There was a problem, but they fixed it to my liking (it took a little while for them to answer tho, but at least the situation is resolved)
Items delivered to UK within a week. Excellent customer service when enquiring about delivery. Will be making another order soon
It's fantastic to be able to get chocolate sprinkles and gestampte muisjes without spending a fortune on postage.
I moved to the United States a few years ago and i mis some Dutch products. I used to order Dutch products from Dutch supliers in the US and that way you have your products faster but they only have a small selection and the prices for the products is much higher.
If you order from the Dutch expand shop the shipping costs are higher but if you order a more products the lower price of the products will make up for that.
I have ordered with them multiple times now. And I have been very happy with all the products. They get packed very well for international travel. The only time my shipment arrives later or with parts a little ruffled it is because it was opened by costums, and that is out of the hands of the seller.
I was really suprized by the bad reviews and I think it has a lot to do with cultural differences, and international shipping. Costumers from the US should keep in mind that Dutch products have a much shorter shelf life then products from the US, because they contain far less preservitives, and that is part of the reason it tastes different.
The only thing I think they could inprove is there website, it is slow.
Helemaal blij dat mijn parcel arriveerde op tijd voor Pasen.
Heel erg bedankt. Onverwacht op Zaterdag en de postman bracht het toch nog.
Dit was mijn derde keer dat ik bij hen bestelde. Nadat ik de bestelling had geplaatst, ontving ik geen bevestiging van de datum van levering. Dat heb ik per mail gevraagd maar niet ontvangen. Door een verlate korte vakantie plus vervolgens pech met de camper heb ik verzocht de levering uit te stellen. Dat bleek geen probleem. Laat ons maar weten wanneer we kunnen leveren... was hun reactie.
Dat heb ik gedaan, alleen mails lezen ze verder niet. Een dag nadat ik ben thuis gekomen ontving ik een mail van de bezorg dienst dat de levering die dag zou plaatsvinden.
Alleen bij opening bleek er geen diepvries ijs meer te zijn en alle diepvries ontdooid te zijn.
In de daarop volgende email correspondentie werd mij duidelijk genaakt dat de fout geheel bij mij lag: ik had moeten reclameren, ik had toch een track and trace code ( die ik nooit heb ontvangen).
Die is waarschijnlijk in de map spam terecht gekomen zeiden ze, dat er geen ijs meer inzat was onmogelijk, dat was nog nooit voorgekomen zeiden ze. Logisch als je alles verpakt op de 17 juni en het pakket komt aan op 10 juli. Kortom ik was de schuld van alles, niet zeuren en wij maken geen fouten, althans wij erkennen geen fouten.
Alles wordt uit de kast gehaald, stuur ons foto's van de ontdooide produkten etc, maar vervolgens ontvang je geen enkele reactie retour.
Ze nemen niet de moeite de emails goed te lezen, dus ik ben er klaar. Mee
De emails begonnen ook allemaal met ' Hi Hans ' alsof ik ze al jaren kende, maar de persoon van de klantenservice bleek anoniem te zijn en te blijven. Geen enkele naam dus.
Oh ja een telefoon nummer publiceren ze niet op hun site, ongetwijfeld zijn ze bang voor teveel telefoontjes van klagers. Alle grote bedrijven publiceren hun telefoon nummer, maar niet Dutch Expat shop.
Dat zegt eigenlijk al genoeg. Bang om de hele dag aan de telefoon te zitten denk ik.
Voila, mijn advies: niets bestellen er zijn andere opties.
Address input was correct, except country destination had defaulted to Nederland and it should have been the US (and there literally is no city name or zip code in Nederland that would have matched anything close in that country), rather than redoing a relatively small $40 order, they thought it was more important to argue that it was all my mistake.
I had the unfortunate experience of an extremely rude and racist customer service representative that I was emailing regarding my order tracking. I'm looking at taking this to the higher management.
Dear Tabs, thank you for your review. You have ordered products from us and you have chosen for the slowest and cheapest delivery option up to 30 BUSINESS DAYS. After 8 days you started complaining about the tracking code / delivery time. We have told you in 5 emails that you have to be patience and that your products are on the way to India. Please next time choose a fast shipping method because we also offered you 4 days delivery but you have refused this option. Thank you for your understanding.
There's a 3 day guarantee of delivery. After ten days still no delivery and the response to a polite inquiry was abusive. Avoid at all cost!
We have a dispute with Dutch Expat Shop and specifically owner-director Mark Nooijen. He has refused to sign up with any mediation organisation (e.g. Thuiswinkel Waarborg, Webshop Keurmerk/Webshop Trustmark, Consumentenbond, Geschillencommissie) so we cannot have a 3rd party make the decision on who is right, despite Mark saying in an e-mail he would accept their decision, as per attached screenshot. (He has to sign up with one of these organisations before they will mediate). Be very careful dealing with this company. Mark has a law degree so obviously knows exactly what he can get away with legally. As we, like all his clients, live abroad by definition ("Dutch EXPAT shop") he knows it would be very hard for us to prosecute him or his company under Dutch law, but the worst thing is that he doesn't even WANT to try to keep his customers happy and coming back...
I had a terrible experience ordering baby formula (HiPP Dutch Organic) and would recommend using another site to order from.
