Best Buy Appliance Delivery Not Doing What They Said They Would Do. Order Cancelled.

Question

I recently purchased a refrigerator from bestbuy.com and chose the option to have it delivered on Tuesday the second of December (today). I received an order confirmation e-mail from best buy on the day of purchase (November 28) which stated the following (taken directly from the e-mail):
The scheduled appointment date of your item(s) below is Tuesday, December 2, 2014
We'll call you by 9PM the night before your appointment with an estimated arrival time window at the phone number(s) you provided at the time of purchase (with either live or pre-recorded calls).
Thank you for shopping with us.
Sincerely,
Karalyn Sartor
Vice President Customer Care
Yesterday, on Monday the 1st of December, I got a knock on the door from the Best Buy delivery team. They had my refrigerator and were here to deliver it. I was not ready for them to deliver the refrigerator at that time, at all, as I was not expecting it. I asked the driver to please deliver it on the scheduled date. The change in scheduling happened without a postive notification.
I checked afterward and saw that their was en e-mail sent during the evening of November 30 informing me that the refrigerator would be delivered on Monday the 1st. This e-mail was in my spam folder and I did not see it. I did not expect it either as I was under the impression that I would be called by phone prior to delivery (as stated in the original purchase confirmation e-mail). So some mistake/change in scheduling happened. Not a big deal to me.
Thirty minutes ago I called the 1-888 number mentioned in the e-mail to inquire about what time I could expect my refrigerator to be delivered. I was told it was rescheduled for December 20th, which is not acceptable to me.
I was told the earliest delivery date that they could honor would be for monday the 8th of December. That is unacceptable to me as well. I was advised I had no other options for delivery other than to receive it on the 8th of December, 6 days after the aggreed upon delivery date.
In the end I cancelled the order. As a customer I do not like to be treated this way (to be told one thing at first (delivery date and that I would be called by phone), to have that one thing change, and to not be told in a *reasonable* manner that the one thing had changed.
Best Buy customer service, If you would like to contact me you have my e-mail address. You also have my correct phone number for calling me, which your system verified when it looked up my order by phone. Until then, please consider me an unsatisfied customer that will look very closely at other buying options for all my future appliance and home electronics needs.
Thank You.
P.S. - The person I spoke to on the phone to inquire about and cancel my order was very courteous and professional.

Answer 1

To Whom It May Concern,
I posted earlier regarding a refrigerator delivery problem. http://forums.bestbuy.com/t5/Delivery-Installation/Best-Buy-Appliance-Delivery-Not-Doing-What-They-S...
I've since read a few of the other posts and think I see some common issues that many others have been having:
1. Not calling the customer. We (customers) expect someone will call us the day before a scheduled delivery date to confirm the item is being delivered and approximately what time to expect it. The confirmation e-mail you send even states that this will happen.
2. Not notifying the customer regarding changes. We (customers) expect someone will notify us if delivery dates are changed. This is especially important if the delivery date has been moved forward, as in my case. My particular problem would have been avoided entirely if someone from Best Buy would have notified me that the refrigerator I ordered would arrive one day ahead of schedule. An e-mail is not a good enough notification when you move the shipping date forward. How do you even know I have read/received it and will be home?
3. Not working with the customer. I've read a few forum posts where some mistake has happened, and now shipping is delayed by a signifcant amount of time (a week or more). If you (Best Buy) had some better way of working with whoever does your delivery for you, things would be better.
In my example the original delivery date was for today (Dec 2nd). You decided to deliver a day early on the 1st without making sure I knew you were coming on a differnet day than scheduled. So I wasn't ready. At this point I believe you (Best Buy) should have tried to correct this by rescheduling the delivery so that it happened on the original delivery date, December 2nd. You could have also arranged to deliver it later that same day, I would have been ok with that and had time to make things ready. Instead the delivery got rescheduled for the 20th of December by the system, and your customer service could only move it up to December 8. In a situation like this I think it would be better if you worked more with the customer (pay a driver an hour or two of overtime to get the goods delivered on the day you said you would or delay someone else who placed their order after I placed mine). Instead I was given one and only option, delivery on December 8.
In the end I took the other option, cancelling my order. You have lost my business on this sale and I now have a lower opinion of Best Buy as a company and a brand than I did before. This could have been avoided if you did any of the above three things.
Thank you for your time.