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Zavvi Reviews

1.2 Rating 652 Reviews
4 %
of reviewers recommend Zavvi
1.2
Based on 652 reviews
Shipping & Delivery
Delivery Methods
Courier, Postal Service
Average Delivery Time
Over A Month
On-time Delivery
Greater than 8%
Accurate And Undamaged Orders
Greater than 71%
Customer Service
Communication Channels
Email, Live Chat, Telephone
Queries Resolved In
Over A Week
Customer Service
1.1 out of 5
Returns & Refunds
Refunds Process
Difficult
Returns Process
Could Be Better
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About Zavvi:

With a huge selection of DVDs, Games and Consoles, CDs, Computing and Electronics we have extra choice and extra savings so finding something for you or a loved one has never been easier! What are you waiting for? Come and join us at Zavvi.co.uk!

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Phone:

0844 264 0702

Email:

customer.relations@zavvi.com.

Location:

Meridian House,Gadbrook Park,Gadbrook Way,Rudheath,Northwich
Cheshire
CW9 7RA

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Anonymous  // 01/01/2019
A summary of my experience with this dreadful company - I was very patient and professional in my communications (which I have kept a record of - will happily forward this on if required): - Ordered a PS4 bundled with FIFA 15 and Uncharted collection on black Friday. Immediately cancelled when I saw the same deal with Until Dawn Extended for an additional £20 which I ordered instead. - Zavvi requested proof of address which was provided a couple of days later. - No progress was made with the order and having chased it up was told (direct quotes): "Sony Playstation 4...is on special order for you with out supplier", "Once your order has been sent you will receive an e-mail to tell you it is on its way". - A month later, still absolutely nothing. Chased it up again and got a message saying that my order had been cancelled (with no explanation why might I add). I enquired as to why this was and got a reply saying that it was because I had not provided proof of address (just unbelievable - clearly the customer service team don't put any effort into reading previous correspondence. A lot of their messages seem to be cut and paste responses also and specific questions are often avoided entirely). - At this point I was becoming a little fed up and sent a message requesting the order to be reinstated with proof attached that I had previously sent the information requested as well as reattaching proof of address. I was told that there was nothing that they could do about the order. In conclusion - I got messed about for over a month, wasted a great deal of my time sending messages and basically lost over £100 as I will now have to pay full price when I could have taken advantage of similar black Friday offers from other retailers. This is getting a little long so just a couple more issues in brief: - Absolutely no way to contact anyone via telephone/email (including the Hut Group generally) so the only individuals that are contactable are the apparently rather nonchalant customer service team. - Very buggy online messaging system - including issues such as submitting a message only to have the webpage loop to somewhere else entirely, having deleted everything you have written (as well as not submitting it). INCREDIBLY frustrating. As someone who buys a lot of tech/gadgets etc, I have entirely lost faith in the Zavvi brand before even receiving a single item from them. I have requested my account be cancelled (still no reply to this from Zavvi) and will certainly be sticking to Amazon and Ebay in future. NB: I have also submitted this same review to Trustpilot
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Posted 9 years ago
Refusing to return 25 quid for a returned good. Joke of a company, don't buy from them!
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Posted 9 years ago
Avoid!! This company can not be trusted order 3 DVDs and only received 1, have been waiting for these to be delivered since the 21/12/2015 waited until the 7/1/2016 still no DVDs and now prolonging a refund!! Bad customer service days waiting for a reply and avoiding any question they do not want to answer.
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Posted 9 years ago
I ordered a dvd boxset for a christmas present and got the 2 to 3 day delivery, after a week i TRIED to contact them to discover no phone number has been available for 2 years, sent an email and was told to wait 14 days to make a complaint, it did eventually turn up 2 weeks after ordering but was too late to give as a present so am now stuck with a boxset i neither want nor need. Unacceptable will not be ordering from here again.
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Posted 9 years ago
Awful customer service! Was sent incorrect item and still waiting for money back. Do not use zavvi!
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Posted 9 years ago
Have ordered PS4 for Christmas gift and from ADS I was promised that I will get product after few days. But after few days I got PayPal message that money paid for PS4 is sent to me back. My zavvi account was deleted (I have no idea why...). I had no chance to contact customer service (you can do it only with registered account). I registered new one, asked my question in customer service and order PS4 one more time, but no answer for my ticket and today my second account was deleted, hopefully PayPal sent payment back to me. So this is the worst service what I have used... Shame on you!
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Posted 9 years ago
My delivery arrived in 3 days from ordering. Very quick and satisfied with my purchase!
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Posted 9 years ago
Ordered an item, said it was "in stock" expected delivery date came and went, order said it was in "stock picking", contacted them and eventually got told their suppliers are having a hard time finding stock. So much for item being in stock, a basic bit of programming could have prevented that! Then about a week later zavvi cancelled the order. We now can't find the product anywhere so my children won't be getting the only thing they wished for, for Christmas. At the time we ordered other places had it in stock too, just thought we'd give zavvi a go. Never using them again! They've totally ignored the complaint email sent!
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Posted 9 years ago
