Crate and Barrel

Unbelievable. Ordered an $800 rug which was delivered by FedEx while I was at work. Clearly damaged; several holes in the packing wrap and one showed that the rug underneath had been damaged as well. Rather than even unwrap it, I called the customer service number several times as it instructed on both the packing slip and website... Waited over an hour each time and no one ever picked up. Emailed the customer service number and no reply. Finally got desperate and shipped the rug back at my own expense ($181) via FedEx.

I sent a mixing bowl to my daughter. It arrived 12/8/18 and was broken. I have called Crate and Barrel four times and each time waited on hold for over 15 minutes. The recording said each time my wait time would be over 20 minutes and to call back later! I emailed the company per their instructions at least four days ago and no one has responded. When I attempted to return the item online, even though I checked the box that says item arrived damaged, it says I must pay $11.95 in shipping and my daughter must carry the big box back to a FedEx drop off location. This is terrible, terrible customer service. I have an account with Crate and Barrel and I am going to cancel it. I need a new bowl sent asap in time for Xmas.

I ordered a Dutch oven at Crate and Barrel almost 6 weeks ago. The item was supposedly on stock. My credit card plus the shipment fees have been charged immediately. I still have not gotten my item. I wrote many emails and always got the same answer. "The item is preparing for shipment. It will be there in 3 to 5 days." Almost 6 weeks later it is still preparing for shipment! I asked for a cancellation of the order and for a refund and they said it is not possible. They have to ask the management. I chatted online with them 3 times and my son called and waited more than an hour on the phone before he gave up. I think the customer service is terrible and I am thinking about writing a letter directly to the CEO to share my frustration. I will never buy another item from Crate and Barrel again!

You should think twice before ordering an item online. I ordered a table 10/30/18 and the email said delivery would be early December. I received a text from them to call and I am still on hold 43 minutes later. The first person listened but did nothing and now I am going to a higher level. So they have $800 of the $1300 fee and they fail to deliver. Their excuse is that is the Holiday season, but my comment it was not back in October, unless you count Halloween and this is turning out to be a nightmare. Up to 50 minutes on hold now!

I ordered a dining table and chairs from CB on 9/9/18. When I placed my order, I was told it would deliver in mid-October. That's fine... One month isn't terribly long to wait for the "perfect" table. Mid-October arrives, and I've gotten no updates from CB, so I called them. Customer service then tells me it's been back-ordered and I should receive in early November. Ugh, okay fine. November comes, and I still don't have any updates from CB.

Placed an order for a coffee maker that was started as In Stock. 14 business days later still no indication of when it will ship. Be prepared to wait an hour on the phone if you want to reach customer service. When you do speak to someone their, they simply parrot their last email sent to you. Useless. Won't even allow cancellation of the order. Don't waste your time with this company. Bunch of shills.

We received our Petrie Sofa that was poorly finished. The back cushions are wrinkled at the top and because the cushions have buttons the fabric cannot be flattened out. Additionally, the sofa's left arm is 1/4" higher than the right arm that is so noticeable next to the end tables. C&B suggested we keep the sofa until they hear back from the manufactures "Shenandoah". That was 2 weeks ago and unacceptable. In hindsight we believe that C&B’s advise to us to keep the sofa until the issue is resolved was a ploy to not pressure Shenandoah to replace the sofa and thus forcing us to live with this uncertain situation. We have been told the C&B has a poor customer service policy and our unresolved issue reflects that policy correctly.

This is the worst experience, place the order online for two Smeg appliances and on the 23rd of November and I am still waiting for one of them even though that I was assured the delivery will be done last week. One phone call last week for 45 mins and now while I am writing this review, I am still on hold waiting from Lisa from customer service to find out what is the status. This company is a joke and it should be out of business!!! I told them to let me know if the item is coming or not or I will cancel the order... They just lied. They don't deserve the business.

I ordered a Christmas ornament online, was promised delivery within 6 days. As of this review my order still has not shown up, in fact their website shows the order status as still being processed. I contacted customer service online chat, and all the representative would say is, "Your order will be shipped." When I asked when she could not give me a date. In my opinion not a very trustworthy company.

Ordered online Black Friday 11/23, still no package or ship date. Spent 500.00. No one will validate the shipment when online ordering. Said packages will be here within 4-6 business days. It’s 12/4. Nothing. Charged my CB card. Not paying it off until packages arrive. The CS just “sits on a throne of lies” - Buddy the Elf!!! Bankrolls online orders and doesn't fulfill the time they state on their site. Only ordered from them because I needed more plates of the same collection. Didn’t have an issues with them other times of the year. Obviously they need a BCP back up! Horrible all over the place.

