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Costco Pharmacy provides pharmaceutical services within Costco Wholesale locations. It offers prescription medications, over-the-counter drugs and health consultations nationwide.
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Reviewed June 17, 2008
I was shopping at costco on 5/13/07 when they had their worker load merchandise on the floor when he toppled with his fork and knocked me down. He hurt my hand and my fingers kept locking so I called them and they told me to take an xray and theyll pay for it. it was only infamed so I called them back and faxed what I paid 235 by credit card well I did send it twice because after 2-3 months i called she told me to refax and was promised compensation but I never heard from her nor received a payment for what I paid
I'm constantly having my fingers lock on me to the extent that If I hold my baby I have to put her down to release this I also at some point felt my knees hurting
Reviewed May 29, 2008
I purchased two bottles of Kirkland Signature Brand Newman's Own Grape Juice" at Costco Store #359 in Charlotte, NC, on December 4, 2007. On the evening of Friday, Dec.7, 2007, I was drinking a glass of that grape juice, then suddenly I felt something in my mouth. Because I have partial dentures, I thought, one of them slipped off and to the back of my mouth. I coughed a few times and took out the object from my mouth. When i looked at it, I was shocked! It was a sharp ponted nail about 16 mm long and a little bigger than 1 mm thick nail, in the center of a rough, hard plastic casing measuring about 16 mm in diameter and 8 mm high. I showed to my wife and we determined that it had broken off some equipment or machinery in the factory. I don't know how I can explain my condition during that time of this incident except that if I had swallowed it, I would have been faced with the possibility of choking and having some internal health problem had the pieces come apart and lodged itself somewhere in my body. I was fortunate that it did not happen that way. The thought scared me and left me nervous, upset and disgusted.
With that incident being in my mind, it became a phobia whenever I drank something. Would it happen to me again? I could not sleep several days. The thought played in my head for a long time. Since the later part of 2006, I have been recovering from emotional distress and anxiety and still under the doctor's and therapist care. Adding this terrible incident to my health condition, I hope you will understand how this has affected me so badly.
The next day, Saturday, Dec.8, 2007, I went back to the Costco store took the nearly emptied juice bottle with the object in question to make my complaint. It was about noon when I arrived at the customer service counter.After having some unpleasant treatment from the workers, finally I could have a chance to speak to the store manager, Mr. Bob S. I explained him the situation what had happened. The sight of the nail in the bottle did nothing to him except asked me what I wanted him to do. I asked him to take my complaint in writing and that I wanted to have a copy of the form, alzo with the copy of the nail. Out of my curiosity, I asked the store manager what would he do if he were the one who drank the juice and the same thing happened to him. "Nothing" he said.
After all these unpleasant happenings, and because of my anxiety condition, not to get more upset, I just wanted to get out of the store. I am not going to talk about what the real meaning of "customer service" is and how it should be done. A well-known company such as Costco should know how to get it right. After making my complaint at the store, to store manager on Dec.8, 2007, I have received a short note from Ms. Felicia K., Costco/Sedgwick claims(File # A722314586-0001-01), saying that; "As a member courtesy, we are following up on the Incident Report you completed on December 07, 2007 regarding an incident at the Charlotte warehouse." Then, I wrote a letter to Mr. James S., Chief Executive, Costco Wholesale Corporation Head Office in;Lake Drive, Issaquah, WA 98027, on January 15, 2008.
On January 17, 2008, I received a letter from "Cliffstar Corporation, (cliffstar Ave., Dunkirk, New York 14048-2800, Phone:(716). Ms. Sue H. G., Director of Technical Services at Cliffstar Corp., said that:"We make every effort to ensure that the product that you purchased is one that the store is proud of and that you are completely satisfied with. Your comments may help us to identify problem areas and prevent future consumer dissatisfaction. I have faxed the information that you gave us to the company that investigates our complaints. Their local representative will be contacting you shortly. If the insurance company does not contact you within two weeks please contact Donnie H. at 1-800- ext.3141".
Unfortunately, not two weeks, several weeks did not hear anything from them. I could not call this insurance company, because I did not have their phone number. Finally they called. Even though they did have all information about the incident. I had to explained again. A lady from this insurance company asked me some questions. Among those, because of this incident if I was hospitalized or not. "NO! but, because of my emotional condition (anxiety), I had so much difficulties" I said. "Well, if that is the case, there was nothing else to do from us!" she replied. I asked her, if she could send me written notice...."Okay, I will send a letter immediately" she said.
