Altonsports Reviews 

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TrustScore 3 out of 5

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Alton Sports in Farnham was recommended by her podiatrist for my 86 yr old mother to find some supportive shoes that catered for her various foot issues. On entering we were immediately welcomed by Al... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Sent me a different product to the one I ordered and repeatedly refused to replace this with the item I actually ordered. Utterly unhelpful customer service bordering on rude. Avoid.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Ordered some Mizuno trainers yesterday and amazed to find delivered next day - as good as Amazon! Price was excellent less than half retail price. Even managed to find promo code for extra discount o... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Sent out second hand scratched sunglasses as its a reflective surface its hard to get a photo - but you can clearly see that the box in the pic has an amazon logo on, some of the packaging isn't like... See more

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  1. Running Store

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Alton Sports was founded in 1999 with the simple objective of making sure people are fitted in the correct footwear. This has seen us develop into one of the south of England’s most well respected specialists in running gear and footwear fitting. Being a family owned and run business has helped us maintain our core values offering the customer great value purchases and service that is second to none.


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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great independent retailer

A first-time order and I was not disappointed! Fantastic customer service from Joe Skilton. I’m so pleased to have been able to support an independent retailer and I’ll definitely order from them again 😊

May 2, 2021
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Delivery lost

Delivery lost. Product no longer available. Scam call from alleged delivery company re money owed. No problems with refund and good experience at Farnham store.

April 23, 2021
Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Online voucher order

Easy process to order voucher online to be redeemed online. The only downside was that I had to wait till the next day to receive the voucher by email. On this occasion not a problem but it would have been had I wanted to send it that day in a birthday card for example.
Also...it would have been nice to be able to buy a voucher that could be used online OR in store rather than just online.
Finally...very sad that your store in Alton has closed :-(

April 21, 2021
Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Wrong shoes sent/ slow delivery/ poor customer service

Ordered black trainers, received multi coloured. Emailed Alton Sports, received no apology just a returns label and was informed once shoes received back I would be contacted with ‘available solutions’. Sent shoes back - tracked them Alton Sport got them back Saturday. By Monday afternoon I had still heard nothing, so I chased them - to be told they had received them but my original order was now out of stock so I would be refunded - again no apology.

Poor customer service, will not be using again! Gave two stars because at least refund was prompt.

April 20, 2021
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars

My original order was lost in Transit…

My original order was lost in Transit and I was offered a substitute order which i accepted. The time it took to realise the order wasn't coming was 12 days which i feel should have been spotted by Alton Sports through their tracking system. I am happy with the alternative offered product which arrived quickly once i agreed to it.

April 19, 2021
Rated 3 out of 5 stars

On Cloudstratus lost by Courier

This was my first experience of Alton Sports.
On 28/03/21 (order #126437) I ordered a pair of On Cloudstratus in the mineral/rust colourway as every other supplier seemed only to have black.

The website said they were ‘in stock’ in green typeface below a message warning of 14+ days experienced with ON which I took (mistakenly as it turns out) to refer to items not in stock (because I expected ‘in stock’ to mean with Alton Sports not with the manufacturer).

After an initial delay I contacted customer support who replied promptly informing me that ‘in stock’ referred to the trainers being in stock with On and not Alton Sports but I have never heard of this situation before but notched it up as a misunderstanding on my part. I was assured my order was sat with On and was going through their shipping process.

On 12/04/21 Alton Sports informed me that a courier service had lost my order and that On no longer stocked that colourway, I was subsequently offered the black Cloudstratus.
I immediately contacted On, ordering the Cloudstratus in pistachio/grey-yes I paid £12 more than offered by Alton Sports but the trainers were a colour I was happy with and arrived 4 days later direct from Switzerland.

Not a great first experience but 3 stars given as customer contact with Alton Sports was very good throughout and the full refund took 5 days to return to my account.

April 19, 2021
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great deal and great service.

Alton Sports offered a great deal and were very quick to get the running shoes to me in the post, with a load of free stuff too! I would certainly not hesitate to go to them again. Great service.

April 13, 2021
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Happy

I placed an order on Sunday with standard 3-5 day delivery and it came on Thursday. I love the shoes and it even came with loads of free goodies. Very happy :)

April 11, 2021

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