With Obelink receiving glowing reviews on these boards, I decided to place an order with them. My experience has been nothing short of appalling:
On 20th August, I placed an online order for 2 chairs, 2 footrests and a small table, total cost including carriage £217.18.
On 23rd August, the chairs and footrests arrived. The metal parts were badly scratched - they looked like seconds quality, or items they'd had in stock for a very long time. I emailed them, with photos.
On 24th August, the small table arrived. The underside of the table was damaged by a packaging staple! Again, I emailed them and sent photos of the damage.
Obelink agreed to collect the order entire and asked me to confirm collection date of 03 September. I confirmed via email. The collection did not happen and nor was there any communication from Obelink.
On 04 September I again contacted Obelink, who now suggested collection date of 6th September. I agreed and the order was indeed collected.
On hearing nothing further, I contacted Obelink regarding the pending refund. On 19th September - 13 days after collection - they emailed to confirm they had received the order back on 10th September.
Despite contacting Obelink several times since, they still have not refunded me. When asked to either refund or explain why they will not do so, I receive this emailed response:
'Thank you for your email. Your case number is 33****.
We are sorry but we are very busy, we do our best.
We hope we have informed you sufficiently. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us.
Best regards,
Obelink Distribution'
They have now been in possession of the returned order for 17 days. Their website terms and conditions state they 'will do their best to check returns within 2 days'.
So, the goods I received were not in a new, undamaged condition, Obelink failed to meet the first specified collection date and have consistently fobbed me off with their 'we are very busy' email response for the 17 days they have had the returned order in their possession.
I have now referred this to my bank, since luckily I purchased on credit card.
Their customer service has to be the worst I've ever encountered! I'll never use Obelink again.
I'm sorry to hear of your ordeal, in my experience I have had nothing but praise for them.
Personally I would ring them and speak with a manager and voice my concerns, being Dutch they will speak good English. I'm sure they will want to make amends, the quality of a company is reflected in what they do when things go wrong.
Let us know how you go on.
Dave.
------------- Never argue with an idiot, they will drag you down to their level and beat you on experience.
Mark Twain.
My wife have had a similar experience with Argos. As a rule I avoid this company like the plague but the offer they had on a sofa bed was too good to turn down. Ordered the sofa bed it arrived promptly in kit form but had two left arms and we didn't like the look of it anyway so had them come pick it up for a refund. It took over a month of phone calls before my wife received her money back with no explanation or even an apology, truly terrible service.
After having the order back in their possession for 19 days, Obelink have now emailed to say they've examined the goods and will be making refund in the next few days.
I suspect the involvement of my bank is not insignificant.
It would have been bad enough if I'd just had a change of heart, but to receive goods which are marked and damaged, then have refund withheld for so long with no proper explanation, is just unacceptable from an online seller. What does anyone else think? What rules apply to EU sellers?
Personally, I think any seller demonstrates their worth when things go wrong. In this case, Obelink have acted as if they couldn't give a stuff!
Quote: Originally posted by lidds0 on 29/9/2018
After having the order back in their possession for 19 days, Obelink have now emailed to say they've examined the goods and will be making refund in the next few days.
I suspect the involvement of my bank is not insignificant.
It would have been bad enough if I'd just had a change of heart, but to receive goods which are marked and damaged, then have refund withheld for so long with no proper explanation, is just unacceptable from an online seller. What does anyone else think? What rules apply to EU sellers?
Personally, I think any seller demonstrates their worth when things go wrong. In this case, Obelink have acted as if they couldn't give a stuff!
Not the best of experiences but at least you are not going to be out of pocket and you know who not to deal with in the future.
Very disappointing.
And surprising. My own experience matched their reputation here: extremely swift delivery of a well protected package and all at an incredibly good value price.
I've received another email stating my refund will be done shortly. I emailed by return to ask for confirmation it would be for the full amount, including carriage since the goods were all marked or damaged on receipt. Response was they couldn't tell me how much was being refunded but to check with my bank in the next few days!
Quote: Originally posted by DeborahTurner on 30/9/2018
Very disappointing.
And surprising. My own experience matched their reputation here: extremely swift delivery of a well protected package and all at an incredibly good value price.
I hope your refund now arrives quickly.
And that's just what I was hoping for, too. What I actually received didn't even look new and the small table had been pierced and chipped by a packaging staple (looked like it had actually been stapled when packaged). Not quite what I was expecting.
Why can't a big company like Obelink organise a refund within 21 days of order return? And why can't they let me know how much they'll be refunding shortly? It's a crazy way to run a business!
If you came to package up the order and found the goods to be bad quality you could.... contact the customer and ask if they would wish to obtain these goods at a reduced price of XX followed by many apologies
OR
you could phone/e-mail and explain that you do not have any quality products in stock that they have been damaged and explain that you could ship to customer directly from the manufacturer/factory to save un-necessary time and many apologies
OR
you could just ship out any old rubbish and not care.
I am guessing that a manager is on holiday or maternity leave and said staff cannot manage to do anything
I bought a new sun canopy from Obelink a few years ago. I didn't use it for twelve months and when I went to France the following year I found that a mistake had been made with the poles and one was the wrong size. I sent an e'mail to Obelink who replied almost immediately and sent the correct pole to me at the French campsite where I was staying.
I'm sure there was a blip in their service with the OP's order.
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Topic: Awful service from Obelink!
Gary, get some Dukdalf stuff in and I'll happily buy from you.