More than a month, i heard nothing from this insurance company. I called Cliffstar Corporation again. Talked to Donnie H. Told her that I have not received any letter from them. She told me that she was going to call and check what was happening. Few days after i got a call from this insurance company. I believe the same lady at the office, which the last time I talked to her. We did go through the same thing again. She mentioned that, whatever happened to me, it was not their company mistake and there was nothing to do if I file aclaim. She told me that, she has sent a letter right after we talked on the phone the last time. When I asked her where she sent it? She told me wrong address. "Oh, no wonder you haven't received it. Let me send you the same letter again right away to your correct address" she replied. I did not want to argue at all, towards the way that she responded on the phone to me. She was very rude. I just wanted not to continue our conversation any longer because of her attitute.
Since from the beginning of the incident, after a few correspondance as you have read all these information, I have not received anything else, from Costco and their insurance company. Neither Costco's Charlotte store customer service people nor Costco's Head office took any responsibility to the problem nor apologized for the incident. This means that all Costco cares about is having people shop in their stores, spend as much as possible, and bring in the money. And the rest, who cares? Someone could have suffered a health condition or even die because of this incident.
When I discussed this situation with a doctor, he told me that, it might not kill the person immediately, but would create very serious health problem and sruggle in the future. they think that nothing physically bad happened (Thanks God!), to me and that I should be very happy. At this point, yes, I was fortunate for not having suffering phisical damage. However, as I mentioned before, emotionally and mentally it did hurt me a lot! This incident was very dangerous and could have been life threatening!
In business, quality control is mandatory! This was a very careless mistake. Who will take the responsibility? Costco will say; "We did not produce the grape juice". Grape juice company will say; "Well, we did not manifacture the plastic bottle". The blame will go on and on. So, whatever happens, it will happen to the consumers, like me. Imagine, the label on the bottle says; "compleely satisfied!'. WOW! and if I am not satisfied, my money will be refunded! How much will it be? Just a few dollars! I have not received any refund! On the other hand, it should be remembered that emotional and psychological damage would cause so much difficulty to the person, whic was me, who traumatically suffered in the incident.
It seems like no one is going to admit their mistake or take any responsibility at all. Actually, I was expecting from Costco, as being their loyal customer (that's what they say, if it is true?), at least immediately get back to me as being "concerned". I was expecting to hear that they were not very happy what happened to me and at the very least, sharing my pain with a short note. But they did nor care and take a moment to be involved in someone's pain. I am still under doctor's care for my psychological difficulties. Yes, it did not kill me, what ever incident happened, but emotionally it did damage so much.
Reviewed May 22, 2008
I have happily used [their] laundry detergent for years. This new tub of laundry powder is not dissolving correctly. My wash is coming out with little white specks of detergent all over the clothes. The closthes are not clean. I do my best to shake off the white specks (I do not use a closthes dryer so I line dry). It's frustrating. Costco has always been great so I know they'd want to know about this.
Reviewed April 29, 2008
i was charged unfairly a finace fee of $37.87 and probably next month will be charged an additional finance fee because of the way they calculate finance fees over a two month period. this is an unfair finance fee because in fact i can prove that my payment was received by the deadline 4/12/08 to avoid finance charges. my amex statement shows payment posted to my account on 4/13/08. BUT MAIL IS NOT DELIVERED ON SUNDAY INCLUDING THIS SUNDAY 4/13/08.
This means that my payment was in the hands of amex before april 13 2008, namely april 12 or earlier. when amex was confronted with these facts(at first amex claimed payment was received i day late)they then said oh it may have been received earlier but it is when they POST the payment to the account which could take days(UP TO 10 DAYS). this process of using the post date instead of the receipt date seems UNFAIR and PREGNANT WITH OPPORTUNITIES TO CHEAT CONSUMERS AS i am being cheated. what can i do?
$37.87+what i will be charged next month plus having to waste close to an hour to get to this point
Reviewed April 28, 2008
Purchased water slide at Costco. Granddaughter tried slide two times. Lack of padding at bottom of short slide allowed her to land very hard on her bottom. The wind was knocked out of her and I thought we would have to call 911 when her eyes started to roll back in her head. Fortunately, She came around and started to scream.
She could have damaged her spine severely on this toy. I have never been so scared by something I thought would be a lot of fun for my grandchildren. Please, please, be careful if you have this item. We took ours back to the store on the very same day-after we were assured our granddaughter would be alright. Again there is NO padding at the bottom of these chutes!
