AWBS Ltd Reviews

Name: AWBS Ltd
Address: AWBS Ltd (Head Office)Oxford Garden Centre, South Hinksey,, Oxford
Rating: 4.75

4.8 Rating 1,879 Reviews

94 %

of reviewers recommend AWBS Ltd

4.8

Based on 1,879 reviews

Shipping & Delivery
Delivery Methods	Own Driver
Average Delivery Time	Within 5 Days
On-time Delivery	96%
Accurate And Undamaged Orders	98%
Customer Service
Communication Channels	Live Chat, Email, Telephone
Queries Resolved In	Under An Hour
Customer Service	4.8 out of 5

About AWBS Ltd :

AWBS Ltd are builders’ merchants and landscaping materials supplier serving the general public, professional builders and landscaping companies in Oxfordshire, Wiltshire and Berkshire. Open 7 days a week, we offer an extensive range of building and landscaping materials, for all sizes of construction and garden remodelling projects, available to buy at our branch or online with free fast delivery within 25 miles of Oxford. From turf, fencing, paving, decking, decorative gravels and chippings to bricks, construction aggregates, building blocks and tools, we stock a huge range of branded and own brand building and landscaping products at great low prices. Visit or contact your local AWBS branch in Oxford, Yarnton and Swindon for advice and all of your building, fencing and landscaping material needs.

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Phone:

01865 326500

Email:

office@awbsltd.com

Location:

AWBS Ltd (Head Office)Oxford Garden Centre, South Hinksey,
Oxford
OX1 5AR

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Anonymous // 01/01/2019

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“The gravel was delivered promptly as always. The gravel was fine but beware it contains a lot of dust which had to be manually filtered out and then washed. This took time and I then had to get rid of the dust at the local tip. Gravel looked great after that though!”

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Posted 2 weeks ago

“Quality soil and nice to work with but apparently the 8mm screen didn’t manage to get rid of all the sticks and stones… Quite disappointing considering the extra cost.”

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Posted 4 weeks ago

“Called in to the Swindon yard. Gent helped me in the yard.Served by Logan very helpful and polite. Would strongly recommend AWBS at Swindon to anyone. M”

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Posted 4 weeks ago

“Ordered before very happy with service and goods this time quality of goods very poor stones not cositant”

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Posted 1 month ago

“After my last review which was excellent due to price and service for 200 gravel delivered compared with Travis Perkins who were almost double, this review is not so good. Visited to buy 5 bags of building sand and got it as a 5 bags for price of 4 as fifth bag was free. Just over £20 but then found B&Q do the same for £3.47 and that’s retail price. Not too happy and will check prices in the normal shops in future.”

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Posted 8 months ago

“Great service as always. I have 1 x 850kg bag of Grey slate unused. I called on Tuesday 23rd to schedule a return but I’ve not received a call back from the online ordering team. Thanks,”

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Posted 1 year ago

“Not very happy I ordered 2 full bags approx 1500 kg the bags weren't full at all so I ordered the same weight from another company for less and the bag was full to the brim and much wider. For 2 of your bags was one of theirs and their bag was cheaper.”

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Posted 1 year ago

“Not a good as I have seen in the yard the 6 that were sent me had knots out of the corners and bowed.”

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Posted 1 year ago

“Ordered sand mix Friday afternoon as needed for that day or Saturday morning. Once payment went through was messaged for free pick up from Monday onwards?”

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Posted 1 year ago

“Online ordering was easy and efficiently acknowledged. Notified of delivery day and by 1700. By 1600 no delivery so contacted local depot to confirm and was reassured consignment was on the van to be delivered as scheduled. How ever delivery was not made and I received no communication to explain why or when delivery would take place. I emailed head office and received a phone call from local depot first thing the following morning. Staff and delivery man were polite and friendly but overall service was disappointing.”

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Posted 2 years ago

“I'm generally very happy with AWBS, good products, good prices, good website for online ordering. However on this occasion the delivery service seemed a bit chaotic compared to previous orders. In the past AWBS have generally delivered the next day before lunch, often around 9am. On this occasion I received a message that the entire order would be delivered in three day's time because one small item was out of stock. When I phoned up to cancel the small item they said that it had "just come back in stock" so they would deliver the next day after all. However they couldn't guarantee any time and in the end they didn't turn up until nearly 4pm. Maybe this is due to difficulty recruiting HGV drivers (?) but I hope they can get back to the previous high standards of service, or else start to offer approximate time of delivery.....”

