3 words - horrible customer service.
We ordered our son a pair of regular frame glasses and a pair of sports goggles for him to wear also on January 13, 2020.
We were told we could either pay in full or pay half up front and then pay the rest when we picked up the glasses in 2 weeks once they came in. We chose option 2.
My son's regular frames arrived on January 31 and my wife picked them up and was told that the sports goggles were not in but would be in any day now.
Fast forward to last week, Monday Feb. 10 and my son's sports goggles had still not arrived. However, as we were discussing this, the office called my wife and was told by the "lead optician" there was probably something wrong with the lab, but assured her that she would call the lab and see what was going on and either call her back that night or the next day.
Did she call back? Nope.
I instead called them back on Thursday, Feb. 13 to see what the deal was as we had heard nothing.
No answer. Voicemail. Left a message to call me.
Did they? Nope.
On Monday, February 17, after not hearing back still throughout the entire work day, I again called at 3:41 PM.
No answer.
Called back again at 4:15 PM and finally spoke to the "office manager" who could not explain to me WHY my son's goggles were not in yet. I mean, zero explanation. Kept blaming the lab. She said she would once again call the lab and see what was going on.
On Tuesday, February 18 (yesterday), she called back and spoke to my wife around 11:30 AM. She told my wife that she had spoken to the lab and that they would be sending the goggles by FedEx overnight and we would have them today.
At 4 PM today, again after an entire business day, we had not heard from them that goggles were in, so my wife and I physically stopped by to see if we could pick them up.
Were they there? Nope.
We spoke to the "lead optician" again and she said that she talked to the lab at some point earlier today and for some reason the lab had missed the cutoff for overnight delivery and that's why they weren't there.
Did she call and let us know that? Nope.
Instead, I had to make a trip out of my way to go to this eye care place and find out that still, after FIVE WEEKS, and after having PAID IN FULL, these sports goggles that were ordered on January 13 were still NOT THERE!!!!
Needless to say, we wanted an explanation and some sort of apology. The "lead optician" was very snarky after my wife asked why no one had apologized or why they couldn't have taken the time to call us and let us know. She didn't seem to even care that we were upset. She just didn't want my wife yelling at her at their fancy front desk. Which my wife wasn't.
So, after another promise that they would be here tomorrow, we left.
In addition, we asked for an itemized bill, because we had some suspicion on our insurance as to how much our insurance actually paid. I'll just say their billing is hard to read and suspect at best.
But still, you would think that after paying over $600 for glasses (and that's after insurance) that they would extend an apology or offer something to make it right. They offered nothing. I had to ask for money back. They gave us $100, but no apology.
And oh...again....we still don't have the glasses.
At least I got a free mint. read more