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tertius K

1 reviews | Active since Aug 2015

01 Dec 2020, 10:11

Totalsport online, staff and management useless

For such a big company they actually becoming useless with their service. Everything in the world moving forward but seems Totalsport moving backwards.....

So this what has happen to me:

Online I ordered a lot of items on 10Nov but only from the 14-17Nov they started to cancel items. Why does it take so long to cancel items. How long does it actually take to look at a order thats been placed, thats in stock, and you taking the money. But then cancelled items. Then i look at the items is still in stock. Then i ordered it again. Same thing, 4/5days after the order was placed they cancelled it again. Randomly a store in a mall phoned me and say they dont have my size, but they can give me a smaller size, since when will someone fit in a way smaller size if the size you ordered is not small. So most of the stuff i ordered was only cancelled 4-7 days after i placed the order. Then the other stuff was only delivered in bits and pieces. Shocking. I contact online support about this, but not much feedback or help from them, and that they will look into it and get back to me, more than a week later no info from them. Shocking service

Table Bay store

Was in the store to collect parcels. While i was there I ask the lady to order running shoes for me. She ask me what was the code as she need the code to order. Not even trying to look up the name and style online. Told me i must contact them with the code. I ask for email as normally their phone just rings when you call. Later that Saturday i emailed them the code i had to look up for them as they dont know how. Was waiting for confirmation from them, but nothing. I emailed them on monday, not reply. I emailed them on Tuesday, no reply. I emaild them on Wed but no reply. So in that few days i made contact with Customer Support, and was told that the matter been escalated. Then later that a area manager will contact me and the normall blah blah blah. But as you will guess nothing. Later that Wednesday the lady from the store phone me, and said that they were busy with black friday stuff and could not read emails, or place order. She needs to look for the stock, even when i told here where she could find the stock. I asked her to call me back when she ordered it for me. No call that day. On Thursday i was instore to collect parcels, and then was told in store and that they found stock, and will order it for me. Thats after i ordered it on Sat already from them. Only received my shoes on Monday.

So what have a learned, that Totalsport online , staff and management are useless!!!

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Replies (3)
Totalsports
Totalsports's reply01 Dec 2020, 10:34
Official
Good morning Tertius, we're sorry to hear that you feel that way. You first contacted us on 24 November, which you were assisted by our team on Facebook on the same day. Your enquiry was escalated to the Area Manager on the 24 November who has been in contact with you telephonically & has arranged for the shoes to be sent to your branch (sourced from another store). The shoe arrived at the store yesterday 30 November & you were contacted by the team to collect it & you advised us that you were collecting the shoe yesterday 30 November. As the shoes were sourced in a different province (you're in Cape Town) & the shoes were located at our La Lucia Mall store (Durban), there is time needed for the shoes to arrive. 

In regards to orders being cancelled however displaying as in-stock, the system does pick up damaged or dirty stock in the stores, which we will not send out to a customer as this is not our level of product service. We are currently working on this system with our teams & we apologise for the confusion that this causes. 

Orders with multiple products, where products are sourced from different branches, will arrive in separate deliveries to speed up the delivery process as we are not waiting for all the items to reach a central point before sending out. 

We hope that answers the questions that you have regarding your online orders & in-store transfer. 
tK
tertius K's update01 Dec 2020, 10:52
Reviewer Update
Actually not!

I had no phone calls what so ever from the area manager and has not spoke to the area manager. Only manager i spoke to was the store manager on the Thursday, and that was after i place my order on the previous Saturday. So nope, i did not speak to the area manager.

Regarding your online store, so why did i get a dirty cap and shoes that clearly was worn before. I took photos of it. But when i ordered the stock that was cancelled and ordered again, it was brand new and nothing wrong? So the stuff was cancelled because the system pick up dirty and damage stock but when i had to order for the second time it was brand new. So please explain that, also please explain why it takes 4-7days for you guys to locate stock?

And its amazing how you guys justify yourself here, and not replying to me via email or phone call like you were suppose to


Totalsports
Totalsports's reply01 Dec 2020, 13:19
Official
Thank you for the additional information. We would like to look into why you received dirty products; please PRIVATE MESSAGE / DIRECT MESSAGE us the order number(s) for those items. 

We have also shared your feedback regarding the telephone calls with the Area Manager & we'll provide further feedback on that. 

There are different teams that manage the platforms. Telephone calls & emails are going through to the central Customer Services team, whereas the social media accounts (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, HelloPeter) are managed by another team that coordinates back to the Customer Services team.