The company offered great Cyber Monday deals but did not build up the infrastructure to execute. I have waited over a week for my product to even leave the warehouse (it still hasn't left). Customer services tells you, they are pretty busy, we will email them to rush it. Please. I am sure you are going to do that. Never ordering online from them again.

On 8/10/18 I purchased a sofa + custom love seat from the local C&B store in Torrance, CA. Delivery took place 12 weeks from purchase date which I expected; however, the wrong love seat was delivered. I refused its delivery and waited for a call from their warehouse or third party vendor (at this point I don't know as local store told me they couldn't contact them on my behalf). The only call I got from the warehouse was 6 days after on a Saturday just to tell me that the person who received the email with my issue would look into it on Monday -- when I asked why nothing was done the prior days, I was told "there are other clients" this person has to handle inquiries for!

Because Crate and Barrel is such a huge company, I would have never assumed that the customer service they provide would be SO disorganized. Not only does it take forever to get a hold of an agent when you call the customer service phone # provided on their website but when I FINALLY got through, the agent "helping" me told me I had the wrong number and needed to call the international line to return my items for a refund so she transferred me... Another 40 min wait to get through to someone only to get THE SAME EXACT AGENT FROM BEFORE TRYING TO TELL ME SHE NEEDED TO TRANSFER ME. I don't like losing my cool but I had told her that I had waited well over an hour and wasn't willing to waste any more time.

Ordered furniture on 8/15/2018. They immediately charged my card. It's 11/20/18 and I still have not received it even though I've made 3 payments on my credit card from them. They are now telling us it got picked up by a shipping company on 11/14, but they can't provide any updates. No tracking, no trucking info, just that it takes between 2 and three 3 weeks to get delivered after its picked up. Are you kidding me! This place is a joke. Horrible customer service, horrible shipping, no communication. I'll never order furniture from them again.

Crate and Barrel has the worst online order and customer service I have ever seen anywhere. I orders two different items and paid for separate wrapping (extra charge for that of course). Items came in one box wrapped together. So, I get in touch with their customer service who resent the items, promising to refund me the money I paid for the wrapping and extra box (8 days later, still no sign of the refund). And guess what, when the second order came in, they were AGAIN in one box. Now the second mishap arrived a day before I was to give those presents to two different people which forced me to spend Saturday driving around to find adequate boxes to wrap the presents separately so that I can make my friends happy. Of course, I contacted C&B again and they offered to send me a 50.00 dollars for the two wrong orders. I turned their offer down because they are the one who twice made the same mistake in the same week.

Not sure how many stars to give it since my table is not yet delivered. I ordered in January and confirmed delivery for October 26 for my first home. Excitement has turned into frustration. The delivery has been canceled three times and I have wasted three vacation days from work on this debacle. Latest cancellation was for today. Received a voicemail on Sunday confirming delivery. Second voicemail yesterday morning canceling delivery, then a text confirming delivery, then a text canceling delivery. Customer service has me on hold for an hour and tells me they need to get back to me and don’t. I now want to cancel table. Problem is I bought the Laredo chairs specifically for this table. They were delivered but I don’t want them if I am getting the runaround about the table.

I ordered this order on Sep. 20. 2018. According to your delivery policy these supposed to be arrive next week. I even start to pay payment. This is fraud. But, I haven't receive any notice from company. I spoke with Lea (or Leah) agent at 3:00 PM Nov. 2. 2018. She is not kind at all. She just pass other agent, that doesn't answer. Your customer service need to be improved a lot. Give me my order status.

I ordered two counter stools 4 days ago, and the confirmation said they were shipping in late October. The item description said they were shipping in late December, and when I just called to check the likely ship date I was told February!! So, I tried to cancel the order because that is too far out. They told me that the cancellation has to be within the first 3 days, and it has been 4 days so I can't cancel. So, they're telling me to wait until February, but I can't cancel in October, 4 days after placing the order, when they have pushed the delivery date out to an unacceptable time frame. I have bought many items of furniture from C&B, but they are *very* hard to do business with, and in the future I would only consider buying something in stock and promised for immediate shipment. I might not even do that, because I don't trust them any longer.

I normally purchase inexpensive furniture. I decided to shell out more for this ottoman. The first order arrived without warning. Luckily I had called to check status to learn it was being delivered that day - no tracking information was available on the site. It just said ‘shipped’. It was delivered to a contractor working on my front steps and it was defective. There were rips down one side and the top and bottom did not align. I called customer service again (with very long wait times) and they said they’d send a replacement. They said that we would coordinate a pickup for the 1st one after the replacement is received. I’d have to call back again. Sigh.

