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“Why the trickery”

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written by on 19/02/2018

I’m a fool. I see a damart ad or leaflet showing very good prices on offer. Each time it is out of stock. If they do have it the price is the full price even though if it’s a booklet the reduced price is shown. I am determined not to be taken in by this advertising any more. I am going to send back to them all their junk mail in future. No chance of any recommendation from me. Everyone should avoid them at all cost.

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“AWFUL SERVICE - DAMART”

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written by on 27/06/2016

Trying to make a payment online was a nightmare. Eventually had to phone Customer Services which cost me over £3. They promised the matter would be sorted out and I should not have a problem in future. Second payment was exactly the same, nothing came up under Personal Account online even though they had emailed me saying my statement was ready for review so I probably have another £3 added to my phone bill. Cancelled account. Really not worth the aggravation.

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“POOR SERVICE DAMART NOT INTERESTED I KEEPING CUSTOMERS”

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written by RitaHawkes on 07/05/2016

CALLED DAMART CUSTOMER SERVICE CHASING MY FIRST (AND LAST) ORDER IT STATED NO ORDERS OPEN IN SYSTEM. DAMART TOOK THE SUM OF £40.19 FROM OUR ACCOUNT WHEN I PLACED THE ORDER, ON 29 APRIL HOWEVER, IT DID NOT SHOW GOODS OUT OF STOCK AS I WOULD NOT HAVE PLACED THE ORDER FOR MY HOLIDAY TRIP NEXT SATURDAY IF THIS WAS SHOWN WHEN PLACING THE ORDER!!!!! SO MONEY TAKEN PRIOR TO SHIPPING. NO INFO FROM DAMART REFERENCE DELAYED ORDER. ON CONTACTING CUSTOMER SERVICE I WAS INFORMED THAT ALL GOODS WERE OUT OF STOCK AND NO INFORMATION AS TO WHEN THESE WOULD BE AVAILABLE. YOUR EMPLOYEE ALSO STATED THAT DAMART DOES NOT TAKE MONEY UNTIL GOODS SHIPPED WELL THEY DID!!!! THIS I BELIEVE IS IN FACT ILLEGAL!!. AS THE GOODS WILL NOT ARRIVE IN TIME I CANCELLED THE ORDER AND DEMANDED A REFUND ONLY TO BE TOLD THIS WILL TAKE 10 DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SO THEY CAN TAKE FUNDS ILLEGALLY FROM MY ACCOUNT WITHIN A FEW HOURS BUT IT TAKES 10 DAYS TO REFUND IT. I WILL BE REPORTING DAMART TO TRADING STANDARDS AND MAKE SURE THAT AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE ARE AWARE OF THERE INAPT WAY TO DEAL WITH NEW CUSTOMERS, THIS WILL BE ON GOOGLE REVIEWS AND FACEBOOK. I WILL ALSO ENQUIRE IF YOU BROKE THE NEW REGULATIONS REGARDING COMPANIES HIDING THEIR TELEPHONE NUMBER AS YOUR CUSTOMER SERVICE CALLED ME BACK AND MY PHONE DISPLAY SHOWED NUMBER WITHHELD. I UNDERSTAND THIS IS NOW ILLEGAL AS FROM 01/2016 I WILL ASK TRADING STANDARDS IF THIS IS ILLEGAL OR NOT AND IF SO REPORT IT TO THE APPROPRIATE AUTHORITY. I AM AWARE THAT IN THE UK 2016 MOST SUPPLIERS DON’T CARE ANYWAY. ONLY MAKING AS MUCH MONEY AS POSSIBLE IS THE NUMBER ONE AIM. R HAWKES

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“THE WORST COMPANY!”

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written by Cunningham207 on 04/04/2016

I ordered clothing, a number of items in different sizes. Never did I realise that taking it back to the post office was not free of charge. So when I was told it would be £12 to return the goods I was amazed. I rang for them to come and collect and it was still £3.99! If that's not bad enough, to PLACE THE ORDER on the phone cost me £4.02! Absolutely abysmal service from their "Customer CARE". Never ever again - I had never heard of them until they fell out of Weekend Magazine in the Daily Mail - what a shame I found them! If I had know they charge like this, I would never have ordered with them. Luckily I stopped a colleague of mine from ordering before she made the same mistake.

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“DON'T USE THEIR 0871 PHONE NUMBER.”

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written by PhilipBender227 on 19/05/2015

The Damart order line number 0871  is a premium rate number costing 10p a minute. The call centre staff deliberately take their time to deal with calls usually ensuring that the average time to place even a simple order is around 6 - 10 minutes or 60p to £1 in call charges. An easy & much cheaper way around this is to dial the head office number of 01274 xxx, this is a normal, non premium rate number, then ask for customer services you will get transferred to the order staff & then place the order.

