“As others have said before, Crocodile sale techniques are atrocious. After the sales spiel I was quoted £4,350 for a single garage door. The rep' must have seen the look on my face and said that they would be in the area on a future date, and if I was
to have the the door fitted on the same day, he could reduce the price to £3,500!!
Alarm bells started to ring. How could they reduce the price by £850? By quoting a ridiculously high price in the first place! Needless to say, in the end, I didn't make a purchase. I've found a local company offering the same quality with an alarm, courtesy light, obstacle detection panel and external override kit for £1,920. What a difference. I feel sorry for the folks that have been lured into parting with more of their hard-earned cash than they needed to.
Get two or three quotes before deciding on the one that is right for you. And avoid Crocodile, they just want to get as much of your cash as they can!!”
“We recently experienced the same as everyone has mentioned here before. The long talk on how fantastic the product is. He quoted just under 5k for two garage doors and that was with discount!. When he left I said, give it a day or so and they will ring with more discount....and sure enough they did. I thought these selling tactics were long gone....but we weren't fooled. We have chosen a local company who hasn't ripped us off. Just avoid this company.”
“Very disappointed, Engineer said that I would feel the difference, that the garage would feel warmer. That certainly isn't true, it is much draughteer than my old door. I can see daylight under the door, not looking forward to the winter. Dust and leaves coming in from under the door.”
“I wish I had read the bad reviews on here before booking Crocodile for a quote. Funnily enough I have had almost identical experiences to many people on this site which shows this company to be unscrupulous and manipulative. Sales person turned up to quote which resulted in us sitting through a 1h presentation on the Crocodile garage door. Told us this was necessary as we would see how superior the Crocodile door is and that other "trade" people would just measure up and leave (exactly what I wanted to be honest). Sales person was very pushy, discredited all other garage doors and had many, many stories of other customers which we were uninterested in. Typed numbers into a comically big calculator and quoted us ~£4500 (for a single garage door?!). Before I could tell him this was absurd, he said well, I can see you've got a lot going on with your finances right now so I can give you the "winter discount" of 20% off even though its summer. This brought the price to ~£3600. We said this was way out our budget (we had told him from the start that £1500 was our max figure). He said "Crocodile don't like me doing this but.." and proceeded to give us some other kind of discount for there being another fitting in the area. This brought the price to a "dump the deal" price of £2800. (This was excluding door disposal as they charge £350 for that or £80 for them to chop it up - what a joke). We said that we would need time alone as a couple to consider this price (basically just wanted him out our house at this point). He was very reluctant to leave it there, pushed us to make a deposit of £290 to "secure the deal", but we eventually said he could call us later and we would give him a final answer. He even said "what will change between now and then with your finances?". He also tried to push their finance deals with 9 months 0% interest as this meant we could just pay £290 now and worry about the rest later, in his words! Finally managed to get him to leave, he rang at 3pm and we said no, way too expensive. Surprise, surprise, Crocodile sales team rang me this morning saying they could knock another £400 off and do it at "trade price"! Despite us being told the previous day that £2800 was a final offer and once he leaves it expires! I said no on the phone, Crocodile said bye and hung up. What an awful experience. I would warn anyone away from using this joke of a company. Can totally see how they could prey on vulnerable people. Sickening.”
“I had a person from crocodile come to look for new doors. First thing he said i got 20% off there price. Then he said that he could lower the price by another 20%.
I told him i was having other people to give me a quote. He left his phone number for me to ring him. At 9am he text me then 4 times that day. Three days later i recived a call from there head office offering me a lower price. This reminded of the old double glazing companies. I feel this company should not be considered they are a C........ 2023”
“Had a fault repaired just before warranty ran out. The repair only lasted a few months which took it outside the warranty. It was my belief that the repair should have lasted a reasonable amount of time so I contacted crocodile doors for ankther repair to be made. There response was very negative and used grammar that was very unhelpful. "You cannot expect us to repair outside of the warranty". When I suggested I would take the matter further through legal channels, they accused me of black mailing them, very bizarre and defensive. I was very disatisfied with their after sales service, especially regarding the very expensive garage doors purchased. One expected a much better product that would have stood the test of time.”
