Sumo W.
Yelp
Have you ever thought to yourself, Gee I really want expensive furniture and I just want the most difficult time in getting it delivered without anyone providing any sort of update or information on the items that I just bought and spent a ton of money on. Crate And Barrel is just the place for you with guarantee of headache, hiccups, and a world wind of nobody letting you know that your items are discontinued, not arriving in your shipment or just straight damaged. My wife and I had been searching for furniture and we really did not want to come to crate and barrel to begin with because we know that it's pricey just for the name brand and weren't too sure about the quality. We decided to give it a chance. The staff seem nice and are willing to help, but once you've given them your credit card and slid that bad boy through their machine, that is where everything goes down the drain. Unless you call them about when and where your items are, you won't get an update, you will not be notified about your items being ready to ship as was promised by the individual who helped us. They make it seem they will keep you notified every step of the way. Wrong!
We were told that our bed frame would be in stock early July and delivered around that time. In addition to bed frame we ordered a bench for the end of the bed and some counter top stools. Nobody called me when early July came so I gave them a call. Come to find out, ohhhh btw your counter top stools were discontinued and sorry bruh but we don't have them. Also oh yea that bed frame you wanted, actually is going to be delivered end of July. So only reason I found out about anything was because I called and nobody kept me up to date as promised. We were a bit sad that we didn't get those stools but quickly found an even better option at Lamps Plus(so much better) which actually shipped on time and Not damaged. We were ok with the minor delay in the bed frame, night stands, and bench that we ordered.
July 30th rolls around, we are excited to finally not sleep on the floor and had an email saying all our items were going to be there on that date. The delivery people came and they tell me, "sorry bro your bench isn't available, it wasn't even in the warehouse, don't know what to tell you, it will come later". Ok fine, no problem. Let's get that bed frame going. They open the box and guess what, the bed frame is completely damaged, the metal parts were bent and unable to be used to put it together. Ok fine, stuff happens. They tell me they will call me and arrange for another date. I called the store and I let one of the managers know about how upset we are with the whole process and the minimal contact, hiccups, and just all around terrible buyers experience. The manager sympathized and told me they would rush the item and compensate us when everything is done to have us as a returning customer, blah blah blah.
They call us to arrange another date. They tell us the best they can do is 2 and a half weeks. That's what they call " rush". They have the item in stock but we gotta wait half a month. Not only wait half a month they tried to charge us another delivery fee after they effed up. That ended up being waved because I complained about it. At this point I lost it. Nothing they say is true, they are unreliable. Hands down worst experience.
This seems to be THE Crate and Barrel experience.
Amidst all the craze with furniture, minimal supplies, high demand of delivery, this has been the worst experience. All the other furniture stores we have gone to have not had all these issues. We have always got our items on time, without delay or any damage, always informed.
Do yourself a favor go to LA furniture store, Italy 2000, allamoda, Lamps Plus, or modani. They all provide wayyyyy better service, quality of items, and are reliable. Anywhere but here!!!
Update: they finally delivered our bed frame, but guess what?!?!? Still had a missing item. The foot bench we ordered was not there lol. Not only did it not come it got delayed until end of august. Still waiting to be compensated after all the nonsense.