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123Ink.ca

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123Ink.ca Reviews Summary

The company has garnered a mixed reputation, with some customers appreciating the reasonable pricing and prompt delivery of their products. However, a significant number of reviews highlight persistent issues with product quality, including malfunctioning cartridges and poor compatibility with printers. Customers frequently express frustration with the company's customer service, citing unhelpful and unprofessional interactions, particularly regarding returns and warranty claims. Overall, while the company may attract customers with competitive prices, its failure to provide reliable products and satisfactory support has led to growing dissatisfaction and distrust among its clientele.

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7
value
5
shipping
6
returns
6
quality
6

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Canada
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Last week I bought a label printer and tapes from this company. The low price is unbelievable!

Date of experience: October 17, 2014
Canada
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Always response you very fast when you dail the RIGHT NUMBER at their BUSSINESS HOURS. Email or live chart is always faster.
When I saw this promotion card from my mail box and can not use it, I called and the nice girl whoes name is Partricial offer me a 5$ coupon code instead!
Just love them!

Date of experience: October 17, 2014
Canada
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I bought Lamborghini 1/14 Scale Lamborghini Radio Remote Control Car from the website, I car arrived in a good packaging but the car is not charging and the remote is broken. Called them, they said they will get back to me... but havent got back to me yet... I bought for the car as a gift... this was meant to be special but turned out to be worst. Very disappointed

Date of experience: July 4, 2014
Andrew L. — 123Ink.ca Rep
over a year old

Hi Emma,

Thank you very much for getting back to us, as per email discussion about the refund, yes we will grant you the refund that is not a problem, our agent has already sent you the RSL label, you will just need to send it back the defective item and once we receive it we will send you the refund to your account, again, we are very sorry for the time and we understand your frustration. After we got your defective item we will also inspect it so make sure such problem won't repeat anymore to our customers.

Canada
1 review
5 helpful votes
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This company sells junk. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. By the time you buy two to get one good one you might as well as bought from a good company. There customer service is horrible! DON"T buy from this company!

Date of experience: May 1, 2014
Canada
1 review
5 helpful votes
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I have dealt with 123 Ink Cartridges in the past, and was always very pleased with service and products.

Unfortunately my recent experience forces me to rate this company below 1 Star.

Placed an order, received a confirmation and that was it, no further response, I have tried to call them several times, waited on the line of 20 to minutes at a time, I have sent e-mails after e-mails, no reponse.

I think it is time for 123 ink cartridge to retire from this business, as you are no longer capable of handling it.

Very, Very unsatisfied customer, now I have to contact PayPal and advise them of the crappy service this company is now offering and to please refund me the amount paid.

Date of experience: March 28, 2014
Andrew L. — 123Ink.ca Rep
over a year old

Hi Dominic,

First of all we apologize for the trouble that we cause, I will forward your case immediately to the customer service team so will solve the problem for you ASAP, I understand your frustration and please allow us to do it right for you this time.

Sincerely,

Canada
6 reviews
13 helpful votes
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They have flash deal regularly and that's really good deal I have ever seen. Bought compatible ink toner, the delivery is fast cause their warehouse is in montreal. The products' quality is no problem so far. They have also lots of cable & phone acc, an useful website.

Date of experience: March 4, 2014
Canada
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Purchase a HP 564xl compatible ink cartridges from them, the quality is nice so does the page yield that I got, I am a master student and I print out a lot of documents on daily basis, 123inkcartridges.ca saves me a lot of $ from my wallet and their shipping speed is tremendously fast.

Tips: Just sign up their newsletter and you can get their coupon code for free

Date of experience: March 4, 2014
Andrew L. — 123Ink.ca Rep
over a year old

Thank you very much for the words and we are currently working on it to make sure all the customers are satisfied. We have improved a lot our web navigation as well as our customer service system and if there is any question or problem regard to your product please feel free to let me know!

Canada
1 review
5 helpful votes
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This company offers unbeatable price. I prefer compatible ink and toner cartridges, because I don't need OEM. Some times I will buy accessories for my cellphone and electronics, the delivery is punctual.

Date of experience: February 28, 2014
Canada
1 review
5 helpful votes
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I had an old printer left from my room mate and ordered the compatible ink from 123inkcartridges. Delivery is quite fast, and it works well. I know the quality of OEM well be better, but for a student to print some article or paper work or coupon, I didn't find big difference.

Cause the good experience on 123, I ordered some other products like hdmi cable and camera bag also from them. So far without any problem.

They are having more and more products now, sometimes I even picked up gifts from it to my friends.

