Jonathan B.
HORRIBLE EXPERIENCE
HORRIBLE EXPERIENCE! I ordered 10 of these tiles. The website allowed me to purchase them as singles. After waiting about 5 days with no email confirmation, I called the business to ask what was going on as I saw the charge on my credit card. Upon calling, I quickly realized I was calling someones cell phone. The person that answered put me on a long hold while they checked on my order. He also informed me that often their order confirmation emails end up in your spam box... sure enough there it was! It sounded like there were children in the background so I assume this person was working from home. He then came back telling me he had to check the Boston distribution center to ensure that the item was in stock. Second he started telling me that I could not purchase 10 as they are sold in 4 packs. The website never aid this and again it allowed me to purchase 10 and charged me for 10. So now I am being told I need to make another purchase of 2 additional tiles. Okay I guess... but didn't sit well with me. More time passed with no response when the order was going to be ready for pickup. A couple of inquiry emails again over a couple more days, and the email I got back read: "Jonathan, Unfortunately this item is not in stock in our Boston, MA....the closest location available for pickup is Edison, NJ. Please advise if you would like to receive a refund or pickup at Edison, NJ. thanks" Yea NO! I do not think that I should be responsible for driving to NJ to pickup my order, nor paying for the cost of shipping when I elected local pickup from the beginning. When I challenged them on this and called them on the fact that their website says that they have 4850 of this item in stock, I was told that their website is "not that smart" and that they cant keep track of all of their points of distribution around the country. I spoke to the "customer service" person again who started making all these excuses for why they can not get me the tiles. I asked him to stop and think about the situation. I told him I am the customer and should not be told all these reasons why their business model doesn't work well. I just want the tiles that I paid for. Clearly this business is just a virtual dealer / re-seller for MSI stone that does not care if they create unhappy customers. Reputation means NOTHING to them. The last email they sent informed me that they fully refunded my order. That's fine but I will never do business with you again and the general public has a right to know what kind of shabby business they run. BUYER BEWARE!!! BAD BAD BAD customer service. Thanks for wasting my time and frustrating the hell out of me. UPDATE 2/12/18 - As you can see by the tone of the reply, there is a lot of defense going on here, and a lot of blame being put on the customer. Review responses should always attempt to appease the customer and make it right NOT blame the customer and call them a scheme artist.
Response from Mosaic Tile DirectFeb 12, 2018
Jonathan wanted free shipping while our website clearly shows free shipping is not available on this item. Right on the listing page of this product, we clearly explain https://mosaictiledirect.net/glacier-black-ledger-panel-6-in-x-24-in-natural-quartzite-wall-tile.html "check for inventory availability BEFORE PLACING YOUR ORDER", Jonathan did not check for inventory availability in Boston and placed his order anyway. Upon receiving his order, we advised him that inventory is not available in Boston so whether he would like to cancel his order or ship his order from NJ. Jonathan kept insisting how we must ship the order free of charge to him in Boston, the value of item he purchased was $89.90 and he wanted us to pay for $150.00 shipping for it. Once we refused to go with his plan, he started to leave these nasty/wrongful comments all over the internet. How wrong is that! We were professionally courteous throughout the whole process and told him that we would not be blackmailed by these threats of negative feedback and reviews. We can totally understand that sometimes a customer can misread some conditions but this was deliberate. We have done nothing wrong except being courteous.


