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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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Anonymous  // 01/01/2019
I ordered a picture online which arrived within 5 days. I wanted another one by the same artist which they didnt have in stock online but said it had stock of 2 in their glasgow branch. I went to their glasgow branch hoping to pick this up, however they didnt have any in stock only the one on display that they refused to sell me as they were on order and needed to keep this on display for other customers to order. They ordered it for me on the day, however were quite insistent that they had no idea when it would be available and would be in touch. They gave me a customer reference number which is no longer available to view on their site. I have tried twice to contact them waiting over 30 minutes on each occasion and am no further forward. John Lewis used to be a trusted company with high values and do not expect poor service. Will not order anything from them again.
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Posted 4 years ago
Worst service from tech support and escalations. Like they mention they don't really care about what the customer is going through. If you are thing of buying electrical from them and paying extra so you have a 5-year peace of mind, then you are mistaken it's just a gimmick and they will leave you with a non-working TV in my case for 4 weeks. You have lost a very loyal customer who contributes quite a lot to your yearly profit, sorry loss this year. Hold on to your customers to make a profit not blame Brexit for your loses!
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Posted 4 years ago
Worst service from tech support and escalations. Like they mention they don't really care about what the customer is going through. If you are thing of buying electrical from them and paying extra so you have a 5-year peace of mind, then you are mistaken it's just a gimmick and they will leave you with a non-working TV in my case for 4 weeks. You have lost a very loyal customer who contributes quite a lot to your yearly profit, sorry loss this year. Hold on to your customers to make a profit not blame Brexit for your loses!
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Posted 4 years ago
Don't buy a fridge freezer from John Lewis or anything that needs delivery! They've recently changed their delivery service and taken it in house. Having waited 2 months for our fridge freezer to be delivered they brought it to our house and then refused to carry it with a 3 man crew up 6 steps to our front door. Apparently they 'don't do steps' anymore! Numerous conflicting tel calls and texts from customer service with promised delivery today they just came and did a risk assessment. Apparently they don't have 'the right' equipment.It's a absolute shambles there and no one knows what they're doing. What a shame John Lewis used to be so trustworthy. Try AO I hear they are very good and delivery is as promised.
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Posted 4 years ago
Appalling customer service. Their Technical Support is dreadful and almost impossible to talk to. I had to communicate with 13 different people on WhatsApp and still didn't get anywhere. I would never recommend buying any electronic equipment from JL televisions or computers.
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Posted 4 years ago
I am STILL waiting for my call to be answered after 40 minutes and am tired of listening to that idiotic message about how everyone is working hard to get to me. Rubbish they are probably chatting to one another hoping that potential customers will end the call and go elsewhere.
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Posted 4 years ago
i recently purchased a kitchen from Visions of Earth kitchens in congleton I went to john Lewis in Cheadle and the cs was terrible, that put me of right there, did some research and found this place and they were alot cheaper. great to deal with and got exactly the same kitchen (bridgewater) as john lewis’s kitchen but i saved 1800.00 whos complaining now!!!”!
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Posted 4 years ago
Rang 3 times today 02/12/ 19 15 mins each call still no answer, called to order 2 items in mens shoes whats the point if nobody taking the time to answer ,not the john lewis it once was, will go elsewhere, and tell other people.
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Posted 4 years ago
Awful awful company, brought a apple watch here in good faith. No where on the website did it say if i took the seal of i could not return it or exchange it. I was mucked out by customer service saying if i go to the store i can exchange it. Got to Store after an hours drive to be told i couldnt do this. On the phone with the customer service manager who had no interest in talking to me. Just keep saying he count help me etc worst experience!!!!!
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Posted 4 years ago
I just held on for 32 minutes, listening to a message telling me my call would be answered "shortly". Then I was cut off.
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Posted 4 years ago
Well, where do i start?! Paid 3.4K for a Bertazzoni range cooker which was bent when it arrived. Feet broken so it wobbles, temp gauge wonky, oven bellows steam which puddles on the floor and has burnt my new kitchen drawers. Internal grill pan buckled, oven heats up to 210 when set to 150. On his second visit the engineer couldnt fix all the problems and wrote it off. Neither Bertazzoni or John Lewis would honour this until this morning when I was told that on this particular occasion they will pick it up and refund me but will not be responsible for the burnt cupboards because they can't prove it was the oven!!! The kitchen is new and there has been no other oven since it was fitted. JL service is now just like any other company that has grown too big and applies a number (rather than a name) to their customers. Then after six months of misery, they tell you that it is not acceptable to get cross! Listen to the hundreds of bad reviews. You need to.
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Posted 4 years ago
Useless....useless...useless.....paid a tenner in postage to get a laptop delivered between 6pm and 10; the next day being our anniversary, time was "of the essence", as our legal friends say....you guessed- it didn't arrive! Not the first time John Lewis has ballsed up an important delivery: last time it was a birthday bracelet, and the excuse was that their delivery guy couldn't find the building he was supposed to be delivering to.....as an experiment, I drove to the edge of town, put the destination into my satnav, and duly drove to the front door by following its instructions...apart from this, the building in question (my place of work) was conspicuous enough to be visible from the International Space Station in Earth orbit- in fact I seem to recall Major Tim Peake in his journal mentioning noticing it... Regretfully, when I've got my tenner's worth of postage refunded for breach of contract, I think I'm going to have to start giving business to companies with fewer high-end pretensions and more focus on actually doing what they say they'll do. Let me reiterate: it gives me no pleasure whatsoever to say that, and I do very much say it with regret.
