written by Madden1989 on 30/11/2022
Do NOT buy from them. They advertise one thing then send you another. Poor customer service and they still expect you to pay for the inconvenience. A real bunch of cheapskates.
written by Marianan1967 on 21/05/2021
Brought a fridge freezer to be told will be delivered within 7 days. Then from 2nd may puchase said delivery date 17th! Then attempted delivery to wrong address even though coment had the correct address deliver service somehow never and only had 7 morville street. Then after correcting and telling them i am disabled please call and they said they would they never still went wrong address!!! Was told they would call me back never then sold my item and told me its out of stock!!!! Then was told i would be refunded straight away as money was never taken was pending yet still now no refund no fridge freezer been left waiting now cant get any anywhere as all are sold out fuming and disabled with 3 kids will be taking this further especially as not been dealt with correctly or refunded!!!! Bang out of order this is. No refund so unable to purchase a fridge as my benefits money has already gone towards the fridge I brought which you guys have sold on!!!!!
written by Stealth99 on 16/03/2021
Ordered a mobile phone on 3rd March, item dispatched 3rd March with a delivery date of 8th March. My eyebrows were rasied when the Parcelforce tracking number failed to work, however I emailed Comet about this. 8th March came and no surprise that the item was not delivered. Contacted the clowns (sorry Comet) on 9th March, they said that they would contact Parcelforce and conduct an internal investigation. I rang the clowns on the 10th, 11th and 12th March for an update, got the same response (matter under investigation) and they could not provide an update until Monday 15th March. I contacted Parcelforce on the 12th March, received an email from them on the 14th March confirming that they were still waiting to receive the item from the sender (Clowns / Comet) hence the reason why the tracking number did not work, I forwarded the email to the clowns and also demanded that they ship the mobile phone under "Next day delivery" due to the incovenience which they had caused to me). I contacted the clowns on Monday 15th (in the morning) for an update, I was informed that an update could not be provided until 4.00pm that day ? Received a phone call after 4pm to confirm that the matter was still under investigation, however they would be shipping a moble phone to me, but would not know the tracking number until Tuesday 16th March. So here I am (Tuesday 16th March at 12.45pm) still awaiting confirmation that the item I ordered on 3rd March has been shipped and a tracking number which actually works, no confirmation that the item will be sent "Next day delivery". Only one star given as you cannot submit a review with no stars. This is / was my first experince with Comet and it will be my last. I have never experienced such a incredibly poor level of customer service, total incompetence, complete lack of customer skills or care. Above all I have zero faith, confidence, trust or believe in anything that these clowns have said.
written by on 21/02/2013
If it was possible Comet customer service wouldn't get a star! This is a total joke! I bought a tumble dryer which was working fine but then it stopped spinning. I have an extra care plan but I can't book a repair without an authorisation number. I tried to contact differnt numbers but nobody picks up. It soo annoying! I hate eerything about this customer service. MIt wastes my time. I've spent three hours constantly ringing and nothing happens. I don't even want to see my phone bill! This is going to be a fortune. Everyone transfers me forwards and backwords, any noone can help me!
written by cairny4 on 19/12/2012
well when i got home there was no remote, tried everything but its dead without a remote, havent even done first setup, plays blu ray at least, i dont think i ishould spend money on a remote when i have paid for system, what a rubbish xmas with kids i am going to have, anyone any ideas, i bought the 190 model, bought it saturday past and managed to go in last day, man said buy one on ebay for 7 quid, well cheapest i have found on internet is 40, and might not work .....help please
written by on 22/11/2012
This is what I heared yeasterday from the manager from Comet in Preston Capitol. I naver heared any sales person talking to customer this way. I was refused information about my camera that is service since 8 weeks. I had to call police to report rasist incident after they told me to call my ..... police. I have never felt so offended. I have to addmit I was there with 3 year old son and he wanted security to kick me out of the shop. Hope he will be disciplinary fired.
written by on 04/11/2012
bought some beats by dr dre which were faulty took them back to comet where i got them and the person would not refund them or swap them i ended up taking the broken ones home im very disappointed as i paid a lot of money for them
written by AASA on 13/10/2012
Needed to return a faulty desktop which I bought 2 days earlier, I had to go there twice and argue with the customer service and the manager to convince them to refund my money back. They refused saying that the T&C's mentions that they don't accept refunds or returns of opened items even in the first 14 days and that I had to call customer support to try to fix my computer. I just want to know why would anybody want to return an unopened product and how are customers supposed to discover a fault without opening the goods? I decided never to buy anything from them from now on. Other retailers have much better customer service and cheaper prices.
