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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Anonymous  // 01/01/2019
Dualit coffee machine ordered from John Lewis online on a Monday, selecting free delivery. Due to the slow order processing at the JL end and then various incompetences with the amateur courier company they used (Hermes), delivery wasn't until the following Tuesday so very tardy. Upon receipt the item was poorly packaged and had been bashed about with the box looking decidedly second rate. Upon opening, the coffee machine was damaged. I won't be using JL anymore - tardy and inefficient delivery and poor packaging. Contrast with Amazon Prime who have really upped their game.
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Posted 8 years ago
Visited the Exeter store Friday 08/04/16. Asked the young lady sales assistant, in ladies wear, if store stocked the J L dress as featured in the latest J L magazine. Was given an answer of 'it doesn't ring any bells'. I asked if she had a copy of the magazine that I could show her, she said that she'd see if she got one somewhere. She stood there saying nothing to me or my husband whilst I found the appropriate page. She said 'no we don't stock that one'. There were no other suggestions of either other stores maybe near where we live or being available online for instance. In my opinion this young lady's customer service leaves much to be desired. She is no advocate of JL's and I would certainly not employ her. I went to the ground floor jewellery dept where another young lady assisted me with a purchase and she could not have been more helpful. I mentioned the dress that I liked in the mag and she actually offered to look to see if it was available online! She definitely went the extra mile. She demonstrated what 'custmer service' really means. Well done her. I am annoyed about the first young lady as I know this is not how JL would want their staff to treat their customers.
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Posted 8 years ago
I purchased a set of silverware (made by Robert Welch) back in October'15 and I wanted to leave the following review on JL's website: (2 stars) "The set looks beautiful when purchased. It is smart, elegant and very well balanced when used. However, after 5 months of light usage, the product is visibly scratched (the items which I used versus those that were not used). They are in far worse conditions than other cheaper sets with the 18/10 chrome/nickel content. I asked staff in the store about the product and its condition, only to be told that I might have not used the set properly. I am home 2 or 3 days in any given week and the usage, honestly could not be more careful. I would not buy Robert Welch again." But I was advised that my review did not meet JL standards. I kept re-posting it (with slight modifications) and it kept being unsuccessful for the same reasons. I feel that JL would publish only positive reviews of the product and hence I found this place to be more reliable than JL's website. Going forward, PLEASE DO NOT RELY ON PRODUCT REVIEWS ON JL's WEBSITE AS THEY DO NOT REFLECT TRUE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE. They only reflect these opinions, which are positive. 2/5 stars because the set was not terrible - although the cheekiness of JL staff deserves 0 stars. I will keep re-posting this review elsewhere too, just to warn others.
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Posted 8 years ago
Bought a laptop on black Friday sales touch pad not working properly exchange it on the 19 Dec as Christmas is coming am rushing just took that machine with me away to Edinburgh and realise there is a crack at the corner, I am bring it back to Edinburgh branch but as i don't have my receipt with me so I have to wait till am back to London and bring it back to Oxford Street branch without thinking too much as i need to use my laptop for my work so i am just turn it on to use it first and it work perfectly find a part from the crack. I am back to London after new year and straight bring in the the store on 2nd Jan 2016 and the staff first said to me is i need a original receipt to exchange the product and i said ok i will bring it back in half and hour and suddenly she said actually its no point as the damage is not a factory damage so it my own responsibility for that as there is no damage with the box, so i ask for the contact number for the HP which the brand of my laptop and she write it down for me and i went to the cafe to start making the phone call ,well its not working i am bring it back stay in long Que till another member of staff and he said he heard my situation earlier so its better i am wait to see the same lady again as he can't deal with with it, so after a long wait finally get back to her and she said actually it will be better to let them send it back to HP and they will send me a quote how much it will cost me for repair but i said i want to speak with someone as that laptop is only 2 weeks old she said after they send it out Hp will contact me so i will have a chance to speak to them so am agree to let her send it out. after couple a week i do receive a call regarding the quote but not from Hp which is JL again which he said costing me over£130 for that and i ask why its not Hp contacting me as i being told of that he said to me that Hp actually don't have customer facing service which they will let JL to deal with it .So basicly all just control by JL i am just asking them to send my laptop back which now being a week don't know how long have to wait also hope there will be no more damage by the time its come back as i am just lost trust with JL.
