Creating your order on line is becoming ever
more popular with our customers and several of you have asked why you can't
create an account with Lembas online, and why you can't pay for your order
on line too.
We like it better that way for several reasons...
- Call us old fashioned, but we like to get to know our customers, and
we'd like to talk to you first to see how we can help. This requires
some human contact! So, if you don't
have one already and you want an account with us, give us a ring on
0845 4581585 or, if you must, email
us.
- Owing to the immense size of the range we offer, we never guarantee
you 100% order fulfillment (tho' we average over 90%). So we would rather
bill you on delivery for what you receive rather than overcharge
you in advance.
- Unfortunately, our website's price list database is not connected
directly to our live database...yet. Rather, it is maintained by monthly updates,
so there may occasionally be discrepencies in prices (up or
down). Again, we would rather charge you correctly for what you
get than overcharge you in advance.
We say "yet" because we are working towards providing selected customers with
the means to add their orders directly into our live database.
- Truth be told, if we were to implement online payment transactions,
it would mean a significant fraction of the cost on your order (~10%)
would go to some middle-(wo)man, and this cost is more than we care to pay
at the moment!
- If you are a regular customer or on one of our normal delivery runs
we will deliver at the usual time.
- If you are not so regular or relatively new to us, we will contact
you to confirm / discuss the best time for delivery.
- We have your customer code, so we can contact you if there is any
difficulty with your order.
- You can add a message with any special instructions you may have for
us on confirming your order
.
- Meanwhile, if you have any queries about your order you could have
a look at our Terms of Trade,
our Tips page or contact
us with your query
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N.B. Our ordering system has been updated.
You will need to have cookies enabled
to use the system which has new features making it easier to use and more
powerful. These features include:
- We have simplified the login, and once you have logged in you
have links to your "basket", the "checkout" and the "archive" always
available to you as part of the search engine.
- The system remembers your current order.
- If you have to abandon an order before you finish it, your order
will still be in your "basket" next time you log in.
- An archive of the orders you have placed with us using this website.
- You can view your order history at any time, once you are logged
in.
- N.B. You can use an archived order as a "template",
and add lines from the old order list to your new order.
- If you regularly place orders that usually contain the same items,
then this feature can save you LOTS of time looking for the same
items over and over again.
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