We ordered a set of end tables at the Mechanicsburg store on February 24th, I was told they would…read morebe ordered and shipped and arrive in one week. The Store salesman told me to just pick them up the following Thursday (total of 9 days) at the Harrisburg store. I drove to the Harrisburg store (which is 45 minutes away) to pick them up, only to be told they were not ordered correctly. The staff at Harrisburg stated they reordered correctly this time (and the woman who was 'handling it' signed the paperwork to give me a guarantee that it was ordered correctly) and would ship the table to my house for the following Monday (4 days later). I received a confirmation email on Sunday, March 1st that the tables would be delivered between 9a.m.-12p.m. the next day (Monday, March 2nd). I received a phone call at 7:10 a.m. Monday from the 'manager' of the deliveries that the tables were not 'ordered' properly, and that the tables were not shipped so I can't get the tables until at least Friday. I voiced my frustration at this point since I have now been told the order was correct and processed but am now being told I have to wait even more time due to their incompetence. I asked for the manager to call me to discuss these multiple issues at this point, but ended up having to call the manager since he didn't return my call for over 3 hours. He stated he made sure the tables were ordered, and they should be delivered on the day they stated (Friday, March 6th). He stated he would look at what compensation he could provide for us and would contact us later. I still have not received anything from him to this day in a follow up email or phone call.
Finally, I get confirmation that the tables are being delivered on Friday between 12:15 and 3:15. The tables arrived at around 2 p.m., but were already assembled (which we asked them to be left in the boxes so we could put them together), and were completely wrapped in fabric covers and plastic wrap. However, the tables themselves had white streaks up and down the legs of the tables. I thought this might be some dust or smear from the wrapping, so I took wood cleaner and all purpose cleaner to wipe off the smears, but the white would not come off the table legs. It looked like these tables were just taken off of a sales floor and just shipped as is without even worrying about the weird coloring on the legs. How someone from your company would think anyone would want these tables in that condition just baffles me. And that they wrapped them as though they were put together and protected, but were just wrapping them to cover up the discoloration on the tables was truly insulting.
I decided to take the tables back to the Mechanicsburg store on Saturday, and walked in to talk with a manager about the horrible experience we were having so far. I explained to him what was going on with the issues with the ordering and processing of these tables, and we were very frustrated at this point with the store's handling of our order. The manager then says to me 'Why don't you take a breath' while I am explaining to him the issues. That truly set me off, I was not being loud or talking fast or out of control, he just decided I needed to be treated like a child so he could control the situation. I told him to never tell me to take a breath again, and he needed to get my order either cancelled or corrected immediately. He then backtracked and went to look at what was done on the order, but then said they couldn't take the tables at this store since they don't have a setup to take them (what!?! a furniture store that can't take furniture back!?!). After quite a while, he stated that the tables had to be reordered (again!!!) and that the tables would be delivered on Monday, March 15th (another delay, pushing the order now out 3 weeks for 2 end tables), but he would find a way to take the tables back since we were having such 'issues'. After another hour, the reordered tables are entered but I am now told I won't get the tables until Tuesday, March 17th. This amount of delay for 2 simple end tables is now to the point of ridiculous. We weren't even offered anything but 'free shipping', which I didn't want, and like that covered anything that we have had to endure as part of this order. All we wanted was to get the end tables in a timely manner, but I had to take personal time, burn gas and more to travel to the Harrisburg store, as well as driving to the Mechanicsburg store multiple times to get this problem resolved along with having to make plans to be at home to be able to accept the delivery.
These stores can't do anything correctly, and I can't trust anything they are telling me on when or if the tables are going to arrive. This is really extremely poor order handling, and extremely poor communication and customer service from the staff and store itself. Getting 2 end tables shouldn't take this long for a company that just expanded with a new store and should have their