Johnlewispartnership Reviews 

I have always thought that the John Lewis customer service was excellent.
They have now moved to South Africa and that is big mistake.
Customer service is now appalling.

I have just spent 33 minutes on the phone with customer service. All I wanted was details of an order placed in 2023. The operator was incredibly unhelpful, kept telling me I can not help you without an order number. After being constantly put on hold and asked for my details numerous times, she eventually found them. An AI bot would have been more helpful! John Lewis has always prided itself on customer service; perhaps it should extend this to its call centre in South Africa!

Customer service is now awful since they outsourced it earlier this year. For a company that prided themselves on customer service, this is unacceptable. This was the only reason they could charge more for their products. Please bring it back in house.

Absolutely awful customer service. Weekend away and saw a mirror in a store which I decided I would order online once home. It was out of stock so messaged via website to ask if it could be sent to my local store. They said no as I was likely to be on display only so I would need to speak to store. I called the central line to ask if they could ask the store to save it and then I would travel over an hour to buy it. They said they couldn’t get in touch with the store. I’ve tried Twitter and Instagram and also emailed customer service. No reply from all 3. All I want to do it buy a mirror and not travel all that way to see it has been sold.

Wow - such a poor customer service setup. Saw a John Lewis brand combi oven on the website, but the product info was incomplete (no air-fryer or oven temperatures). Customer services could not find the info, but said the stores might know, BUT, she wasn't allowed to call a store to find out and amazingly,neither could I.

I tried to complain through the complaints number - forget that - just goes back to the same call centre. I thought I'd email but the drop-down menu had no relevant topic. My impression - John Lewis is on the slide, big time. I won't shop with them again.

Why doesn't John Lewis respond to complaints?
Unbelievable, no reply, no acknowledgement at all and definitely no way to resolve it.

Ordered a Panasonic TV FROM John Lewis which wouldn’t connect to some of the pre-loaded Apps. The response from customer services was the software was not their problem and must be our internet connection. This seemed odd as all the Apps work on our old TV.
After resetting back to the factory default five or six times we finally got an engineer out to look at it, diagnosed a faulty circuit board and informed it was a known fault and would order parts.
The parts were not available so were offered another TV which we declined only to be told we had to return it to John Lewis although we had paid for delivery and set up. Eventually they picked it up.
Bought another brand from AO which works fine. John Lewis - never again!

Item never arrived.
Customer service obfuscating
I had to get PayPal involved.

Would give one star if I could.

Ordered a dishwasher, realised I had forgotten to add free delivery, so cancelled the order. Tried to re-order and told I couldn’t use the free delivery code as it had been used! Phoned up and customers services advisor (I know understand is based in South Africa) was a) difficult to understand and b) rude. Insisted that I had ‘used’ the code and that was that. Refused to accept that I couldn’t use anything on a cancelled order. Raised a complaint, was phoned but not given time to answer and got an email saying they would discount the delivery fee. Bu then I’d re-ordered using a different email address (same name and address of course) and the delivery discount was applied. I emailed back and explained and complained about the attitude of the initial customer services advisor. No reply at all! Delivery day came and the item arrived with a big dent, so all the work disconnecting the item to be taken away was wasted (and I had to reconnect it too!). Had to phone again to process the reorder, and again a South African call centre with laughing and shouting in the background, not what annoyed customers want to hear. Was told, don’t worry you won’t have to pay more for the next delivery! Was offered a £15 gift card for all the wasted time, which I have rejected. Had to phone back to raise a complaint but exactly the same menu options and the same SA call centre I assume. Will wait to see if they do the same as the first complaint and try to phone but don’t give an option to talk about the complaint. Also the most infuriating music whilst holding the call!

I ordered a mattress from this company, and the delivery driver has stolen my mattress. I reported it two weeks ago, but their customer service has done nothing to resolve the issue or provide a refund. I have repeatedly followed up, and still, there is no response or solution. This company is a scam—do not trust them with your order.

Absolutely appalling customer service today in JL Nottingham. Racist staff treating customers based on the color of their skin and nationality. Beware using the ‘bureau de change ‘ (currency exchange desk) at your own expense! The lady (blond in her fifties) was so rude, kept barging into our private conversation (while we were discussing the amount to exchange and the rate in French) demanding we tell her how much we were going to exchange thrice! In the end I confronted her as she was being openly rude and disrespectful, I have never been disrespected so much in a shop ever before. She demanded to see an ID while she didn’t know how much we were going to exchange or even if we were going to exchange at that rate. I said I’m not sure I have an ID on me and then she said she would need one depending on how much we needed to exchange but wouldn’t say the threshold for it. She then started saying I need to know now! Is it hundreds or thousands! Because I will need a witness! I said I’m not sure yet as this all happened in the matter of 3 minutes and she kept insisting finally when I confronted her about her tone and rudeness she said that her colleague needed to leave in 5 min and she needed a witness for the transaction to happen, but they close at 7pm and that was happening at 6.15pm. Finally asked to speak to a manager who stayed completely mute the whole time we were trying to get a reply from her saying i need to check the cctv. She was looking like a dead fish lost in the ocean literally staring at us and being completely silent. I even said to her have you got nothing to say at all? And she replied no I can’t speak because you are talking, I had stopped talking for 30sec but all she was doing was staring at us as if we were aliens. AVOID JOHN LEWIS AT ALL COSTS! Staff is so rude, disrespectful and has no manners, I have no idea why they even work in a customer facing related job when they can’t deal with customers. Never again in my life will I go there. Spend your money elsewhere honestly.

