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John Lewis has gone off and so has it's Price Match - don't go there!
ValueForMoney99
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Beware shopping at John Lewis. They are no longer the honest, good service company you may remember from years ago. They are now a bottom-line cut-throat store who are all smiles but don't really care about their customers. I have a few examples but most recently yesterday tried to use their price match promise to purchase a new LG OLED TV. I saw the lower price at a nearby small high street competitor which had been that lower price for over 1 week (and probably longer since I only started looking 1 week ago). I took the time to fill out the JL price match form to alert them to their competitor's lower price and ask them if they would match it (since JL were also offering £100 e-voucher on any premium TV purchase up to 2nd Nov 2020). I submitted the price match form at 1.15pm on 2nd Nov. I checked at 2.30pm and they hadn't got back to me and I wanted to buy the TV that day and I checked the price at the competitor at 2.30pm which was still the lower price (which I screen captured on my mobile at that time) so I called JL at 1.15pm and told them if they couldn't confirm price match by 4pm that day I would buy from their competitor because I wanted it that day. 45mins later I received an email from JL at 3.18pm (2hrs after submitting the price match request) declining my request to price match and saying that the price at the competitor was the same higher price as theirs. I couldn't believe it, I checked the competitor's website and sure enough, in that 45mins since I last checked, the price at the competitor had been moved up to match the higher JL price. I called the competitor store and they checked on their system and confirmed that the price had moved 30mins earlier (1.5hrs after I submitted it to JL). The store said that LG must have sent through a price increase to their systems within 30mins ago.
So as you can see, I alert JL to a competitor's live and genuine price rather than buying it from that competitor when I see it. JL then contact LG and LG changes the price to the competitor so JL doesn't have to match it!. JL then says its an historic price even though it was LIVE when I submitted it. I complained and JL wouldn't move to match the price I submitted, even though I sent the screenshot from 2.30pm that day at the lower price and even though it was LIVE when I sent it to them at 1.15pm. They still refused to match it. DO NOT TRUST JOHN LEWIS! They will use their large market share to get their suppliers to stitch up the little high street competitors if you alert them to lower prices that they need to match under their price promise. You will not get the lower price and you are just letting JL dominate the market if you tell them about it.
Luckily for me, after getting the decline from JL, I called the small high street retailer who agreed to honour the lower price from 45mins earlier in the day even though it had gone up on their system after I alerted JL, so I still got the TV at the lower price (and much quicker than JL would have been able to deliver it), but this is a key lesson for me and anyone who wants to buy from JL - DON'T! After I bought the TV at the lower price I sent JL my receipt timestamed 3.35pm and I said it was the LIVE price that they had declined otherwise their competitor wouldn't have sold it to me at the price after JL declined it. After seeing my receipt JL then said they'd make an exception and match the price if I wanted to buy it from them (after declining it twice earlier and knowing I had already purchased it from their competitor - so it was an empty price match that I couldn't take up since I'd already bought the TV). JL CANNOT BE TRUSTED and they don't really care about customers despite what they write on their website and pledges. They will rip you off if they can to make as much money as they can from you. After this bad experience plus the other poor experiences I've had at JL over the last few years with returns on faulty products I will never shop at JL again and that's a big move for me because I've bought tens of thousands of pounds worth of goods from beds, to sofas, to TVs and tech at JL over the years. But if a company like JL changes for the worse then you need to change where you shop. The fact is that JL no longer values their customers and in fact uses their customers to rip off and stifle their smaller competitors. If you see what you want cheaper, or even at the same price as JL at another store, then buy it at the competitor because you'll probably get better service than at JL and whatever you do don't try to use JL Price Match service - you are just helping JL squash their competition!
So as you can see, I alert JL to a competitor's live and genuine price rather than buying it from that competitor when I see it. JL then contact LG and LG changes the price to the competitor so JL doesn't have to match it!. JL then says its an historic price even though it was LIVE when I submitted it. I complained and JL wouldn't move to match the price I submitted, even though I sent the screenshot from 2.30pm that day at the lower price and even though it was LIVE when I sent it to them at 1.15pm. They still refused to match it. DO NOT TRUST JOHN LEWIS! They will use their large market share to get their suppliers to stitch up the little high street competitors if you alert them to lower prices that they need to match under their price promise. You will not get the lower price and you are just letting JL dominate the market if you tell them about it.
Luckily for me, after getting the decline from JL, I called the small high street retailer who agreed to honour the lower price from 45mins earlier in the day even though it had gone up on their system after I alerted JL, so I still got the TV at the lower price (and much quicker than JL would have been able to deliver it), but this is a key lesson for me and anyone who wants to buy from JL - DON'T! After I bought the TV at the lower price I sent JL my receipt timestamed 3.35pm and I said it was the LIVE price that they had declined otherwise their competitor wouldn't have sold it to me at the price after JL declined it. After seeing my receipt JL then said they'd make an exception and match the price if I wanted to buy it from them (after declining it twice earlier and knowing I had already purchased it from their competitor - so it was an empty price match that I couldn't take up since I'd already bought the TV). JL CANNOT BE TRUSTED and they don't really care about customers despite what they write on their website and pledges. They will rip you off if they can to make as much money as they can from you. After this bad experience plus the other poor experiences I've had at JL over the last few years with returns on faulty products I will never shop at JL again and that's a big move for me because I've bought tens of thousands of pounds worth of goods from beds, to sofas, to TVs and tech at JL over the years. But if a company like JL changes for the worse then you need to change where you shop. The fact is that JL no longer values their customers and in fact uses their customers to rip off and stifle their smaller competitors. If you see what you want cheaper, or even at the same price as JL at another store, then buy it at the competitor because you'll probably get better service than at JL and whatever you do don't try to use JL Price Match service - you are just helping JL squash their competition!
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Wat ?........8
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Or why not just buy the best deal instead of faffing about with price matching.
If the independant place is cheaper, buy it there.
If JL is cheaper or offers something else that makes it better value then buy it from there.
price matching at any store is an unnecessary faff.11 -
My local JL store has been great so will be looking at using them again if they are able to price match.0
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Support the independant store over a chain store if the independant can offer a better price.3
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I doubt if I will change my shopping habits based on this - I have used their price-match successfully on a couple of occasions. Some you win some you lose. I wonder if the small independent was offering the same warranty.
Past caring about first world problems.1 -
JL's NKU thing was nonsense since decades. The other 1500 words I didn't read.3
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Did anybody actually read all that waffle? Don't like JL - don't buy there. Simples.2
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You are complaining about the market share JL have but still wanted to shop there instead of small local shop. However I am confused at your small local shop which also has a web presence. You also state that you have had a number of "poor experiences" with JL over the years in your spending of "tens of thousands" of pounds but yet to persist in wanting to give them your money. You have also accidently typed your tiatribe in two different parts of the forum three hours apart from each other.
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I think a company called Richer Sounds give a longer free warranty than JL ,i have never used them ,we did buy a tv from JL and had it exchanged under warranty no problem and 12 years later it is still working ( i know it is fatefull to say this )
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6 years free at Richersounds0
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