I encountered a similar scam... it was for the Rainbow vacuum cleaner. I saw the ad on Craigslist and Yahoo! Hot Jobs, and went for my interview, and even went to the first day of training. I thought it was a customer service job, like answering phones and stuff, but come to find out, it was a job selling a $2600 vacuum door-to-door (or what they like to call by referral, but how do you get the referrals in the first place? By going door-to-door). They pay you hourly, and you get bonuses if you sell a vacuum, but it just seemed sketchy.
Also, in the ad they said that they hire people and want salespeople to have neat appearances, yet two men in my training group were obviously missing teeth, and another guy was covered in tattoos. Nice neat appearances!
The company that sells them are Rexair.
I'm sorry, but if it sounds too good to be true, it's too good to be true. A free vacation for watching a demonstration? I would be surprised if it turned out to be a nice place to stay. Never take a free vacation.
I almost worked for this company, and even went to the first day of training. So I listened to the spiel, and it just seemed like the whole time they were trying to impress us.
The guy they had giving the talk was from Mexico and he emphasized how poor he was, etc, and how he found this company and he didn't even need to know English to sell these because they just sell themselves! Anyways, during it he whips out a wad of $100 bills, once again, showy, talked about his finances, how he bough all of these houses (from selling vacuum cleaners!).
Anyways, I could tell during the demonstration that it was mostly for show, to get gullible people to buy it. And then they said that it was $2600 and I knew it was full of crap. I live in a small college town with about 100, 000 people, and the economy is so crappy here that no one can afford to spend that much on a vacuum cleaner. And how am I going to even get to these people? I only know college-aged people, they're not going to buy it.
Ugh, they're just scammy.
I almost worked for them, and turned it down because I couldn't afford to get licensed to sell insurance, and given the crappy economy, and where I live, felt I wouldn't be able to sell.
anyways, the recruiting manager basically harassed me and tried to guilt-trip me into staying with the job. I said no, kept saying no, and finally he said OK, and that I was missing out.
So I get another call a week ago from a different recruiting manager from the same office asking if I want to come in for an interview. So I said that I already turned down a job there selling insurance about 2 months ago, and he had no idea. And then he started pestering me to come work for them!
The thing that sucks is that it's entirely commission-based. As in, if you put in all of the hours, and you don't sell any insurance, you don't get paid. At all. Nothing. And the guy just couldn't get that i needed a guaranteed income, and kept saying that if I work hard enough, I'll sell insurance and get paid.
Maybe your daughter should have learned to grow some balls and say NO. You don't have to do everything the sales associate tells you to, and it was her choice to purchase the dress. i can't feel sorry for someone who doesn't know how to say no.
And seriously, learn how to spell. I could barely understand what you were saying.
If it's so expensive to have alterations done there, why do it? You have the option of taking your dress somewhere else. DB doesn't force you to have your dress altered there. For DB, they can't really help it if your wedding is a month away. You have to understand, most brides get their dresses a year ahead (and sometimes more) and bridesmaids' dresses 6 months ahead.
You're complaining that DB wouldn't return a dress over TWO years old? Seriously? Even Nordstrom doesn't have that good of a return policy.
Rarely do businesses ship from store to store. I've worked several retail stores, and only one shipped from store to store, and that's because it was only in Southern California.
First of all, it *was* your fault that your dress didn't fit because you didn't get measured. Secondly, only alterations people can do measurements, that's their job. I just think it's a little unrealistic to expect sales associates to put on a happy face 24/7. You have no idea what these people go through, people getting mad at them for their own mistakes.
It's your fault for waiting so long. You can't expect to get everything special ordered in days.
What's your complaint? I don't understand what you're complaint is.
Of course they have fake jewelry, they're not a jeweler. They don't carry gems, you have to go to a jewelry store to get real jewelry.
They told you it would be busy at that time you went in to the Oxnard store. It's your fault for not listening. Idiot.
your fault for ordering diet pills... everyone knows those things are scams.
You're an idiot. You have the option of taking your dress elsewhere to be altered, of course they're going to be backed up.Of course you need an appt for alterations! What, do you think that you were the only customer who needed alterations?
