I wish I had seen these reviews first!
This is a terrible company. They charged my card, but did not provide a shipping confirmation or even an order confirmation. I paid for two day shipping on something that I needed fast, but received no communication from them. I emailed them several times and got no reply. They don't publish a phone number, but I called the number on my bank statement. There is an automated messages that says, "to best serve you, we don't answer the phone and only reply to email. Goodbye." Then it hangs up. I don't see how NOT answering the phone "better serves" me! And no, they don't reply to email either.
I also searched for their address and found they are attached to a True Value. I called the True Value and actually got an answer! They said the online people are only there Monday - Friday, 9-5. It was Friday at 5:30 when I called, and the actual True Value store is open till 9. She said to call back on Monday morning. She was rather rude about it too.
So I did call on Monday and got a different person who said they couldn't transfer calls to online anymore because they "weren't allowed". I was given the same number as before, the one with an automated message that hangs up on you.
So I filed a dispute with the bank for "merchandise not received" and ordered the item from someone else. Then the box from Midland finally showed up. I paid for 2 day Priority Mail, and it was pricey shipping, too. $20-$30 I think. I don't know because I don't have an order confirmation/receipt or anything else from them! They sat on the order for a week, did not communicate with me at all, ignored all attempts to communicate (so I had no idea it was coming or they even had the order), then they shipped it via Parcel Post which is a slow shipping method, even though I paid for priority. It arrived 3 weeks later, too late to use (good thing I ordered from someone else). So I refused the package and gave it back to the mail lady. She took it.
Today I wasted 5 hours with the bank, who denied my claim saying "there is a tracking number so there is proof the merchandise was received". They didn't seem to get that Parcel Post has crappy/useless tracking, and that it arrived in three weeks when I paid for 2 day shipping, and that I don't *have* the box or merchandise, and never took possession of it because I refused it when it arrived.
On top of that, the tracking number which I got from the bank, which the bank got from the merchant as "proof" isn't even a valid tracking number! On top of that, the dispute repose from the merchant claims the parcel shipped on June 1st, but I didn't even order it until near the end of July!
So this company would appear to be submitting fraudulent evidence in a merchant dispute on top of all of their other shenanigans. So I'm trying to locate the package which was sent back via refusal*, dealing with the bank (who are also not helping), and evaluating my next steps. I
think I should see if I can get their merchant account taken away, because committing fraud with a merchant account is a big no-no. Also, I plan to call the Postal Inspector tomorrow and see if this constitutes mail fraud. Failing that, there's always small claims court! But I'll let the bank have another go at it and play out that option first.
I would really like to see these clowns go out of business. I hope this merchant goes to the "special" hell where they have to spend all of eternity navigating the USPS phone tree, which plays unskipable 5 minute long messages about things you don't care about, misunderstands everything you say and type, and puts you on hold for over an hour with a 3 second long music loop if you actually figure out how to reach the queue for an agent. (I never did manage to talk to anyone at the post office.)
I even made up a song. Here are some excerpts:
"I want to thank you Midland Hardware, for shipin' my order right away!".
"Not only did we pay fast shipping... We paid through the nose!"
"Every box they should be shipping, but Midland Hardware, they forgot. Not only don't we have the order... we ain't got the box!"
It's sung to the tune of "We'd Like to Thank You Herbert Hoover" from Annie. Google it. read more