Reviewed March 9, 2008
Costco evidently does not issue Rain Checks for all products that they carry when they run out on one of their coupon specials. They ran out of Electrosol Dishwasher tabs twice, and then at the end of the day on the last day of the special would not issue a rain check. The coupon was for buy one, get one free. I realize that stores have the right to establish their own policies, but I do think this is poor business practice when it comes to keeping the customer happy, especially when that customer is a member of their warehouse, and they expect to sell them another membership next year. What ever happened to the idea in retail of: the customer is always right? I just don't think that retailers care about the customer anymore. I am pretty sure that Costco does not care about their customers. They run these coupons to get you in the store, and then if they run out of the product that brought you into the store - oh well, too bad.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2008
I regret that I need to complain to you of Costco's delay of response. An e-mail was sent on November 8, 2007 to Costco reporting an accident that happened. But I am feeling that Costco has performed its duty in a perfunctory manner, not having sincerity to resolve the matter nor showing its solicitude for the customers' health. I did not hear from their center until November 24, 2007.
Now, let me describe what has happened to my wife. On the morning of November 4, she drank some milk (Kirkland Signature Reduced Fat Milk) sold in the store located in Alhambra. My wife felt something was wrong with her stomach and began to vomit hardly two hours later. She vomited twice in the morning and she went to the bathroom frequently after one o'clock that afternoon. She kept suffering from diarrhea for hours. But we placed the milk in the refrigerator at adequate temperatures. And the best date on the bottle was November 13, 2007. My wife took some medicine and rested in bed. She was too weak to stand, nor go to work for three days, having to stay at home to make a thorough recovery. What an awful experience we have had! My wife and I do request that Costco should settle this matter as soon as possible. We reserve the right to demand compensation for losses because of the polluted milk. We look forward to hearing from you soon.
My wife lost three days for working. Costco has not had any sincerity to solve the incident caused by the problem milk sold at its store.
Reviewed Feb. 20, 2008
I just want to warn people out there, that if you go to a home show, see a vendor there, and you apply for their credit card, that you might never see the credit card, and your information just might be taken and never given to the store. In Jan. 2007, my husband and I went to a home show at the Phil Long Ford Expo in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Costco Warehouse was there, taking memberships and credit card applications. We filled one out, got our cash cards and paid the $100.00 membership. We received our membership cards in an envelope, that looked like a 5-year-old filled out our address. My city was not only wrong, but the city they put on it was spelled wrong. There was no letter welcoming us or thanking us for the membership--nothing but the cards. It was a miracle we even got the cards.
Then, here it is, Feb. 20, 2007 and we have not heard a word about the credit card. I called the membership dept., and they said they had not received our application for the credit card. I was in shock. Not recorded-- then what happened to my application? They had no idea and told me to reapply. I am in fear that the person who took my application, kept my credit card application to use it in fraud. I have contacted the membership and asked them what happen to it, but I am sure, I will be told everything is fine. I just want you all to be very careful at these home shows. You are not dealing with the store, just people working for them. There is no computer to log your information in, just paper; and anyone can take what they want from it. I guess I will have to keep a fraud alert on my credit for a while longer. I wonder, if anyone else has had this problem or if I am the only one. I will never ever trust another home show with my information, no matter what the store is. I hope others will learn from my mistake. Let alone, we paid the membership with our credit card, so they have that information too.
Reviewed Feb. 18, 2008
I ordered carpet from Costco (pay in advance required) for dining/living room combination. It's a large room with heavy furniture and lots of glassware. The rest of house is filled with items. Installers come, tear up old carpet and pad. They begin to install carpet, and it's the wrong carpet. I was having party in two days. I can't move back furniture, etc., so have to deal with the mess with guests for over a week until correct carpet is ordered and received. I asked for some compensation from Custom Decorators and am flatly told my their manager that they make no compensations. They'll install the correct carpet when it comes in, and that's it.
No physical damage yet, unless they have to install in the rain and put our furniture outside during installation. Point being and message to other consumers: I would never use any of Costco's services again. Not only are they obviously unreliable but they offer no customer service representation whatsoever.
Reviewed Feb. 5, 2008
Friday, Feb. 1, my son replaced a fuse in his 1993 mustang. The fuse was blown caused by a coin dropped in the cigarette lighter socket. He did not find the coin until after the center console started smoking and caught on fire. The installed fuse did not protect the circuit and created a high resistance in wiring, causing the harness to melt and catch fire. The damage was extensive to the vehicle. I found out after that, that there is a safety recall of Chinese made fuses sold by Harbor Freight Tools. This fuse was not purchased by Harbor Freight Tools. It was purchased through Costco, Inc and sold as a 4-drawer cabinet work gear set made by Olympia Group Inc. These cabinets were manufactured in china and direct shipped to and sold exclusively by Costco.
My son's car may be a total loss. He could have been killed or injured in the fire that was a direct result of replacing a simple fuse. The car was purchased last year for $3,500, and we have restored it to the value of $6,500.
