Willowbrook prices horrendously expensive

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My 86 year old mum needed a new electric adjustable bed to replace her Willowbrook one. So we got Willowbrook in to give her a price for a new one. The salesman arrived.....wouldn't give a price till the end of his very long demonstration then wrote the price on a bit of paper. £2249. For a single bed!

She accepted this and paid £500 deposit.

Then she went into hospital. The bed got delivered ....and mum went into a nursing home, never returning to her house. So a brand new, totally unused bed which we now need to sell. That's when we realised what a con it all is...£2249 for a bed you can buy for less than £600.

I am sure there is nothing we can do as an agreement was signed with Willowbrook. I just wanted everyone to be aware of their totally inflated prices and the fact that their sales techniques seem to be just like the old double glazing salesmen, even down to 'ringing the boss' to check that the price is the lowest they can offer.

Moral of this - check out other prices before Willowbrook visit you so you know what the market rate is.

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# 58 NorfolkNman 05-12-2013, 2:07 PM
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I was under the impression i had explained all that in previous postings! The major issue with this company is deceptive advertising, eg start price of a chair at £8000 and then making it half price, and then even reducing it further if the customer does not get hooked straight away! They offer a no quibble 7 day cool off period, but they dont - on the back of the paperwork, it states that you have signed away the right to cancel. They told Mother that the deposit would be one price, but it was 3 times that amount! "over 50 years of experience" - try 2.5! "lovingly made in our English factories" They have a 2 window office, and they place orders for the chairs to a different company who source most of the items from Germany! When you dig deep in the the "Waters" family, you find that they have so many company names registered, in back up for when this one gets busted, they go on countless holidays a year ( Did Facebook stalking!) . Its just so so wrong of them, to con the most vulnerable people in the community like this, we were lucky, as in Mother had me go all through the information and realise what had happened But there are plenty of people out there that have been stung by them. Willowbrook recliners is incredibly similar too! All you need to do is google "recliners scam" and you will see a very long list!

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whats the spam risk list??? how do find yourself on it ?
hi, there's a list compiled in the compers guide to help us all be aware what/which sites to avoid that are classed as spam if it helps,

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11 Are there any sites, from experience, which are likely to generate lots of spam?
There are a few which have come to our collective attention as sites that, when used for comps, seem to generate lots of unwanted postal, email & phone call attention. These are listed below for your information, however, please do remember that this is only the collective opinion of other MSE Compers & does not necessarily reflect upon the sites themselves.

2minutedraw
4FreeUK
ABCWins
ActiveYou
Cashillion (Lead Generation, Data Aquisition, Email Marketing company)
Clash Club/Clash media
Club La Costa
Consumer Lifestyles
Consumer Opinions
Craftomatic Beds (Comps appear to be just a way to get a salesman into your home, especially if vulnerable/alone)
Emailinform
EZ Prize Giveaway
Fair Exchange
FindAPrize (questions raised if prizes awarded, slight spam, non existant company address, dodgy? Info here & here)
Freeb.ie
GetMeATicket
GetYourBillsPaid
GreatUKsurveys
Guide2Win
InstantPrizeDraw
Just-Rewards
Lingscars
MyConsumer
MyFamilyUK
MyOffers
NoizeMakesEnemies (Care - your profile with name, address, phone number & email appear to be on show with no way to make it private!!)
Nuts (comps.nuts.co.uk - comps on this URL run by data collecting co. Data Media & Research Ltd.)
OffersClick
OfferX
Opinioniser
Optimax (phone calls, letters & emails!)
PenicuUK.com (linked to Weatherseal below)
PickUpThe Prizes
Planet49 (please read here, here, here & here for more information)
PlayAndWin (beware emails received, see this thread for info)
Plum Offers
PostcodeLottery (see here, here, here & here - don't confuse with FreePostcodeLottery who are fine)
Premier Christian Radio (lots of postal junk mail even when you opt out of future contact)
Prize4U
Prizes.UK
PrizePunch
PrizeStore
RewardsToday
ShopBe
Simple2Win
SoFreebies
SupremeOGlaze (linked to Weatherseal below)
Space Kitchens (see thread here)
TheStarPrize
Tickbox
Topfox
Toyhound
UkPrize
UK-PrizeDraw
VoiceInACrowd
Vouch4me
WatchMyWallet
Weatherseal
Weather Wherever
Whats On TV (now 'powered by Instant Win 4 Now')
Willowbrook (chairs) (have pestered with phone calls quite badly on some comps - see here and also here). *******************
Win 4 Now
Win24
Zenith Windows (linked to Weatherseal above)
Ziinga (beware emails received, see this thread for info)
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Pollycat

Get out much, hollydays? :rotfl:

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Luckily somewhat more than the disabled who've been ripped off on this thread

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ENTITY NAME
Legal Name Kingswood Corporation Limited
Previous Names
Willowbrook Furniture Limited

Willowbrook Furniture (Holdings) Limited