Amber D.
Yelp
ONLINE ORDERING BEWARE! I had such a horrible experience with this company for delivery. I was ordering from Atlanta for my friend in NYC. Warm, Fresh Cookies delivered today? Perfect for my friend who was having a seriously bad week. $10 Delivery wasn't great considering the distance, but okay. There was a store 3 miles from their house so I figured no problem. Apparently, there are problems.
1. No where on the site and especially no where during my order did the site say that the address was out of range for delivery and thus the delivery would be coming from Philadelphia. Not only would it not be delivered within the same day (Thursday), but it would not be delivered warm. I did not realize this until several hours after making the order.
2. Fed Ex requires you to be home for this delivery so when my friend unknowingly left home for a half hour to get food down the street, the delivery was unable to be completed. This meant that the delivery would not happen until Monday. That's right folks, 5 day old stale cookies rotting in a FedEx somewhere and that is if they happen to be home whenever the FedEx guy gets there. This was not stated anywhere on the website either.
3. When I contacted them via their chat on their website, all the guy would do is say sorry for the inconvenience. Dude... while having to go out of my way to contact Insomnia Cookies is an inconvenience, the rest of this fiasco is just plain horrible. Not Warm. Not Fresh. Not Delivered Same Day. He had no idea why it wasn't delivered. He told me to check with FedEx. He gave me a tracking number. That number... wasn't valid.
4. I had to call, purchase cookies and have my friends husband pick them up. I have paid twice for these cookies, plus the upcharge of ordering them online the first time (wasn't aware that was even a thing til today when I ordered them for pickup) and the shipping cost the first time. The Chat representative did nothing at all. There was no help from him and no compensation at all. I can only pray they give me a full refund.
5. Even ordering them for pickup sucks because they ran out of 90% of their "traditional" cookies so I could not even order the same cookies.
Overall, I am super disappointed with the service of this place and the fact that pretty vital information for delivery orders is completely missing on the website. No compensation or real assistance from their customer service. The only redemption was the lovely Adriana on the phone when I called the bakery directly, but even she couldn't do much. I will never be doing this again.