The Good Guys
thegoodguys.com.au5,764 reviews
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The recent feedback for The Good Guys reflects a significant divide between positive in-store sales interactions and a systemic failure in online order fulfilment, delivery logistics, and after-sales support. While individual floor staff are frequently praised for their product knowledge, the broader customer experience is heavily impacted by recurring stock inaccuracies, failed delivery appointments, and a perceived lack of accountability regarding warranty claims and refunds.
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The Good Guys remains a viable option for customers who can shop in-person and take products home immediately to avoid their highly problematic delivery network. However, consumers are strongly cautioned against using the online store due to persistent inventory inaccuracies and a support system that many users found unresponsive when things went wrong.
We go to the Carseldine Qld. store.... Always very helpful, and accommodating, Staff are always professional, polite and friendly. And always excellent prices... We buy and always pick up our purchase and that always goes very well thanks to the back of store staff... 5 stars isn't really enough let's give them 10 stars...
Placed my online order on Saturday morning. My credit card was immediately debited and I received an alert that my order was being prepared. When I had met heard anything more by Tuesday afternoon I called customer support. My first call dropped out while talking to the representative. The second call was… frustrating. I could barely hear the… Read more
agent above the background noise and her colleagues near her on calls with other people. She put me on hold while she contacted the store and came back to tell me my order was pending and I should wait for an update. But that the store had stock and unless it was sold before my order was filled I would be able to get it, and if not then one would be couriered to me. I pointed out that this was unhelpful as I used click and collect to avoid delivery delays and that waiting was what I was already doing.
When I asked if she had spoken to the store staff she said she hadn’t. So I asked to be put through to the store. I spoke to one of them and within minutes my order had been confirmed and arrangements to pick it up confirmed.
Good Guys need to pickup their game, provide better quality service and deliver a more customer focused support team when things don’t go as planned. Their current service is a pale imitation of what they were previously capable of.
It was a waste of time using click and collect and an even bigger waste calling customer support. If I shop at Good Guys again I will do it in store, but honestly I’ll be looking elsewhere first.
Totally useless b#stards! Will never shop with these b#stards again ! They take your money, order , plus delivery charge , after a week ones must call them ? To be told No stock! How are these b#stards allowed to operate in Australia? F#%k if know ! Never again !
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Went to GoodGuys in Butler WA and bought the Roborock Q7B+ Robotic Vacuum. Absolute dud out of the box. Charged it up to 100% and used it for 3mins after that got error messages from the app saying “main brush jammed. Remove and clean the main brush and bearings”. I bought this because the initial reviews were mostly good, but I call nonsense on… Read more
all of them. Do not buy the this product at all.
I am taking it back to get my money back and will not bother will a robot vacuum again.
Had a brand new TV delivered, we mounted it, turned it on and it was not working, constant flickering picture. We shouldve turned it on first but who thinks a brand new tv would not work. Contacted them straight away and they have tried to send out a repair man, not acceptable for brand new out of the box, said they would pick it up, havent, now… Read more
palmed us onto the manufacturer who are are saying we need to put in a warranty claim. Its now sitting in the box in my house waiting to be replaced.
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After just over a month in back and forth, we finally got our tv picked up and hung by the Good Guys. It was a lot of we will call you back that didnt follow through. When the local GG called us to organise. They were nice and prompt with their info and organising the exchange. After the hassle, we are just happy we got the working brand new TV we paid for
It is a very good product and the explanation which they are assisting is very clean and they are very patiently explaining am happy to purchase in good guys I have paid for gold plan they are providing us good vouchers and it’s worth paying thank you good guys am very much happy Show details
Very Very Poor Experience – Dishwasher and kettle both defective . Took days and hours to sort the dishwasher. Kettle: call customer care - they only deal in bulky. They say call store and talk to them . Store say bring it. That’s a day out of my life. I quote online order numbers , pay pal ref numbers. They don’t have oversight of online orders-so unless I can find a… Read more
different order #….I have to drive to store. Defeats purpose of ordering online. Other online companies have a reply paid return facility. Suggest Good Guys lift the game as it’s been a bad guy experience.
Very inefficient customer support – Bought a TV in a sale and arrived faulty. Shipping is quick the only good experience in this purchase so it deserves one star. However, the TV is faulty and it takes me so much effort to get TGG to follow it up. Went to the local store and staff said online purchase was not in the store system so they could not do anything. Submitted complaint… Read more
online and TV manufacturer TCL contacted me after 2 days to check my invoice everything and asked me to contact local store again.
Called store, waited long and the support said he would arrange a home repair inspection. It didi not happen. Just another support call lodged at TCL. After several calls with TCL, videos uploading and photo emailing. TCL asked me to call store again to speak to a lady.
