England » Aylesbury » Lock & Key Master Locksmiths

I arranged for this company to re-code my Avocet ABS locks (very good locks by the way), they quoted a reasonable price and seemed pretty helpful. I shipped my locks to them, paid for the re-code and waited. When I got my locks back, they were different sizes to the ones I'd sent. I produced the boxes my original locks came in, the orders for those locks all stating clearly the size of the lock. I sent up 2 Euro Profile locks (E45/I50 & E50/I45), what I got back were 2 locks sized 50/50 & 45/45. Rather than accepting all the proof I supplied, they all but accused me of lying or trying to commit some kind of fraud. I must be mistaken about the sizes - even though I had the original boxes for these locks. The mistake could not have happened they said, and yet it had. The manufacturer got involved (as this is where the re-coding takes place) and asked me to ship the wrong locks to them. All Lock&Key kept saying was "prove what you sent us". Well maybe they should have checked them in when they arrived noting the sizes. How can I prove what I put in the post ?! Video me wrapping them up and posting it ?!, if I'd have known the issues that were going to occur I'd have done it!. I invited them to come and see my 2 only doors so they could see I had no reason to deceive them. This company was stubborn and pig headed to the end, completely failing to provide any semblance of customer service. Should it ever have gotten to the point where I had to speak to a solicitor and prepare to take legal action to get my property back ? Luckily the manufacturer wanted to provide the required customer service and shipped new locks of the correct size down... I fitted them yesterday, and guess what, they are a perfect fit - that would be because I know how to measure a lock, and I know what size it needs to be and I know what size I originally ordered and what size I sent to them. Will never be using this company again.