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You may have seen the "great" deals O2 has posted re: the FitBit but for the sake of your sanity, I would avoid ordering this online. I ordered this last Thursday (26th Nov) on the basis that it would be delivered the next day. Come Friday, I had not received an email to confirm the item had been dispatched, and so I contacted O2 via their online help, only to be told that the item would be delivered "within 24 hours" i.e. by about 5pm on the Saturday. Come Saturday evening, no FitBit, so I again got in touch with O2 and was told that because Royal Mail does not deliver on the weekend (?!), the item would be delivered on Monday. Monday...no FitBit. Got in touch yet again, and told this time that the order had been cancelled because it is out of stock. 

 

Now if you visit the O2 shop, you will notice that the item is listed as in stock:

https://www.o2.co.uk/shop/fitness-trackers/fitbit/charge-hr/#contractType=nonconnected

 

I have just spent 53 minutes on the phone with someone who confirmed that the FitBit is indeed out of stock and they have no idea when it will be back in stock. Clearly someone is asleep on the job.

 

I am absolutely perplexed about how a) O2 can be offering an item for sale when they do not even have an item b) their complete lack of communication re: delivery delays c) their practice of cancelling an order without informing the customer. Had I not contacted them, I would still be expecting the item. The solution for this? To place another order...for an item that is not in stock! 

 

O2's inconsistency is absolutely maddening. I had previously placed an order for the FitBit and the delivery was delayed because they were "out of stock" but I was reassured that they regularly get stock and that I would receive the item within 1-2 days. However, because this overlapped with the Black Friday deal, and I would have spent more on the FitBit yet not received it in time, I was advised to cancel and place the order again. So the first time my delivery was delayed, I received no communication but was told that the order would be theoretically fulfilled as priority in a couple of days. The second time my delivery was repeatedly delayed and then inexplicably cancelled with again no communication. This makes me wonder if my first order would ever have been fulfilled?

 

In addition, I don't understand why the people on O2 chat mislead customers - why was I repeatedly told different times for delivery, none of which were true? This does not instil trust in O2 customer services at all. Furthermore, the staff on the online chat are clearly not trained well - I requested a transcript of my latest chat and was told it could not be sent while I was still online. This despite the fact that a previous rep had sent my a transcript while online and stayed with me until I received the transcript. I did of course tell the latest rep this but was repeatedly ignored and told he was "sorry I felt that way". Not sorry that he incapable of doing his job or asking for help if he didn't know how to do it.

 

To be fair, the lady I spoke to on the phone (because I was so disatisfied with the online chat) tried her best to help and was just as perplexed over the whole thing as I was. I now have to go all the way to a store to pick up a FitBit, but I lament the time and energy I wasted trying to order this online. O2, really - absolutely shocking. Do not sell an item if you don't have it. Simple.

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If you do a search on the forum you will see that o2 regularly sells items that are out of stock and then take weeks to return customers monies.
It's so bad, that us regulars never recommend buying anything online with o2 and always advise to go instore to purchase or upgrade.
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Ah, I wish I had known 😞 I did look on the forum to see if anyone else was having this problem but did not find anything.
How can they get away with this? What sense does it possibly make? I am just so confused! I will make sure to tell everyone I possibly can to avoid O2 like the plague.
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We have no idea how they have got away with it for so long either !!
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We have asked many times for O2 to look into a live ordering system....so they know their stock levels...but so far no change...

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I have told them several times that their site still says the item is in stock when it is not - so they really don't have an excuse to not update it now surely? And in any case, once the order is placed I don't understand why they don't let the customer know what is happening re: stock and delivery (or cancellation!!).
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Yes, you are 100% correct, but it's nothing we haven't heard or said ourselves before....
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This is exactly why I did click and collect of the SmartWatch.
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They had plenty in the Fort shopping centre o2 store on Saturday too.....
I nearly bought one but there's nowt wrong with my 2
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@MI5 wrote:
They had plenty in the Fort shopping centre o2 store on Saturday too.....
I nearly bought one but there's nowt wrong with my 2

Where's the Fort...am I missing something....?? wink

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