Kennesaw, GA 30144 - 840 Ernest W Barrett Pkwy NW Ste 400
Furniture off-gassing toxic chemicals. Bought houseful of furniture from Ashley Furniture in Kennesaw, GA. Can smell furniture offgassing chemicals. Began feeling sick shortly after furniture delivered...headache, sore, dry itchy throat, watery eyes, nausea, dizziness, trouble concentrating. Became worried when I continued feeling sick day after day. Did internet research. Found out that furniture manufacturing is not really regulated, and there are 9 potentital toxins in the furniture...Pthalates, VOcs, PBDEs, PFCs, PCEs, Formaldehyde, Triclosan, Chlorine and Ammonia. Guess what? They cause the very same symptoms that I'm having. I notified Ashley local and corporate of the issue on May 10, 2017 after having the furniture for 2 weeks or less, depending upon which piece(s). While there have been a couple of employees that have tried to help and do the right thing, management and corporate are not interested in doing the right thing. In this case, I just want to return the toxic furniture and have them issue me a refund for the cash that I paid...it was a nice chunk of change...all paid via debit card...essentially cash. I have spent many days and hours now on the phone with both the local store and corporate. ( Oh...and they also owe me a refund for a love seat that we had refused on 2 delivery attempts for the same manufacturing defect (holes and scrapes and on the second attempt to include missing feet. They have that in their possession, but we don't have the money we paid. We went into the store to speak to a manager, to get our money back for the love seat that we sent back, and that manager, Julie simply dismissed us. She didn't refund us for the love seat that they have in their possession that we never took delivery of in the first place. So essentially they have stolen our money for that love seat. Isn't that illegal?) The store manager at Ashley Furniture in Kennesaw, GA, Karen Powell, has NEVER returned our phone calls or spoken to us on the phone or in person. I don't understand why she didn't just speak with me/us and work to resolve the issue in a reasonable manner. Isn't that her job? Isn't her job to handle customer issues??? She has completely refused to speak to us at all. After several days of spinning our wheels with both local and corporate, another kind and upstanding ( one of the few) local Ashley employees told me to file a complaint with the BBB and to go public on social media because her manager , Karen Powell, wasn't going to help us. That employee even told me that she was upset with her manager, Karen Powell, for not handling the situation appropriately...or rather, at all. I did file a complaint with the BBB, but it went to the BBB in Wisconsin because that's where there corporate headquarters are located, so no one looking only at the GA BBB will see my complaint. I was hopeful that I would hear from someone locally who will do something or from corporate who will do something to fix the problem. According to the BBB, Ashley Furniture has 5 business days to respond. Today is day 3, and so far there has been no response. I forgot to mention earlier in my review that we were told by the Customer Service Manager at this Ashley Store to call corporate and schedule a technician to come out and "test" the furniture for chemicals. I called corporate, and after a hassle,they scheduled the technician for Thursday May 18th, 2017. At around 10:30 am on that date, 2 guys from US Quality Furniture Service showed up. They said they were there to take pictures and inspect 2 love seats. We told them that we actually have a houseful of Ashley Furniture that is supposed to be tested. Turns out they don't test furniture for chemical toxicity. We did have them photograph all of the Ashley furniture that we have though. Turns out that Ashley Corporate and local lied to us. This morning, May 19th, my husband received a text message from Ashley saying that now that the so-called "technicians" came out that everything has been resolved. No, NOTHING HAS BEEN RESOLVED! My husband texted back that nothing has been resolved. We have not received any other communications- phone calls, emails or texts from anyone at Ashley furniture regarding this issue! This has been going on since May 10th, 2017. I've spent many days and countless hours just trying to get someone at Ashley Furniture to take responsibility and do the right thing. This could have been resolved so easily if the store manager, Karen Powell, had been willing to do her job! She has a couple of employees that are good people and want to do the right thing, but they don't have the authority to do so.This is completely ridiculous!!!! Do yourself a favor and don't shop here or buy Ashley furniture. TERRIBLE. 0 STARS!!! Why is it so difficult for Ashley Furniture just to do the right thing???? Why would you rather create an even bigger issue????? Avoid this company at all costs!!! read more