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“terrible service and delivery”

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written by qrGomez95 on 30/04/2015

Ordered eventually but they had mixed up my email address and ordering system did not tell me I was using 'wrong' email. Take days to answer queries - really days -and the answers do not cover all you have asked. Their individual computer systems do not appear to be linked. After sending about 12 emails they eventually told me (to the wrong email) they had despatched the order but not by which courier or when expected delivery was. I sent umpteen emails again, only to get an email this morning to say it was despatched by HERMES with a link to the tracking system but no number the HERMES system would accept to track, so useless and partial information again. Just opened my front door to find a parcel by my doormat and courier had ignored instruction to knock three times (full colour notice in very large print) and just dumped the parcel, which could easily have been stolen. Also, anyone seeing it might be encouraged to break in as it appears nobody in, whereas I was and am. DAMART are frankly dangerous to use - I have kept the two items even though one is the wrong colour as I am too intimidated to go through a returns process. My advise - do not use computer ordering with Damart if you expect efficient, quick, and 'distance ordering legislation compliant service' from them on line. They simply do not do it.

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“DISGUSTING SERVICE”

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written by fwO'Sullivan419 on 19/04/2015

i wanted three items in a hurry. I was told that because it was my first order with them, they would not offer express delivery. Who made up THAT stupid rule? My credit card is the same as if I'd ordered in the past. I would NEVER EVER buy from Damart, NEVER recommend them, and have torn up their advertisement in disgust. USELESS COMPANY.

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Damart's Comment

Written on: 23/04/2015

Thank you for your feedback and please accept my apologies for the poor experience you have had with Damart.

There are other factors that can affect the provision of express delivery on an order including stock availability and service being available in your area.

If you would like me to look at this matter further please provide me with your customer account number or address, postcode and items required.


Kind regards
Carly

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“Done like toast!”

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written by Banks152 on 08/03/2015

I have used Damart products for almost 30 years and been pleased with the products. However, when I wanted to place my order today, the website marked up items that were suppose to be on sale! It refused to let me place my order even at the higher price and when I tried to call them the phone number did not work either! I'm done with you Damart! Sincerely, Disgusted!

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“Customer service is a joke.”

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written by JoyceHoneysuckle on 18/02/2015

As unable to access my account via net I ordered a jacket from Damart. by telephone 8th Feb. money taken from my bank 9th Feb. also couldn't place order by net as although advertised their website did not recognise part number. Paid 0871 10per minute to order by phone. The jacket ordered did not appear on my account. Emailed twice on status of order..no reply. Jacket appeared via Hermes 12th Feb. Poor quality..Broken zip..size purchased 14-16. but surprisingly too small. Returned within 15 minutes of receipt via Hermes. Emailed explaining but once again 1 week later still no reply. Rang 0871 to be told it takes 14 days for returns to appear on their system. Ring back in a weeks time. If I ever go near this company again would someone shoot me PLEASE... I await with interest the refund!

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“Don't respond”

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written by 26836 on 05/12/2014

You i don't know why I keep bothering with damart but I do, silly me. You forget your password and they tell you that they have sent you an email with a new one. But they fail to do this. Then you contact them and they don't respond. Very poor customer service.

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“Service absolutely disgraceful”

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written by Obsoletegem on 25/07/2014

I requested a refund in May -still waiting. Received yet another letter after 4phone calls over two months being told cheque processed with 10 days before receipt each time. Letter now says cheque currently being processed 28 days before receipt. If i do not receive this I will go to trading standards I will never deal with them again.

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“Damart mailings and prize draws”

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written by hel70 on 20/02/2014

For all people who like me made a big mistake ordering from a Damart catalogue and then being inundated with constant mailings (sometimes 2 a week) ttelling me I was in line for a big prize. After many attempts to get Damart to cease sending me these mailings including writing to the managing director to take my name off the mailing list, I have finally been successful. HOW? I have been posting all the mailings with a label stating "Return to sender not wanted" which has resulted in a letter from Damart confirming they will remove my name from their mailings list. It has taken nearly 2 years to stop these mailings! I don't believe these prize draws are genuine but are a marketing ploy to encourage people to keep ordering goods from their catalogues. The problem is that they prey on elderly people who are convinced they are a winner and frightened of missing out if they don't order. SO IF YOU WANT TO STOP THIS JUST DO AS I DID AND PUT THEM STRAIGHT BACK INTO THE POST. BY DOING THIS DAMART WILL STOP SIMPLY BECAUSE IT WILL BE COSTING THEM MONEY!

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Bustaboy's Response to hel70's Review

Written on: 29/08/2014

I have just realised this is happening to my grandmother who thought she won £51.000 if she ordered within a time limits. She also thinks that the clothing that arrives is a prize, which clearly its not cause it shows in her statement.....

