My husband and I went to Zales in Middletown to exchange a bracelet that was bought on Zales.com. They didn't have a suitable piece to exchange it for so we requested a refund instead. The sales woman took the receipt and after a little while came back and said the bracelet wasn't ready to be returned yet, the order isn't in the system and to come back in a week and it should be there by then. What?? Not ready to be returned? I've never heard of anything like this. Of course our order is in the system. We have a receipt, item was delivered to our house and the credit card was billed. This isn't 1943, we have computers now. She showed us where the customer service number is on the receipt, told us to call them, gave us back our bracelet and went off to help another customer.
So my husband called customer service right there in the store. In the mean time, while he was on hold, the store manager came out of the back room and we asked if she could help us. She took the receipt and this time told us that she sees the order in the "old system" but not the "new system" (like that would mean anything to someone who doesn't work for Zales). She too told us there was nothing she could do and to come back in a week. So after a lot of questions on our part and some snippiness on her part we finally got her to pick up the phone and call her help desk and guess what? The two of them were entering our order number into their "new system" wrong. Our order was in their system all along, like we already knew, and if we had left and come back in a week like they wanted us to do it would have been the same runaround then too.
Now, I don't have a problem with these two ladies not knowing the ins and outs of their "new system". Maybe it was just brought online last week and they are still getting used to it. It was the stupid story that the bracelet wasn't ready to be returned yet and the total lack of willingness to find out what the problem was and to fix it that got me. They just wanted us gone, and that's OK. Not only will I not be back in a week, I will never be back. read more