Southdevontabletops Reviews 

⚠️ URGENT WARNING — PLEASE READ BEFORE SENDING MONEY

Potential customers should exercise extreme caution when considering ordering from Sam Dunkerley or businesses associated with him, including:

Sawdust Monkeys
South Devon Tabletops
Reclaimed Nation

These businesses have been associated with the Ivybridge, Devon area.

There appear to be multiple customers reporting similar problems — orders being only partially fulfilled, goods not being supplied, promises of refunds or outstanding items not materialising, and communication eventually stopping.

The concern is that partially fulfilling an order may make what is essentially a serious complaint appear to be nothing more than a normal customer/trader dispute.

In one reported case, the customer paid for eleven complete tables but received only eight table tops, with three tops and all eleven sets of legs missing. Despite assurances regarding the missing items and a refund, neither materialised.

The matter was reported to Devon & Cornwall Police, but the response was that because part of the order had been fulfilled, the transaction appeared to be from a legitimate business.

This is exactly why more people need to report their experiences.

If you have experienced similar circumstances, DO NOT simply walk away and assume nothing can be done.

Report your experience to Trading Standards/Citizens Advice, retain all evidence and make a formal complaint.

You should also consider contacting the local councillor for Ivybridge:

Councillor Victor Abbott

The more documented complaints, invoices, payment records, messages, advertisements, photographs and delivery evidence that are brought together, the harder it becomes for a potential wider pattern to be overlooked.

It is particularly concerning if changing trading names allows the same problems to continue affecting new customers.

PLEASE CHECK BEFORE YOU PAY.

And if you have already been affected:

SPEAK UP. REPORT IT. KEEP THE EVIDENCE.

One complaint may be treated as a dispute.

Multiple documented complaints can demonstrate a pattern that demands proper investigation.

Please share this warning so that other individuals and small businesses have the opportunity to make an informed decision before handing over their money.

Reported to police, trading standards and just about any platform he operates on. Guy is a complete thief and i cannot belive that in this age he has not been charged with deceiption and theft. £1150 spent on 11 tables...to get 8 scrap bits of wood glue together with ezpandinv foam. Sam Dunkley is a con man and fingers crossed Karma catches up with him before a disgruntled customer does!!

Has blocked me on all social media has taken £800 from me for a bar top i havent received. Have had no communication since February. Asked for measurements over ten times. Will be taking to court.

Scammer, avoid!

AVOID AT ALL COSTS. After prepaying for an order £1300 for a 2 week delivery, 5 weeks later and legal action letters part of the order has been received and the supplier has failed to complete my purchase and retained funds. Having read reviews that this company is a scammer we have reported them to the local authorities, Action Fraud and Trading Standards, It appears that they are a company taking orders and not fulfilling them and changing the company name, this being their third company. AVOID AT ALL COSTS

It's run by a Sam Dunkerley who previously ran "Made By Reclaimed" and "Sawdust Monkeys". They've changed the name of the business twice to escape bad reviews. My experience matched the other review here - a guy named Sam, poor communication, endless delays, bad quality product.

This firm is shocking. I wanted a large table top several weeks before Christmas. Communication was great to start with. Sam ( I think his name was!) said he would come and fit it himself. I gave him photos and accurate measurements as I needed it to fit professionally over the table top I had. It was supposed arrive the week before Christmas but I was fobbed off that his wife was very unwell, which I have been informed was not the case. Yodel delivered it on Christmas Eve and it was not made to fit at all.
I have been in contact with him 4 times since Christmas but he has not got back to me to visit and sort this issue out.
Basically he is a totally unprofessional guy, with very little wood working skill. Avoid like the plague!
Over charging, unskilled and unprofessional - spend your money with someone decent!