Reviewed Feb. 1, 2008
After about 18 months I am getting a notice on my TV to replace the lamp, which I am told will cost about $300.00 and is only good for 12 months. I was not told when I purchased the TV that I would need to replace the lamp on a yearly basis. This is expensive for a retired person; we should be reimbursed for cost of the lamp. The lamp I need to replace is PT-52LCX15.
Reviewed Jan. 30, 2008
BAD BAD Customer Service--the poorest I've ever experienced in any service industry. No matter what day of the week, they only have 3 cashiers open. The lines go up to the store shelve areas, and people with their carts waiting in line make difficult your shopping experience. You see a lot of employees wandering around, but we need people in the cashiers area to make more efficient the operation. I think is a problem of a poor management decision.
I will cancel my membership forever, and tell other people not to shop in this store.
Reviewed Jan. 30, 2008
No real news here. Costco treats its customers like cattle. My last trip to Costco, Marina Del Rey, CA (which has a D rating by the local Better Business Bureau by the way) started with an unannounced change in hours for their more expendable cattle, causing me to wait outside for 20 minutes before being allowed to enter the palace. Once inside, I did my shopping and got in line to pay. There were 2 cashier clerks, and one of them accidentally dumped my 1 gallon bottle of car wash soap on the floor, causing a major spill and bringing the cattle-drive to a standstill. While she spent a couple of minutes mopping up the mess, rather than walk over and fetch a replacement bottle, the second clerk just stood there. After the mess was cleaned up, I asked why they had not taken a minute to get another bottle, and they said they would--then started to take the customer behind me. I insisted on not being passed over and said I would not pay until they took 60 seconds to get another bottle.
After several minutes, a manager comes by. Now we have 3 employees standing around doing nothing, when all they had to do was get another bottle, and I would be on my merry way. Not good enough for the cattle-drivers - the manager rudely voided my sale and took the next customer. Yep, must keep the herd moving at all costs even if we lose one cow. So rather than spend 60 seconds to correct the problem, they chose to spend 15 minutes re-stocking my groceries and anger a customer. Nice.
Wasted an hour of my time.
Reviewed Jan. 23, 2008
I brought in my car due to a flat tire. I went to the register to ask them to fix the flat. "No problem," the Costco tire service attendant said, and he also suggested to rotate the tires. I told him that would be fine. Anyway, I walked back to work and came back 2 hours later; the tire service people then informed me that the tire could not be fixed, and they couldn't replace it because they didn't have the tire in stock. They suggested I drive to another location which had the tires in stock, and have them replace it. I was fine with this. So, they pull my car out of the garage, I get in and drive away, slowly. I drive onto the street and start noticing a knocking sound in the front, so I was going to turn around and go back to the Costco garage. I drove approx. 40-50 yards from the garage, and all of the sudden my left front tire falls off, and my car hits the ground. I get out and look at the tire and notice that there were no lug nuts on the rim. I look back at a trail of scattered lug nuts all over the street. I yelled back to the tire service people and asked "You guys didn't tighten up the lug nuts?"
They bring a floor jack out and attach the tire, bring it back to garage. By this time the shop manager, assistant general manager and general manager were involved. They checked the tire, bolts, rotors, etc. took pictures and sent me on my way. They didn't offer advice, like call your insurance, bring it back to the dealer or offer to pay for any damage caused--nothing of the sort. Luckily, this happened only a few yards from the Costco shop. What if the tire were to fall off on the freeway and put others and myself in harms way? What am I to do?
This incident just happened a few hours ago, so I'm not sure of the extent of the economic or physical damage.
Reviewed Jan. 18, 2008
I took my car to Costco for tires. When I got my car back, it had two blown air suspension bags. When I filled a complaint, I was told Costco was not going to make to make any repairs. My car was damaged by Costco and they refused to take responsibility for the damage. The suspension bags were in good working order when I went to Costco.
The suspension had to be replaced with new ones at a cost of $730.89 plus $60.00 in taxi fares and a great deal of frustration. I am a senior citizen and this was a great financial burden for me.
Reviewed Jan. 8, 2008
Bought an auto battery on 05/06 that said 36 month FREE replacement Warranty. It failed on 12/07, well within the FREE replacement warranty. But Costco would not replace it; they refunded the original price of $39.99 and sold me a new Battery for $59.99. Sorry but that is not a Free Replacement. I went to several other auto parts stores and inquired on their FREE replacement battery warranties, and they all said the same: If your battery fails within the stated warranty period, you get a FREE replacement no matter if the cost of the new battery is $500.00.
