N&B - Powertool Supplies Reviews 

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TrustScore 4.5 out of 5

4.7

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Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Ordered through their sister website N&B Festool System Supplier as the price was very attractive. Website looks super professional. I didn't check them out on Trustpilot. 10 days after placing my... See more

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Good Prices, excellent service great product range? Principally FESTOOL and Metabo ranges others are available. Genuine products no grey imports. Have purchased from them for around 8 years no problem... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Quick delivery (1 arrived the following day, the other 2 items arrived the day after). All items (Festool) were very well priced (lowest online from our research) and well packaged. They were also... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

This company has the lowest prices for FESTOOL products and I was initially dubious, so I checked out trustpilot and read a mixture of reviews both good and bad. But my experience is a very good one.... See more

Company details

  1. Tool Store
  2. Construction Machine Dealer
  3. Safety and Work Wear Store
  4. Tool Wholesaler

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Nuts and Bolts is a successful online business with over 30 years of experience in the powertools & fixing sector. We have a physical warehouse in Weston-super-Mare to fulfil our online orders and also a public/trade counter on site. All of our products are brand new, genuine and carry the manufacturer's guarantee. We stock and have accounts with leading brands such as: Makita, DeWalt, Festool, Hikoki, Metabo, Milwaukee, Bosch, OX, Stihl. Backed by our in-house customer service department we can offer high levels of buyer satisfaction along with the benefit of online savings.


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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Festool TS55 plunge saw & guide rail: best price

Wanted to buy a Festool TS55 plunge saw and guide rail, and found Nuts and Bolts (trading as powertool-supplies.co.uk) had the best prices by far - £70 cheaper!
Was slightly worried about whether it was too good to be true, but the Trustpilot reviews suggested it was OK.
I ordered on Friday, the goods were shipped next day, and FedEx delivered on Monday. FedEx clearly had damaged the rail in transit, it had been repaired with parcel tape and very obviously bent so I rejected the delivery & emailed powertool-supplies.
Customer service was great, they sent me a replacement rail the next day and it arrived on Wednesday.
My only complaint was with FedEx who bent the first rail and whose tracking is useless, “delivery before 6pm”

28 November 2022
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

ordered a festool screw box organiser

ordered a festool screw box organiser , got a e mail saying payment information was wrong spoke to them this am and told me that the purchase had gone up £20
rip off avoid

17 October 2022
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Reply from N&B - Powertool Supplies

Unfortunately your payment was declined, in the time this took to resolved the older stock had sold out and the new stock was at a new higher price due to Festool`s pricing structure. A difficult situation.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

This company has the lowest prices for…

This company has the lowest prices for FESTOOL products and I was initially dubious, so I checked out trustpilot and read a mixture of reviews both good and bad. But my experience is a very good one. All of my questions (even the difficult ones) were answered through the chat system and everything I ordered (dust extractor and parts) was delivered by DPD the very next day, even though that day was a saturday. Very pleased and I will certainly this company use again.

31 July 2022
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Quick delivery, great price

Quick delivery (1 arrived the following day, the other 2 items arrived the day after). All items (Festool) were very well priced (lowest online from our research) and well packaged. They were also the only supplier we could find with the Domino in stock.

As confirmed by others in online reviews, the warranty certificates are routinely removed from the boxes however you are still able to register the warranty. Customer service confirmed they keep this to track who purchased each item.

9 May 2022
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

good experience

next day delivery of a Dewalt orbital sander at very competitive price. Came here to share my positive experience and then read other reviews about delivery delays and receipt of opened products! Not so sure I would have placed the order had I seen them earlier.

28 April 2022
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Excellent Service

Don't know why there are so many bad reviews. My experience with this company has been outstanding. I placed an order on Wednesday evening and received confirmation by return. I received an email from their couriers on Thursday with a tracking number. The item was delivered not long after 8pm on Friday morning. The item I ordered was a Makita tool and it came in its original box. Oh, and the price was the best I could find at the time. You can't get much better than that.

27 August 2021
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Item not in official box and poorly packaged

Ordered a Makita Impact driver, it was rapidly dispatched and received the next day so top marks for that.

Unfortunately the impact driver wasn’t in it’s official Makita cardboard box ( I was informed it was removed from a bundle ) and was just bagged and put in a flimsy box without protection. I received the impact driver with the packaging in very poor condition ( no doubt the courier at fault ) and due to the poor packaging I wasn’t happy to accept it.

The customer service was good however and they sent over a prepaid postage label and quickly refunded me.

I’m leaving 2 out of 5 stars as I feel the item description should have mentioned it would be removed from a bundle and wouldn’t be in its proper box, but more importantly it should have been well packaged at least.

It was a waste of my time sending it back and having to order it from elsewhere.

