John Lewis Reviews

2.7 Rating 2,394 Reviews
41 %
of reviewers recommend John Lewis
2.7
Based on 2,394 reviews
Shipping & Delivery
Delivery Methods
Courier, Own Driver
Average Delivery Time
Over A Month
On-time Delivery
Greater than 40%
Accurate And Undamaged Orders
Greater than 67%
Customer Service
Communication Channels
Telephone, Email, Live Chat
Queries Resolved In
Over A Week
Customer Service
1.3 out of 5
Returns & Refunds
Refunds Process
Difficult
Returns Process
Could Be Better
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John Lewis 1 star review on 10th September 2018
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Anonymous  // 01/01/2019
missed delivery date and still waiting. customer service is terrible, rude and very unhelpful
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Posted 1 year ago
Terrible experience! Would never order or encourage anyone else to buy from them again. Ordered a new washing machine on the Monday and was told it would be delivered on the Wednesday. I took a day off work without pay to wait in. Told it would be delivered between 13.15 and 15.15 and would get a phone call before hand, never happened. Eventually the driver turned up at 18.45 only to find the new washing machine was damaged. I asked John Lewis to redeliver on the Friday, was told would have to wait over a week for next available delivery slot! Told them to refund my money as I'm not going to wait another week. Spent nearly an hour on the phone trying to get the refund sorted to no avail. They then had the cheek to offer me a refund on one of their own e cards like i would want to buy from them again! So I lost a days pay at work, waited in all day for nothing as the product was damaged, then had to haggle most of the evening over the phone to get my money back from an overseas call centre and then have to source a machine from somewhere else. Thanks John Lewis!
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Posted 1 year ago
USLESS! Placed an order for collection TWO weeks ago. Day after placing order receied email advising order not in stock and they will reorder. Called today to find out where order is and was told " would you like us to reorder it for you, but we don't know if it is still available?". Unbelieveable!!! I've been sat here for TWO thinking they had reordered the item automatically but instead they have been sitting on my money without reordering! Now they can't say if the item is still available to reorder! Beyond incompetent! Fed up with this useless store!
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Posted 1 year ago
Usually, you can guarantee on John Lewis to provide great products with a fantastic level of service. I would choose to buy items with them rather than anywhere else based on this. However, their customer service seems to have taken a downward turn, which verges on rudeness. The instructions given by the customer service staff member to upload photos of our damaged item were given at lightning speed, even after being asked to please go more slowly. After being put on hold while my photos were being uploaded, the member of staff came back online to ask 'are you done?' and after my reply of 'yes,' promptly hung up the call. What a way to leave a lasting impression! Oddly, this part of the experience was even worse than receiving a damaged item!
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Posted 1 year ago
The customer care are hanging up during the query of the problem. They book deliveries without a call. You place an order and then you are left without any information about your order. Or not real information as the e-mail says the item is out of stock (after I paid for the product), customer care says there are still 30 in stock, and other customer care person says they can't really understand what my issue is. So even if I paid almost 2,000 £ for a product, and I have no clue if it will be delivered, when, or no saying in this type of decision, it is mainly a response of: "so what", the customer care person being more concerned that my surname is an odd one, than with my actual query.
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Posted 1 year ago
Failed to show for a pre booked fitting appointment. Paid in full months ago as curtains are made to measure. No call, no email, 3 days after still no response. In summary they have my money & have my curtains with no explanation or apology as to why they simply didn’t show up. Are John Lewis cowboys? Why has nobody been in touch to resolve this matter? Are John Lewis thieves?