So I complained, but Costco said that's the ways it is--they don't honor the warranty for paying members/customers. I returned the battery and bought a much better one at Walmart for $10.00 more but with a warranty that will be honored.
Reviewed Dec. 15, 2007
I purchased a pair of eyeglasses at Costco in Pittsburgh, (Robinson Township.) I have several complaints. I was told there is a warranty on the eyeglasses. I returned them at 14 days because a screw kept falling out, and the lens fell out and became scratched. They said their policy is to fix them first, and then they will refund or replace. They replaced the screw and added glue to the screw. This worked for a week. I returned several more times with the same problem. I demanded new glasses or a refund. They said Costco does not warranty eyeglasses.
But they said when I purchased them that they do. I tried phoning Costco HQ and was placed on hold every time. I called and hung up several times after being put on hold over 45 minutes. I am out over $400.
Reviewed Dec. 9, 2007
I have ordered a trademill on 11/24/07 via Costco.com. There is no sign of coming. I got email that it was shipped on 11/27, but yet it has to arrive. Today is almost 15 days. When I call customer service, their hold time is 35 minutes. When I discussed this delay to a local store, they said they could not help. I have a bad experience first time purchasing one with Costco. I wonder how can they survive online, whereas other companies deliever within 3-4 business days even the item shipped from across the country.
Reviewed Dec. 4, 2007
We had purchased a Playstation. After a few months, it did not work anymore. My wife and son took it back. It was missing a CD for my 10 cents. The manager came in and made a big issue. He humiliated my son and my wife in front of his employees. He was playing Rambo. I picked up the phone and spoke to Rick, the manager, who's a very rude human being. Then, I confronted him on his rudeness and racial decision. He hung up the phone on me. I immediately called again, and he started to apologize on his bad day and then again tried to intimidate me. I hung up the phone on him.
On the second day, I called corporate. They juggled me from one crook to another. All they wanted to do was to cover Rick's behavior. I am not going any way with Costco. They are a bunch of liars and manipulators. Then, I spoke to Shawn. Of course, they do not give a last name. But Shawn is the district manager for Costco in southern California. He assured me that everything is going to be ok and there is no problem to shop at Costco again... till my wife went back and had a cart full of products. She was humiliated again by the cashier after finding out that the membership has been suspended by Rick. We do not want to shop there anymore. We have money and lots of it. We can afford to shop anywhere we like.
Reviewed Nov. 12, 2007
I cannot find any information regarding this new State of Illinois law on Costco's website or the State of Illinois liquor commission website. Costco's customer service dept. was no help over the phone. It has cost our business much time to pursue this issue. Also because of the use of a personal check, our checking account was charged $165 in overdraft fees.
Reviewed Oct. 29, 2007
I went into the local Costco pharmacy in bakersfield to pick-up a prescription and the employee was extremely rude. I have never experienced anything like that at a place of business in my life. I WILL NEVER JOIN COSTCO. The clerk was so unprofessional that I walked out without the prescription.
Reviewed Oct. 26, 2006
Ordered furniture online on 11 Aug 06 through Costco.com and paid $3,727.48. Was promised for delivery in six weeks and waited six weeks. No word on my furniture other than the initial email stating that the furniture was shipped on 23 Aug 06. There was no option to track the shipment. Called Costco.com several times and finally found out that the furniture was being held to be repaired. Did not want to receive repaired furniture when I paid a full price.
I've been out of $3727.48 for 11 weeks and don't know when I will get my money back. Wasted my time on multiple calls to Costco customer service and writing complaint letters.
Reviewed July 3, 2006
In April, 2005, in response to an ad in our Costco store which read Purchase any Whirlpool appliance at Costco and receive 1) One free additional year of warranty coverage and 2) free full-sized Kirkland Signature cleaning product, we purchased both a Duet Washing Machine and a Duet Dryer from Costco.com. The offer goes on to say that within 14-21 days of our purchase we would receive via mail our extended warranty card and a coupon(s) for one or more of the Kirkland products listed.
After more that 21 days, I called customer service on 6/13/05 and whoever I spoke with assured me the warranty and coupons were forthcoming shortly. I called again on 6/29/05 and spoke with Veronica who gave me the same assurance. I called again on 8/1/05 and spoke with Margo. She apologized for the delay, but again assured me the items would be sent.
