Bitiba has a rating of 2.2 stars from 10 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Bitiba ranks 315th among Pet Supply sites.
I have used Bitiba in the past and never had a problem with them or their service. My Deerhound has had nutritional problems for some time and has in the past few days been diagnosed with bad food allergies resulting in him requiring a totally hypoallergenic diet which I naturally wanted to start as soon as possible. I ordered a bag of food from Bitiba yesterday (Friday approximately 11am) and I have been notified that it should be with me by mid day today ( Saturday) so 24hours from ordering! Not many British companies achieve this I'm sad to say! A happy customer!
Waitedvand waited for an order. They lied about shipping date then after losing money taking time off work, to be in on advised delivery time and date, it didn't arrive. I called and they said it had been damaged in transit. Funny how a dogs lead can be damaged but hey ho I now need to try an get out to get one even though I'm currently immobile which was why bought online, but my dog needs urgently walking (by my son). I know the dpd driver and also gave dpd tracking but they still denied lying about shipping date and everything.
Waitedvand waited for an order. They lied about shipping date then after losing money taking time off work, to be in on advised delivery time and date, it didn't arrive. I called and they said it had been damaged in transit. Funny how a dogs lead can be damaged but hey ho I now need to try an get out to get one even though I'm currently immobile which was why bought online, but my dog needs urgently walking (by my son). I know the dpd driver and also gave dpd tracking but they still denied lying about shipping date and everything.
Tip for consumers:
The truth about shipping times.
Products used:
None as I didn't receive my order.
Ayant fait une demande pour être livrée à mon domicile, je n'ai pas eu le choix de moyen de transport, même si je payais celui-ci. Je voulais éviter DPD qui sont minables.
Shocking Customer Service Reaction.
I have shopped with them on a number of occasions taking advantage of their "Free Delivery" for orders over £39.
Now I have 4 dogs I placed an order recently and found I had been changed an additional £2.99 delivery. Despite challenging this, customer service have refused to refund the cost because a clause in their terms says that if the cost works out to less than £2 per kg, they apply an additional change.
From my point of view its either free delivery or its not - I will not shop with them again and I suggest you don't either.
Just had the worst ever purchasing experience buying from Bitiba.
Please don't put yourself through this. They are not worth it at any cost.
Bad customer service starts with either no way to contact them by telephone, an automated number, or telephone representatives who just do not care.
The price looks good but the service, infuriation and raised blood pressure when your delivery doesn't arrive, your animals go hungry and you try to get some sense out of them just kills the whole deal.
Their issue, (which they won't ever learn) is that they rely on a South African Company, Yodel, for delivery. Every single delivery that I have ever had a delivery from Yodel, has been a complete disaster.
Just try to call Yodel and you will quickly learn the issue. Try their customer service online chat and you will think that you are either talking to an automated service, which just repeats the same nonsense until you go away, or someone who either doesn't understand the problem or clearly takes great pride in winding you up until you burst a blood vessel or go away.
My advice, find someone who doesn't use the cheap Yodel delivery company and save yourself the potential heart attack.
I placed an order on 8th March 2018 and it was accepted and the money applied for on my bank card - a day later order cancelled as items out of stock. Today is the 13th March 2018 and the amount of £77.99 is still shown as pending on my bank account - despite reminders and reassurances from Bitiba that this will be dealt with I am still waiting - if this is not sorted soon I will have to overdraw and pay bank charges - how hard can it be to remove this outstanding amount, it was so easy to put it on in the first place. In the meantime I have placed an order with another online company for the same items, slightly cheaper, and these arrived on 12th March 2018. Disgusted, I have used Bitiba for some time and this is the first instance of bad service, but the trust has been compromised and I will not order from them again.
I needed a new K9 Julius harness for my dog and found very good prices on this site. I also decided to add a new lead as it made sense to avoid delivery charges. The first attempt at an order via PayPal failed for a reason unknown to me. My second order also failed despite using a debit card. I had multiple emails saying they accepted my order but payment had not cleared. It was the usual "contact customer services" but that was a chore! I decided to use the "re-order" option and finally it was completed. Well I thought it had completed but I later had an e-mail saying there was an issue with my payment. My bank confirmed there was no problem and the retailer had already reserved my money and it was showing as a valid transaction.
I decided enough was enough so I emailed them back and asked for everything to be cancelled. It all seemed very suspicious and I didn't want to proceed. Then I had a reply saying I could cancel because the items had already been dispatched. So it went from a payment issue to being sent despite the alleged error not be resolved!
Finally a parcel arrived; too late to meet my trip and they had not sent the lead! They now say a full refund has been issued but I cannot see it in my account.
WARNING! They are clearly inept rather than fraudulent but as part of Zooplus who seem 5 star to me you would expect better. Be wary of additional bank charges because despite showing a UK phone and a. co.uk domain all payments are cleared in Germany so I paid overseas bank charges!
I will not bother with them again!
Dear Gary L.
We are very sorry to hear of your disappointment following the change to our shipping policy.
We expect this to affect only a small minority of orders, that may now be subject to an additional service charge.
The maximum weight for any parcel we can dispatch is 31 kg. Orders weighing over 31 kg will be dispatched in 2 or more parcels (depending on weight). For a small minority of orders to postcodes in Great Britain where the total order value per kg is below £2, a service charge of £2.99 per additional parcel will be applied to cover additional costs.
For all orders, the first parcel up to 31 KG and over the minimum order threshold will be subject to free delivery, for most of mainland UK
It is no longer viable for us to apply free delivery for some of our more bulky, lower value items. Whilst we are not able to avoid this, we wanted to approach it in the most equitable way possible, to avoid increasing the overall prices of our products. Therefore, a small service charge is added.
You can affect this by adding items to, or removing bulky and less expensive items from your basket during checkout.
We regret that this has caused you frustration and thank you for taking the time give us your feedback
Kind Regards
Bitiba Review team