Reply from The Solid Wood Cabinet Co.Jun 22, 2015
We strive to provide our customers with the highest levels of customer service and feel that we have gone above and beyond to satisfy any occurrences related to the Mullins account. As a result of these continued attempts by Mr. David Mullins to use bad reviews to threaten us, we have effectively closed this account and will no longer be able to supply our product.
This review was posted by our customer’s son David Mullins, who is not a customer of Solid Wood Cabinets. Our customer, Fred Mullins, purchased a kitchen from us in December of 2014. Since that time, there have been some exchanges, returns and additional orders for new product placed on this account, by David, acting on Fred’s behalf. Fred Mullins has been a pleasure to work with and according to his sales rep, any items that needed extra attention or replacement, we have been able to service with no issue. David Mullins has had a repeated pattern of attempts to extort our customer care department by calling into our office and threatening to write bad reviews on social media should he not receive items according to his demands. Most of David’s actions have been done in order to obtain free product and refunds for sales placed by his father, independently on the Fred Mullins account. The following are items we have offered as compensation to satisfy David Mullins’ demands since December 2014:
- SWC waived shipping fee for an even exchange of a 30x18 wall cabinet for a 30x12, $75.00 value (note: customer ordered incorrect size wall cabinet at the time of sale.)
- Waived restock fee for assembled product return of the 30X18 cabinet, $33.00 value
- After first escalated phone call complaint to Cust. Care Manager from David Mullins regarding the wall cabinet replacements mentioned above, we provided free crown molding, $235.85 value
- SWC later waived shipping and restock fees for various assembled wall cabinet and corner sink front returns, $301.83 value
- After second escalated phone call complaint to Cust. Care Manager from David Mullins regarding pricing of product, we provided a credit reimbursement as customer satisfaction item for a side panel, $178.54 value
Total amount of complimentary credits to customer’s (Fred Mullins) account: $824.22
The customer care manager had spoken to Fred Mullins on the second complaint report from David; Manager had mentioned she was following up regarding an issue with a side panel; Mr. Fred Mullins had no knowledge of a complaint ever happening. As you can see, our customer’s son has a pattern of acting on his father’s behalf, without his knowledge in some cases, to obtain credits and free product, even though he has not been a customer of ours.
This most recent review was sparked when customer care was instructed to no longer speak with David regarding the Fred Mullins account, only to Fred should he call in with concerns or issues to report.