UPDATED, PLEASE READ BEFORE YOU BUY!!!
The service here was terrible. We moved from California to Arizona and needed to furnish our new home. We came in and worked with Karen and boy did we waste our time. Karen did not look professional at all.
We went in for a mattress, a bedframe, two nightstands, 8 chairs, 4 barstools, a headboard and a living room set. When it came down to paying, the manager wanted us to pay the taxes up front even though we would be using our Ashley's credit cards! We've purchased thousands of dollars worth of furniture from Ashley's in California and never had we paid taxes up front. The manager seemed annoyed but made it seem like he was doing US the favor by waving the taxes!
We had already purchased most of the furniture when my mother and father-in-law found two IDENTICAL lazy-boy style chairs and wanted them.one was marked at $250 and the other at $299. When they asked to get a deal for both of them at $250, the manager made a remark towards my mother in law about begging for discounts. Although it was only $50, we had already purchased $4k worth of furniture, it would have been appreciated to get that last deal. The manager argued that they were under different promotions, although they were completely identical chairs, down to the item number! At this point my father in law was already annoyed by the managers attitude toward us, so my father in law decided to cancel all purchases because of the lack of respect that they had to us. We were the only people in the store! How could you not give the customer the respect they need?!
Then! The associate Karen even had the NERVE to tell my mother in law that my father in law ruined the sale with his arrogant demeanor. EXCUSE ME?!?! Where is the customer service? The manager was pathetic and did not look up when his associate said this, he kept his head down and kept typing away.
We are sure to take our business elsewhere.
The gentleman at the credit desk was helpful, I think his name was Giovanni, not too sure, but he was calm and very nice when he was running our credit for an increase.
UPDATE!!! PLEASE READ, DO NOT SHOP ASHLEYS!
Fast forward to today.
We came to this location in hopes to get better service. We were sadly mistaken. We were working with Byrd and explained out unfortunate situation with the Avondale store. She was kind enough to take us in, offer water and help us. She has a great attitude, and I feel badly that she didn't get her sale.
We had given her our information for the items we wanted to buy, a bit less than what we initially wanted, but it was a bed frame, 4 chairs, 2 sofas a mattress and box spring, a bedframe, and two night stands. She takes the bill of sale to her manager to, again, price match everything. She comes back with bad news, reporting to us that the manager refuses to help us, refuses to sell anything to us, and refuses to match any deals that we had been previously matched.
We sat there in shock, we thought she was joking because her bubbly attitude made it seem that way before, but now she was stern. I asked to speak to this manager and she said that he didn't want to speak to us and that he would not come out of his office.
How could this be? We sat there for a few minutes simply confused! So we went back up to Byrd and asked her what was up, can we just talk to the manager. Daniel, the manager was sitting there, so my mother in law asked him why he wouldn't help us. He said that because we had gotten the deal at Avondale we had to go back, to which we responded that the service we received was so bad that we would never come back. He then told us that the manager GERARDO called him and told him all about us and to not sell to us. To share customer information like that is illegal, and WRONG!
How pathetic? How ridiculous!
How could a store who sees that we had an issue with another store turn us away? How could DANIEL take this commission sale away from Byrd? He even said that it wasnt okay to match the prices online, which makes no sense because everything online is half the price as in-store, that's how their tactics work.
So I asked for their corporate number . to which Daniel provided the incorrect number! How insane?!?!?
So I called corporate and complained and they rerouted my call back to the Avondale store and GERARDO answers with major ATTITUDE! How can you be an effective sales man with a shitty attitude? It's baffling to be completely honest.
My call to corporate was to complain about both managers. Unfortunately for me, if there is an issue in store, corporate sends you back to the store to resolve the issue, and my issue was with the manager. Both Daniel and Gerardo need to be taught foot customer service skills . They have none whatsoever. They have definitely lost my business, my families business, and my friends business.
So disappointed and will not be shopping ashleys again. read more