Damn I cannot believe I'm leaving my second 1 star review EVER and guess what -- it's for the SAME…read moreESTABLISHMENT!!!!
STEER CLEAR from using this location, in fact, ANY UPS location for this holiday season (quite frankly, steer clear forever). Honest to god, I'm a very positive person so it pains me to have this much frustration towards anything, but holy hell. This store has been the root of my anger, stress and anxiety over the last 2 months.
Long story short, they admittedly packaged my $800 tv (65") incorrectly and in result, delivered it to Texas completely destroyed. The best part? They're refusing to pay me back the value of the TV.
OH WAIT -- I'm sorry, I think the best part has been this location completely ghosting my 25+ calls, 10+ voicemails, 10+ emails over the last 2 months. OH NO NO WAIT, I'm sorry. The best part might be me having to send my FATHER into the store to ask them to answer me since I'm now living halfway across the country. And they STILL had the audacity to ignore me. *Mind you, they were required to reach out to me with the claim's result 48hrs after it was processed -- they never did and instead just denied it -- so I quite literally had to open up 3 different complaints against this store desperately trying to have customer care help me while I have this giant smashed TV collecting dust in my tiny apartment*
Here's the full story that's getting a lot of publicity Facebook (could have been avoided if they ever responded to me):
I moved from Boston to Texas a couple months ago and shipped out a 65" TV (~$700 value) from my local UPS store. I was super nervous about shipping it halfway across the country and especially nearly shat myself when I was witnessing how careless the UPS worker was being with it (just to paint a picture: she attempted to place the TV SCREEN SIDE DOWN on the tiny metal scale to weigh it until I asked her to flip it over). Very IDGAF attitude, which is fine, but when I asked the worker if I could put insurance on it, or any extra protection, and she told me no. She proceeds to ring me up, charges me $286 to ship it out (almost shat myself again), handed me a paper to sign (spoiler alert: this is what f*cked me), and I go on my way.
Fast forward a few weeks after I move, I unbox the giant package and see it's completely smashed. I tried getting in touch with the local UPS store - called countless times, left voicemails, emailed, sent my DAD to the store to ask them to respond to me, I TRIED EVERYTHING for a couple weeks - NO RESPONSE. Hell, I even sent in a Seargent in my town to talk with the owner - still didn't get back to me.
I had opened a claim with customer care who told me it'd take 1-2 biz days for the local UPS store to get back to me with their decision to approve or deny it. Shocker - they never reached out. 2 more weeks went by, I kept calling customer care, they told me there's nothing they can do and they legally can't tell me what the claim's result is, only the local store can. (however, one rep did slip and tell me they denied the claim due to insufficient packaging)
FINALLY, I got in touch with a great UPS representative who noted numerous red flags on the store's end:
* packaged it for a 55" tv (10" too small)
* packaged it for a 20lb item (it's 50lbs)
* charged me an absurd amount to custom pack it WHEN THEY DIDN'T EVEN HAVE THE PROPER MATERIALS (the rep told me it's typically $50-$60, not $286)
* *side note: you can tell by the lousy AF packaging in my photos that they had to ~get creative~ and tape two boxes together to be able to fit the TV inside (that they pretended was 10" smaller). I CANNOT.*
The rep told me as long as I didn't sign a PSO form, this claim would certainly be passed and in return, I'd receive a check for the value of the TV along with the $286 I paid for shipping. She mentioned by signing the PSO form, you're refusing insurance/protection on the item if it's damaged from UPS.
SADLY........turns out, that was the damn form I signed. I am livid beyond words. I keep replaying the moments in my head asking the UPS worker about protection and insurance and her telling me no.