Reply from ADS Sports EyewearMar 1, 2014
We are sincerely disappointed when we cannot exceed our customer's expectations, but I don’t believe there is anything we could have done to make this gentleman happy. Mr. Holden ordered a Single Vision prescription lens, not a bifocal. He did not call or email for assistance. He turned in a fairly routine order for a Single Vision pair of Oakley sunglasses, and we filled his order exactly as he entered it. He clearly had no grasp of common courtesy when contacted our office to tell us he actually wanted a bifocal. It seems he was furious that we did not know that he wanted something that was completely different from what he ordered.
Although ADS Sports Eyewear was under no obligation to pay for his error, we sent him a return label for these glasses and had another lab start on his bifocal lenses. There are very few labs in the country that still carry an 8-base bifocal prescription blank large enough to fill this Oakley model. We were able to find a specialty lab that can do this, but this type of lab does not have the MEI Edgers required to cut the vents into this lens the way the Oakley lab does. This was all made very clear before we had a specialty lab start on these lenses.
Then after making two sets of perfect prescription lenses and rushing them at no charge from Dallas to Peoria, AZ, Mr. Holden was irate that the second set of lenses were not vented and demanded a full refund. He had been told that this venting could only be done by the Oakley lab, and Oakley could not make these lenses. But again, he was livid that he got what he ordered and not what he wanted. The girls in our office that had been dealing with Mr. Holden asked if they should get these lenses vented at yet another lab. I decided it was pointless to try to make this man happy, and told them to comply with the refund request. I feel fortunate to have the quality staff that we have, and I feel an obligation to isolate them from people like Mr. Holden. In most cases we would do whatever it takes to make sure our customers are enthusiastically satisfied with the service they receive from ADS Sports Eyewear. In this case I believe our best option was to take a large loss and end the abusive calls from Mr. Holden.
Trust Pilot sends every ADS Sports Eyewear customer an invitation to review their experience with us. Of the last 200 people to rate ADS Sports Eyewear, Mr. Holden is the only person to post a negative review. The people that he perceives as rude with zero customer service are the exact same people that 200 other people describe as "the most pleasant, well-informed people I have dealt with in a long time" and "these guys rock!". We work very hard to deserve the 99.5% of glowing reviews that we get every day, and nothing at ADS Sports Eyewear will change in response to this review. Although Mr. Holden is clearly unhappy, I believe he was unhappy long before he contacted ADS Sports Eyewear.
Dave DuMais
Owner, ADS Sports Eyewear