Misleading 2-Day Delivery Promise, Inactive Tracking, and 12-Day Delay for a Lisbon Order
I placed and paid for an order with the official Benfica Store on 15/04 for two personalized shirts, total value €240. At checkout/order confirmation, the expected delivery time was shown as “Delivery 2 working days.”
The delivery timeframe was especially important to me because these items were intended as gifts. When it became clear that the order would not arrive within the promised two days, I had to urgently buy replacement gifts and spend additional money.
On 17/04, customer support informed me that the order had already been dispatched and provided a tracking number. However, the tracking number did not work and could not be found in DHL’s system. This was a delivery within Lisbon city, not an international shipment.
For several more days, the parcel remained untraceable. I had to contact both Benfica Store support and DHL myself to understand what was happening.
DHL later confirmed that the tracking number initially provided did not return any result in their system. Only much later did the same tracking number become active.
The order was finally delivered on 27/04 — twelve days after payment and far beyond the stated 2 working day timeframe.
I contacted Benfica Store several times. The replies were polite, but the issue was not handled proactively. After delivery, I requested a partial refund or goodwill gesture because of the delay, the inactive tracking, the failed expectations, and the poor communication. Benfica refused, saying that the delivery date was only an estimate and that the product had been delivered correctly.
The shirts were delivered in the end, but the overall customer experience was poor: misleading delivery expectations, inactive tracking for days, delayed delivery, and no meaningful compensation.
For an official club store and a €240 order, I expected much better service.
April 15, 2026
Unprompted review