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Photobox Reviews Summary

Photobox has 169 customer reviews and ranks 127th in the Photo Printing category. Common review topics include customer service.

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Great Service!
February 6, 2018

Great Service! Excellent quality of printing. I am feeling happy that I ordered my lovely desk calendar from Photobox website. Item came on time. Thank you Photobox!

Date of experience: February 5, 2018
GB
2 reviews
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Poor service
January 22, 2018

This company has gone downhill places order they sent a Comformation that it was would be a certain time so I left work for afternoon to wait in whist I was in my house got an email saying sorry you was not in they pick the courier company Dpd totally idiots. Shocking services now have to take another day off work for some stupid mugs

Date of experience: January 22, 2018
GB
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Used to be brilliant, now awful
January 14, 2018

Used to be brilliant but recent order in this year absolutely shocking. Truly awful customer experience as well in trying to deal with the issue.

Date of experience: January 14, 2018
GB
1 review
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Poor service, fake sales
January 3, 2018

Im very disappointed about this web site. I ordered 6 photos and 1 photo book, they promise buy one get one free on everything. I got just 70p off. I was contacted service and they sey its just for items lovest price :)) )) and another thing they took twice for delivery. Its a good quality pictures, but service is realy poor, fake sales. Dont trust them, hopes that can be usefull for somebody

Date of experience: January 3, 2018
Denmark
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Sad they closed. Found similar product
October 19, 2017

I loved the first 9 magnets I ordered from Sticky9 and was so sad when I figured out that I couldn't order more magnets.

Date of experience: October 19, 2017
GB
2 reviews
3 helpful votes
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Poor level of service
September 2, 2017

Placed an order (£215.00) with Photobox (have ordered 20+ times previously). Received an email confirming payment along with an email from PayPal stating payment had been taken. Checked order status 5 days later and shows as cancelled. No notification that order had been cancelled and payment had not been refunded. Phoned to to query only to be told that might have been an issue and all they could do now is refund the payment and have to order again. Order needed to be delivered by Friday 8th September and paid for premium delivery. Earliest delivery date is now 12th September which doesnt work as this was needed for the weekend of 09th September. Customer services offered no resolution other than to refund and have to order again! Shocking.

Date of experience: September 2, 2017
Photobox H. Photobox Rep
over a year old

I am so sorry to hear you were so badly let down, I have sent you a private message regarding this so if you could get back to me with your account email address I'll be able to help.

Kind Regards

Kerry - Photobox

GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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The company was not rude and did reply to my emails but my photos took ages to upload and then there was huge delays in delivery due to a machine breaking down. I also did not realise the photos were coming from Malaysia (so were never going to arrive within the time frame I expected). When my 200 photos eventually arrived they were dark, grey and unusable. I will NOT be using the voucher codes I was provided with due to the long delay as I cannot use the photos in albums or scrapbooks - they do not reflect the images I uploaded. I do NOT recommend this company - save your TIME and money and get it done right in the first place somewhere else.

Date of experience: August 7, 2017
GB
2 reviews
83 helpful votes
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Awful awful company
July 21, 2017

Ordered a phonebook for my best friends hen party and ensured I bought the express delivery with it so there was no risk of it arriving late. Unfortunately, the delivery address and billing address mysteriously merged together on Photobox's website and the package was held in the depot. I caught this a few days before I needed it, called Photobox and they corrected the address. The day before I needed the package, it still hadn't arrived and the tracking information said the package was going back to Photobox, for no apparent reason. After several calls to Photobox, they were no more than useless claiming they couldn't do anything and took no liability. Thankfully, Boots do the same job for half the price and within 24 hours, so my issue is sorted - so everyone who is reading this, go to Boots! The service is better and cheaper there!

Date of experience: July 21, 2017
Australia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Lve these fridge magnets
July 13, 2017

I am so sad Sticky9 has closed down I love these fridge magnets - look awesome on our fridge - good quality - speedy delivery. So sad as I need more fridge magnets and really don't want to go anywhere else

Date of experience: July 13, 2017
Australia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Amazing service
June 2, 2017

Have ordered from these guys on at least 15 occasions over the years, and the product is always delivered super quickly and is exactly as ordered. So sad that they are closing down, and genuinely shocked to see all the negative reviews.

Date of experience: June 1, 2017
Hungary
1 review
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Unreliable delivery
May 25, 2017

I ordered a set of classical magnet, which was supposed to be a part of a weddig gift for my friends. It didn't arrive, so I e-mailed the customer support and they reordered it for me (free of charge), which meant 2 more weeks to wait, so of course I couldn't give it to my friends on the wedding, but anyway. Then this second order did not arrive either, so I asked for a refund, which they completed immediately. They said it must have been lost by the post (and offered to mail it to some other address), but I doubt that the same thing can get lost twice in a row, and nothing I ordered before has been lost until now. I must admit, that customer support is very helpful and replies very quickly, but besides this I don't find them very reliable.

Date of experience: May 25, 2017
GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Fault Photos almost all of them
May 11, 2017

More than half of the my photos arrived fault. They cut the above or the below of the photos absurd. I dont know how this web site has good reviews. Nonsense. Very bad experience. Dont recommend them. I understand it is cheap so I wasn't expecting a good quality of the photos itself but I wasnt expecting to receive a bad cut of the printed photos.

