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Review to be reported: Poor Service. Very poor experience and will not return.
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Name of business: Halfords

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Review that you believe is false or otherwise defamatory: I went to Halfords last week for three items, engine oil, transmission fluid and spark plugs. On getting there the young person manning the door looked at my list and walked away, not long there after another member of the team appeared glanced at my list and barked at me that with a list as long as my three items I should be ordering via the internet. He was rather rude and unhelpful. This is the second time this has happened to me at this branch. In response I said to him that if it was too much trouble for him I would go else-where. However he barked back that he would get me the stuff on this occasion, but in future I should go online. I hate shopping online or have anything to do with computers. In any case he was only able to offer me the engine oil and transmission fluid. So Halfords. not only will I not go back to your store during lock down but I will never go back to your store, there's many other companies out there who would be keen for the business I'm sure.

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Poor service
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Needed to change to a combi boiler and fit new radiators, Originally very good and work completed in time but had a leak straight after that damaged ceiling,leak was fixed promptly but nothing done about the water damage, then another leak caused loss of water pressure and more ceiling damage, called J Wilson but they were on holiday, so had to get another heating engineer in at cost to myself, leak was fixed and extra pipe work removed that should have been taken out originally, was advised by engineer that excess legs of pipes cause stagnate water which can cause legionaries disease so should of been cut right back but this was left half way across the length of the loft, I have been waiting since the 8th of May to have radiators bled after all the leaks and to sort out ceiling damage with promises of getting in touch soon but never heard back and feel like it’s pointless contacting them again as I’ve called, texted and emailed but no one does anything about it
02 Sep 2017
We do accept we were at fault on this matter, due to previous staff that no longer work for us. It is now only John and another long term employee who will be on the installs. We have since been in touch with Mr Taylor and reimbursed him the call out charge he occurred whilst we were on holiday when we were unable to attend and offered his next annual service free of charge.
02 Sep 2017
We do accept we were at fault on this matter, due to previous staff that no longer work for us. It is now only John and another long term employee who will be on the installs. We have since been in touch with Mr Taylor and reimbursed him the call out charge he occurred whilst we were on holiday when we were unable to attend and offered his next annual service free of charge.
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This company is a joke to say the least
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Don’t even bother ordering from this online store, as you will be wasting your time, energy and money, as they do not deliver on both the products and customer service.

I’ve ordered a Stihl Backpack blower, on the Wednesday 11 Jan (expecting my item to be shipped out the following day), only having to call up numerous times on the Friday (When I was supposed to have received my items, since they claim they do next day delivery), and be told that they didn’t only have the stock in the first place, but also were too complacent to have let me know in the first place.
30 Jan 2017
Thank you for your review – we are very sorry for the way this potential sale has gone. We are determined it will not happen like this again and want to turn what seems to be a negative into a positive by learning from our mistakes. We strive to keep our customers happy at all times with sales, service and hire. Kind regards Ross Harwood: Marketing Manager
30 Jan 2017
Thank you for your review – we are very sorry for the way this potential sale has gone. We are determined it will not happen like this again and want to turn what seems to be a negative into a positive by learning from our mistakes. We strive to keep our customers happy at all times with sales, service and hire. Kind regards Ross Harwood: Marketing Manager
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