Craftyflair 

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Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Had to go to post office to pick up my order as they didn't pay enough postage, cost me an extra £7.50 for my order, contacted them and complained but didn't get reimbursed 😕

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Fast and hassle free, I ordered a Tim Holtz stamping platform for my wife for her birthday, I have to admit, I was dubious after reading other reviews on here however decided to take the chance as the... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Ordered online on 22 July but my order has not arrived. Contacted via email and WhatsApp as per their telephone message answering request. I've had no response. On the invoice it states Royal Mail 48... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

This company has an extensive range of products at competitive prices. I have so far placed two orders with them and on each occasion my order has been dealt with quickly, carefully packaged, clearl... See more

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  1. Craft shop

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We are a small independent online Craft Shop specialising in Paper-craft, family run by a husband & wife team which started selling on market stalls back in 2019. It all started as a bit of a hobby, an idea to be different, have a personal touch and to make crafting that little bit more affordable. What started as a hobby, continued in a similar manner for 12 months, moving from the market and going online where our popularity grew quickly, allowing us to run this full time from early 2020. We stock a huge number of products, from many of the UK's leading brands, with flexible payment options from PayPal, Klarna or Clearpay


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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

1st time I have used Crafty Flair

1st time I have used Crafty Flair. Easy to use website. Prompt delivery and most importantly had the items I wanted in stock. Very impressive for a small company. Will definitely use again

13 October 2024
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I judged to quickly

I may have judged this company too quickly by reading the negative reviews of it and gave the owner a hard time via email exchange for this I apologize. Although The items arrived late, you will not find a better price anywhere else. Products arrived well packaged and completely brand new. I would even buy there again!! Thank-you Paul & Claire Xxx

23 October 2024
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Finally received my order 15 days later

Still awaiting my order. I placed an order on the 30/09/2024 and now the 09/10/2024 and still not arrived yet. No dispatch email or tracking info sent. I emailed for an update on the Oct 2 on status of my order and was told. Apologies, these have not long arrived with us from the supplier due to their popularity and your order will be sent out today. If the product was not in stock at the time, should have been marked out of stock. Emailed again 0n the 8th Oct and no reply. Update. Oct 10th received email this afternoon from Royal Mail saying they have my item from Crafty Flair. Would have been courteous of Crafty Flair to send me a dispatch email. Update Finally received my order today 15th Oct.

30 September 2024
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Craftyflair have a lovely range of…

Craftyflair have a lovely range of crafting goodies at excellent prices and they are efficient, reliable and very speedy with deliveries.

The products I received were wonderful and an excellent quality and affordable.

6 September 2024
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Very positive experience

Very pleased with this company on placing my first order with them. Got some creative expressions dies at a fantastic price. Ordered on Monday, dispatched Tuesday and received Thursday. I’d read a few recent poor reviews, but my experience was very positive.

29 August 2024
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Infrastructure issues or just bad service?

I placed an order and paid extra for swift delivery. Nothing arrived. I phoned and no answer. I emailed and no response. They responded quickly to Whatsapp and said they are having reports that people are emailing and they aren’t receiving them. They didn’t offer to refund the extra I’d paid for a quick delivery despite the extra steps I had to go through to finally get my order. I think they have infrastructure issues that they need to quickly resolve. I unsubscribed my email from marketing but I am still receiving emails. I won’t use them again.

8 August 2024
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Ordered a month ago and haven't heard anything about shipment, and in ten days Craftflairs haven't answered mail or phone

Ii ordered something from Craftyflair 26th of July. Got order confirmation right away. But then nothing happens. I have tried calling and writing emails, but no respons in the ten days I have tried. Seems like the respons time is better here on trustpilot from the company. So Craftyflair: I would like to hear what is happening with my order, before I next week try to get my money back and call in fraud to the credit card company.

Update: Got mail today about problems with mails going to junkmail at CraftyFlair, and also that my package had been returned to them because of damage on the package where the address was. Today I got trackingnumber for the package sent again. If I had gotten a tracking number the first time or information about the order was dispatched, I would not been so worried. (And I did check my junkmail...)

23 August 2024
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Really happy with my purchases…

Really happy with my purchases especially as the price for the Tonic Nuvo Crystal Glaze was exceptionally good. Have ordered a couple of times from Crafty Flair and order delivered quickly and well packaged each time.

