Crate and Barrel

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.

After purchasing a casserole dish and using it a few times, I noticed a crack in the bottom of the dish. I took it back to exchange it. Salesperson was quite standoffish and asked me many questions. He told me I should not use it with over 350 oven temperature, which to me it was a surprise as when you bake things, clearly sometime you need to cook over 350. When I sent them the feedback review, and gave them a 2 star, they declined to post it on their website! This makes me more upset as to this company does not even want to hear constructive criticism to do better. The high stars from customers on their website is misleading the consumer as they only post good feedbacks. This is how companies lose customers and eventually their business. Will never shop there again.

When purchasing furniture, utilizing their 6 month, no interest plan, I was told "You have 6 months from the time of receiving your first bill to pay the balance off, without accruing any interest charges." Be aware that those 6 months begin the moment you walk out of the store, NOT when you receive your first bill several weeks later. Just makes a considerable difference in what you pay monthly, in order to have it paid off within that promotional time frame.

Called first at 9 AM. Put my name in the queue. You didn’t call me back. Called again. Waited 37 minutes for someone to pick up the phone to take my order! Had to listen to their canned message that they were going to pick my call up in seven minutes, 16 times! Either they need to have more agents or they need to not promise that they will pick your call up in seven minutes! Why should I give a company my business they can’t even bother to call me back?

I only gave them one star so the review would post. We ordered a family room rug online for store pick up in Natick. Waited over 3 weeks and called the store. They didn't have it and no one at the corporate warehouse new anything about it. Their only remedy was to cancel the ship-to-store order and send it to my house. Told it would be 3-5 days before I saw it. 8 Days later I call and it hasn't shipped and they can't tell me why? Everything is a mystery and C&B?

I placed a substantial order ($250) on a wedding registry to be delivered to my home. The order included 2 glass wine carafes, wine glasses, martini glasses and craft beer glasses among other items. All of the glass items were simply wrapped in the white foam sheeting or bubble wrap-- no boxes! When I called customer service, I was told that when I ordered I had the option of purchasing boxes at $5.50 each! With the amount of items I had, the additional cost would have been another $27.50! I didn't need perfect gift boxes-- cardboard boxes for free would have been fine and I really can't believe a company of this magnitude would ship glassware individually and unboxed when so many were ordered. I will never shop nor purchase for another wedding registry at Crate and Barrel again. This is very poor customer service.

I bought wooden bowls (food bowls) from Crate and Barrel at the Millenia Mall in Florida. We used the bowls and noticed a chemical smelling odor coming from the bowls (they were wooden). We decided to return them because of this. When we got there what appeared to be the manager gave us ** right away. She was like “I have these bowls at home and they do not smell.” We responded that we weren’t satisfied nor will we be using these bowls and would like a return. She told us that we couldn’t return these bowls because they were used.

I ordered a table for my daughter in November 2017 from Karen at the Houston, TX store. I was told it would be available for pickup on December 2 at the Dallas, TX warehouse. I was not able to take that appointment but scheduled for a December 9 pickup. We arrived at 1 p.m. on December 9 and the table was not there. The 3rd party shipping company could not really help us so I called the store. Karen would not come to the phone so I spoke with someone else. He told me he could not understand why someone had not contacted me about this development.

About three years ago; My online order with C & B did not arrive. I called customer service (spoke with Stephanie). She said I got the order, but would trace. Nothing happened. I called back, got another associate who said USP heard broken glass & returned the package to C & B, and that Stephanie had done nothing. A replacement was sent. I wrote a letter to the company (in Europe) and got no response at all. That means management either is indifferent to such incompetence or condones it. The only time I shop C & B is if I absolute cannot find it anywhere else and really want it, which is quite rare.

C&B required 50^ payment for 2 chairs =2000.00. This amount was paid. Rep said chairs would be done and delivered in 8 weeks. AFTER payment was made, she said it would take 12-14 weeks. Normally 12 weeks. Placed order in early September. It is 4 months later and C&B has NEVER called/contacted us to discuss any type of delay. Visited local store this evening and was told by manager that the order would done in February sometime. Got the song and dance about her calling her corp office to share our concerns, etc.

