GM

Guillermo Martinez

Portugal

Reviews

Review of Ferramenta.pt - Ferexcel


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Be aware of this poeple and avoid them

I bought a Makita Electric Chainsaw, after receiving it and testing it, just in the air, not cutting wood, I found it was pouring oil in excess all over, leaking on the floor, so I contacted ferramentas.pt and told them I found it weird and also sent them high resolution pictures of the machine to see their opinion as I never owned a machine like this before, they said (they are authotized service, "the experts") send it back, so I did, then after almost 10 days they said the machine was ok, they compared with others similar and it was fine and they will send it back.
A week later I contacted them to ask when they will send the machine and in next days they iniciated the process of sending it back.
When I finally have the machine back it was really oily and with plenty of dust attached to the oil, I checked the screws with a magnifier lens to see if it was opened and the screws were marked so it was opened!. From factory screws are alwys perfect as they use the right tool, in the other hand repair shops (like ferramentas.pt) use whaterver they have at hand so usually the leave behind marks on the screws easy to spot.
So they lied to me saying they did nothing the machine was just fine (when they actually opened it!).
Then I tried it and... no leaks at all!, it works like never before so that mess of oil wasn't normal and that proves they fixed a BROKEN MACHINE they sold to me AS NEW and that I paid AS NEW.
So be aware of this poeple and avoid them, they are dishonest.

22 March 2024
Unprompted review

Review of Leroy Merlin Portugal


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

First purchase: 1 expensive item broken, 1 item wrong and 1 item missing

Is not unusual that LeroyMerlin has such a bad reputation.

I did my first purchase December 28th, 2023 and it will be most likely the last one.

A expensive (429 EUR) BOSCH Eros 6000 1500w ceramic radiator arrived with small pieces of ceramic loose inside the box. It works but it does a high pitched noise. I immediately call them on the delivery day, talked to someone that promised me they will contact me to get it sorted (today is 2024-02-07) not yet resolved, every 2-3 weeks they send an email with apologies and asking me when I am available just to then do nothing...

Then there was a missing item of around 4 euros that took 1 month to be refunded...

Then a wrong item, I bought a Sika tape for the chimney seal and they sent acoustic foam tape!
We arranged an interchange, they sent the right tape via CTT and I gave to the postman the wrong tape packed and with all the requiered numbers provided by LeroyMerlin.
All good? NO! a few days latter the guy from CTT arrived with my box saying nobody at Leroy Merlin wanted to receive it so they rejected it, therefor I have the box sitting in my livingroom waiting...

So, to sum up, they have no idea on how to deal with clients or fix their own abundant mistakes. In my account still the items are marked as ready for delivery! unbelievable!

As I live in Portugal I also submitted a complaint to a very popular portal here, where they are very active answering clients' complaints but that didn't help either.

28 December 2023
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Review of Cortinadecor


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Dicen que les importan los clientes pero no es verdad

Hice un pedido de 2 verticales y 5 venecianas, usando los consejos de cortinadecor, sin embargo esos consejos no aplican a todas las circunstancias y en mi caso resulto en que NINGUNA de las 7 cortinas entre en el lugar.
Las 5 venecianas llegaron primero, ahi detecte el problema y los llame por telefono, led dije las verticales tambien estan mal, corrijan el ancho... Ignoraron mi pedido y las mandaron con las medidas incorrectas.
Encima uno de los rails de las verticales vino rayada la pintura...

Luego de varias llemadas y emails su SOLUCION fue hacer el pedido denuevo de TODO, con un generoso 10% de descuento! Unos verdaderos caraduras.

Asi es que tuve que rebuscarmelas para modificar las ventanas en caso de las verticales y serruchar los rieles de las venecianas para que entren, lo cual es un trabajo realmente complejo y tedioso no teninendo las herramientas adecuadas.

Osea cuando algo sale mal, CORTINADECOR simplemente corta las comunicaciones e ignoran al cliente.

Necesito 7 venecianas mas que por supuesto las voy a comprar en otro lugar.

No recomiendo CORINADECOR a nadie ni les volvere a comprar.
Los productos no son nada espectaculares, standard, el embalaje es bueno y el delivery razonable.

