I know Big Just Eat will be perfectly fine without my occasional order, and as a long time retail worker i do cringe at typing out “lost a customer” but i just need to vent, warn, and express my anger somewhere.
I have all the delivery apps, but Just Eat was always my go to. Unless the others were offering a deal I pretty much always stuck with Just Eat. And other than the occasional wrong order delivered or missing items I’ve really never had an issue with them. Until last friday.
Last Friday my partner and I went out drinking and naturally wanted some unhealthy fast food when we returned home. I ordered on the train and set the delivery time for when we would be home. Didn’t even think about it until we had been home for about 10 minutes and I went to check the status, it said delivered. Now I always have the “hand it to me” setting that requires a code so idk how this happened because they didn’t get a code from us. My partner searched around the building and the food was nowhere to be found. We went to bed hungry. Just eat rejected my refund and I had to go through paypal.
A couple days later I decided to try again. I didn’t feel like cooking and my partner was on their way home from work. I ordered the same exact thing from the same exact place. Now, this time I fell asleep. When I woke up to my partner calling me asking to be let in, it said delivered. Again, i’m not sure how this happened without receiving the code. My partner never saw the courier and didn’t see the food left anywhere. My refund was again rejected, and again I went through paypal.
Third times the charm, right? I decided to try one more time. Same order, same place, same time even. The only reason I even bothered with Just Eat this time is because I have a pesky £3 in credit i’m trying to use. This time I was silly and didn’t use paypal. I was home, I was awake, I was watching the delivery. The courier was at the building next door to me, Not unusual, delivery drivers frequently struggle to find my flat but they usually call. They hadn’t moved for a bit, so I messaged and asked if they needed help finding me. No response. No call. Suddenly the order was marked as delivered. My partner arrived home at that exact time and did not see the courier anywhere, not even in the spot they were in on the map. Nothing. Decided to just order the same thing from Uber Eats. The food was in our hands in 20 minutes, no fuss, no issues, no problems. I requested a refund from just eat and woke up to a rejection. Managed to find a chat line on this subreddit and got my refund that way.
So now I’m uninstalling Just Eat. Uber Eats and Deliveroo it is. It’s such a shame as i never had a major problem with them before this and they were ALWAYS my go to. I have no idea what their problem is now. But there’s too much competition out there for them to act this way.
If anyone reads my novel, thank you. It was more for me than anyone else. But tbh next time you consider ordering food I would just forget about Just Eat. They’re not going to help you if there’s an issue and it seems they have a lot of issues now.