Comments for DHL and City Link are incompetent
We arranged this ridiculous liaison to collect the passport and get it to reception the day before, so they'd deliver it next day when I was out of the office. They came a day early. No passport, reception hadn't even been told my friend's name by this point. Had to get them to come back two days later, precariously close to the date of the concert, and have them redelivered.
I'm yet to experience delivery companies in the US. I'm pre-emptively sceptical.
I actually live just around the corner from them and know the guys who started it all off,..when it was a poxy little corner computer store called 'Millenium Computers'. There are a couple of good guys working there but most of them are right doochebags who won't give you the time of day unless your computer looks like it's come straight out of 'Flight of the Navigator'.
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If you ever had something delivered by Initial City Link, odds are that it was a negative experience. Initial City Link can't do what seems to be no problem for other couriers. Causing irritation and aggravation to consumers. One forum thread I came across sums up Initial City Link:
> Zero customer focus > Zero accountability > Zero support > Zero improvements
But the blame resides in both the courier and the retailer. It has become pointless to complain to Initial City Link therefore consumers have to put pressure on retailers.
What you can do:
DON'T BUY if a retailer solely uses Initial City Link for shipping
DON'T BUY if a retailer doesn't offer you a choice of couriers
CANCEL YOUR ORDER if there is a failed delivery which is not your fault. Go and order elsewhere with a reliable courier.
TELL YOUR RETAILER why you won't buy from them anymore. Insist on a choice of delivery options. Come back to them once they do.
You can post your personal experience with Initial City Link but usually it's the same story over and over again. 'Attempted' deliveries which never happened, 'lost' delivery cards, 'unfulfilled' deliveries, unhelpful and rude staff and Initial City Links great company policy which serves as an excuse for everything.
Whatever Initial City Links excuse: The consumer is at fault in their eyes. QUITE RIGHT! Because at the end of the day the consumer had a choice to order or not to order from a company that uses Initial City Link or could have paid a little extra for a reliable alternative courier.
There will be three lists in this forum: > Companies who use Initial City Link > Companies who don't use Initial City Link > Companies who have solely used Initial City Link / and or did not offer their customers any choice previously but do now due to consumer pressure.
PLEASE DON'T POST IN THIS GROUP IF A DELIVERY WENT WRONG DUE TO YOUR FAULT.
IF YOU ARE A COMPANY AND THINK YOU ARE LISTED IN THE WRONG CATEGORY OR YOU NOW PROVIDE A CHOICE OF AT LEAST ONE OTHER COURIER TO CONSUMERS PLEASE EMAIL CONSUMERSSTRIKEBACK@INVENT2B.COM AND YOU WILL BE MOVED INTO THE RIGHT CATEGORY AFTER VERFIFICATION.
to my extreme astonishment:
i wake up early to receive my new motherboard and 4 fans from OCUK. door bell goes and i think "great package is here!"
go outside to catch the driver allready assuming im not in. after what must have been 30 seconds to but some clothes on.
and i catch him trying to push my 150 pound motherboard over my 6 Foot gate!!!!
later e-mails to OCUK complaining got me nowhere!!
1: I bought a laptop from e-buyer. They apparently tried delivering it 3 times over 3 days but they neither left a card, nor did the 3 people at home ever hear a knock at the door. I ended up having to travel 30 miles to Rugby to collect it. They said i NEEDED a card left by the driver. I didn't have one but i went anyway. all they asked for is my tracking number. they gave me my laptop with no more questions... I could have been anyone!
2: I ordered some RAM from yoyotech. they shipped by citylink and when i hadnt recieved it in a week, i called them, and they told me that citylink had returned it to them. not yoyotech's fault but again, no knock or card from citylink. i had to pay for postage AGAIN because of citylink's incompetance, but i admit they were very nice on the phone from yoyotech, i asked that they shipped with a different courier, and it arrived the next morning from FedEx. no problems.
3: we needed a new compressor for our fridge-freezer. it was being delivered by citylink. it came at around 7:45am, which got me out of bed. i opened the curtains when i heard a knock at the door, but as soon as the driver knocked, he simply walked off, got back into his van and drove away. But of course that was my fault for not clawing at my front door like a zombie growling "citylink... citylink!! rrraaarrghhh... citylinkkkkkk... mmmm...". Phoned them up, couldnt talk to anyone because it was ALL automated. Had to reschedule for a tuesday delivery (seeing as this was thursday it was rather annoying), but did that anyway. I awoke on tuesday morning, around 9pm to find the item, thrown over our 6.5ft back gate, the box all battered and the contents damaged.
Citylink have a blatant disregard for peoples property and are in major need of investigation. I suggest anyone buying from a company that uses citylink as a courier service ask if it can be shipped by Royal Mail, FedEx, or Amtrak as ive experienced zero problems with any of them. Although if Citylink is the only option, make sure youre standing at your front door from 7am till 6pm with no breaks, not even to use the toilet.
No, but it would, however, tell me something about what my employer thinks of me... which in turn would result in me forming an opinion about what I think of them for paying peanuts.
I guess if you want staff that DON'T act like monkeys, then you'll have to stop paying them peanuts... it all depends on what side of the fence you're standing on really, doesn't it?
If I were to stand on the otherside of the fence at Paignton Zoo (as any reasonably wise person should do), I would soon discover that monkeys prefered bananas to a humble handful of peanuts, thats just the way that are (its nice to drift off on a tangent isn't it lol)
Anyway, where was I... Oh yes...
People have different levels of knowlage an intelligence, but I'd never look down at them, or refer to them as being monkeys, or treat them with any such lack of respect... if I did such a thing, I'd have to be an arrogent, selfish, self-centred, high minded fool who thinks they know it all and is better than everyone else.
I just can't do that.