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Posted 4 years ago
Really not what it used to be. Tried to order curtains online. We rang, We rang we rang and rang. No one answered. When we did get through we asked to speak to the department and the call center couldn't get an answer. Said they would get them to call back. Nope no call. Called again, got through to call center easier but asked for email as they don't answer phone. Got the email ad and sent email..... 3 days no responce. Actually had to drive to a shop in the end and order. The woman had aface like wet weekend in November, it was actually a wet weekend in November. Decided to order 2 pillows online to save carrying. Order delivery was 4-5 working days. Got an email 2 days later saying delivery tomorrow. Umm not home. Wish to change delivery time, yep. Changed it to Friday. Still got delivered the weds. John Lewis are not what they used to be for sure.
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Posted 4 years ago
I wanted to buy 3 pieces of West elm mid century furniture from John Lewis. I waited for the Black Friday deals but just before this promotion commenced all three pieces went out of stock. I called John Lewis, to be told they would not be reordered until after the promotion ends. So why add these items to your website under the promotion- if it was impossible to purchase.... never going to be in stock for the deal to apply ? Is this even legal? Why am I not surprised that John Lewis profits are down
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Posted 4 years ago
My laptop hinge broke. I took it in, they sent an email to say it was repaired. I went into the store to be told it was for a different customer, wait another week before we chase it again. I now think that they gave my laptop to another customer and I'm left without one and I really need one before Christmas. I've complained everywhere and they're ignoring me.
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Posted 4 years ago
Quite possibly one of the worst Retailer you can ever partner with as a customer. Paula Nickolds (MD) and the Leadership team please step down or do something about the way in which your customers are treated. John Lewis is no longer the "Trusted Brand" it once was. Several errors made on part of the incompetent team when providing a made to measure curtain quote. JL back tracked on the quotes given, after promising to honour the quotes because of mistakes they continued to make when issuing revised quotes. They charge an extortionate amount based off what calculations and measurements, only they know as they are not prepared to share this info. For a bay window in a terraced house measuring 90inches wide, and a single window measuring 45inches wide, they apparently use 25 METRES of Fabric! Go figure. John Lewis - nothing but thieves! stay clear and take your money elsewhere. All they have to say in my case which is "we do not need to honour anything". Not a company to do business with.
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Posted 4 years ago
Quite possibly one of the worst Retailer you can ever partner with as a customer. Paula Nickolds (MD) and the Leadership team please step down or do something about the way in which your customers are treated. John Lewis is no longer the "Trusted Brand" it once was. Several errors made on part of the incompetent team when providing a made to measure curtain quote. JL back tracked on the quotes given, after promising to honour the quotes because of mistakes they continued to make when issuing revised quotes. They charge an extortionate amount based off what calculations and measurements, only they know as they are not prepared to share this info. For a bay window in a terraced house measuring 90inches wide, and a single window measuring 45inches wide, they apparently use 25 METRES of Fabric! Go figure. John Lewis - nothing but thieves! stay clear and take your money elsewhere. All they have to say in my case which is "we do not need to honour anything". Not a company to do business with.
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Posted 4 years ago
Totally inflexible and inappropriate booking method for a repair under warranty. When I first phoned, I explained that I live with a disability and depend heavily on internet for everything. I had the purchase ref. number and paperwork for the HP laptop that had stopped working. But I couldn't see the serial number on the computer. That was Mon. The Customer Service guy on the phone assured me that the laptop would be collected on Wed. and the collector would find the serial number. Wed. -no collection. I phoned again. "Collection not possible without a serial number". This time I did find a number on the charger lead. The CS lady said that it had been accepted and I should expect the repair guys to collect next day. Thurs. Thurs - I phoned twice. First time through (after a long wait) "Collection not possible without a serial number". This time CS person #3 said that they'd put in a placeholder serial number and I should phone back in 1 hour to confirm a collection date. One hour + 40 minutes holding later, I phoned back.. but the person who could book the collection was gone for the day..(4.40pm). Someone from JL would phone me next day .. Yeah. Friday,late afternoon I phoned again. No call from them, of course "Collection not possible without a serial number". Luckily for me, one of my care team came with a loan laptop for me earlier on Fri. and did manage to read the worn out serial number on my own machine ( I hadn't thought of asking earlier in the week). Be warned, if you have poor eyesight or any difficulties then John Lewis systems are designed to cut you off from accessing their repair channels. 2 of the CS team that I spoke to refused to think beyond their script and wouldn't accept a complaint from me to request changes to their processing. The others were ineffective and their efforts apparently reversed by the computer algorithm. JL Customer Service = "Computer says No"
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Posted 4 years ago
They sold me a Bertazzoni oven for 3.5K and refuse to take responsibility for it. It arrived with a bent drawer and a wonky temperature gauge, the oven is actually at 210 when set at 150, the grill pan is buckled, the oven spews steam and has burnt my new kitchen drawers, the feet don't work and it wobbles, the delivery men were useless, the engineers wrote it off last week and JL say the guarantee is not with them and cant do anything about it!! They are frequently undersold so why they still use that slogan I dont know. I am protesting with my feet and never going there again. I wish I had read reviews of them before buying such an expensive item.
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Posted 4 years ago
They are just incredibly inflexible and it takes them weeks to reply. I’m not exaggerating in the slightest when I say WEEKS to reply one email which I wrote in respond to their email. And then by the time they reply , They have no idea what the issue is and it has to be rehashed again which then it takes another few weeks!! I’ve been on hold for MONTHS. All just to arrange delivery. Because of their inefficiencies, I could even get the sale price that I was promised because it was past the deadline but it’s was entirely their fault for not replying after weeks so what am I supposed to do???
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Posted 4 years ago
John Lewis is rated 2.7 based on 2,416 reviews