Buyers beware!!
Bought the Calais Chrome pen from Boutique Gifts a few weeks ago and firstly a beautiful pen itself, but.... having being sold a barely working refill the pen is more of a glorified paperweight. Therefore having been sold a pen by this company technically I have a paperweight instead.
Customer Service has been awful, simply saying "sorry" and that there's nothing they can do to help. While a Cross refill is only £4.50, my expectation when buying a pen from anyone was that it would be able to write!
Customer Service said that calling in within a week would have allowed me to get help with this. The Distance Selling Rules allow for a minimum of 14 days from delivery of goods...when in the retail business they really should know the rules.
So, if buying from this company, add around £4.50 to every cost as the refills themselves are not always included!
Update: Having now bought a refill, obvious that I was sold a near-empty one. A simple goodwill gesture of sending a replacement refill would have made the whole experience very different...money is obviously more important than custom!
28 October 2022
Unprompted review