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Headlines - Avoid this company! Poor product quality, poor communication, a joke of a returns system, Director seems to have given up. The company owes me £260 which as a matter of principle I’ve been forced to engage legal help to retrieve.
It’s not in my best interest to spend my time writing reviews but for how poorly this business treats customers I feel it’s my duty to warn any future potential clients, there are so many other suppliers to go with, please don’t waste your time with ‘Standbanner’.
I ordered some printed custom size lino, on the stand banner website the product page claims sizes up to 3m x 10m. I was in contact with Chris Ball (Director)
The quality of the printed Lino was incredibly poor and inappropriate for an underfoot product. The design came cut in half and the complete wrong dimensions (Chris seemingly used a third party to manufacture this product because he himself was unaware of the max dimensions the printer the outsourced supplier had….) The item took about 20 days to arrive from Europe, with Chris himself unaware of when it would arrive or from where it was coming…
After receiving the defective product, communication from Chris was reduced to unhelpful single line responses days apart, with basically none of the questions I asked him being answered. it really seemed like Chris had given up, which is sad but unfortunately not the fault of his customers.
I spent around £40 on different couriers to get the defected product back to Chris, who’s address makes it near impossible for delivery (couriers couldn’t get onto site as gates were closed, business wasn’t answering door during business hours, premises unoccupied, inaccurate location labelling on google maps, etc) UPS finally delivered the parcel to ‘Perry’ a neighbour who gave the parcel to standbanner but who Chris claims to know nothing about.
Everything was alarm bells with Standbanner from day 1, I really wish I could go back in time and save all this effort with engaging in this very poorly run business.
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I travel with my job so like to work with different suppliers according to which location I’m in at the time. I’ve never ordered custom design lino before so ordered 3 different designs (for 3 spaces within a show I’ve just built) from 3 suppliers to gauge quality / order time / price. The other 2 suppliers delivered the product within the week and the quality and communication was fantastic. Standbanner was the stand-out, but for all the wrong reasons.
I’d be more than happy to talk in detail about my experience with Chris and Standbanner so if you’re considering using this supplier please get in touch as for your sake I would love to convince you to avoid this company like a disease. I can also point you in the direction of other suppliers who treat customers with respect and can actually deliver on what they promise.
3 April 2024
Unprompted review