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Anonymous  // 01/01/2019
I booked a stay for Christmas eve via this company but unfortunately came down with Covid 3 days before and they refused to cancel or move the date of my trip. Their response was 'go to the hotel and infect people, you don't have to care nowadays' when I asked what I should do. AVOID THIS COMPANY AT ALL COST BECAUSE ILLNESS COUNTS FOR NOTHING TO THEM AND SAFEGUARDING OTHERS IS IMPORTANT
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Posted 2 years ago
Good Afternoon Thank you for taking the time to leave your review. We are so sorry to hear things have gone wrong on this occasion. Any feedback we receive are automatically logged on our system, this is then flagged to the Buying and Marketing teams to ensure future improvements. Please rest assured that your comments have been logged and will be helpful in this review process. Kindest Regards The Buyagift Team
Posted 2 years ago
Tried to book an experience for someone in the U.K. (I'm in Australia). No option for sending the voucher to the recipient and instead, it was emailed to me. I've emailed the voucher to the person in the U.K. and I'm hoping they are able to redeem it. Still waiting to hear back from Buy a Gift. I am really wishing I'd read these reviews before I spent my hard earned on this website. I will be looking elsewhere next time.
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Posted 2 years ago
Hi Kerrie, Thank you for your feedback. I do apologise you were unable to send this direct to the recipient. We do have both a customer information box and recipient information box at checkout to ensure this can be sent across to either participant. I apologise if this was not made clear. I have passed your feedback on to our team. Once again, thank you for taking the time to leave this feedback.
Posted 2 years ago
If you want to gift someone an experience, just give them cold hard cash. We had a 2 night break given to us for our 10th wedding anniversary by my parents at the end of 2019, 3 months later we went into lock down so we were unable to use is. We finally started looking when the rules were lifted and hotels were finally opened again, we struggled to book a hotel straight away due to any of the hotels we liked the look of were fully booked until forever or were not the type of hotel we would like to spend our wedding anniversary gift in. We finally booked up in July for a hotel stay in Banbury for 16th December Whatley Hall, we also booked a spa day which was also given as a voucher by a different company to coincide with our stay which we were really looking forward to. On 29th November we received an email from Carson Senior Destinations Executive stating 'We have been informed and or instructed by our supplier that due to a system/booking issue unfortunately they will no longer be able to accept your recently booked hotel reservation with us. They have informed us that the booking will need to be cancelled as they cannot accommodate. I have been authorised to either issue a brand new hotel break voucher for the amount of the original voucher paid for plus supplement. Alternatively I can issue a credit for the full amount of the original voucher and supplement.' I requested a full refund for the voucher and supplement back due to not being able to book an alternative hotel straight away with 18 days notice due to the lack of availability with the hotels this company deals with and I was hoping i could book an alternative hotel with the refund received so we could continue with our spa day treatment. I received a response on the Thursday 01st Dec at 4:43 The cancellation of booking has been confirmed. The supplement amount of £141.00 is able to be refunded, the original voucher was purchased via Debenhams so we do not hold the funds for this nor can refund that original amount. How would you like to proceed? So after advising i could receive full credit for the hotel voucher and supplement i am now informed they do not hold the funds, this company is not a non profit organisation and have a revenue of $73 million dollars but do not hold the funds! We are now without a hotel and will loose out on our spa day also. My parents are upset as they feel they have let us down with a gift they thought was going to be a lovely break away for us. I do not recommend buying an experience from this company who are very unhelpful, go back on what they say even if it is in black and white and take over a week to respond to your emails as you are not able to contact them by telephone to resolve any issues directly!
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Posted 2 years ago
I have a mixed review. I have bought several Buyagift vouchers and not had a problem booking a 2 night hotel break until recently. I tried to book Mansion House in Scarborough and I was told I couldn’t book when it’s half term so I tried to book the week after, I was told quite abruptly we will be given a standard double room and would have to pay for breakfast because it wasn’t included (which I was aware of) when I said we didn’t want breakfast I was told we have to have breakfast because they don’t make any money on the voucher bookings. I don’t know why they do the vouchers then. I will look for an alternative hotel with better customer service.
