While shopping at Costless the Mohawk rep badgered us in the fashion of a used car salesman for about 30 min and actually followed us to our car while explaining that the carpet samples our sales rep gave us were "crap".
We paid for our carpet on Monday April 16th and, while paying, we asked the person who rang us up if we could schedule install for Saturday the 28th. He said that would probably be good but explained that Costless would contact us once they knew for sure. That being the case, we scheduled install tentatively for the 28th. We received no updates on the order timeline, so on Friday the 27th I took off work to tear out the carpet. While tearing out the carpet my wife called to check on our order only to find out that our order had not been placed on the 16th ... it had been placed 5 days later on the 21st - with no reasonable explanation as to why. This meant we had to inform our installer, who likely lost income because of this delay, and cancel the installation. The Costless sales rep eventually called us back to let us know it would be arriving on Friday the 4th but again indicated she would let us know of any further delays. So, with this assurance, I took Friday the 4th off work, again to move the furniture and pull additional carpet. We assumed the carpet would be delivered as Costless had not informed us otherwise. Once again, on Friday the 4th, I called Costless at 3:30 in the afternoon, after moving everything in my house and pulling out all the carpet, only to then find out our new carpet would not be delivered until Monday the 7th. Again, we had to inform our installer who, again, likely lost income because of this delay. So twice, I took off work to prep for carpet installation and twice Costless failed to notify us of... firstly - Costless delay in the placing of our order, and secondly - the delayed receiving of our order. While I understand an abundance of excuses can be made for not informing us of our un-delivered order, it is unacceptable that the placing of our order was delayed for 5 days. We explained our timeline to our sales rep as well as the person who collected our payment. I later brought these issues up to our sales rep who snidely asked "why would you start tearing out the carpet?" Well, at that time I didn't want to answer in my frustration, but the obvious answer is - because, I assumed Costless was professional, courteous and organized enough to contact there customer if 1. Costless was responsible for delaying the costumer's order by 5 days or 2. if they had assured their customer they would contact them if any further delay was expected.
As of now my family is living in and walking on the concrete subfloor and I have had to take steps to assure my kids don't step on the exposed tack strips. At this time our installers next available date to install is Saturday May 12th.
It seems to me that if the order had been placed when we paid for it, on Monday the 16th, it may have actually been delivered on the 27th or 28th. However, because it was ordered on the 21st, a Saturday, the order was likely not processed until the following Monday, the 23rd, meaning the order was likely processed 7 days after we paid. An examination of the order placement and delivery timeline indicates the carpet would have likely been delivered on the 27th or at the latest the 30th had it been ordered at the time of payment. read more