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Posted 1 year ago
Bought a brand new dishwasher (c£1k Bought a brand new dishwasher (c£1k - order number 366356563) and paid £90 for installation. The dishwasher was installed on Thursday 11th August and was passed by their install team as fine. I turn on my new dishwasher and it starts leaking at the waste pipe. I get in touch with customer services (0345 all the way and costing me again!) and they say the quickest they can get someone out is Weds 18th. Until then, I am told I cant use the dishwasher and because of the positioning of the waste outlet, it also means I cant use my kitchen sink as any water going down the sink will now cause the dishwasher connection to it to leak water. Frustrated at having to live without my kitchen sink, I tell JL team politely that if I can get a plumber to fix it sooner I will, but I will be expecting my installation fee back. I get a plumber in next morning and he tells me the JL team have omitted the washer from the connection and that the dishwasher piping/outlet is positioned wrong - needs to be higher than the waste. Now JL is not even thinking about refunding my £90 installation fee - I paid twice effectively by having to get a plumber in to fix their mistake. Wont be back to JL. Gone way downhill. I went to JL as I felt it would be a better bet than a cut price online retailer due to customer service. I was wrong. Should have saved cash by going elsewhere.
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Posted 1 year ago
Having problems with the change over of Partnership card to NewDay. Submit application on-line together with phone code, press submit, and it is blocked. There must be an easier way. It is no good the help line telling me the changeover won't happen until 31st October; I need to get my regular renewals sorted out before then, and not at the last moment. Would it not be easier to give us all a new card automatically?The two screeds I have received do not mention anything like that,.
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Posted 1 year ago
Used to shop at John Lewis alot but today I swore there is no way in hell I place another order! Got 2 open cases with them, everytime you call you speak to someone new who asks you 200 questions and does nothing at the end! Case1- Ordered 2 highchairs last year, after a month they were finally delivered! Now we have issues with the warranty, I have already sent a video of product 4times and they keep asking me to email it again! I'm stuck in an endless loop with this case! requested a call from a manager which hasn't happened yet. Case2- Ordered two scooter, one arrived and one still in transit. I spoke to someone over the phone who advised me to place another order and they'll refund me the delivery charges and I will receive a refund for the item that's never been given to Royalmail. I placed a new order for Nextday delivery and guess what!!! No refunds have been made and the delivery charges refund didn't go back to my card, they issued a gift voucher for me and this wasn't what we agreed on, im disgusted, disappointed and I feel tricked. There is no way I order from this company again. What was even more fraustrating is the customer service advisor kept intrupting mr, she didn't even allow me to finish one single sentence. I was speaking to her when she put me on hold and I was still talking when she wished me a good day and hung up the phone. 1- Case number: 20314875 2-Case numbers: 20468424 All I want is for them to resolve these issues and get it done with! tired of spending at least 30 mins on the phone every single day for the past 3 weeks!!!
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Posted 1 year ago
A below average company
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Posted 1 year ago
Awful experience buying on line, the John Lewis system failed at the checkout but took my money, £95 a week ago now and despite numerous efforts to complain through customer services ( that’s a joke) no one ever returns calls or emails, all you get is a standard email reply Over a week later and still haven’t got my £95 back. Never again.
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Posted 1 year ago
Picked a box for our order wrong. Told them the day it arrived. We were informed they didn't keep spare parts, it took weeks it seems to realise me telling them I just wanted my box not a spare part was correct. Great you'd think? No of course not. Customer service is as useful as a bit of soggy lettuice in my opinion and despite it being an express order they can't ship it to me for ages. And further they expect me to take another day off work to sort out their own negligence at my own expense! Just no, never again, don't do it. Buy from somewhere else. I personally am begining to wonder if it's all a joke to them and I'mbeing discriminated against for their enjoyment. At least it feels that way in my opinion.
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Posted 1 year ago
I have an I phone and the camera stopped working under warranty JL say it has moisture damage so won’t repair it, the phone is IP67 rated and never been near water or any other liquid. You get passed to technical support who do not care, the phone has now been returned to me with marks where the front has been removed and it doesn’t work at all now! They are just another poor retailer not the JL of old! Beware the 2 year warranty means nothing!
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Posted 1 year ago
Ordered chairs in January and paid in full. 13 week delivery quoted. Still not got them and latest update is it will be June at the earliest. Will be my last purchase from a company I used to think prided themselves in customer care.