The first part of September I stopped by customer service at my store and they said there was nothing they could do because Costo.com is totally separate from the Costco store and suggested I write. So, I emailed them explaining the whole story on 9/7/05. On 9/9/05 I received a reply from Taylor S. in customer service, along with a tracking number with a message that read I have sent an email to our Buying Office, who is sending these out to you and find out why you have not received yours. They should be contacting you. On 9/27/05 I wrote back to Taylor to say I had not received anything yet, nor had I heard from anyone and that I was extremely frustrated with their lack of service, etc. I have not pursued this any further out of frustration, since I've never received any response from anyone.
Reviewed April 14, 2006
I received a Novaform Elite Memory Foam Mattress Topper as a Christmas present (12/05), purchased at this store but I unwrapped it and it expanded at my home in Pennsylvania. Only, the mattress is flawed, discolored, the edges never expanded and creases never came out. Store policy refuses to return the money to my parents without me bringing back the mattress. There is no Cosco in my area, and it's a 5-hour drive back to my parents. Meanwhile, I have a tumbled mass of ** mattress in my bedroom because I have no basement or attic or garage to store it in until I again go to VA in Oct/Nov. I sent photos as attachments to an email of the flawed mattress. I know there are other similar complaints from consumers and I am very displeased that my parents have not been credited for the cost of the mattress and that I am tripping over it in my house.
Reviewed Jan. 30, 2006
I ordered flowers for a funeral on Wednesday, December 21 to be delivered the following Thursday, December 29 for use on December 30. That is the Costco scheduled time required to order flowers, eight days.I received a confirmation of my order indicating they would be delivered on the 29th. I received no FEDEX delivery the morning of the 29th so I tried tracking online. FEDEX showed a pickup order with no tracking information. I called them and they told me they tried to pickup the order but for some reason, they were not sent.
I called COSTCO customer service and they said they showed them shipped and that I should wait until afternoon to see if they came. Luckily, I found the flowers locally, but told the people in my office to refuse delivery if they came on Friday since I was to be off for the funeral. They did refuse delivery since there isn't much you can do with funeral flowers a day later.
I contacted COSTCO for a credit to my account and they said they would have to investigate. When I finally got a response, it was that no credit could be issued because I ordered the flowers too late, THURSDAY, December 21. My calendar indicates December 21 to be a WEDNESDAY, and I am certain that is when they were ordered.
I am being charged $74.00 for someone elses error. A death in the family is difficult enough without having to look for last minute flowers! COSTCO does a great job with customer service in their stores but I will never consider ordering from them online again.
Reviewed March 14, 2005
I was holding a box of orbit gum and it did not say how many were in it so I opened it to see and was accused of stealing it. They wanted to go and call the police. I did not put the gum in my pocket; I was just seeing how many were in there. I want to know what your opinion is. Thanks.
Reviewed Sept. 9, 2004
First I must say, I do truly enjoy shopping at our local Costco store. My probelm was trying to order (9-3-04) something online.I was already registered but, could not remember my password. I followed all proceedures as instructed trying to obtain a temporary password. The password I finally received on 9-8-04 after many many e-mails. Most of the responses I received from c/s were generic making it sound as if all the difficulties I was having were my fault. I put Costco on my contact list so their e-mails would not be rejected, I emptied the cookies and temporary folders. I could receive their responses with all the proceedures to follow but it took 3 working days to get the password. But the final straw was then I go into order and the item is GONE!!
I was so totally p---ed I could not believe this had happened. I had been watching a superior quality refurbished HP Computer w/a one year warranty. I truly wanted this machine and now it is gone. I had even printed the spec sheet for this computer so I would know everything about it. Truly a HUGE disappointment. I had thought for the last 15 years that shopping with Costco was actually the closest thing you could to a perfect shopping experience. I am not happy.
Reviewed Jan. 14, 2004
A woman manager came over to help me. I compared the dia. studs I was wearing to the Costco ones; Costco's were a better quality, the manager agreed. She asked me what kind of membership card I had and I replied the $50. card. She said she wanted to look at my card to see if I would be eligible for the Executive Card. I said I was OK with the one I had, but she insisted several times and I gave her my card. I waited, well over 5 mins and had to take the student I had been working with back home.
Reviewed Sept. 29, 2003
I guess misery does love company. I feel much better knowing that I am not alone in surviving the "goon squad" tactics employed by Costco Stores. In my case, the "Goons" happened to be the "Butte County District Attorney's Office" acting "on behalf" of Costco.
I recently mailed my yearly membership to Costco. I had just recently began paying my bills with Quicken. I was to find out later, that the check I sent for my membership renewal contained a printing error. I made that discovery when I received a letter in the mail from the Chico Costco advising me that the membership check had "bounced". I called my bank and checked my statements. There was no indication of insufficient funds, no bank charges or returned checks. When I called Costco to inquire about the matter it turned out that the bank had returned the check to Costco because of a "routing error". Apparently the printer was misaligned when that check was printed and was missing a portion of the account number needed to process payment. My bank returned the check to Costco asking that the missing number be supplied.
