Hi all, I thought I should share my own experience with Rhino Seeds with you all. I browsed through many forums like this one searching for comments on where to buy seeds from and I stumbled across some posts saying that Rhino Seeds were a good bet for peeps living in the UK. So being as impatient as I have always been I rushed to their website, had a good look and placed in an order of around £180, eyes bigger than my belly kinda thing lol! Anyways after I placed my order I carried on reading through some forums and to my horror I found a load of posts saying that Rhino Seeds were not a good company and that a few people had not received there orders for many weeks and some not at all. As you might imagine I was starting to get worried and looked back for the posts that said they were really good and noticed that they were dated 2005!
Needless to say I was starting to feel a bit pissed at myself so I sent Rhino Seeds an email asking them to clarify what the situation was with my order and to confirm to me when they would send it out as I wanted it ASAP, and I also mentioned that I was rather worried because of the many posts I had just read regarding other peoples experience with them.
To Rhino Seeds credit, I was contacted the next day with an email explaining how there had been a few problems with both the email system and the ordering system recently and I was assured that there was nothing to worry about and that my order would be sent out in the next day or so. I thought this was a good and quick response and it definitely calmed me down a bit. The next day I received another email saying that one of the items I had ordered was no no longer in stock and I was offered a refund or a swap. I sent a message back saying that I was disappointed with this as the item was clearly marked as being in stock when I placed my order. I also gave my telephone number and asked that someone call me to discuss as I was a bit pissed at this especially with all the posts recently. Within 10 minutes I received a call from one of the managers explaining that there was a problem with one of there suppliers and this is why that could not send the item I had ordered, due to this I was offered a swap so I choose something that was almost twice the price of the seeds I had initially ordered and said I would pay the difference. At this point the manager called James said that they would pay the extra cost due to the fact that the order had been messed up a little! I was extremely surprised and pleased with this and said yes straight away. The next day I was told that my items would be sent out by next day recorded delivery becuase of the delay that had been caused, and again Rhino Seeds footed the bill as that was not the delivery service I had ordered from them.
All in all I have to say that Rhino Seeds went well out of there way to make things right and to keep me feeling satisfied, they had not only called me but I was also given a number to call should I need to speak to them again. I was then sent an email with my tracking numbers and the following day my package had arrived as promised.
Well as far as I am concerned this was great customer service and clearly showed how much they were prepared to do to put things right after the initial hiccup. Personally I think that Rhino Seeds have just been unlucky with staff and there ordering system which had caused them and more importantly there customers loads of problems, but they are trying extremely hard to put things right, and I for one would not hesitate to use them again and recommend them to my friends if asked. One thing I would say is that having a number to call made all the difference so if you are there and listening Rhino Seeds, put a number up on the website again and also thank you so very much for my seeds which all came in there original packaging and for your help in reassuring me that everything was ok.
I really hope this post puts those people out there who are waiting for there seeds to arrive minds at rest.
Peace out
BonVonDon