Si necesitan cortinas busquen a otro proveedor, CORTINADECOR es terrible!

UPDATE 14-02-2024:

AHORA que hice la review en TRUSTPILOT y que ya me tome el trabajo de recortar los rieles y adaptar las ventanas por que en su momento ignoraron mi problema, y SOLO me propusieron hacer TODO EL PEDIDO DENUEVO con un 10% de descuento, AHORA quieren comunicarse conmigo!
Para que? no hay nada que puedan hacer, y si genuinamente les importa, cosa que dudo, si realmente les apena lo que paso, bueno haganme una devolucion parcial de dinero o una cortina gratis o algo asi por que con las que me mandaron ya no hay nada que ustedes puedan hacer, lo tuve que hacer yo por las mias.
Desde mi punto de vista lo unico que les proecupa es la review NEGATIVA, la cual he realizado para que mas gente no caiga en la horrible experiencia de creer que van a tener algun tipo de soporte o ayuda cuando en realidad a CORTINADECOR no le interesa lo mas minimo y tampoco ayudan con las guias para tomar las medidas, si unos las sigue las cosas van mal en ciertas circunstancias, como en mi caso, ustedes dejan afuera un numero de variables que pueden afectar al medir las cortinas y los que compran NO SON EXPERTOS.
Ninguno de los 2 empleados que me atendio por telefono intento ayudar, tampoco por email, dijeron que me habian mandado un email que NUNCA recibi, yo tengo 7 cuentas de email, trabajo en remoto hace 15 anos y si les digo que el email no me lo enviaron NUNCA es asi, de otra forma ya hubiese perdido mi trabajo si no pudiese recibir emails correctamente y casualmente el unico email que no me llego en la ultima decada es el de CORTINADECOR que por otro lado tampoco paro un pedido al que les avise estaba mal y debia modificarse, lo mandaron igual.

Por favor, no me hagan perder el tiempo.

Update 20-02-2024
Ayer les envié un email desde la cuenta que ustedes tienen registrada, una cuenta de gmail que ademas uso todo el tiempo con cero problemas, parece que casualmente a ustedes el email no les llegó...

Que empresa de incompetentes! encima dicen ser fabricantes y no son mas que un mero reseller de Hunter Douglas, la corporacion que fabrica practicamente las cortinas que todos venden y que no son nada especial, producidas en masa y de calidad discutible.
Ustedes no van a solucionar nada, ni siquiera les interesa, solo quieren aparentar en Trustpilot que Cortinadecor "lo intenta", ni siquiera me contestaron el email, son ynos caraduras, casi 2 meses despues ofrecen una solucion, cuando se las pedi me ignoraron y a pesar de decirles que no me envien las verticales, que el ancho no iba a entrar un jueves, el lunes las despacharon igual.
No les importa nada!

update 21-02-2024
Anoche le conteste a Laura y le di acceso al google drive con las fotos que subi inicialmente casi 2 meses atras y que recien ahora se interesaron en verlas, tambien les subi unas fotos nuevas de como quedaron despues que las reforme a mano, no teniendo otra opcion.
Laura deberia haber recibido el email que le envie desde mi cuenta gmail a la cuenta de gmail de ella y el acceso a google drive,tambien les explique como comunicarse conmigo.
Lean los emails!!

Update 22-02-24
En los mas de 20 anos que llevo usando gmail, no recuerdo que un email de gmail a otra cuenta de gmail haya fallado, unico caso excepcional: "CORTINADECOR que no recibe emails a su cuenta de gmail desde otra cuenta de gmail..."
Revisaron la carpeta SPAM? Saben como leer emails?
INCREIBLE!!!

30 December 2023
Unprompted review

Reply from Cortinadecor

Buenos días Guillermo, en nombre de Cortinadecor le pedimos nuestras más sinceras disculpas por este desafortunado incidente. En Cortinadecor queremos que nuestros clientes queden satisfechos con nuestro servicio y productos.
Hemos hecho todo lo posible por solucionar lo ocurrido, y a día de hoy ha recibido su nuevo pedido correctamente.
Si lo desea, confirme que está conforme con la resolución. Gracias de antemano.
Un saludo, Cortinadecor

Review of Bergfreunde.eu


Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great service at a cost

Top service, great products, relatively fast dispatch but a bit more expensive (around 20% more) than their competitors. Overall happy as they have the rope in stock and I needed that rope asap for a job.

