Regret being a customer
Regret being a customer
Purchased a kitchen from this company as part of a wider home renovation. Things started to go wrong from the moment we paid our deposit - they missed their own deadlines for paperwork, failed to send design drawings, needed chasing on everything. At installation, the doors forming part of a full wall of units were stained different colours and looked terrible. Then when the £15,000 worktop was installed, they literally didn't turn up, costing us with our build team. Weeks later, they did turn up, only to install heavily machine-marked quartz, and a few days later a corner of that quartz just fell off. The kitchen was left unfinished - they committed to replacing the work top and delivered replacement doors but never sent an installation team for the doors, and the night before the replacement worktop was due to be fitted, they called to say it was also machine marked. Then they went into liquidation (albeit they pre-arranged a company sale before doing so), leaving us with £20,000 worth of damage/loss in having no guarantee and a host of snags/things that don't work in addition to the problems with doors and island. Now claiming they don't need to remedy our kitchen because 'the contract was with the other company' - our kitchen doors were part of the asset sale and now sit with the new owners. They continue to use the same 'trading as' name and website and claim they are a family-run business despite being owned by Erin Woodger & Alex Forster - i.e. not a family-run business. A company that seems to struggle to design and build kitchens, and severely lacks a moral compass when it comes to customers.
In response to the reply - the new company is comprised of many people who worked for the original company, assets paid for by customers of the original company, and things like website and social media followers originating from the other company. A company that genuinely wanted to serve customers might well have contacted those it had left high and dry previously, and tried to make some kind of contribution to their situation. Woodworks, whether old or new, has not made any attempts to do this. If only it put as much effort into serving customers as it did to manage its social media outreach. I remain strongly of the view that you are not to be trusted as an organisation, whether technically a 'new' company or not.
1 de fevereiro de 2024
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