I ordered 2 bottles to save on shipping, and 1 of them was the wrong bottle upon delivery. Asked for a return label and replacement of the original bottle. Day goes by and I'm asked if I'd take $10 to keep it. I say no and ask again, eventually getting a return label, but never addressing whether they had the actual bottle I ordered.
I immediately return everything safely and I get a refund 2 days later. Confused, I reply asking why the refund and if they have the bottle I ordered. It also left me with all of the shipping charges for the one bottle I wouldn't have gotten by itself. Ignored.
Day goes by, so I sent another email that I would be happy to accept the original bottle without additional shipping. Ignored.
Day goes by, so I ask again for a reply. Ignored.
Next day, I did the only thing I could and left a 2 star review on Google (not even 1 star). I plainly explained the entire situation. I even said I've shopped there many times in person and online and know they're quite disorganized and they make you chase them if anything happens. I even have a friend who had an order "lost" despite the item still being in stock on their site, and took them months to cancel and refund the order. They do the bare minimum and you accept it because of the pricing, but they will frustrate you just as much as anything. It's almost never a fully happy experience. If you can't pick something off the shelf in person, spend a few bucks somewhere else that will actually care about your business.
Next day I get an email offering to send the bottle I ordered with no shipping charge, and asking kindly if I would change the review to 5 stars if that's satisfactory.
I thought that was pretty unreasonable, but they never made an overt demand, so I countered by saying I would accept and once it's delivered, I would take down the review as a token of appreciation (even though there's nothing to appreciate about a company trying to screw you and only acting to change an online review).
Next day I get sent an invoice, only this time it's actually $3.48 more than I was refunded. So at this point I'm paying more for the inconvenience. I send another email to correct the price. Next day I get another email with the correct price. I pay it and send them a reply that I will take my review down once it's received, and thanking them (despite very little to be thankful for as they make every step excruciating).
I get a reply back with the picture of my bottle confirming it is the right one and then they write "Once the review is removed, we will go ahead and ship this out and follow up with the tracking number". So now they're just brazenly holding the thing I originally ordered, and now paid for again, until I remove the review that they earned with terrible customer service and relative disregard. I'd done everything right up to this point, and the review is the only real leverage I have for them to care at all about me.
At first I gave them the choice to cancel and refund it if they weren't going to send it out, or send it and I would take the review down. But as I sat on it for a few minutes, I told them to cancel and refund the order, and I'll be updating my review with this correspondence. The 1 star I gave them is honestly more than they deserve.
I totally get that they would want the review to be taken down, but they wouldn't have gotten it in the first place, or I would have willingly changed it had they just focused on doing the right thing. The review is the only thing they actually cared about, not me as a longtime repeat customer. Well, that's the last time I'll pay them any patronage.
They have, as of now a 4.2 rating on Google, and maybe the only reason they cared about my review is it's the only placed they're not totally eviscerated. 3.1 here on Yelp and 1.6 on BBB! read more