The Norfolk hamper company thread

karlie88

maxtweenie wrote: »

everyone will be happy and jolly eating mince pies

Think we'll be lucky to receive 2g of brandy butter, 4.5g of Christmas pudding, a quarter of a mince pie and a half-eaten shortbread in these silly hampers.

(Neil got a bit peckish; hence, the half-eaten shortbread).

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pinkydinkydoo

maxtweenie wrote: »

Looks like there are some people who think that tomorrow morning UK Maill will suddenly turn up with hundreds of "missing" orders saying " Sorry, it 's all our fault." Yeah right, and I bet you also think that tomorrow nght some jolly fat man in a red suit will turn up on a sleigh and everyone will be happy and jolly eating mince pies and singing around a log fire. Get real, this bloke is incompetent at best, and a crook at worst, and I'll be surprised if any rubbish boxes of galaxy or sherbet saucers turn up.

I have a friend who works for a large parcel delivery company, unless the sender of the parcel has paid a massive premium most parcel companies would have stopped guaranteeing before xmas delivery on about wednesday!

Tracyjj0

Can't believe some people are sticking up for this company.

Plain and simple truth is that this fiasco has cost me, and mamy others, so much in money, wasted time and worry.

I don't care any more about whether the bloody hampers turn up tomorrow - too little too late if they do.

Wish I'd never heard of the company and don't give a toss what becomes of the owner.

Going to try and put this out of my mind for now and get on with having a good Christmas.

However, if you do have your spies reporting to you, about what's being said on here, Neil, I'd just like to say, I hope you receive the karma you deserve - shame on you!

Thank you, to all you MSE'ers for sharing your stories and I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas in spite of all this x

maxtweenie

bargain_babs wrote: »

I've just cancelled my order and asked for my money back
I think I have been very reasonable waiting until the last moment
But last day shopping tomorrow .........
I will have to go shopping tomorrow (nightmare) to buy 6 x Christmas presents for everyone that was getting hampers
and then come home and wrap them all (groan)
Fingers crossed for bargains in BHS ..........

Don't forget to put it in a letter as well, and send it recorded delivery. That way the little !!!! can't claim he didn't get your email.

Middlestitch

An idea which might suit a few people struggling to sort out last minute gifts - possibly an afternoon tea voucher?

See http://www.afternoontea.co.uk/ or http://www.afternoonteaonline.com/vouchers/afternoontea/

Doubtless other sites sell similar things.

Appreciate this won't appeal to everyone, but hope it'll be useful for a few people.

A_Phoenix_of_Tangerine

maxtweenie wrote: »

Don't forget to put it in a letter as well, and send it recorded delivery. That way the little !!!! can't claim he didn't get your email.

Thanks, good idea.

Does anyone have a template for the letter we should send? Think Citizens Advice were going to let us know, but I haven't heard anything back from them just yet (though they're probably on holiday).

Also - if we send it recorded delivery can we also claim back the cost of the postage from him?! Would hate to lose an extra fiver on top of the £100+...

short_cake

maxtweenie wrote: »

Looks like there are some people who think that tomorrow morning UK Maill will suddenly turn up with hundreds of "missing" orders saying " Sorry, it 's all our fault." Yeah right, and I bet you also think that tomorrow nght some jolly fat man in a red suit will turn up on a sleigh and everyone will be happy and jolly eating mince pies and singing around a log fire. Get real, this bloke is incompetent at best, and a crook at worst, and I'll be surprised if any rubbish boxes of galaxy or sherbet saucers turn up.

exactly Max and very well written couldn't have put it any better
IF and as we all know thats the biggest word in the dictionary IF anyone gets a delivery today well done to them for the rest of us try not to let it spoil your Christmas too much i know it already has for a lot of us BUT were all still be looking and contributing to this thread well into the New Year
Pls keep the contributions to it coming and sharing the good and bad's of how everyone is getting on with the situation
and together were pass on out tips and info to help sort this fiasco out the best we can

short_cake

pinkydinkydoo wrote: »

I have a friend who works for a large parcel delivery company, unless the sender of the parcel has paid a massive premium most parcel companies would have stopped guaranteeing before xmas delivery on about wednesday!

THATS SO TRUE we send parcels from the place i work in also today a lot of couriers we be delivering but like you say at a very increased premium of a before noon delivery

Lets face facts here if he didn't have them sent by this time last week then were were never gonna get them he should have had 90% all ready by the 5th dec he was bloody lucky a lot of us held off shouting At him before the 18/19th and i wish i had now But hey ho

Alwaysskint22

short_cake wrote: »

THATS SO TRUE we send parcels from the place i work in also today a lot of couriers we be delivering but like you say at a very increased premium of a before noon delivery

Lets face facts here if he didn't have them sent by this time last week then were were never gonna get them he should have had 90% all ready by the 5th dec he was bloody lucky a lot of us held off shouting At him before the 18/19th and i wish i had now But hey ho

Couldn't agree more! Wish I'd wised up to this shambles a week ago instead of giving him the benefit of the doubt. I can't quite work out if he deliberately set out to con people OR if he is just so unrealistic and greedy that he didn't know when to call it a day? Either way we're all stuffed!!! :mad:

irwellgirl

Hi everyone and Merry Christmas.

Even though I think we'd all have rather received refunds or hampers I have to say that the thread has been a great support and I hope everyone can put hampergate out of their mind for a few days.

After trying to open a case with Paypal which was immediately closed because I was out of the refund window, I sent an email to Paypal to make them aware of the situation and said there were many people like me who hadn't received goods. Anyway surprisingly I've received an automated email to say they are investigating... anyone else had one in this situation?
And yet on my status it still says case closed... might try ringing later if I can escape the madness for 5 mins....