Kuang Ping Yang
Google
If there's a minus star option that would've been my rating.
On May 6th I went into CB2 on Robson and made a purchase worth $2560.90 that includes a bed, sheets, quilt, and shams. As of May 29th, only the bed had been delivered. Everything else in that order was never delivered to me.
I have tracked the order since May 6th and I saw it go from the warehouse to Etobicoke then to Richmond. I saw it being assigned different tracking numbers. I started contacting CB2's customer support team in mid May to ask for assistance on double confirming my address, on helping me track my package. In the first two phone calls, I had spent in total more than 2 hours waiting for them to "confirm" shipping address, to "track" my package. I was at the time promised that the address has been confirmed and package was located and will be delivered to me asap. That was May 17th.
On May 26th I saw online that my package was still being processed I then decided to cancel the order and ask for a refund. I called CB2 support team again, explained the situation and asked for a refund politely. The lady on the phone told me that that she had started the refund process and that she promised to email and call me the next day for an update. I never received the call nor the email. I then spoke with a guy at CB2 again through their live chat service to check if my order was indeed canceled and refunded, the person in the chat room told me it was never in the process, and that they would have to "open a task" to start the refund process. I kindly asked them to do so and give me an update. I, again, never received an update.
on May 29th I decided to go in person to the shop on Robson and ask for a response. When I first stepped into the shop, they greeted me nicely thinking I was there to make a purchase. After I told them about what I was there for, the attitude went from cordial to indifferent. I told a lady about my situation and asked kindly that CB2 refund my the purchase I made almost a month ago, she stared at me blankly and asked a another staff to come over, I then had to explain the situation again to the person, who the whole time treated me coldly. I told them that the carrier they work with, Purolator is notorious for losing folks' packages, the person told me, in verbatim, "we have no control over that." I explained that I talked to at least 4 people on the phone, in live chat room that are representative from CB2 who had PROMISED me refund or address confirmation and just DID NOT DO ANY OF THE THINGS THEY HAD PROMISED ME. The person said in the most nonchalant and condescending way "But we don't have control over the carrier. As you can see, the things have left the warehouse already so don't have control over that." He then asked me without even looking at me "so what do you want now? you want to return your purchase?" I swallowed the fireball I had in my throat and said " no, I want a refund as I have stated since 2 weeks ago nonstop via phone, via live chatrooms, and now in person."
At the end, he asked me "so what do you want to refund?"
They did apologize. They did say they have received my feedback. The whole interaction was just utterly disappointing and humiliating cos I was treated more like a nuisance than a customer during the whole interaction. The guy literally told me that my refund was in process as he walked away from me. I had to stop him and ask what he was mumbling and if that was the end of the whole ordeal. He didn't bother to turn around and just said "yes" as he continued walking away.
Vancouver is such a culturally diverse place so I never want to assume my race has anything to do with any uncomfortable incidents I encounter. But as the only person of color in a condescending interaction with two Caucasian looking staff members, it was really difficult for me to extend that grace and benefit of the doubt.
CB2 I sincerely hope you take this incident and all the phone calls that you said would be recorded seriously and provide your staff better trainings so that this doesn't happen to anyone else.