You have the absolute worst customer service, and I will shout from here, to my consumer research panels, to facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, from the East coast to the West coast and let EVERYONE know why I will, and consequently why they should, NEVER, EVER shop at Macy*s, Macy*s.com, the BonMarche or any of your subsidiaries again!
I placed an online order with Macy*s.com on December 18, 2012, (12.18.2012) so that I would receive my order before Christmas (12.25.2012). On December 19, 2012, I received an email informing me that my order had been cancelled due to certain unnamed discrepancies regarding the information provided during my order. And, that I would "receive a PROMPT refund or credit." So, I called Macy*s.com regarding this order...
I was greeted by a pleasant associate, who was able to confirm with me that yes... My online order had been cancelled. When I inquired as to why my order had been cancelled I was told that Macy*s.com was unable to verify my billing address information. When I further inquired as to what this actually meant, I was told that I would be transferred to Macy*s.com consumer and credit protection department.
The first associate I spoke with in this department informed me that she was fully briefed on my situation and that while she was apologetic that my order had been cancelled, it was because the telephone number on file was supposedly not verified by my financial institution. And, not only that... That Macy*s.com had attempted to contact me at that number and that I did not answer.
How could that be, I asked? 1) I had not received any call or left message from anyone at Macy*s.com and 2) the information I provided when checking out is the same information that my financial institution (Citibank) has on file, including my address, telephone number and email address.
When I gave the associate in the consumer credit protection department this information. She then told me that they had attempted to verify my information by calling Citibank and that an associate at Citibank told them that the number was incorrect. She insisted that it was Citibank's fault, but she then told me that she would call Citibank as a courtesy (....?) to reprocess the order that Macy*s.com had cancelled. After several minutes, and after giving her my credit cards security number, she returned to tell me that CitiBank refused to release the hold on my account to reprocess the order, and that I would have to wait 5-14 business days to receive the funds so that I could place the order again...
When I informed her that these were Christmas gifts, and that the entire purpose of my order was so that I would be able to wrap and hand these out for gifts on Christmas day. I was told, that while she was sorry about the situation, I would have to wait for 5-14 business days to receive my refund before she could reprocess the order that Macy*s.com cancelled.
I replied by saying that this kind of service was completely unacceptable: That my funds would be held captive, I would have no Christmas gifts as a result, and that I would be unable to make other purchases with that money as a result of doing business with Macy*s.com. I was asked if I wanted to talk with a MANAGER, there in the consumer credit protection department (ccp dept.). I replied that I would like to and was placed on hold.
I spoke with a gentleman named Anthony who claimed to be a manager in your ccp dept. He also supplied me with his direct line there (4809293508) but failed to answer my calls, Citibank's calls or return our calls from the messages that were left by myself or the associates at Citibank.
During our converse, Anthony also expressed that he was briefed and understood the nature of my issue, and that while he understood I needed these Christmas gifts that there was nothing he was going to do because it was supposedly my financial institutions fault. I informed him that it was Macy*s.com that made the decision to cancel my order due to supposedly wrong financial information (it was all correct and my bank did and will attest to this matter, as well) on my account. He informed me that the billing number and number at my financial institution did not match (they did), and that because Citibank refused to verify this information, I was basically S.O.L. (vernacular: Stuck out of luck). He informed me that it was absolutely normal and completely routine to cancel orders in this matter, and that Macy*s.com was well within their right to do so because I had supplied the wrong information (I did not). So, I provided him with a previous online order where I used my father's credit card but supplied my telephone number and email address, which would not have matched the billing information from the financial institution. Upon verifying my order, he informed me that it was "automatically accepted." Well, I inquired, what does that mean? It means that while that order went through automatically, my order read more