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Posted in Forum: Customer Service
I ordered the TS recliner in charcoal early in the AM for my father in NC. i was so excited I saw it early AM since I am in NC assisting him after a hip injury and had literally PLANNED to go out into the public COVID world to try and buy one that very same day. I was THRILLED to see it offered and in stock, and when I ordered, they showed 22 left in charcoal but plenty in other colors. I realize 22 was not a large quantity but at $800 dollars-I should have been safe as my info was already on file and I placed the order quickly.
It was so important I went back as if placing an additional order and saw 19 charcoal left when I went back to check stock after my order was confirmed and placed. They continued to sell until the afternoon as well.
Inexplicably- they sent an email several hours later requesting verification of the ship address later on in the day. I have shipped to his home through my account on multiple occasions and they have never had to verify before. I called in at 910am Saturday am (open at 8am) as requested when I saw the email from fraud detection.
Today, I have another email waiting claiming they oversold the product and I am waitlisted for a month!!
This was a product there was a critical need for so much that I came 500 miles to personally assist him. Had I know it was a questionable order- I would have just ordered a different color to confirm I actually would receive something!!!
The orders should be filled in the order they were placed and HSN has no business filling any order first that came in after mine due to a lack of an immediate response from me about an email I did not expect.
My frustration is twofold-I think they moved my place in line waiting for a confirmation of my info(despite being already in the system from multiple past orders). I find that unfair since that they do not state that is required, or I would have placed the order by phone. Second, they will not disclose the quantity# they hope to restock-despite the repeated hard sell on-air claims it could NOT be restocked, nor the place I am on wait-list so I can factor the probability of getting the product I desperately need now though I am sure the stats are available to them. If not-they need an immediate re-evaluation of their inventory/ order processing software.
HSN is not as large as QVC,and seemed to be much more consistent in their perks and personal attention to problems. I really hate to watch them adopt the more recent Qurate practice of impersonal and uncaring, lack of concern for customer service practices.Posted in Forum: Talk Among YourselvesHave you tried to email customer service? Have you tried to contact customer service? I’m not sure what’s going on with HSN and QVC but ever since they merged, the service has been a joke. Once you get to someone, if you can get to someone, the operators are as pleasant as they can be under the circumstance. I called customer service HSN and found the CS # on my invoice. I was sent to some “free” tickets by HSN for only $1.95. Can you get any cheasier? What is Happening? I called every number on my invoice and on their webpage. I tried emailing them. I tried live chat. I tried everything and all I want to do is return an item that did not come with a return label. I am really disgusted with the quality of clothes and the increase in the cost of everything on these two shows. Am I the only one who feels used and abused after all these years of being loyal customers?
Posted in Forum: Customer ServiceWe get our mail at a post office box. In order for the post office to correctly handle packages sent via UPS SurePost when the post office makes the actual delivery, the post office told us to use a shipping address similar to “1234 State St. #789” where “1234 State St” is the location of our house (and suitable for UPS Ground shipments and similar), but the “#789” part triggers the post office worker to try to match my name with the name on PO box 789. This system works perfectly with QVC, ShopHQ, Amazon, Target and many others. But not HSN. When placing my order, the shipping address is shown correctly, but as soon as I confirm my order, HSN strips off the “#789” part. Then the UPS SurePost package gets to the post office which doesn’t know what to do with it (since they don’t deliver to that street address) so they return it as undeliverable.
We call customer service who confirms that the #789 has been stripped off my new order. They cannot add it to the existing order, but they do put it back onto the shipping address on our account. But on the next order, it gets stripped off again.
If all the other companies can do this correctly, why can’t HSN? Very frustrating to find out the package you were waiting for got returned as undeliverable because HSN changed the shipping address.