“A company that attempts to lure you in with free site survey and quotation out comes the samples and then the no nonsense pricing that they shows you. Start high, oh then there's a special 20% discount today. Still a mile off, it goes back to the office and a day later we can knock a further grand off by combining with a group fit. Load of absolute poor business. Contemptible stay clear!”
“All I have to say is don't make my mistake by not getting a detailed quote in writing.
When the salesman tells you what you are getting, make sure to get it in writing and, get at least one or two quotes from different companies so you have comparisons before making a decision, it will pay off in the long run.
I was told by the salesman that the rollers and workings would be hidden inside a box, it is not, it is completely open. After phoning the office I was told they don't put a cover over the rollers on the inside of the garage, but if I wanted one they could make one for £500. Mmmmmm let me think about that.
So now my integral garage which we use regularly throughout the day looks very pretty on the outside, but not inside.”
“The sales experience was dreadful! The product looked OK.
Priced at £3,900, then offered discount of 20%, then offered reduction because of claimed nearby installation.
Finally came down to £2630.
Finally, finally offered to include second remote at same price.
I declined.
Surprise, surprise. Telephone offer next day from office at £1950.
Crocodiles bite you, piece by piece. Ouch!
Obviously learned the sales technique at double-glazing school.”
“Awful people. They gave a quote over £4,000, they were told it was too expensive, they said because they had a job in the area (15miles away, in London traffic is not in the area) they dropped it to £3,249. Said no to that, he then dropped to £2,600. Got a call from the sales team the next day, said they had looked at the priced and were found some savings and offered it for less. Every other installer is quoted around £1,000-1,500.
I remember by dad telling me about double glazing salesmen in the 80's and before, with this attitude. I thought that sales tactic would have died out at the turn of the century.”
“I had a single garage door fitted less than 3 years ago at a cost of nearly £4,000. Firstly there is a design fault on the bottom of the door that rodents can chew through the cables, to replace this is £350.00, when I reported the call handler wasn't surprised. Also,the door doesn't always close fully, so then you have to use the control panel to close it, I don't know what anyone would do if they didn't have another exit.
Don't waste your money on buying!!!”
“It has taken over a year to finally get our veranda installed. We experienced problems throughout from vastly over promised delivery times, to measuring errors so it couldn’t be fitted, installation issues, multiple leaks and bodged repairs that had to be re-done. It has taken 8 visits, innumerable emails and phone calls to finally get the thing completed. They have offered £350 compensation on an order costing over £22k. We really wish we had never heard of Crocodile, please save yourself the stress.”
“I had a quote of £4165 for a single garage door from Mike. He then brought the price down to £3500 when I said the price was way too high. And later before he left, he gave an offer of £2500 which I didn't yield to. And today a lady from Crocodile's office gave me a price of £2250. This is a joke....price dropping from £4165 to 2250. I have my cctv footage of the garage door survey carried out by Mike.
I feel sorry for all other vulnerable people out there who might get ripped off by this company. Crocodile garage door - just like a crocodile waiting for its prey.”
“You bullied a 96 year old man to by doors at an exorbitant price, then tried to reduce same as ommercial but still charge vat. You are not nice people.”
“What they show in their brochure is not what you get!
I was left with a wind tunnel, but I was told if I wanted it to look like what is advertised it would be afurther £3k.
They also objected to me contacting trading standards, who are of the opinion they should supply what's shown.
I've also contacted the finance company & awaiting their reply, just glad I didn't pay upfront.”
“Do not use, various issues with this company from my personal poor experiences and do not come clean when responding to negative reviews. Overpriced and under designed so go elsewhere as there are a lot of more competitively priced companies out there!”