24 January 2024
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Review of Amistrade

Review of Sainsbury's


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Second time I and the last one.

Second time I shop on-line with Sainsbury's they replaced 3 items, I rejected them as I have an email from them saying:
"No quibble returns Hand anything you don't fancy back to us when you receive your order and you'll get a full refund within 5 working days. It's that easy."
8 days later and no refund... I opened a chat with a member of the on-line staff, they haven't got any idea of which items they sent, the price or even what items were... and finally they said "We can't issue a refund I'm gonna give you an on-line voucher".... what??
I negotiate a gift card by post for the refund to be used on the local store as I am not gonna to buy from them EVER AGAIN!
I DO NOT RECOMMEND using Sainsbury's at all unless you want to deal with horrible product replacements and an incompetent services company and false promises.

12 October 2019
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Review of Trustpilot


Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Things should be improved, but you are helping a lot.

I really trust TrustPilot, but what I would like to see is an alert on companies that have received a big number of complaints/low rating NOT as a % but as a number of complaints as they are. % are not always accurate to the truth, and when you buy a product o service from an unfair seller/service company for you a failure is 100% of pain so to sum up when everything goes fine everybody is great, but only great companies remains great when things go wrong.
If you have for example: 18K reviews average very good (i.e 5 stars) but 200 of them say the company is bad (i.e 1 star) hey! 200 people can't be wrong!!! that company IS just bad. Put a huge banner saying WARNING high number of complaints!!
A good number of 5 star reviews just represent a company doing what is supposed they should do and it is related to they doing lots of transactions!! A 100% 5 Stars Company is indeed a great Company.

5 October 2016
Unprompted review

Reply from Trustpilot

Hi Guillermo,

Thanks for taking the time to leave us a review.

With regards to your query about consumer warnings on our site, we do have this function on businesses who has misused the platform in the past and tried to cheat the system. In cases like this, our compliance team will issue a warning to let consumers know the company is known to us, and it will appear as a banner across their profile.

With regards to your example, I am not sure I completely understand? A company with 18,000 reviews, 200 of which are 1 stars, this would mean 1.1% of their reviews are negative. Therefore 98.9% positive. No company is perfect and sometimes things will go wrong. So long as the company is working with its consumers to solve these issues, that is the main thing. Consumers can use the Trustscore and past reviews to make an informed decision on whether or not. If you are not interested in percentages, there is also a pie chart at the top which will show you individual numbers for each star rating.

If I have misunderstood your question and not answered fully, please email support@trustpilot.com and I would be happy to go over any details missed.

Have a great day.

Hayley
Trustpilot Support

Review of PayPal UK


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

PayPal Buyer Protection doesn't exist anymore, gone forever...

In the past I haven't got problems with PayPal atnd when dodgy sellers try to fool me with fake/defective products or services they protected me.
Latest purchase FFX.co.uk sold me a damaged tool that wasn't new, in fact a returned item with scuffs and a badly bent knob. I am talking about a professional tool, so I need it working asap to avoid loosing more money in delays. After the seller sent the spare part I have to use the tool and negotiate a compensation the promised, however seller fooled me and PayPal a month later only offered a full refund only if I sent the item back exactly as I received and also I should pay the return costs!!!
Do not use PayPal at all unless you have no other choise of payment and try to buy only from truly reliable seller as PayPal Buyer Protection is gone.

5 October 2016
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Review of Royal Mail


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Parcels failure 9 in 10.

I am just tired of this rubbish company, usually walking postman are ok, but most of the van drivers are just rubbish, all of the time they don't care and just drop the red card without even knocking at the door. Almost 9 of 10 parcel delivery are red cards, despite I work at home and I am almost always at home in business hours. I wish I could left ZERO Stars for this company. They have to rethink about the people the have working for them and fire a good bunch of those useless guys and having those working for them proves the Royal Mail don't care.

