We stopped into this location one Saturday and noticed that they had an adjustable mattress frame, a floor model, on sale for $1000 off. The Manager, Shelly O'Brien, demonstrated it for us. Incidentally, Shelly looked familiar to me, but at the time, I couldn't recall why.
The unit was missing the mattress retaining bars.
When we tried out the unit, the mattress slid partially off the frame, but Shelly assured us that they had the retaining bars, they just were not installed. After checking with the furniture store where we had previously purchased our mattress, and price checking on line, this frame was a fair deal. We could have purchased the same unit on line for about the same price, but felt it would be better to purchase locally.
We returned to the store that day and ended up purchasing the frame, and made arrangements for delivery the following Monday. We again asked Shelly if she had the bars and she said that they would be delivered with the frame on Monday.
As we were driving home after our purchase I remembered why Shelly looked familiar. Several years ago, I purchased a mattress from her at a store she had in Colchester. As part of the purchase, and as an advertised promotion, I received a gift card for free groceries which turned out to be no good. When I returned to her store to let her know that I was unable to use the card, she told me that she was sorry, but she had been duped by the promoter, and it wasn't her fault....yet she was still advertising the promotion. Eventually, the store closed.
When the unit arrived, the retaining bars were not included. The delivery men called the store to advise, and was told to tell us not to use it until the bars were delivered and installed. Also, we received an owner's manual, which had been photocopied, yet there was no warranty.
My husband then called the store and Shelly told him that she did not have the bars and that she would order them, and she would keep us informed as to when we could expect delivery. She also said to go ahead and use the bed without the retaining bars, contradictory to what she told the delivery men.That was Monday. The following Saturday, after waiting for her to call us to no avail, we decided to drive to the store to see if we could get some answers.
Shelly appeared uncomfortable with us being there, and immediately and matter of factly, told us that the bars were in the hands of Fed Ex, and she could not give us an estimate as to when she would receive them. My husband reminded her that when we purchased the frame, she said she had the bars, to which she said, I am sorry....I thought I had them.
My husband asked her to give us the warranty information, and she started looking on line for the info, wasn't able to find the correct model, but printed the info to another frame, and told us that she would look for the correct warranty, and get it to us, but if we had a problem, we needed to contact Burlington Mattress and not the manufacturer.
Three weeks to the day of purchase, we finally received the retainer bars, but as of this writing, an additional week has gone by, and we have yet to see the correct warranty.
We are very pleased so far with the frame. We feel that Burlington Mattress only deserves 2 stars, however, for the unprofessional manner that this deal was handled.
Looking back on this transaction, we should have questioned why they would demo a bed without the retainer bars on the mattress if they in deed, had them in stock....really makes no sense.
If Shelly would have been up front about the bars, we would have likely still made the purchase, it's just unfortunate how she chose to represent this business. read more