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I have been ordering cigarettes from duty free depot for about 5-6 months. I received a call from a sales rep and was told that I was a VIP customer and that I had earned points with this company. She told me if I ordered 6 cartons of cigarettes I would get 2 free cartons. Even though I had just placed an order I went ahead and ordered the cigarettes. Well I received the first 6 but never received the 2 free cartons, then I noticed that I was sent menthol instead of regular cigarettes. I contact customer support via their web site, no responds. I called the # on the web site and the guy who I spoke with told me that I need to wait for a responds and then hung up on my when I told him I wanted to speak with someone. I finally got a responds from the web site and was told to ship the cigarettes back and they would send me the 6 that I returned and the 2 I never received. I ask for them to pay for the shipping to return them but they wouldn't so I shipped them over night at my expense. It has been almost a month that I have been asking them if they have shipped my cigarettes and they keep e-mailing me back asking what brand do I want, after this going on for 2 weeks I finally get an e-mail today telling me that the price of my cigarettes has gone up and they will only send me 3 cartons of cigarettes. DO NOT ORDER they will SCAM you and ignore your e-mails and will NOT speak with you over the phone unless you are ordering cigarettes.
Tonisha Pacheco order # 206215
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#1 Employee
AUTHOR: Michael DutyFreeDepot - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Tuesday, August 30, 2011
POSTED: Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Hello,
I'm Michael and I'm DutyFreeDepot's marketing and customer relations manager. I would like to clear things up a little bit. DutyFreeDepot.com has been operating online for over 6 years now. Our website is one of the biggest online cigarette retailers in the world, with dozens of satisfied customers from across the globe. We are one of the very few websites that sell genuine duty-free smokes (and other items) from Western Europe (Switzerland and Spain) unlike many competing websites that sell lower-quality cigarettes from Eastern
Europe. Our company has warehouses across Europe (and a warehouse in the Philippines, to serve our customers from Asia) and we have telemarketing agents worldwide. During the last year, some of the outsourcing telemarketing agents did not follow our strict policies by offering coupons, free gifts and discounts. Those agents were terminated immediately from our company and are no longer work for us.
Nevertheless, DutyFreeDepot did the best it could to satisfy its customers despite the matter. Our aim is to give the best shopping experience and supply our customers the best service in the industry. In any issue or question you may have, always feel free to contact us at 866-417-8369. If you feel that your problem has not been resolved, you may contact me, Michael, personally at: marketing[at]dutyfreedepot[dot]com, and I will do my best to take care of the problem.
Regarding your case, Tonisha P, I have checked the status of your order and have
the statement at hand. You have been fully refunded on June 14th, 2011.
#2 Update By Author
AUTHOR: Tonisha P - Fresno (USA)
SUBMITTED: Friday, September 02, 2011
POSTED: Friday, September 02, 2011
Michael, I did finally get a refund of my money after MONTHS of CALLING, and E-MAILING your company. You tell me to call this number but when I tried to do that the person on the phones told me that unless I was calling to place a new order I could not speak with anyone regarding my issue and my issue would only be responded to via e-mail. I demanded to speak with someone and he hung up on me. Your company lost my business and all I asked for was to be given what I was promised and an exchange for your company sending me the wrong cigarrettes. I now purchase my cigarettes from shopping-heaven. I have had no problems with them, the cigarettes are actually cheaper and the shipping is much faster and the cigarettes taste better. So thanks for making me an upset customer, that is what made me good for, and find a much better company to do business with.
Thank you,
Tonisha Pacheco
#3 Employee
AUTHOR: Michael DutyFreeDepot - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Tuesday, September 13, 2011
POSTED: Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Hi Tonisha,
Once again I would like to apologize for any inconvenience you have had with dutyfreedepot.com. I have been working in the company for a couple of months and my office is right next to support team's room, and I hear people calling about different issues every single day. I can promise you that the very most of the complaints are resolved instantly with no hassle. I have never heard about any customer, that paid money, and was not treated right after-sale. However, our company does hire occasional telemarketing services from East Asia, so the only explanation that I can think of is that your call was mistakenly forwarded to those agents. All of our employees are committed to supply the best service possible and it is highly unlikely that any of my agents has treated you the way you described it.
I will check your issue once again anyway.
I hope that you will consider shopping at our website sometime in the future, and if you have any questions whatsoever, you can always contact me personally via my email (marketing[at]dutyfreedepot[dot]com) and we will take it from there.
Sincerely,
Michael
