I'm so angry right now, I don't even know where to start. I put down money for a custom-made, leather sectional with a 73" long chaise lounge from LaDiff at the tail end of their February sale. Prior to that I had spent two months looking for a very specific combination of a leather sectional with a chaise lounge long enough to lie down on (anything more than 65" long). Sarah, the owner of the company, literally told me to my face that she had verified that the chaise lounge is 73" long. With this knowledge and the sale, I immediately put down half the cost of the sofa and then waited for FIVE MONTHS!!! for my sectional to be made and delivered to me...only to find that they made the chaise too short at 60". I can go to any furniture store and find a sectional with a 60" chaise. I would have never have bought this one if I knew this was the end result.
To top it off, I wasn't expecting to wait five months for a too short sectional. I was told that it would take 12-14 weeks (3-3.5 months) for the sectional to be made and delivered. It's literally written on the quote that I signed. I called my salesperson about 11 weeks after the order was made to check on the progress and she just breezily wrote back that the sectional wouldn't arrive until mid-July (around the 18 week mark). You can imagine my surprise because, like any logically person when given a time range (12 to 14 weeks), I assumed that 14 weeks would be the worst case scenario.
Her response was that it was out of their hands; nothing is ever our fault; bad weather may be delaying the ship; the manufacturer is in Italy and they don't send furniture across the Atlantic once piece at a time, so we have to wait until enough of their orders are made; and so on. Wow, it would have been great to know these things before I made my order (and yes, one of things mentioned above was an exaggeration, and I will leave it up to you to decide). FYI, the sectional did not arrive in their warehouse until July 29th and it was delivered on August 5th, so the mid-July estimate was wrong as well.
What really irked me was the response I got when I called my salesperson directly and asked for an explanation for the delay, instead of working something out with me on the phone, she would tell me that she's with another customer right now in a voice that sounded both annoyed and can you imagine, inconvenienced. This happened twice.
Sarah did offer me a loaner sofa which I declined because I didn't want to take care of a sofa that didn't belong to me. And God help me, with my furniture luck, I probably would have spilled something terrible all over it and had to pay for that as well.
Now, I've sent my sectional back with the very nice delivery men. Honestly, super sweet guys. And tomorrow, I'm going to tell Sarah and Lea to give me back all of my money because there is no way in hell I'm going to accept a sectional with a 60" chaise nor am I going to wait another five months for them to make it right. And unless they are furniture-selling time travelers who can undo this whole mess, I'm guessing this review is my only pay back for time lost.
To recap all the lies I was told:
1) Sectional comes with a 73" long chaise. Nope.
2) It should be delivered in 12-14 weeks. Nope.
3) It should be delivered by mid-July. Nope.
4) The warehouse manager said that she would send me pictures of my sectional after I paid the remaining balance for the sectional. Did this happen? Nope. read more