Great vacuum until it failed, then an awful customer service experience
I purchased an Orazum VC-V18 vacuum cleaner for £195 on 29 March 2026. Initially, I was very happy with it.
Unfortunately, after around only five months, the vacuum simply stopped switching on. The battery still charged normally, there was no obvious physical damage, but pressing the power button did nothing.
I contacted Orazum on 20 August to ask for support/service or an exchange.
What followed has been extremely frustrating.
Orazum asked me to provide a video of the fault, which I did. They then couldn't access the video, so I immediately corrected the permissions. I was subsequently told that the issue had been passed to their technical team.
Several days later, rather than arranging a return or offering a solution, I was told that the vacuum couldn't be switched on while charging and that I should unplug it and wait before pressing the button. This was despite the fact that my original email had already clearly explained that the vacuum charges normally but will not switch on when unplugged.
I followed those instructions and confirmed that it remained completely non-functional.
I then formally requested a refund under the Consumer Rights Act 2015. Instead of resolving the matter, Orazum again referred it to their technical team.
Their latest response has now asked me to unplug the vacuum, leave it completely untouched for at least three minutes, and make yet another video showing that I've waited three minutes before pressing the power button.
This is a £195 vacuum cleaner. It isn't complicated: if the battery is charged, you press the button and it should work.
The product itself may have been good when it worked, but unfortunately the customer service experience when something goes wrong has been extremely poor. Nearly two weeks after first reporting the fault, I still have a vacuum that doesn't work and Orazum have still not arranged for it to be returned, repaired, replaced or refunded.
I have now had to raise a dispute with my bank and provide them with the full correspondence as evidence.
I'm posting this review as a warning to other potential customers. My experience has been that getting support when the product fails can involve repeated emails, delays and increasingly pointless troubleshooting rather than an actual resolution.
I sincerely hope other customers don't experience the same thing.