Ancient Wisdom Wholesale Reviews

Name: Ancient Wisdom Wholesale
Address: Ancient Wisdom Marketing Affinity Park, Europa Drive, Affinity Park, Sheffield
Rating: 4.70

4.7 Rating 2,482 Reviews

94 %

of reviewers recommend Ancient Wisdom Wholesale

4.7

Based on 2,482 reviews

Shipping & Delivery
Delivery Methods	Courier
Average Delivery Time	Within 5 Days
On-time Delivery	95%
Accurate And Undamaged Orders	Greater than 94%
Customer Service
Communication Channels	Telephone, Email, Live Chat
Queries Resolved In	Under An Hour
Customer Service	4.8 out of 5

About Ancient Wisdom Wholesale:

We Love Gifts. It’s important to be enthusiastic about what you do.. Since 1995 we have been passionate about bringing the best in wholesale gifts to our customers, both in the UK and across the world.

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0114 272 9165

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Ancient Wisdom Marketing Affinity Park, Europa Drive, Affinity Park
Sheffield
S9 1XT

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“Amazing products! Excellent service.”

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(Tomas Belan) - Posted 6 years ago

“Great company to deal with.”

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(Tomas AW) - Posted 6 years ago

“EXCELLENT SERVICE, EXCELLENT PRODUCTS, EXCELLENT COMPANY”

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(HCM) - Posted 6 years ago

“Super efficient and very helpful service. Orders arrive quickly and the products are of a high quality and exactly as they are described.”

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(Lloyds OF Penlanlas) - Posted 6 years ago

“I am so frustrated with AW at the moment. I have been a customer for over 15 years, so long that I remember the original split and Davids old partner forming RH. I have watched the company go from a supplier of mainly home fragrance products to the multidimensional wholesaler they are today, adding in additional lines that customers like ourselves suggested they should look at stocking, like the Tibetan goods, crystals and other items found in the stoneware department, packaging and much more. It felt like 'a Family' where we communicated and our businesses grew together. However, over the last year or two things seem to have changed. It's now almost impossible to keep your Gold reward going as there are so many items out of stock for months on end, and when they do finally arrive they are gone again within a day or two (salt lamps!!!), Items missing from orders repeatedly (so much so that I don't think I have received a single order in the last year where they wasn't a problem - Tingshas!!!) and finally, long waits for orders to arrive. Don't get me wrong, I love Ancient Wisdom and admire what David has achieved, but as a customer I am having to source other suppliers as I simply can't rely on AW to provide what I want, when I want it, which is a real shame. Maybe it time to for AW to focus on keeping it's old customers by resolving these issues so I can, once again, order with confidence.”

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Posted 6 years ago

Hello, Thank you for your feedback and I am sorry that you are feeling disappointed with Ancient Wisdom at the moment. We appreciate that the issues you have been encountering are frustrating and we are doing what is in our power to resolve this. Salt lamps, as well as other stone related items are difficult to source. David addressed this in his newsletter from the 12th of January. Here is an excerpt: 'One major task on my list is to secure another Salt Lamp supplier or even two. You might have noticed we are out of stock more often than in stock. A container comes and sells usually within a few days. Heads up... A container just came guys. They come from the salt lands of Pakistan, part of the Himalayan mountain range. A genuine Ancient Wisdom product as the first records of salt being mined in this area was in the time of Alexandra the Great. The salt is as pure and clean and ancient a product as you can find on earth, and has many uses - not least beautiful salt lamps. The problem is threefold.. 1. securing adequate, timely supplies 2. from a reputable ethical company (not just a middleman/marketing co) 3. being secure that our order will actually arrive. How to do this? Well the answer is to meet the boss of the company, do independent background checks and build a good working relationship. Ideally visit the factory or HQ of the business and see for sure how workers are treated. There are thousands of Himalayan Salt companies in Pakistan, mostly middleman traders buying what stock they can get, a few big organised companies and the family business we like to deal with is actually quite hard to find. Even when you find the right company, infrastructure and supply lines are so poor in that part of the world, that with the best will in the world they cannot meet our orders, we have standing orders of a container a month with two factories, the reality is a very intermittent supply. So hence we need more suppliers. So that ten day window might be spent on this project. Do come for the ride..' The same processes will apply to gemstones, tibetan artefacts and other misticall items sourced from those parts of the world. With regards to the dispatch delays, we are still working on catching up after our annual Christmas break. Usually we were back on track within a week or so, however this year the amalgamation of larger than usual amount of orders during the break, several large deliveries and further large amount of orders after the break kept pushing us back. We have been working extra shifts since before the break and have also hired extra staff to clear the backlog. At present it has reduced by quite a bit so we are hoping to be back on track next week. I am sorry about the missing items in your previous orders. I have spoken with our warehouse manager regarding this and asked for additional training especially for our new staff. At this stage I would like to apologize again that you are feeling disappointed with our company, but I do hope that you will revisit the idea of us as your supplier and give us a go again in the future. Should there be anything else I can assist you with, please do let me know. Kind Regards, Urszula

