If I could give Kitchen and Bath Masters ("KBM") a "minus" score, I would. The warehouse manager ("WM") is unprofessional, unskilled as a manager and does not exhibit customer relations skills whatsoever! KBM's WM does not follow up on orders or inquiries and he feels that it is appropriate behavior to hang up on disgruntled customers because he doesn't feel he should have to listen to the complaints!
I placed an order for a vanity on 8/17/17. I received a receipt the same day that indicated my payment went through just fine. After a week, I hadn't heard from KBM as to the status of my order, so I initiated a called KBM to inquire. After a number of phone calls being exchanged with the assistant warehouse help because the manager had left on vacation on August 18 or 19, I found out that vanity I had ordered was no longer being carried by KBM. In order to address my questions, the assistants had to contact the warehouse manager via phone whist on vacation to find out what was going on. They were told by the WM that he tried to reach out to me several times via email, but gave up when he never heard back from me (I guess KBM doesn't endorse the use of dial up phone technology as a means to communicate with customers). It was obvious that the two assistant warehouse staff were untrained as they were scrambling to get me answers. While still on the phone with the assistants, I culled through all of my emails, inbox and junk mail, to see if I missed getting any messages. As I was already certain that I hadn't missed any email from KBM, my search came up empty as to any further communications from KBM. I asked the assistant warehouse personnel to resend the emails in case I had in fact missed the message and was told that they would do their best to resend. As I am still waiting, it would stand as no surprise to even a 5 year old that the warehouse manager lied and never sent me notification of the order cancellation by email before he left on vacation. I speculate that the WM didn't want to be bothered with sending me a message as we was more concerned about leaving on vacation rather than handling a customer service matter that wasn't important to him at the time. As I quickly came to realize the warehouse assistants were limited in their ability to help me with my order the week after I placed it, I decided to wait until 8/29 to speak directly to the WM after he returned from vacation. In my initial search of the KBM website while looking for a vanity, I noticed inconsistencies with pictures of other items against their respective descriptions. As I needed to speak with the WM to question KBM's lack of customer service responsiveness anyway, I decided to wait to talk to the WM about the website inconsistencies at the same time.
On the day I spoke to the WM, he got extremely defensive and asked me if I was questioning his ability to manage the warehouse. My response was directed to the lack of customer service, but in retrospect, if the shoe fits, wear it! I found an alternative vanity on KBM's website that I was interested in and the item had a "make and offer" option attached to it. I made an offer and received an email almost immediately that stated someone would be getting back to me shortly (whatever that means!). Another three days go by (today) and yet again I receive no communication from KBM. So once again I initiate the call to KBM because there is radio silence on their end. To my surprise, I actually, get the WM directly. After identifying myself and explaining to him in a "not so patient voice" why I was calling (again!), he proceeded to explain (deflect) to me all the internal problems going on as a result of the supplier and the misinformation on the website. When I redirected the conversation to the real matter and called him out on why he didn't feel the need to reach out to me as the customer and remedy the situation personally, the WM JUST HUNG UP ON ME! REALLY? This is how a WM treats customers? The only reason I chose KBM in the first place was because they were relatively local to our home and if there were any problems with our purchase, we could personally return the item directly to the warehouse and not have to pay for return shipping which can be extremely expensive for an item of this size and weight. And I didn't even mention that because of all the time that has since lapsed due to personnel incompetence, our project is now behind schedule by at least three weeks!!!!!! OYE!
Not training underskilled personnel to the importance of customer service and trouble-shooting orders is just plain bad business practice. I will make sure that everyone I know in my sphere of influence knows how KBM treats customers and KBM most certainly WILL NOT be getting referrals from me or anyone I know. If this complaint doesn't get through to the owner of KBM, I hope that the negative hit to the pocket book does! read more