Made In Manchester

Excellent
Mar 27th, 2022

They an amazing wealth of expertise and knowledge and very helpful. I have used them many times.
Oct 2nd, 2017

SCAMMER & THIEF Don't waste your time with this "company" as you will be wasting your efforts and money. The guy that runs it, uses different pseudonyms which immediately raises concerns. He is trading as a business but the trading name s not registered anywhere. The trading address is a home address. All manufacturing is outsourced elsewhere and he charges an excessive premium on top. There is absolutely no Quality Control so garments are not to Spec and your attempts to resolve will be met with no response and no attempts to resolve. You will be charged for patterns that you will not be sent - My designs seem to be being used by other companies now as the original review by "Ina Minit" is a fake and contains my design. - I know it is a fake review as I received a quote via email from Made in Manchester with the name "In a minute". Claimed that my fabric was all used but failed to deliver on quantities agreed and charged me full price despite surplus fabric being provided. Either excessive wastage or they are stealing fabric and patterns to resell elsewhere. SCAM, you have been warned. This person needs to be stopped. Absolute Shambles
Feb 1st, 2019

DO NOT USE THEY ARE A SCAM. Started speaking to Frank (the owner) in February about creating a small swimwear collection. Provided designs, technical drawings etc. I only went with this company as he said he could have it done before end of April. Was a complicated process from the start. Had to pay a lot of money for patterns to be made (which he outsources therefore super expensive) and they were not right. Then had to pay extra to get them done right and on top of that as it was taking so long I had to pay extra to get it done asap. This delayed the process already from the get go. They first received fabrics on the 3rd April (also delayed as it's a hard place to deliver to, had many problems with postmen not being able to deliver). They then missed the deadline to send samples so I could to Dubai before the 5th May for a celebrity photoshoot. I then had to push massively to get them before the 18th of May when I had organised another photoshoot after missing the first one. They almost didnt come in time (was ignored the whole day when I asked for the tracking number and almost ended up with nothing which wouldve cost me thousands) and I was missing one of the pieces so I didnt get to shoot that one. They ended up never being able to produce this piece as it was "impossible" even though they have listed it in one of their pictures on here as something they can produce (picture attached). Samples were VERY poorly made and clearly no quality control had be carried out. At this point I had no other option that to continue using this company as they had delayed me so much I couldn't find anyone else to produce this. Straight after correcting all the mistakes and poor sewing I placed an order, after approving the samples. A month and a half later, I still hadt received the nude one (they said they would send it, still haven't received it and it's now November). They made the samples the wrong colours but as we did not have time I agreed to just continue with those colours as those were the ones that had been shot in the photoshoot, so would be the pictures used for the website. They then produced the rest of the collection in wrong colours (the ones we had originally asked for) even though they weren't the colour I had approved in the end. They also produced completely different quantities and no size L at all. When the order arrived it was late July giving me only one month so sell a collection I should've had the whole summer to sell. When I said this to Frank he said it wasn't his issue if I wasn't going to have time to sell it. When received the items were even worse than the samples. Made horribly and had brown stains all over the white swimwear. I can't even sell these they are in such bad condition, it's actually embarrassing. I had to pay for the whole collection as he refused to send until I had paid the full amount. When contacting him to correct these issues he just ignores my calls, even when calling from an unknown number he would have someone else pick up and say he wasn't around and would call back (which of course never happened). I asked him to send me the patterns and leftover fabric as I was obviously never going to use them again. He only sent one fabric and has never sent my patterns back which I paid for. He is now completely ignoring me and has used one of my patterns to make other garments for another client (just check his pictures). I have attached pictures of my product (green bikini) and also one of his new garments. Very clearly copied. This man outsources all the production as well so he adds an extra charge on top. VERY VERY expensive. Was quoted half the price is cost me per item (having seen the technical drawings). Might as well go directly to the people making the garments as there's no negotiation on price either. This person is not even registered as a company and just blanks my calls and was very unresponsive during the whole process. Please feel free to contact me for proof.
Jan 18th, 2019