If you order anything from Neiman Marcus, do not expect that you will ever receive it. If you buy anything that has an attached gift card, do not ever assume that the gift card will be good. Neiman's is perpetrating an ongoing scam with their tiered gift cards. The scam works like this: they will advertise tiered gift cards on their website where the more you spend the more you will receive in gift cards . The earned gift cards are supposed to be sent out after merchandise is mailed and received by purchaser. The only problem is you never receive the items you've ordered, or you'll get a message that the item you ordered is back ordered and here is what they suggest as a substitute item. If you pick the substitute item and buy it, your gift card is no longer valid. In November 2022 I purchased thousands of dollars of gifts at Neiman's for my clients. At the time I purchased these gifts, they all had a promotion where for every $250 you spent you got a $50 gift card. After making my purchases, I received emails that the items I had purchased were no longer available, but that I could substitute in an item, and there were suggestions given as to which items would work to substitute. You pick the substitute items which are then delivered and you think everything is OK and your gift card will come to you, however, your gift card has been canceled because of the substitution. Since November I have placed dozens of calls to Neiman's customer service, to the Scottsdale store and even left messages for the store manager, Tim Braun, which have never been returned. I went into the store this weekend and talk to a customer service person who told me "never order anything off the website as you will never receive it". Neimans is running a fraudulent scheme to drive up sales by offering tiered gift cards. When they have no intentions of ever providing gift cards offered, and in most cases, they don't even have the merchandise to ship that is purchased.. Since neither the store manager nor their customer, service department is willing to make good on the gift cards that are due to me I have filed complaints with the Arizona Attorney General's office, the Better Business Bureau, leaving reviews on yelp and several other areas to warn people about the fraudulent scheme that Neiman's is perpetrating. This is so sad in many ways as I love shopping at Neiman's for many years.
So, immediately after posting my review, Neiman's customer service posted on my review to contact them that they would take care of the issues immediately. I contacted Neiman's customer service via the email they sent me and explained my situation, they put me in touch with a customer service manager, who assured me the issue would be resolved. Several days later, I received an email from the person I was assigned to who like everybody else at Neiman customer service claims that because I substituted out items on my purchases when the items I purchased weren't available, the tiered gift cards that I qualified for were canceled. they also said they would look into the fact that I ordered an item in January that was showing backordered after I purchased it and would be shipped March 1, 23. The item never shipped, the customer service department never returned my calls after the original contact declining the tiered gift cards that were due to me. Several days later, after no response from the customer service department I called in and requested cancellation of the item that was back ordered since it appeared it was not going to ship. I was told the item would be canceled. As of today, four days later, the item still has not been canceled, so once again, the customer service department is worthless.
I do have to say that my complaint was also forwarded to the local Neiman store in Scottsdale. I received a call from the store manager, Tim B. Who did everything in his power to try and fix the situation. I was very impressed that he stepped in and helped take care of an issue that he neither caused nor was his store involved with. For this, I am very thankful that Tim stepped up, but I'm still disgusted with their online customer service department. read more