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Courtney H

1 reviews | Active since Feb 2024

03 Feb 2024, 17:31

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES DON’T EVER ORDER FROM LEROY MERLIN - save yourself weeks of stress and anxiety

Whatever you do… don’t EVER order ANYTHING from Leroy Merlin online. I’ve only ever ordered twice, both times were a disaster, but this recent time has seriously shocked me beyond words… like I am speechless….

I ordered 2 small grey 90cm patio tables… this is not what I received…. I ended up receiving 2 MASSIVE dining room tables (180 cm long). The day they arrived I immediately requested to send them back. I’d also like to mention that not only did I not receive the correct order but it took 3 weeks to arrive when i was promised 48 hours.

Anyway, when I phoned the lady to process the return she said to me, “I’ve processed the return and the courier company will be there next week to collect”, they never pitched… so I phoned again, and again, and again, and again… here I am 3 weeks later, with these massive tables sitting in my very small lounge, 3 weeks later, and still no solution from them. They have **** 3 times about saying that a courier company has been dispatched, between my fiancé and I we have been on the phone with them close to 30 times trying to resolve this issue, and still no solution. Yesterday again I was promised that the courier company would phone me with details by the end of tomorrow which never happened so I phoned again today just to get told “we have escalated the matter” which I have heard from them over 10 times with still no solution. And I can just about garantee that once they have collected the tables, I’m going to have a very hard time getting my money back. Please, if you want to avoid having mental breakdown after mental breakdown, crying everyday, and extreme frustration, do not order from this company. This issue has been going on for nearly 6 weeks if you include the amount of phone calls I made to just find out where the order was before it arrived.

The amount of stress this has caused is extreme, it’s been a dark cloud hanging over our heads for weeks because everyday we wake up to make the first phone call of the day to them, everyday we get told “you can’t speak to a manager because we can’t get hold of them” “the matter has been escalated” “the courier company is coming”, and we do not know what to do anymore.

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Leroy Merlin South Africa
Leroy Merlin South Africa's reply05 Feb 2024, 09:28
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Good day Courtney

Please accept my apology on behalf of our company. I am sorry to learn that your experience with our customer service was less than satisfactory. We value our customers and exceptional service is always our priority. Please note that we will be in direct contact with you. 

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Courtney H's update09 Feb 2024, 10:06
Reviewer Update
UPDATE: Leroy Merlin promised that the tables were scheduled to be collected on Thursday, so I stayed home from work to see to them… and they never pitched. Then today I get a phone call from Leroy Merlin saying that the courier company collected the tables from me already… to which I said, I’m staring at them in my lounge right now so that’s impossible. To which they rep****, “they said they collected them and you say they didn’t so we need to look into it”. I don’t even know how many weeks we are down the line now of trying to send these things back and getting a refund.
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Courtney H's update10 Feb 2024, 14:48
Reviewer Update
UPDATE: Leroy Merlin sent their delivery guy. He knocked our gutter off our roof while reversing into my house… And they only sent one guy, the tables are huge… so when he realised he wouldn’t be able to do it alone he called his boss to ask him what to do… (keeping in mind they had phoned me an hour prior asking me for the measurements of the tables). The boss then instructed him to drive around and find a guy on the side of the road to help… me being a mother home alone with my toddler, i said absolutely not… you won’t be bringing a random guy from the side of the road into my home. They then phoned me to apologise and told me they would send the guy back with another guy with him. At this point I asked my fiancé to come home from work as I was SURE that they were just going to stick their their original plan and get a random person. So my fiancé arrived home and so did the delivery guy, but again… only 1 guy. So my fiancé ended up helping him move the tables. So I feel like I can finally celebrate now! THE TABLES ARE GONE!!! After week and weeks of begging the tables are gone! Am I going to get my money back though? Leroy Merlin? Care to comment? Or will this be another 6 week long battle?