Called store two times in the morning and around lunch the next day. First time no pick up. 2nd time got told that the lady was too busy to answer me.
All in all, TGG has this partnership with TCL and they just hate each other and always expect customer to check everything actively with the other party.
Still waiting for the lady to follow this up. Basically nothing has really happend after 3 rounds contacting both supports. Indeed a bad experience. I believe I would avoid buying from TGG for quite a while.
Third time in 3 years ordering something online only to find out in the store. It doesn't exist or even ordering it in the store previously and being told that it would be delivered fairly soon but then nothing happened in like a month later. But today went to the store even though the online system said that it was in stock and ordered ready to… Read more
be picked up. I went to the reception. They checked it out all fine so it showed that it was in stock. I went to the warehouse and the guy looked at me funny after looking at my docket and said I'll go and check but he didn't sound convincing. He went and checked so he told me and said not there. So I went back to the front store asked for the manager. They got somebody else to go and check and lo and behold they found it how amazing. I think they were holding the stock for somebody else probably because it was such a discount.
I wish I’d read the reviews here before buying online (or more accurately, I would’ve avoided buying from them). I bought a DELONGHI 2400W Dragon 4 Oil Column Heater on 11 May when the weather was quite cold. I got an email confirmation saying that it would be delivered on 18 May. When that didn’t happen I called and was told that it would be… Read more
delivered the week after instead. Well, there was no delivery today (23 May) so I called again to see which day this week would my heater be delivered.
The person who answered my call simply said that they asked three of the stores to supply the product but the stores sold their stock to physical shoppers instead. So either the Good Guys sold me a product that they didn’t own, or that they sold the product that I bought to someone else, both of which would be illegal. The customer service agent patronisingly asked me to choose another product, and I said that I didn’t not want to deal with criminals or scammers who take cash from customers without being able to deliver. They flat out refused to refund with interest, so this is the way to get cash without borrowing from banks (and pay interest on loans).
You can see that the product is still shown as available online, so they can keep selling that they don’t have: https://www.thegoodguys.com.au/delonghi-2400w-dragon-4-oil-column-heater-wtimer-trd42400mt
I will be reporting this to ACCC and I hope others will do the same so that this terrible company will be stopped from scamming others.
They damaged my wall while installing the range hood and left many scratches on my gas stove. This is extremely disappointing. Because of their mistake, the installation was delayed for two months, and now both my wall and gas stove have been damaged. This is unacceptable
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I cannot express more emphatically how frustrating my experience with this store was recently. We ordered a fridge along with some other appliances which we collected that day, the fridge was in stock at another store so we had to wait to hear from the store as to when it arrived so we could pick it up. A few weeks later we moved house without a… Read more
fridge in our home yet so, I called to inquire about the fridge. Across three phone calls I was informed it had actually arrived the week before but was unwrapped and put out on the floor on display. I was reassured it was in perfect condition and would be rewrapped and put out back awaiting our collection. We collected it the next day and transported to our unit, it was definitely wrapped well with about 20 metres of bubble wrap. However when I opened the door it didn’t open properly and it was then obvious the fridge had been dropped at some point as the bottom hinge was skewed and the whole right side showed damage (significant dents all along the edges). The door did not open properly and when it was closed and the lower hinge protruded out from under the fridge. I rang the store and was met with a stern response about what I was required to do next to be considered for a replacement, I don’t know who spoke to me but they were female and spoke over the top of me during the conversation. I emailed the pictures the through and was then offered a replacement fridge and that it would be delivered, whilst the one we had would be picked up. During the course of several conversations we discovered there was no availability of a replacement fridge but we could be offered an alternative. The options were discussed and we decided on a solution, and was then told we would pay the difference for it. I objected to this given the trouble we had had already, suggesting the cost should be bourn by the store. I was told to wait and an alternate solution may be negotiated. The final offer was a suggestion that we pay a total of 250% of the original cost of the fridge we purchased to pay for the alternative. I then requested a refund and to have the fridge collected, which thankfully it was in good time. We sourced a comparative fridge from another store the same day and brought it home. Meanwhile the refund, which I was originally informed must be processed in person in-store, took more than 3 weeks and again, my insisting it be followed up by the store. Finally, we again were offered a solution as compensation for our trouble (a $100 voucher). Again, the solution involved us spending more money at the store. This whole experience was an absolute waste of our time and was frustrating over and over again across several weeks. It will be some time before I decide to shop with them again and I certainly don't recommend anyone else shop with there either.
