Zavvi Reviews

Name: Zavvi
Address: Meridian House,Gadbrook Park,Gadbrook Way,Rudheath,Northwich, Cheshire
Rating: 1.19

1.2 Rating 656 Reviews

4 %

of reviewers recommend Zavvi

1.2

Based on 656 reviews

Shipping & Delivery
Delivery Methods	Courier, Postal Service
Average Delivery Time	Over A Month
On-time Delivery	Greater than 8%
Accurate And Undamaged Orders	Greater than 71%
Customer Service
Communication Channels	Email, Live Chat, Telephone
Queries Resolved In	Over A Week
Customer Service	1.1 out of 5
Returns & Refunds
Refunds Process	Difficult
Returns Process	Could Be Better

About Zavvi:

With a huge selection of DVDs, Games and Consoles, CDs, Computing and Electronics we have extra choice and extra savings so finding something for you or a loved one has never been easier! What are you waiting for? Come and join us at Zavvi.co.uk!

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Phone:

0844 264 0702

Email:

customer.relations@zavvi.com.

Location:

Meridian House,Gadbrook Park,Gadbrook Way,Rudheath,Northwich
Cheshire
CW9 7RA

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"I purchased two products on the 22nd May while they had a special promo. From ordering in the past I usually expect to wait a week before despatch. However, I getting an email on 31st saying my order was delayed no big deal, I can wait. I then received one of the products from my order on the 1st June, which was great. Later followed by another email on the 4th June regarding the other product being delayed. I looked on the site and noticed it said in stock, so I emailed customer support asking for a status update and why it was listed in stock if they were emailing about delays. I received a very over worded, most likely copy and pasted scripted email that didn\u2019t answer my question and basically was saying it wasn\u2019t in stock, but passing the blame on to 3rd parties.\r\n\r\nIt is now the 24th June (just over a month from my initial order). I didn\u2019t receive any further emails regarding my order being delayed so I decided to email customer support again, just asking for confirmation my order was still live and hadn\u2019t been cancelled. But, disappointingly I received pretty much the same copy, pasted email from before that didn\u2019t address my question. I want the item so I don\u2019t want to cancel, besides I used a 25% off voucher that I doubt I\u2019d get back if I cancelled.\r\n\r\nOne good thing is they don\u2019t take payment until the items are despatched. However, this is probably so they are not in breach of contract, or due to some sort of regulation when they fail to send within a reasonable timeframe.\r\n\r\nUpdate #2 - 29th June\r\nI was very grateful to have received an email on 26th June from customer services with an order update that didn\u2019t feel scripted and was written by a human. Thank you.\r\n\r\nHowever, I have just received an email today saying there was a problem processing my payment method, which is probably because it has taken over a month to finally go through and due to being item 2 of 2. Unfortunately, on trying to resolve their issue through the website they don\u2019t give you a PayPal payment option! I am not sure why as you can checkout using PayPal just fine and it is listed as a payment method on the website and I want to use my PayPal credit for businesses I don\u2019t trust (just like I did originally on my initial checkout). I have now had to send yet another message to support which will take up to 24\/48 hours. I would call but trying to find a phone number on the site is like finding a needle in a haystack.\r\n\r\nUpdate #3\r\nToday I am convinces I have never spoken to a human, but that it must be just an AI chat bot.\r\n\r\nOn 1st July \u201cShannon\u201d confirmed that it was an internal payment issue and they would let me know when they hear back from PayPal (spoiler never heard back regarding this).\r\n\r\nOn 10th July I suggested giving my PayPal account details so they could try sending another payment, which I then provided on the 11th July as they said they \u201cwill raise this with our payments team\u201d.\r\n\r\nOn 15th July I get an odd reply saying \u201c This item encountered a payment problem and was not charged for. Please can you update your payment\u201d. I was confused with this response and it made me feel I was back to square one, and that I was not talking to a real person but a chat bot. After explaining everything all over again, I then suggested my only option is to cancel and reorder, but I explicitly asked not to cancel unless they could guarantee my product awaiting despatch would be held back for my next order and that I\u2019d receive a new 25% discount code.\r\n\r\nFast forward to today 17th July. I receive an email saying my order is cancelled. WTH Zavvi? I have never dealt with such an incompetent company."

