I bought a refrigerator here on Saturday. They set delivery for Wednesday. No delivery, no call. I called. Best Buy had broken a glass shelf inside the fridge. And that's where the nightmare began. I am pasting below the email that I attempted to send to corporate. I have been into the store and on the phone with the store too many times. I went in Friday afternoon, they did tell me I could have a different open stock refrigerator..but ehy can't deliver until Wednesday. They did say say they would compensate me for hiring my own delivery team. OK, I shouldn't have to be the one calling around to make this happen, but I did. Found a guy to help me pick it up Saturday. Then Saturday, a delivery manager calls me to say it's on the truck and on the way. I'm quite confused and asked the guy to hold on and let me explain what the store said on Friday. (He told me he wasn't going to listen if I was going to be rude. I had used no profanity, just asked him to stop talking at me and listen.)
So finally he checks with his truck team and assures me that there is a refrigerator on the truck for me. So I call the guy I had hired to pick it up and cancel. One hour later, a fridge arrives. It was full of broken glass. See photos.
The employees attempt to get you to settle for the solution that best increases the store's profits... such as wait until they get this fixed, with no fridge for a week (And it turned out this damage is not fixable) I feel like I work for Best Buy. It seems that there is no way to email or contact corporate online, So I will be investing more time in sending a letter through paper mail.
What they have put me through is unacceptable. and it sucks that I have to post all this publicly , but you can't contact corporate directly, and the store claims that they are not allowed to compensate me for my time and wasted food and money until they replace the fridge they broke.
Below is the email that I attempted to send to corporate. I'm hoping some how they see this.
Dear corporate, you will be contacted by me, or perhaps an attorney, until this is resolved to my satisfaction. I understand Best Bust is finally agreeing to replace my refrigerator. That should have happened as soon as the warehouse damaged it last Wednesday. Someone should have called me and said "I'm sorry Ms. , but your fridge is irreparably damaged. We will get a new unit to you as soon as possible, and here's a gift card for the inconvenience.
Instead I've had to invest way too much of my own time and effort, and been insulted by Best Buy employees and delivery people because I asked them to listen. I have not, during any of this, resorted to threats or using profanity. I have been quite furious, but also considered that every person who answers the phone did not cause my pain.
I am 50 years old and have a physical disability. Moving bags of ice and furniture repeatedly because of this fiasco has taken its toll on me.
At this point, I think it would be fair for Best Buy to give me a new refrigerator for free. Yes, free. Because I don't work for Buy. Best Buy doesn't pay me, but I've been doing plenty of work to rectify their mistakes.
Yes, it's a financial loss for Best Buy to give away an 1800$ fridge. But it was an avoidable loss. The store manager could have made a serious effort to fix this. There was another open box fridge on the sales floor. He could have set that up for delivery the same day the mistake was discovered. Instead he tried to convince me to wait until the damaged fridge was "cleaned up " and accept it a week later.
You will see in the photos that cleaning this is impossible. There would be broken glass in the ice maker still.
And still, no one from BB is going to come here and move the food and the ice back into my old fridge today. I'm basically letting the food go bad because I'm in too much pain to move anything today. (I have rheumatoid arthritis)I will be buying restaurant food until the new fridge arrives. And I will still need to lift all this food to throw it away tomorrow.
There are more aggravating details to this situation, but Im tired of typing. So I will leave you with these photos. read more