My husband & I spent over £260 to have keepsakes made from our wedding flowers.
Two items were overall poor quality (big holes, petal ends sticking out sharply), however, the worst item was a tealight holder which was advertised with a real, lit candle and basic text explaining how beautiful a piece this is. Yet upon receipt of our items, a note advised us not to use real candles with it. This is FALSE ADVERTISEMENT as we would not have purchased it had we known we cannot use real candles with it. The quality of the tealight holder was also immensely poor and had massive air bubble dents on one side. It was clear that none of the items were inspected prior to shipment.
We complained about all three items, but were told if we posted the tealight holder back, Sal would inspect it. In her response to our complaint, Sal also claimed that her website clearly stated that use of real candles is not advised which is a blatant lie, as we have screenshots of the page from when we ordered (and further proof on her website of using items with real candles).
We returned all 3 items to Sal to have fixed and it is at this point we noticed that Sal had sneakily changed her tealight holder page to include the note about real candle usage; SAL IS ACTIVELY TRYING TO DECEIVE CUSTOMERS instead of owning up to a simple mistake on her website. Luckily for us, we have date and time stamped screenshots of what her website looked like when we purchased the items, including photographs of her own items advertising her products with REAL tealights.
I had also provided Royal Mail with Sals email address & phone number, so she would be notified of the incoming parcel. When we checked the tracking info, we saw photographic evidence of someone receiving the parcel in hand at the door, with Sal sat in the background of the photo. When we asked for an update later that evening, Sal claimed she was not aware that the post had been delivered– yet MORE LIES from Sal.
She has since returned our items, with fewer holes overall, but we still cannot use the tealight holder as intended or advertised for that matter! She has not even bothered to check if we are happy with the items, she clearly does not care. It also shows that Sal is happy to ship poor quality, broken items out to her customers instead of inspecting and fixing them first.
I have gathered enough evidence to prove that Sal is a CONNING, LYING & DECEIVING business owner who will spoil the memory of your wedding flower keepsakes. I have reported the business to Trading Standards. At the very least, Sal should have apologised for her website not including the correct info and offer a partial refund, rather than lie about it and then try and deceive us by changing her website.