4 May 2021
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Reply from N&B - Powertool Supplies

Its a sad situation in the power tool market that it is far cheaper to buy a set of items in a kit and break them up to sell separately. A basic machine from the manufacturer in its lovely cardboard box you will throw away is around 25% more expensive than us breaking up a kit. Which is why 90% of all dealers now do this for certain brands. We do heat seal the machines into plastic bags to dust protect them in transit. But poor packaging it not something we normally do, I have raised this with the warehouse to make sure the boxes used are of suitable quality for the item. Sorry for your experience.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Avoid - Expect your Festool purchase to be opened/resealed and the registration card removed

I usually use FFX but they did not have a Festool CTM Midi dust extractor in stock so I ordered it from Powertool Supplies (Nuts & Bolts Ltd). The item arrived on time but the box had been opened and resealed. More annoying was the fact that the registration card was missing. I spoke to Customer Service who confirmed that this is their policy to open and remove the registration cards. This is really poor especially if you are purchasing as a gift. Not acceptable and I have lodged a complaint with Festool UK. In future, I will stick with FFX.

21 April 2021
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Reply from N&B - Powertool Supplies

We historically did remove the registration cards, due to registering for customer warranty with Festool UK and keeping this history if there were any issues. The information is still on the actual machines for customers if needed. This has now changed and Festool do not allow us to register customers warranty, Customer need to do this. Festool have added a specific dealer card we do still remove for sales reasons on some machines.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Ordered 11 days ago - Nothing

Ordered 11 days ago. No despatch acknowledgment yet and no response from online chat. Won't be coming back in the future.

Update Sept 2024: Took over 3 years to receive a reply to this review 🤣

12 April 2021
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Reply from N&B - Powertool Supplies

Sorry for your experience, the COVID lock-downs were challenging times for all.
We did not own our Trustpilot account until now - it was setup by customers and not monitored by us, now we do have ownership we are making the effort to reply and reach out.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Very poor customer service

Used to be a great local company for suppling fastenings but have sadly lost their way with a can’t be bothered attitude.

23 March 2021
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Reply from N&B - Powertool Supplies

Unfortunately stock supply has been very difficult over the last year with the COVID supply situation. Hopefully this will all be back to normal soon.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Great service, speedy delivery, would buy again.

Ordered the Festool CTM Midi before 2:30pm on a Thursday and it arrived early Friday morning with no issues at all.

Prior to making the order I called up for some buying advice, the salesperson on the phone was incredibly useful and was able to give me facts and specs instantly without looking anything - obviously has very good product knowledge.

Later on the Thursday (still before 2:30pm), I placed another order in hope of also receiving this the following day. Unfortunately, this did not arrive on the Friday. I have since called to ask what the progress of the order is and they informed me that one of the products was only available on backorder, and so it was holding up the rest of the order.

This isn't a huge issue as I'm not in a rush for the items, however, it would have been nice if the website was updated to show that the item was only available on backorder, or if it was mentioned in the order confirmation email.

Overall, very friendly service, fast delivery of in stock items, and would 100% buy from them again. (Unsure why there are so many negative reviews tbh).

9 March 2021
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Reply from N&B - Powertool Supplies

Thank you for your order, our new website makes the stock available issue more clear to customers. So this should be more helpful for you.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Order placed

Place a order beginning ov last week still not turned up won't answer emails after sending in several times no response from them at all

4 March 2021
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Reply from N&B - Powertool Supplies

Sorry for your experience, the COVID lock-downs were challenging times for all.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Excellent

Excellent. Ordered item and received less than 24 hours later in perfect condition. Not sure why bad reviews on here. Excellent service and cheapest price can't praise enough

28 February 2021
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Cheap for a reason

Ordered a makita hedge trimmer, got a delivery notification the next day that it had been delivered by DX. I was in all day and no delivery attempt was made. They then gave me the delivery confirmation that confirmed it had been left outside the wrong address and asked me to go to the address, no sign of it and occupants said no delivery made to them. I got back in touch only to be told twice that the parcel had been delivered to the correct address which contradicted the delivery photo and confirmation. They then ignored me for another 7 days until the eBay money back guarantee kicked in and eBay instantly refunded me as the case was clear they had just ignored me and not attempted to resolve the issue. No attempt to sort the issue or apologise just left it until eBay stepped in. Have now ordered from FFX who appear to be a much better company from my dealings so far.

Edit: 4 years to respond sums it up 😂

FFX are sadly no longer, luckily the Makita hedgetrimmer I got from them is great! Unlike the one I never received from you guys.

28 July 2020
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Reply from N&B - Powertool Supplies

We have only just taking ownership of the trustpilot account and are therefore sending replies.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Ordered a Impact drill. No packaging support

Ordered a Impact drill. Not impressed with packaging. No support inside. Was only impact drill in a plastic bag in the box with no protection. Drill was not cheap body only. would have expected atleast some bubble wrap. Could have got easily damaged

23 June 2020
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Reply from N&B - Powertool Supplies

A basic machine from the manufacturer in its lovely cardboard box you will throw away is around 25% more expensive than us breaking up a kit. We heat seal the machines into plastic bags to dust protect them in transit and we have updated our packing procedure since your order so as to avoid your concerns.

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