Sears Complaint

Sears Website Ripoff - Dishwasher

- manhattan
I purchased a dishwasher on Sears' website in response to a sale. I received a confirmation of the order which included a set price for delivery. two weeks after I ordered it I received an email that the order was cancelled by sears. I called customer service. The initial operator told me "sears doesn't give rain checks for on-line purchases". I then demanded a supervisor. I was on hold for 1.5 hours, the supervisor checked the warehouse and a shipment of these dishwashers were in the warehouse. she submitted another order at the sale price. That was yesterday.

Today I received another email from sears saying that they misquoted the delivery charge on my "confirmed order" and that I would have to pay another $100.00. At 10:00am I called customer support and they put me through to a supervisor. I was on hold for almost two hours and then got a busy signal. I called back and was told I have to speak with a supervisor. I had to wait again for almost two hours and the supervisor said that the website says that there may be additional delivery charges for your area.

I said that I shop a lot on line and retailers do sometimes have different delivery charges but that once I put my zipcode in, the website tells me what it is and I get a confirmed order. I have an confirmed order from sears that says the confirmed price is x amount for the dishwasher and x amount for deliver.

Based on that confirmed amount I purchased the dishwasher and feel that it is false advertising and a breach of our sales agreement to know ask for more.

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Reader Comments:

Posted by LJG on 12/12/2008
Very true. Sears left hand does not know what the right hand is doing. When offered a discount by their Craftmans Club and they bill you full price, it should be easy to explain that they made an error. They NEVER take ownership of having screwed up. They apologise that YOU had a problem and may even offer YOU a token $5 credit for 'being a good customer' but will NEVER admit they had the problem. I made my first return visit to their parts store in over 5 years this week to buy a dryer ignitor for less than $30. Normally I would spend between $3K and $5K a year. Yea, they won this battle didnt they. I also reported this problem to friends who also refrain from shopping at Sears and KMart. Since I learned the nearly bankrupt KMart bought out Sears. It seems that the only goal these 2 companies have in life is this, no matter how many things you buy, 1 or a 100, they have to do something to screw up the order, then deny they errored, and take your money while giving you the grief. Wards had this very problem many years ago, will be looking forward to both of your doors closing because of POOR CUSTOMER SERVICE. (Dec 2008)



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