Date of experience: February 27, 2014
Canada
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Ordered 4 times on their website, ink cartridges and Bluetooth keyboard is really cost effective. Delivery time is almost from 3 to 4 days.

Date of experience: February 27, 2014
Canada
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Horrible...
February 7, 2014

Horrible... I needed ink cartidges for something urgent and I feel into trap of this cheap company. They sent it via Canadapost and Canadapost lost it. When I asked for another package to be sent to me or my money back, these guy gave me " Sir, we have opened an investigation. You have to wait till it ends" Really? And till date I am waiting for my money back. And their customer care was so insensive to my calls, she was like doing me a favour for picking up my call. STAY AWAY from this company.

Date of experience: February 7, 2014
Andrew L. — 123Ink.ca Rep
over a year old

Hi Satinder,

We are very sorry to hear from you and we apologize for the troubles that we had caused, we can help you to solve the issue and all we need is your invoice number so I look it through your account to see what's going on. Regard to your issue, whenever there is the lost parcel, we will file an investigation process to the Canada Post and the process will take only a few days, we did that to ensure that Canada Post ship out your parcel at the right place and the right time, we understand your frustration by hearing from your comments online, but please allow us to make it right to you.

Canada
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I have an HP Officejet 8600 and ordered cartridges from them... thinking they were OEM (they do sell them). I was sent refills... anyways... after 2 black replacements and all the colours going wrong... they refunded me.

The problem is... my print head is now destroyed. I will have to replace that myself as they don't care... it will be a fix worth over $100... just to save... a few dollars...

DON"T BUY FROM THEM!

Date of experience: February 6, 2014
Andrew L. — 123Ink.ca Rep
over a year old

Hi Paul,

First of all please accept our apologize for the inconveniences that we caused, could you please let us know your invoice number so we can perhaps look it up what kind of product that you ordered last time to understand the problem? To answer your question, the compatible ink cartridge that we sell are all been tested from the industry standard to ensure that the quality is acceptable, the normal ink itself works the same as the OEM one, the design is similar, the page yield is similar, the quality is a bit less than the OEM one however it is still above the acceptable level, for printing regular document, text, or table, the compatible ink will be your perfect choice. Regard to the print head issue, there are many factors can contributed to print head failure, but most of time you can fix that real easy within few steps, if there is still any chance that you would like to talk to us, we are willing to help you to bring your previous printer back to life! Also, I will forward your issue to our technical department for further testing to ensure such problem won't happen anymore!

Canada
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I installed the first cartridge, black, and it began to smear on the paper. I wrote 123inkcartridges. They ignored me. After a few days, my printer gave me a notice to replace this cartridge. I wrote 123inkcartgidges again. They continued to ignore me. If anyone wants the unopened M, C, and Y cartridges, I will give you them for free.

Date of experience: January 29, 2014
Andrew L. — 123Ink.ca Rep
over a year old

Hi Elliott,

Thank you for your feedback, is it possible to let us know which email address did we send it too? Most of the time we replied our customer inquiries within 24 hours, you can also try our Live chat, inquiry or even toll free number to ensure our customer agent get your message so they will be able to solve your case rapidly. If there is anything that I can help you with regard to your last purchase, feel free to let me know here and I am glad to help!

Canada
2 reviews
5 helpful votes
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I would rate them as a zero if I could. I ordered three Measy RC11 android air remotes, which were listed as IN STOCK. It took them over a week to ship because as their CSR told me, they were OUT OF STOCK and were waiting for more to reach their China warehouse. After I complained to their customer support, they added a note to the product listing which indicates the order will be shipping from China. SHADY!

I ordered from a Canadian site because I was expecting my before Christmas. Turns out my order is coming from China, and I would have been better off ordering from a Chinese retailer. Ordered November 30th, and the ETA is January 3rd. I've had faster turnarounds from Chinese retailers. I'm disappointed that a Canadian retailer is worse. I'm even more disappointed that they didn't offer anything to do resolve the issue. No reimbursement, no escalation, nothing. Just a great big F U, and thanks for your money.

AVOID AT ALL COST!

Date of experience: December 29, 2013
Andrew L. — 123Ink.ca Rep
over a year old

Hi Kam,

We are very sorry to hear from your comment here and I wish we read this earlier so we can solve this case immediately for you. We are very sorry for the shipping delay for the RC11 that you ordered, however during this two months we have greatly improve our system to make sure that the customers will receive their item ASAP, most of the products that we had at our warehouses in Canada, we understand your frustration about the slow shipping but trust us we are really making efforts to make sure that customers are satisfied. We are sincerely sorry for the previous order, and I hope that you will give us another opportunity to make it right for you.

