely disgraceful.
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Posted 6 years ago
having purchased a warming draw in January this year it we now awaiting the third one. communication with after sales is terrible and you get sent all over the place . no one cares once they have your money
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Posted 6 years ago
Excellent quality and service.
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Posted 6 years ago
Great service and great warranty . Very reliable.
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Posted 6 years ago
Despite asking 3 times for an answer to a simple question. John Lewis have failed to answer it. I will not be shopping at the store again. I guess you will not greatly miss my custom but as someone who has spent circa £20,000 with you over the last 10 years. I don't feel you deserve any more profit from me. Please do not contact me as a result of this post as I have had enough of dealing with you.
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Posted 6 years ago
Absolutely terrible. Today I bought a pair of headphones from the Oxford Street shop. They came in either grey or blue. I bought the grey ones but as they did not have them on their open display, i bought them 'blind'. So i went to work and opened them and did not like the colour. The grey was very light and was hoping for a darker grey. Anyway I went back to the store within an hour of buying them and they would not swap them for the blue ones for me. The reason was because I had opened them. The headphones came in a box with a shrink wrap cover. I had to open the shrink wrap to get to the box. They claimed that because i broke the shrink wrap (which was the only way to open them) they could not swap them for the blue ones. They directed me to their website and refund policy. I could not believe it. So what is your message here John Lewis? . If I had bought them from amazon they would have refunded me immediately. I guess the message is to buy online and not from John Lewis. I will never buy from them again. They have lost yet another customer. They say that the high street is dying and this is another reason for this.
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Posted 6 years ago
I have a microwave oven that is still under warranty.The engineers have been out twice ,and I am now waiting for a third one.They do not seem to be able to repair it and just keep ordering new parts that I then have to wait up to two weeks for them to come back.i now have been over 4 weeks without my oven. Absolutely disgusting totally unacceptable service .
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Posted 6 years ago
I ordered a games console for my grandchildren on the black Friday sale phoned through my order John Lewis have taken 344.00 from my bank but did not process the order now out of stack waiting for a Manager to call me no sign of this happening Thank you John Lewis for all your great service NOT
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Posted 6 years ago
Dreadful service. I ordered and paid John Lewis online for an Apple watch series 3 order number 205947329, went to collect it but not delivered as promised, then an email saying they had 'lost' my order, then an email asking me to return the watch, then an email with the guarantee details. Still no watch or refund!!
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Posted 6 years ago
Dreadful service. I ordered and paid John Lewis online for an Apple watch, order 205947329 and travelled to collect it from Waitrose as arranged, but not delivered as promised, then an email saying they had 'lost' my order, then an email asking me to return the watch, then an email with the guarantee details. Still no watch or refund!! Case number 10312268 but no reply :(
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Posted 6 years ago
Ordered built-in wardrobe and other bedroom furniture. Date given for fitting but then changed 'due to the fitter having left the company'. (Don't they have any others?) Another date arranged and had to change date for removal of existing furniture, decorating room and carpet fitting. Phoned a few days before the replacement date for fitting and told that everything was ok this time. However, on the day, the fitter turned up but the furniture didn't! Apparently the supplier had the delivery date as the following day. So, all of the bedroom furniture disposed of, bare floorboards as the carpet taken up and carpet fitters again had to be put off. Having to live in a total muddle for another week until fitter and furniture eventually arrived together. Submitted a formal complaint and, after much too'ing and froo'ing, eventually told that it had been 'sent to their carpet fitting team to be dealt with'. Why, as the complaint was about a fitted wardrobe not a carpet! Now over a week later and nothing heard. What is going on with John Lewis' administration? Customer service doesn't seem to exist and they seem totally unable to deal with an order properly let alone handle a complaint.
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Posted 6 years ago
John Lewis Kingston refused to hand over my laptop to my mother who came into the store as a huge favour to me with the reference number and I.d especially to collect it. She is a huge fan of John Lewis, Sorry WAS and was dealt with really badly. The store refused to call me to check if this was ok and then left her hanging for half an hour until she found a floor manager who couldn’t find an assistant to help either. When I phoned the technical number I had (impossible for myself or the technical call centre to reach Kingston store) they said they would send an email immediately to Kingston for them to call me. It is only possible to call the call centre can only pass on information like robots, impossible to speak to a manager or anyone instore. Kingston said to me when they initially rang that if they sent the laptop back it would be uninsured. The only way I could retrieve it was if I went and collected it. Very inconvenient. When I phoned the next day, i was told the call centre had left my email in a queue and that it had never been sent as they were too busy! It obviously still hasn’t as I’m still waiting for that call and a response to my ini complaint made on the 22nd of November. We are now the 25th... i would advise future customers to look at the trust pilot reviews which are really bad and show how this store has stopped valuing its customers. When I took the laptop in someone was complaining and when I went to collect. There are not enough people dealing with customers in technical support and they are really not very helpful when they finall do. It’s a shame but I certainly won’t be rushing back!
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Posted 6 years ago
I have shopped with them on line and in store many times and The store staff are always friendly and very helpful. It is a great department store and so pleased we have one not too far away. Their goods are of the best quality and always look forward to shopping with them.
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Posted 6 years ago
John Lewis is rated 2.7 based on 2,422 reviews