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We bought a Lenovo Yoga from the Good Guys at Castle Hill for my Daughter’s school laptop which stopped working within the warranty period, so we brought it back to them. They agreed to send it in to Lenovo for investigation and repairs. When we dropped the laptop into the Good Guys Castle Hill there was no physical damage at all to it. A week… Read more
later, we received a call from the Good Guys Castle hill advising us that “Lenovo were refusing to fix the lap top under warranty as the Good Guys staff had found physical damage to the case” and sent us an e-mail with photos. The damage was obviously caused by the Good Guys Staff who probably accidentally dropped it and of course they weren’t going to be honest with us about it. My Wife and I tried arguing with the staff that the laptop had no damage before we dropped it in to them, and that the dented lap top case was obviously caused by one of their Staff dropping it, but as we didn’t take photos of the laptop when we dropped it in, we had no proof. Will never do business with the Good Guys Castle Hill or any other Good Guys for that matter! Will shop with your competitors; JB Hi Fi and Bing Lee instead!
Very disappointing experience at The Good Guys Helensvale. I have been a long-term customer and have referred a significant amount of business to this store over the years, so this experience was particularly frustrating. I purchased a Cygnett power bank and a travel adapter. Both developed a fault where the USB-A port intermittently fails. The… Read more
travel adapter was tested and replaced, however the power bank issue was dismissed simply because the fault did not occur at that exact moment in-store.
I clearly explained that the issue is intermittent and occurs when all ports are used simultaneously over time. Despite this, staff only tested the product using a single cable and did not attempt to replicate real usage conditions. I was also asked to bring my own cables, which is unreasonable.
What made the situation worse was the conduct of staff:
* I was told words to the effect of “I don’t care how much business you bring.” * I was told that using a store cable for testing would be considered “stealing.” * Comments were made along the lines of “this is Australia” while explaining consumer law, which felt unnecessary and inappropriate.
The overall tone from multiple staff members was dismissive, condescending, and at times intimidating.
The only positive part of the interaction was [Name Removed], who acted professionally and indicated he would follow up with the supplier.
This was not just poor service—it was an uncomfortable experience over a straightforward warranty issue. Based on this, I would be cautious in recommending this store.
I ordered a Haier 90cm Island Canopy Rangehood Stainless Steel. Paid just over $1k with delivery and thought it was a bargain. Unfortunately four months later it still hadn’t been sourced by their supplier and there was no substitute supplied. My kitchen was unusable for all four months without an extractor fan and now I have to wait another week… Read more
for my refund to clear. Really disappointed with the lack of information regarding the item sourcing issue, ridiculous delay and token ’sorry, maybe you can order another one instead’.
All reviews are absolutely correct, avoid at all costs photos added
Purchased a TV 2/03/2026 and it still hasn’t even been sent it’s now 17/03/2026 I’ve phoned them and they can’t even give me a date when it will be sent. Never again Bad Guys! Photo from today still says preparing my order. This is rubbish, if it wasn’t in stock or there were going to be delays they should say that on the ad! Very disappointed
what is even the point of the online shop? a 1.5, for having more useful filters then the other websites. but such a low bar, there should be more filters. what is there is not public friendly for shopping and comparing what is available. product information is just completely missing. i didn't mind delivery so a location wasn't even a factor. the… Read more
online agent tried to fob me off and call my local shop for information about the product, i mean, that is not the point of having a website and online chat at all. when I asked to chat with someone else they finally tried to help, spent 10min before replying [even the agents don't have this stuff right there? lazy?] i had to promt them to link me the filter for the product i was looking at buying from them, and before I could ask anything else, they shut down the chat.
Latest follow-ups
This review is based on my experience at Noarlunga Store. No idea why they call themselves 'The Good guys', absolutely hopeless. Bought a Panel Heater from them two years ago, heater has a seven year warranty. Took the item back when it started… Read more
faulting and sending error codes. They could not replicate it in store and asked that ai take a video of the error and bring that in so it could be replaced. So did that and then was told it had to go in for repair assessment. I asked how long and they said maybe a couple of weeks. I offered to take it to the repair assessment facility and they said no need as it would be sent within two days. Fast forward four weeks and I ring to check as I had not heard anything and am told that it has not even left their store as they did not have a cardboard box to send it in. What the hell? Worst customer service ever. Have rang De'Longhi and relayed the information about the store. De'Longhi were great on the phone and will follow it up, really helpful on the phone and hopefully they will get something happening quickly. Do not shop there if you want good customer service
Follow-up · Well, as a follow up, De'Longhi said it is a direct swap or money refunded and it was my choice. I had already bought another heater so money back it was. No apologies from Good Guys, nothing. The heater was a good heater and I was happy originally for a repair or replacement, but the time and deceit from the store changed my mind. De'Longhi were great.