3 September 2015
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Review of APC


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Lies from APC-Overnight and poor quality service

I didn't chose them, I bought an electronic item and the seller has an account with them and I was only the victim of this terrible company APC-Overnight.
I bought this item on Saturday, it should be delivered by Tuesday. After waiting the whole Tuesday for them, just in vane, I decided to call to the seller then I was told that APC-Overnight has attempted to deliver the parcel but I wasn't at home... First lie! Of course I was at home, them stated that a card was left on a wooden door, second lie, mine is aluminium glassed door and no card was left.
Seller had an argue with APC-Overnight according to seller's words, and he re-schedules the delivery for the next Thursday, they didn't want to re-deliver on Wednesday because they said I wasn't at home first time... UNBELIEVABLE!!
Now, on Thursday they just DIDN'T COME!!! no excuses, no anything, they didn't come just because...
I called the seller one more time and this time around the seller did apologize for the RARE BEHAVIOR as he said, also he assures that such thing never happen before.... So the delivery was re-scheduled for the next Friday using the service before 12pm deliery.
Finally they came!, and the parcel was delivered without any trouble as it should be back on Tuesday if they wanted to do that....
Now, the parcel had a loose piece inside... maybe abused pacel?? Who knows!
I have to send it back to the seller (I will write about them soon), so this guys came to collect the parcel on Monday... empty handed!! no paperwork at all, just "give me the parcel mate" attitude... What is that? No proof of collected parcel? I ask to the driver to sign the Invoice as a proof of collection, otherwise if the parcel was lost or whatever I have no proof to claim that the item was given to the delivery company.
AVOID THIS COMPANY!!! IS MY ADVISE. I DO NOT RECOMMEND THEM AT ALL.

7 November 2013
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Review of UPS


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

UPS a rubbish company.

They do not delivery items, they just will left you an UPS InfoNotice® card and will left you waiting just in vane..., UPS workers hate their work that's why they are so rude and work so bad, probably is a sh***y company to be an employee too, who knows... If YOU are selling goods and you use this company for delivering your goods you'll end up being rubbish like them.
DO NOT USE UPS ever! they just suck.

PS: Read this review CPC/Farnell.

28 June 2013
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Review of Rich Tone Music


Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great Experience! I'll buy again.

Bought on-line (e-Bay). They dispatched the item same day by UPS tracked service, it was delivered next day, in less than 24 hs I have had my item at home. Very well packed too. The best price in the market and excellent FREE delivery. I'll buy again from those guys for sure.

3 May 2013
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Review of BiGDUG


Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great! Fast delivery, Ecologic packaging, clever design.

Arrived next day morning. Just 3 small packs with the whole system "MD4C , 3 Shelving Bays 1780h x 900w x 600d mm 175kg UDL". Easy to assemble. A very decent mallet came free with the lot. The packaging is minimal so you end up with just a little plastic and cardboard 100% reciclable, wich is good. Instructions are part of the packaging. However, there are no instruccions about the feet or the links for the 3 shelving. The best way to fit the feet is: first of all put all the plastic feet, because later will be pretty hard, using a piece of eva or rubber and just doing some presure.
Once everything is done those shelves will sit really nice and stable, even on a bad floor as ours.

17 April 2013
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Review of Foyles


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

An awful experience, never buy again.

I bought a book on 04/12/2012 14:45:02, because they said the have it in stock and there says 1 business day dispatched and my option was delivery on store, I've selected "Deliver to store (Charing Cross Road)"...
Well even today 07/12/2012 I am waiting for an answer from them, but no book was delivered, my wife have been there today and they said to her that there is something wrong in the system...(??).
Now they have changed the price from £6.99 to £8.95 and now it says "Despatched in 5 business days". In my profile at Foyles' I can read order in progress at the time of writing this review...
I bought that book (Logic Pro for Recording Engineers and Producers) to take it with my on a trip, but it won't be possible, they've wasted my time and ruined my plans.
What kind of behavior is that? They have made a mistake and I am the only one paying for that? I'll never buy again from them and I DO NOT recommend them to anyone.

7 December 2012
Unprompted review

Review of LINDY UK