Their products are whatever you make of them, i'd personally found great deals at times, and not so great stuff that I'd find returning.
What I wanna comment on today however, is their service, or in particular, the service of a kind lady - Valentina, who probably was the floor-manager / staff-in-charge of the day.
I had returned an online order that I have had shipped to this location for store pickup. Order arrived on the 17th, wasn't able to pick up due to work until 22nd. One thing I had omitted to double check was whether or not the 14 days return windows was to start counting on the order arrival date or the actual pick up date; this part was my fault for assuming, and low-n-behold it was marked in the system as not returnable on 1st of next month, on the 10th day after pickup, barely 1 day after the 14th day window even from 17th arrival date.
Valentina was sympathetic about the ambiguous situation I was in, and suggested me to call the staples call-center to have it escalate on their end, as they would have the authority to override/adjust such non-returnable flag based on your situation. She could have let me walk out to deal with it myself the next day as it was 8pm already, but per her suggestion I'd made the call then and there, only to hit an auto-response that their call-center is closed to general consumers. I was genuinely being thankful for all her advises and patience and apologetic for troubling them near closing time during the whole process, and she was definitely reciprocating too in her eagerness to help, since she took it to herself to call the same call-center via their land line, which we suspected was whitelisted to be directed to in-company service rep, to help me sort things out.
Long story short, because it was so late she was there waiting on-hold with me forever with no reps available. She eventually took a risk and attempted to manually provide me a refund around the blockage, saving me the trouble of attempting to deal with their call-center. In my opinion I have a strong case of getting the refund myself with a call, given the ambiguity of the 14 day policy for online pickups, but Valentina was through and through wanted to make sure I was taken cared of right then and there, even if it means she may have some explaining to deal with to her higher-ups about the situation, if you get my drift.
Overall, super thankful and satisfied about her above-and-beyond customer service, when she didn't have to go that extra length. I'll be coming back for misc purchase just for that alone. Thank you! read more