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John Lewis Reviews

2.7 Rating 2,432 Reviews
41 %
of reviewers recommend John Lewis
2.7
Based on 2,432 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
Beyond shocked at how much John Lewis has lost its way. I ordered a leather sofa in January that was delivered damaged in two places one week ago. Could not fault the delivery drivers as it was damaged when they unwrapped it. One of the drivers immediately offered £100 compensation for one of the marks but had to return to the lorry which was on a yellow line. When the other delivery driver finished unwrapping the sofa there was another mark on the armwrest. I said please take the sofa away and replace with undamaged option. I was rung that evening to discuss but customer services did not have the photos that the delivery people had taken. They said they would ring in the morning. They did not. I left it two days then I rang again and was told the pictures would be assessed and somebody would come back to me within 24 hours. They did not. Then on Monday I was rung and had a ridiculous conversation about sending somebody out to see if they could clean the sofa. I sais no. I was prepared for a replacement or compensation as I would buy throw and cushions to cover up the damage. £100 again was offered. I complained and said it just was not enough for a sofa at a cost of £1,400 damaged in two places. I said I would be making a formal complaint and the woman said she would ring back in 10 minutes. She didn't. Two days later I ring yet again and am told by customer services that despatch is dealing with this and that I did not have my card to hand for a refund to be made to me. This is an UTTER LIE. I work from home and have my cards here. Then I was told despatch rang me back on Monday at 4.30pm. They did not. I am beyond speechless that customer services at John Lewis is both this shoddy and they actually now lie as well. I trusted them to be a better company than this and will now not be placing the additional furniture order that I had wanted for a matching leather footstall, armchair and dining table. I cannot trust them anymore for big ticket items. How sad is that to say about this company? I still await to hear the outcome regarding this damaged leather sofa as well. Buyers beware when purchasing large items from JL. I've learnt my lesson and will not be repeating it.
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Posted 6 years ago
Bought integrated dishwasher with full fitting service. Fitting poor, damaged new appliance and surrounding cupboards fitting. Minor leak since fitting. Leak worse over weekend. Called JL, 1hr later and 3 different departments = 5 day wait to get someone to look at leak. Refused to pay for emergency plumber/ faster call out despite water damaging kitchen. Refused to let me speak to a more senior person. PLEASE DONT PAY USE JL believing you get better customer service. This is untrue
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Posted 6 years ago
Have recently made a purchase of a Ted Baker bag. Selected free standard delivery. Ordered on Sunday and delivered on Tuesday. Fantastic service always packaged well and includes free returns. Well done John Lewis!!
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Posted 6 years ago
Terrible so so bad rip off we paid £3200 for a TV and it broke and we received one worth only £1,700 and refuse to pay the remainder really bad we have had to contact watchdog
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Posted 6 years ago
Really bad customer service the worst ever, lies and lies for months they are bad and have ripped us off terribly
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Posted 6 years ago
I have tried calling and get cut off - emailing and get ignored - it is illegal to take other peoples money and provide nothing - it is outrageous John Lewis are obviously happy to provide a dreadful service but I am not and am trying to get this sorted as I am working on behalf of a client but they still won't help I would heavily guide against ever using John Lewis - they are UNHELPFUL ILLEGAL AND CAUSE HUGE AND UNNECESSARY STRESS
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Posted 6 years ago
Every step of the process is poor. Unfortunately John Lewis blinds customer service is slow, poor, ineffective, inefficient, and I do not recommend anybody to buy made to measure blinds from John Lewis. It is now april 2019 and I had these blinds measured in September 2018, I paid over £4000 in October 2018 for these Luxaflex blinds, and they still have not been fitted. The main problem is that nobody in customer services takes ownership of an order which has problems, so when I wait a couple of weeks patiently for progress, I then phone up and find nothing has happened. ie you have to chase these people daily if you want to get anything done, and even then things they say will happen do not happen. Really poor service, and we buy lots of other home and electrical items from John Lewis, I have finally lost patience with John Lewis. And, it takes about half an hour waiting on the phone to get to speak to anybody, honestly, buy your blinds from somewhere else.
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Posted 6 years ago
John Lewis generally have a reputation for customer service but unfortunately, this time round at this Kingston branch we felt let down. Instead of buying online, we chose to reserve/buy at the store (which we now see as a mistake- we should have just ordered online and collected locally). Instead, we decided to reserve a Brother sewing machine Saturday morning and was given a reservation number. We arrived in the afternoon, paid for it at the tills; went to the collection desks 15 minutes after paying and was told it wasn't ready (he normal duration between payment and pickup we are told is 15mins). Come back later said the gentlemen. We then came back 1.5hrs later and we were told that system did not recognized that we paid and it was still "reserved but not paid". We asked for our parking to be validated only to be told that only "online orders" and not reserved orders were allowed. All in all, we feel like we have been given the run around for what is, in our mind, a straightforward transaction. Overall, I can see why the stores and the high street are losingout to online places like Amazon after this experience. Unfortunately for the John Lewis brand, this has not been a positive experience for us. Disappointed.
