THIS IS THE FIVE STAR PART OF THE REVIEW:
This is a mixed review because while the experience of purchasing the bed set was extremely wonderful, the delivery sucked. Last week, I took my daughter to the Erie Blvd. East store in Syracuse to buy her a new bed. We worked with Carol, a sales manager. Carol was the sweetest, nicest, most professional person I have dealt with in a retail sales setting in years. She asked what we were looking for and what our price range was, and showed us several available sets that fit our requirements. We decided on an extremely comfortable set that was on sale and sat down to do the paperwork. Everything went well, and we left the store very satisfied with the purchase we made. Delivery was set up for the following week.
THIS IS THE ONE STAR PART OF THE REVIEW:
Delivery day came, and the truck arrived on time (we had a window of 1-4, and they arrived before 2:00). The delivery men were from a different store (Cicero), which is why this review is in two parts, as you will see. The problem started when one of the men said something about not removing the old set, and I went to find my receipt because removal was something that I had discussed with Carol. (As I am in a wheelchair, having them remove the old bed set was just much easier for me). Apparently, because I had the nerve to question the delivery guy's comment about them removing the old set, he quickly got an attitude and became belligerent. He got out his copy of the receipt to show me that there was nothing mentioned about the removal, and after the bed was set up he kept muttering comments including wondering whether I was going to make trouble for him with the store.
I called the store where I purchased the bed to talk to Carol. She was not working, but I talked to an extremely nice person who said that there had been a misunderstanding and that they were coming back to take away the old bed-set. As I was hanging up with him, the delivery men showed back up again, and I proceeded to tell them what I thought about their lousy attitude. The taller man, of course, denied saying anything derogatory but my daughter had heard everything.
Shortly after they left, one of them called and told my daughter that he had in fact called and discussed the situation with Carol, who informed him that removal was included, but she had simply forgotten to write it on the receipt. She had been the only one working the evening we made our purchase and had other customers to take care of besides us, and this slipped through the cracks.
I would give Carol and the Erie Blvd. East store five stars, because I could not have reasonably asked for things to go better. We got a great bed set, at a great price, and were treated very well by Carol. I give the delivery people one star, only because they called back after everything was done to let us know that we were correct about removing the old bed. They did set up the bed like they were supposed to, it's just that everything else about them made this a horrible customer experience. read more