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Can i rate in negative!
December 22, 2017

Can i rate in negative! M f****** pisssed off with their delivery system. Sport Direct sucks! Such a poor online customer service. Whenever u call them they have high call volume and they don't let u stay on the phone. They just straight away asks u to call back n the line gets auto disconnected. The myhermes delivery people are bunch of stupid folks... they never come in the morning or neither they leave any contact number to reach them. I always order online and other courier people delivers my stuffs without any hassle. This is driving me nuts now... please deliver my order either on weekends or before 9 in the morning any day. I have emailed sports direct customer service and the idiots did not bother to reply! My friend is magazine editor and he is going to post Sports Direct true colours soon.

Date of experience: December 22, 2017
GB
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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Thetford store.
December 19, 2017

Served by Gail, very pleasant, helpful and informative, nothing was too much trouble,

She is a real diamond.
From Mrs Dinkie Waller, 2, Tower Cottages, Barnham, IP242ND.

Date of experience: December 18, 2017
Ireland
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Slow and incompetent
December 9, 2017

Bought rackets, racket balls and goggles. Ordered 19 May, 2017. Informed me would be 25 August for delivery as no racket balls. So I cancelled the racket balls and got at the end of June. I was never refunded the racket balls even after repeated emails.

Date of experience: December 9, 2017
GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Goodbye
November 15, 2017

Just look at the state of the reviews you are getting! Low quality? Incompentent customer services!

Date of experience: November 15, 2017
Ireland
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Incompetent
November 9, 2017

Ordered a Tracksuit Large got half a tracksuit small.
Useless I'll never give them a cent again.
Now to pay to send it back.
Can't speak to no one all auto reply

Date of experience: November 9, 2017
Australia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Terrible! Avoid! Avoid!
November 9, 2017

Sent me the wrong size of the shoes, doesn't admit it is their fault, doesn't want to take any responsibilities, doesn't want to resolve the problem. Only answer was online shopping size varies and quickly blacklisted me, so I couldn't log on to their website to write a real review. Can't believe in it! Avoid at all cost!

Date of experience: November 9, 2017
GB
2 reviews
11 helpful votes
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No response to my question
October 27, 2017

Opened up my parcel ordered from sports direct.It contained two polo shirts Both had £5 sale tags on although I was charged £6 and £5.25.One of these shirts was bundled up in the parcel, not in a plastic bag and smelling of damp. Customer care had some excuse about the prices, but after two requests to answer my inquiry regarding smelly unpackaged shirt. I told them that I had washed it and kept as it's too much bother to send it back.The last I heard was some silly member of staff asking for an image of shirt. I said what was the point after it had been washed. Still waiting for answer. Very poor customer care.

Date of experience: October 27, 2017
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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HORRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE
October 16, 2017

Horrible customer service.

I have never felt so humiliated and disrespected in my life. I will never buy anything from this brand

1. The staff is unprofessional and not knowledgeable. I was looking for Nike Air Relentless 6 in black. I went to A store on Oxford street. I could only find it in blue and asked the shop assistant if they had in black. He said they only had the same items in the storage as the ones on the floor. I begged him to check. It turned out they had it

2. The staff is incompetent. When I was trying on the shoe, another customer liked the shoe and asked where I found it. I told her. She asked the sales person to check it for her. The salesperson told me to show the show. I was about to show when he without saying anything disappeared for 30 minutes with my show.

3. The staff is rude and disrespectful. I waited for 30 minutes and I was running late for my appointment. He finally appeared with my shoe. I grabbed the show and wanted to go downstairs to get another item from the same store and pay together. The store employee stopped me asking where I was taking the shoe. I told him I was taking it to the till. He said customers are not allowed to carry the shoes due to security. He said he would follow me to the ground floor with the show.

4. Before I was waiting for the salesperson who disappeared with my shoe, I asked another employee where the pink Nike fitness gloves where. He said they were on the ground floor. It appeared they were on the first floor. So the guy who followed me downstairs had to follow me upstairs holding my shoes.

5. I went to the till and I was already so frustrated that I got my debit card password wrong. One of the cashiers told the cashier serving me: "I am getting frustrated with this customer, aren't you?"

I AM NEVER SHOPPING here again

Date of experience: October 16, 2017
Latvia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Just how it's freaking possible?
October 5, 2017

Ordered the same shoes for the 2nd time hoping that the proper size will be delivered. Nope, it's UK 9.5 again. Yes, I find the way how to deal with the first pair as I don't like to waste my time on RMAs.
Why do you have US/EU sizes on your website and in order if you don't take them into consideration? (photo: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=**************&set=a****************************259&type=3)

Also no response in 24 hours!

