Complaints about Evri, please stop using them, they may be cheap but they don't deliver

There are highs and lows for many delivery companies. Sometimes, we, as a business find one is ok for a period and then we have to move to another. Staff seems to be the key, rather unsurprisingly but we keep our options open and on many days use multiple companies. I have seen complaints about royal mail, Yodel and Evri (Hermes) most recently but to date I have to say that being a small seller and sending up to 11 or 12 packages a day Royal Mail works for us. But buying is a different matter and this is where I join in others by asking why does eBay continue to support a company like Evri, who to us, has failed consistantly to deliver or even when it has finally got to us the delivery is substandard, smashed, broken. I am yet again awaiting a package costing over a 100.00 and being resold as part of another set of items. three days after its last due date its not here and tracking has stopped, you dont know where it is, just the intended date and delivery but marked as delayed. This has happened so many times that now I pre empt and ask sellers not to send via Evri and if they have, as soon as it is delayed I start asking, using all the email address I have for Evri and eBay providing the tracking numbers. It costs me time that I could use elsehwre but this is because out of each three items lost I may actually get one by being quick. Seriously this is how many iotems go missing, get lost, are broken or the lates one is "destroyed" Sellers please understand, using Evri will end up taking a lot more time, cost you more money and probably losing the sale. By the same implication this must be costing eBay, who we know is all about the money, one hell of a lot of money. Evri may be cheap but they dont do the job. The mistake by many sellers is they dont understand that they have a reposnability to ensure the item gets to the buyer and not that it ends when they hand it over to the courier who is only contracted by them to deliver. In our case that contract has been broken many times and has cost sellers time and lost sales while eBay has had to fork out a lot of money in compensation. For us its loss of business, lost sales, while we will never use Evri to send we still have sellers we buy from keen on the "cheap" price and dont realise its false economy.

 

If you have bad service from Evri please complain, lets raise this profile and either get them to understand that its not about chat bots and automation, its the people they use to deliver, to handle and its obvious they are not motivated. Whats the use in having such a basic tracking and AI when the system just does not know where your package is or where it has been delivered or what to do about it when it is gone...... Somewhere in the ether of Evri.

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Re: Complaints about Evri, please stop using them, they may be cheap but they don't deliver

Its getting a bit like DHL did over 20 years ago, all self employed drivers on low rates, every van was a mobile shop and they use to ask if you wanted anything when they collected parcels from my business, it got that toxic they sold it all off and quit the UK parcel market for years before they entered it again.

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What truth there is in this Reddit post I don’t know, but if it’s fact it’s not going to get any better.

 

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You can’t complain to anyat Evri because its all automated! Chat bot on messenger and voicemail when you call. They are impossible to deal with and a fraud. Drivers are stealing items! Things don’t just get lost and disappear into thin air

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I've contacted every seller to say if they use evri I won't buy from them
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This is because the item has been STOLEN! Ebsy stop making them a default option and sellers should A. Refuse anyone requesting to use them and B. Uncheck the option in the postage section do its only ever royal mail 

the country needs to boycott evri. Full stop 

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STOLEN! Obviously 🙄 

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YES YES YES suppliers please stop using them, I get the impression but i cannot confirm this that Chinese suppliers have some 'DEAL' with EVRI as they all appear to use them  ???? probably price or even more likely they have a 'financial' interest in the company. 

PLEASE PLEASE if you can avoid having your items delivered via EVRI.

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Re: Complaints about Evri, please stop using them, they may be cheap but they don't deliver

Everyone watch BBC Panorama tonight at 8 pm. You may find it very
enlightening.
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Who do you suggest we complain to in Ebay?  I have got another complaint in with Evri - photo of today's POD is not my front door.  Last week we recognised the name of the house which was half a mile away.  Apparently the parcel was handed to a neighbour, it was actually dumped on a doorstep.  I have been buying from Amazon but even when they say it's Amazon delivery (which is really good), half the time it comes (or doesn't) with Evri.  We'll see if the other parcel they are supposed to deliver today arrives - it didn't yesterday.  I'm going to hassle the sellers now so they realise what shoddy service we are getting, I would rather pay a bit extra and get what I ordered on time without all this trouble.  I send all my parcels out with Royal Mail

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I Understand your frustration. Of course complain to Ebay, it’s really the only way they know how bad EVRi or any carrier is. So long as Ebay keep offering this option to sellers at knock down prices, its not going to change. Like you we always use Royal Mail for our shipping, but I believe DPD is also pretty good but I can’t remember if Ebay offers this carrier on their simple delivery system.
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Watch the BBC Panorama programme about Evri.... Shocking to believe eBay use them.

