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UPDATES April 30.20…read more
As I received my daughter's glasses on Apr 16,2020 , with the much appreciated help of mall management, I don't plan to revisit this case anymore. Now that a representative from the store decided to comment and defend their position after so many days, I feel the need to make my points clear, and with more facts.
After reading their reply, two things that I notice are:
1) they still don't understand their customer and try to meet their needs.
My need is to get my daughter's glasses as soon as possible. Yet, as professionals running an optical store, they are telling me my need is NOT a neccessity. They deny customer's needs, and they also deny their own profession. Regardless of what they think their best advice is (i.e waiting for the pandemic to be over before picking up the glasses), my ask is still the same - to take delivery of the glasses in whatever ways, and as soon as possible. They have repeatedly ignored and delayed that with various reasons. The entire case lasted more than a month, since I was notified about my daughter's glasses being ready at their store. Regardless of how hard they say they strived to make arrangement for the delivery, it took them almost a month to arrange for this. One may question just how hard they really tried. As a customer who paid for the glasses fully at the beginning, I believe I have exhibited enough patience by waiting that long, especially when most of the contacts that they claimed they made to me, were in fact initiated or made by me. In another words, I am the one who puts in the effort to chase after them. They rarely took the initiative to update and contact me.
2) they don't have sympathy for their customers. Everyone is going through and suffering (in various degree) in this pandemic, not just them. While they ask for understanding, they did not do the same to their customer. Is there even a word of apology / understanding here to their customer? All I read is points of defense.
In the end, they may know their stuff, but they don't treat customers the way it should be. This is why I give them a low rating. I do hope that they can address this internally.
Aside from that, this is to the store representative: please do not disclose customer's details, especially when it is medical related (ie. severity/degree of astigmatism), in public without customer's consent.
UPDATES May 1.20
thanks for removing my daughter's medical info, this shouldnt be done in the first place, no one likes to get their private info post publicly, altho she is only a kid and wouldn't know. hope this wont happen again to me or to anyone else.