Terrible buying experience
Online Chinese based company (although that wasnt clear on ordering) selling clothes on a UK website. I ordered a garment from them online which was listed as Cashmere. A few days later, I noted that the same identical garment was listed on Amazon under a shell seller name. The material details on the Amazon one had obviously been edited to state it was 100% luxury acrylic! I tried several times to request from Kwality customer services to confirm the item was cashmere. Each time I got a generic response telling me my order was being processed and they evaded the question telling me, rather rudely I thought, to wait for it to be delivered to see if I was happy. Finally I asked again in no uncertain terms whether the garment I had ordered was cashmere. I got no response.
The item arrived today and is poor quality, much smaller than the images suggested, and of course 100% Acrylic.
I don’t know if Trading Standards covers online Chinese traders operating UK websites, I very much doubt it so I am resigned to writing a snotty email (below) and making my voice heard on TP. I wont be dealing with this company again that’s for sure.
COPY EMAIL SENT TO KWALITY.CO.UK
Dear Sirs
Further to my earlier emails regarding this order I made, asking you to confirm this item was cashmere as advertised on your online store listing (see my screenshot below) as I subsequently found what looked like the same poncho on Amazon except it was acrylic. I note you failed to answer my question several times then rather dismissively told me to wait until it has been delivered to ‘see if I was happy’ . You ignored my last email, again requesting you confirm the material. The item has arrived and it is certainly NOT CASHMERE! In fact it is acrylic and also much poorer quality (and a lot smaller!) than your website suggests. So I am not happy! I am not prepared however to send this item back at my own expense (as your website informs me i must) but would like to state that I am very unhappy with your previous lack of communication and the fact you have sold me this item under misrepresentation. I will not purchase from you again. If I had bought exactly this same item off Amazon and it had been listed as ‘made from cashmere’, I would have been entitled to an immediate refund for the seller misleading the buyer.
Yours sincerely
X XXXXX
EDIT 10 December
I did not get a response from this email so wrote another saying until I had a satisfactory outcome, I would pursue my complaint with PayPal, continue to write bad reviews on social media and informed them I had written a negative review on TP. Within 24hrs I received a very rude sarcastic email but they did at least issue a refund (although no return label or return address so I’m guessing they won’t be expecting the item back).
Although this may have all sounded a bit heavy handed on my part, I take real issue with online retailers who do not describe their products accurately and fail to respond to customers in a polite or timely manner.
The item’s description on Kwality’s website has now had the ‘cashmere’ label removed and there is no reference to fabric material at all. At least nobody else will get taken in and I hope this served as a reminder that consumers will not tolerate being misled with online advertising of the sellers’ products.
Sent from my iPad
December 1, 2021
Unprompted review