Sears Reviews and Complaints

On 10/22/12, I ordered a part over the phone for my dryer from Sears and paid for expedited shipping and should have had part in 3 days. The woman on the phone put wrong address & wrong name on the order and it was not delivered by UPS and returned to Sears Parts. There was no call back or follow up by Sears. On 10/31/12 i called Sears and they eventually acknowledged it was their error, explaining the wrong address and name part and they would have the part shipped to my by 11/8/12. I explained i had paid for expedited shipping and this was unacceptable especially since it was their error and I am traveling on orders this Saturday. I asked to speak to a supervisor who may be able to authorize getting this part to me faster. I was the transferred to a "supervisor" named SHAYLENE who;1- did not let me explain the situation and consistently interrupted me, 2- did not try to resolve the situation and continued with she cannot get a part to me any faster, and 3- had and attitude and a tone towards me (SEARS CUSTOMER) that was not justified nor called for. I had to stop her mid interruption and asked to listen to herself and the tome she used with the customer. SHAYLENE advised there is no way the part could be sent any faster and even though it was Sears' mistake, I had to wait 8 more days for the part. When asked to speak to her supervisor, she would only give the corporate address and told me to write a letter. When asked for details from my order and the names of the persons involved with mishandling the order, she advised that is proprietary information and not allowed to give it out. So, I assume that Sears must condone the mishandling of orders, lack of follow up by their employees, rude and disrespectful treatment by their supervisors, the run around of 2+ hours of several calls to different departments trying to resolve this and lodge a complaint and still can not get the part I need expedited to me. I have a hard time believing Sears, a major company in the United States, when they make and error causing a long delay in getting a needed part to a customer who already paid for said part and expedited shipping, does not have the ability to get the part shipped over night to that customer with an apology instead of another week delay and rude discourteous treatment. I buy all my appliances at my local Sears as well as other major purchases but with the treatment i received this evening, I should take my business elsewhere and not recommend Sears to anyone, including those I work with. James jjm336@comcast.net

WE BOUGHT A FRIDGE FROM SEARS IN JAN. 2012 WITH THEM TO DELIVER AND SETUP, FIRST THEY DELIVERD BUT SAID THEY COULD NOT SET UP BECAUSE THEY DID NOT HAVE THE CORRECT STUFF WITH THEM TO DO IT AND WE NOTICED THAT THE DOORS HAD DENT MARKS IN THEM HE SAID TO JUST CALL IT IN, SO WE HAD TO HOOK UP OUR OWN FRIDGE AND CALL THEM TO REPLACE DOORS. SO AFTER A MONTH THEY CALLED TO SAY DOORS WERE IN AND THEY CAME TO REPLACE AND LEFT OLD ONES LAYING IN OUR HOUSE FOR US TO DISPOSE OF AND THE NEW DOORS DID NOT HAVE A SEAL AROUND THEM AT ALL, SO WE CALLED THEM BACK AND IT WAS GONNA TAKE THEM 2 WEEKS TO GET BACK OUT TO PUT SEALS ON OUR DOORS. WE THEN HAVE BEEN NOTCING THAT IT IS NOT KEEPING COOL AND HAVE CALLED TO HAVE SOMEONE COME LOOK AT IT 2 TIMES NOW AND BOTH TIMES THEY HAVE NOT SHOWED UP AND WHEN I HAVE CALLED TO SEE WHAT IS GOING ON THE FIRST TIME EXCUSE WAS OUR GUY GOT SICK, AND THEY COULD GIVE ME NO REASON WHY NO ONE BOTHERED TO CALL US, SO THEN IT TOOK ME 2 WEEKS TO GET ANOTHER APPT. AND THEY DID NOT SHOW UP WHEN I CALLED THIE EXCUSE THIS TIME WAS INCLEMENT WEATHER AND AGAIN NO CALL TO SAY THEY WERE NOT COMING. I HAVE CALLED TO COMPLAIN AND GET NOWHERE BUT WE WILL MAKE YOU ANOTHER APPT., WELL IM TIRED OF MESSING WITH THEM I JUST WANT MY MONEY BACK AND I NEVER WANT TO HAVE TO DEAL WITH SEARS AGAIN BUT THEY WILL NOT DO THAT AND TELL ME THAT IT IS MY PROBLEM AND NOT THERES AND WE WILL SET UP ANOTHER APPT. WHERE IS THE CUSTOMER SERVICE THAT SEARS USED TO HAVE I OWN ALOT OF SEARS PRODUCTS BUT NEVER AGAIN WILL I BUY ANOTHER ONE. I NOW UNDERSTAND WHEY SEARS ARE GOING OUT OF BUSINESS AND THEY DESERVE TO WITH THIS KIND OF CUSTOMER SERVICE.