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Posted 8 years ago
We visited the Southampton John Lewis store today, 5th January with the intention of buying a Nordic C80i treadmill. However, upon arrival at the store we were told that none were in stock. Very disappointing but rather than have a wasted journey we also needed a new stir fry pan so went to the kitchen dept to get a Le Creuset stir fry pan. A member of staff went off to get us one but returned to tell us that none were in stock. Not to be put off quite this easily we decided to purchase a cordless Dyson DC58 which we had promising ourselves for a while but.....you've guessed it, none in stock. This time, feeling quite angry we left the store. I can't imagine I will be returning any time soon. For the benefit of John Lewis and to minimise the risk of losing other customers, if you are out of stock of products put something in place to indicate to customers that is the case. This will prevent people like us wasting our time waiting around whilst staff members go off searching for something you don't have. It will also help your staff and not waste their time.
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Posted 8 years ago
Over the years I have seen John Lewis customer service take a turn by getting worse and worse. If you want to demo anything in their audio visual department they don't want to know or have less tech knowledge than me the customer! Also their price matching policy is out of date! They miss out on sales from other online companies which is odd so their never knowingly undersold policy is actually known!! They don't always price match.
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Posted 8 years ago
John Lewis has a price match policy. But only after you jump through hoops on fire over burning coal. It should not matter if the store you are price matching is out of stock that day. Price match is price match, well apparently not with John Lewis.
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Posted 8 years ago
Commissioned 2 pairs of made to measure curtains in a Sanderson's floral fabric and a black out blind. Guy measuring up was charming though he did have to call the same day to check his measurements! The order confirm email gave an incorrect return email address to accept the estimate! Curtains were made in good time and delivery organised. First delivery failed as JL van ran out of time. 2nd special courier the next day delivered the blind but not the curtains. 3rd attempt by special courier bought us the curtains. Disappointingly despite being a relatively small window there is a noticeable seam down the middle of one curtain. Told this is common practice (though not warned of this in the way JL warn you about carpet seams.). And they managed the 2nd pair of curtains without a seam so it's clearly possible. Pretty disappointing given £1K bill, made to measure and John Lewis's claim to quality. Next time I'll try one of the discount curtain makers - couldn't be worse and likely to be a lot cheaper. Not impressed.
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Posted 8 years ago
In April 2012 I purchased a John Lewis Dishwasher, which is used infrequently as I live alone and only use when I have visitors. Last evening I put a cycle on overnight, and was surprised to hear that something was occurring still in the morning. The troubleshooting showed I should call out an engineer. It has just cost me £112 to get an engineer out and repair. I think this is disgraceful, and the engineer told me it was actually an Electroluc machine which John Lewis put their name to. Needless to say I will think twice before I purchase anything again from this company.
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Posted 8 years ago
I am saddened by the apparent decline of this company regarding customer service. Certainly I have been blatantly lied to by frontline staff three times in as many months and whilst each occurrence has been appropriately dealt with by senior managers I find it a disturbing trend to have happened so readily in the first place. What has brought me to review them today is that I have just tried to invoke their ‘Never Knowingly Undersold’ PriceMatch policy and I think the reasons why merit a review as it illustrates to me the decline of the company with regards customer service. I recently purchased a dishwasher from John Lewis for £749.00 Today I noticed that on Currys website I could buy it for £699. The price was £749 with a code on the same page to enter for £50 off at the checkout as it was on promotion. This was not a third party or promotional voucher from another site, or even another page on the same site. It was a material offer to buy the machine for £699 direct from the product page without leaving the Currys site. I can be bought today direct from John Lewis for £749 or direct from Currys for £699! I submitted a form online to John Lewis and had it rejected a few hours later as John Lewis price policy ‘does not cover vouchercodes'. I can appreciate John Lewis not matching codes, promotions and discounts that involve third parties but in this instance the machine could be published direct from Currys without third party involvement/vouchers for £699. The same process at John Lewis would cost £749. To me this was exactly what the ‘Never Knowingly Undersold’ policy was about - Customer assurance of paying similar £ for similar items being sold by similar firms on similar terms without the cliched Section B, paragraph 4, subsection 5c rhetoric nonsense. When I rang I was told that the issue was that a vouchercode was required and nothing could be done. I find this strict adherence to letter of the law and not spirit of the JL policy to be disturbing. Interestingly John Lewis offer free (usually £19.95) Express Delivery on this dishwasher at the moment. How? By entering a code at the checkout. Codes are acceptable when it suits it seems. (Not that Express Delivery was an option for me - not applicable to remote areas and nothing offered in lieu). The team responsible for disallowing the application will not speak to the public and I was told that I would be contacted within 48hrs. My recent experience with callbacks is that they do not happen. Very disappointed with the decline in this firm who used to have such excellent and renowned customer service. I did subsequently receive a very patronising email from John Lewis stating that: “I understand that this particular nuance might be hard to understand”. Disgusting!