Date of experience: October 5, 2017
GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Poor
September 16, 2017

The new peckham manager is not nice to both his employee and customer. Sport direct makes their staff to close later than their work time with no overtime payment.

Date of experience: September 16, 2017
GB
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Ordred boots for my daughter. Needed them next day so paid extra to get them. We are still waiting 3 days later. Could not get through to the customer service line as it said it was busy and to call back. The emails I have sent have not been answered either. I will never buy from this company again. Shockingly poor service.

Date of experience: September 6, 2017
GB
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Bad service!
September 4, 2017

Sprots Direct sells cheap and great products however customer serves is dreadful! However it does sell good stuff so around 6/10!

Date of experience: September 4, 2017
GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Cancelled half our order.
August 28, 2017

We ordered a football kit online. They cancelled the shirt which, was more than half the value of the order, after they had taken our payment. They refused to cancel and refund the order, even though I replied to the email telling me of the cancelled shirt immediately. They must have known that the shirt was out of stock, as the cancellation email came only a few hours after our order confirmation email. Now we have to pay the expensive delivery cost for the socks and shorts and find another store to buy the shirt from. Needless to say it won't be sports direct.

Date of experience: August 28, 2017
Texas
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Terrible customer service
July 30, 2017

I purchase 2 pair of shoes size 10 they sent size 11 us size. I emailed to return they never emailed me back, I am now stuck with 2 pair of Nike shoes the wrong size. I just love wasting money on stuff I can't use! Not! First and last time will ever use. They have no problem sending me there ad emails every day!

Date of experience: July 30, 2017
Brazil
2 reviews
4 helpful votes
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My last shopping Sports Direct.
July 14, 2017

Order online, bad size sent or dirty.
You have to pay to send it back.
My last shopping Sports Direct.

Date of experience: July 14, 2017
NL
3 reviews
24 helpful votes
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A COWBOY COMPANY. BEWARE
July 12, 2017

Firstly the 'good' part, EMAIL contact with customer service was actually quite quick; that they are bound hand and foot by the RIPOFF rules made by management isn't their fault. I actually feel SORRY for anyone working for SportsDirect.
I ordered an item (5 of) and when I received them, they were NOTHING like the advert description. CS first response was they saw 'nothing wrong' till I sent photo's AGAIN of the items received and the photo on the advert. They then offered to accept a return. But the return costs they would only pay back with a CHEQUE!
A CHEQUE anno 2017!
In Holland (where they sold it to), a UK check has less use than toilet paper, but honestly, who in heavens name uses CHEQUES any more. On the continent no-one's used chequebooks for more than 15 years... that's back in the banking prehistoric times. I personally haven't used one for more than 25 years.
It's no wonder Brexit Brits want to isolate themselves from the rest of the world. Pull up the drawbridge and go back a few centuries.

There was no way to explain to them that the rest of the world uses things such as Credit Cards, Internet Banking, PayPal etc etc where it's EASY to transfer payments instead of a WORTHLESS PIECE OF PAPER WITH A SIGNATURE!
It's obvious that with an electronic payment the money IS actually payed back, with a cheque they have the possibility that some don't/can't cash it.
Just a COWBOY company.
BEWARE!

Date of experience: July 12, 2017
GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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What a farse to return an item that is ill fitting. Miserable staff, 5 deep in a queue before asking a staff member passing by to serve. Then a credit note for an ill fitting top! No return the money to your card. A paper receipt, what a con. Won't use them again.

Date of experience: July 11, 2017
GB
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Zero customer service
July 7, 2017

They just ignored my complaint.

Sports Direct sent me the wrong item because 'they' had the wrong tag on the item - yet I had to pay the postage to return it. Not even so much as an apology for 'their' mistake, not to mention leaving me out of pocket with recorded postage.

I'll never shop online or in store with Sports Direct again.

Date of experience: July 7, 2017
Canada
3 reviews
10 helpful votes
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Decent
June 26, 2017

The delivery was on time and product was good. Customer service was not great but altogether we were pretty happy with the order. Would use the service again if the price is right.

Date of experience: June 26, 2017
Texas
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Bad Experience
June 19, 2017

They shipped me the wrong order... only one item in the 5 item order was what i actually wanted. Been fighting with them on email for 4 weeks and getting nowhere. WHY?

Date of experience: June 19, 2017