Pottery Barn Teen has a rating of 1.2 stars from 176 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about Pottery Barn Teen most frequently mention customer service, pottery barn, and delivery date problems. Pottery Barn Teen ranks 716th among Furniture sites.
UPDATED REVIEW: Originally, I was not happy with the delays in the delivery of my daughter's furniture and although I did have to wait longer than expected, the situation turned out well. After discussing my frustrations further with the customer service rep that contacted me from this original review, things went very smoothly. She helped watch my order and keep me informed of what was going on. She also added some perks for the inconvenience. The delivery team was fantastic and the quality of the bed and bedding is excellent. I've ordered from Pottery Barn and Pottery Barn Kids in the past, and I know they are working on fixing some bugs with their communications regarding orders. I think they will get it all worked out and it will be great again. Because of the high quality products, I would definitely recommend shopping here.
Stolen money. Stolen time. No one from actual management will address the many attempts to discuss what they have put our family through. My son waited for a 3K bed with a guaranteed delivery date before the end of November. In December it was "in transit" and then canceled by the company once in route…and after us staying home to receive the item which never arrived! Hours on the phone with people who do not care, whitewashing the situation and taking no responsibility and now here we are in late January with no bed AND no refund provided yet. I will never again do business with Pottery Barn or any affiliated company. It's disgusting beyond measure what they have put our family through and the greatest insult is that the people who can do something are hiding behind their desks pawning off all necessary communication to the underlings. By the way, if you work for them, you should go to any other company for your own personal health. What a disgrace.
I purchased the PB Teen Prescott ottoman. When I received it, after paying shipping and a delivery surcharge, it was a square beanbag and when I tried to return it, it was not returnable (even though it wasn't on clearance). I emailed customer service about a month ago. I was hoping to return it as I wasn't sure why I couldn't return it and no response. After having an extremely difficult experience with an issue with West Elm after calling customer service, I thought email would be better.
Had there been reviews on the website, I could have probably learned it was just a bean bag. The thing is they sell bean bags so why market an entire collection as a "sectional" when it is just beanbags. The tag on the item even says beanbag. It was false advertising.
Even if they had no intention of resolving the issue most reputable businesses would at least respond. Unfortunately, between lack of transparency with customer feedback and poor customer service, I don't think this business group is reputable.
I placed an order for a new bed, the Avalon for my daughter. The estimated delivery date was 10 days. Upon delivery within the 10 day window, the delivery company brought only the bed slats but not the headboard. The delivery company called Pottery Barn and advised that the headboard would be delivered the following week. I allowed them to leave the multiple large boxes of bedding parts in my daughter's room till the delivery of the headboard the following week. Long story short, the head board delivery never arrived! I have been waiting since July 16th, today is Sept 14th and no headboard! The delivery had been postponed at least 5 times! They cannot even tell me with any certainty when it will arrive. At this point, I called them and asked them to pick up the huge boxes with bed parts they left in my home, which take up so much needed space. They weren't even apologetic. Seriously, they didn't even care! I expected so much more from a company that claims to sell top notch furnishings. I will not purchase any of their products going forward.
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I was trying to buy a sectional couch. After a pretty strange experience on their website (products wouldn't show out of stock until you try to order it!), we finally found one that was in stock. We pay for it, it is ordered, and there is a delay in shipping (twice). We finally get it and are excited. It's a sectional, but instead of the end-piece, they deliver a WOODEN CHAIR in place of it. The delivery guys are very apologetic and say "this happens more often than you think". The customer service people are really horrible (no apology, and are insinuating we aren't telling the truth, even though their delivery people are still at our house validating what happened). Anyways, they tell us that there is nothing they can do as they don't make the couch anymore (gee, I guess we go the last one. Or 3/4ths of the last one). So we order a different couch. THe delivery day comes and goes. We call, and they indicate a week delay. We call a week later, and they now say it's month delay. A month goes by and we call again today. They say "sir, it clearly states on the website it's not available yet". I ask what am I supposed to do if they just keep delaying the order. They tell me to cancel the order. I tell them I still want the product, but I want to know if they can find out from the manufacturer more information on the delay. Again, he tells me to cancel the order if I don't like the process. I felt like I was talking to a grumpy 16 year-old kid with an attitude problem. I absolutely despise this company and hope their stock price continues to fall.