This company is crap. They do not action your order as advertised and when you try to get an answer there is no way to contact them apart from email which takes at least 24 hrs to get a response, which was always an apology and no action taken. I cut my losses and cancelled my order as it was clearly going to be a nightmare. Do not touch this company with a barge pole! They are shocking, how have they not gone bust?
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Posted 9 years ago
I ordered a PS4 for £249.99 and paid through pay-pal. I got an email saying that my order had been confirmed and dispatched. 4 days later i got another email saying that they are out of stock and cannot deliver my parcel. it was an extremely unreliable service especially so near to Christmas. I cannot recommend this website.
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Posted 9 years ago
Absolutely useless. I ordered an item in November for my daughters Christmas present, they said it WAS IN STOCK. When it didn't arrive I contacted them only to be told it was out of stock. A week later their progress section said it was awaiting picking but it still didn't arrive. I e mailed them again only to be told it is still out of stock, this is absolutely appalling. They are a bunch of liars, unprofessional and definitely not to be trusted.
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Posted 9 years ago
I ordered a drawstring bag at no point did it suggest the item is either low in stock, out of stock or waiting for more stock before purchasing. It was for a present and I was diligently waiting for an email to confirm dispatch. They have charged me for the item quickly so I assumed nothing was wrong. I got worried though and checked to find the item was cancelled without any explanation via email or anything. Very Poor customer communication. I have now got to quickly find a plan b elsewhere and request a refund from Zavvi which I heard is truly very hard. If I don't get my refund, watchdog is where I'll go.
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Posted 9 years ago
Bought a Xbox 1 game three weeks ago and yet still haven't received it, they have said they are trying to source one!!!! Why sell me one of you don't have one available, utter rubbish and will never ever buy from this site again. I just want my money back now!!!!!!
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Posted 9 years ago
Zavvi in my opinion have started a business purely to go out of their way to be as useless as they possible can, why???? point of contact is through your account, Any issues are not dealt with, But instead you get a slow stream of bull, that is followed by an even slower reply of nonsense. Why set up a company to treat your customers like this ?? Why spend advertising money pretending you are the best?? I cannot understand why they are trading?? Is it just to p*** people off?? must be in my opinion
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Posted 9 years ago
I made a online order from Zavvi.com and got completely ripped off. In November I ordered a set of dvds with took 14 days to arrive from the UK to USA that didn't work. Yet when I requested a return and refund they said I cannot because 14 days went by from the time of purchase. So if don't get your order before 14 days you cannot return it even if receive it yet and something is wrong with the product.
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Posted 9 years ago
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7817531.stm this says it all I have ordered a watch that did not say on the web site would have any delays well now im told it will not be dispatched in time for xmas see you on watchdog soon Zavvi as well as traiding standards...
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Posted 9 years ago
What a poor company. Keep taking money for a ZBOX month after month. scam company. avoid for monthly subscriptions
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Posted 9 years ago
Zavvi's apparent modus operandi: 1. Show item at Black Friday price. 2. Take order at Black Friday price. 3. Fail to adequately stock item. 4. Arbitrarily cancel order citing BS about payment issues, despite payment clearly being ready for collection in PayPal queue. 5. Ensure cancellation occurs after all the Black Friday offers have been closed for several days, preventing repurchase. 6. Refuse to answer queries for several days. Will not use these clowns again.
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Posted 9 years ago
I ordered a games console for my son's Christmas but noticed after ordering that it said it would send the item once it had stock. I asked their customer service team when it was likely that they would have stock and subsequently my order was cancelled. I then questioned why my order was cancelled as I had only queried when they may have stock and the response was just a confirmation that my item was cancelled. They have been completely useless. No point having low prices if you will never receive the item. Definitely would not recommend or use again! Steer clear of this site!
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Posted 9 years ago
I ordered an Xbox One with two games for £279 on Thursday 26/11/2015 and received an email confirming my order. On Tuesday 01/12/2015 I tried to access my account but it had been closed. You cannot contact Zavvi unless you have an account.....so I recreated it and messaged Zavvi (they have no email address or phone number to contact 'customer services'). On Wednesday 02/12/2015 somebody called Adam messaged me and told me "unfortunately the order that you have made have ben cancelled.". There was no explanation as to why the order had been cancelled....when I went back into my Zavvi account the call had been closed, so I could not reply. The Xbox One was a Christmas present and to get no notification that my order had been cancelled was totally unprofessional. Game had the same offer for £10 more, I wish I had spent the extra £10 and used Game. The Black Friday deals is now not available at Game and this will cost me about £50 to get the same offer now!!  I had ordered a game from Zavvi a year ago and it took 2 month to turn up!! I should have known not to use Zavvi. I won't use Zavvi again and if I was you I would think long and hard about using Zavvi, if anything goes wrong there is no way of contacting Zavvi.
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Posted 9 years ago
Zavvi is rated 1.2 based on 652 reviews