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Anonymous  // 01/01/2019
SO MANY HIDDEN COSTS You find something, then find out that there's an extra £30 or £50 payable. It is such a headache. Only buy this for someone you hate!
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Posted 1 year ago
Scam website - when redeeming a voucher for a hotel stay, the hotel prices are 50% over what is the market rate on other online booking option, which means if, for example, you buy a voucher for £100 and you select a hotel option that requires a surcharge of £200 (£300 in total), is likely you can find the same hotel/same dates and room type, for £200! Basically a scam - do not buy this as a gift for your friend/family as it is a waste of money for both you and them!
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Posted 1 year ago
Seems almost impossible to get through to book anything site is not designed to make booking anything easy. No one gets back to you when you press on icon. Wish the kids hadn’t wasted their money
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Posted 1 year ago
Very poor helpline takes you round and round in circles, then they want to make a charge for you to get in contact with a real person. Impossible to book an experience and they now have my money.
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Posted 1 year ago
Wish I could give zero stars. I’ve used the site to buy gifts for others and it seems great, but as a recipient it is awful. I’m now so sorry to anyone I’ve ever given a voucher to and will never use them again. When you actually go to redeem a voucher (I received a 2 night hotel stay and dinner voucher) they advertise lovely hotels in the Cotswolds and Lake District, but it is impossible to book anything that isn’t a weeknight stay at a seedy looking run-down hostel in Blackpool, unless you pay a lot more to upgrade. I would be wary of paying any more to upgrade, as even then there is no guarantee that the hotel you like will accept the voucher. We tried to book with 3 different hotels and none of them accepted the voucher and said on the phone they had asked to be removed from Buyagift directory months ago. You can swap the vouchers for other experiences but the prices are so inflated and the experiences are so awkward to book that it makes the vouchers pretty much worthless. I’m pretty sure they make most of their money from making it so awkward that people forget to book it before it expires. Complete scam - AVOID.
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Posted 1 year ago
Bought my husband a driving experience. Limited dates available with a start time of 8.30 a.m. Arrived and told there was a £2 fee to park, we were told the fee was on the paperwork, it wasn't, so we went to park 20 yards up the road for free. The instructors knew nothing about the cars and were only interested in charging for extra laps, insurance at £30 for each car (total £120 which we declined) so they told us to leave an open card payment for £5K written on a piece of paper with the CVS number. They tried to sell your journey in the cars but the camera wasn't even pointing the right way. A disgusting waste of money, really would never do again.
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Posted 1 year ago
My experience mirrors many of the others listed here. Site won’t let me register and want more money to extend it. Not going to throw good money after bad that was mentioned to be a gift to me.
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Posted 1 year ago
This company is a scam! Impossible to redeem their gift vouchers. Please do not buy their vouchers, read all the reviews on here. Think I have just lost £180😡 Daylight robbery!!! PLEASE DO NOT WASTE YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY!
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Posted 1 year ago
I have two buyagift vouchers which I attempted to redeem today. One with £49.99 value, one with £43.99 value. Entered the two vouchers totalling £93.98, and browsed through options I can use the vouchers for. All options on the website required me to pay something extra, ranging from about £9 to £200+ extra. Came across a "Overnight stay with dinner for two at moor hall hotel and spa" which required me to pay £46.01 extra to book it. That's fine, I click on "Buy now" to try to book this and the site is forcing me to buy yet another voucher called "One night country escape with dinner for two" to pay the £46.01 extra, which would exchange the value of the previous two vouchers + the £46.01 extra into one combined new voucher totalling £139.99, before even showing me if the dates I want to book the hotel for are even available. Contacted customer service via their annoying robot live chat box (no contact number to call them on - I wonder why?), and useless Thomas pops up. I ask how do I check if the hotel is even available to book on the dates I require before paying £46.01 extra for another voucher. He states I have to call the hotel and ask if the dates I want are available, then buy this new voucher at additional cost and then use that voucher to book the hotel. Bit of a long winded way to do it, when any other site allows you to check dates availability first and then use the voucher to book and just pay any extra without having to buy another voucher first. I checked availability with the hotel, and then paid buyagift the extra £46.01 for this new "One night country escape with dinner for two" voucher as instructed by Thomas. I get sent a new voucher totalling £139.99, go back onto the buyagift site to redeem the voucher and first thing I see is I still need to pay extra for every available option on there? Hang on, I now have £139.99 on my voucher, where are all the options which should now be fully covered by this total which I saw previously when I had £93.98 voucher total? All those previous options prior to topping up the voucher are no longer showing, and completely different more expensive options are only showing. This is a clear SCAM, as the website will only show you options that are more expensive than your total voucher(s) value and not items that are within your voucher value, forcing you to pay extra to book anything. I manage to find the "Overnight stay with dinner for two at moor hall hotel and spa" again which was a pain in the backside as their search on the site is useless, only to find it's now telling me I need to pay another £20+ pound for another new voucher in order to book it! I get back onto useless Thomas stating the situation, only for him to talk out of his backside stating I'd bought the wrong voucher and would need to pay extra. Utter nonsense, when I told him what I'm trying to book and he instructed me to get that voucher in order to book it. I request a call from his manager, and magically he claims he can exchange this so called wrong voucher for the correct one and waiver any additional charges, whilst dodging answering my questions on how it could possibly be the wrong voucher when the website forced me to pay £46.01 extra to book the " Overnight stay with dinner for two at moor hall hotel and spa" venue and gave me that voucher? Useless Thomas then sends me a new voucher, which has the exact same voucher code and pin as the previous voucher. Still can't book the hotel. When I now select the hotel and try to book it, it's now trying to make me buy another voucher at £0. I'm going round in circles, why can't I just book the hotel? Go back to useless Thomas stating the problem who now just tries to ghost me, like as if ignoring the live chat would make the problem go away. By this point I've had enough and want my money back, I state I want my £46.01 back along with the value of my two original vouchers of £93.98 as buyagift have made it impossible for me to redeem them and by this point I've already wasted a good hour or so. I again state I want a call from a manager. No response for at least a good 20 mins, have to keep responding to the chat with ??? to try and get a reply out of the wet lettuce. Then he finally replies with a generic copy and paste reply sending me to a link to submit a complaint online who will aim to reply in 72 hours. No answer to my questions about why I still can't book this venue, no response to me wanting a refund. Not good enough. I then outline how utterly useless he is and has been, pointing out his total incompetence, and state I will be posting a screenshot of the whole chat history on every review site possible and will be calling him out in them. The clown then just closes the chat. I will be doing a section 75 chargeback through my credit card to get my £46.01 back. The two vouchers totalling £93.98 will go in the bin, money lost to these SCAMMERS. Horrendous service.
