At Gourmediterranean we work with gourmet food products, many of them perishable or requiring refrigeration. For that reason, our returns policy follows Real Decreto Legislativo 1/2007 (the Spanish Consumer Protection Act) and applies the exemptions that the law provides for this type of product.
Under Spanish law, you have 14 calendar days from receiving your order to withdraw from your purchase without giving a reason, except for the exempt products listed below.
Because of the nature of our products, we cannot accept returns in the following cases (art. 103 of Real Decreto Legislativo 1/2007):
We accept returns of non-perishable products whose packaging remains intact, in particular:
For a return to be accepted, the product must meet all of the following conditions:
Once we have received the product at our premises and checked its condition, we will issue the refund within a maximum of 14 calendar days.
You may choose between the following refund methods:
If your order arrives in poor condition, damaged in transit, with a product missing, with visible defects or, in the case of chilled items, at the wrong temperature, you must write it on the carrier's delivery note or CMR before signing the copy the driver keeps.
Once the delivery note has been signed without comments, no claim can be made against the carrier for anything attributable to transport. Orders leave our premises in perfect condition, properly packed and, where applicable, with the cold chain preserved.
If at the time of delivery you don't have enough time to check the contents of your order, we recommend signing the delivery note with the note "pending inspection". That note can help support a later claim, although it does not guarantee it will be accepted.
How to report an incident:
Under Real Decreto-ley 7/2021, non-perishable products carry a legal guarantee of conformity of 3 years from delivery. For perishable products, the guarantee applies only until the use-by or best-before date shown on the packaging.
For any question about returns and refunds: