- Report: #444436
Complaint Review: Conn's - Nationwide
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Conn's
3295 College Street Nationwide, U.S.A.
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Conn's NO oven since 3/09/09 on a stove barely 2 years old! Nationwide
I have been without an oven since 3/9 on a stove that has only been used for a little more than 2 years. This means we were unable to have our traditional Easter family lunch and dinner. The stove was purchased brand new with an extended warranty from Conn's. The stove and the extended warranty have been paid in full for some time. The stove is a GE glass top, stainless steel model number GLEFZ379FC. The extended warranty is through 11/16/2010. All paperwork is available for proof.
I have repeatedly called and I have been repeatedly promised that someone will call me back. There was to have been a service person to repair the stove on 3/20. The person never called and never showed up. When we called the following Monday we were promised that someone would call us back, but we also found out that no part had been ordered. This game went on and on and we were repeatedly promised that the part was being ordered and that someone would call us back with an explanation. On 4/03 someone slipped and admitted that the part had not been ordered, but that it could not be ordered until Monday 4/6 because of inventory and we were promised a call back confirming the ordering of the part. Needless to say no call came Monday 4/6 and 4/7 I called and no part had been order and there was no explanation of why, when a part would be ordered, on offer for a manager to call us back, and no apology whatsoever!
The customer service is beyond atrocious and the only responses I get are sarcastic "I do not knows" and "I cannot answer for someone else" and there is NEVER a manager available to speak to me. I called one of the stores in an attempt to get some help and they openly admitted that they cannot get any further with the situation than what I can. The store number I called is 512-335-1001 and the customer service number, if you can call it that, is 1-800-280-1514.
The store that attempted to help me called and acted as if they were me and they were equally as appalled by the customer service attitude. The person at the store repeatedly apologized that there was nothing he could do, but there was no way for him to push anything any further and that his service manager said that I needed to call customer service, the manager still said this even after the helpful person told him that not even a Conn's employee could get an answer out of customer service.
With this experience, I am MORE than shocked to see A+ BBB rating especially coupled with the number of complaints filed. These circumstances are making me rethink my belief in using and the credibility of the BBB itself and businesses that are BBB accredited.
I have been beyond patient and Conn's has been beyond unresponsive!
Mary
Austin, Texas
U.S.A.
I have repeatedly called and I have been repeatedly promised that someone will call me back. There was to have been a service person to repair the stove on 3/20. The person never called and never showed up. When we called the following Monday we were promised that someone would call us back, but we also found out that no part had been ordered. This game went on and on and we were repeatedly promised that the part was being ordered and that someone would call us back with an explanation. On 4/03 someone slipped and admitted that the part had not been ordered, but that it could not be ordered until Monday 4/6 because of inventory and we were promised a call back confirming the ordering of the part. Needless to say no call came Monday 4/6 and 4/7 I called and no part had been order and there was no explanation of why, when a part would be ordered, on offer for a manager to call us back, and no apology whatsoever!
The customer service is beyond atrocious and the only responses I get are sarcastic "I do not knows" and "I cannot answer for someone else" and there is NEVER a manager available to speak to me. I called one of the stores in an attempt to get some help and they openly admitted that they cannot get any further with the situation than what I can. The store number I called is 512-335-1001 and the customer service number, if you can call it that, is 1-800-280-1514.
The store that attempted to help me called and acted as if they were me and they were equally as appalled by the customer service attitude. The person at the store repeatedly apologized that there was nothing he could do, but there was no way for him to push anything any further and that his service manager said that I needed to call customer service, the manager still said this even after the helpful person told him that not even a Conn's employee could get an answer out of customer service.
With this experience, I am MORE than shocked to see A+ BBB rating especially coupled with the number of complaints filed. These circumstances are making me rethink my belief in using and the credibility of the BBB itself and businesses that are BBB accredited.
I have been beyond patient and Conn's has been beyond unresponsive!
Mary
Austin, Texas
U.S.A.
1 Updates & Rebuttals
Mary
Austin,Texas,
U.S.A.
Still no response from the BBB
#2Author of original report
Tue, May 05, 2009
Well, once I filed a complaint with the Texas Attorney General and the Texas Department of Licensing & Regulation (they deal with warranty issues) my stove was magically fixed the following day. People need to file all complaints with state and/or federal organizations, these entities work off of numbers and unless the public registers a complaint they never know there is an issue to be investigated. The real kicker is that it took 5 minutes, yes 1, 2,3,4,5 whole minutes for the part to be replaced and the oven to once again work. Conn's is so messed-up that they called 3 days later to schedule a repair person. However, now what is most concerning, is that the BBB actual sent me a response from Conn's that was 2 sentences. The stove was fixed on 4/20 and we are sorry for the inconvenience. In my BBB complaint I specifically requested an explanation of why it took so long, what would be done to improve customer service, and a full apology from Conn's. I obviously rejected the BBB letter as settling the matter and stated I wanted what I requested along with an explanation from the BBB as to why Conn's still has an A+ rating with 1,972 complaints in the last 36 months as of 5/5, see http://www.bbb.org/southeast-texas/business-reviews/appliances-major-dealers/conns-in-beaumont-tx-10010889, and why they would accept such an unbelievably weak response from Conn's on my complaint. I requested this explanation from the BBB on 4/18 in a separate e-mail to the BBB of Southeast Texas and in my rejection letter on 4/22 to the BBB. I have yet to receive an acknowledgement of my request for an explanation from the BBB, much less an explanation. I will wait a full month for a response from the BBB and then I will file a report with the Federal Trade Commission for deceptive practices and contact one of the local news stations. All I can say is do not trust the reports on the BBB and look-up complaints on the BBB; once you do you will see that there are many legitimate complaints on the organization! People need to be educated on what a scam the BBB really is!
