I am writing this letter to you to let you know that I made one of the worst decisions in my life that I totally REGRET and will never make again. On Aug 21, 2019 I purchased a new bed and mattress from your store located in Canoga Park, CA.
The salesperson was very friendly and nice, knowledgeable and worked hard on getting me the best deal possible. I left the store that day very happy with my purchase. Unfortunately, that feeling did not last and rapidly turned from a good experience to terrible experience, because the whole transaction was not completed until Oct 26, 2019.
My furniture was delivered to the new location where I was moving to about a week later. Two days later I noticed two different problems with the bed. First there was box under my bed of slats/railings. Second the bookcase headboard was to have a LED light stripe incorporated in that did not work.
I called the store to report the problems, they were able to schedule an appointment to have a tech specialist come out to my house I thought it was to fix the problems. I was told at the time I would get a call from Ashley with a window of time that the person would show up. I never received that call. I finally called customer service to get this information. The system immediately recognized my phone number and indicated I had an appointment tomorrow, but no time mentioned. I made my selections need in order to talk to someone. Over an hour later, I finally got a person. Was I upset? Course I was, who would not be if they had to wait over an hour to talk to someone regarding customer services issue. Finally, on my third attempt and almost three hours later I got a hold of person who could provide me a timeframe when I should expect the tech person to arrive. The technician did not install the slats/railing, or fix the light in the headboard, he only tightens a few screws on the bedframe.
Over the next couple of weeks, whenever I tried to call Ashley, I had to wait anywhere from 30 - 60 minutes to get to talk to a customer service rep. Only to have that person, provide inconsistent information, lack of desire to provide solution to my problems, or a promise that quickly went unfulfilled. In addition, I received several calls from your company to schedule time to pick up the slats, which I discover couple weeks after the initial service call where not even for the bed I had purchased. I wanted to have one service call to the house and have the slats which were delivered in error picked up and have the headboard light fixed all at same time. I went back to the store to see if I could get some results in person. After a while one of the persons at the store end up going into your system and requested an even exchange of the broken headboard for a new one. Only to get a call 5 minutes or so after leaving the store being told corporate will not allow it, because as best as I understood was due to some internal accounting issues. I found out a few days later that the internal issue was because the parts the technician had ordered several weeks earlier was finally in process, so that there will be extra parts delivered to me when there would been a new headboard delivered to me as well. I finally received the spare parts for the light stripe. I scheduled another appointment for another technician to come out and repair the lights. After another visit, I was able to plug the lights, but it would only flash red, white and blue when plugged in. In addition, the technician would not or could not pick up and take the slats that were not even meant for the bed I purchased. The technician was confused and clueless as to why the lights were doing what they were doing and had no solution on how to fix this new problem. Upon my second call on this matter, I was asked about a remote control. I was asked what remote, as this was never mentioned when the bed was originally delivered or with either tech visit to my house. A remote control was ordered for me.
During this time of getting the lights "working" and receiving the remote control in the mail, I had to succumb to Ashley's policy of what is best for the company and not the paying customer and scheduled to have people from the warehouse come out and pick up the slats. It took three attempts for the warehouse to pick up the slats. Because the first two times they kept going to my old address instead of the current place of residence, which was very odd considering the bed/mattress, both times the technician came out, and all spare parts that were mailed to the correct address, so why did the people at the warehouse go to the wrong address.
This is partial copy of the letter sent to CEO of Ashley and to BBB read more