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Anonymous // 01/01/2019

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“What a poor company. Keep taking money for a ZBOX month after month. scam company. avoid for monthly subscriptions”

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Posted 9 years ago

“Zavvi's apparent modus operandi: 1. Show item at Black Friday price. 2. Take order at Black Friday price. 3. Fail to adequately stock item. 4. Arbitrarily cancel order citing BS about payment issues, despite payment clearly being ready for collection in PayPal queue. 5. Ensure cancellation occurs after all the Black Friday offers have been closed for several days, preventing repurchase. 6. Refuse to answer queries for several days. Will not use these clowns again.”

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Posted 9 years ago

“I ordered a games console for my son's Christmas but noticed after ordering that it said it would send the item once it had stock. I asked their customer service team when it was likely that they would have stock and subsequently my order was cancelled. I then questioned why my order was cancelled as I had only queried when they may have stock and the response was just a confirmation that my item was cancelled. They have been completely useless. No point having low prices if you will never receive the item. Definitely would not recommend or use again! Steer clear of this site!”

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Posted 9 years ago

“I ordered an Xbox One with two games for £279 on Thursday 26/11/2015 and received an email confirming my order. On Tuesday 01/12/2015 I tried to access my account but it had been closed. You cannot contact Zavvi unless you have an account.....so I recreated it and messaged Zavvi (they have no email address or phone number to contact 'customer services'). On Wednesday 02/12/2015 somebody called Adam messaged me and told me "unfortunately the order that you have made have ben cancelled.". There was no explanation as to why the order had been cancelled....when I went back into my Zavvi account the call had been closed, so I could not reply. The Xbox One was a Christmas present and to get no notification that my order had been cancelled was totally unprofessional. Game had the same offer for £10 more, I wish I had spent the extra £10 and used Game. The Black Friday deals is now not available at Game and this will cost me about £50 to get the same offer now!! I had ordered a game from Zavvi a year ago and it took 2 month to turn up!! I should have known not to use Zavvi. I won't use Zavvi again and if I was you I would think long and hard about using Zavvi, if anything goes wrong there is no way of contacting Zavvi.”

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Posted 9 years ago

“Ordered an xbox one bundle, company took money immediately but took three enquiries by myself and over a week for zavvi to admit they couldn't fulfill the order and will take over a week to refund my money. Useless company. Stay clear!”

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Posted 9 years ago

“I pre-ordered an item in October before it was released as I knew it would sell out fast. The order number stated estimated despatch 20th November, after not receiving a dispatch email I contacted them to find out what was going on and was told that the item was out of stock and unlikely to come back in. The only option they gave me was to cancel! Totally unacceptable when pre-ordered a month in advance. Why was I not informedthat the item was out of stock until I contacted them?! Will not be using this company again.”

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Posted 9 years ago

“I ordered speakers from Zavvi and they were guaranteed to be delvivered within a few days. I heard form the delivery company that they had received instructions to deliver. then i heard they hadnt received the parcel and so delivery would be delayed. Then I heard nothing. I contacted Zavvi 3 times and they kept putting me off asking me to wait and wait. They were just delaying the investigation even though the delivery company said they did not have the parcel. I did not have the parcel over a week later and they refused to process a refund till a further time period had passed. I am disgusted with their approach to me. Nothing better than an automated telephone message at the start of your call.”

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Posted 9 years ago

“Ordered a dvd set that was advertised as a region code free item. Company shipped me a region code 2 item that is unusable outside the UK. Company is unwilling to admit any fault and their customer service sucks. Additionally they do not have a phone number to contact them by. I didn't read company reviews prior to ordering the item...An error that will not be repeated. Stay away from Zavvi.”