I will never again order from PB. Terrible customer service, noone ever called me back after numerous messages to speak to a supervisor.
I placed a order on Nov. 28th 2023 for a.
Faux Leather Caramel Modern Lounger SKU: ******* it was 299.99 and was in stock.
I called a customer service number and talked with her on Dec13th and she assured me that the delivery would be between 14th thru 19th and I would have it. When it did not come I called back and spoke to Brianna at 6:00 pm on the 19th. She said that it was at the hub? So she then told me that it would ship January 6th? THIS IS A PROBLEM BECAUSE ONE IT WAS IN STOCK, TWO IT WAS NOT EVEN SHIPPED OUT ON THE 28TH LIKE IT SAID AND THREE THIS WAS A CHRISTMAS PRESENT SO WHAT THE ***** WOULD I STILL WANT IT AFTER THE FACT? I WILL NEVER PURCHASE AND I HAVE ALREADY BEEN TELLING THE PEOPLE I WORK WITH OR COME IN TOUCH WITH NEVER BUY ANYTHING FROM THEM THEY SIMPLY DO NOT CARE! I paid by credit card it gives me a order # which is*******048 for $299.00 shipping was free haha
Placed an order of over $2000. 00 worth of furniture for my daughters room over 3 months ago! When I placed the order in August it said it would be available in October, which we were fine with because we were moving during September anyways. They kept pushing the date back numerous times. Ultimately, it was pushed back another whole month until November! I called customer service after the "new arrival date passed. They said they were just waiting on a piece to arrive and to call back the beginning of November and it should be ready. Instead I decided to give it until today the 19th to call (mid November). I have now been on HOLD for 41 minutes. I spoke with someone who was "checking" on my order status and was on hold for 30 minutes then I randomly was transferred to some other guy (with no notice I was being transferred after 30 minutes). So, he answers like I'm a new caller that hasn't been waiting on hold for 30 freaking minutes already... So I give him the order number and was told he needed to go check the status. Well, needless to say I am still on hold... 45 minutes! THIS IS RIDICULOUS, they have HORRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE! I WILL NEVER EVER SPEND MONEY HERE OR AT ANY OTHER ASSOCIATED POTTERY BARN BUSINESS AGAIN!
I have been given the complete run around by PBteen on my daughter's bed. I originally ordered the Cleary Captain bed in June 2018 and it had a lead time of September 2018 - a month later this got revised to late January 2019 which was so unacceptable I cancelled the order and placed a new one for a different bed. This had a lead time of Sept 10-17 2018 and I consistently checked my order and that date remained firm up to last week. I moved my daughter out of her room and had it decorated, and I have a garage full of the other furniture items which PBteen have already delivered. However, when I called on Monday of last week for a delivery date, they informed me they had made a mistake and that the bed wouldn't be in until Monday 17th. I asked to speak to a supervisor and they transferred me to the NJ hub where I was on hold for 92 minutes before I finally gave up. I called again today, and got transferred FIVE times to different people before speaking to Deborah in the NJ hub. Her response was that some of the bed had come in but not all of it and when I pressed her for a firm date on the final items she couldn't give me one, just 'maybe this week, maybe next'. When I ask if someone could phone me at the end of this week with an update she said 'we don't do that'. I guess PBteen doesn't care about its customers and if I hadn't already decorated the room and received some of the items I would just cancel. I have no confidence it will actually come and am at a loss as to what I can do.
Worst shopping experience in my life. They are terrible. Horrible customer service. I won't be surprised if they are out of business soon.
