When we buy a new piece of furniture it is like a little change to our every day life, a pink drop of gaiety in the grey routine. This change is supposed to be pleasant. However, this pleasure can easily be ruined by the company you buy from. Unbelievable lack of customer service at huge money is a very common notion t the present time.
Ikea. Ikea offers everyday furniture in modern designs, emphasizing function, affordability, and style. Ikea International Group is Swedish privately owned company. Ikea was founded in 1943. At the present time Ikea International is headquartered in Leiden, The Netherlands. The founder of the company is Ingvar Kamprad. The name of the company is an acronym that stands for the initials of the name of the founder, name of the place and home village where he grew up. The company is an international home products retailer that has a number of its retail stores all over the world in such countries as the United States, Canada, Sweden, France, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Australia and many other countries. The product line of Ikea includes low-price self-assembly furniture, accessories, bathrooms and kitchens.
Customer complaints. Sometimes, you wonder – How can possibly the company be prosperous and developing when it has nothing worthy to other: neither goods no services. The clients of the Ikea Company have filed an incredible amount of negative reviews. The complaints concern awful quality of the products and dreadful customer service. People are concerned with the delivery service of the company as well. If you place an order for a product from the company it can hardly get to you without any troubles. The delivery can either be delayed, never arrive, or pop up in few days later when you are at work and leave your order at the doors. They do not care. You have paid for the delivery and the goods, the order is delivered and the rest is your problem. Another difficulty with the company is to return the defected goods. The customer service will do its best not to get them back – they will hang on you, promise to settle the problem and never call back, and when the warranty period is over you will have no right to apply for the refund.
These are commonly practiced tricks. People get fraud every here and there and it seems impossible to fight this frustrating trend.
Saturday, July 5, 2008
IKEA
Friday, July 4, 2008
Rooms To Go
Furniture, this large movable equipment, such as tables and chairs is used to make a house, office, or other space suitable for living or working. Without furniture our houses and working places would look more like well-painted caves with different devices and appliances. Besides, with the help of furniture, anyone can make a place look better, bigger and even change the atmosphere. But when it comes to choosing the place, where the furniture is to be purchased, it appears to be quite an issue. It is not easy to find a furniture store that would satisfy all our needs: financial, design, and manufacturer. We suggest you Rooms To Go as a furniture store under consideration. There are advantages and disadvantages of this company, all mentioned here.
General information. Rooms To Go, Inc. is a privately owned company. It was founded in 1990. At the present time the comapny is headquartered in Seffner, Florida. This chain of furniture stores is located in the South United States and Puerto Rico. Rooms To Go is one of the leading furniture companies across the United States. The company has a great number of showrooms. Nowadays Rooms To Go is one of the most popular furniture retailers. Rooms To Go provides furniture for bedroom, dining room, office, kitchen, living room that include sofas, chairs, tables, queen beds, sectionals and many other items. Besides, the company provides kids furniture: bedroom furniture, bed linens, rugs and accessories.
In favor of Rooms To Go. The company is well known for design of its furniture. When people are looking for something exquisite, or hi-tech, or themed and not trivia, they very often go to Rooms To Go. The company pays a lot of attention to design and always monitors the presence of new ideas coming from its designers. Besides, Rooms To Go relatively often launches some exclusive furniture lines. For instance, in 2005 there was an exclusive Cindy Crawford furniture line launched with Rooms To Go.
Against Rooms To Go. But there are also some disadvantages of Rooms To Go customer service. In most cases, salespersons are rather pushy and attack you instantaneously you enter the store. The company is even known for ripping off their customers selling unremarkable furniture at rather high price. The way customers are treated is usually far from forthcoming, especially when you are calling to reach the person who would solve the problems with your furniture they have provided. Representatives of Rooms To Go say they are just franchised and have little control of what each store does. But that is not an answer of a company which should do everything for the customer to be happy.
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Natuzzi
If some companies are looking for new ways to encourage entrepreneurship, they can check the history of Natuzzi. The company has a rather successful scheme of starting own businesses; entrepreneur-ship seems part of the culture; working for yourself commonplace. There is an assumption that if people fail and 46 per cent do so within five years - they will learn from their mistakes and start again. But there is also another case of Natuzzi practice.
About the company. Natuzzi Leather is a privately held company. The company was founded by Pasquale Natuzzi. The tagline of the company is: "It is how you live." Natuzzi specializes in developing, designing and manufacturing of a complete line of furniture, leather furniture for all rooms: dining room, living room, bedroom, and home office. City Furniture and Natuzzi Leather provides sofas, beds, chairs, armchairs, recliners, sectionals, loveseats, ottomans and many other pieces of furniture and different related accessories. Besides, City Furniture and Natuzzi Leather are the leading companies in the furniture industry and is well known for its design and quality.
Natuzzi complaints. Their advertisements are very colorful and nice. And if you would like to purchase their products, they will contact you as soon as possible to tell you more beautiful stories about their furniture and the advantages of shopping with them. During that Natuzzi representatives would try to do everything to persuade you that the furniture is just for you and generally it is perfect. So many people fall for this. But if you reject the job at once, they would behave themselves rather aggressive and would become pushy and arrogant. But there were some cases when people agreed and then in accordance with some circumstance they wanted to cancel. Then Natuzzi sales representatives came out in their true colors. First of all, they forget about everything they have just told you about the advantages of their company. And it does not matter that Natuzzi is actually a family owned business and reputation is very important for them. They forget that their former customers can spread a word to their friends and families and colleagues and that is not how the business is doing. That is why you have to be very careful with the companies of this type and to check all the information about them first not to get into trouble and fall for their tricks.