the WORST customer service
I have never experienced customer service as bad as I have with L'Oréal. I placed an order on 27/08/19 and paid for next day delivery. By the 30/08/19 it still hadn't arrived so I tried to contact customer services. The number on the order emails actually is for Giorgio Armani, so I contacted them via email, which states you should get a reply within 24 hours. 2 days later I had no reply, so I sent another email, and finally on 04/09/19 someone answered me and said they would refund me the next day delivery I paid for. I advised this wasn't really good enough, since the make-up didn’t arrive until 03/09/19, a week after I placed the order, at which point I was out of the country and I had ordered the make-up to take away with me. By 07/09/19 I had no reply to my email, so again I had to send another email to which I finally had a reply on 11/09/19 stating that he had been on holiday which is why my email had not been answered. I find it astonishing that a company the size of L'Oréal, and that one person goes on holiday and your emails are no longer replied to, and there was no 'out of office' response to let you know that would be the case. Due to not getting anywhere with the emails, once I was back in the country, I called up customer services on 18/09/19 and got through to the man who had been replying (or not) to my emails after being on hold for over 20 minutes. He told me that the reason things had been taking so long is because they are a team of 15, and 11 members of staff had quit in the past week, so there was only 4 people left. I can't believe the customer services team are using these kinds of excuses with their customers! I asked what they were going to do to resolve my issue with the late delivery, and also the poor customer service, and he told me they would give me 10% off my next order, or give me back 10% from my current order (which would have been about £4). I don't feel this is acceptable for all the hassle I have been through. I said I wanted to escalate the issue, and he told me that he WAS the escalation team! So, I asked to speak to a manger, and was told she was on holiday (of course!) but he would get someone to call me the next day. By the 24/09/19 ANOTHER week later, I had heard from no manager or member of the team. I spoke to someone on their live chat, who told me a manager would call me the next day between 09:00-14:30 and of course, no one called me. I then rang the main head office on 25/09/19 and asked to speak to someone so I could make a complaint about the customer service team and management, and was told someone would call me. AGAIN no one called me back! On 26/09/19 one month after my order was placed, I called customer services and after being on hold for 15 minutes, was told a manager would call me back. I said I didn't trust that would happen and I would stay on hold until they could speak to me. When I finally spoke to someone, I was told they were not the manger as she was still on holiday. Why on earth was I told 1 week ago I would get a call back the next day if they knew she wasn't going to be there?! I was basically told they have refunded my next day delivery charge and as far as they were concerned that is case closed. They had to refund this to me, as they took my money for something which they did not provide me. I was then told I could have 10% off my next order. I explained I had previously been offered that, or off my current order, and was told they couldn’t do that for my current order. They said they offer no compensation or 'gestures' despite all the issues I have had in the past month. I have previously spent over £250 with the company over the last months, but I certainly will never be using IT Cosmetics or any of the L'Oréal group EVER again, and I will be sending my order back for a full refund.
26 September 2019
Unprompted review