11 August 2024
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Excellent value for money

Packaged well and received as stated. Thank-you.
Price was very competitive and is excellent value for money.
I will be using this die set for my Christmas cards as I can use up lots of peel-offs and die-cuts in all the different sections of the die set.

14 August 2024
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Long delivery time poor service

I placed an order on the 30th July on a 48hr Royal Mail delivery service. Nothing arrived… After sending an email to Crafty Flair requesting despatch and expected delivery details from them my order finally arrived on August 13th two weeks later. No response from the seller to my initial email, no despatch note included, no apology for the late delivery. However I did at least receive what I ordered.

This is highly unprofessional and very poor quality service. If on ordering the goods I had been advised that delivery would take two weeks then that would have been fine, but why acknowledge customer orders stating 48 hour delivery when it’s clear this isn’t the case?

I won’t be purchasing from this company again and would advise others not to do so on the basis of the quality of service I received.

13 August 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I have never written a review before…

I have never written a review before but am so disappointed with this company. Order placed July 31 order confirmation receipt same day, they stated delivery with Royal Mail 48. When nothing had arrived on August 6 I tried to phone but got a recorded message saying they were very busy - no option to leave message! I then emailed, on 7 th received quick reply saying it was held in Norfolk and they would resend. By 12 th still nothing so emailed again! They said they had sent a email but surprise it never arrived! Now say they don’t Have the products to fill the order!, Totally unreliable company keep clear!!

31 July 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Never received order, awful customer service

Chased order several times via email. One response eventually saying it would be chased up. It wasn't. Called phone number several times, no response. Sent WhatsApp message as advised on answerphone message. Finally put in claim through PayPal and got my money back. Very poor customer service. Selling items I feel they cannot actually fulfil.

4 July 2024
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Reply from Craftyflair

Hi Sarah,

We have sent several emails to you, through the website and directly, but I suspect that they must have gone to junk, as we never received a reply from you. We contacted you the day after the order to let you know that the large binders were out of stock due to sending a few replacements, but did ask you if you wanted the medium ring binders as we had plenty of these. We did not receive a reply, so asked Tonic to fulfil this as they had the stock in their trade warehouse.

We was away from the 13th July, so did not see your email from the 12th, but did reply to your email on the 15th. We did chase the manufacturer to find out what happened to this but we did not receive a response. We did answer your next message on the 18th. We was unable to refund you though directly as you had raised a case via PayPal, but it was waiting for a response from you, so we couldn't refund, until this had been passed back to us, (which we contacted PayPal to do so). Once this was in our control we could process it.

We carry plenty of Tonic Stock all the time, it was unfortunate that the binders went out of stock when you ordered as we normally have around 50 in stock at any one time. We do still have the medium available if you did want it. I didn't add it to stock, as was waiting for a reply from you. We also have A5 binders too.

I'm sorry that you felt that you couldn't get through to us, it was unfortunate that we was away when you called, but we did try and reach out to you,

Kind Regards,

Paul

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I wished I had read the reviews before…

I wished I had read the reviews before ordering. Shocking service. Ignore emails and won’t answer the phone. Then got an excuse on WhatsApp after I requested a refund about a family emergency but they said it had been sent. Asked for tracking but again ignored the request. How can someone run a business like this? You can’t expect any return business from me.

This was my Message to the owner before he replies to say how rude I was.

You’re an absolute joke of a company. I asked a load of strangers on a Facebook craft group if any of them had used you before. Within minutes I had 20 or so people telling me to avoid at all cost. People losing money, people not getting the right goods and most of all people getting excuse after excuse or no contact at all. So no I don’t believe you had a hospital emergency. You forget that we are your customers and we send you money trusting you that you will send out the goods within a reasonable time. Your website gives the option to see the progress but to be honest there was none for days. You get the initial thank you for your order but no other information on despatch. All the reviews online and on Facebook say they have the same problem - no one ever answers the phone and no reply to emails. And that hasn’t just been for the last week - it’s gone on since way back. So you need to employ someone with some kind of customer service because I for one together with many others won’t be returning and will advise others not to give you there business. I’m not a business woman but I can see that your current attitude can’t be good for business.