Costco labeled the check "bounced" and started a campaign of harrassment aimed at 'recovering' the membership fee and ever-growing "associated fees." Costco's representatives began to call me every week demanding that I hand-deliver the membership fee (w/"other" fees included) in person and in cash, immediately. I had clarified the routing error vs. "bounced" check issue with Costco in our initial conversation (and every conversation thereafter). The Chico Costco would not allow me to provide the "missing" routing numbers so that the check could be reprocessed. They would not allow me to reissue the payment over the phone or online.
I live almost an hour away from the store (one way) and advised Costco that I could deliver the Membership fee (sans additional fees) on my next trip to Chico (scheduled later that month). Imagine my surprise when I received a letter from the Butte County District Attorney's office demanding that I pay my membership fee with Costco (plus ever-increasing "other" fees) or face a criminal investigation. I called Butte County, explained that failure to renew a Costco Membership did not constitute a violation of law.
I then called Costco Corporation Headquarters. They had the manager of the Chico Costco call me. He promised to "take care" of this unfortunate incident. He would call me when he was able to get the check back from the D.A.'s office and discuss my feelings about renewal at that time. A couple of weeks later I heard from my bank. A Butte County Investigator had recently contacted them and made "inquiries about" my account. The investigators made mention of "possible fraud" etc.. The bank was concerned about the allegations and wanted me to know about the inquiry.
I was livid. That very same day I received a letter from the District Attorney's Office telling me that I had "one last opportunity to avoid criminal prosecution by completing the following": 1. Call them, 2. Pay them (Membership fees plus check charges plus bank fees plus Administrative fees) on behalf of Costco and then 3. pay Butte Co. $50.00 for the privilege of attending a class on Financial Management.
The letter found me "guilty of passing a bad check with intent to defraud, a crime punishable by imprisonment in county jail or state prison." I was told that "FAILURE TO ATTEND this class would also cause a complaint to be filed and a warrant issued for my arrest." You can bet I called them. After refusing to submit to this latest, most blatant extortion attempt I had a few words to say to the District Attorneys office about due process, presumption of innocence, constitutional rights, civil vs. criminal litigation, and defamation of character.
When I called Costco that same day, I was informed that the manager had requested the matter be dropped just that week and was waiting for Butte County to return the "misrouted paperwork". Butte County says otherwise. Suffice it to say that noone admitted contacting my bank or defaming my character. The Costco manager finally agreed to write a short letter (making vague references to my "good standing" with their company and apologies for past misunderstandings). To the best of my knowledge, noone has contacted my bank to clear up the "misunderstanding".
The District Attorney's office could (or would not) explain why they were so actively pursuing this matter on behalf of Costco. Andrew Merchant from the D.A.'s office did finally respond to my complaints by informing me that he considered me to be a liar and a criminal regardless of the facts surrounding this case. He would, however, close the matter at the request of Costco, if or when Costco chose to make that request. I am pursuing my complaints against Butte County with the appropiate authorities.
Defamation of character is an offense that can never be rectified, even if monetary damages are paid. It is not possible to put the "toothpaste back into the tube". They can't "unsay" their false accusations.
If Laura has not already graduated from law school, she should do so forthwith so she can run against the Butte County D.A. in the next election.
Reviewed Sept. 23, 2003
I picked up my two 30-day prescriptions, ** as usual. Last month, when I got home, I noticed that, while I had the correct number of ** pills, I had only 29 ** tablets. Taking this as a fluke, I let it go. Today I again picked up my prescriptions, and was disgusted to see, upon arriving home, that I now had 25 ** tablets instead of the 30 I had paid for.
** (the much cheaper drug) was correct, as always. I now must schlep back to Costco tomorrow to call them on this deceit. Has it gotten to the point where pharmacy customers must dump pills out in their cars and count them before leaving Costco? I'm wondering how often this happens with more expensive medications-- a few missing pills here and there can really add up (on the profit ledger.)
Damages resulting: I was cheated out of several expensive pills, and must waste my time returning to Costco to collect the missing pills.
Reviewed Sept. 12, 2003
Purchased Lakeland Mills, Inc. product -- a "cedar log patio swing" -- from Costco. The swing's main supporting hardware "hook" broke, dropping the swing vertically about 2 feet, causing further injury to my previously injured back, neck, and shoulders. Since it took about 8 months for the main support "hook" to break, Costco wouldn't replace it, but Lakeland Mills, Inc. sent me several "replacement hooks" -- all which subsequently broke one after another after about 8-13 months of use.