• I paid a DHL Priority courier fee but they shipped it using regular snail mail
• No tracking number provided until I requested it several times
• When I asked why it wasn't shipped via DHL Priority I did not receive a response immediately; a few emails later they said DHL refused the package so they shipped it with a local carrier
• Package arrived nearly 2 weeks after I placed the order
• 5 out of 8 cans were significantly dented
• The box was intact which means whoever packed it intentionally put dented cans in
The owner Mark Nooijen has extremely shady business practices and even worse customer service. Upon informing him of the issue, advising him I did not feel comfortable feeding my infant from damaged cans, sending photos and requesting a return label, his recommendation was to have me forcibly manipulate the cans to remove all the dents. I sent him a screenshot from his own website stating "any damaged goods would be refunded upon receipt of photos". He refused to provide a refund or a return label and said I should pay to return this international package despite him being responsible for packing damaged goods.
I filed a dispute with my credit card company and based on reviews I read online, it looks like this is standard practice by Mark. The bank credited my refund in full despite Mark Nooijen trying to keep the payment by lying to the bank about what happened.
I also contacted HiPP Netherlands & showed them a photo of a can they sent. Per the attached letter, they responded saying the cans being sold by Dutch Expat were NOT authorized to be sold on the dutch market! The correct article number above bar code should start with NL and theirs started with BE.
On a positive note I had an excellent experience ordering from Formuland - direct shipping from Germany via courier, quick response, fast shipping & in original boxes too. Not a single dent in multiple shipments.
AVOID this fraudulent company - especially for baby food! Mark Nooijen is asking for a lawsuit.
They stole $150 from us. I ordered some cheese from them and the order was delayed for more than a week (on their site, they say they'll tell you if they can't ship your order in 3 days). I asked them about my order, and they told me it will ship on the same day they replied. A day later, it still didn't ship. So I asked them to cancel the order. After that they disappeared, so I asked again and they started sending insults and calling me names. Below is an example of their response to my Google Review of their shop, calling me names and saying I'm using fake names because I asked my SO to submit a new review because my old one got deleted.
"Hi_____, we did not steal 125 euro's from you. You were very aggressive to us, so we asked you to contact your creditcard company to get your money back to avoid more aggressive conversations from you. We always give our customers their money back when we can't deliver a product. That's why our chargeback percentage is very low (just 3 out of ******* transactions this year). Anyway, thanks for spending so much time on the Youtube video :) Please next time copy paste the whole conversation."
I posted a Youtube video with the emails I sent and received from them. You can see how they respond and then they're calling me "aggressive". Just search "Dutch Expat Shop" on Youtube and the video with that same title will show up.
Edit: these liars actually lied to my bank about this during the chargeback process. The bank told me that this merchant told them that they shipped the order to me which they clearly didn't, as they admitted and as you can see in the video. I still did get my money back however.
Dear Val, thank you for your review. Some of the products we do not have in stock and it takes time to deliver these products. You could not wait longer and were asking for a refund. A refund is absolutely not a problem but also this takes time. It will also help when you are polite to our customer service, because the way you were asking your refund was not very friendly and felt aggressive to one of our employees. Nevertheless, you have your money back and we can continue our bussiness with customers that are respectful to us :) Have a great day!
Ze krijgen het niet voor elkaar een eenvoudig adres te vinden.
Het duurde 2 weken voor il een deel van her geld terug kreeg.
De verzendkosten en retourkosten werden aangerekend, 24 Euros!
Ook ern zeer arrogante klantenservice, die de schuld bij de klant legt.
Vorig jaar feeststollen ontvangen die niet houdbaar waren tot de kerst. Toen ik in november een bestelling deed, heb ik gevraagd of ze er op wilden letten ze niet te vroeg te sturen. Vervolgens voor FedEx gekozen voor levering, aangezien zij super snel zijn. Wel meer voor de verzendkosten betaald. Op 21 november krijg ik een email dat de stollen maar tot 13 december houdbaar zijn en of ik wil wachten tot de nieuwe feeststollen binnen komen. Graag wachten, want ik heb nog genoeg tijd. Afgelopen donderdag mijn bestelling ontvangen en wat schetst mijn verbazing. Drie feeststollen met houdbaarheidsdatum 13 december. Krijg ik een email van ene Heleen dat ze het uitgezocht heeft wat er fout gegaan is. Er zat in mijn bestelling ook iets wat met Sinterklaas te maken heeft, dus vandaar dat alles opgestuurd is. Ook zei ze dat de feeststollen die ze op voorraad hebben, nog steeds tot de 13e december houdbaar zijn. Heb ik op gereageerd en nooit meer wat gehoord. Wat een schandalige behandeling van je klanten en wat een slap excuse. Mensen kijk uit als je besteld, want ze hebben product en die nog geen week meer houdbaar zijn en je klacht wordt ook nogeens genegeerd.
Ben zoals altijd weer reuze blij met m'n inkopen. Redelijke prijs, snel en altijd op tijd geleverd en veel keus. Wat meer valt er te zeggen... SUPER!
Ik ben heel blij met ontdekken van Dutch Expat Shop. Dingen die ik mis na 22 jaar verblijven in Nederland, kan ik hier krijgen. Super service
Niet al de bestelde goederen zijn geleverd, de geleverde goederen waren bedorven en se klanten service is non existing.
Answer: Definitely not a scam Fine choices and fast delivery. Delivery is a bit expensive but it beats not being able to get stuff yourself in the Netherlands.
Dutch Expat Shop has a rating of 1.7 stars from 38 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Dutch Expat Shop most frequently mention and customer service. Dutch Expat Shop ranks 154th among Food Delivery sites.
Dear John, thank you for your review. The most important step when you do online shopping is providing a correct delivery address. Without a correct delivery address it is impossible for us to deliver your package in good order. Now your order got lost somewhere due to a wrong address. I'm afraid we can't do anything about this. Please next time always three double check the delivery address. Thanks for understanding :)