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Furniture is too large!
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Rating: 1/51

STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT -- I began my search for a bed on the Ethan Allen website. Mark ** was the “Designer,” I was referred to on the site's Chat Line. I explained to him that I had mobility issues due to arthritis and was interested in doing business over the phone. He agreed to help me. I gave him information about the room and described it as “small.” I asked about the Quincy bed because it would coordinate with a small bureau that I had bought for the room. The bed was delivered on September 25. Due to my difficulty ascending the stairs, I did not see the bed until later in the afternoon at which point, I was horrified to realize that it took up the entire space!

I emailed Mr. ** regarding this issue. I requested that I be able to exchange it. He requested the measurements and offered to draw some sketches to try and make it work. I told him that the bed was too big for the space and that I would like discuss an EXCHANGE and not a REFUND. He told me that he would be off for a couple of days and by Friday of that week, and once I looked at pictures of other EA furniture, I should get back to him with furniture that I thought would work. I then looked at what was available for a small room sofa. I saw a twin, chair-and-a-half with a pullout sofa. I thought that might be the perfect remedy to this very costly mistake.

Unfortunately, he never commented on it but only said that he would have to talk to his manager (Susan **). Both she and Mark continued to describe the purchase as a, “Special Order.” That led to speaking with the District Manager (Stephanie W.?). She refused to exchange even though the manager told me that if this was approved, I would incur charges. I can't use the room with a bed that size so, I really didn't have a choice. They all used the term, ”Special Order" repeatedly and I asked why a twin bed featured on their website in white would be considered a special order.

Their so-called explanations did not make any sense. It was still a QUINCY, WHITE, TWIN BED. What is so special about that? No answer. The store manager disputed the cost when I told her that I had spent, “Almost $4,000” for a bed that doesn't fit. She told me that I hadn't spent $4,000 dollars and proceeded to give me the price right down to the penny; $3,655 is pretty close to $4,000. I mentioned the “exchange” but, she wasn't interested because it was a “SPECIAL ORDER.”

I am so disgusted with the lack of empathy shown to me by Ethan Allen and feel they can do better than to steal a customer's money who bought in good faith from them from a “Designer” who didn't do his due diligence. I am so ashamed of him and his colleagues at Ethan Allen. I remain still willing to pursue the exchange and am hoping they will work with me.

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Overpriced, Poor Quality, Terrible Customer Service
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Rating: 1/51

TOWSON, MARYLAND -- We've made a very large purchase at the Towson, Maryland store. Over the course of 5 months we had incorrect furniture delivered, multiple delays in installation of custom draperies, and even had them install custom drapes that were the wrong size - they were 6 inches shorter in width than the windows! That didn't stop them from putting them up.

I wasn't home and my nanny let them in and I just about had a stroke when I got home from work and saw the drapes that didn't extend the full width of the window. One backing of one area rug completely disintegrated after having little to no traffic and the company said that they only back their merchandise for one year (pictures attached). They even told me that that the disintegrated backing which clearly smelled like latex, was probably just dust!

The customer service reps are rude, and their corporate office phone number is nowhere on their website (only for job applications). This company falls all over themselves to try and make the initial sale, but has little contact with you after you've handed them your money, and are arrogant about it. Hard to reach and unresponsive. I would never buy another thing from this company.

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Not Worth the Time or Money!
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FREDERICKSBURG, VIRGINIA -- I made the mistake of walking into the Ethan Allen in Fredericksburg, Va last September. I immediately fell in love with several items there. After convincing my husband that purchasing from them would be worth it, as per their ads, their furniture is of excellent quality and made to last. We placed the order and were told a short time later that our order- a couch, a coffee table, a side table, and two accent chairs, was due to arrive in October. In the meantime, we sold our existing couch and chairs expecting that our furniture would be in shortly. Afterward, we were contacted and told that only the two tables would be arriving in October.

Inconvenient to say the least but we accepted it and waited anxiously. Then we received another call and were told that the delivery had been pushed back to November. This was beginning to become a hassle. The tables were finally delivered. I love them, but after not even a year and a strict hands off policy to everyone, they are already scratched up. The slightest bit of dust on them scratches them up. Worth the 2500 that we spent on them... ABSOLUTELY NOT! We received another call from our designer Meghan advising that our order had been pushed back yet again and wouldn't be due to arrive until early December.