i have a complaint about the sears portrait studio in holyoke, ma. as a first time mom with twins, i was very excited to get portraits done. my babies were almost 11 months at the time and i had been checking out studios and capitalizing on offers they had so i could see if i wanted to continue to go there. since my plan is to get portraits done at least once a year (we have family in new york, friends all over the country and of course grandparents and aunts and uncles want pictures). at the time you guys had a promotion for a free 10x30. i figured that'd be perfect! i could get a family picture of just our heads, it'd look cute and i could see if i wanted to stick with sears for pictures. so i made an appointment. well, i got there and waited for someone to acknowledge us and after a few minutes of standing there with workers around, some helping others, some doing... i have no idea what. a woman yells to us from another room asking what we need. i let her know we have an appointment and she said she'd be right there. which lead to more waiting for about half an hour. finally when someone came to check us in, she let us know that the 10x30 was only for one person but perhaps they could squeeze in both of my babies. so the family photo was out. after that, we were made to wait even longer! we sat there for at least an hour. my kids started getting cranky, tired and hungry. even though we packed snacks for them, they wanted to nap and play. had i knew, this appointment, would take so long, i wouldn't have even bothered. but i was very optimistic it'd be worth the waiting time. after what felt like an eternity, we finally got into the photo studio. my daughter was tired and pissed off and wouldn't smile... not that the photographer tried all that hard beyond making a few noises. my son was adorable as can be, but was getting teeth in and drooling a lot. we took his bib off right before he went in front of the camera, but ended up with a big wet spot on his shirt anyway. there was some cute poses and the session wrapped up pretty quickly. we waited for another 45 minutes so we could see the prints (customers before us came right out of the session and was able to view theirs so i found that interesting and we were the only ones in there after our session). we went through them and none of my daughter's pictures were good and although my son looked cute, the huge drool spot on his shirt was the first thing you saw. i was later told by someone that they could've edited that out, no one at the studio offered this or even mentioned it. we chose the photos we liked and paid for extra. we were told everything would be ready in a week. a week later, i dropped by. i live 20 minutes away, so this is no small trip, especially with twins. the pictures we paid for were ready but not the free 10x30. i was told, i'd get a call when it arrived and was ready. i never got any call and a month later, i decided to call them and see if it was there and they forget to let me know. i called and the phone rang and rang and then disconnected. thinking it was my phone, i called again. it rang and rang and rang and rang. finally someone picked up and i told her i was calling to see if my portrait was ready. she said she'd be right with me. i sat on the phone for half an hour. i could clearly hear the workers talking to other customers and talking amongst themselves and doing absolutely nothing. so i figured i had to stop by the next day and ask. again, very inconvenient for me. i went in there and right away a worker saw me and had the print ready, handed it over and that was it. no thank you, no sorry, no nothing. i was very unhappy with my experience to the point of, i feel like it's not even worth the free print. which we don't even have hanging up in our house because it's of such poor quality. and they said it was the only one that would fit for the 10x30 so we had no other choices. obviously, i won't be back but i feel i should let you know that your awesome promotions are being wasted. sears could have easily gotten a regular customer who is willing to spend a fair amount of money on great portraits and instead i won't ever go back even for freebies and will let everyone know of my experience. ***tried to send this exact message to sears and it says message not valid. even their online customer service is no help.***

I have been a customer of sears for 35 years and I guess as with all things this will end. I purchased a top end Samsung steam washer and dryer 9 months ago and I am now having an issue with the dryer. I called Sears repair and started the repair process. They sent me an email conformation number of 000803540918343 and followed it up with a conformation phone call. After I waited all day for the service tech I called the service unit it find out the status and this is where everything when south. I was told that the service call was canceled the day before and I would have to reschedule. This would have been fine if they would have called to let me know but they did not. The next appointment was a week later but we are going on vacation the day before the next appointment. I try to explain this to the off shore call center but they keep insisting on setting the new repair date to a day that I would be out of town. This included 4 disconnects, 5 different centers, 12 representatives, 2.5 hours, 0 apologies and very little faith that the next repair date would be different than the last. I setup a repair though Samsung's website which issued me a repair ticket with a different service center that is not affiliated with Sears. I spend several thousand dollars with Sears each year. This was not due to price but with the unfounded belief that they would service what they sale. Well silly me, now that bubble is popped I will not be spending a single dollar with Sears unless I have to. My business may not mean much to Sears but 3K per year for 35 years is about 100 thousand dollars. To most businesses this would be a big deal but I will go out of my way and even pay extra to not give Sears any more of my business.

I had a problem with a Kingsdown mattress purchased from Sears that costs us $2200. Sears replaced with a like mattress which we have paid the same price for and it was changed. 18 months later we have discovered that the mattress is a Riverstone II and this one is much worse. We had sagging and bunching problems right away.. say after 6 months... not only is this bad enoough... but we have just discovered this bed retails for $269 and we were charged $1954 by Sears for the same mattress. Law suit? How can they justify this? Not only do we have a poor quality product.. but they now us the difference of $1000... lets see if Sears will stand by their actions.

Bought a treadmill in April 2011. Upon delivery it did not work. Waited three weeks for repair. June 2011 it failed again. Waited three weeks for repair. April 2012 it failed again. Waited three weeks for repair. September 2012 it failed again and stopped working on the day it was serviced. Have waited over a month for service. Service scheduled for today between 8 AM and 12 PM--Sears called at 10:50 am to let me know no one was coming. Called customer escalation line--was put on hold after explaining the problem and then cut off. Will be proceeding to small claims court on Monday get all of my money back. I live in a remote area and I am pretty sure no one from Sears will show up to contest it--and people wonder why Sears is going out of business. I feel sorry for the hourly folks that have to put up with angry customers like me when the Sears system with its $7.5 million CEO is an epic fail.

I purchased an item from Sears...well oddly enough I tried to post a review on Sears.com..but oddly, it keeps kicking me off when I have finished my review. So, I will post here...don't buy from Sears...EVER.. item will not be received when told, item will not be what it says it is...(many posts on here regarding that)--in short, just stick with AMAZON...Don't buy from SEARS!!! NEVER EVER!!! I could have drove to the Sears warehouse long before I received the item...heck, long before the item ever left the warehouse....just don't buy from Sears!