3 years ago
UPDATE: So I have decided to update my original re...
UPDATE: So I have decided to update my original review of 1 star to 5 stars based on the swift response from upper management to my first review. Though they could not turn back the clock to re do our first experience, I had multiple phone calls from the upper LaZBoy echelon and they did everything in their power to write the wrongs including refunding us for the fabric protection, trying to escalate our replacement piece production, ensuring we will be contacted once a week until we get the replacement, and just genuinely apologize for what we ve been dealing with. It really restored my faith in the brand and it was refreshing to see upper management care that deeply about their customers and their willingness to help make things right. I will still leave my original review below, however, please take note that the company has been very diligent in making it up to us and that effort has not gone unnoticed.
We have not had a good experience with LaZBoy and will not purchase anything from them again. The entire experience has been a nightmare. First off, we we felt like we were conned into purchasing fabric protection. We were never specifically asked whether we wanted it or not because if they had asked then we would have said absolutely not. I know it s just an up sale for them and frankly I don t like the chemicals they use for fabric protection anyway. Somehow of course, a charge for fabric pro textile magically popped up on our receipt and we didn t know that the sales rep snuck that $200 up charge until we had left the store.
The buying experience hasn t been the only horrible thing about this company. After waiting 6 plus weeks to get our sectional, the support bar on the left side of the couch collapsed after only having it for 2 weeks. The left side now sinks in. We called customer service, repeatedly for over a week, to find out what we were suppose to do in that situation. The rep that we were assigned never once returned phone calls or emails and I had to call every day in order to get some semblance of an answer as to what happens now that our brand new sofa is broken. After a week of phone tag, they finally ordered a repair on our sectional. It took 3 weeks to get a tech out here to spend a few minutes looking at us and then deeming the piece not repairable. I had to call customer service again to ask what would happen now since the tech just said we would be contacted and we weren t. The customer service rep said that the claim would be sent to LaZBoy and they would decide what would happen next. She made it seem as our sectional, which broke only after 2 weeks of ownership, would possibly not be taken care of. She gave me no sort of guareentee and told me I had to wait 7-10 business days to find out. Almost two weeks later I get a call saying that LaZBoy actually did approve it for reselection and that we will be getting a replacement, however, that s another 6 to 8 weeks of waiting for the replacement! We ordered this sectional back in April and it looks like we will not have a fully operational couch until late summer.
Between the sneaky car salesman like selling practices, non communicative and non existent customer service, and the broken product that was advertised to last decades, it s safe to say I will NEVER gamble on LaZBoy again. It s so sad because we literally picked this company for our new couch based off its reputation for high quality furniture and customer service. That was unfortunately not our experience in the slightest.