written by charleneyardl89 on 24/09/2012
Went to comet castle vale on 15/09/12 was shown around by a sales guy and we picked out the cooker and washing machine we wanted we opted for installation and was.happy with out choices.of a crown 60" duel fuel cooker and a hotpoint 8kg washing Machine. Unfortunately this is where the fun ended the sales guy was.very rude during the finance process and impolite however we let this slide as we British do with delivery booked for Saturday 22nd it was now.just a waiting game. Saturday came and the cooker was due to be installed text message from comet saying delivery and installation between 7am and 7pm track online, well that gives u no more info than the text message which is a complete joke. Knowing the engineer would phone 1 hr before delivery we went to buy some food for our new cooker, at this point o should mention all we had eaten for 3 weeks is microwave food though this.is not comets fault, we got home at 3pm still no call and getting a.little anxious. At 6pm the engineer.finally called to say he'd be with us in half an hour. When the engineer git here he wasnt an electrician and said he couldnt install the cooker as it had to have a 20a fuse not 32 at which point I am now fuming I have £110 worth of food in the fridge o cannot use among which is sea.bass I march down to comet to find out why nothing had been mentioned about this being an nonstandard installation where they refunded.the installation charge and knocked 10% off the cooker price which is great but thats.coming off the finance and I now have to find installation costs instead of being able to spread the cost. We got home and unpackaged the.cooker as.the engineers had.not even got that far and pushed it into the slot until we could get some one to install it. And OMG it doesnt fit the cooker at its widwe have.now had to take the widest point is 62" not 60" we have now had to take pur cupboard off the wall and move it the installation is scheduled again for tomorrow the wall needs remastering and we are currently about 200 quid out of pocket and worst of all I have yet been able tp speak to a single human being at comet
written by on 04/09/2012
I bought a dyson for my mother in law on thursday the 30th august 2012, Comets e mailed confirmation of delivery, it will arrive Monday Sept 1st, I checked the tracking of the delivery early monday and it was confirmed as 'out for delivery'. My mother in law who is not well got up at 6.30am as the delivery slot was between 7am - 8pm. Ok, this is standard and we expected a long wait in, 8pm came and went and no delivery!!! I was fuming, and the frustration increased because Comets cannot be contacted, I emailed that evening (over 24 hours ago) and have had no response, i've rang their contact number on several occasions throughout the day(10pence a minute) I have gone through the options and then they tell you that no staff are available to deal with my query!!! Aaaaaaargh, how are they allowed to do this? Money has been taken from our account, hve waited in all day and no communication, charged for trying to contact them to find out whats happening to my goods, no reply to e mails??? How can Comet treat their customers like this? Don't bother purchasing anything, go elsewhere.
written by on 29/08/2012
I purchased a Tefal iron from Comet in Braintree, Essex. After 8 months use it stopped working so I returned it along with the receipt. I was told by the shop assistant that they won't do anything and if an item breaks after 28 days it is up to me to contact Tefal and return it to them myself for repair or replacement!I cannot believe Comet's lack of customer service. I am now expected to package up an iron and get it sent to Tefal myself, in the meantime having no iron to use. To cap it all, the shop assistant was quite dismissive and took several minutes before serving me whilst chatting to another assistant.
Written on: 25/09/2012
I hear your pain, just had a very similar experience also with a Tefal iron. The returns policy on the website does not seem to mention this and when I phoned customer services and after speaking to her Manager, the person told me that if I have my receipt and it was under 1 year old, I could get a replacement. (Family of 6, - can't do without an iron and lets face it they are not inexpensive to buy, I think mine was around £300 before sale price of £160!!!!) Anyhow after I asked customer services why mine had been sent off by the Falkirk store rather than replaced they phoned the store and spoke to the Manager who confirmed that there is a different policy for Tefal. If the people who work for Comet cannot interpret the policy, how is it that they expect customers to do so, - or is this the point! Bought loads of electricals from Comet before, - but will not buy again. Customer Service is shocking!!!!
