The experience in the show room was ok but then once we got home, my husband realize that our Sales Rep, Nancy Collins had added the GBS 5 Year Protection Plan to our order without our permission.
We questioned her about it but decided to just keep it on. We then got our delivery and the delivery men were friendly enough. But then once they asked me if it all looked ok, I told them I would just facetime my husband real quick so he could see if it looked ok to him. Right after I said that, the delivery guy got all aggressive and told me he had other deliveries to do (but per the tracking info, I had thought I was the last house...). Anyway, he was so in my face about it that I just told him he could go as my husband wasn't answering. Apparently that was my mistake because once they leave, their policy is that it's yours. But if you refuse an item then they have to take it back and you don't have to go through the whole, hard return cycle. We were not informed of this policy when we bought the furniture.
My husband came home that night and we decided the coffee table was too big for the space. We have been trying to return it ever since... it's been about 3 weeks and still haven't been able to. We have called and gone to the store several times but keep being referred to other people and told we have to wait for this or that. I have never seen a return take so long and am definitely disappointed in the lack of customer care.
Additionally, our dog peed on the couch so I called the protection plan company. I found out that they don't handle the full cushion if the pee has soaked through and there is no more visible stain. I went to the Ashley Furniture store to even have them help me with this, and although they were nice, they couldn't help me and were just as surprised as I was that the insurance company wouldn't help me out. Plus, it took 2 weeks for them to offer to come out. We told them not to as we just want our money back on this Protection Plan. Neither the Ashley Furniture local store or corporate says they can grant that so at this point we are going to have to tell our credit card company that it was a fraudulent item as the Sales Rep put it on the order without even asking us, let alone getting our agreement. And as a note, when I went to the store and the manager and I confronted her on that, she acted like we HAD agreed to it, which is just a lie, shady, crooked and I assume a way to get a bit more of a commission.
We still have half a house to furnish, but, needless to say, with this horrible customer service and fraud, we will never be doing business with this company again. read more