Date of experience: May 11, 2017
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Very disappointed
May 7, 2017

I ordered a canvass from Photo Box last week, got it delievered yesterday. Though the service was very quick, the canvass was terrible. It was not crisp it was very blurry and my children's faces and hands on it was orange, what a waste of £30. First and last time I use that company again.

Date of experience: May 7, 2017
Canada
1 review
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Love Sticky9
May 4, 2017

I've order the large magnets a number of times, for myself, for friends, my parents and for my grandma. The quality has always been great. They ship super fast. I've never had an issue. I am shocked by all the people saying they never got their product etc. I have never once had an issue and have order at least 7 or 8 times.

Date of experience: May 4, 2017
GB
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Express delivery
April 25, 2017

Don't even bother with express delivery... I paid it for it to arrive on my fiancé birthday and I just kept getting emails saying it's not been processed not even an explanation of why! So frustrating I will never order from them again

Date of experience: April 25, 2017
GB
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Never again Photobox!
April 17, 2017

I've spent many looong hours uploading to this site, then even longer going through each pic individually to check they aren't printing pics wth people's heads cut off (due to their technology not automatically dealing with pics from different sources). There is a shrink to fit option but that leaves 2 white borders on the pic, not attractive. I lost a whole album while transferring it to another, and another album of over 800 pics just dissappeared while I was editing it. Customer service, although responsive, had no answer (luckily I had backup). After years of using photobox, thinking they had best deal (and that the long tedious upload time was normal), i tried jessops. They offered cheap prints on orders of 500, unlike photobox 1500, and had a good deal on. I uploaded and ordered 1000 pics in less than an hour. Their technology is so much better. They print pics from all sources without me having to check each one! Can't believe I wasted so much of my life using photobox! (This experience was uploading fron harddrive/data sticks. For my mobile pics I might use freeprint app).

I couldn't even leave this review on their site via trust pilot as they require an order number!

Date of experience: April 17, 2017
GB
2 reviews
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Appalling service and jobs worth staff
March 29, 2017

I ordered a poster to be delivered to my son's friend for his 21st birthday. I live in Manchester and my son is at university in Cardiff.
I paid £7.99 for express delivery so that he would get the poster in time as I couldn't be there for an important milestone in his life and the poster was my way of being there on the day.
I receive a text and email on the Monday to say my parcel will be delivered on Tuesday so I make arrangements as his friend is in all day only to receive another text on the Tuesday morning to say there's been an issue and it will be delivered on Wednesday. I think fine as his birthday is on Wednesday. I requested for the parcel to be delivered after 12.30pm as his friend will be at uni in the morning. The jobs worth cannot guarantee the delivery time and will not do anything and cancels the order without confirmation with myself. I then eventually get a manager to speak to me after numerous calls who assures me it will be delivered after 12.30pm.
Needless to say I think I've saved the day only to find DPD have delivered in the morning and not only that they have returned my parcel to Photobox. Once I realised they had delivered in the morning I called numerous times leaving messages to speak to a manager but got no return call. Eventually I happen to get hold of the manager I spoke to the day before as she happened to pick up my call. I couldn't continue the conversation as it had upset me so much that I asked for her or someone to call me back the following day.
Once again no phone call came and I had to phone again on Thursday morning. By this time they had already ruined the surprise for my son on the most important day and I was already wound up and upset. No manager called me but they assured me the poster would be re-printed and sent out again on express delivery.
It was the following Monday when someone eventually called me. I was assured it was investigated but all I got was excuses.
Giving me a refund and re-printing and sending the poster out again was no compensation for the heartache that Photobox caused me by not delivering on time. The moment of my son receiving it on time and the pleasure I would have got seeing his face and hearing the excitement on his face when he opened it were all gone and I will never get that back. For an organisation that is in a business where they created lasting memories for people, the service and lack of understanding was appalling. Photobox left me with the worst memories of my son's 21st birthday and I can never get back the day.
No matter how hard I tried to explain what this meant to me all I got quoted by the staff and management there was that there was nothing they could do and that DPD had 1-3 days to deliver and their policies.
I will never use Photobox again and I would seriously urge others not to use them in the future. There is no amount of compensation that will pay for the upset that I felt that day. There are things that management could have done to make sure my son received the poster in time but they didn't want to do anything yet they managed to re-print and deliver in one day when it was too late.

Date of experience: March 29, 2017
GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Dreadful quality and now they won't leave me alone
December 27, 2016

I ordered some photos and half of them were terrible quality. Immediately after submitting my order I began getting daily emails. I tried unsubscribing to the mailing list I hadn't wanted to be added to in the first place. By the time my order arrived (there were more pamphlets and promo materials for their services and the services of other companies than my own order) I had blocked the whole domain name. They still show up in my 'Unwanted' folder in my email: I get an email every single damn day.
Spam site disguised as a printing site, just go to Boots.

Date of experience: December 27, 2016
Maryland
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Don't waste your money and time on this
December 18, 2016

Ordered and they arived on time sure but all magnets had uneven margins ans photos were cropped. They looked like. 2 year old cut them. Sent them an email and they sent me another set of pics with the exact same problem. ReOrdered! And they STILL came defective! Terrible.

Date of experience: December 18, 2016
GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Spam for life!
November 18, 2016

Don't order or share your details with them! Despite a positive ordering exprience I started receiving offers daily from photobox and despite asking numerous times via various different methods, photobox are still sending me a daily email! Harassment!

Date of experience: November 18, 2016