written by polliep on 22/08/2012
I recently decided to buy a laptop online and settled on a Fujitsu AH532 laptop, i found the one i wanted on the Comet website and bought it online. they told me it would be delivered 2 days later between 7:00 in the morning and 20:00 at night so i took the day off work to wait for it to be delivered. it did not arrive on the day they said it would and then when enquiring why it had not been delivered they told me it had in fact been delivered which was false, so not only did they not deliver my product in on the day they said they would causing me to miss a day off work and then the next day as well trying to sort it out but they tried to claim they had delivered it when they hadn't implying that i had signed for it because there were 2 initials on the signature, not my initials just random initials, which i think i would know about. i therefore cancelled my order with them and will never be buying anything from them again
written by on 19/07/2012
Two weeks ago I ordered a fridge freezer from them and an hour later a dishwasher. The latter was on offer at £360 whilst everywhere else was £400. Next day got an email from 'em saying they couldn't process the payment on the dishwasher. Rang HSBC - yup debit card transaction authorised - rang Comet helpline on 0871 number at 10pm a minute. Spoke to four people. Bounced back to the front voicemail menu. 30 minutes wasted = £3.00 on the phone bill. Ordered from Boots Kitchen Appliances (for £400) on Tuesday PM - delivered Thursday. Texts and phone calls every day, and on the day, a call plus text at 0700 - arriving between 10am and 2pm. Noon - call to mobile - we'll be with you in 30 minutes. Theyw ere - great service... The debit transaction for the Comet sale took a week to drop off the available balance on the HSBC bank account. Googled around for `Comet and transaction and problems. loads of complaints from affiliates saying around 30pc of Comet online transactions fail. What a shambles. The fridge freezer was delivered as promised. Told driver and mate - he nodded sagely and said he'd heard it was a problem. I WILL NEVER BUY ANYTHING FROM COMET AGAIN. That is all....
written by moniqueb on 11/05/2012
Comet sold me an oven, and charged for installation. Oven was delivered supposedly by qualified electricians, who said that oven had the wrong fittings and could not be installed. I cancelled that order and bought another oven, with the right fitting. Electricians who delivered that oven said it could not be installed and I had to have my own electrician. I cancelled the charge for installation and hired an electrician, who had no trouble installing the oven, at less than half the Comet price!
written by cometrajoke on 11/05/2012
comet offer a price promise which is absolutely worthless. Currys have a Hotpoint tumble dryer online for £179, Comet price online £249. Rang up to ask for price match, when it came down to it they wouldn't match the price because the tumble dryer could not be delivered until the Tuesday, even though comet were unable to deliver until Wednesday. The dates for delivery are not because either company don't have stock, but simply because on my postcode they are not in that area until the Tues!!!
written by on 03/05/2012
Having purchased a Hoover washing machine from comet I took out there extended warranty after spending 20 mins on the phone explaining the fault to there customer service dept they arranged to send an engineer over a week later. The send engineer was sent but given no house number never arrived they were called again a 2nd appointment was made I had to wait another ten days for this privilege but the bright side is he had my full address this time he arrived at arranged time and immediately knew the problem a part needed ordering its now a week since then and the said part has arrived I'm now told I've got to wait till Next week for an engineer that's 4 weeks in total that I've waited. As of yet it's still not fixed The communication between customer service and there engineers is very poor and I'll be rolling out the red carpet providing they manage to give the engineer my address in full!!!!!!!
Written on: 08/05/2012
similar happened to myself. My Beko washing machine broke down over 2 weeks ago, rang Comet, wasted about 20 mins before answering. I went through what the fault was and was told a company called REPAIR CARE would ring with an engineer appointment. After not hearing anything I found REPAIR CARE phone number on the internet. Gave them a call, they then got in touch with Comet and called me back to say they had arranged for a local engineer to visit the same week. Engineer turned up, was here all of 5 mins told me what was wrong, which is what I had already reported wrong and said would have to order parts. Two and a half weeks later still waiting for Comet to authorise repair. Rang Comet today. they said it was REPAIR CARES fault for not e-mailing them. I rang REPAIR CARE, they said sent several e=mails to Comet and was getting no replies. Long and short of it is, Comet promised to sort it out today after I said would like all of my insurance premium back for doing all the ringing about to different companies on premium rate numbers, false promises and incompitence. Guess what no phone call as yet....
