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Disgraceful!
August 29, 2023

Purchase returned with fault under warranty in March '23 with understanding that exchange or refund would be completed within 7-10 days as per their message. No refund received at point of writing this review in late August '23 and my messages are receiving no response whatsoever. Previously my messages were receiving 'copy & paste' responses that said little and lacked any sincerity. At this stage it seems that either theft, deception or possibly fraud are reasonable descriptions of how this business operates. Avoid at all costs!

Date of experience: August 29, 2023
Ireland
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On 8 July I ordered a set of speakers from their website. It should be noted that I was charged immediately on order. The order stated I could expect delivery in 4-6 working days. There's a link provided to you, for where you can see your order status.

A week later, I noticed the order never shipped. I contacted customer service and, as usual, it takes over 24-hours for a response. Their phone numbers don't ever appear to work, which raised my suspicions. I am adding screenshots of the email exchanges below, but essentially I was told twice that the item would ship in the next 3 working days or that shipping was imminent. It never happened.

Finally, after demanding a refund, I'm told on 28 July that "due to backlog at the warehouse and logistic issues, we have had to cancel your order."

This is a disgraceful German company who likely never had the speakers and was happy to waste my time while holding on to my funds, in the process.

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Date of experience: July 28, 2018
GB
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AVOID AVOID AVOID
December 27, 2019

Received a Belle Epoch hifi which is a total dud! The only thing which works is the on/off light. It's just cheap plastic. Absolutely nothing functions on it. A complete waste of money. Do not buy a hifi from this company. Too much hassle to send back such a heavy, large item. I wish I'd read all the other awful reviews on this company before ordering from them

Date of experience: December 27, 2019
GB
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Stay away from them
October 19, 2017

Terrible service.
I bought 2 floor standing speakers on auna website. Almost 3 weeks and 15 phone calls to HiFi - Tower (auna UK) still cant sort things out with them.
After around 10 days and 5 phone calls (as they lost my order, somehow) I received one speaker, damaged in transit. Second arrived the next day.
I called them around 10 times now, to arrange replacement, nobody sims to be interested at all.
So, £181 paid 3 weeks ago and I have 1 working speaker.

Very unprofessional approach to customers by Hifi-Tower.

Stay away from HiFi-Tower and buy in some different place if you wont hassle free experience.

Date of experience: October 19, 2017
GB
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Do not expect any kind of reason from this company. Refused to look into missing delivery and refused to let me talk to a manager to resolve. Put the phone down saying we can't do that' and give no reasonable explanation as to why one part of the delivery arrives and the other didn't! Rude and uncooperative, a very upsetting experience.

Date of experience: April 17, 2020
Illinois
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What a horrible experience and waste of time, they will take your money knowing they can't ship, ignored several calls, voicemails, and contact requests on their website and if you get a chance to communicate with someone you might as well not because they won't follow through whether it be their claim to email or refund you. Finally after 2 months of this I filed a dispute with PayPal over them keeping my money and not shipping the item and instead of them refunding the money like they said they would a month ago, from the wording of PayPal's response and Hifi-Tower.co.uk actions they were either trying to avoid refunding me altogether or just waiting until even later to do it! I finally received a refund not because of them but because of PayPal. If you want to waste time over 2 months or so to not get the item you want and possibly not even get your money back this would be the perfect place to reccomend!

Date of experience: October 6, 2021
GB
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New customer voucher scam
November 27, 2021

I was looking for a new cd radio player and found one on high tower, signed up for an account and subscribed to newsletter to obtain a £5 off welcome voucher, went on to their site, added auna radio CD player to basket, proceeded to checkout where I was repeatedly asked to log in to my account, after five failed attempts I completed the whole process again under a second email address and guess what - the same thing happened again, repeatedly sent around the houses asking me to log into my account but constantly rejecting password and not allowing facility to reset my password in order to go to checkout and redeem my £5 welcome voucher. Not impressed at all, it's almost as if they know that most people will say forget the voucher and buy the item from their site without the voucher - not me! Forget it, I'm off to Amazon!

Date of experience: November 27, 2021
GB
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Terrible company
May 25, 2017

Doesn't work on my TV, the product doesn't work on any adapters, the instruction manual is weak and unclear. A complete waste of time and money. Hifi Tower return registration page is 'unsecured' so cant return item, customer services is closed for national holiday so can't call them. Will not buy from them again, and will be reporting them to trading standards for selling products with false advertising, product isnt compatable and customer service and website is not customer friendly.

Date of experience: May 25, 2017
GB
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Disgrace
May 19, 2020

Ordered a trampoline 5 weeks ago literally no response to any communication. Want my money back. Suggest nobody risks placing a single order with these cowboys

Date of experience: May 19, 2020
Ireland
1 review
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30 Days later I'm getting a refund but not until I drop it back to the post office for the second time and it is received by them. Forget it! Too much hassle

Date of experience: November 7, 2019
GB
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I HAVE TO SAY THAT HI FI TOWER CUSTOMER SERVICE IS WELL ABOVE 5 STAR. WE PURCHASED 2 OVENS FROM THEM THAT CAME ON TIME WELL WRAPPED. WE ARE VERY HAPPY WITH THE SERVICE AND THIS COMPANY AND WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS COMPANY AMD CERTAINLY SHOP WITH THEM AGAIN. SO EFFICIENT AND POLITE. THIS COMPANY MAKES SHOPPING A DREAM COME TRUE

MR & MRS EVANS

Date of experience: November 1, 2016
GB
2 reviews
4 helpful votes
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Ordered a complete PA set up via their ebay store for £169 so my charity can put on fundraising events, the amplifier was so badly dented that it had to be dismantled and straightened out, good job it still worked as needed it next day (took ages to arrive), had to replace one of the subwoofers in speakers then after first use the other one went, they offered me 10% refund on purchase price (£16.99) after paying over £40 to repair what was broken, since then other things have gone wrong, can not contact through ebay, sent two emails through their website and no reply, even said if they made a donation to my charity it would help, nothing, my charity is now down over £170, this is disgusting.

