SHW

United States

Given the option to choose the day of delivery for an 850Kg bag of slate chippings I opted for Friday 7th August, which would enable me to get the job done over the weekend before my other deliveries arrived from elsewhere the following week. It failed to arrive. At 5.30pm a telephone call to them resulted in a recorded message telling me they were closed for the weekend, contrary to their website indicating saturday/sunday opening hours. Being unable to accept delivery the following week I sent an email requesting cancellation and a full refund. I had not received any contact informing me of dispatch so am entitled to do so. A further telephone call to them Monday morning was frustrating, waiting 20 minutes for the call to be answered and then put on hold. I was eventually told cancellation would incur a £50 penalty, deductable from my refund of £130. As i had not been informed of dispatch there is no need to enforce a penalty. All she kept saying was... it has been dispatched and therefore incurs a penalty, but could offer no proof. She also told me all emails were automated and could find my email in their system but could offer no explanation as to why there was no confirmation of dispatch email from them. I used their tracking facility to find the consignment number and courier. The courier then informed me there was no such item with them, meaning my order had not been dispatched at all. The phone call to gravel master was fruitless and they refused to budge. In order to register a complaint I was told to email customer services, which I did. Two hours after sending my email of complaint on the morning of Monday 10th - which included me telling them I had no record of any dispatch - I finally received an email telling me my order had been dispatched. Do they really think I am that stupid? This complaint resulted in an email from them to say they were recalling the order and offering a full refund, but this didn't happen. While away from home on Wednesday 12th I received an email telling me the 850Kg bag of slate had been delivered. I returned home to find it blocking my drive and preventing access. Now I wait for them to remove it. Customer service is a joke. There are hundreds of bad reviews around the internet for this company, I wish I'd read them before ordering.

The good, the bad, and the ugly. The good: Two plants arrived on the day I was told they would arrive. The bad: both 5 litre pots were bone dry and, when pouring water on them, it ran straight through. The ugly: both plants were approximately 2ft high, but the bottom half of each was either dead or dying and did not in any way resemble the example photos displayed on their website. I posted 3 photos with this review, one of which is a screenshot of the plants on offer, the other two are what actually arrived. I won't use this company again.

Given the option to choose the day of delivery for an 850Kg bag of slate chippings I opted for Friday 7th August, which would enable me to get the job done over the weekend before my other deliveries arrived from elsewhere the following week. It failed to arrive. At 5.30pm a telephone call to them resulted in a recorded message telling me they were closed for the weekend, contrary to their website indicating saturday/sunday opening hours. Being unable to accept delivery the following week I sent an email requesting cancellation and a full refund. I had not received any contact informing me of dispatch so am entitled to do so. A further telephone call to them Monday morning was frustrating, waiting 20 minutes for the call to be answered and then put on hold. I was eventually told cancellation would incur a £50 penalty, deductable from my refund of £130. As i had not been informed of dispatch there is no need to enforce a penalty. All she kept saying was... it has been dispatched and therefore incurs a penalty, but could offer no proof. She also told me all emails were automated and could find my email in their system but could offer no explanation as to why there was no confirmation of dispatch email from them. I used their tracking facility to find the consignment number and courier. The courier then informed me there was no such item with them, meaning my order had not been dispatched at all. The phone call to gravel master was fruitless and they refused to budge. In order to register a complaint I was told to email customer services, which I did. Two hours after sending my email of complaint on the morning of Monday 10th - which included me telling them I had no record of any dispatch - I finally received an email telling me my order had been dispatched. Do they really think I am that stupid? This complaint resulted in an email from them to say they were recalling the order and offering a full refund, but this didn't happen. While away from home on Wednesday 12th I received an email telling me the 850Kg bag of slate had been delivered. I returned home to find it blocking my drive and preventing access. Now I wait for them to remove it. Customer service is a joke. There are hundreds of bad reviews around the internet for this company, I wish I'd read them before ordering. This company has the same address as Aggregates R Us, the directors of which are the same ones listed for gravel master. I won't be using that company either. Update Friday 14th August: Yesterday I was put on hold for over an hour before someone could tell me they would come that day (Thursday 13th) and remove the bag of slate blocking my drive. That didn't happen either. Another phone call today with similar results: Friday 14th put on hold for over an hour before someone eventually offered yet another empty apology and said it would be removed today. Let's see.