I ordered a 1800$ dresser for my daughter and paid 300$ shipping to get a damaged dresser! They offered 200$ off if I keep it or they will send me a new one. I chose to get a new one since the metal leg of the dresser was dented and it shows. I was scheduled to get a new dresser a month after. The night before delivery I had to empty the dresser and we had to wake up at 7 in the morning on a Saturday since the delivery was at 7:30 in the morning, no big deal as long as we will get a good dresser. To our surprise the new dresser was also damaged, so we had to schedule a new delivery for a new dresser! A month after and the same headache, empty the old dresser and wake up early in the morning to get a damaged dresser again! Talked to customer service and again offered 200$ to keep the same damaged dresser or return! Seriously after selling my old dresser I have to return the dresser and look for a new one since you cannot send a good dresser which is worth 1800$. Anyways we scheduled a new delivery after two weeks which is today, the driver called 7 in the morning for the delivery, we woke up and waited for him, he parked next to our house and then left! He didn't even explain why did he leave, we called him and never answered! We called the delivery company and they explained that he thinks that our driveway is slippery due to a small amount of snow! Ok I understand, why didn't he just called and explained that to us so we may clean any snow from over night knowing that the driveway was cleaned the day before! That's ridiculous, I will never order from this company any more! Very bad customer service and medium quality furniture for high prices! Don't be tricked by their high prices, go buy from other places!
I placed an order on November 30,2015 for several personalized items and was given an estimated delivery date of December 7,2015. When that day came and went without any sign of the items, I called customer service on December 8 and was told that half of my order was out of stock and not expected to be available until February 2016. Since these were Christmas presents, I cancelled the out of stock items and found similar items that were apparently in stock and was given an estimated delivery date of December 21,2015. When I didn't receive a shipping confirmation by December 17, I called customer service and was informed that there was a delay in personalized items, but delivery was guaranteed by December 24. On December 23, I called to get the tracking numbers and was told that the items were still in the fulfillment center and had not been processed yet. At this point I cancelled the order and requested a credit to be issued to my credit card since PB charged by credit card at the time the order was placed. The credit was issued on December 28, but was re-charged on December 29. Today, January 6, I received a delivery from PB Teen. It was one item from the order, even though the packing slip indicates everything should be in the box, and the item I received is damaged. It looks like someone tried to cover up the scratches with magic marker and white out. I again called customer service and sat on the phone for an hour just to be told that I can only get a credit if the items are returned. When I asked to speak to a manager, I was disconnected. This has been the worst shopping experience I have ever had and will never repeat. I guess my only option is to dispute the charges with the credit card company.
I would STRONGLY urge you to avoid doing business with PBTeen (or pottery barn in general), even though the company has a perceived strong brand.
We recently placed two orders with the company. The first was for a bedroom sheet set. They sent the wrong color four - get this - FOUR - times and we finally gave up and just asked for our money back. The second order was for a bed, purportedly one of their "best sellers." After they delivered and set it up this first time, we noticed that the slats had been inserted upside down which was clearly a manufacturing fault (the two side rails were misaligning). We sent the bed back that day and the customer service folks told us by phone that they would have the factory check to see that this fault had been rectified before sending a second one. It took 3 weeks to get the new bed and it had the exact same manufacturing fault. We sent the bed back a second time. Again, we were assured by customer service that they would have the factory check and make sure the next bed was fine before shipping it. The third time it arrived we noted the same exact fault, but interestingly, the company had tried to gloss over the problem by filling in some holes with wood putty. We were so worn down by this time - and my son had been waiting now two months for this bed - that we told the assembly guys to just jerry rig the thing and set it up.
When I sent an email to customer relations after this third misstep on their part, they did not even have the decency to call or write back. This was especially irksome.
Please do yourself a favor and avoid this company. It has some serious quality control and customer service issues. In an age of increasing e-commerce, no customer should have to put up with such ineptitude.
