Poor quality and poor customer service
About seven years ago, I was given three FIL large (c. Emperor size) linen sheets as a present from my family on a significant birthday. I was absolutely thrilled – we were still using some of my Grandmother’s Irish linen and I had long dreamed of having some of my own .. to hand down in the same way. These new sheets were rotated with two other cotton sheets: each of the sheets was used for one week roughly every four or five weeks – so let us say each sheet was washed 11 or 12 times a year, after the week’s use. After about 5-6 years, I found a tear in one sheet, which was very upsetting, and I asked the company (FIL) for a small piece of the same linen, which they supplied, so that I could patch it up – obviously the sheet could never be quite the same, but it was better than throwing it out. Within a year, both the other sheets developed tears, not just small tears but in one case, huge great shreds… where the material had simply ripped through, it would seem, a weakness in the material. In all cases, the tears were not in areas where you might expect there to be lots of stress. Each sheet had cost, with VAT, about £250 so to think that after no more than 60-70 washes, each one of them was unusable, was shocking and upsetting. (The original gift included three pillowcases and so the total spend with FIL had been just under £1,000.) I wrote to the company, returning the worst sheet.. and asking them to compensate me in some way – suggesting one new sheet would be acceptable. They responded saying they would do nothing, as they had sent me the material for the patch about a year earlier, and didn’t even apologise or express disappointment/sadness. When I wrote back, after their very stiff and formal rejection of my request, they didn’t even bother to reply. So before you choose to part with money in buying what is pretty expensive linen, think very carefully.
March 30, 2021
Unprompted review