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Evansk07's reply to Bustaboy's Comment

Written on: 24/12/2014

My grandmother is 90 yrs old and ordered £1000's worth of goods as she believed she was in with a good chance of winning £50000 and spent all her savings in doing so, after contacting damart myself and explained her age and she had spent all her savings they agreed that I could return as many items that were still in their packaging, I did this and the items totalled to around £2000 after waiting 14 days I contacted damart as the money had not been credited to my grandmothers account and was informed they had not received all the returns and only credited her account with £300 as I explained I kept a copy of all returns they took all return numbers over the phone and correctly credited her account for 1 day as the next day they refused to refund the money as they claim I have to proof I returned all the items even though I have slips from the gentleman that collected the parcels, so now my grandmother is out of picked big time and this has caused her a great deal of stress

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“Ripping off elderly people”

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written by A1lake on 20/01/2014

Don't let any elderly person order from this company. Once they have ordered something the person is bombarded with advertising saying they have been entered in prize draws etc etc providing they place another order.It's a complete lie and they are ripping off elderly people. Disgusted,

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Moonhare15's Response to A1lake's Review

Written on: 13/04/2014

Couldn't agree more - I am currently being harassed by Damart despite telling them my mother has days to live with terminal cancer. She is unconscious and attached to oxygen and these idiots refusee to stop calling until she speaks to them or writes them a letter. I couldn't be more incensed and as a freelance journalist, I WILL be writing an article on this subject.

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Evansk07's Response to A1lake's Review

Written on: 24/12/2014

It's already happened to my grandmother she has ordered £1000's in an attempt to win £50000, my grandmother is 90 yrs old and didn't understand it was a trick. When contacting damart they agreed to allow me to send back as much of the goods that are still in the pacaging I've done this and sent back over £2000 of goods but strangely most of the parcels were lost and her account only credited with £300 when I explained to customer services they said if I have a copy of all items I could give them the details over the phone and the matter would be delt with, after over an hr on the phone giving all the catalog numbers my grandmothers account was credited and she was to receive £1300 back after paying off outstanding balance in her account but the next day they removed all the information I had given and only credited her account with £300 and contacted her telling her she owes them £200 she is devastated and has had sleepless nights over this

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“nuisance e-mails”

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written by on 11/11/2013

never give your e-mail address to Damart. They totally ignore your instructions to unsubscribe.

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Damart's Comment

Written on: 25/11/2013

Hi

I'm sorry that you've unsubscribed from us and it doesn't appear to have worked. I can appreciate how annoying that must be.

If you'd like to get in touch with me, I will check that we have unsubscribed your details in the correct way.

Regards

Jeanette Askin
Head Of Customer Service
Damart.

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Elizabeth Stone's Comment

Written on: 19/01/2014

Totally agree. I have been trying to stop their marketing correspondences for ages. Emails and letter-post, both so often that I have become aware of how desperate it all looks. I will keep telling them, but it may be a job for life, I'm afraid.

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“Tatty, condescending, over-egged garbage. Leave well alone”

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written by on 11/05/2013

Looks like the Reader's Digest has been reborn with this lot. They must think we are a bunch of idiots the way they 'pitch' their products and "prize" offers - Tax Exemtion Certificate/ The Damart Finance Department/Privilege Code/ Authorised by..... Approved by.../Waive Request/Official Correspondence. Stupid, childish 'stamps' saying Board of Directors and Damart Prize Department 'Approved'. Secure Confirmation Docket. What utter crud. Mind you, this DAMARTEX UK Ltd (trading as DAMART) have £3 million cash in the bank and have assests of £45 million, so their constant load of irritating smoke and mirrors advertising makes money from some quarters! The person (who signs all the letters) holds 7 current appointment, has resigned from 9 companies and held appointments at 12 dissolved companies. Why he adds his signature to such tripe is beyond me (no, on second thoughts it's all to do with money). Had I known the utter flood of advertising rubbish that drops through my letter box after buying one thing, I would have never bought from them - they cling like leaches with their constant highly irritating mailings.

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Hel70's Comment

Written on: 13/12/2013

Absolutely agree with all that has been said in this review. I made the mistake of ordering from Damart 2 years ago and have been flooded on a weekly basis since then with their mailings. I Googled their managing director, to get his email address and wrote asking to be removed immediately from their mailing list and saying in no uncertain terms that these prize draws were preying on the elderly and vulnerable who truly believe they are one order away from winning huge sums of money. I had a reply saying he was sorry I felt this way and would remove my name from their mailing list. Nothing happened. I am now returning all their mailings straight back to them marked "unsolicited mail" in the hope they will get fed up receiving them back and paying the return postage. There was an interesting article in the Daily Mirror on the 12th December highlighting this problem and that they had been banned from using misleading claims and banning them. All Damart have done is to change their wording but the end result is still the same. It would be nice if some official body could make Damart produce lists of previous winners and prove these prize draws are genuine (some hope). Maybe we should all complain to Trading Standards to get them banned from sending these mailings with their catalogues altogether. God help anyone thinking of buying anything from them. You will rue the day!

