Terrible customer service and horrible policies. I've encountered issues here before with the sales associates being lazy, entitled, and disrespectful, but today takes the cake. I had purchased a 50 dollar gift card from this store a week and a half ago and came in to use it today. My daughter picked 2 pairs of jeans out and we waited in a long line to check out. After ringing us up we presented the gift card, and the associate (name was Julia unless she was lying) told us it had "insufficient funds". I explained that wasn't possible as we had just purchased it and my daughter had just then scratched the number off. I spent several minutes debating with the girl and offering various ways to prove it was valid, but she wasn't interested at all in being helpful. The issue of the funds became less important than her attitude- she smiled and smirked and laughed at me and was completely disrespectful and thought it was funny to claim we were just out of luck and their was nothing she could do. Her rudeness and nonchalance is what angered me- I've never seen a more entitled teen caring less about customer service. NO work ethic whatsoever. I asked her to call a manager and she brought another girl over. This girl (named Sandra) tried to run it again and also told me sorry you're out of luck. I was livid by now because they were treating us as if we were thieves that stole a gift card, with a huge line of people behind us. Not ONCE did either of them offer any sort of attempt at a solution. Finally after me explaining that "nothing they could do" was unacceptable since the store took my money and basically was stealing it, the 2nd girl says I can call corporate. I asked if they could trace the activity on the gift card, and she said they couldn't. Eventually she tells me that corporate can do that (why wouldn't she have offered that in the first place?) and basically told me to leave and deal with it on my own. So then I asked why she couldn't do that for me- after all I was the customer and she was the employee! If it were me working there (with actual values and a work ethic) I would have been on the phone trying to help the customer figure it out! Neither Julia or Sandra had any interest at all in being helpful or actually doing a job they were hired for. And Julia was still smirking like she was getting so much joy out of telling me that I'm just out. At this point I gave up trying to teach these girls about how to do their jobs and I told Julia she had a crappy attitude and left the store. I stood outside the store and called corporate and explained what happened, gave them the GC number and the customer service rep tells me there is a 50 dollar balance on it and it shouldn't be a problem. He says to go back in and have them run it manually and it would work bc he pulled it right up and the funds are on there. So I go back in and ask them to do that and both girls refused to even try. I spent several more minutes trying to tell them to at least try and asking them to at least talk to the representative on the phone since he's telling me it's a valid gift card. They wouldn't even talk to him. They told me "maybe it would only work online" which makes no sense since i bought it in that store and also the phone rep was telling me it would work if they just did it right. I gave up again and took pictures of the style numbers so I can order online instead. Then I asked Sandra (who had been represented to me as the manager) who HER manager was and she said NO manager was there currently and admitted she was NOT a manager. So then I asked for the managers name and number and she said that they were "all assistant managers". So then I asked "Who is your boss" and she actually said they were "basically all in charge and they don't have a boss". So I was like "WHO SIGNS YOUR PAYCHECK" and she begrudgingly admits they have a district manager but she wasn't there currently. So I asked her for the managers name and she told me "that's private information and she can't give that out" as if I was asking for her personal cell phone number and home address. SMH. I had a hard time not laughing and explained that giving the name of a manager of a publicly traded company is NOT classified information and is public record anyway. Spoiler alert- she didn't care and refused to tell me. Oh well, at least I got to school them in business and customer service 101 and hopefully they will be sent for training after I file a complaint against them both for refusing my legal valid tender in exchange for merchandise. Never ever shopping at Pac Sun again. read more