Back in late August, I pre-ordered a game from Best Buy Dartmouth Crossing for my fiance's birthday. The game was Dead Island, and it was set for release on Sept 6. When we went that day after work, there were no copies to be found because the sales people had not set aside copies for the pre-orders. As this was a birthday gift, I was not too pleased. The clerk I dealt with in the customer service/returns dept assured me that they would have more on Thursday. Also, that they would take 20$ off the sale price for our troubles.
Thursday came and we went to the store and AGAIN they had no copies. I was furious, and the manager I spoke with was not helpful in the least. They said that they would have some on Friday. When my fiance called Friday morning, he was told that they did not know when they would have copies. By this point, I had already put a complaint into their corporate office. The response time from corporate was not very good, I had to call a few times before someone actually called me back. In the in term, I had found the game elsewhere, and in the end Best Buy credited me for most of the purchase price...which was nice. However, that does not undue the horrible customer service that we experienced.
This is not the first time we have had trouble with this store.
My fiance had to get his iPod headphones replaced, and initially they gave us a cheap knock off. They may have worked for a day, we went back and had to speak to a manager who corrected the issue and gave us the right pair.
Also, my fiance had to send his xbox in for service. While in for repair Best Buy lost the hard drive and it took them a week to find it. Finally, when we purchased a new digital slr camera in July; there was a promo to get a discounted SD card. We didn't buy it the same day because we needed to check the size of one we already had. We then decided to go back and take advantage of the promo. The clerk in customer service was trying to tell us that because we purchased a bundle promo, that we could not take advantage of this promo. In the flyer, the promo ad did not list any conditions or contain any symbol to direct you to conditions. Again, we had to involve a manager to get an advertised promo.
We do not recommend Best Buy-Dartmouth Crossing to anyone. The staffs knowledge of general business practises, Best Buy's policies and customer service are horrible. They do not care about their customers, it would be better to avoid the hassles, the arguments with the store staff and spend your money elsewhere. read more