“Very very poor service. I ordered an item online (in the past I have sent in my order form, but then if the item is not in stock, you don’t know this until a letter comes back to tell me). The item was showing in stock, so I ordered it. Next day, I got an email to tell me the item has proved so popular that they have sold out, even though I had it showing in my account (I ordered one item and it was showing 2 in my account). Ok, things happen. I received an email to say the item would be back in stock on the 16th February (original order was 9th January). I waited, and questioned the error in my account. In the meantime I have have had 2 bills (both showing this item, and the second one even had a service charge added). Long story short, the 16th came, nothing so today (the 21st February ) I emailed for an update. The answer was, yes the item came back in stock on the 16th. Silly me, did I expect that in the 5 days since it came back in stock, they may, as it seems to be a popular item and I probably are not the only person waiting for it, actually tried to process the order. After contacting them, and been giving all the excuses, I was offered the option of waiting or, get this, they would be nice enough to cancel the order for me if I did not want it!. What the hell, so after waiting over 6 weeks now, would I really want to cancel it. If this was the case I would have cancelled it six weeks ago, and save myself being messed around. Customer services? What a joke. If I could give less than 1 star, I would. (Even 0 would be too many)”
“Jumper I ordered was massively over large. Returned at my own cost. Items re-ordered never received. More cost telephoning Damart three times. Hermes never found my house (although previous parcel was left on doorstep while I as away). Order now cancelled. Has ow cost me at last £12. Needles to say I will not buy from Damart again and I do not trust Hermes.”
“This is the second review I have written regarding your button up cardigans, the first concerning two of the same type which have either gone in a hole or are starting to come apart at the seams. I have two others of the same type which are now manifesting one or other of these problems. I have reported these problems but customer services have never got back with me. They are fairly new.”
“1 coat was ordered online, a couple of days later customer service rang to query an order for garden furniture as well. They were told that only a coat was ordered. The coat arrived, and a few days later Hermes (says it all) left the garden furniture without seeing anyone. No-one seems to answer the phones. Useless, will never use them again.”
“I have decided to do a review on Damart due to my wife's frustration, she has ordered clothing for her 90 year old Auntie, the first package arrived and it was wrong, they apologised, wrong trousers in the correct packaging, this has now happened twice again, even after numerous phone calls weve just recieved the wrong item again, the company obviously has a real
problem communication, this has been going on since July ! Damart feel free to contact me with your comments, enough is enough !”
“I will never order with them again. They charge £3.99 delivery. Then £2.99 return. Then parcel doesn't get picked even tho I paid to return. If you can't try it on should be free returns. Then they use an 0871 which isn't free with any provider. Rip off company”
“Ordered 4 dresses and paid for them at the shop in Bingley. Was told that they would certainly be with me before my holiday in 9 days time. After phone call today was told that that order had not been put into the system until the day after ordering. 9 days have now passed and I am still waiting for delivery. As I am on holiday from tomorrow, wonder when/where they leave the package. A totally inefficient service, my first and certainly my last order!!! Will have to return to Bingley to get a refund - after my return from holiday.”
“I ordered a skirt and was sent a blouse and then to add insult to injury I can return it at my own cost of 2.99 or phone the help desk at 13p per minute to arrange a "free" return”
“Damart state on the returns page. Attach returns label to return unwanted items from your order. They do Not state that you have to pay the return postage yourself. I returned a light weight jacket, a pair of shoes and 2 t.shirts. As they were not as expected.
Had to pay £14.00 at the post office. (cheapest rate possible.)
Totally unacceptable.!
Complained to customer services. Reply was extremely un-helpful.
Avoid. No wonder they have so many bad reviews on the internet.”
“Ordered 2 packs of white sloggi knickers 9th Nov,,,,,On 16th received all black ones,,,,phoned them up ,,they said to put on returns form that iwanted replacement white,,,,,They said that it takes 2 weeks to get info onto their accounts system from their depot,,,,so they couldn't give me a refund,,,,waited,,,then phoned up today as I didn't hear anything from them,,,was told they'd put a refund back on my card on the 26th Nov!!!!!! and that they'd probably not noticed in the warehouse that I had asked for a white replacement,,,,would be nice if they had let me know then I could have got some from somewhere else,,,,been almost a month ,,,,,WHAT A FIASCO,,,,!!!!!”
“Had to pay £2.99 post to receive the order, which was nothing like the description, poor quality. Then I’ve had to pay £5 to return the order, so in all I’ve paid out £8.99 for nothing. I will never place an order again and would advise everybody to be careful because of the postal charges which are non refundable. Lesson learned.”
“received a leaflet via post. tried to go on line to order but the original price and not the sale price keeping coming up. had to order on line. Said I was a new customer. NOTHING was said about having to pay for returns. When goods arrived every thing was on the small side. Trousers were very tight and I ordered the size I ALW~AYS~ wear. a week after return the returned items are still not appearing on my statement. WOULD NOT BUY FROM AGAIN. So, in effect, I paid £7.00 to order and then have to return an item that was too small”
“Didn’t have size wanted when I returned item. 2 months later chasing me for payment on an item I hadn’t received. Web site message system “timed out” when I was writing my complaint. Kept me waiting on phone at 12p per minute and would not ring me back. Still have not got item 3 months later!!
I asked for compensation but this was not forthcoming. First and last time I will ever use Damart.”
“I have been a loyal customer for years. I am nearly 80-years old and disabled, so buy a lot online.. I recently ordered 3 polo neck sweatshirts for my son for Christmas and guessed at his size. Unfortunately I guessed wrong and we had to exchange the items. I was horrified to learn on my statement that Damart increased the price of the replacement items to £19.00 each instead of the £13.30 offered and agreed original price, resulting in an outstanding balance of £17.10 I rang to query this with them and was advised that as a company they view the issue of replacement items as a new sale and therefore not subject to any original offer. I challenge both the legality of this and the moral validity of this.
Their response: We can confirm we will not be able to credit your account for this amount. The outstanding balance is due on the 2nd of January 2018. Unfortunately, if you do not pay this amount, we will not be able to stop further action from taking place.
As stated, when you called us in December to query the price difference, two separate orders were placed. The first order had the 'Black Friday' 30% discount. Nearly a month later, a completely separate order was placed with free postage. This is the reason you were charged full price for the second order.
You do have the option to exchange goods by returning the first lot of goods and requesting a replacement order, however the discount would still not be applied as discounts can only be used once.
My response: See you in court, I am going to shop elsewhere - and you should do the same!!”
“I was so annoyed this morning to see that the deep pink colour from my new Damart pyjamas had rubbed off on my sheet and pillowcase. I shall not be buying anything from this company again.
I would also like to say that phoning the company costs a fortune.”
“Went to return some items and waited ages in queue at post office to be told it would cost me £3.40 then took parcel to my Hermes shop where I take any of my mail order returns to be told they needed a barcode They quote EASY returns in their catalogue but don't tell you you have to pay for returns I have done mail order returns for years and still do and have Never had to pay Think this is misleading as you assume they are free”