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Posted 3 years ago

Hi Rob, thank you for your review. We offer a free local delivery service and our vehicles are allocated deliveries on a multi-drop basis therefore it is impossible to give any guarantees of the time a delivery may arrive on a set day. Our deliveries are scheduled between 8am - 5pm. We understand this can be frustrating however as past experience has taught us if we were to give customers timed deliveries this can lead to further problems as often things can change throughout the day, therefore we have made it a strict company policy that we do not give times for our deliveries on the allocated day. Thanks, AWBS.

Posted 3 years ago

“Im only giving you 3 stars rather than 5 because, despite giving clear instructions including the gate code to my electric gates, you have dropped 2/3 bags out on the pavement outside the house which means I have to load all the shingle an extra 10metres - I dont understand why?”

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Posted 3 years ago

“A bit disappointed with the condition of 6 of the blocks as were chipped. Luckily ordered a few more than needed for the purpose Delivery time excellent as normal.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“The service , communication and delivery are excellent. Unfortunately; on this occasion the product purchased (turf) has been very disappointing and has already died within 4 weeks .”

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Posted 3 years ago

Hi Deborah, sorry to hear you’ve had an issue with your turf. All of our turf comes directly from Rolawn, the UK’s largest supplier. Had we known of your issue prior to your review we would have been able to contact them, send photographs and get their advice as to what happened to cause this issue and, if possible, try and rectify it. If you would still like us to help with this, then please send some photographs of your turf and some more information to oxford@awbsltd.com and we will do our best to help. Thanks, AWBS.

Posted 3 years ago

“Happy with the product and the delivery all spot on as usual for AWBS. The delivery driver was brilliant. I do have concerns over the payment though as there was a data breach and my Card details could know be in the hands of fraudsters.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Product was good, shame our card was compromised by your site. Have had to deal with fraudulent payments and stop cards therefore without cards for a week, very inconvenient”

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Posted 3 years ago

Hi Shaun, First, we would like to say how sorry we are that you have been affected by the recent data breach on the AWBS website and apologise for the distress and inconvenience this will have undoubtably caused you. Please be assured that we take customer and online security very seriously. As soon as we identified the data breach we contacted customers immediately, the police and Information Commissioners Office (ICO) were informed and a thorough investigation was carried out by our website security team. Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic online fraud has risen by 65% and it is a serious problem for every online retailer but in no way does this excuse the issue that has affected you on this occasion. Once again, we would like to extend our sincerest apologies for any distress and inconvenience caused and hope you will consider using AWBS again in the future. If you have any questions or concerns, our data protection officer Wyatt Tait can be contacted directly via email wyatt@awbsltd.com or by telephone 07825 048139. Thanks, AWBS

Posted 3 years ago

“When I first called the office, the chap I spoke to was not helpful at all and very dismissive. If I could have bought the pavestones elsewhere I would have done, but unfortunately I could not find them anywhere else in the time frame I needed. Think it was the Oxford office that I called initially - I then called one of the other offices and totally different experience - really friendly and helpful chap - sadly I had to deal with the Oxford office for the order - Also we have 4 or 5 broken slabs - I emailed about this but no response - called Oxford office, not terribly helpful, just said it was to be expected and if we really need them replaced the process would take weeks by the sound of it to have them replaced - considering I spent nearly £3000 with this company I would have expected better - At least the pavestones look great now most of them have been laid”

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Posted 3 years ago

“I wish you would have put the delivery where I told you rather than listen to the gardener!!!”

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Posted 3 years ago

“One of my slabs was damaged on delivery”

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Posted 4 years ago

Hi Andrew, apologies that you received a damaged slab from us, however we would have happily replaced it had we been informed. Please contact your local branch with your order number if you would like to arrange this. Thanks, AWBS.

Posted 4 years ago

“Only part of my order arrived. Still waiting on the rest to be delivered.”

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Posted 4 years ago

AWBS Ltd is rated 4.8 based on 1,879 reviews