Ordered the Harriet Bee Pranav mid sleeper for £499, tried to deliver 3 days earlier than told, and I wasn’t home as had only booked leave for the foretold date. I had to ring around to rebook for the original date. On the agreed date, two chaps delivered two large heavy boxes, to room of choice, upstairs, and I was still happy with service at this point.
Until I realised the cartons stated 1 and 2 of 3, so was missing a box. I had to chase the missing box and the next day it was confirmed it had been damaged and returned to the warehouse. No replacement had been ordered and I would have been none the wiser had I not checked the boxes before starting to build the bed. I was then told it would be sometime in January for the missing box to be in stock and I was expected to store these cumbersome and heavy hazardous boxes until then, and be without a bed. Having taken annual leave once to be home to receive the delivery, I was unhappy about having to take another for the missing part to be delivered. I was then also offered the option of a refund and collection of the 2 boxes. I stated that either way I was going to have to take another days leave, and asked for a discount for my inconvenience and that I would then reorder in January. Without further discussion my order was refunded and I was told to dispose of the two heavy large boxes myself to save me the wasting more annual leave and that they don’t do goodwill gestures.
Whilst the response time by email from customer service was quick, I had a different person each time dealing with my problem, and whilst solutions were offered, they didn’t wait for me to confirm before refunding my part of my order and demanding that I dispose of the two thirds of a mid sleeper bed with storage (what a trauma that was and so much waste!!).
Well having almost broken my back disposing of them, I can thoroughly say I will never use wayfair again! Not only have they caused me massive inconvenience and stress, delay to my son moving into his bedroom, but i then also discovered that they also rebrand their goods making it difficult to do a price comparison. Having done another search for similar style vintage wood mid sleepers I came across several companies selling the ‘Rocco’ bed, IDENTICAL to Wayfair’s ‘pranav’ and significantly cheaper too! (and have since realised their packaging said Rocco too, confirming it is the same bed!)
I have now ordered from another company, saved myself £130, and is due delivery on Tuesday.
Communication is key in sales, and all it would have taken was a phonecall in the first instance to apologise and inform of the damaged 3rd box, (ideally before it had been delivered incomplete), and that they were on the case in getting a replacement, and I probably would have reluctantly waited for the missing parts or accepted the refund and collection option, and just reordered next month (and not discovered id been ripped off on cost either!)
Really poor form Wayfair, not even sure you deserve the 1.6 stars received on sitejabber and the 1.7 on reviews.io ! Trustpilot certainly seem far more favourable, but definitely wish I’d not based my purchase on the one review site linked on Wayfair’s website only!