Date of experience: March 8, 2013
GB
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Horrendous
January 21, 2015

Horrendous. I ordered speakers 2 weeks in advance of a party and the day before party they still have not arrived. I rang hi-fi tower and waited on the line for 15-20 mins. Lady then said they would ring back. I missed the call but left a message to say they will resend the items and give me back 5 euro for inconvenience. Woo Hoo! No explanation and still have not received any confirmation of resend. Appalling. I will never buy from here again and I will urge any one to do same. Very unhappy customer.

Date of experience: January 21, 2015
GB
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Legal Action taken for a refund
Legal Action taken for a refund, Court Judgment obtained - Enforcement action now instructed
UK & Germany, their assets will be seized, what a bunch of Cowboys
AVOID- please don't be fooled

Date of experience: June 29, 2020
GB
1 review
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DON'T BUY FROM THIS COMPANY. I have made one order on the 15th of July to be shipped to England and 11 days after the item was returned by the delivery company after checked because there was no paperwork. Now I need to wait for the item to be returned to the warehouse and them 7 days more to have the refund in my account.

Date of experience: July 26, 2021
Ireland
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Terrible service
June 18, 2018

Informed with with news that my food deh was out of stock 3 days after the expected time of delivery, what's worse is they emailed me a preworded email with the news.

Date of experience: June 18, 2018
GB
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I ordered a air cooler through Ebay from HI Fi Tower for £67.99 on the 1st July 2018. Delivery was 7 to 10 days. It took 12 days to arrive., When it arrived on Friday 13th, the plastic water tank was cracked and it had a large scratch down the side I phoned 12 times the same day without success. Therefore, I sent a email to them, the website said, i would get a reply within 24 hrs, there has been no reply, even now a week later. I phoned again on Monday 16th july, i spoke to VanJat he said, i would be emailed a return label within 24 hrs, 5 days later i am still waiting. Vanjat said 'only when they receive the air cooler back i can get a refund'. I phoned again on the following Friday 20th July, I was on hold for 7 mins, then i gave up. I am now going to write to them to start preparing to take them to the small claims court, adding on compensation for time and stress caused., Ebay had a score of 98.9, i think they should refuse to have them on there site, the number should be greatly reduced. If i could give minus star rating i would

Date of experience: July 20, 2018
GB
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Terrible AVOID!
December 13, 2016

Absolute joke of a company, please do not buy from! Let me down on my daughters Christmas present.
On 27th November i ordered a keyboard as a gift for my daughter, the item was in stock on the website and I received an email confirmation. On the 1st December as i hadn't had any advice on expected delivery i emailed customer services and received the response that the item was now out of stock but more was expected on the 7th. I agreed to wait, on the 7th as promised i received a dispatch confirmation, with ups tracking number and expected delivery date of the 11th. When it didnt arrive i again contacted hifi tower and was told there was a delay in dispatching the item! I received no updates or correspondence about possible delays, only in reply to my emails. When i asked for confirmation that the item would arrive by the 16th i was told there was no guarantee so i asked for a refund. I AM STILL WAITING FOR THIS!

Date of experience: December 13, 2016
GB
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I brought a PA system from this site. Although they have alwasy been friendly the equipment they sell is very inferior.

The bass speakers turned up broken.
All 4 xlr cabels broke with in a few uses.
Finally the amp also broke.

They are willing to return items but after the warrently runs out I am totally done for. Very inferior quality equipment.

Date of experience: June 6, 2013
Ireland
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Don't go near them
August 12, 2017

Purchased (or a least tried to - it never arrived) a dog barking collars. When it hadn't arrived I emailed them, they apologised saying due to no postcode the item didn't ship! A. Ireland don't have postcodes and B. It would have been nice to have been informed of this.

Anyway they offered a 10 euro refund for the inconvenience and said my item would dispatch the next day! 2 weeks later still no item so I emailed them again - very rude responses saying it was ups fault and my fault for not giving a postcode - at this stage felt like I was talking to a wall as this had already been clarified or so I thought 2 weeks previous.

I replied saying I wanted a refuns at this stage and would take my business elsewhere. To this I got a reply that it was my fault and they didn't even have to give me the 10 euro they refunded me earlier as it wasn't their fault! Wow amazing customer service. I then asked to speak to a supervisor to which I got a reply that they could send me on the item as soon as ups sent it back to them! Talk about not being listened to. I just wanted to let people know that if you deal with this company and anything goes wrong they're not going to be in any helpful or friendly so just beware

Date of experience: August 12, 2017

Overview

Hifi-Tower.co.uk has a rating of 1.7 stars from 28 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Hifi-Tower.co.uk most frequently mention and customer service. Hifi-Tower.co.uk ranks 131st among Music Equipment sites.

service
5
value
4
shipping
5
returns
3
quality
4