To prevent possible further injury from breaking, defective, insufficient, or poorly-engineered Lakeland Mills, Inc. product hardware, I put stacks of old telephone books underneath the swing so that it wouldn't "drop" so far WHEN the "replacement hooks" broke (and all of them DID eventually and violently snap in two).
After communicating the aforementioned to Lakeland Mills, Inc. and to Costco Wholesale's CEO, Mr. James D. Sinegal, Costco said that they will continue selling Lakeland Mills, Inc. products until they have a more substantial injury/death rate from Lakeland Mills, Inc. products. Meanwhile, Lakeland Mills, Inc.'s owners, Mr. Calvin Hunt and Mr. Robert Jensen, told me that I was an "isolated case" and that no other breakages of their products -- or injuries resulting from same -- have ever occurred, and quickly tried to defer me to their insurance carrier.
Meanwhile, I contacted several manufacturers of similar hardware to the continuously breaking Lakeland Mills, Inc.'s hardware and was told that these types of "hooks" are not designed or engineered for use as a swing main support and were considered "wire hooks". I was also told that a hook having at least TWICE THE DIAMETER of the Lakeland Mills, Inc.'s main support hooks would be a "minimum requirement for daily human support" on a swing-type product. I then reported these findings in the form of a complaint to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, who quickly told me that they will just "collect statistics" and actually require a "recall" of the several defective Lakeland Mills, Inc. products involving this repetitively failing hardware only if the "numbers" [injury/death] get "high enough".
So, I decided to demand that Lakeland Mills, Inc. compensate me for my pain caused by their known-defective product and to demand that they cease manufacturing these known defective products and offer a replacement/repair of all those known-defective products they have already sold to unsuspecting families. They quickly ignored my demands.
Reviewed June 28, 2003
We bought a garden cart from Costco which stated the weight limit was 900-1000 lbs. Twice the front wheels broke completely off the axles with about 200 lbs total on it. Two kids were riding on it! Both times! A little girl got hurt -- bruised on her side, and frightened both the kids terribly because the whole cart tipped over forward.
We had to pay to get the wheels re-welded. A very poor design in these carts! Now we'll have to have the back two wheels welded just to be safe! The little girl was quite bothered by this and we felt it should have been safe enough for 200 lbs when it stated 900-1000 lbs.
Reviewed July 25, 2002
I was exiting out of Costco with my mother after paying for our items, as I was stopped by a security person. He said that he needed to talk to me about something, so he grabbed my arm and took me to the back room. I guess it was what they call the camera room. I didn't know what he was talking about. All I did was accompany my mom to the store to get something and all of sudden it turned out to be the worst experience of my life. I felt like a criminal, everybody at the store was looking at me as if I was a shoplifter or worse.
So when I got to the room he told me that now is the time to get clean, and I responded by telling him what are you talking about? He probably thought that I was going to admit it that I took something. Someone said that they saw me take something and put it in my pockets. I asked them if they had evidence that I actually did on camera, they said that they didn't. There was also a lady there in the room also. She told me to empty out my pockets, and so I did. I took everything out and to prove them wrong they didn't find anything on me that belonged to their store.
My mom was so mad, she wanted to know who the person was to told on me that I stole something, they said that they can't do that. In my 18 years of life on this earth I've never been more humilated until now.
That thought being in my mind accused of taking something will stay with me for a long time. I couldn't sleep at all, the same role would come back and play over and over again in my head. And going to the markets or to the mall I would feel like it might happen again to me. Worst part is I don't know if going to the stores is going to be the same experince I had before, like trying out new things and so on. But now its going to be more about someone stopping me at the front door asking me, "Can I see you for a minute, we need to talk". I just don't want that to happen again. Raymond should retain an attorney and sue the store for false arrest.
If you are ever in a similar situation, you are within your rights to refuse to accompany store personnel inside and to refuse to make any statement. You are not obligated to submit to a search. Instead, ask if you are under arrest. If the security officer says no, you may leave. If he or she says yes, you should ask that local police be called. Assuming you are innocent and the store has detained you against your will, you should inform the police upon their arrival that you want to press charges of false arrest against the store and its security personnel.
If the police are not cooperative, you should ask for an attorney and refuse to make any statements until your attorney arrives or one is provided for you.
Costco Pharmacy Company Information
- Company Name:
- Costco Pharmacy
- Formerly Named:
- Costco
- Address:
- PO Box 34331
- City:
- Seattle
- State/Province:
- WA
- Postal Code:
- 98124
- Country:
- United States
- Website:
- www.costco.com