Extremely disappointed with C&B with this purchase! We purchased the Ainsworth TV stand about a week ago with both gift card & credit card for over $1200.00. Received the stand yesterday from delivery company, the box had no visible damage, however, after removing stand from box, the stand/cabinet had multiple damaged areas to it. The walnut top has 2 corners dented, the entire back panel was loose and not secured to the wood, front bottom door was not jointed, doors are not aligned, screws were not secured to wood (laying in cardboard box), cabinet is loose - completely wobbles when pushed on one side and glue on upper right corner.

Couple registered with Crate and Barrel for their wedding. Ordered several items off registry for shower in the summer; had difficulty getting some of the items, as they seemed to sit packaged in the warehouse waiting for someone to load them on the truck. But gave C&B the benefit of the doubt, because that is what the couple wanted. Ordered wedding present from C&B online; delivery was scheduled and cancelled and scheduled and cancelled several times; item finally showed up the day BEFORE the most last reschedule. Aaargh.

Purchase a couch and an ottoman August 2017 waiting patiently for delivery November 2017. Lost our ottoman, damaged delivery. Customer service at the Costa Mesa store had different stories on where the ottoman went. First it was lost, then they found it, then it was all of a sudden going to delivery. Upon delivery the ottoman was damaged (always inspect your delivery). Customer services wanted us to retain the ottoman that was damaged. Not sure why they would want their customer to retain damaged products. Very disappointed, and unsatisfied with Customer Service.

We purchased an Aidan leather sofa from C&B three years ago for $4255 expecting a quality product. What we got was far from quality. First, the leather color was nowhere near the swatch we picked at the store but we accepted that. Now, with 3 years of very light use the leather has stretched out because the foam in the cushions and arms compressed. It feels now like you are sitting in a bucket and the arms have lost their shape. We called the Salt Lake City store where we purchased the sofa. We also sent them pictures and detailed the problem. They said they would contact the vendor and share our concerns to see if anything could be done. C&B just contacted us and we were told that the vendor said this is "normal" wear and it is not a problem.

They initiate and confirm delivery when the item has not yet left the warehouse and then cancel the day of the delivery, while you are sitting at home waiting. They actually explain that they schedule and confirm deliveries based on estimates so that item doesn't sit in their warehouse. Got little more than an "Ooops" when I complained that I had taken a vacation day and had old furniture removed based on their confirmation of the delivery window.

We bought a bathroom vanity from Crate & Barrel. It didn't go through the bathroom door so we had to shave the door frame to get it inside. Our copper pipes for water connection are on the wall but this was made for floor connection. So we had to modify the inside to be able to connect it. A month later a crack appeared. Crate & Barrel contacted the vendor (they seem to think that they are not responsible) and the vendor claimed that since we put handles the guarantee was void. The handles were put because it is impossible to open the doors of the vanity without them. It is not made for US market. The crack has nothing to do with the handles. They sold us a $1300 junk. It is compressed cardboard with vinyl covering. We also bought a bed from them which came 2 inches too long. Do not patronize this company...

Unless this company completely revamps their delivery service they will go out of business. These are the days of Amazon, where you don't have to wait 6 weeks, then wait another 2 weeks once it's in the warehouse to get a delivery day, then not be able to schedule a time slot, then have the time slot not work for you and have to wait another two weeks for a new delivery day. It has been over 2 months and now the new time slot again doesn't work for me. Rather than wait two more weeks I now have to pay someone to be at my house. This is absurd. No other company operates like this. I hope they go out of business. I will NEVER buy anything from this company again.

When I ordered the item online, it stated it was IN STOCK and ready for delivery to my area. On the very DAY of the scheduled delivery (only one hour before, in fact) I get a voicemail that states "The warehouse did not let us know the sofa did not come in time for the delivery." This is also after I got a confirmation phone call of my delivery two days before. What kind of service is this? Horrible!!