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New Jersey
1 review
2 helpful votes
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This company is the worst! Every part of my experience with them was awful. If you want to be totally disappointed like I was with there service and products just take a few hundred dollar bills and burn them.

Date of experience: July 23, 2020
Michigan
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Never again
June 3, 2017

Received bone dried death plants and trees. Horrible, unprofessional, JOKE. Company will not provide tracking number because per supervisor "we do not have internet access and we do not send tracking numbers..."? "mailing time between 10-14 days and we deliver all over USA"... what I received yesterday was a typical result of that. NEVER AGAIN!

Date of experience: June 3, 2017
Iowa
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I was looking at heirloom seeds in their catalog and was wondering how to find the heirloom seeds on the website so I emailed them. After a few days I received a response that said "we do not carry heirloom seeds". WHAT? So I send them pictures of their catalog and say you have heirloom seeds but I can't order them online? After another few day wait I get "Look them up by product number". So in short, this company doesn't even know what they offer! I ordered from them anyway thinking just one person didn't care much but I wish I would have read the reviews first. Now I'm dreading what my order will look like or when it will get here. It has been 10 days so far.

Date of experience: April 22, 2021
Iowa
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Where is my order?
April 27, 2021

I placed an order with eBurgess over 7 weeks ago. I received a packet of bean seeds. They told me I received carrot seeds as well but they were not in the package and apparently they will not replace them because I threw away the mailing envelope. I am still waiting on the fruit trees, strawberry plants, and the "free gifts". I wish I had read these reviews first. I will never purchase anything from this company again.

Date of experience: April 27, 2021
Washington
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I placed my order on March 26. The expected ship date was between 4/12 - 4/17. Todays date is 6/9 and they have shipped nothing, but I received my third notification that one of my items is now out of stock.

Date of experience: June 9, 2022
California
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Worst experience
April 22, 2021

I have ordered the few plants in March, waiting for two months to get an shipping status via email. Their phone is always busy. Finally got the response, which was not helping. Their response was that I can't cancel the order since it is already transferred to the shipping department. In my shipping status request, they wrote: "We apologize, as we do not receive ship dates until a package ships, so we do not know when the package will ship". This is terrible business.

Date of experience: April 22, 2021
Indiana
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Aweful
June 10, 2016

Send dead trees. Try to tell you they are dormant but they are totally dried up, like they have been dead for months. Finally sent replacement but not what I ordered. Said no longer available. Who needs a weed tree for a replacement.
I learned my lesson, Stark Bros or Adam County Nursery from now on.

Date of experience: June 10, 2016
New Mexico
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Worst stock we've ever received from a mail order nurse. The plants came in a bag stuffed in our mailbox. They put more money into their catalog photos then they do their plants. Can't get through on the phone to get our money back for the rose bush that would just not grow and is almost dead despite nitrogen and fertilizer treatments to get it to grow. The yucca that arrived was dead already. Run don't walk from this horrible place.

Date of experience: May 16, 2018
Arkansas
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Customer Service
March 25, 2021

After ordering in January I was of the opinion that I would receive the product in a timely manner. It is almost April in the Midwest and planting seeds inside is a must to get the plants going well to set out for harvesting before November. It is now late March and I have not received anything, not even the seeds. When calling to see when they would be shipped the CS person was very rude and blunt. "We don't give out ship dates" is all she would say. I will NOT be ordering from them ever again. If I could give negative reviews I would.

Date of experience: March 25, 2021
Kentucky
1 review
13 helpful votes
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Do not purchase anything this company, I have been dealing with them for two years on replacements and all they send is dead sticks with no root system. Wish I never ordered from them... Worst company ever..

Date of experience: December 19, 2014

Overview

Burgess has a rating of 1.3 stars from 289 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Burgess most frequently mention customer service, credit card and dead plants. Burgess ranks 124th among Gardening Supplies sites.

service
109
value
98
shipping
107
returns
70
quality
89
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