I normally don't shop at Macy's but this is one of my mom's favorite department stores. She wanted to look for dresses for an upcoming wedding so we made our way to Macy's Dress Department. They were also having a 30% off sale that day all through the weekend.
My mom and I came into Macy's Valleyfair Mall on a Friday around 11am. We were browsing the women's Dress Department looking for floor length gowns. The sales associates were all pretty nice, when they saw that we were holding a few dresses in our arms, they offered to put them into a fitting room for us. We tried them on, got assisted if we needed different sizes and we ended up finding some dresses for the wedding.
My mom wanted to pay and so I just walked around the Dress Department to see if I'd miss anything. As my mom was about to make our purchase, the sales lady mentioned to her that if we were to open a Macy's store card/credit card account, we would get another 20% off our purchase, as well as the 30% sale going on in-store, "which would be a total of 50% percent off!" she said. Of course hearing that we would get a total of 50% off, my mom turned to me to open an account to get that "awesome" deal(my mom already has an account with Macy's, that's why she turned to me to open my own account). Especially since the purchases on my 2 dresses alone were already a little over $540 and my mom's dress was a little over $380 with the 30% off. It took a really long time for me to get approved, which is understandable since I had a fraudulent protection plan, but in the end I was approved. After the approval, the sales lady THEN decides to clarify that it's 30% off in-store and the extra 20% off will come off our Macy's bill..which will come in the mail later on. OKAY, fine.. My mom and I figured that we will just accept that, since it's too late at that point and shopped around all of Macy's.
We spent a few hours, thinking that we would get 15%-30% off in-stores between the shoes/fragrance/beauty departments along with that extra 20% off our bill once we get it in the mail. My mom likes clarification, so every sales associate who assisted us with our purchases in each department, my mom would repeatedly make sure that we were going to get the 15-30% off in-stores, as well as 20% off the bill. ALL but ONE associate said "yes, you'll get that deal for 2 days only." That ONE sales associate rung us up on our final purchase in the beauty department and clarified that it would be 20% off the bill UP TO $100. My mom and I were so shocked and in disbelief. NO ONE, especially the 1st sales associate in the Dress Department who convinced us to open the Macy's card mentioned that it was up to $100. My dresses alone already exceeded that $100 max limit and she didn't seem to care to mention that?? That same 1st sales associate stapled the shopping pass over the brochure with the Macy's card information, so we wouldn't even see the "up to $100" in the front of the brochure unless we ripped off the shopping pass. My mom and I felt so duped and I wish I never even opened a Macy's store card because that $100 was completely not worth it. Maybe if the 1st sales associate had clarified that with us, instead of repeating the 50% off for 2 days, then maybe we would have felt differently. Opening this Macy's card affected my credit, which would be OK if we didn't feel duped all around. My mom and I decided to return over 1/2 of our purchases because we could get better fragrance/beauty sales at more honorable stores. I also made a fragrance purchase that was to be delivered to my mom's house. Since it wasn't "at the counter," I was told that I had to call customer service to cancel my purchase mail order. SO ANNOYING. It was such a WASTE OF TIME and ENERGY. -_-
PLEASE train your associates to clarify the terms of the sales/opening of Macy's cards, and worry less about trying to get numbers. My mom is a LONG time customer and I felt horrible that she, as well as myself, was tricked in that way. I'm glad I was there to witness all these transactions and be able to voice our deceitful experience with Macy's!
*I've sent a similar complaint to Macy's on their website, so hopefully I get some response to this experience. I also posted the photo of our receipt since it didn't show the sales associates name on it, just maybe their employee ID..* read more