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Posted 6 years ago
I placed an order online for a Microwave. The delivery confirmation says 3 day supplier delivery. No communication of what the date would be. After 3 working days, I rang to enquire about the delivery. I spoke to a man who told me to ring another number, although he was polite, I thought he really should have been finding out for me. I rang this other number, which was still John Lewis and spoke to a really rude woman (think her name was Sarah) who shouldn't be in the job, she kept saying the delivery varies and she can't tell me when. I rang back on the original number to cancel my order, I was told they have to email the supplier first and then they will process the refund, it should take 48 hours. This was Thursday and by Tuesday, I didn't hear a thing. I rang back again, to be told to ring this other number to cancel with their supplier, but I refused and said they need to be chasing this for me as they are customer services. She was polite, however I felt she was trying to palm me off. Eventually after being on hold, they processed my refund. If I hadn't called I wonder how long I would have had to wait for it. I expect better from John Lewis and it has put me off ever ordering from them again. There should be clear communications about deliveries, after all people do work and I speak to the general public all the time and there is no need to be rude. Word of advice some of your staff need to be trained on having manners!
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Posted 6 years ago
I recently purchased a sound bar from JL online. After 5 months it stopped working. When I called technical support I was told that the replacement guarantee was only for 30 days. And, I would have to take it back to a JL shop to have it repaired, which would take 4-6 weeks. When I pointed out that a) I’d purchased it online so why should I take it back to the shop and b) that the nearest shop is a 50 mile round trip I was told, very politely, to take it or leave it. I then took it to the nearest JL store where I spent 20 minutes while the assistant logged my details (even though I’m a JL cardholder). When I asked whether they would send it back to me I was told they use ParcelForce but they would need to find a box and bubble wrap so it could sent to me. As you can imagine I’m waiting to see how it eventually returns. I would have expected JL to have simply replaced the sound bar and to have sent it to my house. Instead they have put the onus on me to transport the faulty product, to wait 4-6 weeks and then to still be unsure of the condition it will come back to me. It’s clear that JL haven’t got their act together with online selling and aren’t very customer focused. It was a bit like the 1990s. I like JL and will continue to buy stuff-from them. It just won’t include any electrical products or frankly anything that could conceivably need repairing.
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Posted 6 years ago
Lynn on bedding at Cheadle John Lewis today was absolutely brilliant today in helping us choose a complete new set of bedding. Thank you Lynn your expertise was greatly appreciated.
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Posted 6 years ago
Item I wanted was out of stock. But a few weeks later I had an email to say it was in stock. So I ordered it and was ready the next day to pick up from the store. Very pleased with the service.
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Posted 6 years ago
Absolutely Terrible I am appalled at the terrible service my partner and I have received from John Lewis and Partners Confident in the name, we went to our local John Lewis store at Bluewater Kent to look for new curtains early January. What a mistake that turned out to be: 1) Samples that we had ordered never arrived causing weeks of pointless delay – computer system changeover was blamed by the shop assistant when we returned to store to ask why we had received nothing. 2) During this wasted time our second choice fabric had gone “out-of-stock” so we were told that it would be 6 weeks for order, manufacture and delivery. We agreed, ordered and paid in full. 3) The day before the 6 weeks was up we called the store to check when the delivery was due. Only at this point were we informed that there had been an error in fabrication and that we had no curtains! No attempt to contact us about this had been made in all this time. 4) I wrote a formal letter of complaint to customer services regarding this poor level of service. This letter has neither been acknowledged nor replied to. 5) In desperation, I phoned customer services, only to queue for over an hour listening to how much they valued my custom! I gave up, insulted by the mockery of that message. 6) A call to head office was more successful, I stressed that it had already taken ages and that I had a deadline. They said that they would look into it, THEN that they had a solution, and THEN that more curtains would be “prioritised” for us to meet our date. Days later, we were told that the new batch of fabric was “faulty” and that they would need to find a branch that had stock left to start again and AMAZINGLY that they would not guarantee a delivery date. 7) The final email from John Lewis stated “At John Lewis we believe in managing our customers’ expectations” perhaps they should focus on meeting customer commitments and delivering on their contracts. I have cancelled the order and requested a refund. What a pity I can’t rate them as zero as that’s exactly what we got!
