The White Company Reviews

Name: The White Company
Address: The White Company (London) LLP, 1 Derry Street, London
Rating: 2.04

2.0 Rating 296 Reviews

25 %

of reviewers recommend The White Company

2.0

Based on 296 reviews

Shipping & Delivery
Delivery Methods	Courier
Average Delivery Time	Within 5 Days
On-time Delivery	Greater than 23%
Accurate And Undamaged Orders	Greater than 77%
Customer Service
Communication Channels	Telephone, Email, Live Chat
Queries Resolved In	Over A Week
Customer Service	1.2 out of 5
Returns & Refunds
Refunds Process	Difficult
Returns Process	Could Be Better

About The White Company:

Founded in March 1994, The White Company is a specialist mail-order company offering a wide range of lifestyle products for the home, principally in White. The company philosophy is and always has been to provide only the finest quality at outstanding value for money. We only work with the best factories in the world and almost everything we sell is made exclusively for us.

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Phone:

0844 736 4222

Email:

services@thewhitecompany.com

Location:

The White Company (London) LLP, 1 Derry Street
London
W8 5HY

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Anonymous // 01/01/2019

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“Ordered an item in the sale. It was in stock when I ordered it. The White Company has now cancelled the order saying the item is no longer in stock. I called customer service who have accepted the item (with the same product code is back in stock) but they won’t honour my order. Absolutely terrible approach from this retailer. All about profit and not about customer care.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Never received items.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“zero customer service + and still waiting for a refund from Xmas 2021 . stay away from this company”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Ordered something in error. Phoned to try to get a refund. Initially everything looked promising and I was assured I would get a refund within 72 hours. Then they declined to refund and now are ignoring my (polite) requests for a response. Very disappointed. Will never buy from them again.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Overpriced and poor quality seems to be the White Company style nowdays. £69 for a top that is made from t shirt material. 2 tops I have ordered where both made from t-shirt material and completely see through.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Still waiting for my refund I ordered a light back in February which when it arrived I decided may be too big for my room. I contacted the white company to get the item picked up as it classes as furniture so cannot be returned to store. They advised that wincanton would pick up the light and make contact to arrange. 10 days passed and no contact so I contacted them via the online chat where they advised me to give them a bit longer. After 2 weeks of waiting I contacted again and they referred it to DPD to collect. DPD came to pick it up. The next day DPD tried to re deliver it to me! After eventually getting the light back to where it needed to go on April 7th the white company confirmed they had received the light back. They asked me to put my card information in over the phone which I did and here I am on 27th April and I have still not received my £450 back! I have called 4 times, had several online chats and still waiting for the manager to call me back and have no idea when I will receive my money back and they cannot tell me or identify what the issue is. I’ve been referred to accounts then IT and it appears that everytime I call nothing has been done. I am a big white company fan but this has completely ruined it for me. Absolutely avoid dealing with them if you can buy similar elsewhere incase you have to return something to them. Having looked on Twitter it would appear I am not the first to fall Victim to this shambles”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Don't buy their electronic diffuser. Its exactly the same as cheaper brands but you pay extra for the name. Ours went wrong and just stopped working. They wouldnt replace it! LOUSY service!!!”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Couldn’t have been less helpful. Ordered a robe that never came, after a few weeks got in contact and they told me it was out of stock. Have now spoken to 8 people on live chat and calling about a refund no one can give me a straight answer about when I’ll have it. It’s been 6 weeks since I put the order through! The worst customer I have experienced in a very long time.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Customer Service is a disaster. You can make a customer or you can make a sale. The White Company made a sale, and their Customer Service lost a customer. I will not be back,”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Terrible customer service ; promised 5 times to call me back to resolve a problem with a gift card”

