Response from Feathers Furniture
On August 24, 2011 Member placed a deposit on furniture and requested that her purchases be held until her home renovations were completed. Approximately 2 weeks later she contacted her sales person Matt Schwartz via telephone to complain that she had found the same Simmons mattress set at a large chain store for a lower price. Matt reviewed the set on the vendor’s website and explained to Member that the other mattress set was a different model in the NXG collection as it did not contain Micro-gel touch included in the upper end of the NXG line. There was no further communication from Member regarding the mattress and we continued holding her purchase in our warehouse. On October 18, almost two months after the sale, Member called to cancel because “her husband was moving out and her house renovation would take longer than expected.” Matt Schwartz explained our store policy as clearly stated on her invoice which she signed at the time of her purchase. “All sales final, no refunds, no exchanges” (see attached). At that time, Matt generously offered to hold her items until her home was ready. Member became angry and accused us of being “thugs,” simply because we would not modify our store’s policy, a policy she was made well aware of at the time of the purchase. Member received both an email and a phone call from Rob Feathers, store owner, reiterating store policy as stated on her signed invoice and as she was told by Matt Schwartz when she called the store October 18. Please be aware that many of the items purchased were heavily discounted clearance items at our summer sidewalk sale. As agreed, these items were removed from stock and stored for Member and, therefore, not available for sale throughout our clearance event. Member’s assertion that “they pressured me so badly, I had to get out of there. He was pushy it made my blood rise. He forced me to leave a credit card number down for a deposit.” Is ridiculous. During her transaction, Member had to walk approximately 60 feet from the bedding area to the register, bypassing the front door. Also, she did not leave a credit card number, rather, her card was run through our merchant system while she was in the store, and she signed the credit card receipt as well as her invoice indicating the terms of her purchase. I believe Member purchased other items from Raymour & Flanigan prior to trying to cancel her sale at our store and now feels she will have better luck using Angie’s List as a tool to intimidate a small family-owned business into changing their policy than she would trying to get Raymore & Flanigan to take back her items. Furthermore, her rating of “F” for every score is unfair as Quality, Responsiveness and Punctuality obviously does not apply as we are still storing her purchases.