Cellarrats Reviews 229

TrustScore 2 out of 5

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I've been using cellar rats for about 6 months now. Always great products with a luxury feel to the packaging. I look forward to my delivery each month to see what different wines I can taste. Wo... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Hi, Cellar Rats (Wine Delivery Online Ltd) has ceased to trade and has engaged an insolvency practitioner with the aim of closing the company into liquidation in the next couple... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

You can’t unsubscribe without phoning up. Very, very shady. Also, they don’t exactly shout about the fact that you’re subscribing for wine that has been decanted into small bottles from full-siz... See more

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Rated 2 out of 5 stars

What a shame! I thought this was a good idea. I haven't had a bad experience with the customer service, but the wine quality has been awful. Many leaking bottles and others, especially the reds, ferme... See more

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6 Week night sized wines delivered to your door every month!


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TrustScore 2 out of 5

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Impossible to unsubscribe.

Impossible to unsubscribe.

They also charged me full price for a promotional month, *AFTER* also charging me the promotional amount. Essentially, this means you pay EXTRA if you take them up on their promotion.

Also, their usual price is £34.99 for 6x TINY bottles of wine. And it's not even that good!

This company sucks.

20 July 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

As many others

As many others - paid postage for a free trial box which never arrived and got charged for the next box already. 0% chance to get through to them

19 August 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Massively avoid!!

Massively avoid!!! Once you sign up its incredibly hard to cancel the subscription. Unlike other companies this cancellation has to be done only on the phone and they basically never pick up.

19 August 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Unable to Cancel Online - Anti-Consumer Behaviour

Despite their Ts&Cs saying cancellation can be done on their website, and there being a 'cancel subscription ' button clearly displayed. After clicking the link, declining option to skip a month, then declining £5 discount, then declining £10 discount, it finally showed me a screen telling me to call their customer services during office hours to cancel.

I had signed up for the monthly subscription with the discounted offer. Seems a good idea but 6x 1/4 bottles for £35 doesn't seem like a good deal so chose to cancel. I thought I might have reconsidered as £6 per medium glass is better than most pubs - but after seeing their scummy anti-consumer behaviour I will never give them my business again.

Also the initial box took over 2 weeks to arrive - coincidentally was dispatched the same day I found a phone number and spoke to someone (I had chased by email after 1 week and never got a response).

18 August 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Crap experience, worse product

After ordering 3 months subscription as a gift to a family member, The company made them sign up with a payment card, this puts the duty on the gift receiver to cancel after 3 months. And Cellar Rats is one of those crap companies make it harder than it needs to be to do that. It must be via a phone call.
But more importantly the majority of the wine tastes like its been left open for 5 days. We have just opened a red wine together and it was fizzy, upon googling, this might be down to a 2nd fermentation happening in the bottle which is commonly due to poor handling and storage of the bottle.

16 August 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Fantastic wine delivery

I'm not really sure why there is a large number of bad reviews. Their box subscription model is fantastic and I haven't seen anything else like it in the market. Fantastic wines, fantastic company.

16 August 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Customer Service - Hit and Miss

Was positively surprised by the quality of the free (postage only) taster pack. Stayed on for three months and was billed on a bi-monthly basis (June and August), but never received the June shipment whatsoever and am only now due the August shipment after being billed nearly 10 days ago.
Overall, having attempted to reach customer service via email twice, then decided to ring them up after which I was promptly sorted with a refund for both billings.

Hoping their service improves as I wouldn't go so far as to call them a scam - as it really does not appear to be one.

16 August 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Just dont bother

Ordered the free box through Vodafone and like many others it never arrived after 2 weeks. Had no faith in further boxes being delivered so cancelled!! Many other wine subscriptions to choose from. Do not choose cellarrats.com

16 August 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Same experience as many others

Same experience as many others - paid postage for a free trial box which never arrived despite showing as dispatch, no response to emails, can't find a phone number anywhere on their website. A scam. Intend to raise a dispute with my bank to get the cost of postage back.

15 August 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Avoid this company!!

One star is too much!! This company is so ignorant when ypu message them. Ordered free wines to try with just £4.99 delivery to pay. Never received wine....even after 4 emails / whats app messages! and had to go through bank to get the £4.99 back (not much I know, but not the point from such a shocking company)

24 July 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Avoid

Avoid, I am not sure whether this company is a scam!
Ordered and paid postage for a trial box, this never arrived and no response from their customer services despite multiple emails when updates or refund requested.

1 August 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Poor value

Poor value, cheap wine and the only way to cancel your subscription is to call them - when you do call you join a queue and the call isn’t answered! Avoid at all costs

9 August 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Avoid avoid avoid

Avoid avoid avoid. Ended up with a free box via Hello Fresh but had to sign up to a subscription to receive. The free box never arrived, emailed to discuss this and didn’t get a response (over 3 weeks!!). Called to cancel the subscription so I didn’t get charged and spoke to the rudest person. No opportunity to discuss reason for cancellation or anything, just “ok cancelled” and not even a goodbye. Poor service, poor communication. Just overall poor. Definitely (if I hadn’t mentioned) AVOID!

26 July 2024
Unprompted review

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