Would you like to wear a used wedding dress? It's a specialty store, I doubt small wedding boutique stores offer returns on their items. These are specialty items. I know I wouldn't have wanted to wear a worn BM dress for my cousin's wedding. And they do make exceptions. If you sweetly talk to the manager, they can make an exception.
Think of it this way: if alterations kept saying "yes" to rushing their services, they'd be so backed up. There's only a couple of women who work in that department (five, tops), and not all of them work every day. So if they have hundreds of dresses to be altered in a very short amount of time, they're going to do sloppy alterations and screw up someone's dress and further make it worse.
I've been to a lot of weddings, and people need to realize that they need to take care of this stuff way in advance, for reasons above. I used to work at a David's Bridal in college, and this one bridesmaid neglected to order her dress on time, so of course it was our fault. You have no idea what we got blamed for. People buying their dresses at the last minute (and that means that they can't order them because they'll take too long to get there), and expecting alterations to do them that day. What they don't realize is that at the peak of the wedding season, alterations can have literally hundreds of orders to complete.
Basically, most of the time it's the customer's fault for not taking care of their bridesmaid dresses and wedding gowns far in advance.
Well the problem with letting brides look themselves is that there is the potential of them ruining or staining the dress somehow. It's better to pin that on the associate than the customer. That's why an associate also has to help them try on the gowns.
Why couldn't you have gone back to the drive-thru? They can't give you food over the phone you know...
What store are you complaining about? you leave a complaint but neglect to even explain what your complaint is and give the store you're complaining about.
Why does it matter that they didn't call you right away? I can understand being annoyed but considering that the wedding isn't even until August, you got it in time, so what's the complaint? You're really mad over nothing. So the alterations woman that helped you when you bought your dress wasn't there... what's the problem with that? And if they order your dress now, it will be in time for the wedding along with alterations. Also, you can get alterations done elsewhere. No one is forcing you to get your alterations done at DB. In fact, some alterations places can take only a couple of days. I had to have a dress altered and it took only 5 days for it to be done.
You should be thanking them for offering to order you a new dress free of charge. That rarely happens.
Also, they tell you it takes about six weeks to get dresses in, and about what date it will arrive on, and you have a phone, you could have called them after about a month and a half.
She could have taken it to another alterations person, not at DB. People have had bad experiences with alterations, but that just means to take your alterations needs somewhere else.
When you register, you are essentially saying that you do want to be contacted by their vendors. all you have to do is call the DB you registered at, and ask to be taken off of their call list.
They do not sell your number, but they do give it to their vendors. There is writing at the bottom of the registration form saying this, and you could have checked it to not be contacted.
If you have damaged merchandise, you have to contact UPS, because they are the ones who delivered it. They will refund you.
They put it under the bride's name because your mother is technically in the wedding party. they do that so they can keep track of all of the brides' business. It really makes no difference whether it's ordered through your mom or through the bride.
Just tell them not to call you, and they won't. It's as simple as that.
The reason why they don't have gowns that are $99 shown on the website because every store has different gowns that are marked down to $99. I would think that would be a duh right there.
And of course the bridal boutique is going to tell you that DB has less styles, they want you to purchase from them and not go to DB! that's a selling tactic!
It's also your opinion that the $99 gowns are ugly. Some women really do like them. So you're basically complaining that they don't have gowns for your cheap ###.
@Bride in June:
Here's what happens when you don't schedule and appointment and expect to be waited on. Consultants are only allowed to handle two customers at a time in order to give them customer service and make sure they're taken care of. If we only have, say one consultant working, and she already has two parties, and a bride walks in with 5 bridesmaids and expects to be helped, someone is going to be neglected. The consultant can take the party who walked in, but they might not be happy because she would be unable to take care of the needs of each party, and will inevitably leave one party or all upset and ### about the "lack" of customer service.
A LOT of work goes into what the consultants do for their individual clients and parties. The reason why we ask that you schedule an appointment is so you can receive one-on-one attention.
They also want you to order your dress in advance so you don't procrastinate and wait until a month before your wedding and then order it, same with your bridesmaids. It's them looking out for you to make sure you have your gown.
@Erin:
That's fine and dandy, but not everyone can afford a Vera Wang, Carolina Herrera, or Monique Lhuillier gown. That's why they come to DB, we have gowns from $99-$1199.