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“EXCESS ADVERTISING”

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written by MickBs on 23/04/2013

Wife bought a top from Damart it was Ok but ever since we have had almost daily Emails and weekly post catalogues trying to persuade us to buy more. Prices are not bargains so we will not buy more nor will we be persuaded to buy by being harassed to do so. BEWARE IF YOU BUY FROM THIS COMPANY WHOSE STYLE SEEMS NOT UNLIKE READERS DIGEST ONES OF OLD WITH THEIR CONSTANT 'BUY NOW' AND 'COMPETITION YOU HAVE WON' STYLE ADVERTISING.

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“Steer well clear of this virus company”

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written by on 21/03/2013

DO NOT SIGN UP WITH THIS COMPANY. I HAVE TRIED TO STOP THEM FROM SPAMMING MY MAILBOX WITH NO LUCK. KEEP UNSUBSCIBING, THEY EMAIL TO SAY SORRY TO SEE ME GO, AND THE SPAMMING JUST KEEPS COMING . . . OVER AND OVER AND OVER. i BELIEVE THIS IS SOMEONE IN A BACKROOM TRYING TO LOOK LIKE A LEGIT COMPANY.

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“Very slow service all round”

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written by Lizfromsussex on 25/02/2013

I have, on many occasions ordered online from Damart (reluctantly, I must add). Each time items are ordered, these do not arrive within the 10 day timescale and in fact, can take up to 2-3 weeks!! Once you place an online order, there is a brief acknowledgement of your order, once you click on "Place Order" and then no e-mail sent acknowledging the same. Also, after logging on to my account, no trace of the order just placed is seen on there (as is the case with other online companies), so there is no way of seeing at what stage the processing on an order is at!! Also, why is it, on a couple of occasions (and I also notice a past reviewer has also mentioned this), although an item is shown online as being in stock, after waiting 2 weeks, a letter is suddenly received from Damart stating that "due to popular demand, this item is now out of stock and will be expected back in stock shortly". Surely, they can be a bit more professional than this by updating their website as soon as an item sells out, instead of wasting their time and other resources, in sending unnecessary letters out to people. Also, another annoying thing this company keeps doing, is sending me details of prize draws, in which it is claimed a prize of, for example £50,000 is up for grabs, as I am a very loyal customer. It shows this is completely untrue, as I hardly order from them (due to the above-mentioned reasons) and to me, it is just a ploy to get customers lured in to placing an order with them and most probably there is no prize draw after all at the end of it!! I am not bothering to order from them again, as the delivery timescale between placing an order and actually receiving an item is unacceptable, as well as in the past, whenever I have had to return an item to Damart, I have to pay high postage charges (even if it is, for example, just a t.shirt or similar light garment).

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“Damart - suppliers of spam email and junk mail”

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written by on 16/02/2013

Bought one of their products and since then I've been receiving several emails a week, their 'unsubscribe from email function doesn't work, and junk mail from them arrives in a flood through the postbox. I totally endorse the recommendations in other reviews to never have anything to do with this company. Why they take such a counterproductive approach of irritating their customers so much I really can't guess, other than complete stupidity of senior management.

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Damart's Comment

Written on: 25/02/2013

Hi,

Thank you for taking the time to post feedback.

I'd be happy to help in anyway I can with the issues you've described about not being able to 'unsubscribe'.

Please feel free to get in touch with me using my email address below.

Best Regards,

Jeanette Askin
Head Of Customer Services,
Damart.

email : [email protected]

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“Very Poor Company”

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written by on 07/02/2013

I ordered a replacement thermo top. When it did not arrive after a month I called DAMART. The representative told me that top was no longer available and a replacement top would be sent instead. He further told me if I didn't like it I could return it for a full refund. At that time my account was credited $6. When the top arrived I sent it back becuase some parts of it were as thin as a t-shirt. It took nearly a month for Damart to acknowledge the return and then I was not credited with the amount I originally paid. I have called Damart twice about this. I received a different answer each time. My account has still not be credited. I will not order products from DAMART again.

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Asked by Elizabeth Stone on 19th January 2014 Report this content
All reviews I have read have been derogatory of Damart. I too feel the same way. I want them to stop sending me their emails and catalogues. I have repeatedly asked them to stop sending these and still I am getting them. So then, my question is please can you tell me which is the only way to get them to stop sending me their marketing material, both in emails and in the post? I want them to stop sending me their correspondences. What method works to get them to stop doing this? I need to know please. I am getting so annoyed with this unwanted marketing. Thank you in advance.

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