Like many reviews on Liberty Safe, one star is too good for them, but it's the only choice.
My wife bought a Liberty Handgun Vault for me for Christmas 2022. On Christmas day, I set it up to work with both my thumbprints and index fingerprints. I also set up a key code to open the box. All of these worked and were entered correctly. The box opened, I placed a handgun in it and closed the door. It worked about ten times before the mechanism on the left side of the box just stopped working while the right one unlocked. After several attempts and valid fingerprints (the green open light lit up each time), the vault would not open. I used the third method, the provided key, to open the vault to retrieve my firearm. The key then got stuck in the keyhole and could not be removed.
My wife and I both have contacted Liberty Safe via email, customerservice@libertysafe.com, and their customer service number 1-800-247-5625. On my first attempt on December 27, 2023, it took 3.5 hours for them to return my call after I left my number. I was told by the representatives that they would ship out a new unit and I could return the old one in the new vault's box with a shipping label. After the call, the representative called me back to get my serial number. I read the number straight from the unit. The representative did not believe that this was my serial number. I told her I could email her a photo if she would like. After this call, the representative called back again to get my name and shipping address, again, because she did not have it! The new items was to arrive in 3 to 5 weeks! After waiting a few days, my wife called back only to find that there was no record of my conversation or the new vault to be shipped. She was placed on hold and another call came in from an Idaho area code. She did not hang up with the representative because it took us 3+ hours to get them to call us back. After about 2 minutes on hold, the call was disconnected. She then received an email from a supervisor stating that she called during the time my wife was on the phone with Liberty Customer service but she failed to answer. She then sent a reply to the supervisor that we no longer wanted a replacement as we could no longer trust their products to provide access to firearms if needed. This was the point of buying this handgun vault, safe and easy access in emergencies. Also, we did not trust their customer service to help us. We received an RMA number for the return but no pre-paid shipping label for the return.
The shipping for this $220.00 product was going to cost us $61 to return to them. I emailed them two times about the shipping label and received no response. I messaged them on their Facebook profile and got no response. I finally called and waited another 3 hours, on January 10, 2023, and spoke to another representative who told me she would email my wife a return shipping label but it might take a day to receive because "shipping is very busy right now." Well, the day has come and gone and we still have not received a shipping label. Another three-hour wait for a call is coming and I am dreading dealing with them again. I do not trust Liberty Safe to give us a refund on this handgun vault, even if we receive a shipping label in the future, based on their non-existent level of customer service.
I recently found out that my local Liberty Safe dealer has gone out of business. In fact, all of the other locations with the same name have as well. Liberty was the only safe brand they carried. I do not know if Liberty Safe is in danger of going out of business but if this is how they treat a customer that bought a relatively cheap product from them, I would hate to have been a customer that purchased one of their flagship safes, had to contact customer service, and had to return it. This is by far the most customer-unfriendly business with which I have dealt in my lifetime. read more