My first order (ordered arround dec 20 and arrived just after christmas) went through smoothe as silk. Got the L2 kit for my dad in metalic blue. Carts were a little loose, but not bad enough for me to worry about it. I had ordered extra cart in black and they sent white. When I emailed them about it they told me that they should have been black, appologized and gave me a coupon for my next order.
So I decided to order some parts from them as I am on my last fully functional atty. I ordered on Dec 30 and immediately got the "approved transaction" email quickly followed by the "payment recieved". Thats where everything jammed up.
I sent two emails asking for a package status with no responce, then I posted on the forums about it and sent a third email.
This is my third email:
"Payment for your order #XXXX has been received. However I've got no package and no communication.
I've sent two emails, (now three) and had no responce. I'm starting to loose confidence in your business.
So what is the status of my order? What is the estimated delivery date?
I'm surviving on a half dead atomizer, trying to limp along till my package
arrives. I REALY don't wanna buy a pack of analogs."
This is the responce I recieved:
"Hey Chris,
For some reason, your e-mails were going into our spam box.
I am sorry for this. There are only three of us that run this business, with one employee leaving because of the workload and no pay. We have only been here for a little over a month, and we process from 70-120 orders a day (we didn't have a Christmas, or a New Years for we worked and worked and worked); in addition to addressing customer comments, inquiries, and concerns. We all have full time jobs and do this part time, and are in a transition to making it full time. We are trying our hardest, night after night, day after day, to fulfill customer needs and wants, however, we realize that this is impossible. Other vendors that have much faster and
flawless shipping and processing time either have more employees, or, do not receive as many customers. And, if they can fulfill the lack of service we have, we don't want any customers to have to suffer our imperfections. Why? Because, quitting tobacco use shouldn't depend on slow service, which we ultimately believe.
Currently, the owner is hiring more employees, so as to fulfill the workload, and is contemplating on closing the site down for about a month or so. However, I recommend he leave it open. Furthermore, we are having issues with our manufacturer, and the horrible position they put us in with some battery and atomizer defects. We will be getting our Joye parts on Friday. There are a number of "behind the scenes" issues that customers do not understand, i.e. Shipping prices going up, packaging, processing, competitors trashing us on forums and pretending to be someone else, and the business matrix itself.
Overall, I can't hold you back from going somewhere else, and we encourage you to always seek out the best vendor. I hope you understand, and I believe cignot.com and totallywicked.com can fulfill these needs. I say thank you for your support and everything that you have done to defend us. Rest assured, we are working very hard to prevent and mend many issues, and soon, we'll have this business running perfectly."
As you can clearly see, they pretty much told me that if I don't like it to order from someone else, and still gave me no status for my package.
I've demanded a refund, but have recieved no confirmation one way or the other.
Deffiniately on my "Do not do business with list".