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I have not watched it yet but will when I get some downtime. I have been
told by many that the program identifies a lot of problems and as we all
know Evri is not fit for purpose but will watch and comment

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Juice Sound Ltd.

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I was using them up to 2022, just few before they changed name, I had to sue them. Items went out of depot and then "lost", a huge parcel in both size and weight, it was a full mannequin inside, but maybe they were more intrigued by the box looking like a walking tape equipment, so they thought it was worth to steal. It was my very first worth of value delivery, to me, from a private seller I bought it. She even game all the evidence form her Ring camera because the driver said it was too big for his van... 10 kg... he come back next day and took it. Gone, never known where, for months I hoped to have it since it was one off item, and needed still today, I can't find that particular model in that condition, plus it was with insurance (I was later told legally it is a scam, because every delivery service has duty of care, so asking that is fraud) and the item was not in the prohibited list, they added it later but they are dumb, they just assumed it was one made out of other materials, this one was newer... I had to waste a month studying British Law, my rights, prepare the case for judges, trials, and gather all the evidence, nontheless the lies, emails, phone calls, the staff was even mocking me or laughting over the phone, chasing them and my parcel, I still don't know what was of it.

If you need to contact humans there, back then it was still possible, they just removed the option few later my case, there are Facebook groups where we posted the real free phone line, and the email of the CEO, Martjn Delounge or what was him, they even found hin on Linkedin, and you got real answers only through him or the judges, ask for them in the group, we used to give it to people. There should still be the post there or in the search of the groups post.

Never ever i will trust a company that does not provide a proper van for its couriers, a car is not a proper van, plus what if one of this guys has accidents, since they can't see anything in the rear window... they are also a danger to everybody, and they already broke properties and killed or injured pets and people on the streets, it is full of new online every year.
Even less if the workers are not employed by the company, no freelancer, if Royal Mail or someone else get something wrong, or wrong attitude all the times, bosses warn them, they might even lose the job and the wage, plus they got all the cover for the job, and they are happy to make the effort.

If Apollo owning Evri is Equity Firm, that is the main reason why they are so bad and refuse to improve even making lots of money... Equity Firm are the Devil for a company, they do offer bad services, better avoid them.

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Re: Complaints about Evri, please stop using them, they may be cheap but they don't deliver

No, very unlikely.

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No, the only thing that will make eBay re-evaluate their deal is if it becomes economically unviable for them.. if they have to pay out of pocket so much compensation for lost parcels that they need to rethink. 

 

What's in our power:

- as a seller, actively deselect EvRi as a postage option 

- as a buyer, check with the seller before purchasing and ask them if they use EvRi. If they do, buy elsewhere 

- Complain every time something goes wrong with EvRi

 

That's it

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What has always concerned me is to be able to sell insurance in the UK you have to be government regulated but it seems all parcel services that offer insurance are exempt and the insurance part of there business is ilegal.

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I found out it is illegal when I sue them. I kept stating I had insurance on the parcel for the full cover and I was legally explained it didn't matter because of their duty of care and worst they know. It should not be socially accepted because many people don't know that.

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Ebay should give buyers the option to use Royal Mail, and pay for the service. It's stressful dealing with Ebay, Evri, the Seller.  Royal  Mail has a better delivery rate.  Evri will ruin Ebay because buyers aren't willing to be repeatedly stressed and cross examined to prove they're worthy of being reimbursed their own, hard earned, money for an item they brought, that never arrived!! People want 'Retail Therapy'... not several repeat lossed parcels.  This makes you want therapy after shopping with them! Not worth the stress!

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I agree with this. Sellers and Ebay insist that items have been delivered when they have not. False delivery locations , doctored pictures if any.. I recently managed to not receive a delivery which gave a false post code and no picture. After waiting for a couple of weeks I contacted the seller who agreed to send a second delivery. They did not give any details of the carrier and nothing arrived. Eventually they gave a full refund, but I felt as if they suspected me. To get the items I went to Amazon and the things arrived in a matter of days.
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100% agree. Every so often I'll forget to ask the seller if they use EvRi or not, and then you get that notification that the parcel is with EvRi, and your heart sinks! You know you're in for a world of pain 😞

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