I placed an order on a sectional sofa online on 23/8/18. When I checked out, it clearly says "Arrives: 2-4 weeks". The website still displays this today. This information is also consistent with what the staff told me when I visited the Chicago store. However, at the end of the 4th week, I received a call notifying me the item will leave the warehouse that Friday 9/21/18 and I will receive it in one or two days after that. I cancelled the plans for that weekend and waited. Nothing. I called back and was told that I had to wait for a call from the carrier. It was out of the hands of Crate and Barrel.

I bought a desk there 4 weeks ago, and 4 weeks they delivered the legs to the desk with no date for the rest of the desk. The management of the store is a disaster. After 4 weeks they now saying they won't offer the sale price and if I want the rest of the desk I have to pay the difference. Do not visit this store.

We paid $5,789.45 for a dining room table, 8 chairs and a hutch from Crate and Barrel on June 12, 2018. As of September 19th our order is still not complete. Crate and Barrel has missed two PROMISED delivery dates for the table and today they can't determine if the table is in Denver or Chicago. Customer Service and the warehouse delivery contact have no clue where the table is. I am amazed that their IT and Customer Service departments are so poor.

I ordered outdoor furniture from Crate and Barrel 4 months ago. It arrived today missing half of the cushions. Upon discussing this with their representative, they shirked responsibility, blaming on the warehouse. They had no helpful solution to offer, and made no apologies for the wait plus the incomplete order. Not to mention, the furniture looks cheap and like I paid $2,000 for an outdoor sofa. Poor quality, poor customer service, no more business from me. Go somewhere else for your furniture purchases!

I purchased 2 CB2 lamps through another company. After not receiving a shipping notice for several days, I contacted them and was advised that there was an issue with the order and the lamps would be shipping out shortly but they could not tell me when. Knowing I needed the lamps ASAP, on Thursday morning, August 16/18, I went on CB2.com and ordered 2 more directly from them. I paid the additional $12.95 for 2 day express shipping which the order said would arrive on Monday, August 20. FALSE - they shipped them on Friday evening, GROUND, and the home delivery for ground is actually closed on Mondays.

Don’t use gift cards online. Actually, I don’t recommend doing anything online. Their online ordering system failed twice when I tried to make a purchase with my gift cards, but still took the money off my gift cards. I called customer service and then said it takes 24-48 hours for the balance to refill. Um…what? I decided to call in to make the purchase using a different gift card, which went through. But a week later and after numerous unanswered emails and useless customer service calls they tell me that I actually used my other gift card to make the purchase. Well, the order recipe says otherwise and why would both of my gift cards be zeroed out? Still waiting to have this resolved, but I have to call in every day. They have made it very clear that they don’t care. Even after generating a couple thousand in revenue for them.

Crate and Barrel has taken my money and time and delivered sub-par furniture. I ordered an $8k custom Axis II 3 piece sectional. 12 weeks after ordering, they were confused why they only had 2 of 3 pieces made. The delivery men were reckless with the piece and it showed up damaged. 4 weeks later I get an email saying the fabric is being recalled for flammability. I had ordered 2 nightstands. I had to have them delivered twice because they were damaged. Do not order with them, it is such a headache.

Went to Crate and Barrel to buy a TV console in early June. Was told that the one I wanted was outsold and they will have a new stock in the middle of the month. I paid it full waiting for it to be delivered to my address by July. I waited and nothing was delivered yet, and no communication as to why. So I called asking why. The representative told me that it will be delivered by early August. Was mad and cancelled the order and was told that my money will be refunded within 21 days.

I was promised delivery of a console table by the end of July, which I wanted in time for a party. The item does not become available for delivery until beginning of August and when I go to schedule I have to wait another two weeks. Customer service was horrible, making up excuses for the length of time. They made zero apologies for not being able to deliver the item when promised and then made no attempt to remedy the situation.

NEVER, EVER ORDER THIS. I ordered this daybed 7 weeks ago, choosing the color and style because I needed it ASAP and the website assured me it would be ready to ship right away. Only AFTER Crate and Barrel took my $ did they inform me that they wouldn't deliver it until the end of the NEXT month - almost 8 weeks later. I should be clear, I do not live in the wilds of North Dakota. I live in Charlottesville, VA. One hour from a Crate and Barrel store. I was unhappy, but said Ok. What can you do? They called to arrange the delivery time, but then called back two days later to let me know they hadn't delivered the furniture to the shipment site in time; they'd have to rearrange delivery...for August. On a Friday. When I'm at work.

Ordered chair May 18 when it was in stock; CB2 shipped it immediately. When I didn't receive it they claimed it was "lost," but by then it was back ordered until, supposedly, July. They strung me along for months as I called multiple CS agents, waiting on hold an hour each time, to get status. Also tried email to CS. Each time the agent (Alejandra, Nilsa, Carl, Linda, Sue, Caley) promised to call me back with status but never did. Each time the agent promised the replacement chair in late July.