3 years ago
I and my husband purchased a mattress from Homemak...
I and my husband purchased a mattress from Homemakers furniture on October 10th, 2016. We brought it home and upon unwrapping it, we found several small reddish spots near one corner. We knew we might want to swap the mattress, so I took time stamped photos of the spots to prove that they were there when we got the mattress.
We live about 2 hours away from the store, so we decided to go ahead and try the mattress and see if we liked it. We tried it for just under 3 months, and it was simply too firm for both of us.
On January 1st, 2017, we took the mattress back to the store in Urbandale to switch it with a different model. When we got to the store, Seth was very helpful, and we chose what model we wanted, paid for the difference, then went to drop off the original mattress and pick up the new one. They took the mattress off our truck, unwrapped it, and said they could not take it back because of the reddish stains. We showed them the photos proving the stains were there when we got it, and they said it didn t make a difference.
When my husband walked into the office to discuss it, the door slammed shut and hit him in the face, causing a bleeding cut by his eye, and a swollen bump under his eye, as well as dizziness. Although several people there saw this happen, no one offered assistance or medical aid. He even had to go find the restroom to get paper towels to staunch the bleeding himself. He filled out an incident report, but we were appalled by the lack of concern for an injury which happened on Homemaker s property.
Then the workers found a tear in the lining of the mattress underside. It was not there when we loaded it, and we had had the mattress wrapped both in the original plastic and in a tarp to keep it protected. We believe the tear in the fragile lining happened when the workers unloaded it. The tear was right where the straps on the side of the mattress were located, so it looked like it tore when someone was using the strap to move it.
They refused to exchange the mattress, in spite of the fact that we could prove the stains were there when we got it. They would not work with us at all. We even offered to pay extra to make up for the damage, but they refused.
On January 3, 2017, I called customer service to see I there were any options or us at all. The lady I spoke with was very rude. I was trying to be very calm and understanding of their situation while explaining mine, and she was very short and just kept repeating that they couldn t take back the mattress. I finally told her that I didn t understand why she was being so rude, and she apologized and was a little better. However, she still said there were no discounts to help make up or our loss, we couldn t exchange it for a floor model or used mattress, and there wasn t so much as a coupon we could get to assist us If we bought another mattress there. In short, they were unwilling to do anything at all to help an unhappy customer.
When I pointed out to her that the paperwork about the sleep trial said nothing about having to call about stains that were on the mattress at time of purchase, she just said I should have known better.
Today, I called again, asking if we could find a resolution. I spoke to Dave Kretz, the bedroom manager, and he told me not to call again, that they would not do anything for us at all.
So we are stuck with a mattress which is painful for us to sleep on. We did everything we could or knew to do to comply with the requirements for exchanges, and all we have is a $1,600 debt for a mattress which is useless to us.