Posted 6 years ago

“I have been a loyal customer for the last 9 years, but the service has really dropped off in the last few months. My last 3 orders took over a week to pick and then they all had items missing or on back order. I no longer have confidence in Ancient Wisdom to deliver what I need, when I need it. I will now only use them to buy items I can't get elsewhere :(”

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Posted 6 years ago

Dear Steve, Thank you for your message and for your feedback. I would also like to thank you for your continued custom over the years. Usually November-December time are our busiest and there are some dispatch delays, which is something we advise on over the website. Since we came back after our annual 12 day christmas break we have been working extra shifts and hired more staff to clear the orders placed in that time. We have also carried on receiving higher than anticipated amounts of orders at the beginning of the month. This coupled with several large container deliveries that arrived within a very short space of time created a larger backlog than we normally experience at this time. We have been updating the website regarding this and we have also advised of this in our weekly newsletters. Because of the delays in orders, stock control is a little bit out as well. these are the main reasons for the overall delays in orders at present. I would like to apologise for the delays here and assure you that we are doing our absolute best to reduce these dispatch times so that we can return to our usual fast stock turnaround. If there is anything at all I can assist you with, please do let me know. Kind Regards, Urszula

Posted 6 years ago

“fast delivery and great packaging on all goods well done for no overpricing”

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Posted 6 years ago

“unique exceptional products, great wholesale prices, fast delivery.”

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Posted 6 years ago

“The customer service is the best i have ever received from any wholesaler and the products are absolutely second to none the bath bombs and chill pills are top quality and the smell is amazing very very very happy with the company and will be using them for all my bath bombs and things in the future.”

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Posted 6 years ago

“We placed an order on Thursday 15th December mid morning and it was delivered 9.38am the following morning...brilliant and the products were great too Extremely happy”

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Posted 6 years ago

“I placed my order on Tuesday 5th December and it arrived today; Thursday 7th December! I am amazed at the excellent service, it arrived so quickly and all the products are perfect, just as they appear online. Thank you very much :) Happy Customer.”

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Posted 6 years ago

“i placed an order online, for some reason the website generated an unwanted order and now i'm stuck with items i don't want. No help at all from the online chat service.”

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Posted 6 years ago

Hello, Thank you fo ryour message and I am sorry you feel this way. The order has been placed and paid for online with us. The website generates a confirmation email sent to you automatically upon placing the order. This, together with a payment confirmation email, has been sent to you when the order was placed and paid for. The order has been paid for by card so someone must have put the details in and submit the order. There were no changes made to it throughout its processing time at our warehouse. It was with us from the 21st until the 24th of November and in this time we have not received any notifications of it being placed incorrectly. We have not received any other reports of this nature either. If it were a glitch, I believe there would have been more reports, nonetheless I have passed your concerns to our IT department. If the items do not match with the codes on your confirmation, please send us some images of the goods so that we can check what had happened. I believe that my colleague advised that you are welcome to return the goods for a refund, however this would need to be returned at your cost. If the goods you have received do not match the order we will collect these. Please email us to care@ancientwisdom.biz with the images for further investigation. Many apologies for any inconvenience. Kind regards, Urszula

Posted 6 years ago

“Visited the show room yesterday for the first time (have ordered a few times previously) as wanted to see and smell all the Bath Bomb products. All I can say is the lady who was with us was outstanding. Nothing was to much trouble and helping me pick the right products and helpful advice. She nadd me and my mum feel at ease. Could order there and take my products away with me that day (with a short wait) would highly recommend going in. Brilliant job Ancient Wisdom keep it up and I look forward to ordering with you again.”

