Conns, conns conns..shameful. This will be our third and final purchase from this establishment. How on earth a company with such poor customer service is in business still blows my mind. Thank you for just robbing me of nearly $7000.
The third saga goes like this...
We arrive about an hour and a half before closing time last sunday just to browse, and end up falling in love with a sectional couch. We decide to go ahead and order it, especially since I could pick my delivery day and time..well, almost. I got a call around 8:50 Tuesday night telling me my delivery time of 5:15-8:15pm. I don't know who on earth wants a dark gray sectional delivered at dusk/night time, let alone in the rain, and furthermore during a time when everybody is trying to rush home, but I digress..I call the # back just to see if it would even be a possibility that we could shift our time to an earlier part of the day, as we had taken off work assuming that we got to select our delivery window, and had already gotten all of our living room furniture removed to help the drivers out. Additionally, we live 2 minutes from the store which is also quite close to the warehouse so we didn't see why that would've been an issue. I get answered by Denise, who repeatedly calls me 'hon' in that just ever so pleasant demeaning tone, and she tells me that I am 'not the only customer' and too bad so sad for you. As someone who has always worked in customer service, if I had said this to a customer, I would have been fired if not at least written up for such poor attitude. I don't give a crap that I'm not your only customer-customer service philosophy lesson: EVERY CUSTOMER IS THE ONLY CUSTOMER UNTIL THEY ARE HAPPY AND EVEN THEN YOU FOLLOW UP TO MAKE SURE THEY ARE STILL HAPPY.
I speak to Reggie at the store, who is friendly but I don't know where his head is at. He tells me he will see the truck in the morning and will see what he can't work out for me, so I trust that he being a manager over there will get it done. I call in at noon, as I haven't heard back and lo and behold look who hasn't come in to work yet. Amazing follow up. Not. He tells me he's going to call and see if they can't get it expedited and we will hear back from him. Nobody calls. Nothing. Around 5pm the truck tracker feature on the website shows the truck all the way out in Ashland city, with an arrival time of 5:37 pm. The site did not update after that with an ETA, and the truck did not arrive until after 7pm. My fiancé had to go outside and find the truck which was in another apartment complex, and show them where to go. Nobody even called to let me know the truck was close or that they were lost. In fact he went out there after seeing the truck was sitting in the other complex for over 15 minutes.
The drivers were very nice however when they put all of our pieces together, I commented that this sofa was much bigger than I recall, and I did have floor dimensions for space that would have left about 3-4 feet of walking space for us, but this was completely blocking the dining room and living room, as well as the entry way. But they just left and said thank you. The door shut and I was just like 'you have got to be kidding me'. Our living room seriously looks like a VIP lounge. It is humungous. SO, I call the store and get Reggie again who tells me he's been too busy to call me (again A+ on the customer service y'all!) and he says I need to call the warehouse immediately and I quote "like literally right now" so they can have the drivers come and at least pick up the chaise lounge which was blocking everything. So I call and guess who I get..the lovely Denise again. She tells me someone in the call center would need to get called and I stop her, saying Reggie told me to call you..SO she says she will call the store immediately and get us taken care of and we will get called back ASAP.
That was at 8pm last night and nobody has called us. At this point, I expect compensation and a sincere apology. The website states that the Manhattan can be financed for $64 a month and for whatever reason I'm paying twice that. We are going to have to store the chaise in a garage so we can at least use our room. Now, every single one of these minor hiccups could've been miniscule, had I not been ignored, pushed off, talked down to, lied to, etc.
If I treated customers this way, I would be unemployed. All I'll say is this in conclusion...there's an IKEA coming right next door and I am sure they would be happy to have business and will do it with a smile. read more