What’s the point of shopping with GoodGuys online. They advertise, take your money then your product doesn’t arrive after weeks of waiting so you chase it up on a chat and nek minut “sorry for the inconvenience, it’s not available and never was”! BADGUYS not GoodGuys. Avoid this dishonest mob and shop elsewhere.
Follow-up · ~ Money was refunded after they had it for almost a month and NO communication! ~ The refund happened pretty quickly after I waited for over an hour on hold to talk to actually talk someone! ~ Bosch stick vac.
One word: A Scam. One star isn't even appropriate here.
Follow-up · They say they are good; they are the worst. everything went wrong, delivery dates, method, faulty item, returning the faulty item took hundreds of failed phonecalls, after taking the item back they kept charging money, they send you an email then do the exact opposite of whats in the email, the operator says somenone will pick the faulty item up… Read more
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Positive reviews
Emerald at Good Guys Morayfield was so helpful giving informative information re the refrigerator and dishwasher we were interested in. She was polite, courteous and a pleasure to deal with. We bought both products due to the great service she gave. Thank you Emerald.
We have a Fisher and Paykel Washing machine 8kg. Three years old it failed yesterday. Not the fault of the Good Guys. Under a 5 year warranty. We are now told it will be 9 days before a repairman can look at it. We are given a $100 laundry voucher. So we will not recommend Fisher and Paykel to anyone . Show details
I purchased Fisher&Paykel Washer & Dryer. They were delivered and installed by 3 lovely guys who smiled even tho they had parking problems near my house. Couldn't ask for better service Thank You, Margaret
Negative reviews
I purchased a Sony Bravia TV from The Good Guys (online), and they contracted a delivery company called TEAM GLOBAL EXPRESS. The TV was supposed to be delivered on a specific date according to the delivery tracking, but it never arrived. I called TEAM GLOBAL EXPRESS, and they told me they would need to escalate the issue to another department… Read more
and would inform me about their investigation into the whereabouts of my TV.
This feels like a waste of time. I am beginning to question my decision to buy this TV from The Good Guys when there are so many other online retailers available.
The TCL C6L tv has an inherent horribly frustrating almost useless program guide, this was not explained when purchasing. Thank goodness we aren't just stuck with free tv. Much tweaking was necessary for a natural look. It took a lot of research to find how to get rid of the intrusive Freeview guide - (System > Hbb TV Settings > Hbb TV top button… Read more
turn off). This was not explained. The Good Guys salesperson was friendly enough but afterwards I felt that I was short changed and talked into the purchase. The picture is now good, sharp with pleasing colour. The build quality and packaging is top notch. For the price, not a bad tv.
I purchased the Breville Barista Touch coffee machine from The Good Guys Castle Hill. The portafilter is extremely difficult to insert and remove and it is tight to rotate the handle towards the centre of the machine. This has led me to severe pain in my wrist and shoulder. The automatic milk frothing steam wand does not work well and I need to… Read more
froth the milk manually every time. Also when using the steam wand manually to froth the milk it stops half way before the milk is even heated to the desired temperature. The coffee does not taste nice at all after extraction even though I adjusted the controls as described in the manual. Absolute rubbish! Not happy at all with this machine! I purchased the 'Extras Gold Service' with the machine to help guarantee if there is a problem which was a big waste of money as they do stuff all to help. They don't even respond when a fault has been reported. They're happy to take your money but don't care once you walk out of The Good Guys. THE BAD GUYS MORE LIKE IT!
Recent reviews
DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY. If I could give zero stars, I would. We were given a delivery day and approximate time, so my husband took time off work to be home. The delivery never arrived, and there was no way to contact the driver. We had to wait until 9am the following day just to speak to someone. The exact same thing happened again the next day —… Read more
no delivery and no communication. We cancelled the order and arranged a refund. Despite this, the delivery was still sent the following day — by then, of course, we were not home because the order had already been cancelled. There appears to be no communication between the call centre and delivery drivers. Records are poorly kept, calls are not returned, and emails are not sent. We wasted hours on hold trying to resolve this. Extremely frustrating and completely unacceptable service.
Ordered a stovetop online on 11 June and the money was debited out of my account. After a couple of emails chasing up paid delivery, I finally got an SMS message on 23 June (with the wrong order number) that said the item was on back order 1-3 weeks - subject to change. You can't respond to the message and no email follow up has been received. … Read more
Bad customer service which could have been avoided with communication. They also don't issue an invoice until the item is despatched yet they've debited my account. Hopefully, one day we'll receive our item.
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I finally received an email 24 June to say the item will take another 2-3 weeks, subject to change. I've now sent an email requesting a full refund.