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Posted 1 year ago
Delivery is a joke one lie after another!
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Posted 1 year ago
I took the day off work and travelled for two hours to receive an order at the time confirmed by John Lewis. I waited for 3 hours (an hour passed the delivery time) and the package never arrived and no further notification. I was offered a slice of cake and a coffee at Waitrose as a 'sorry'. Really poor.
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Posted 1 year ago
If I could give these sorry motherfuckers a 0 I would. 1 star is just to high. This school needs be to shut down and everyone working there should be fired because they're all doing it for a paycheck and when you're working with someone's else kids, who are our tomorrows future it should definitely be from the heart. Mr. Fuller is the ringleader of the group only there for the dollars. I definitely would NOT SEND MY CHILD HERE!!!! PLEASE LOOK ELSEWHERE PLEASE!!!
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Posted 2 years ago
Purchased a HP smart tank plus 559 on line as I am unable to travel to stores or get someone to for me only to find out that I have to arrange for the item to be taken to the store for repair .. they offer no other options and that I can take between 20 and 28 days for a repair .. discusting ... I only purchased on line as I cannot get to stores and now if I wa t something done then I have to go and drop off and then go and pick it up ... they have no options for those unfortunately unable to travel out
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Posted 2 years ago
This has to be the worst experience I’ve had for a while. I preordered a new 42 LG tv from John lewis a month ago. This was to be delivered to my grandmas as she wanted to get a new tv. The preorder was fine but all the service after was shocking. DO NOT ORDER FROM THEM! After a month of waiting I got the email from John Lewis to say “great news, your tv will be delivered this week”. But only a few days later a received another email to say “sorry, there has been a delay in your order. It may be with you in a week, but if you have not received it within 90 days we will refund your order”. This lead me to have a quick look elsewhere to see if I had a backup option. I found the tv on sale at richer sounds and for £100 less. So I contacted John Lewis help line explained the situation and that they could fit it in the next few days. To my surprise I was informed that I should get the tv in the next week but that installation would have to be ordered separate and could be a few weeks later as I didn’t add it at point of order. I explained that it was not an option on a preorder and it had stated “someone would contact me nearer the time to arrange delivery”. The advisor said the best way to sort it out would be to cancel my order and reorder the whole lot again, and that would mean they could price match richer sounds and arrange installation at the same time as delivery. At this point I asked the question “but if I cancel it and reorder will it still get delivered in a week or, will I loose my place in the order?” I was told “no you will still get I within a week”. So later that afternoon I went onto my account and cancelled my current order and went to reorder the tv. I was a little shocked to find, that John Lewis themselves were now selling the tv for £100 less on their website, which means their slogan of “never knowingly undersold was a lie” as they had never communicated this saving to me. But when I went to reorder the delivery went up to 5 weeks. So I phoned the customer service line again and explained the situation and previous conversation. All the advisor could say was sorry but that this is how the system works and I would now have to wait 5 weeks for my order. I asked to speak to the complaints team. I got a call from the complaints team a day later who listened to the whole scenario and then explained that due to “their systems there was nothing she could do “ . So I asked just to confirm, they were initially going to charge me a higher amount event though “they never knowingly undersell” she apologised and said this is a retail environment and that they were looking to remove that price promise soon. And then I repeated that I have now lost out on the order due to their own advice and that there was nothing they were going to do to try and help me? She confirmed that was the case and that she could only apologise and it was “how their systems worked”. I really don’t understand that when they sell similar products to a lot of people on the high street how they intend to keep customers if this is the way they treat them. I’m just glad it’s me that’s had to deal with this and not my grandma. On the plus side richer sounds have been very helpful from first enquiry to installation they could not have done more and for cheaper!
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Posted 2 years ago
First parcel was slow to be delivered. Second never arrived and now they say it is lost! They have also said it is out of stock! It is part of a set and they wanted me to order something else. No offer, nothing.
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Posted 2 years ago
John Lewis is rated 2.7 based on 2,394 reviews