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John Lewis: Partnership Card reviews

Name: Partnership Card
Rating: 1.33 (874 reviews)

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1.34

Based on 874 reviews, last reviewed 25th Jul 2025

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Latest highest rating:

5

had a partnership card for years now. had a partnership card for years now. love the rewards vouchers on spends and the points you are awarded for using their credit card which i normally ... Read more Reviewed on: 12th June 2025

Latest lowest rating:

1

Terrible Customer Service and Fraud Support We have had a fraud claim on out account since May 2025, we have made 5 calls to try and get this resolved, spoken to 4 different Customer Service age... Read more Reviewed on: 25th July 2025

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dont understand customer needs

I wanted to buy a hotel deal in Oct but my card expires in Sept had to call JL to ask for my new (post Sep) card to be sent to me now but they will only do this by cancelling my existing card which I need to use until the new card arrives 7-10 working days later surely there are some smart people in JL who know that this degrades their brand and alienates loyal customers Reviewed on: 17th July 2020

Efficient

Whenever I have had a problem I have contacted customer services and had very efficient service, and they have always been able to sort out my problem. Reviewed on: 10th July 2020

Ease of use

Mainly use thie Partnership Card for online shopping. Gives me security and ease of use is a factor. Also like the voucher rewards. Reviewed on: 9th July 2020

Zero stars company

The most incompetent credit card provider ever. Blocked cards, feeble excuses, useless customer service. Probably too overwhelmed by complaints to sort problems out. The only reviews they respond to are "Wonderful John Lewis, best company in the Universe, wouldn't use any other credit card. Just love that green card, matches my shoes a treat, Blah blah blah" Reviewed on: 24th June 2020

Witholding Statements

I was persuaded to go paperless but then discovered that JLPC restrict access to statements older than one year. They require the year and month of a statement older than one year before they will allow you to see it. If you are unsure of the month or year, tough luck. I'm certain that this is a breach of the law. Two requests to be returned to paper statements have been ignored Reviewed on: 12th June 2020

Beware - payment declined message error

Read yesterday that John Lewis credit card was showing 'your payment hasn't gone through, make other arrangements'. Lucky I did as this happened to me just now. Luckily I checked my bank and it shows that the money HAS gone out of my account. Had I not seen this I would have tried another way to pay, and the money would have gone out twice. I settle up in full each month so this would have made me well overdrawn. When I tried to send a secure message to complain the site would not send the message, despite me having signed in!!!!! This is appalling, especially at the moment with the Covid 19 and having money worries anyway. AVOID! Reviewed on: 1st April 2020

Awful Service - not doing John Lewis any favours

Trying to get my home address changed has proved impossible!!! Unless I send proof of my new address by snail mail (emailed versions not acceptable apparently even though I have had to answer six security questions!!) Therefore post is being returned, therefore my on line account is blocked! Every time I try to make a payment I go through the same painful process. I am cancelling the card. Awful awful card provider. Reviewed on: 6th March 2020

Poor application process

I applied for the John Lewis Partnership Card on 4 Feb and I received a confirmation email saying that I will receive a decision within 5 working days. I have received nothing until 25 Feb so I called 03453003830. The customer service Marina did not explain why there was no update. And she requested me to answer all her questions about how much council tax, electricity and water bills I am paying every month on phone. She insisted not to send me an email about all the questions so I have to prepare the figures while holding the call. It took me a while to find out all my bills on the computer and I told her all the figures she needed. She said she will email me about the required documents I have to provide. I spent 30 mins on the phone with her for answering those questions that should be asked during the online application. After the call, I did not receive any emails so I called again. Another lady checked for me that no email was sent to me. I was really upset and I read all the recent negative comments online. I decided to cancel my application. I asked the lady to cancel it for me. She said the application will be automatically cancelled after 30 days of application. Does it mean that if I am not checking about my application, it will be cancelled automatically? Both customer service advisers are not keen to help me to get the application done. John Lewis and Waitrose staffs always provide excellent customer service. I can't accept and believe that the application process of the partnership card is so unprofessional and the staffs are not helpful. I agree with other comments that there is no emails, no online chat, but just a phone number to contact the card centre which wasted time on phone. JUST SAVE YOUR TIME! You can find a better credit card provider & John Lewis's partnership card definitely not the good one. The application process is so poor which I can imagine how troublesome it would be if the card has any issues in the future. Reviewed on: 25th February 2020

By Far the Worst Credit Card Company

Hi, I have terminated the card and after terminating the arrangement there has been a debit made on my account for the £600 odd. This was for a fraudulent transaction on my card a few months ago. Back then John Lewis said I dont have to pay, but the amount showed on my account. Then it soon disappeared . It appeared as a credit on my account and John Lewis customr service couldn't explain what was happening. I was annoyed with their customer service and as a result the credit was posted back to my bank account. Now I think they have realised what happened was incorrect they have taken the money but there has been no communication! I am really appalled and want to complain about the shocking customer service being in financial services. Plus their app is shit and no one ever gets back if you reach them through the app. Call them and if you are lucky someone will speak to you after holding for over 25 mins. Can someone help me in raising a complaint? Update: cancelled card Reviewed on: 17th February 2020

John Lewis partnership card logincard multiple failure

3 failed attempts to log in with replacement card for lost John Lewis partnership credit card. So called customer services and asked to change pin. Did so but still unable to log in so same person asked me to change memorable word too. Did but still no success. So frustrating, so left it for 2 days. Tried again today no success. Called customer services for 2nd time and told, 'ah we haven't deactivated your old lost card, will be okay now'. Tried again but again no success in logging in. Called CS 3rd time and this time advised now need to include symbol alongside capital letter and numeral in password (apparently a new requirement since my old card). Went through change password procedure yet again but still unable to log in. Life's too short. Replacement John Lewis credit card now cut in half and wjll take out a card with a different provider who hopefully knows what they are doing. Reviewed on: 12th February 2020

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