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Posted 9 years ago

“Ordered an Xbox one as it was advertising in stock delivery usually within 24 hrs...well that was on the 19th Nov. getting concerned now, no record of my order on my account although I have a confirmation email of my order. Can't call anyone, no number. Written three emails, no reply? Xmas present for son...how can I cancel my order so that I can re-order with a trustworthy company. VERY POOR SERVICE! Non-existent customer helpline!”

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Posted 9 years ago

“Frankly, this is the worst customer service reply I have ever received. I sent you a link to one of your products asking if VAT was included in the price and Gary Bailey sent me a pathetic reply which made no sense. As there is no working phone number I will not be buying this product from you. Therefore you have forfeited a sale of £139 and a great deal of good will.”

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Posted 9 years ago

“Up Date Contacted Citizens Advise concerning cancellation of PS4 BUNDLE and return of items received from Zavvi at their expensive rather than mine. Citizens Advise advised me that Zavvi is in breach of contract and that I do not have to pay to return goods as they only supplied part of my order. If you need advise on consumer issues phone 03454040506”

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Posted 9 years ago

“I ordered a PS4 which was meant to come with Assassins Creed Syndicate, Nathan Drake Collection and Play Station T.V. Nathan Drake and Play Station T.V was delivered and then Zavvi cancelled my order due to unavailability of stock. Disappointed and rather annoyed that the company did not have the decency to advise me that they were cancelling my order. I only discovered this when I checked my order on line to see if the PS4 had been dispatched. Needless to say I contacted Zavvi and requested that they send me a pre-paid label so that I could return the two items that they had delivered. I have now sent a total of 5 emails explaining that I feel that Zavvi should pay the postage to return these items as they cancelled my order and if they had of fulfilled said order I would not be returning anything. Zavvi refuse and insist I pay for goods to be collected or use royal mail. I do not think so. This is the worst company that I have ever dealt with I only wish I had of read this review page before placing an order with this so called company.”

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Posted 9 years ago

“Put stuff up for sale that was never in stock. Why do Amazon and eBay allow them to sell with such poor metrics? Smaller companies would have been suspended”

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Posted 9 years ago

“I will never order from this company again. I ordered a one off Zbox from Zavvi to receive ONE zbox for ONE month. After i received the box i emailed them asking for clarification that i would not receive any more zbox's from them in the future. I received an email clarifying that i had no active subscriptions and would not receive anymore zbox's. However, the next month i received another box in the post and they had taken a payment from my bank account without my permission. I contacted them to request a return as i never ordered this box in the first place. This has been the most ridiculously difficult ordeal i've ever experienced with a company. They are trying everything in their power to avoid allowing me to return the item. They have not answered any of the queries in my emails and have sent me TWO wrong return labels. I went to the collect point AND the post office who wont accept the label as it is not scanable. Now the package will be overdue the return date. I am giving up trying to contact them as they dont have a telephone number and i keep getting generic responses via email. I am contacting trading standards in the moring as this company has conned me out of money. Do not waste your time with this company. Not worth it.”