Desperate knee deep in washing customer
written by on 29/04/2012
I ordered a DAB radio and docking station on the click and collect service to be picked up from the Portsmouth Ocean Park store. I received a phone call and e-mail to confirm the item was now available and on the website it claimed I had until 4pm to the next day to collect my purchase. The next day I went to the store and the assistants could not find my item. I then had to hang around while they went through the farce of looking for it when it became clear that they had already sold it and had no further stock. It is obviously Comet policy to sell items within a few hours of store closure but they do not state this on their website. I will not be using the click and collect service again. It is apparent that profit is more important to Comet than Customer Service.
written by glenc on 25/04/2012
I ordered a PC from their site, opted for an instore pick up. At the point of paying I was told that it would take 6 days to get into the store - fair enough I thought 7 days later, I was about to go in and collect it, but noticed on the receipt it says that the store should call you - so I thought Id double check before I went in I was then told that it wasn't in the store and they had no idea when it would be. They'd already taken my money, given me a confirmed date but now they tell me this I'd maybe expect this from some dodgy cheapo internet retailer, but not from a major high street one. Really bad practise. They didnt really seem to care too much either. So, I've taken my refund and will shop somewhere else - suggest you do too
written by on 21/04/2012
My washing machine was reported to the repair service centre 10 days ago, the engineer came out and immediateley told me it could not be repaired on there and then as the drum in machine had packed in. He went on line to book the part and arrange a new apppointment for me which came up as 3 weeks time. I explained that i had done without a machine for almost 2 weeks already so how was i expected to survie another 3 weeks? I have been ringing the helpline and i have been left waiting on the line for 10-15 minutes at a time at a cost of 10p per minute.Finally getting through to be then cut off! I pay a policy for after service care so how can this be good customer service!
written by chris1dz on 20/03/2012
washing machine broke down rang for repair 30th jan had a date for repair they cancelled it,made another 17th jan ,came out wrong parts reordered parts heard nothing rang them told my parts were in but cant repair till 12th march ok i thought by this time i was angry ,came on 12th what a surprise wrong parts booked again for 16th parts wrong also engineer found another fault which is dangerous ,parts ordered yet again .ive rang comet so many tmes for help its even been invesagated but no joy from comet at all .had anserw phone message from repair dept saying thaey will now be out on 26th only to be told today after speaking to comet that its booked for 4th april .im at my wits end dont no where to go from here .it a joke have emailed comet again tonight ,i brought my warranty for the reson if my machine breaks down it will be repaired and not have to wait two months to have a repair ,i have found comet very unhelpful just been fobbed off with excuses im now going to seek advice because the warranty does no do what it says it does .will never buy good from them again yet alone renew my warranty mrs cm turner
Written on: 07/04/2012
Hi I know how you feel. We bought a brand new Panasonic TV from Comet in October which broke 4 weeks ago as in no TV for 4 WEEKS! Well we have the scratty little portable but it's not HD so we're also losing out on Sky. Anyway, they sent an engineer within a couple of days who was USELESS!!! He made the problem worse and TOLD me so.... you can imagine that I wasn't happy. Now I had to wait for parts which I was told were coming in on 19/3, they didn't arrive and nobody bothered to call me to tell me so. Once again I had to call them on their PREMIUm RATE line to find out what was going on. Now the parts weren't due until Monday 26th March and guess what? Same old scenario - parts not arrived, nobody calls me. I have now got trading standards involved. I was told that the parts were due in on 6 April. I knew this was a fob off as this was Good Friday and they wouldn't be working, so I e-mailed yesterday AND they weren't working!!! I hope trading standards can move this forward for me. I know it's only a TV and not the be all and end all but we paid over £500 for it and it's still new so it's the principle . I WOULD NEVER, EVER RECOMMEND COMET TO ANYONE AND I'LL TELL EVERYONE I KNOW HOW TOTALLY AND UTTERLY RUBBISH THEY ARE.
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Written on: 22/02/2013
i also have got a washing machine that dosent wash iv been waiting a month for repairs i rang so many numbers with not much luck how do u manage may be a law suit would be better