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Posted 7 years ago

“sadly, there was a time i would give 5 stars, but over the last year.. may be two, as a company you have fallen behind. dont get me wrong the products i buy are great and the customer service is still great, BUT order turn around has become to slow in most cases, stock always out of stock, and for very long periods of time too.... i think you have forgotten your older customers that have been loyal for years, in your quest to get new custom! would it not be best to tackle the problems you have supplying the customers you already have? so no i will not be recommending you to others no matter how many ££ you offer. UNTIL you can make ancient wisdom great again”

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Posted 7 years ago

Hi Glenn, Thank you for your feedback. I can definitely relate to your frustration and only apologise for this. Even after a great time of planning for the Christmas and making extra shifts and also preparing warehouse for the busy period we have slipped behind again due to the overwhelming amount of orders coming through. It is on our priority list to fix the supply chain management and order processing for the next year and we will do everything in our power to make it more comfortable for you and all customers. Once again I am sorry for this and hope it will only get better from next year onwards. Kind Regards Tomas

Posted 7 years ago

“As I am unable to reply to my original feedback..Lets address this. Dear Christine, *My reply - The fact that I asked for this to be anon should have told you not to use my name so good start* Thank you for your feedback - we appreciate it. I have had a look at your account and I do apologize for the issues you have encountered. I can see that the missing and damaged items have been sorted out for you. We do ask to be contacted if there is anything incorrect at your end so thank you for doing just that. I apologize if the items you have received were of poor quality - again, if anything like this is brought to our attention we are happy to help. Most of the items we stock are pre-packed and although spot-checks are always performed, this does not guarantee that every single item will be identical so again - thank you for letting us know. *My reply - Your staff KNEW that the ducks were poor quality yet you still sent them out at the same price! I was told you wouldn't be getting them back in because they were so poor. That tells me that there must have been several complaints which (if it were my stock) would have meant the item being pulled whilst a 100% inspection was carried out.* With regards to the damage reports to which you have not had an answer, I can see these were submitted to us via the offline-message system on the website. We have replied to the same email these were sent from the following business day. I can also see that there is a different email address for you when you place your orders and a different one you use to contact us so maybe this is where the issue with communications lies. *my reply - I have contacted you on several occasions about each and every issue I have had. Yes they were sorted..Once I escalated to Paypal to get my money back at which point (on the 3rd order) I was asked to send back broken glass! I checked my email accounts and the ONLY email I have had from you was on the last replacement where you then told me you didn't have any left to pick for my re order!* With regards to out of stock items, we advise on our website that this can on occasion happen and we do have a system in place for dealing with those. We also advise that should you wish to be contacted on any out of stock items to let us know so that we can put a note on your account and do this prior to shipping of your order so that you get a chance to make any changes. *My reply - I would think that if you know someone has ordered them and you cannot fulfill the order you should be contacting them asking them if they want to be notified and then telling them when you can fulfill their order. If your system can't cope then someone has to.* I hope this clarifies the matter a little. If you do decide to use us again in the future, I will be more than happy to assist you. Kind Regards, Urszula Finally..My last order I was again one item short. I contacted you the day it arrived, told you I needed them for a fair that weekend. They have still not arrived (a week after notifying you..You aren't out of stock you just didn't pick them). After contacting, it turns out you didn't post them until that Friday! absolutely no use to me what so ever! my request (and a very simple one at that) was completely ignored! If I was even entertaining the idea of using you again that would have certainly made my mind up for me there and then. At no point have I had what appears to be a sincere apology. I run a small business and things like this can and have had a very detrimental effect on my business and relationship with my customers and I just don't think you get that”