John Lewis Managers, please read!!
Reading the below reviews, I can empathise with all of these customers. Wasting 30 minutes of my time today trying to solve an “attempted delivery” (that didn’t even happen) and after speaking to two advisers (who I presume are working for your outsourced customer services company), I gave up. No email to contact any team member - shame on you, if this is your carry on, you don’t deserve to have any customers and I will think twice now, if I can get the product elsewhere.

Ordered 2 items that needed ID on delivery.
Royal Mail attempted delivery when I was out. I went on to their tracking site and rearranged delivery twice. The item did not arrive on the dates I had requested and then showed as 'waiting for collection'. I called JL about this via webchat. I was told that I would need to go and get the item - not possible as it was being held at a depot 35 miles away from my house. I then called the contact centre and a lady said she had cancelled the delivery and issued me with a refund.
3 days later the parcel arrived - clearly it had been opened and taped up again.
I rang JL and a person said I needed to take the parcel to a JL store - again not feasible because of the distance. I was told that Evri would collect it and that I would receive an email about it. An email arrived but it told me to take the item to a drop off point. Not possible. I then logged a 'case' via the JL website and was called by someone who basically said the same thing - that I would have to take the item to a JL store.
Eventually I asked about dropping off at a Waitrose store - which I will attempt tonight.
Not impressed - and no offer of any sort of compensation for the inconvenience. Poor customer service over an issue not of my making. Also the customer service advisors sometimes struggle to understand and in turn are also difficult to understand.
Overall a poor experience

I formally put in complaint
Visted Cambridge store.
Management was supposed to of contact me on the warranty issue of my Z5 flip cracked screen .
Warranty is unjustified as martin lewis says not worth the paper the wrote on.manafactors and John Lewis policy does not stand. Unknowly don't buy to all members of the public.
Management answers buy elsewhere. I lost my mother unfortunately I was not in a place to stand up for a customer wright's of garentee.

One star rating to Cambridge store and all Management

Totally incompetent. I phoned twice to make payment for a TV mount supplied during installation. Gave all relevant details but then put on hold listening to the most hideous music for an unacceptably long time. Eventually gave up.
Poor command of english and difficult to comprehend.

Terrible experience, so shocked John Lewis now has such dire customer service. Call centre appears to be in South Africa, different answer from them every time and had to keep asking them to repeat what they said as couldn’t understand them. Will avoid in future which is a real shame for a company that used to pride itself on its quality service.

The problem with John Lewis is they have not invested in new IT so when you ask for assistance they say the system says no. I want a replacement MacBook they apparently have 4 in other stores but you ask can I exchange for one the four the answer is no I need to visit the store. Can I pay in this store for the replacement the answer is no. Can yo have delivered to the local store you guessed it no can I have it delivered to my local Waitrose as before the system says no. The customer service call centre is offshore not a problem with that but they after a long time say it is a store issue so the system says no. The call centre does not call back and I asked the call handler do you work directly for John Lewis I am not sure that is correct. I am ex John Lewis employee so I am fully aware of the customer service ethos of old however the partners are let down by poor IT infrastructure and outdated systems. The partners I dealt with were all very polite but none including managers took ownership of my complaint.

Shocking service, package apparently damaged in courier transit and so they returned to JL. And there it stops as no-one contacted me to actually tell me this. Two emails (unanswered) and a 15 minute call later I’m finally made aware of the situation, which was 15 days after ordering and payment taken. Q the refund, wrong (cheaper) item refunded and QQ another call with the most disinterested person on the other end (after first just hung up when I was explaining the situation, probably hadn’t been trained on that specific issue) and she just said blase “last person you spoke to has processed the wrong refund”, my natural response “please sort the difference then” - told the refund desk was closed, which as not based in UK we were working in different time zones. Asked for everything to be put in ‘email’ writing and told that was a different dpt (again closed) as she didn’t know my email despite her asking it as part of the security check, so who knows what she was actually checking my response against. Asked to be phoned back and told they couldn’t and I’d need to go on hold to which she put me on hold and never returned until I hung up. JL still have my remaining money and I still don’t have anything to show for money taken - poor and going more and more downhill.

Order no: 519254646
I ordered a bundle product which was supposed come with a cushion as part of the promotion. However, when I was ending my purchase the cushion was seem out of stock. The same cushion was physically in store and it was also possible to purchase online. When I raised to customer support during a weekend, I have been addressed to wring contact. Later when I got in touch via email with customer support first it has been promised to be dispatched but then I received an apology rather than the promoted cushion. It has been incredibly frustrated experience for me to try resolving this issue through customer support. It was my naivety to think it is a system error at JL website rather than false promotion to attack customer. Extremely bad experience!

I purchased a £200 gift card from John Lewis which, due to challenging personal circumstances, I basically forgot about and did not try to spend until recently. When I did try to spend it, I was told that it had expired and that I had therefore lost my money.

Finding it hard to believe that a pre-paid gift card would have an expiry date at all, I wrote to explain my circumstances, in the hope that JL would be able to reinstate it. After all, this was a one off from a customer they could see from my purchase record had given them good custom over the years. Nothing doing. While the reply received was polite, they were insistent that the policy was going to be adhered to and no exception would be made. I found this very disappointing from a company that claims to be customer-focused. And, to add insult to injury, I was told that if I'd done a simple balance check at any point, the expiry date of the card would have been extended by 24 months - yet they wouldn't allow any latitude to a customer who had been facing challenging personal circumstances and had therefore not been focused on spending a voucher purchased in good faith.

Sadly, I’ll be doing my best to avoid spending any further money with John Lewis in future - which disappoints me, as it’s a business that, until now, I’ve admired.