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Posted 6 years ago
Unacceptable service from John Lewis \… Unacceptable service from John Lewis \ CHS case manager Purchased a carpet , when it was due to be laid the fitter from John Lewis arrived with it saying it had marks on it, we spoke to John Lewis at this point asking if the marks don’t hoover out would we get a replacement. No, was the answer. They would send someone out to clean it. I wasn’t happy with this as it cost just over £2000 for a small front room. So we didn’t have it laid. We waited for a new one. At this point the fitter would have had an empty room, because our new sofas were due to be delivered in the next few days. The new carpet arrived but we now had the sofas in room, I helped the fitter move to the middle of the room. The fitter was left alone in the room for 3 hours. Once the carpet was fitted and the fitter had left , we began to tidy up. We noticed a rip in the back of the sofa at low level which wasn’t there before the fitter arrived. In my option I feel that the carpet fitter has done this with a gripper rod, accidentally. When I contacted John Lewis ( our case manager ) She said she would speak to the fitter. The fitter has denied doing this and said the rip was already there, if this was already done then he should have pointed it out to us there and then because he would have known he would be likely to get the blame. The sofas were in perfect condition on his arrival as they had only been delivered 11days prior our case manager has said because the fitter has denied doing this there’s nothing we can do and there’s no one else we can complain to and if we continue to complain it will only get passed to her. I visited the store at bluewater on 28 feb 19 , and explained everything that had happened and requested someone else deals with this as our case manager has been most unhelpful and has an extremely poor attitude towards customer relations.
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Posted 6 years ago
Absolutely terrible. Spent three days chasing up a delivery of a washing machine that they failed to deliver. Spoke to 5 different members of the customer service team and they were all hopeless. On hold for hours. In the end I had to cancel the order and go to AOonline. They are USELESS and they are economical with the truth too. Awful - never going there again.
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Posted 6 years ago
Parcel supposedly delivered but never received by me. Company making me out to be a liar even though I have asked for a replacement item and not a refund. Numerous telephone calls and emails on my part with promises of replying within at worst 7 working day!
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Posted 6 years ago
John Lewis slogan of never being undersold Is exactly the opposite of what happened with us we went to buy a tv and was told John Lewis was the best place to get one from because of the warranty. So we brought our new 4K tv from our local store with 5 year warranty, we also purchased added care on top to make sure it would be fully covered for 5 years. We have had the TV for just over a year and had generated a fault so we ring up John Lewis and they agreed to send out an engineer. After the engineer had been they rang back a few days later saying it would not be covered by either the John Lewis 5 year cover or the added care which when we brought the TV we were told that everything would be covered regardless by the sales team. The customer service team were reluctant to give any kind of response and had hung up on us 2 times trying to understand why it wouldn’t be covered! We spent 3/4 hours trying to resolve this. After the 3rd hour they were very reluctant to let us speak to a manger and were rude trying to defer us from escalating the claim. The manager then said part of there terms and conditions was that the part we needed which was faulty wouldn’t be covered under warranty or added care but could not quote from where that was stated in any section of our agreement after another 30 minutes they finally agreed to have the tv repaired but believe that if we hadn’t of kept on the line it wouldn’t have been resolved! I believe that John Lewis on this occasion have been a disgrace and going against there own motto of never underselling anyone!
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Posted 6 years ago
JL Chichester loses £24,500 carpet order due to a catalogue of errors. After so many years of great service I am very sad to say that my very recent experience has forced me to cancel my order, costing me lots of money. The product looked good, the quality and price fair but the service appalling with no one seemingly knowing what was going on. The original guy who came to measure the house lost half of the measurements, requiring another 4 hour visit at a later date, the carpet we chose from a sample in the store was discontinued and then, suddenly back in stock, only to be discontinued again. After taking our money, and promising a delivery date, this being confirmed by JL by phone after the order was placed, we then found out that the yarn had yet to be dyed, the carpet not yet made and the delivery date would overrun by about 2 months.....although they couldn’t guarantee even this! With a house full of builders and painters working overtime to meet the original promised installation date, this has cost us a small fortune. Trying to get anywhere via the customer service number is a nightmare, even at director complsint level and I have spent forever on hold listening to the JL music! Today I was put on hold for over 15 mins whilst the man I was speaking to attempted to put me through to the complaints unit ....if you cannot handle this, the lord alone knows how you can expect to continue trading effectively? I really do despair and have hated to see my old fried JL go so quickly down the tubes.
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Posted 6 years ago
Ordered and paid for sofa in Oct 18, John Lewis delivered wrong sofa in Dec 18 and delivered second wrong sofa in March. 7 days since 2nd wrong delivery and 4 calls to customer service find out they still haven't looked into my issue! Appalling levels of service not expected from John Lewis.
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Posted 6 years ago
A big thank you to Shannon on the NARS makeup counter. Outstanding customer service skills with a lovely persona. Shannon is helpful, not pushy and clearly enjoys her job. Would highly recommend NARS to any friends and family members. Keep up the good work and thank you wants again.
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Posted 6 years ago
John Lewis is rated 2.7 based on 2,432 reviews