4 years ago
I am an elementary school teacher and have been em...
I am an elementary school teacher and have been employed by Spring ISD for the past 11 years. I am committed to my students lives and rarely take off from work. My boyfriend is a devoted Houston Fire Fighter and EMT. We are both public servants and serve our community daily with love and devotion.
That being said, finding time away from our jobs is nearly impossible. For two years I have been saving money and searching for a sofa/chaise/ottoman to fit my living room dimensions AND that I would just fall in love with. FINALLY, it happened and I found the sofa/chaise/ottoman that I had been searching for so I immediately purchased it with no qualms. My boyfriend , knowing how much I LOVED and wanted it and that I would never leave my students for such an excuse , made arrangements to be off on the first day that it could be delivered!! It was bought and the delivery date was Wednesday, Dec. 3 between the hours of 9AM-1PM. I couldn t have been more ecstatic!
The day that I had been waiting for had FINALLY arrived and my loving boyfriend took off for the day and held off on running errands to be at home specifically for the arrival of our new furniture, but by 1 PM (the end of our time frame) they still were not there. By 2:45PM we had NOT received a courtesy call NOR had anyone been by the house. So I had to make a phone call to customer service to find out what had happened. They said that their delivery person was on the delivery ahead of us and they should be there soon. So he continued to wait.
At 3:30 we had a phone call saying the truck would be there in 5 minutes. At 3:37PM he went outside and waited OUTSIDE for the truck THAT NEVER ARRIVED!!!!
When I got back from taking my students to car-rider duty I had several missed calls, I called Customer Service and they said that their delivery truck had been there at 2:53PM, waited for 15 minutes, and then left. We did not get a call until 3:30PM so absolutely NONE of the time frame is plausible. I called to see if the truck could go back and they told me they would try to get the driver, at that time I sped off back home to try and see if there was ANY way that I could get my furniture that I had been hoping for. At 5:09 I finally received a call saying that the driver would not answer his phone and could not be reached. They said that since there were no more delivery times for Saturday I would have to take another day off of work. ANOTHER DAY OFF!?!?! AFTER MY BOYFRIEND HAD LOST A WHOLE DAY S PAY!?!?! Since I am a teacher at a low income school, MANY of the activities I plan for my students come out of MY personal pocket so I also work another job on the weekend to get by, so to reschedule put s my finances in jeopardy!!
I spoke to another 6 people in the span of the rest of that night and into Thursday (during my lunch break) and the best they could do was schedule me for DECEMBER 30 to receive all three pieces of my furniture set!!! AFTER CHRISTMAS!!! So it looks like we will have to schedule Christmas at another location, after I have already made arrangements for our house!!! I was SOOO distraught I began to cry in school and asked what would happen if I just cancelled the order all together because I felt disrespected and WRONGED. My boyfriend had already lost a day s pay and now I am going to lose money if I had to schedule ANOTHER drop off date!! They are completely jeopardizing my income AT CHRISTMAS!!!
Rooms To Go s total disregard for my time being just as much as a commodity as theirs, their lack of respect, their lack of courtesy to call and let us know that the delivery was going to be late, and their lack of Customer Service is beyond comprehension to me. I am so frustrated right now and will NEVER AGAIN purchase anything through them NOR will I refer ANYONE if this is how they treat their hardworking and upstanding customers.
Fernando Meirelles & Guimaraes Rosa