They are NOT TRUSTFUL. They have no business ethics. Customer Service is completely RUDE and NEVER ANSWER your emails in time. I sent an email about the order came with defected items on june 9, They still didnt give a REPLY. I made 4 orders, 2 of them cancelled by them. I lost my money and time. They want me to use PayPal. I have an order paid by Paypal. Its been 7 days. The order status appears "processing". They still didnt ship it and never informed me when it will be shipped. DO NOT BUY from this company!
Response from Kole Imports & CloseoutsJun 12, 2020
Good Afternoon
Thank you for sharing your feedback with us regarding your experience. We have been in business for over 35 years and maintain a good survey rating with our customers. We apologize to hear that you are not satisfied with how your support issue has been handled. We have a customer service team in place to address any support issue that you have. Please resend your support issue with the reported defective items and we will address this today. We will need to know the order number and item number you are referencing to and a brief explanation of why the products are defective. We will reach out to you today so this can be addressed and resolved.
Thank You
Michael Franco
Customer Service Manager
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D M.
More than disappointing experience
I ordered sterile masks through this company. Please know they sent the non-sterile(cheaper) masks and have not issued a refund for it nor sent the correct masks. I planned to support this company longterm, however after their handling of my order I will not
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Eva T.
Horrible PR and customer service response!!!
My experience has not been good! It was shocking to see the higher ratings. Customer service has been a nightmare. I have called and left messages several times during the last 2 weeks. I have not gotten a call back. Today I decided to hold. After being on hold for 40 minutes, I tried a different extension when prompted. No luck! I got a message to call a different sales rep. i entered the extension given and was cut off. My order arrived incomplete i got only 3 of 4 items ordered. No message giving an explanation. I just wanted to call and get a status so I can know what is up. As far as I know I have been charged in full.
I do not recommend doing business with them. The products received were marginal at best worth it price-wise if you receive what you order. I for one do not like doing business if there is no communication/response when you try to contact the company. lesson learned on this one.
Response from Kole Imports & CloseoutsJun 1, 2020
Good Afternoon Ms. Tucker
Thank you for sharing your feedback with us regarding your order and experiences with my customer service team. First I would like to apologize that you have no communication back from the customer support team Please note that due to Covid19 restrictions we are working with a smaller staff remotely and faced delays in processing and shipping times. With that being said I can address your short shipment for the missing item in the order. Please give me the order number and I can check on this for you. Please note that we provide automated email notification updates on all orders. We do not contact customers by phone on short shipments. We only charge for items we carry and ship out in orders. As for the quality of the purchased items you bought, please keep in mind these items are general merchandise. In comparison to other products there will be a different in quality of products. You are welcome to contact me directly at my direct email [email protected] or our support inbox at [email protected]
Thank You
Michael Franco
Customer Service Manager
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Rhonda
Good prices and products/Customer Service needs to improve
I was shocked that they have 74% 5-star reviews, until I realized that if you placed and received an order without error and didn't need to contact the company a person would have a good review. My orders that arrived without problem I was happy with. The problems began when I tried to contact the company. The phone was rarely answered and messages rarely returned. The harder you sought resolution, the more convoluted things became. Their BBB reviews repeatedly say this - check the BBB reviews.
In my original review, I said the quality and price of merchandise made it worth the problems. I no longer feel that way. I thank Mike for his email address, but root problems are not being addressed and many things he said in his comment to this review didn't prove accurate.
I've placed four orders since receiving Mike's email address. Three of them were very wrong. Two had lots of merchandise missing and one arrived with the merchandise destroyed (which may have been the lack of packing materials or FedEx carelessness). I do thank Mike that he fixed the first incomplete order by comparing merchandise and shipping weight to validate my complaint and mailed the missing items to me. On the other problems, communication got convoluted again. At this point, it looks like the destroyed items and missing items in the second order will not be resolved.
I may own some responsibility for communication getting convoluted. As problems compounded, I got so frustrated I tried too hard to lead back to root problems, so they could get resolved. However, it was not all my fault. Multiple employees at the company added to the communication getting convoluted. When communication began to get convoluted with Mike, it was because I was starting to give documentation he had requested about previous problems and he either forgot asking for it or misunderstood my meaning. After seeing the BBB reviews, I sent one last email last night to try to help him understand where me and many others with similar frustrations are coming from. I guess my gratitude for the one incomplete order he fixed made me want to help. As of now, I never want to hear from him again.
I will share blame for the communication getting convoluted, but I will not take responsibility for incomplete orders, destroyed merchandise, or company policies that give customers responsibility to chase shipping refunds on short orders when it is so hard to make contact, etc.
The 5-star reviews make me wonder if my problems got worse because I made employees mad by trying to communicate, so orders began to ship incomplete and without packing materials to protect the contents. The BBB reviews I saw increased that feeling, but I don't want to be paranoid. I just won't shop with them any more. It is a shame, because my funding for this coming year is much greater, and I would have spent a lot of money with them. They lost those sales.
Original post.