I truly believe the pandemic has played a part in the poor customer service and delivery process for PBT and it is a shame because I trusted them to be more professional. However for the amount of money I spent on furniture over the past year Long story short. After 6 months furntiure was finally "scheduled" for delivery only to be cancelled by a customer service rep who you cannot follow up with. This happened 2x and after multiple calls to get some understanding of what was going on. I spoke to at least 10 different customer service reps throughout this process including "Juan" who claimed to be a supervisor and "gave me his word to follow up with me on Monday" only to never hear back again. I waiting hours on hold to speak with somebody who knew what was going on... only to be given a run around. Big $#*! show.
I ended up having to order a brand new bed diffferent then my original order. By then had to fight to have the first order (bed) cancelled and reimbursed for. I ended up having to get the credit card company involved to get my money... and the kicker, this week (Christmas week and 8 months later) I am now receiving emails saying my bed (the original one, the one i cancelled and the one they couldnnt communicate with the vendor for to reimburse me back in October) is ready for dellivery.
On a positive note the delivery workers were wonderful and should be applauded for staying on with a company that is loosing credibility by the day. Im done with PBT. Its not worth the TIME, money and energy.
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Poor quality product. Developed a tear only after a few washings. I would not buy again because of the poor quality.
Order is not on time. Three months on back order. I will not use this site again to order. If you do not have a product to sell don't sell it.
I should've learned my lesson when I ordered the Hampton Loft Bed, which took months to receive, but I excused that because it was a large piece of furniture.
Unfortunately, I thought I would try again to see if the order experience would be better with smaller items. I ordered a small desk chair, sheets, and a pillow to match on August 3rd 2019 and continued to track the order through August into October. They began authorizing charges-on my card weekly for the both chair and sheets up to 8 different times (thankfully this was not a debit card) I finally gave up and called Customer Service today (November 2nd) to cancel the order.
I called this morning at 8:30 AM and an agent who was clearly working from home and asleep answered. I told her I would like to cancel my order as it has been 3 months and I have not received the items. She then mumbles and it sounds to me she was fumbling with her headset to the point where is was hard to hear. She then states my order was flagged for potential fraud and is on hold. I am shocked by this because this was the first I had heard of it! I then inquired if that was the case why I was not contacted to confirm the order. She then says she will transfer me and after 3-4 mins I can still hear her fumbling with the headset. I then say "hello" several times and that the line begins playing music. I am then transferred to the furniture delivery center and they tell me the customer service line isn't open until 10 AM. It goes without saying I will not shop with Pottery-barn Teen again.
3 months of waiting, several credit card charges and horrible customer service... BUYER BEWARE.
Product was good, didnt have a problem. Ordered a book bag, was well made color was right. Granddaughter is enjoying it!
I made a PBTeen purchase a few weeks ago. Shipping was fast and that was the only positive. It was a complete set, designed for college kids in their dorms (TwinXL), that I paid $222. I was led to believe I was getting a great deal since the original is $325, but I noticed t went on sale for $200 (noticed 3 days later) and they would not give me a price adjustment; plus, the quality is so poor that even $200 wouldn't be worth it. I am unable to write a review for the specific set (Aiden Stripe Deluxe Comforter Set with Comforter, Sheet Set, Pillowcase, Mattress Pad, Pillow Inserts + Blanket) so maybe I'll save someone the same headaches I've had by writing here.
The quality of this set is not like I have known from Pottery Barn. I've been buying sheets for over 30 years and these are the hardest sheets I've ever felt. I thought washing them a couple of times with fabric softener would help, but didn't. My son -- who is not picky about sheets -- said, "These sheets feel like sandpaper."
I had to order new sheets and the blanket in the set got lint all over the sheets. Repeat washings/dryings did not do enough. I had to use a huge floor size lint roller 8x on his new sheets to get all the lint off!
