Shoreward review for Inkthreadable: Print on Demand

Jan. 7, 2022

Their customer service let both us and the charity we were raising money for down badly. Badly let us down with a Christmas order. For a business that is B2B, they do not understand their customers’ needs at all - that or they just do not care about them! Ordered some t-shirts on 3rd Dec, they had not arrived by 16th so chased them up as we needed to get them and post them out to our customers. We were also raising money for a charity with the sales, so it was urgent we got them in time to post them out in time for Christmas for both our sakes and the charities sake. Spoke to customer services on the morning of 17th who advised that there was a problem with a small section of the order, and they were reprinting it. I advised that section was not important, and they offered to post out the section that was ready that day so we could begin processing it. Spoke to them again later that day and they said they had not gone yet but they would def go that day or on Sat 18th at the latest. Stressed again and again how important it was that they went out so we could post them out to our customers in time for Christmas. I was then furious to find out they still had it in the factory on Monday. We did not get it until Wednesday 22nd which was too late to get it out to our customers. We were left looking stupid as we promised customers the goods were on their way over the weekend (because that’s what Inkthreadble had told us), out of pocket giving refunds and not able to give the charity the money we promised them. We complained and requested a refund. They apologised for the confusion and have given a 25% refund. This is not good enough. There was no 'confusion' with the order. They lied to us on 3 occasions. They had 3 chances to put things right and they have not. A testament of a good company is how they deal with things when they go wrong and how they look after their customers. Inkthreadble lied to us and looked after themselves rather than looking after their customers. They keep saying their delivery time scales are just estimates and using that as an excuse. That I can understand, the lies on the phone, I cannot. If they had posted the part of the order that was complete on the Friday or if they had given us a refund so we could still support the charity, I would have happily stayed with them as a customer. However, their awful B2B service in this case has forced us to leave. I would advise anyone else to stay clear if you value your own businesses good reputation.