Pottery Barn

Please do NOT shop at Potterybarn. I have been trying to work with their customer service for over two months to receive a refund for a diffuser that I purchased that was delivered in an unusable format. I was initially upset at the product I received, but since have become exasperated and angry with customer service agents who ignore my messages, fail to follow up, provide different messages across agents, and a general lack of courtesy. I will not be shopping at Potterybarn ever again.

My wife and I recently purchased an entire dining room set from Pottery Barn located in Alexandria, VA. Upon receiving one of the Bradford chairs we ordered, one of them was defected and needed to be returned. We called The location we purchased the chair from and one of the associates assured us that we would receive a new chair and be able to return the defected chair in the packaging that it came in. A couple days went by and we didn’t receive a new chair, nor did we hear from the associate we spoke to at the store. We called the store back, only to find out that the lady we spoke to wasn’t working there anymore. We spoke to another associate at the store and she told us that she didn’t see anything in the system about our return and said she would start the process over again. She reassured us again that we would be getting a confirmation email and that we would be getting a chair delivered to us. We would be able to return the defected chair in the package it would come in and UPS would be picking it up. At this point 2 weeks have gone by and we still did not receive the email or a new chair in the mail. We called the store for the third time, and spoke to another associate, that associate said they would have to call someone else at the packaging facility and assured us that she would call us back. We never received a phone call back. At this point my wife and I were hopeless. We just spent 5K dollars on a dining room set and we were appalled at the service that we were given. We decided to call the generic customer service number because no one at the store was able to help us with our order. I spoke to a nice lady who pulled our order information up and made an excuse saying that the return was started but no one finalized the return. This led us to believe that the previous associates were lying to us. We were disgusted and proceeded to express our unfaithfulness with the customer service representative. She then put us on hold for about five minutes. When returning to the phone, she sounded just like the previous 3 pottery barn employees that we spoke to. She assured us our chair would be mailed out and an email would be sent to us confirming the delivery as well as a separate email from UPS to setup the return of the defected chair. I forced the associate to stay on the phone with me until I received a confirmation email since the previous experiences I had with past associates all claimed I would receive this email. After 15 minutes on hold we still didn’t receive the email and the customer service representative hung up on us. My wife and I have always dreamed of having a pottery barn dining room set in our newly built house. Although, after this experience we will never consider purchasing anything from pottery barn moving forward. Not 1 person was able to help us out from the store we purchased the set from all the way to 2 separate customer service representatives. So at this point I wanted to vent my frustration to anyone at a higher level with the company to express my terrible experience. I will share this experience with family and friends to prohibit them from going through the same experience I have and encourage them to purchase furniture from other places because it’s not worth the hassle to spend the type of money we did on something that came defected and we can’t return. The old adage you get what you pay for doesn’t correlate with pottery barn and I will never purchase furniture from your store again. I hope this summary does something to change the way your conducting business and breeds light into some loopholes within your company you can fix.

Ordered online, easy pick up! I wouldn't say it's ready in 3 hours - maybe 5 or so. I ended up going home before I got the email that my items were ready, but I didnt need the items right away. Beautiful layout, very festive and cozy! Staff are very kind and helpful. Would recommend for any holiday office/friend gifting!

This will be my first and last time ever going to a pottery barn thanks to Michelle at this store. I went into this location to pick up an online order, just to find out they did not have what I ordered and what my card was charged for in stock. When I attempted to ask for help to make sure the charge would be reversed I was treated as if I was wasting Michelle’s time and did not belong in that store. So I will take “my kind” of money somewhere else where I am treated with kindness.

Terrell is amazing!!!! After almost 2 hours on the phone trying to rectify my rewards she handled it in like 5 minutes and couldn't have been nicer or more professional. Wonderful service by Terrell.