Canada
2 reviews
5 helpful votes
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If I could, I wouldn't even give these guys even one star! First off I called the 24 hour customer help line. The connection was horrid and the person barely spoke English. Luckily I speak Cantonese and was able to communicate. The item I wanted to inquire about was in stock and was located in their Montreal warehouse. I straight up asked how long it would take to ship to my location and she told me 3 business days from Montreal. Not a day more. I waited until I got home and right on their website they advertise the product would arrive in one business day! Whether it be 1 or 3 days, I was thrilled as I had been searching for this item all over and needed it by Thursday (4 days). I placed the order and kept an eye out for when it shipped. Finally near mid afternoon today, I receive an email notification advising it shipped and the ETA was SEVEN BUSINESS DAYS! I quickly called the so-called 24 hour line and got an answering machine 3 or 4 times. I kept calling until I found someone - not that it helped much. All she could so was apologize. No chance of them shipping the same product faster (I even offered to pay more). No option of a refund. Nothing. I asked to speak to a supervisor. Not available. The only option was to cancel and ship it back when I receive it. But on whose dime? I was already too infuriated to go there. So let's review. Customer service verbally tells me I would receive my product in 3 days. WRONG! Website boasts I would get my item in a whopping ONE day. WRONG AGAIN! No chance of any solution was provided by the so called customer service. No supervisor was available to speak with until the next morning (6am my time). The only option was to cancel and ship the product back! Thanks for the false advertisement! Thanks for the help! Thanks for taking the time to come up with a solution! Yes. That was bitter sarcasm.

A word to both the wise and unwise: DO NOT BUY ANYTHING FOM THIS COMPANY. HORRIBLE SERVICE. HORRIBLE DISPLAY OF DISINTEREST AND LACK OF RESPONSIBILITY! ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE OF ACCOUNTABILITY AND RESPECT TO THEIR CUSTOMERS!

Date of experience: October 22, 2013
Andrew L. — 123Ink.ca Rep
over a year old

Dear customer,

Thank you very much for the feedback and by reading your review we understood that there are a lot of things that we MUST work on it now to ensure the problems that you have raised should be taken as priority. First of all, we have discussed our team and we are going to update our current stock system to ensure that the ETA for the product will be more accurate in the future, and second regard to the customer service line, we are currently monitoring the quality of customer service as well as the quantity of available agents, at the mean time, we are also upgrading the system to meet for customer's demand, the system is currently on testing period and will be releasing soon!

Canada
2 reviews
6 helpful votes
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Yikes!
October 5, 2013

Yikes! Do not buy electronics from these guys. I just bought an ereader from them. The Price was too good to be true. First of all it took 27 days to arrive (from China) and when it did, there was NO owner's manual! I double checked the website and an electronic owner's manual was supposed to be included. Sure enough, I charged up the battery on the eReader and opened it up and there it was! IN CHINESE! Arghhhhhhh!

To add insult to injury, I next discovered that the darn thing is based on a very old Android operating system that is not compatible with Adobe Digital Reader so I can't use it to download eBoods from our public library!

Date of experience: October 5, 2013
Canada
3 reviews
8 helpful votes
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Everything was as ordered, arrived in 6 business days, laser toner and about 6 various AV cables, price was excellent

Date of experience: August 30, 2013
Andrew L. — 123Ink.ca Rep
over a year old

Hi Doug,

Thank you very much for the great review, we appreciated!

Canada
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Re-manufactured, high capacity toner cartridge started leaking after about a year of light home use.

Visited company website, posted an inquiry asking them to honor their one-year guarantee, but never got a response.

Date of experience: August 2, 2013
Andrew L. — 123Ink.ca Rep
over a year old

Hi Grant,

Do you mind to let us know your invoice ID so I can track your order if there is anything that I can do it for you? We have recently improve our system and in this way we will have a better customer service and web navigation system, please allow us to help you to solve the problem.

Canada
3 reviews
6 helpful votes
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Amazing ink prices and super fast delivery - no kidding we ordered replacement cartridges on Monday and they arrived on Tuesday.

They just updated their site too and it is easier to navigate.

Date of experience: March 15, 2013
Canada
1 review
3 helpful votes
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The first Toner Cartridge we received from 123inkcartridge was empty! They replaced it - it worked for 2 weeks and then started spreading toner all over the sheets of paper. Totally useless

Date of experience: March 5, 2013

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123Ink.ca was created with a simple goal in mind; to provide quality ink cartridges, toner cartridges, and office supplies products.


123ink.ca
Montreal, Quebec, Canada