Let me start off by saying that I have never written a review for a business before. Last night, I experienced such poor customer service that I feel compelled to caution others in the Syracuse area. The first thirty minutes my boyfriend and I were in the store, a woman by the name of Gina greeted us and tried to help us find the type of mattress we were looking for. This was the best part of the time spent there. She was super friendly and very informative. I understand that in her ideal world, we would have walked in and bought a $6,000 Tempur-Pedic mattress. However, as soon as we made it clear that our price range was lower, we were immediately treated differently. After twenty minutes of looking at the mattresses in our budget, a man (whose name I can't remember) was introduced to us and Gina went to go answer a phone call. She said he could help us find floor model/overstock mattresses on clearance.
Suddenly, all of the more expensive mattresses were "on sale" or in our budget. This man was very rude and super forward. His first offer to us was still out of our budget. He seemed offended that we were not satisfied with his offer and that we were still looking at the other mattresses IN our budget. We didn't even like one of the mattresses he was trying to bargain. If he had listened, he would know that. We asked him a few questions regarding the mattresses and he said, "I'm not an information booth." That is never a response you want from an employee. My boyfriend then told him that this is the first place we had been to (as he had told Gina) and that we weren't going to buy a large ticket item within 1 hour of being at a store. Gina made a good point that getting a mattress is an investment, like getting a car. That being said, who would walk into the first car dealership they see and not look around at other places as well? We both did not like how pushy he was being. He then threw another offer at us (significantly lower) and told us we could have a mattress $2,000 off the ticket price and said, "You're telling me that you're not going to buy this" while laughing. To which we replied, "no."
We were both so shocked with how poorly this man treated us that we didn't know what to say. He asked us if we had been to "Kevin's place" which I assume is his main competitor. Our response was again "no," but you can bet that this is where we are headed next. He bitterly told us to wait a week because "laying down on 15 different mattresses is like going to a mall and trying on 15 different perfumes." Our intention was to come back to Metro Mattress after looking around. Both of us will NEVER return to this place. That is not how you treat customers. read more