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Posted 9 years ago

“Ordered a DVD Box to not knowing this company was located in the UK. It still shouldn't have taken 4 weeks to arrive but they did say that it might in their email. Cardboard box in a bubble wrap envelope arrived and even before opening it, I knew what probably happened to its edges and yes - all edges had dents as if the box had been in use for a few years. I was going to accept that and live with it but then I opened it and found out that they'd sent the wrong language edition, not the one I had ordered. So I contacted their customer service via the website and got a reply within a day. While that's good service, I'd appreciate it, if they made sure that their standard texts in foreign languages are free from mistakes and unambiguous in meaning. I supplied some fotos of the box and they immediately offered a refund if I send the box back. Along with that came a form to put into the return package and it had a barcode label with their address on it to go on the outside of the return parcel. I thought the barcode was for the post to scan but handing it to the lady she could only tell me that it wasn't one of their codes and that I'd probably have to pay for it myself. All I could say to that is, that I didn't know because the instructions on the form were so unclear. Honestly, it read like a google translator translation, not like it was done by a human. The form was also filled in to refund me instead of exchanging the box for the correct one so I tried changing that by adding an explanation but it was obviously ignored. I sent it from the UK when I was on holiday a couple of weeks later because I had a hunch that they weren't going to pay for shipping. And I was right. A few days after sending it back, they sent me a confirmation email and said they'd refund my purchase price. I immediately replied, saying that I wanted the shipping costs as well, since this refund was not what I had asked for and any mistakes had been made on their end. The response given was that they do not cover return shipping costs. I replied, asking whether that was their final word since I had done nothing wrong and ended up having nothing but inconvenience and shipping costs on my end. I said that this was very poor business manners and that I'd tell everyone I know about my experience with them if they didn't think it was their duty to pay for the costs that their mistake had caused. So now, 2 weeks after that, all I have heard off them is that my last complaint had been forwarded to the appropriate people. Zavvi, I'll take that as a "no, were not paying your 3 pounds shipping" and hope that you either realize that this is really bad business conduct or that people just stop ordering from you. Simple things could improve your company significantly: - get employers in customer service with good language skills if you want to do business abroad - protect your goods from shipping damage properly, everybody knows that bubble wrap doesn't protect cardboard well - if the mistake is made on your end, have the balls to admit it and set it right without leaving your customers to clean up after you I won't be buying from you again any time soon, that much is for sure!”

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Posted 9 years ago

“Ordered three items in a £30 deal. sent 2 and refuse to accept their mistake or acknowlege the deal in 2 weeks of messages (the only way you can contact them) trust me stay away its not worth it. they now want me to return items....making me £4.60 out of pocket for the return postage. will be going to ofcom and fraud its my only option now.”

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Posted 9 years ago

“I seriously don't even want to give them one star, but since it's not possible to give them none, this is the grade I'm forced to give them. I don't know where to start or where to end in this review, so I'll just lay it down in short terms. I ordered a Zbox in the beginning of October and thereby I also automatically subscribed for the boxes to come in future. Or so I thought. I had to write to let them know, that I had not received my box after 14 days. They replied, that it had to be on it's way and I got it the next day. In the end of October I wrote them again to ensure that my "November box" would come as I planned, since I could not see anything in my subscription list on their website. They replied that everything was in order. In the beginning of November my status still said: "Pending". Naturally they had withdrawn the money from my account (that always seem to be working). However no shipment of my order was made. I've contacted Zavvi on the occasions the following days. They all had different stories and explanations. 24 hour respond time is by the way very annoying when you try to communicate with someone. Well, they first told me they couldn't find my order, then that they couldn't find the subscription and finally that it had been shipped on the 2nd of November. I live fairly close to the UK and I still have received absolutely nothing :-( My status still says: "Pending" and I'm still extremely upset!”

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Posted 9 years ago

“Very bad company. Received a damaged item which was beyond repair. I emailed them about expecting a refund. Sent photos and they only offered me a 15% refund. I also have another item that's been pending for over a month! Don't be fooled by the low prices!”

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Posted 9 years ago

“Pre-ordered a game, so it should arrive on the day of release on the 06/11/2015, just in time for a birthday. NOW I've just received an email saying it should be here by the 11th, Why offer a pre-ordering service if you can't even ship a disc on time. And don't even try contacting them they never reply. Will avoid in future, you should to.”

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Posted 9 years ago

“Just the worst online company I have dealt with. Preordered a game with bonus DLC and the standard game came more then a week late. Sent it back as I had bought it somewhere else by then and now it is a month and a half later and still no refund! Absolutely awful! Avoid and stick with Amazon!! Or anyone else really!”

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Posted 9 years ago

Zavvi is rated 1.2 based on 656 reviews