Faulty products, appalling treatment to customers
Original review:
We ordered 360 t-shirts from A4 apparel and they did a reasonable job so we thought we found our reliable printer.Then we ordered another 100 t-shirts, appalling job, all of them. But the most appalling thing of all was Jules, the owner, trying to convince us that it was a great job. Jules is a sweet talker, but after many attempts, not having managed to convince us that the crap job was a good job he retorted: who buys this anyway?
We lost £670 from this and had them re-printed somewhere else and have had many more designs printed since with continued good quality. How can we protect oureselves from people like these?
Would we buy again from them? Nah!!!
Would we recommend? Well, see the photos and make your own opnion. Compare the prints with those of other printer which were cheaper by the way.
A4 Apparel reply by email:
Hi Jose,
Without Prejudice.
In regards to the public reviews left in relation to A4 Apparel. There are three incorrect statements made in your review listed below: The amount stated as a loss to yourself totals more than the original invoice for the t-shirts, furthermore we issued a refund against a number of t-shirts we felt were below standard bring the total amount of ‘loss’ down. Jules is not the owner of the business, it is his job to relay the opinion of A4 Apparel in relation to any issues that may arise with orders. This can be a difficult job taking into consideration the differing views on final production, however nothing is personal, this is a business transaction. Your review takes a very personal and public attack on Jules as a individual which is deemed as slanderous whilst doing nothing more than carrying out the duty of his job. Lastly, we record all phone calls for training purposes at A4 Apparel. Taking into consideration the claim made within both reviews I asked ‘who buys this anyway’ management has listened to all transcripts of calls and at no point was this said to you. The call transcripts are available should you wish to review for yourself. By all means, please leave a review of our business, if anything we encourage both positive and negative comments as a learning process to ensure we deliver a standard of service, however we will give you 48 hours to make the amendments otherwise we will have no choice but to take the matter further.
Kindest Regards
Our answer to A4 Apparel:
Hi a4 apparel Accounts,
We are really sorry for assuming Jules was the owner, our mistake and we'll correct it. As for our losses, you're right you bad job costed us directly £548.29 loss plus the profit loss and the loss of customers, but that's Ok we'll correct this as well. All of the t-shirts of this design printed by you are on their way to a homeless centre. As for 'who buys this anyway’ comment, we stand by it and will not change it. All we wanted from you was a job well done, which we paid for and obviously we didn't get. We were sold a faulty product and we wanted a re-print or a full refund. We are so unhappy that we don't want it to happen to other people, it's not fair, and so after these corrections our reviews will stay in place and we will write more on many different platforms.
Thank you for your threatening email without prejudice, please be aware that we will include it in our reviews.
Best Regards
Updated review:
We ordered 360 t-shirts from A4 apparel and they did a reasonable job so we thought we found our reliable printer. Then we ordered another 100 t-shirts, appalling job, all of them. But the most appalling thing of all was Jules, trying to convince us that it was a great job. Jules is a sweet talker, but after many attempts, not having managed to convince us that the crap job was a good job he retorted: who buys this anyway?
We lost £548.29 from this and had them re-printed somewhere else and have had many more designs printed since with continued good quality. How can we protect oureselves from business like these?
Would we buy again from them? Nah!!!
Would we recommend? Well, see the photos and make your own opinion. Compare the prints with those of other printer which were cheaper by the way.
Having that money stolen from us it feels very personal, and it cannot not be disguised as an unintentional decision, it took weeks. And now we can't even write a review for the fear of being threatened with "we will give you 48 hours to make the amendments otherwise we will have no choice but to take the matter further."
Does it feel right to you guys treating us the customers like this?
If you're in the habit of reading the 5 stars reviews only, we advise you read the lowest ones first, we wish we had. Unfortunately I couln't find a way of attaching photos here, but look on google reviews. Do you need a job well done? Then go here fifthcolumn.co.uk, we're absolutely delighted with the quality and price.