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Dreams Furniture
« on: May 04, 2011, 01:43:41 PM »
Dear all
I am in the midst of a palava with Dreams customer service right now. I have to say, I will never recommend them.  I ordered bedroom furniture November 2010 (yes you read that right) and it has been a nightmare ever since. I did not get a single anything until February. I asked them specifically about delivery times and they said 4 weeks. I asked about getting furniture by time for christmas and they said of course. I must call this company no joke 10 times a month.  There have been so many mis-deliveries, wrong shipments, missing items. I am still waiting on missing parts. Now some of the parts have been discontinued before the assembly has been finished.  Again, back to customer service. They say we will call you back. THEY NEVER DO!  In the rare off occassion that they do call, they have nothing real to say except, the delivery company will be in touch shortly.  Of course I always have to re-explain everything and they keep telling me the same lines.  Nothing ever gets resolved.
Also, they only deliver to my area on Tuesdays only. Well, I can't do Tuesdays. I said to them I will work with you but I can't do Tuesdays. Nothing. "Someone from customer service/delivery will get back to you". I've now been waiting 6 months for this process of delivery and instal to be completed.  The last delivery folks I had (who by the way did NOT have the right parts!!) agreed with me and admitted Dreams is the worst. They hear nothing but complaints from customers.  What I didn't know, they seemed to have heard it all before. They even knew about the discontinued parts before I called CS and demanded to know more and then they told me.  It is still not resolved. They said this has gone up to the country manager, and I must say he still has never called me, even though CS assured me he would give me a personal call in 3 weeks.
Again, I must have made about 70 phone calls to this company. A total nightmare.
My advice....don't buy from Dreams. 6 months and the situation is still not resolved and no light at the end of this tunnel.  Just want to let me expat friends know they are dealing with here.
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Re: Dreams Furniture
« Reply #1 on: May 04, 2011, 01:50:53 PM »
If it were me I would have demanded a refund weeks ago! Good luck getting your furniture soon or your money back.


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Re: Dreams Furniture
« Reply #2 on: May 04, 2011, 01:52:44 PM »
I would too.. Just a quick google brought this link from BBCs Watchdog site
http://whatconsumer.co.uk/forum/consumer-rights-television-programmes/14311-bbc-watchdog-never-ending-dreams-sale.html

Their report is from 22/04 and more due to misleading information on sale prices, but theyre looking for comments and reactions. Might be worth posting your story to them and see what they say?

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Good Luck. We've only bought furniture from Ikea & Harveys.
Harveys delivered the wrong colour sofa to us and I had a fit. We had ordered ours in dark brown and received a cream. The sticker with our details on it had the correct info, it was just stuck to the wrong couch. Called Harveys to advise we had rejected the delivery and to see if anyone had our sofa, as clearly we had someone elses. They said no and we would have to wait 13 weeks (yes 13, on top of the 13 we waited!!) for another one to be made and sent out. After a day or so of arguing, we received the correct couch. I had to go all American on them and be demanding, but finally got what I wanted. They also refunded the delivery fees for us and refunded the VAT as a good will gesture.

Keep standing your ground. Threaten watchdog and other official trading standards offices on them. Send letters in writing to heads of. Make sure to send by registered post as well to have proof youre complaint was sent in. Dont let them bully you.


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Re: Dreams Furniture
« Reply #3 on: May 04, 2011, 01:57:27 PM »
Thats terrible! I always read the problem solvers in the Money section of the Guardian on a Saturday, why not write to them and see if they can help. good luck!


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Re: Dreams Furniture
« Reply #4 on: May 04, 2011, 01:58:53 PM »
Sorry to hear you're having trouble.  Having experienced my fair share of UK retail customer service, I can sympathize.

Not to hijack, but in the spirit of "misery loves company" we went through a similar situation with a couch we bought from Home Base.  It was an L shaped couch that was supposed to arrive in 2 pieces.  It took about 8 weeks or so to deliver it, and when it arrived, they brought 1 piece of the wrong L shaped couch.  Because it was all wrapped in cardboard and plastic, we didn't realize it was wrong until the delivery guys had left (they rushed out like they'd robbed a bank).

When they finally brought the right couch a couple of weeks after that, they refused to take the wrong half couch they'd left the first time.  My wife had to get on the phone with the warehouse manager, who convinced the driver to take the wrong half couch away.

Two months later we noticed the leather was wearing away from the couch at the seams.  Home Base sent a guy out to inspect it, and he agreed that it was faulty.  As it had been discontinued, there was no replacement, and they agreed to refund our money.  

They made arrangements to come get the couch, and when they arrived they insisted they were supposed to exchange the faulty one for a replacement that was on the truck (discontinued?).  My wife called Home Base, who told the driver to just take the couch and not leave the replacement.  Unfortunately, he didn't have room on the truck, and had to arrange another truck to come get the couch.

The final annoyance was once the couch was gone, Home Base wouldn't refund our money on the phone, we had to go to the store.

Anyway, again sorry to hijack!  You're not alone!

[edited to add] And to add something positive, we bought a sofa from DFS, and they've been brilliant.  It took as long as they said it would, they called twice along the way to let us know everything was still on schedule, the delivery guys came when they said they would, set everything up, and removed all the packing stuff.  Well done, DFS!
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Re: Dreams Furniture
« Reply #5 on: May 05, 2011, 07:28:05 PM »

Anyway, again sorry to hijack!  You're not alone!

[edited to add] And to add something positive, we bought a sofa from DFS, and they've been brilliant.  It took as long as they said it would, they called twice along the way to let us know everything was still on schedule, the delivery guys came when they said they would, set everything up, and removed all the packing stuff.  Well done, DFS!

Hehe well now I am hijacking MY OWN thread  ;)

DFS, on the hand, were wonderful with me too. I ordered, I received. No issue, no problem getting wide stuff thru the doors, they've seen it all before, and assemblied it in my living room and..wonderful upswing as if I can't praise DFS enough...proactively taught me how to disassemble if I ever move again and do the move on my own. THAT's customer service...

oh lord I hope this nightmare with dreams comes to an end soon.... :\\\'(
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