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Posted 7 years ago

Dear Christine, Thank you for your message, again, I appreciate you getting back to me. I do apologize for addressing you by your first name. I can assure you that no other details were used making it impossible for you to be identified, nonetheless, please do accept my apologies in this matter. We advised our warehouse to check the stock that was sent to you. As I mentioned previously, not all of them were of poor quality and we wanted to do our best to fulfil your order. I am sorry that in the end this did not happen and the goods were still unacceptable. I do apologize again for any miscommunication or incorrect instructions given. We do not, as a rule, request for damaged items to be sent back, especially glass so again - I apologize. I have made sure that all staff have been reminded of this. As I mentioned previously, we inform all our customers if 20% or more of the order is unavailable and sort it out with them prior to shipping. For anything less than that we inform upon request and from the request onwards we will inform on each order. We are working on a better system, yes, however until this is implemented, we follow the above rule. With regards to the most recent issue, I do apologize for the missing item. It was a picking error, not something that was done on purpose. I can see this was reported to us on Monday evening. At present we have a large queue of orders in the warehouse, however any shortages or replacements are done outside of this queue, nonetheless, at this time of the year it does take us a little longer than normal and this is why this was sent to you on Thursday that same week. If the items are still not there, please do let us know and I will process a refund. I have apologized for all the issues in the previous message and I am sorry that you do not find my apologies sincere, I can assure you that they are. Again, if there is any further assistance I can provide you with, I will be more than hapoy to help. Kind regards, Urszula

Posted 7 years ago

“Frankly, I would give a 0 star rating if I could. Order number 1) arrived with out 4 items and 2 of the items that did arrive were poor quality. I reported this to them (wouldn't have received my refund otherwise) and asked if there were any more of the missing items coming in. I was told "no because they are poor quality"...Like the ones you deemed ok to send me you mean!? Order 2) received smashed! I tried messaging but no reply. Had to go through Paypal for a refund Order 3) despite showing in stock, out of stock of an item. This time I received a refund but didn't know anything about it until I checked my Paypal account and saw it..I then had to email them to ask what it was for. In short. 3 orders, 3 complete balls ups and I've had enough frankly. I will never order from them again.”

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Posted 7 years ago

Dear Christine, Thank you for your feedback - we appreciate it. I have had a look at your account and I do apologize for the issues you have encountered. I can see that the missing and damaged items have been sorted out for you. We do ask to be contacted if there is anything incorrect at your end so thank you for doing just that. I apologize if the items you have received were of poor quality - again, if anything like this is brought to our attention we are happy to help. Most of the items we stock are pre-packed and although spot-checks are always performed, this does not guarantee that every single item will be identical so again - thank you for letting us know. With regards to the damage reports to which you have not had an answer, I can see these were submitted to us via the offline-message system on the website. We have replied to the same email these were sent from the following business day. I can also see that there is a different email address for you when you place your orders and a different one you use to contact us so maybe this is where the issue with communications lies. With regards to out of stock items, we advise on our website that this can on occasion happen and we do have a system in place for dealing with those. We also advise that should you wish to be contacted on any out of stock items to let us know so that we can put a note on your account and do this prior to shipping of your order so that you get a chance to make any changes. I hope this clarifies the matter a little. If you do decide to use us again in the future, I will be more than happy to assist you. Kind Regards, Urszula

Posted 7 years ago

“Once again Ancient Wisdom pulled all the stops out to get my delivery very quick it was very much appreciated. Products are excellent and would recommend to everyone. Well done Ancient wisdom”

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Posted 7 years ago

“In recent months we have received very reliable service from Ancient Wisdom. When things go wrong they work quickly to resolve issues and provide compensation. I definitely feel their service has improved over the last 6 months and I highly recommend buying from this wholesaler.”

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Posted 7 years ago

“Good quick reliable service, the staff are very helpful.”

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(The Craft Cabin) - Posted 7 years ago

“great suppliers of quality products...very helpful staff who will always go the extra mile to get your order to you.”

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Posted 7 years ago

Ancient Wisdom Wholesale is rated 4.7 based on 2,482 reviews