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Posted 3 years ago

“A generous 1. Bought something for my wife at Christmas and it was returned and confirmed by their warehouse. Now refusing to repay me having sent all the details they had asked. Been shopping with them for years. Another company who make it difficult to get your money back.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Ordered furniture, after 3 months of waiting we rang contact centre many times, they had a different story each time about where our order was. They then cancelled it via email, i rang back and they said the order is still valid, but a new significant delay was going to happen. Do not waste your money with this micky mouse company”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Waiting 17 weeks for mattress to be delivered only to find it was no longer stocked and wouldn’t be arriving . I was told this when I rang to check on order despite being told it was progressing on previous calls so goodness knows when I would have been informed Customer service offered a refund but yet to receive it Bad bad show Won’t be ordering again”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Waste of time. Waiting for my order to arrive and the Parcel was delivered to someone else by an incompetent driver. Photo taken of the front door does not correspond to ours. Wasting time with White company to replace the order. Once we have received the email for the replacement order we have noticed that an item was missing therefore another waste of time calling white comp to discover that the most important piece of the order is out of stock (duvet) hence the other items are useless to us (duvet cover and pillows)!! what a joke! So now what? I need to wait for my order to arrive to send it back?!”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Ordered a hamper basket when it arrived it was empty rang customer service explained what happened to late to replace as it was a Xmas present arranged collection the next day but still no refund 3 weeks later very poor”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Terrible costumer service!!!! Requested order to be cancelled, it was never done, refused parcel, got confirmation it had arrived at their warehouse yet nearly 2 months later I am still awaiting for a refund of nearly £400, despite of hours on the telephone. Used this company for 15 years as quality is brilliant, never again!”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Dear customer service Dear customer service, I have not heard back from you. Could you please send me a smart return label? One did not come with my package and I'd like to return the item as it is too small. So far I have worked very hard to get a return label, harder than I have ever had to work with a retailer in my life. I am an "online only" shopper and am very experienced at ordering, and when necessary, returning items. Here's my journey to return an item to The White Company: Ordered, received item and decided to return item. Visited your website and found it complicated - was not able to get a return label on my own. (So odd for this experienced shopper! What's going on? I read instructions and it says email customer service.) Emailed Customer Service 13 Dec with initial request for a return label - checked my email daily and have received no response. 16 December, now fearful I'll never hear back and won't be able to return these pants unless I figure this out on my own, went on a 2 hour loop between e-receipt, "thank you for shopping with us" document found in the package, and your website which then routed me back to the smart label in my package, which was not included. There was a part of your site that said "log in using your order number" which took me to nowhere again. After getting frustrated with the loop between the return directions on your site and the return paper in the package and my e-receipt, I called your customer service number. After 29 minutes on hold, I spoke to Mr X (protecting the innocent here) who told me to go to the website to print a return label!!! I shared the challenges I have experienced using the website and asked him to please create a return label on his end and email it to me (which is what your instructions online offer as an option for your customers). As I am a customer (pauses for acknowledgement of customer status), I felt my request was fair. He said he needed to contact "the back office" as he was unable to do generate the smart label for me. I'm now at minute 52:12 (exactly per nifty phone timer) and still on the phone (that time includes wait time). We are waiting and periodically, Mr X tells me that we are still holding and he is "still very much with me" which I appreciate greatly. I hear typing. At nearly an hour, 58 minutes and 41 seconds (exactly) and patiently waiting on the phone, Mr X tells me a manager will get back to me. His voice sounds thin like even he doesn’t believe it. Now I am praying that someone will get back to me with a smart label for my return. I pray “the manager” isn’t the ONLY manager managing this $hit show but honestly believe they might be. Today has passed and the manager has not responded. Don’t get snookered people. If reading this before ordering, just don’t. The White Co must be close to bankruptcy and is probably using this holiday season as their last opportunity to make bank which means “no returns for you!” I settle in my chair and ponder my life mistakes, this being just one and scold myself: “Lisa, suck it up. You have tried and failed. Put your damn too-small pants on Facebook Marketplace to recoup some loss. And learn from this! Things are no longer as they were. You cannot expect integrity or quality of service any longer. Those pre Covid days are over.” I hang my head in shame for my lofty expectations and quietly mutter to myself “&$@#”. I miss ye olden times and I fear the future. From Jennie, who likely knows it’s not a good idea to post any personal info, like order numbers or customer numbers on a public forum posted in reply: Reply from The White Company A day ago Hi there, Thank you for your feedback and I am sorry that our service has not met your expectations. If you have an order number or customer number I could take, I would be happy to look into this for you and get your issue resolved. I look forward to receiving your reply. Kind regards Jennie - Customer Services Dear Jennie: thank you for your reply. If you would, please provide your direct email so I can provide you with details of my order. Thank you, Lisa”

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Posted 3 years ago

“No confirmation of my order, send the wrong products, and never respond. So I can not send it back. Bad service.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Ordered Christmas gifts on 29/11, Hermes had them 6/12 but still not delivered by 16/12. Hermes are v hard to contact but the app says to contact seller if goods are delayed by over 7 days. Spent ages on phone to White Company, gave up. I’m over £100 out of pocket & missing gifts I wanted to send for Christmas.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Ordered the winter candle and received a dressing gown instead. Can’t get through on phone have sent several emails but nothing.”

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Posted 3 years ago

The White Company is rated 2.0 based on 296 reviews