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Posted 8 years ago
Very disappointing service from John Lewis delivery. Our washing machine ceased working after 15 years, so we decided to order online from John Lewis, thinking that such a renowned high street store would give us decent after-sales service. How wrong we were! First off, although the Bosch washing machine we ordered was in stock, the earliest delivery date they could offer was 8 days after the purchase date. We decided to accept it despite the laundry starting to pile up... On the day of delivery itself, we were told they could arrive anytime from 14:00 to 21:00. They couldn't be more specific than that. My partner and I had to take turns staying at home to ensure that someone was at home when the delivery people arrived, but we waited until nearly 8pm before they phoned us to say they were on their way. So the men brought the washing machine up into our flat and proceeded to try and disconnect the old one. Within minutes, they told me that they couldn't proceed with the work because the waste pipe was "behind a panel". This panel was under my kitchen sink, affixed with screws, so I asked them to remove the panel but they said it wasn't their job to do it. When we said we'd do it ourselves, they said they didn't have the time to wait for us to do it!!! Although they could see the waste pipe, they couldn't see the outlet itself and so it was apparently against John Lewis's Terms and Conditions. They actually wanted to dump the new washing machine at my place, without removing the old one, and kept insisting I had to call in a plumber to do the connection. Instead, utterly exasperated, we requested that they took the new washing machine back! They weren't the least bit happy about this but had to do what they were told. As they were removing the new machine from my premises, I managed to pull out the waste pipe - it was in fact, connected to a waste extension with a simple clip. I called them back and apprised them of this fact, but they kept insisting they could not do the job, they were not "trained" to connect a waste pipe to an extension, and it would violate my washing machine warranty with John Lewis, etc. It was the first time I'd ever heard of something so ridiculous. Anyway they tried to tell me that having an extension would shorten the life of the machine, and I had to get a qualified plumber to do the connections etc. Utter nonsense, and I requested a full refund from John Lewis. Of course I still had to phone them a week later to actually process the refund. I ended up buying the machine from an online company and delivery and installation went without a hitch; the waste extension wasn't even mentioned as a potential problem. I imagine most London flats have waste extension pipes connected to washing machines. I can't imagine John Lewis can be very profitable if it keeps having these machines returned by irate customers!!!
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Posted 8 years ago
You'll all be familiar with the routine, ring customer services and receive excuses rather than solutions. Having purchased a very expensive pen from their website, it arrived with no paperwork, guarantees etc. As this was a gift, I made the effort to telephone JL's customer services. Exhausted by the excuses and lack of initiative, I contacted the manufacturer, received the paperwork and so end of that particular strand of the story. So I left a 4* review on the John Lewis website, 5* for the pen, minus 1* for the poor JL service. Needless to say, I got a "rejected" email saying "reviews need to comply with our conditions". These of course tell you nothing. But doesn't this tell you a lot about JL's mindset - won't accept negative reviews of their own performance, only those of their suppliers presumably. Other, more enlightened, big companies are more open minded and, one assumes, willing to learn from their mistakes.
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Posted 8 years ago
I have shopped in John Lewis for over 30 years but have to say their customer service is now virtually nonexistent and their loyalty scheme is not worth the time and effort. I recently was told my £300 purchase could not be assigned to my card as the cashier forgot to scan it at the beginning of the transaction and it cannot be done retrospectively. The gift cards ordered on line are dispatched by an agent who doesn't have and customer service policy and they take around a month to arrive. Poor poor poor John Lewis
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Posted 9 years ago
Have come to the conclusion that john Lewis customer service staff are actually hopeless
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Posted 10 years ago
I have always been a faithful John Lewis customer, but lately the level of customer service has been appalling. I can't ever get anyone to help me whether it's over the phone or in the store. I just called their phone line and waited on hold for over 40 minutes. Someone finally answered and disconnected my call! They are always out of stock on items I want and i feel like the brand is loosing its credibility. What a shame!
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Posted 11 years ago
I would never EVER recommend this store to anyone!!!! If I could have given it less than one star I would have! Actually setting up the gift list was really easy but the problem started when the gift list actually opened. 40% of the items that were purchased were converted to gift vouchers because John Lewis doesn´t have the technology to count their stock!!! And to make matters worse the store never informed me that the items were not available and they said it was my fault that I complied my list early, but for some unknown reason the store was able to inform me when items were out of stock before the gift list was opened. Please please do not use this store! All you need to add to the stress of your big day is worrying about John Lewis´s ability to stock their store! The staff are not helpful at all and they put you in a difficult position with your guests. Nancy - Unbeatable.co.uk
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Posted 12 years ago
John Lewis is rated 2.7 based on 2,394 reviews