It is said you get what you pay for, and that is true in regard to their customer service. They have great wholesale prices and even combined with their high shipping costs you get a good bargain and quality products. The problem is customer service. If you order something that's out of stock, they don't adjust shipping to accommodate the lighter package. They adjust the merchandise charge, but you pay the same shipping even when huge cuts to the order occur. Since shipping tends to be high, this can be a problem. I repeatedly tried to contact them about this, but they never answered. Since they ignored me, I lost those shipping dollars. In addition, one out of stock item I lost shipping dollars for remains on their website as available and steadily declining in number available as other customers purchase it - and this continues weeks later. They didn't respond when I inquired about that. When I reordered it after witnessing this website activity, my order was cancelled due to being out of stock as I watch the available number decline due to other sales. Most customer service inquiries are ignored. I've had a lot of orders and thus had some customer service needs. I am consistently ignored. I also had problems with the wrong amount being billed on my credit card in one case and an entire order being billed twice in another case. My attempt to communicate on this was ignored, but either they fixed it without communicating or Paypal caught the error and corrected it. One order I had to wait so long I doubted I was going to get it, but I did eventually. In a nutshell, the prices are worth the problems, but as I said at the beginning of this review - you get what you pay for. Don't expect stellar customer service if you have a problem, but it usually works out okay enough for the price paid. I have ordered from them several times and will probably order from them again.
Response from Kole Imports & CloseoutsJan 13, 2020
Good Morning Rhonda
Thank you for providing us with your feedback regarding the paid shipping cost on orders placed on our website. We apologize to hear that your issues have not been addressed with customer service.
Please be advised that when an order is placed on our website we begin processing orders in real time. Should we not have inventory on an item the item will be removed from the order and you will not be charged for it. We charge/bill the payment method at the time of shipment for this reason.
Please note that the shipping rate does not automatically recalculate based on a short shipment. We can re quote the shipping rate based on the short shipment. Should there be a difference owed in shipping we can refund you back to the same payment method.
You mentioned you previously spoke to our customer support team about this let me check into this and get you an update on this. Please provide me with your web order number.
We update your pricing and inventory on a daily basis on our website. Once an item is sold out it takes 2 to 3 days for it to be removed off our site. Should there still be inventory available on the item you can order but if the item is sold out you will not be able to order a sold out item. Our website will not allow to order quantity that is not available.
You can respond directly to me and I will follow up with you on this by today. I will stand by for yoru response on this.
Thank You
Michael Franco
Customer Service Manager - Kole Imports & Closeouts
[email protected]
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Merna M.
Don’t buy from this company 👎🏼
Don’t buy from this company 👎🏼
Shipping takes forever and they don’t accept return!!!!
Response from Kole Imports & CloseoutsNov 20, 2019
Good Afternoon Ms. Maher
Thank you for providing your feedback regarding our calculated shipping costs on our website.
The shipping charges are calculated at the checkouts screen and the shipping rates are based on the size and weight of the items in your cart and the distance the order is being shipped to.
We ship orders from our warehouse location in Los Angeles, California. The shipping charges are paid directly to the shipping carrier and we receive discounted commercial rates due to the large volume of orders that we ship out.
Please keep in mind that we are a wholesale distributor that specializes in selling products in bulk. We have more flexibility to work with you on bulk pricing discounts and freight caps on orders of $2,500.00 or more.
Thank You
Michael Franco
Customer Service Team
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Wael A.
Worst company ever
Worst company ever!
I bought an order from this company they told me they will send it in 5 days after lating for 3 weeks.. I dialed them trying to cancel the order they refused and sent to me after 1 month .. they didn’t want to return the order back
I don’t recommend it at all.
Response from Kole Imports & CloseoutsNov 20, 2019
Good Morning Mr. Adel
Thank you for sharing your feedback with us regarding your experience. We apologize to hear your order was not shipped out in a timely manner. Per our previous conversation we will issue you back a refund once we receive back the returned order to Kole Imports. I will have our warehouse team check to see if the return is back in our warehouse. We will return all returned merchandise back to stock and issue you back a refund. I will follow back with you once the return is processed.
Thank You
Michael Franco
Customer Service Manager
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tay
Never buy anything from this company
Never buy anything from this company, they double charge and when you ask them to fix it, they asking your bank account"s screen shot,really????And the guy name is JONNY BRUMMIT so rude he shut off the phone when i was complain their system.
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Nicole D.
Initially I was extremely happy with my…
Initially I was extremely happy with my items. They were of high quality than I thought it may be, however when I realized that 6 of my items were not in the shipment (though I was charged), things began to go bad quickly. It took multiple emails and days to get anyone to understand what my issue was, and though I was told last Friday that replacement would be sent out, and tracking would follow, I have received NO FOLLOW UP. Then I received an invoice for $4 and change, though I do not know why. You already charged my CC for the FULL AMOUNT when I first ordered, even though you shorted my 6 items. I want to know when I can expect my 6 iphone chargers, and to see the account credited back for the $4 you are now trying to charge me. My next step will be to complain to the Better Business Bureau.