No alert that my items were out of stock
I'm in the USA. I have never had a problem getting printed items on time from Vistaprint, but I had a negative experience with their Promotique arm recently.
I logged onto their site and checked my order history. The ETA for my two orders of custom tee shirts (different base colors) was August 18 and August 24. Meanwhile, it's September 7th and there's been no word from them.
Companies with good customer service will email you when items are out of stock--ideally before you complete the order--so you have the opportunity to cancel and find another option, either with them or with another company. Or they'll remove the items from the site to prevent customers purchasing something that's not available.
Promotique should assume that their customers are business owners or employees, and that they have deadlines for their business-related purchases. The customer should be alerted of any delays as soon as the company knows about them.
I ordered my shirts in plenty of time to receive them by the launch date of our business, according to Promotique's stated ETA for the items, but we didn't have them that day. It was embarrassing.
The rep I spoke with today assures me that the women's tee shirts will be restocked in another seven days. Obviously there will be processing time for the customization, but it wasn't clear how long this would take. The rep said she would expedite my order and give me free shipping as a courtesy.
I checked just now and they credited me, but the amount was 5 dollars and change. Expedited shipping would be more like 15-20 dollars. I don't really expect to receive my order seven days from now, but we'll see.
If they arrive by September 15, my two tee shirt orders will be late by 29 days and 22 days. I would not recommend Promotique for businesses who need custom promotional items by a certain date.
UPDATE: By October 15 my shirts still hadn’t arrived. Customer service refunded my money, but they wasted my time and I didn’t get that back! I still have no idea why the order wasn’t fulfilled. They get a big fat zero for communucation. How do these people stay in business?
7 de septiembre de 2021
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