Delivery & Returns
Orders & Delivery
Orders can be cancelled if your order has not been produced (if personalised) or packed (if standard items). Emails are answered during business hours (Monday - Friday 9am - 4pm) in the order they are received. It is therefore possible that your order could begin production before your email is processed and we will be unable to make any changes requested in the email.
Cancelling and Order - Please email us with the following information
Please email us with the subject: Cancel order request Order Number:
This will ensure we can identify your request quickly. If your order cancellation has been received after production of your order has started, it cannot be cancelled.
We use different Royal Mail services to ship your orders. Please note that the delivery times do not include the time it takes to print your order which varies depending on the product you have ordered.
Please note that shipping times are in addition to our lead times. We do not ship on a weekend so timeframes exclude Saturday and Sunday. We aim to pack your order within 1-3 working days (excludes some personalised items) and then shipment time frames apply on top of this. This is because all items are made to order. Please note at busy periods such as Christmas these times can increase to 5 working days.
First class - 1 to 3 working days
Second Class - 3-5 working days
Tracked 24 - 1-3 working days
Tracked 48 - 2-4 working days
Guaranteed Next Day - will arrive the next working day if ordered before 11am
If you are not going to be home Royal Mail allow you to redelivery your items to collection points or a safe place, please note if you choose to have your parcel delivered to either of these you are acknowledging responsibility for the items.
Issues with orders
At Silly Sentiments, we always try to send your products in perfect condition. However, occasionally, a problem can arise. In the unlikely event that a product is faulty, or it is damaged in transit or is the wrong item, we ask you to contact us to let us know of the problem as soon as possible. We will then advise you on whether you are eligible for a refund or replacement.
We aim to acknowledge any complaint within 2 working days and will do our best to resolve it within 5 working days. We may ask you to take a photograph of the product to help us. Should it be necessary, we will then advise you how to return your item.
Returns & Refunds
Where an item is faulty, we will ask you to return it to us within 14 days of receipt. Please ensure you retain your proof of postage, we will refund return postage up to the cost of first class postage, should your item be damaged or faulty. Please ensure your name, address and order number and reason for returning is in the returned envelope. Refunds will be actioned once the item has been checked and refunds should appear within 3 working days of receiving the return goods. Your right to return items to us in accordance with these Terms is in addition to any other statutory rights you may have.
If you are eligible for a refund, we will reimburse the price you have paid for the product(s) to your PayPal or the credit or debit card that you paid with. Alternatively, we may offer to resend the item free of charge. Please note it is not our policy to offer both a refund and a resend.
Refunds cannot be given if the fault is a result of your own actions such as product misuse or if it's a personalised item and it's due to being mis-spelt, due to the information you have entered when ordering.
Where you are returning an (items) that were part of a larger order, we’ll refund for the item minus any increased postage costs that you would have incurred had you not ordered the returned item in the first place. (ie if you qualified for cheaper or free postage by ordering this item but then you return it and it takes you below the cheaper or free postage rate, postage would be deducted from your refund).
Personalised Products
Please note, personalised items cannot be returned unless they are damaged. Once personalised items have gone to print, they cannot be returned. Some of the products you can buy from us, are non-personalised. You have the right to cancel your contract for the purchase of a non-personalised product provided you notify us of the cancellation – either by emailing us or using our contact form, no longer than 14 days after the day following the day on which the product is delivered. You must return the unused non-personalised product to us within 14 days of notifying us of the cancellation, and must pay the cost of returning the product to our address. We will refund the purchase price minus any postage costs incurred within 14 days. However, if the value of the product has been reduced by any handling of it beyond what is necessary to check whether the product is as expected, we may deduct an amount to reflect that reduction in value from the sum we refund to you. Note that the value of a product may be reduced to nothing if its seal (or similar) is broken. Please follow any returns procedure for non-personalised products which we specify from time to time.
Note that the right to cancel a contract and return a product as described in the paragraph above does not apply to personalised products.