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David McKelvey

United Kingdom

Reviews

Review of AliExpress


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Appalling customer service

Appalling customer service. I paid nearly £400 for computer screens. The goods were seized at Customs because they failed to pay the import duty or VAT, which was not shown on the price offered online. Ali Express customer service were utterly useless.

4 August 2026
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Review of Amazon Uk


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

AVOID

Amazon advertise a set of Sirui lenses for sale at £2,639.00 on their site. I purchased a set. They never arrived having been stopped at UK Customs for non payment of duty.

I tried to get a refund but without the goods held at Customs I could not do so.

I contacted Amazon customer services who initially stated a full refund would be received and not to contact the seller.

I still received no refund.

I called customer services a third time to be told that I would have to go to Royal Mail depot and pay the customs duty and that it was not Amazon’s issue as the sale was via a 3rd party seller. They refused to refund.

Amazon are selling items in breach of The Consumer Protection Act and do not refund as stated in their policies.

Their customer services department tell blatant lies.

30 March 2026
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Review of HDEW Cameras

Review of Ghosthack

Review of Wex Photo Video


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Poor service and delivery

The order went well. The equipment did not arrive. I waited in for two days for the delivery but it never arrived. After a week it was sent back to WEX. I called up and frankly the person at the other end could not be bothered. As a result I bought the item off Amazon despite it being more expensive. It turned up next day. Poor service and delivery.

1 May 2025

Reply from Wex Photo Video

Hello,

Thank you for taking the time to leave us this feedback on your order and delivery experience.

Sincerest apologies for the issues with delivery of your parcel which led to it being returned to us and refunded. We would also like to apologise for the service level within your follow up call. Having listened to the call itself I agree that we would have done better for you in this instance & this was not the usual level of service we expect to provide.

I will be in touch with you directly regarding this.

Kind regards,
William
Customer Service Management Team

Review of Castle Water


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Avoid Castle Water at all costs

Avoid Castle Water at all costs. Castle Water had failed to deliver bills to the correct address having only set up and account without our knowledge in October 2023. On 28/12/23, during the Xmas break, a contractor turned up to switch off the supply claiming the outstanding bill had not been paid (bill dated 16/11/23 delivered to the wrong address).

The bill was immediately paid including the charge for cutting off supply totalling £887.99. Castle Water were informed of payment and their Collections department were informed by phone and email of the payment.

Despite this they cut off the supply.

They then demanded a further £864.00 to switch it back on.

No better than Criminals.

AVOID AT ALL COSTS

28 December 2023
Unprompted review

Reply from Castle Water

David

thanks for leaving a review, and for emailing me earlier. Unfortunately, if we have to carry out collection activity we need to pass through the associated costs, as it would be unfair on other customers to increase their charges to cover someone else's costs. Once we are instructing collections agents, the additional costs have to be paid, not just the original charges for water services - this is set out in our T&Cs and is normal business practice.

Going forward, to avoid the risk of late payment, have you considered setting up a direct debit and an online account? The online account means you receive bills immediately via MyAccount without any risk of postal delay, and these can be paid by direct debit. Over 100,000 of our customers now receive bills in this way.

John

Review of Fluidly

Review of Funding Circle

Review of GoPro


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

GoPro are bordering on criminal

GoPro are bordering on criminal. Do NOT buy directly from them. The goods failed to arrive and then when I complained they have tried to avoid refunding or sending out the goods that I paid for.

Customer services do not respond and play lip service whilst doing nothing.

AVOID - Do not buy direct.

21 December 2020
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Review of GoPro


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Absolutely dreadful customer support

Absolutely dreadful customer support. The customer service agents lie to you on the chat and phone claiming to be working to help and then do nothing. They do not update you.

It is bordering on Fraud. I ordered and paid for a Go Pro 9 with ancillary items. The box arrived with the other items but no Go pro 9.

I reported it and have spoken to Go pro service team each time. Still waiting for a replacement or explanation. DO NOT BUY DIRECT !!!!!

Almost impossible to get through to the Customer Service Team.

14 December 2020
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Review of timetalk.co.uk


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

These people are fraudsters

These people are fraudsters. My elderly parents were conned by a telephone salesman into believing they were signing up to Talk Talk. Having become involved I cancelled the contract. 5 years later without any notification they sent a threatening letter demanding £800 for a service that never existed. If any other victims wish to contact us we have commenced a formal fraud investigation with the intention of bringing a private criminal prosecution.

21 February 2019
Unprompted review

Review of Viking Direct


Rated 2 out of 5 stars

We did not receive all of our order.

4 January 2018
Unprompted review

Reply from Viking Direct

Hi David
Thank you for getting in touch, we are really sorry that you didn't receive your order, please accept our apologies for this. If you could please contact us at info@vikingdirect quoting Trustpilot along with your account number, we will be in touch with you to discuss this further.
Best regards
The Viking Team