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Posted 1 year ago
I have two Buy a Gift vouchers, and have been trying to redeem them for 18 months. Now they say they have expired and want anther £20, do not use this company.
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Posted 2 years ago
Exactly like what everyone else says here... hard to book, feels like a waste...
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Posted 2 years ago
Buy a gift is an absolute scam. It is incredibly difficult to navigate the user interface to even use a voucher given- the filters and options to view hotels simply does not work. Also, half of the listings are false. Anything listed as 'call to book' apparently are not bookable and the organisation will do nothing to take those listings off or help troubleshoot. You're left completely on your own. I tried to book a listed experience and had 12 conversations with the helpdesk and the hotel- buy a gift refused to just work with their own hotel listing and I had to be the go-between. In the end I was told by another helpdesk individual it would never work and there was no clarity on how to get the listed hotel to actually have a 'product code' that meant the voucher would work. An absolute scam. Avoid at all costs and hopefully they'll go bankrupt and prevent this frustration from happening to others.
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Posted 2 years ago
Brought a £100 hotel gift voucher through them, given a choice of 4 hotels in the area that we wanted. Great, we thought. Checked in and saw on the receipt that the room rate was £38.50. Contacted buy a gift as it is a £100 voucher not a ‘night in a hotel’ and they said it can only be used once so we lost the rest! Absolutely disgusting!! Please don’t anyone waste your money on them!!
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Posted 2 years ago
ZERO FEEDBACK RATING. This has to go down as one of the worst companies I have ever had the displeasure of dealing with. You cannot ring and speak to any representative and the booking system is appalling. I seriously think that they want you to give up trying and therefore not spend the voucher. DO NOT EVER SPEND A PENNY WITH THIS PATHETIC OUTFIT, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
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Posted 2 years ago
Received a voucher as a gift. Seriously difficult to redeem as I had to constantly download a voucher and login with its references to redeem. Further, despite my sister having paid £150 for a spa hotel experience which offered lots of options, I had to pay a further £49 to book a one-night stay in a self-catering apartment. And buy the way - there's no spa facilities either! If I wanted to book a hotel the surplus would have been an additional £99 or more! Having finally booked a place, I then receive notice that I'm going to have to pay a £45 cleaning fee - which we would not have to pay in a hotel!!! Also now need to take foods for breakfast and drinks with us and pay for all food during our stay as its self-catering so zero meal options. For a one night stay this is now ridiculously expensive - and I'll have to do the cooking and washing up!!! It would have been cheaper to simply book place and forget about the Buyagift voucher. Will never use Buyagift again. TrustPilot forced me to award a one-star review - zero is all they're worth imo.
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Posted 2 years ago
No good DONT BUY A GIFT FROM THIS COMAPANY
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Posted 2 years ago
Same as me. Bought an experience through Buyagift, spent over £130 for my dads birthday on a Gorilla experience at the Aspinals in Kent only to find that the voucher isn't working and the message I get asking for me to use the same voucher number which doesn't work. Going round in circles here & getting really frustrated that these companies are allowed to scam and there never is any regulations on them. Refund requested & hoping to get money back.
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Posted 2 years ago
I've complai Ed to Buyagift a d the grand hotel skegness no one wants to know , look at reviews for the grand hotel skegness
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Posted 2 years ago
I have been trying to book a weekend retreat for almost 16months now the website is so poor that when you try to change your location it doesn’t allow it and it kicks you out of the website and you have to type in the unhelpful 6000 digit code AGAIN
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Posted 2 years ago
Definitely scam. Similar experience to Jasmine Jones. They told me that refund would be problematic as I exchanged the voucher three times. But I only did it because the actual price of the tickets for the musical I wanted was 1.5 times the price on buyagift and I was trying to see if I can use it for something else.
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Posted 2 years ago
Buyagift is rated 4.5 based on 11,749 reviews