I have been a long time Neiman Marcus fan since my days of living back East. Great products, great service, amazing sales, beautiful tailoring. What can I say, you get what you pay for. So, it was only natural that when getting my newest tuxedo for my wedding that I would make the trip from Salt Lake to Denver to get kitted out.
Walked in, grabbed a sales associate, picked out a tux, was measured for tailoring, paid my bill and made arrangements to come back to Denver for a final fitting a month later to ensure that all was tip top.
Fast forward a month and I am up the night before prepping for the drive the next day. On my phone pops up a notification . . . You have mail! Check my inbox and I have a shipping notification from NM that my tux is on its way ... to Salt Lake. Now, let's not forget fine reader, I am driving to CO the next day to fit my tux. So, up and at em early in the morning and as I am in my car on the way to Denver with my lady I start my calling and emailing. Needless to say, I was pretty bent out of shape as I formulated a special trip out of this second fitting. Made some appointments for work, schedule some time with friends, etc but ultimately, I was coming to Denver for a final look at my new tux and to pick up some shoes and such. So I was pretty angry when I found out that I wouldn't be able to do so. On top of that, my sales lady told me to just have someone else collect my tux when it was delivered and then just go to a local tailor if anything else needed to be done. So, as one can imagine, I told her that was unacceptable and I talked to a manager, who then had me talk to another manager who I believe was the store manager who called me from the meeting he was attending in Texas.
Now I was pretty bent out of shape to say the least and I was intending on letting Neimans have a firmly and strongly worded piece of my mind. But then their team got to work on the problem. They attempted to reroute my item which did not make it to the store in time as was expected. But, they found another tux in my size, had it overnighted in and had me come in on a Sat. So I get there on Sat and a salesperson, named Ermil met me, then the head of their tailoring department met me, and finally I believe the department manager met me and even bribed me and my fiance with a glass of wine. So they proceed to tell me that all the tailoring that I had done, complete with working buttons on the sleeves, would be done overnight and the tux would be ready by noon the next day. Ok, I said and I scheduled a time to come back the next day as instructed.
Sunday morning rolls around and I make my way, albeit a little late, to Neimans. My tux is waiting for me as agreed and when I tried it on, it was simply perfect.
So, this long winded story to say KUDOS to you Neiman Marcus and all the staff who made this solution possible. Ermil was awesome and I am saddened that I don't remember all the names of the great people who went out of their way to make a mistake a perfect experience. I used to tell my clients that I will definitely make a mistake, everyone does, but it is how I deal with that mistake that differentiates me from my competitors. Neimans, you certainly proved that you are able to make lemonade out of lemons. Thanks for the amazing experience. read more