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Matalan half price sale!

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  • summerday wrote: »
    When I was in store at Matalan yesterday afternoon they were collecting up a lot of the sale stuff on rails and wheeling it out to the stockroom, especially kids stuff. It was already 50% off so maybe they were reducing it further?

    that will most likely to check the stock for label swapping (people change tags so the sticker says £2 instead of £20) also to make sure sets are correct as people change the bottoms and tops around so if their kid is 8-9 top and 6-7 bottoms they will swap the bottoms from a smaller set and the last thing that could be happening is they are changing the fixtures it is on and it is easier to do that out the back

    the sale is usually 6 weeks long with 75% around the 4th or 5th week so it will be end of January before they do much unless they sold more than normal in the pass week then the dregs of the sale (usually last 10% of the original sale stock) will be reduced early
  • I got my order. Two large cabinets with 4 storage baskets. Down from £80 to £40 to £32 with the discount.

    Got them home and one of the cabinets had damage to one of the corners so I phoned customer services and it seems that I had to reorder and get a refund for this one (rather than a straight exchange) I realised that I wouldn't get the 20% off so told her that it was a hassle to do that so instead she offered to send me a £10 voucher if it was useable.

    Pleased with the customer service (although their exchange policy could be improved)

    Sugar xxx
    "The journey of 1000 miles commenced with a single step"
  • Natbag wrote: »
    I ordered Boxing Day morning, and my order is still 'in progress'.
    Is anyone else still waiting this long? :(

    ETA I just called their customer services line and a very helpful and nice lady was able to tell me my order is currently being packed and should be collected today and delivered on the 3rd :)

    Placed an order 23rd Dec - order still not received although it does say to allow 5 working days
  • vic.star
    vic.star Posts: 456 Forumite
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    Is anyone else having trouble tracking their parcel? I ordered 23rd dec, and when i click to track my parcel the last update was fri 28th dec. It says delivery up until 1st jan 8pm, but no more updates since 28th :S Anyone else had this?
  • Natbag
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    Surprise surprise, I've had a refund for the dress I wanted most on my order. So annoyed they've taken a week to tell me it's out of stock. I've ordered in the next size up, as it's still showing as available and I'm between the two sizes anyway, but what's betting in a week's time they do the same again. Not good enough Matalan. Phone call coming to you CSD tomorrow. :(
    Property buying/selling timeline - currently into week 21
    04/12/20: Both properties listed for sale
    11/01/21: Offers accepted on both sales & on our joint purchase
    25/01/21: Identity checks completed, solicitors instructed
    27/01/21: Purchase survey & valuation complete, mortgage offer received 
    05/02/21: Reduction agreed on partner's sale (under-valuation) & on purchase. Mortgage offer amended
    08/02/21: Buyers pack returned to solicitor - sellers packs already returned
    26/02/21: Partner's sale contract signed
    10/03/21: Purchase searches all back
    16/03/21: My sale contract signed
    28/03/21: Purchase enquiries satisfied, Title Report & contracts issued, contracts signed & returned
    11/05/21: Still waiting on final enquiry in the adjoining chain to be resolved. Consent to break the chain granted, instruction to move to exchange given.
    17/05/21: All parties agreed to June 3rd for completion
    27/05/21: Exchanged on my sale only
    28/05/21: ALL EXCHANGED!
    03/06/21: Completion
  • sandy201
    sandy201 Posts: 74 Forumite
    Hi,
    Does anyone know when matalan are going to have further reductions as it has been a while?
    Thank you
  • Natbag wrote: »
    Surprise surprise, I've had a refund for the dress I wanted most on my order. So annoyed they've taken a week to tell me it's out of stock. I've ordered in the next size up, as it's still showing as available and I'm between the two sizes anyway, but what's betting in a week's time they do the same again. Not good enough Matalan. Phone call coming to you CSD tomorrow. :(
    I think matalan online is the worst company i have ever dealt with, i placed an order in november and there was an item missing and a damaged item, i phoned up and was told i needed to put it in writing in an email, a week later i had no response so phoned and they said they would issue a refund, 2 weeks later, still no refund, phoned them again and was told it can take 28 days for a refund to to be received, it is now january and i have still not received a refund, i will never order online again.
  • metoyoubear
    metoyoubear Posts: 1,438 Forumite
    I think matalan online is the worst company i have ever dealt with, i placed an order in november and there was an item missing and a damaged item, i phoned up and was told i needed to put it in writing in an email, a week later i had no response so phoned and they said they would issue a refund, 2 weeks later, still no refund, phoned them again and was told it can take 28 days for a refund to to be received, it is now january and i have still not received a refund, i will never order online again.

    Complain on their Facebook page,you usually have more luck there as they don't like the bad publicity.
  • Complain on their Facebook page,you usually have more luck there as they don't like the bad publicity.
    Never thought of that thanks
  • sandy201 wrote: »
    Hi,
    Does anyone know when matalan are going to have further reductions as it has been a while?
    Thank you
    Had an email earlier saying there will be more reductions from the 11th instore - or online today!
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