Eileen
Zero responsibility for Crate & Barrel's mistake!
One of the worst customer service experiences ever - it was 100% Crate & Barrels' fault, but they accepted ZERO responsibility, and the store even admitted that online is horrible. We ordered a Christmas gift in November, and after a few weeks, it showed up as backorder with no estimated date. We canceled that order and ordered the item in a different color (in stock). The item was a baby ball pit - it arrived in two separate boxes. The first part (balls) from the original order arrived even though it was canceled (and showed out of stock). We shipped it back (the order was canceled after all). Now six months later, the original pit from the canceled order arrived and was charged to our account. We contacted customer service and were told it was not returnable because it was beyond 30 days! No kidding, it was ordered six months ago and CANCELED! They finally said they would issue a credit but we had to pay to return it ($20) or take it to a store. We took it to the store to ensure the credit was correctly handled. Thirty-mile trip and carrying a huge box from the parking garage into the store...when the store manager said they couldn't return it because, guess what? Beyond 30 days, plus are "not supposed to accept online returns"! He finally realized he could credit my daughter's Apple Pay, so we are no longer stuck with half of an item that we didn't order. All they had to do was admit their system made a mistake shipping the second half of a canceled order and send a return label.


