Although I was recommended Westminster Stone I have to say the communication within the organisation from the MD down was awful. I ordered paving slabs and requested a forklift delivery as I have a...
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Tom
Westminster Stone
4 years ago
Thank you for your feedback. We were most surprised to read your review, as the last email from you read as follows.... “Good Morning John,Many thanks for the prompt removal of the pallets and the kind gift of a bottle of wine. No hard feelings. I will be ordering again in the not too distant future so hopefully, your communication issues have been resolved. RegardsM........” We dropped a bottle of wine off by way of an apology, and an acknowledgement that our service levels and communication had not been up to our usual high standard, in that we had not delivered on the vehicle that you had requested, and that the MD had not concluded his investigation within the timescale he had hoped. This was during the busiest month in the history of Westminster Stone. The MD and his son who is the General Manager of the business, personally drove down to your address at 6.30pm after work on a Friday evening, so that he didn’t have the pallets in view in the garden over the weekend, and to drop off the wine. The internal email to notify the dispatch team that they'd already been collected on the Friday evening had not been seen before an instruction to a different driver to collect the pallets had been issued, on the following Monday morning (They had been prioritised as urgent before the decision was unexpectedly made to collect them on the Friday evening).
Надежный клиент
4 years ago
Thank you for your reply, lets recap the issue was around communication. I think the last paragraph says it all'
The MD and his son who is the General Manager of the business, personally drove down to your address at 6.30pm after work on a Friday evening, so that he didn’t have the pallets in view in the garden over the weekend, and to drop off the wine. The internal email to notify the dispatch team that they'd already been collected on the Friday evening had not been seen before an instruction to a different driver to collect the pallets had been issued, on the following Monday morning (They had been prioritised as urgent before the decision was unexpectedly made to collect them on the Friday evening).
LEFT HAND - RIGHT HAND
The products great the internal communication needs a lot of work.
Tom
Westminster Stone
4 years ago
We don't think your last comment is fair at all! So we'll reiterate our response above for better clarity.
The MD emailed the dispatch manager in the afternoon after your phone call to say that you pallets must be collect first thing Monday morning without fail.
The MD then wanted to apologise personally and with a gesture for the reasons above and remove your pallets even quicker than agreed, he then emailed the dispatch manager at 7pm to say he's collected the pallets so no need to go Monday morning, The driver had already been arranged on the Friday afternoon for a Monday morning collection, and dispatched first thing Monday morning before the dispatch manager had read the email to say they'd been collected.
We can't insist that our staff read their emails out of working hours, so its not a case of LEFT HAND - RIGHT HAND, it's a case of we went out of our way on a Friday evening to apologise and it obviously backfired,
However, again we'll repeat. We thought all was rectified with the response we got below.
Good Morning John, Many thanks for the prompt removal of the pallets and the kind gift of a bottle of wine. No hard feelings. I will be ordering again in the not too distant future so hopefully, your communication issues have been resolved. Regards M........”
Надежный клиент
4 years ago
The fact you consider my comments fair or not makes no difference. I am just demonstrating the fact your reply clearly shows the lack of communication in your own words.
So let me recap. I thought this matter had been resolved, Read my emails. However, it was you how sent the feedback link, not me. Now if you were thinking I was going to respond other than explain my dealings with your company you were misguided. I never made reference that three of the slabs were cracked and broke as soon as I move them off the pallet. I considered this part of the course, I could use them when cutting was required. This issue is with the management lack of communication and now a vindictive company that does not like negative feedback. Indeed there customer care is limited to trying to humiliate and downgrade anyone who falls short of the feedback they believe they should have.
One can only ponder on why a company MD has got some much time on his hands to start a war of words on a feedback site open to ALL potential customers. My advice is to take the kicking book yourself on a communication course and customer relations. You certainly need it.
Unfortunately I cannot recommend Westminster Stone.
While the product itself was great (Oxford flagstones) we had several arrive damaged.
This was reported in line with their T&C’s and I was told...
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Tom
Westminster Stone
5 years ago
Hi Joe, I've sent you an email to ask you to call me to see what we can do to rectify what went wrong here, I hope we can have the opportunity ensure you are left a happy customer, I can only apologise for the service outlined above,
JM
Joe M
5 years ago
Updating review to reflect recent communication by Tom...
Tom was very apologetic for the service level lapse but also arranged for the staff retraining, reimbursement for damaged flagstones and shipping of replacements.
As stated previously, quality of the product is great and we are very pleased with our patio. My disappointment was in the after-sales but I believe this to be resolved now.
In terms of resolution, I feel Tom did go out of his way to ensure we left a happy customer, therefore have updated my review to reflect this and the quality of the product and would recommend products from Westminster Stone.
Дата покупки: 10/05/2021
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Подтверждено Feefo
5 years ago
Excellent personal service - friendly and extremely helpful, despite being busy!
Damaged slabs in pallets I hope I have enough apart from that good service
Tom
Westminster Stone
4 years ago
Hi Jamie,
If you don't have enough to finish the job once you've used the few breakages for cuts,
please drop us a line at customercare@westminsterstone.com
Thank you
The sales service was really good, sales staff quick to reply and provide quotes and amendments with a quick and easy way to pay the invoice. Then it’s downhill from there. On my quote I was told 2-3...
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Tom
Westminster Stone
4 years ago
We have sent 2 emails to ask you to get in contact so we can discuss this with you.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Many Thanks
Excellent service, friendly and helpful. Prompt delivery. Thank you.
Дата покупки: 07/05/2021
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Iain Newcombe
Подтверждено Feefo
5 years ago
Что Iain Newcombe сказал(-а) о Westminster Stone:
Kept me up to date with the delivery time of the items I ordered; items arrived on time and placed exactly where I needed them...fantastic service and I will be using again, for the next project.
Freundlicher Kontakt, als Schwierigkeit stellte sich das britische Ende in der EU heraus. Was zu sprachlichen Schwierigkeiten führte. Was etwas zäh war! Tolle Ware wurde gesendet. Ende gut... alles...
Westminster Stone Company Limited is a manufacturer and distributor of paving and hard landscaping materials. As a third generation family owned business, we are proud to be just a little different to our competitors in the products and levels of service we offer. This was recognised in 2011 by the National Trust, who awarded Westminster Stone the coveted licence to produce a range of traditional landscaping products.
Наши независимые награды отмечают лучшие бренды за обслуживание клиентов. Победители определяются на основе оценок, которые они получают от своих клиентов.
Мы самостоятельно собираем отзывы от имени компаний, которые с нами сотрудничают. Наша платформа обращается только к проверенным покупателям, поэтому вы можете быть уверены, что читаете отзывы реальных клиентов.
Оставить отзыв на Feefo могут только покупатели с подтверждением покупки. Для этого мы связываемся с покупателями сразу после совершения сделки.
Мы проверяем, что отзывы написаны реальными покупателями, сопоставляя их с продажей или сделкой. Людям предлагается оставить отзыв только после совершения покупки.
Мы проверяем, что отзывы написаны реальными покупателями, сопоставляя их с продажей или сделкой. Людям предлагается оставить отзыв только после совершения покупки.
Westminster Stone Company Limited is a manufacturer and distributor of paving and hard landscaping materials. As a third generation family owned business, we are proud to be just a little different to our competitors in the products and levels of service we offer. This was recognised in 2011 by the National Trust, who awarded Westminster Stone the coveted licence to produce a range of traditional landscaping products.