This is going to be long...
I'm a frequent shopper at Sephora whether it's online or in store. I spend a ton of money in their stores and also do many returns. Sometimes you don't get the right product. I guess this annoys a lot of the workers there because I have never received WORSE service in a store than I did here. Completely unprofessional. I let the cashier know that I was returning and most of the items didn't have receipts (can be looked up with the Beauty Insider card). This is definitely not the first time I had done this either. So, I start pulling up my card since they usually ask for it first. She says "Give me the receipt you have" I said i'd give it to her in in a second, I was just pulling up my card. I guess she didn't like my response. She had the look of misery on her face from that point on. She does the return with the receipt. Then I give her the items that have to be returned without the receipt. I'm standing there for about 5 minutes with no interaction. I'm wondering what's going on and i'm not one to be impatient and start complaining, so I just wait. Then she says "We can't return this. I can give you store credit with your ID." I said "What? Why?" "We can't find it in the system so we can only give you a store credit." I have my purchase history up on the Sephora app and explain to her I made the purchase on April 1st. It's $50 and I want my money back. I've done returns this way before. She repeats it again. I'm now getting frustrated and ask her to look it up again. All of a sudden she goes off. "Ma'am STOP WITH YOUR ATTITUDE. I'M TRYING TO TELL YOU SOMETHING. YOU'RE NOT LISTENING TO ME. LET ME TALK." I guess the two times she repeated herself was me not paying attention so she needed to validate herself again. I even apologized if she felt I had an attitude. I ask her to look it up again because I purchased it 20 days ago and I have the purchase history right here on my phone. I was looking at my phone when this occurred and she starts going "Ma'am LOOK AT ME. LOOK AT ME. YOU'RE NOT LISTENING. That's a different system then mine so I can only give you a store credit." She said if I had the confirmation email, she could look it up. I go to show it to her. She doesn't even look at it. She says "Does it have a barcode?" I look at the email and it didn't. She tells me AGAIN she can only give me a store credit... Now, i'm a grown woman. I was appalled that she had the audacity to speak to me like I was a child. I never raised my voice. I didn't curse at her. I was not abusive. I just wanted my money back. She could not answer me why I was able to do this before and not today. Suddenly her computer freezes and she pawns me off on the girl next to me.
Now this cashier was very professional. She heard the whole interaction and assisted me with the utmost respect. As I suspected before, the girl was able to do my refund like I have done in the past without my receipt. She even used the email without the barcode. I got my $50 back. She let me know sometimes some computers don't show the purchase history. Which I believe is BS, but I wasn't going to argue with her. I thanked her for helping me unlike the other girl who didn't want to and left. I was in such shock about the way I was treated I didn't even bother speaking to a manager. Why didn't she ask for help? There were plenty of people around to help her. When you work with customers and even if you're frustrated you treat them with respect. She never even apologized for not being able to help me. I could even understand if I was cursing at her or yellling at her if she was frustrated -- but that never happened! People like her (she wasn't wearing a nametag) should not work with customers if they cannot handle difficult requests with professionalism. I will not return to this store. You will get better service at Ulta.
Oh, don't bother calling customer service. The girl sounded like she didn't even care. read more