- Report: #982598
Complaint Review: Wine Insiders - Ashton Pennsylvania
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Melissa -
Pittsfield, New Hampshire, United States of America
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Wine Insiders
Ashton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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thewineinsiders.com/
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Wine Insiders wineinsiders.com Rude Customer Service..do not order!! Ashton , Pennsylvania
Wine Insiders has very rude customer service.
I ordered the wine Mystery Mixed 12 Pack for a Christmas gift. I placed my order on Nov. 23 2012. As instructed by the website emails were to be sent to us and the gift recipient prior to delivery because someone has to be there upon delivery. I called 12-15-12 to check on delivery. I was told that delivery was attempted 3 times so it was being returned to them. I asked what they were going to do because we never received the emails about delivery to begin with. I asked for a manager and the account manager said they could reship it but no delivery by Christmas. If a company makes a mistake you would think they would fix it by expediting the shipping, but they said no. I will never order again and I was going to have this as an annual gift. The account manager and the customer service representative were both very rude and offered no other options other than a refund.
I ordered the wine Mystery Mixed 12 Pack for a Christmas gift. I placed my order on Nov. 23 2012. As instructed by the website emails were to be sent to us and the gift recipient prior to delivery because someone has to be there upon delivery. I called 12-15-12 to check on delivery. I was told that delivery was attempted 3 times so it was being returned to them. I asked what they were going to do because we never received the emails about delivery to begin with. I asked for a manager and the account manager said they could reship it but no delivery by Christmas. If a company makes a mistake you would think they would fix it by expediting the shipping, but they said no. I will never order again and I was going to have this as an annual gift. The account manager and the customer service representative were both very rude and offered no other options other than a refund.
1 Updates & Rebuttals
Frances
Glenview, IL,Illinois,
United States of America
Delivery problem
#2UPDATE Employee
Wed, December 19, 2012
We're sorry to hear this customer had delivery issues with her Wine Insiders order and found our customer service unacceptable. As our customer service supervisor explained to her the day before she posted this complaint, Wine Insiders ships through FedEx. The customer says she didn't receive the initial delivery notification, and also didn't receive the notes that FedEx leaves at the address where delivery was attempted. Since FedEx claims they made three delivery attempts, the delivery person should have left two notifications at the address to say delivery would be again attempted the following day. Apparently that didn't happen, and we're sorry about that but it is an issue the customer might want to take up with FedEx.
Most of our customers who provide an email with their order do receive the shipping notification and receive the "delivery attempted" notification. There are various reasons this might not happen: the email goes into the user's spam folder; the user is not required to provide an email for orders so we don't have one on file; the delivery attempted notification blows away, etc. This time of year the extra volume of shipments may also be a factor.
We wish we could have found away to make up for this experience, but none of our options would work for this customer. We offered a full refund but that was rejected. We also offered to reship the order but due to the holiday volume we were unable to guarantee delivery before Christmas and that was an unacceptable option to the customer. Wine shipments aren't eligible for overnight shipping options used to deliver other types of products.
