COMPOST REVIEW 2013

I have bought some more B & Q MP compost and think I have bought the "rogue bags" discussed on here. Very wet and the twigs and bits in it had the white bits - not the normal lovely brown stuff - perhaps these are the bottom of the pile that haven't dried out like the rest - the bags were very squarely compacted - and there were just a couple of layers out the front of the store. Got 1 bag left. Will go back for more next week - and select from outside the back - might try to find a ripped one to check . Have lost a good few tomatoes planted in it - keeling over at soil level - stem rot ?

S

 

I need some more B n Q compost this week . I'll make sure its from a fresh pallet , with one of the bags ripped
Whereabouts are you Sumbody ? Scrungee is in the midlands and he got "rogue bags" possibly the midlands suppliers quality is poor ?

 

Harry S - I am in London and the store was Charlton (by the Millenium Dome in Greenwich) I am hoping the next lot I buy will be the normal stuff as otherwise I don't know where I will go as I will not be returning to Homebase or Wickes as they have the straw stuff the same as last years - and especially as Wickes are being "clever" by removing bad reviews .

Good idea Shiney about them having a bag open before buying

S

 

So one day Wickes can't reinstate your review, but another they can - I still reckon Wickes are watching this thread! And just in case your review 'disappears' again:

 

I KNOW it would never be deleted from this thread on Gardeners Corner, the site we know we can trust,
Jenny namaste

 

In fairness that might just be that the operator replying to Loofah's Customer Support request may not have known, and then chatting to supervisor / whatever sorted that out.

There are loads of "Rubbish" reviews on their other composts, so it doesn't look like they are actively suppressing them? They also went to the trouble of constructing a reply, on 24th ... to then deliberately delete it afterwards?

The review was in Google's cache too, so not easy to completely cover their tracks ....

But I did think the reply was odd when Loofah mentioned it earlier but I, too, thought "how much most energy do I want to expend!" I was pretty sure that DELETE is not something that can be done, easily, on BaazarVoice, but rather "Hide from view", so I'm not surprised that it was retrievable.

 

I previously tried checking whether the review was in Google's cache, but used the wording from Wickes response (that I had quoted) and Google couldn't find it.

 

Again this year I will be using Violets Farm MPC may not be the cheapest but no waste and no lumps and the plants love it (they told me so )

 

There was only a link from the Products page, but it had a decent part of the review showing

I used this site-specific search on the sub-domain, using just the Product code as the keyword

site:reviews.wickes.co.uk 101292

and then the CACHE option on Google's results. At the moment Google is saying that it last cached that page on 16 Apr 2013 16:30:34 GMT (so the Review was active at that time, at least)