written by wrpvincent on 23/04/2013
This review relates to purchasing via their website.
I am resident in Switzerland and in November I ordered a Hamper from F&M to be sent to a military friend serving in Afghanistan.
It never arrived and I heard nothing from F&M.
When I contacted them in February it took almost a month for them to work out what happened to the hamper.
Apparently it had been returned by parcel force as it was too large an item to be delivered to a BFPO address. Fair enough. But why had F&M taken my money and not got back in touch with me?
On the 13th March 2013 I received this email:
"Please accept my apologies for the time it has taken to respond to you. ...... Now I have the information I can confirm that we will be refunding you the full value of the order, and also sending both yourself and your recipient a compensatory gift. We also wish to send a letter of apology to your recipient."
Fine. Now at the end of April I have received a gift card from F&M but still no refund.
When I chased this I received this response on the 20th April:
"Thank you for your email. Please accept our apologies that the refund has not be processed yet. I have viewed your account and the refund has been authorised, but it is showing that our refund department have not contacted you to complete the xxxx credit to your account. I have flagged this now, and you can expect one of my colleagues to contact you on Monday 22nd April for the completion of the refund".
Nobody contacted me.
When I chased it last night, I received this email today:
"We sincerely apologise for the poor level of service you have received from us. Having had a look at your account with us and after speaking to my colleagues in my team, I can see that your refund was added on a gift card and was sent out to you and also to the recipient as an apology on behalf of Fortnum & Mason."
Err....hello...why the sudden change in the agreed compensation offered?
I phoned today and got the same message, when i asked to speak to a Manager in Customer Services I was told they were busy and that someone would phone me back today.
Have they?
No.
I am sure I am a one off - but cannot say I am impressed with their customer service.
Online buyers beware.