Jeeyoon A
Google
I am very sad to have to leave a bad review for a brand I like so much.
I was interested in this beautiful scarf in a particular color. I visited a store in DC where I live, but they said they do not have it in stock. I looked online to place an order, but there was no inventory. The website listed Boston store as the only store in the US who had it. I was planning on traveling to Boston before July, but decided to make it asap so that I could get a hold of what-seemed-like-the-last-piece remaining in the Boston store.
I visited the store and showed one of the store associate the website listing of the scarf and asked for it. She took awhile to return to us, but not with the scarf but with some other patterned scarves. She started to take them out of the plastic bag, and I reminded her that I want the particular design and color I showed her earlier. She said she would have to look. She took a long time before returning to us, and she said “the system says we have 1 in our store but I cannot locate it.” I have been to luxury stores countless times, and never had I seen them unable to locate an item or have inventory information off in their system. She asked us to wait again. She returned failing to locate the item, but said she thinks she will be able to place an order for me and ship it to my home. I agreed- which was a big mistake. It took her another 15-20 mins placing the online order. Yes, something that I would take at most a minute.
She said she will be able to figure out whether she would be able to locate the piece within a day or two, and if she cannot, she will refund.
In other words, I visited the store based on the information on the website that Boston is the only store with the scarf. I ended up spending my 40min-60mins in the store waiting, failing to get the scarf.
Unfortunately, this disaster did not end here.
I waited 2 days and heard nothing from the associate. I texted her asking if she had located the scarf and she said she did not. I was pretty upset at that point -less because she was not able to locate the item, but more so because she did not reach out to me with an update and I had to reach out to her to figure out what was going on. I asked her to refund, and she, again, sent me images of different scarves. I could not take it anymore. I told her outright I wanted that particular color and since she does not have it I wanted my refund.
Hard to believe this is an experience I had at one of the high(est)-end designer brand. Wish the HQ in Italy gets notified of what is going on in their US store.