We started to worry as we were hosting Christmas for family and might not have anything to sit on. The accent chairs that we had ordered finally came in but had some nicks and marks (looked like grease) all over the leather cushions. They also smelled terrible. I thought that maybe it was just the smell of the leather and would fade eventually, but it didn't. My whole family suffered from headaches and sore throats the whole time they were in the house. It was Dec. and cold and we had to keep the windows open for as long as we could stand it because the smell was so bad.

I noted my complaints on the delivery sheet as instructed and was then contacted by a tech (thank goodness he's from a third party company) who had to come out and check out the chairs. Unfortunately he stays quite busy and it took awhile before he was able to come out. After being in the house with the chairs for a short while, he complained of a sore throat and said that the chairs had a definite smell to them. He advised Ethan Allen that the chairs needed to be redone.

Despite the smell issue, they took a couple of weeks before coming out to pick up the chairs. In the meantime, our designer contacted us and said that the couch wouldn't be arriving until after Christmas now. Great... we were without a couch or the chairs now. I contacted my designer and asked if we could get some loaner chairs since we had nothing to sit on. I was told that Ethan Allen doesn't do that but that she would double check for me. I never heard anything back from her on it and contact with her in the future would be few and far between.

A while later, I received a call from Ethan Allen stating that they were going to redeliver the chairs as they had determined that it was just a leather smell. I told them that if they tried to redeliver that I would just refuse them. The people at the warehouse had set the chairs out in the open and couldn't smell what both I and the tech had smelled. Fortunately, a supervisor put the chairs in an enclosed room and realized that there was a problem. We were told that they would redo the chairs. In the meantime, Ethan Allen's delivery service showed up at my house with a couch... a huge hideous couch.

Thinking that they were supposed to be delivering my couch, I declined the delivery. I later found out that the couch was a loaner that they had sent out that no one had contacted me about. With all the issues and the lack of contact with our designer, I decided to make a visit to the manager of Ethan Allen. I spoke with a Design Mgr named Angela whom I thought had some understanding of the issues and frustration at hand. After all the issues, I did feel that we deserved some compensation from them.

Angela did call her corporate office and was able to get us a 200 discount of the couch that we had purchased. Not to knock 200, money is money, but after all the issues that we already had, 200 seemed kind of like a slap in the face. Tired of all the issues, I told Angela that we would be very upset if the couch came out with issues as well. She advised me that she would have a tech go out and check the couch over before it was ever delivered so that there wouldn't be any further issues. Ha! The couch was finally delivered after Christmas and it too had issues... marks on it and pulls in the fabric.

Overall it just looked like they had used some leftover bad pieces of fabric to make the couch. After waiting again, the tech came out again. He was able to work his magic on all but one spot but by that time I was too frustrated to deal with it anymore. A while later we were contacted and told that corporate still hadn't made a decision on whether or not to redo the chairs. We had been told by our designer that they were going to but then they weren't sure if they had an issue with the leather or what. We received no further contact until much later when corporate had finally decided that they would go ahead and replace the chairs.

I spoke with our designer and asked if they could put a rush on the chairs. I was told they would. Months later it was extremely obvious that they had done a "rush job". The tech came out again and was appalled at what he saw. There were nicks everywhere, marks on the leather, bad staining and markers were used to try to cover the bad stain job, the nail head trim was crooked, and the list goes on and on. These were not cheap chairs. These were 2000/pc chairs from Ethan Allen. Definitely expected better.

So, those chairs (that were delivered back at the end of March) are still in our house and we had heard nothing from our designer until a couple of weeks ago when she contacted me to say that the chairs would be delivered sometime in July. So, what do you think the odds are that they will come out looking like they should? After a long and ridiculous process that was much more tedious than I can possibly write here, this basically sums it all up... The design associate that we worked with gave me almost the same exact layout/design that I had come up with myself.

The contact was the worst, although I can't be too mad at the design assoc. because how many times can you call a customer and keep saying I'm sorry without it getting old for both parties involved. The customer service overall is lousy and the furniture is definitely Not Worth The Time or Money. Take your money elsewhere and you are guaranteed to get better customer service and better quality.

P.S. I was cleaning the furniture one day and noticed that some of it is stamped made in China… How's that for "American made" furniture. Also, Ethan Allen states in its ads that they don't do "sales" that way the customer doesn't have to wonder if what they are buying is going to go down in price. The couch that we bought was just advertised on sale for 400 less than what we paid for it! What a shame as I really loved many of the pieces and would probably have been a devoted Ethan Allen customer for many years to come. A disillusioned customer.

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