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Posted 2 years ago
After reading some reviews I have to agree with the ones who say that the delivery of the vouchers is good, that is where the good service ends I'm afraid. I bought several vouchers for 2 night hotel stays believing that they were good value, and something that we would use. Some deluxe and some Memorable breaks, because of Covid I had to extend the date, which was further expense, but I thought better than loosing the whole amount. Finding a hotel that accepts these vouchers has been a huge problem, owners telling me that they no longer accept the vouchers, and have told BAG but they are still advertised on the site. Eventually I found a suitable hotel, the voucher, and the website included one evening meal, but the hotel told me that when they put the code in my voucher didn't include the evening meal ????? It looks like the original voucher code of a deluxe break has been downgraded so not the good deal I thought it was. On reflection I will not be buying any more vouchers and will book direct with the hotels I want in future
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Posted 2 years ago
I have tried to use our gift voucher for a two night hotel break in a wide range of places and dates across the Uk. The process is cumbersome and involves numerous repeat entries. There are very few options available with some areas of the country with no availability at all. The ones which are available require at least a £200 - £300+ top up for some quite basic hotels. I feel it would be cheaper to book directly with the hotels and not use the voucher. We have spent hours trying to find a suitable hotel. I feel that our relatives have been conned!
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Posted 2 years ago
I purchased a two night stay for me and my daughter at Sand bay holiday park. Now the advert showed a swimming pool, children’s arcade and entertainment. So I booked for half term as I thought would be nice to get away. On completion of booking I received confirmation from pontins only to find that you are not allowed under 18s. It’s an adult only site. At no stage of the booking does it say adults only and my voucher said two person not 2 adults. So contacted buyagift immediately to be told they can’t cancel or change booking and advert USUALLY says if kids allowed. The woman did admit that advert is confusing and offered me a bottle of wine as a pay off which I duly declined as I want the price of voucher back or a new booking. I have sent a strongly worded e-mail but no reply as of yet. I believe buyagift have taken the booking under false pretences due to false advertising.i have contacted trading standards also. Stay well clear of this company and products as it’s a con.
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Posted 2 years ago
I bought a voucher for a silver theatre two tickets. You do not know before you buy the voucher what tickets this allows you to book. I selected two tickets to see Mary Poppins on a Monday evening. I booked the best available tickets that I was offered for that performance . When I looked these up on the theatre website the same day they were £42.50 each, a total of £85.00. The deal costs £129.99 ! You are not allowed to change this deal once purchased . I did contact Buy a Gift and received a voucher, but no explanation. However, many people might not realise that they have overpaid for the tickets. It needs to be made clear that the tickets offered may not be of the value of the cost of the voucher. However, the show was .brilliant.
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Posted 2 years ago
I could not find any availability for the voucher I had been given and eventually was advised there were problems with The Domes afternoon champagne tea and I should look at another option. I chose a tour of a vineyard and paid the requested additional £30. I didn't buy to extend as the voucher expires in march 2023. However, I have tried to book the new experience and yet again there is no availability and the website does not extend to beyond August 2023. It's ridiculous and time consuming. I would not recommend this company and I am left still trying to sort it out.
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Posted 2 years ago
Bought voucher before covid, lasts 2 years, I’ve just managed to get away But! Doesn’t recognise voucher or pin, I want to put money to my existing voucher but can’t get any contact, no phone calls can’t get live chat none of the questions on page refer to mine. I’ve tried all week I think it’s disgusting that we can’t speak to someone, I believe this company doesn’t care but if I don’t hear after I’ve already sent 2 emails I will take this further! Disgusted customer no stars totally disgusted
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Posted 2 years ago
I notice all the reviews with five stars haven't actually tried to use the voucher. I notice in my first try prices were add this or bank that. I added another voucher, then the prices had all gone up massively and no banking on the same places even though I had now put in more vouchers.No contact details...strange that. My friend has also had these vouchers, they offered a spa and lunch. No longer available unless you had the spa in Birmingham and the lunch in Devon. What a scam, don't buy these vouchers. No stars if I could have
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Posted 2 years ago
EXPERIENCE BOUGHT WAS NEVER AVAILABLE TO BOOK AND SO FAR UNABLE TO GET A RESPONCE FROM BUYAGIFT
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Posted 2 years ago
We were delighted to receive the beautifully gift wrapped voucher. However- as others have stated- trying to book is incredibly time consuming and frustrating. Emails take 10 days to answer (because of covid?!) we still have been unable to book our two day break after trying for nearly a month
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Posted 2 years ago
I bought a buyagift for my daughter, wife and a treat to myself for all our birthdays. Costing a few hundred £s. It was meant to be a micro flight experience. Finally we got a date to go with good weather conditions in Rochester Kent. But my family and myself were extremely disappointed when we got shown the aircraft. To our horror it was not a micro flight at all it was what I can only say was a small plane. Nothing like the picture advertised when I bought the experience online. We alll on took the flight individually and wasn’t even able to take control and described as well. Now I have tried to contact buyagift 4 times and 3 times had a live chat with a member of buyagift staff, all this since 21st August and each time been fobbed off that someone will deal with this and get back to me. It’s been 8 weeks now and still no reply. The customer service is appalling and I would never recommend buyagift to any one.……. I am still waiting a reply to this day. I’m not asking for a total refund but maybe some sort of compensation as it wasn’t what I bought and still have the documentation to show for it.