28 June 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Beware the preorder!!!!! Poor customer service

Ordered a preorder which I knew would take time to come in to the store. It’s now gone past the date expected and I have waited for over a month now so I have emailed nicely numerous times to ask what is happening with my order and absolute radio silence, no replies… feeling very frustrated as all I want to know is when to expect my order, just a bit of customer service would be nice.

Update….. I have now heard from the store following this review and been informed some preorder items are delayed. Just feel sad that I had to do this review to get a response. I feel a better way to keep their customers updated on orders would be money well spent as I am the sort of customer that is loyal to craft shops with excellent communication. After this experience and once I receive my order I won’t be coming back until I feel standards and reviews are much improved. I spend a lot of money with my regular companies that sell dies and stamps but I have to get these ink pads wherever I can. I took a chance on this company and it’s a case of lesson learnt.

Update…. After these reviews they prompted a reply I did have an explanation that these items have been delayed. I waited patiently for a further 2 weeks but have emailed the seller to ask for a refund. Failing a response I am going to have to approach PayPal. I understand that all companies have issues at time to time and if this were a company who I felt confident would keep me up to date with the situation I would wait. My confidence has been lost and I am seeing these items being sold elsewhere with no issue.
Update
They said the items were still held up so I gave it another 2 weeks and have now asked for a refund but this was 10 days ago and I still have not heard back from them. I have contacted PayPal about this also. This whole purchase has been an absolute nightmare and I will never shop with this company ever again.

24 April 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Very poor customer service

I too ordered the new Versafine ink pads on 24/4/24 expecting a delivery mid May, sent an email 22/5/24 for an update, no reply. Sent another email 31/5/24 asking for a refund if not delivered within the next 7 days, finally got an email back that day saying they had sent a mass email out the previous weekend, funny I never got it. Excuse was, goods held in customs! Said should be received by early the following week. Sent another email last Saturday 8/6/24 asking for full refund as I wasn't prepared to wait any longer, still nothing. So today contacted my bank and applied for a charge back and lo and behold got my money back, Craftyflair can deal with my bank! Avoid this website at all costs.

24 April 2024
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I ordered 4 sets of WOW embossing…

I ordered 4 sets of WOW embossing powders on Sunday and they were safely delivered by Royal Mail today (Wednesday). I was kept in the loop at all times and Royal Mail delivered the items in the time window as stated. I have no complaints whatsoever with the customer service. I was pleased especially with the prices as there was a discount code for the weekend which was applied. I have bought from this firm many, many times and only once did I not receive my order within a week.

12 June 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Poor service

Not a very good service, I won't be using them again. When I chased for my order, I got their standard response of "We have arranged to have this resent". I doubt it was previously sent as the only "dipatched" email I received was for the "resent" dispatch.

When the order arrived it contained a cheaper substitue for one of the items I had ordered, so I've had to chase them again to refund the price difference.

Msg to Craftyflair - Don't assume customers your choice of substuite.

11 June 2024
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Reply from Craftyflair

Hello Denise, while we appreciate your review, your order only arrived today and was only resent out yesterday.

You can doubt all you like, but we would have had no reason not to send your order out, we stock large numbers of shimmer powders and buy them from both Tonic UK & US for continued supply.

We arranged for this to be resent, and while we only had the one spray bottle (in the first parcel), we substituted this with the spray bottles that are used by the majority of customers & designers with shimmer powders and similar acting products, so we knew the product that while may be cheaper was not an inferior product by any means.

You only contacted us after 6pm today stating that you would like a refund of the difference (£4) which we was going to do once we knew you was happy with the product. It was not exactly chasing, we was aware and was going to contact you once it had arrived, but we never got the chance to do so.

So because we haven't replied to this email, you left a negative review? I'm not really sure why this review was left. We resent your product and we included a spray so that you could use the products. Without the spray, you would not have been able to use them. We often get praised for actually including substitute products rather than not include something that might be missing, so I'm sorry this was not up to your standard.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Poor service

I ordered some crafting supplies a week ago and I've had no feedback. I've sent emails and tried to get in touch. Very poor customer service, looks like I won't be using this company again, but I'm out of pocket for nearly £40. Mr Hales

7 June 2024
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