During the early part of our (still ongoing) master bath renovation project, my wife and I visited KBDC on the recommendation of a friend, and were initially very happy with the service and information we got. After discussing some options between ourselves, my wife went back with our contractor a few days after our initial visit to pick out a vanity, counter top, lighting and fixtures. The same KBDC salesperson who assisted us on our first visit (I believe his name is Jon or John) again helped my wife and our contractor, and the items were picked out, paid for and scheduled for pick-up.
How many issues have we had since? It's hard to keep track. Let me see if I can list as many as I can recall:
- Vanity height -- according to both my wife AND our contractor, they discussed the vanity's height with the KBDC salesperson, and asked for it to be higher than the 31" standard; when the vanity was picked up and the contractor saw it, he noticed it was the standard height, and advised my wife, who asked me to call about it. When I did, Jon/John was extremely defensive, swore up and down that it was NOT ever discussed, and really did nothing but make excuses, say how the store cannot possibly return it at this late time (regardless of whose error/misunderstanding this was), and continue to claim that both my wife and our contractor were incorrect.
(The vanity height is fine and so it's now a non-issue, but I include this because it was my first interaction with him post-sale, and I was struck by the fact that there was no empathy or apology [whether he feels it is deserved or not] from him. It seemed very poor customer service to me regardless of the genesis of the issue.)
- Soft-close drawers -- my wife and I chose to ask for "soft-close" drawers on the vanity, and that was most definitely ordered (although it doesn't appear on the invoice). When the vanity finally arrived and was picked up, our contractor noticed that the drawers did not have the "soft-close" option. I also mentioned this to Jon/John in my above-mentioned call to him, and again he did not offer any apology or explanation, placed me on hold for a VERY extended time, and finally came back to say that a "kit" could be "sent over" (whatever that means), and that he'd have to call me back with more details. It's been over two weeks now and I've not been called back at all on this subject, nor has our contractor been given any additional information despite repeated inquiries (and still no soft-close drawers). Now he is telling our contractor that we chose the wrong kind of cabinet for soft-close and it can't be added, and claims that nobody mentioned it during the purchase consultation, which is completely untrue.
- Counter-top length - our contractor ordered the counter-top to go with the vanity, and was told that it would be longer than the vanity. What we received is a counter-top that is the same length as that of the vanity, so there's no overhang whatsoever, and it's made even worse by the fact that the end of the vanity has a strip of wood that sticks out, so it looks fairly ugly and is not at all esthetically pleasing.
- Communication -- my contractor has been VERY frustrated dealing with the salesperson. We ordered quite a few items -- the aforementioned vanity/counter-top, shower fixtures, towel racks, lighting, etc., and so he's had to make regular trips to pick items up. I'm told that he's been told he would get calls back on questions/subjects multiple times, and has yet to receive ONE call-back. One time, he was even turned away without picking up an item that had come in and was locked in a storage area, because the salesperson "couldn't find the key and was the only one in the shop". This kind of attitude and treatment is frustrating for our contractor and for us, and does not seem very professional to me.
We're still in the midst of our project and still have items that haven't arrived for pick-up, but I felt I had to write this review out of frustration with the situation. I don't normally write reviews (certainly not extremely negative ones like this one), and if it was just one or two things I wouldn't have bothered, but it's been one thing after another, and with nearly nonexistent communication from the salesperson along with ZERO customer service as far as I'm concerned. I see that the overwhelming majority of reviews for this place have been extremely positive, so it's possible that we've just been snakebitten and the victim of some confluence of events, but in any case, the experience the three of us have had (myself, my wife and our contractor) has been frustrating and negative to say the least. read more