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Posted 2 years ago
Present for my son haven't used it yet but efficient service and nicely presented envelopes for each person included in the gift. Few problems with using codes but eventually with help from Buyagift was resolved. Looking forward to using gift in October so will be able to give a further review then.
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Posted 2 years ago
Do not buy the One Night Hotel Stay for Two with Dinner there is not a single hotel that doesn't require a financial upgrade of sort and on top of this most found require an upgrade that is MORE value than the voucher itself and more value than just booking the hotel through any other website and throwing the voucher in the bin!
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Posted 2 years ago
Warning: Do Not Use Buyagift. Book directly instead. Most of these reviews which say how great they are "must be fake" and requires investigation, as several friends and family have also experienced issues with vouchers and poor customer service from Buyagift. My wife and I redeemed the buyagift voucher plus an additional payment of £41.00, to book the family Shrek World and london riverpass boat cruise, for our daughter's birthday. However, the day was ruined! We wished we never used buyagift and purchased directly instead. Firstly, on attendance at shrek world, the voucher was not recognised by their system and we had to call a Manager at the site to discuss the issue, after 45mins and embarrassment they finally allowed us entry without paying but said it was as a goodwill gesture and only on this occasion. The riverpass voucher was not accepted, as we were informed the voucher is invalid and needs to be updated to be redeemed at Westminster Bridge pier (not London Eye), both (London Eye and Westminster) piers confirmed we can not board without a valid voucher, therefore this experience voucher was not used and we had to pay out of our own expense for a very short boat trip, although the money was supposed to be used for a meal at a restaurant, but we promised our daughter the boat ride. As a result we had to get a fast food takeaway and the birthday plans for our daughter was ruined! We submitted a complaint, however the Customer Service at Buyagift is absolutely appalling. There is no contact number to speak with someone, obviously because to avoid speaking with the overwhelming number of unhappy customers! Instead they use a very time consuming chat service or email process. Someone by the name of Josh/Joshua was assigned to our complaint case, however he seemed to not care about our ordeal nor the importance of resolving the matter urgently. When we used the chat service and email again we hoped a different person would respond, but we had the same person, lacking any empathy about our circumstances. We submitted our complaint and request for a full refund on 27th June 2022. We were told they give their suppliers 10days to investigate and respond. Despite waiting and after several attempts to chase a response or a refund this carried on well outside the given timeframe. It started to appear they knew about the issue and was trying to keep us waiting until we gave up, as they attempted to send an email advising "Case being closed" as they expected us to monitor our emails for a response from them at random times. 5th September 2022, we finally received a response, offering us only £10.69 refund, which is appaling behaviour and well far from sufficient!
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Posted 2 years ago
I bought my husband a driving experience we went to hooton park track there he was told the car he was supposed to of been driving was not there but he could up grate to another car .more money they asked for this was with psr don't buy one of there deals it's a rip off.
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Posted 2 years ago
Quick and easy to order. Prompt delivery. Happy with the service I received
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Posted 2 years ago
Not very good at being able to contact Buyagift when a customer has a problem with the voucher, when they do contact you they don’t read the email reply then they email you back saying they closed your case. Absolutely abmissmal customer service.
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Posted 2 years ago
Buyagift is rated 4.5 based on 11,731 reviews