In mid-October 2021, we found a lovely dining table set at Ashley HomeStore. Our saleswoman, also Ashley, started out friendly, but quickly gave us the runaround. She told us that we PROBABLY would not have the table by Thanksgiving, but we'd DEFINITELY have it by Christmas. Fast forward a couple weeks, and we noticed that the sales receipt actually says 12-18 weeks, rather than the 6-8 that she mentioned verbally. We wrote it off as a mistake and kept waiting. On December 12th, I tried to email Ashley directly, but her email bounced. I then tried to call the store, but sat on hold for nearly 20 minutes with no answer before hanging up. The next day, we went to the store and asked to speak to Ashley. A sales rep messaged her for us, and let us know that "they" would be back in five minutes. I assume "they" is Ashley and her boyfriend, who also works at the store. After 10 minutes of waiting, the sales rep told us that we could speak to customer service directly. Long story short, we found out that the table was going to arrive by late February at the earliest. The dates that she'd told us were completely incorrect. Luckily, we were able to cancel and get a full refund due to satisfaction.
In addition, after ordering the table, I had Ashley get us a quote for a Stanton couch. We already had a three-piece set that we'd purchased elsewhere, and needed some new pieces for the new house. She verbally told us that they not only price match, but that if we ordered by the end of October, we'd also get 30% off thanks to the sale they were running. Her price seemed high, even with the supposed 30% off, so we got a quote from the furniture store we bought our couch at originally. Their non-discounted price was lower than Ashley's discounted price. We brought the quote back to Ashley for price matching, at which point she said she could EITHER price match OR give us the 30% off--NOT what she told us in the first place. We were pretty done working with her by this point, so I told her we were going to go elsewhere. She offered another $100 off the price match, but I had no desire to work with her anymore, not even to save $100. Instead, we ordered the couch from the original furniture store. We'd rather pay an extra $200 for the furniture store to drive 50 miles to deliver our couch than ever work with Ashley again. Perhaps if she'd spent less time hanging all over her boyfriend, she would have been a better saleswoman.
Very disappointed all around. I understand delays in delivery, and I'm not even mad about that. I'm mad at the fact that Ashley (the saleswoman) verbally lied to us or misled us, or both. I'm mad that the store is impossible to get ahold of. I'm mad that the other employees at the store seemed lazy and reluctant to talk to customers during each of the five or six times we were there, and clearly don't care about their customers at all. These other reviews are pretty telling and I sure wish I'd taken a look a these before we wandered in. This was literally the worst experience I've ever had shopping anywhere. We will absolutely never shop from this store again. read more