05/05/2023
BEWARE!!! NEST & FLOWERS is a SCAM BUSINESS!!
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You’ve probably seen ads for NEST AND FLOWERS all over facebook. They are a website purporting to sell outdoor solar lighting and other lawn decorations and home goods. In fact, this is a SCAM company owned by middle aged couple, Andrew Douglas Gallon and Joanne Marie John Gallon, who operate their business out of a storage unit in Admiral Yard’s in Leeds England. Their website is plastered with stolen photos of beautiful solar lamps lighting up gardens which they use to entice potential customers. One quick google search of, “tyvek solar lamps” turns up countless results of those exact same solar lamps being sold on other websites, including etsy, at a fraction of the price Andrew and Joanne are selling them for.
Their company is registered under JG Retail Limited, and their main company is a wholesale and clothing business called Young Outlaws Club (YOLC.) which was registered on October 15, 2015. The main website for Young Outlaws Club, youngoutlawsclub.com, has a 1.8 Star rating on trust pilot, with countless customers reporting having their money taken and never receiving their orders among other grievances.
The wife, Joanne Gallon’s personal instagram shows pictures of the family living it up it up over there in the UK, attending lavish parties, buying bentleys and going on fancy family vacations with their two children. However, that hasn’t stopped them from ripping off unwitting customers off, and swindling customer’s hard earned money.
Andrew and Joanne Gallon have been in business, running this scam for years. They have swindled tens of thousands of dollars from their customers across two businesses. They will take your money, and then ignore your emails. They actively engage in feedback manipulation, deleting any negative feedback. They know, without visible feedbacks, they can run off with your money and escape accountability.
Don’t be tempted by the facebook ads, if you like your money, and don’t like being scammed out of your hard earned cash, RUN FAR AWAY from nestandflowers.com and their main website, youngoutlawsclub.com.
We started this page to hold these scammers accountable. You will find screenshots of reviews for both businesses in our gallery, NEST AND FLOWERS and YOUNG OUTLAW CLUB. We also welcome any one who has had a bad run in with these scammers to share your experiences with us.
Below we have compiled a list of RED FLAGS to pay attention to and further down we offer some links to reputable alternative websites where you can find the same products nestandflowers.com claims to sell.
THE RED FLAGS
These are red flags we noticed specifically for Andrew and Joanne’s second business NEST AND FLOWERS. As, for their main business, YOUNG OUTLAW CLUB, the 1.8 star rating on trustpilot, accompanied by the countless of negative reviews should speak for itself.
1) NO FACEBOOK REVIEWS
This one is pretty self explanatory. When a business opens a business page on facebook, there’s a REVIEWS section automatically built into the page. Businesses however, do have the option to manually turn off reviews, essentially hiding any and all reviews you might have gotten in the past, and prevent any new reviews from being posted directly onto your business page.
Now, usually, the reviews section works to the benefit of the business, assuming you’re getting positive reviews. Buying from a random website like nestandflower.com that lacks the reputation, recognizability and credibility of well established and well known websites like, say Wayfair, is always going to feel like a risk. Often, impartial, positive reviews from previous customers, can be the very thing that convinces hesitant, potential customers to give your random, unknown business a shot. All business owners should know this.
Thus, a business who chooses to hide reviews HAS SOMETHING TO HIDE!
Andrew and Joanne Gallon has been preventing customers from leaving honest reviews in order to escape accountability.
2) NO REVIEWS. Period.
If you want to do your due diligence and look up this company to see what kind of reputation they have, you’re smart! The only problem is, you probably won’t find much, even if you google Nest and Flowers. Apart from their actual website, and their business page, there is literally nothing about Nest and Flowers anywhere on the world wide web. No yelp reviews, no google reviews, no nothing.
This business that has been in business since 2017 if you believe what Andrew and Joanne claim on their website) , which claims on their website to have “more than 20,00 Happy Customers” has exactly ZERO impartial reviews or mentioning anywhere out there.
The only testimonial that can be found regarding this company are the positive “reviews” on their own website and a suspicious looking pop up box, each time you visit their site that announces each time some one in a nearby town supposedly just placed an order from this site approximately 20 minutes ago.
3) WAY OVER PRICED
Nest and Flowers’ inventory is made up of products primarily made by UK Wholesale company, Light Style London. At full price, Nest and Flowers price their lights at nearly $60 USD a piece. They are overcharging by a lot, considering, other UK websites that carries the EXACT SAME LIGHTS, charge just $30 USD PER PIECE.
See:
https://idyllhome.co.uk/products/solar-lantern-cylinder
https://alfrescodiningcompany.co.uk/collections/garden-lighting
It’s even more of a loss when you consider, Nest and Flowers has a history of sending damaged items or not sending items at all, and then ignoring emails after taking your money. So better stay clear!
4) SHADY OFFICIAL ADDRESS
As mentioned before, this company operates out of a self storage unit in Leeds, England. The address they list, Nest & Flowers Admiral's Yard Low Road Leeds LS10 1AE UK, is actually the physical address of the Admirals Yard Self Storage company in Leeds. This is also the same address they instruct customers to send returns to. So be warned, if you’re making a return, you’re actually shipping your unwanted order to a self storage unit, and good luck getting your money back after that, because trust me, “Andy” will ghost every single one of your emails while clutching tightly onto your cash!
REVIEWS
To read reviews that have been left by the customers Andrew and Joanne Gallon have ripped off, please visit our gallery.
ALTERNATIVES
Here’s a short list of businesses that sells the same products NEST AND FLOWERS, for much lower prices. Unlike Nest and Flowers, these businesses have earned positive reviews, and have transparent customer service communication.
Note: We’re great at researching! And we are always happy to use our skills to help innocent customers avoid getting scammed by unscrupulous businesses, so if you see something that you like from either of Andrew and Joanne’s two business, but can’t find alternatives, send us a message! We’ll help you track it down!
For the tyvek solar lights, here are some links:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/AllsopHomeGarden
https://www.wayfair.com/lighting/pdp/esschertdesign-bazaar-outdoor-lantern-ftjn1745.html
https://www.wayfair.com/lighting/pdp/esschertdesign-bazaar-outdoor-lantern-ftjn1752.html
SOURCES
https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.youngoutlawsclub.com
