Sapphires www.decks.co.uk

AVOID THIS SHOP AT ALL COSTS...!!!!

The staff are arrogant, they don't give you all the information regarding returns and if you do return anything - even if its covered by a warranty, they will find a way to extort you - i had a bad experience with these clowns and i really hope nobody has to endure such bad business and customer service- they should be ashamed of themselves...

If something you buy from decks breaks, your absolutely screwed. A shockingly bad returns policy and service.

We bought a trusted mixer from decks.co.uk in April worth £210 (Vestax VMC 004 XL) We had the same model for 4 years with not one problem. We have used it about 5 times for Djing at weddings and kept it in it's original packaging in between.

On Saturday whilst djing at a wedding the slide fader completely broke. It now allows 100% of signal from the left channels through whilst the fader is fully right. Also there is fuzz through the headphones on the cue nob.

We think it must have been a display model as the fader was slightly bent when we received it anyway.

Decks.co.uk will not send out a new mixer and will not pay for the postage for us to return it to them to get it fixed. We now have 3 weddings in 3 weeks and no mixer. Totally screwed.

Their answer: "If we send out new products to everything that was faulty we would be out of business".

So if a chef gets delivered some mouldy carrots, will the supplier say, "I can't have those back because we'll be out of pocket?"

Decks.co.uk should send out a new mixer, fix the broken mixer and get their money back from their supplier Vestax. The only people that are loosing out are their customers.

Shockingly bad service.

I purchased a midi controller for my husband's birthday with next day delivery (as it was the 2 days before his bday). I received an email stating that my order would be delivered the next day subject to payment clearance. I happily awaited delivery the next day (between 8am and 7pm which wasn't ideal) and was informed I'd receive a tracking number so I could track an approx. time for delivery. I hadn't received a code by 7am the next day, and as customer services don't open until 10am I waited and phoned as soon as I could to be told 'your item is out of stock, we tried to phone you to tell you'. I had no answerphone message left, was then told 'it rang off before we could leave a message' which can't be true as I have not 1 but 2 answerphones! Was then told 'oh, we emailed you' but I had no email, nor in my junk. I conveyed my disappointment at this, given I'd rearranged my ENTIRE day for the delivery to be told 'what exactly do you want me to do?' in an abrupt tone. I told the gentleman that I couldn't wait for delivery and wished to cancel, to which he responded 'fine, thank you' and hung up on me! I then had to phone back AGAIN later on as he hadn't actually cancelled my order, it had been locked (which meant they would have waited for the item to come in and charged me for it) so I had to spend more of my time and money asking them to delete my order. This was done by a very efficient lady who duly removed the order. I left a message on facebook, it was removed, I then emailed customer services and noone even bothered getting back to me. I have now found an amazing company who have delivered over and above my expectations so far and I am planning on purchasing all my studio equipment from them now. I would steer clear of this company, if you can't put value in customer service or even acknowledge you have made a mistake then that rings quite a lot of alarm bells! Avoid disappointment and shop elsewhere I'd say!