Returning was not an option because I would have had to return the whole set, which is super inconvenient, and too costly. So we continue to use the comforter, pillow sham, and mattress pad from the set, but the quality of those things is inferior (it just happens to not feel quite like sandpaper or leave lint everywhere). The rest is getting trashed/donated.
PBTeen has shown that they do not care about the problem. I was given a pat response with no offer of alternatives and a refusal to do a $20 price adjustment until I got my credit card company involved.
Ordered two items in November with expected delivery in January, when I checked in January, expected delivery was pushed back to February without my knowledge. I called in February when I didn't receive an email to schedule delivery, they then scheduled my delivery, I got an email the day before expected delivery reminding me of delivery for the next day. When the order did not come that day, I phoned back and the customer service rep said they attempted to call me the week before, and then again the day before, I verified the two phone numbers they had on file for me and when they were correct, I told them there were NO records of the phone calls, they did NOT try to call me even though they had it in their notes they did. They sent me to another person in customer service that said the items were not available and were still back ordered. There was ZERO explanation for why I was scheduled a delivery for an item that wasn't even in stock, ZERO explanation for falsely recorded calls, and ZERO compensation after waiting 3+ months for my items. I canceled the order and am never going to order from them again.
I placed an order with this company on December 1,2015. Their site provided a delivery date of December 9th. My products did not arrive so I called and was told they were a little behind and I should expect delivery no later than Dec 16. The products again did not ship as promised. Their site is never updated with current information, status is always "unavailable". I issued a complaint about this and the next day it was update to "in process" and this status never changed. I called everyday checking on my order I placed for my grandkids for Christmas well in advance After I couldn't rely on this information I ran out at the last minutes trying to buy last minutes gifts for my grandchildren due to this website unreliable service and uncommitted truth on order status. Their compensation was a $25 PBTeen gift card on a $376 order I placed. Gee Thanks! Not to mention the money I had to go out and spend at the last minute because I couldn't chance not getting the order in time with all of the different promises I was given by several different reps over the course of 4 weeks later. Four weeks later, I received a partial order on Dec 24 in a poorly package box that barely made in tact, it was crushed and not sufficiently packaged. As of today, December 27th I am still waiting on the other part of my order. I will never buy anything from this company again. If they couldn't handle the Christmas volume they should have informed their customers of their shipping schedule when placing the order, but they took my money, and would not let me cancel the order because I ordered personalized products that were not returnable. How could I return what I didn't have. I plan to write their corporate office as well.
Tip for consumers:
Never buy personalized items from this site during Christmas. I placed an order on December 1, thinking I was early and obviously not early enough with their slow service.
I am so beyond disappointed with PBTeen. I will never shop there again. I placed a $400 order November 31st with Christmas items that were on my daughters' Christmas wish list. A few of the items were personalized. Mind you, I was well within the guaranteed Christmas delivery timeframe. Two weeks before Christmas I was getting a little nervous, as I had not received any notification whatsoever on where my items were, just that they were "in Process, " but I was assured that they would be delivered as promised, by Christmas Eve. So what happened, Christmas Eve a UPS truck arrives with one box, minus 3 of the items I had ordered. I was so upset, I made my husband help the UPS guy search the truck again for another box, because it had to be there! It was not. We sat on the phone Christmas Eve with the worst customer service person I have ever encountered. She basically said our items were sitting in a box in the wherehouse and would not be delivered. She was barely apologetic and tried to skirt the issue by offering us 20% off of our next order. ARE YOU FOR REAL? We asked to be escalated to a manager and were informed that they would take our number and call us back. Did that happen? NO. To cut this short, it is now January 2nd and we still have not received the items. Called customer service again and they report the best they can do is send us the blanket ordered for free... which now is estimated to be delivered October... in time for next Christmas... are you freaking kidding me? They could only offer us 40% off of the headphones, because apparently they are maxed out in their refunds. All I want is my money back and to never shop at PBTeen again!
I was thrilled to see that there was free shipping while I was on the beanbag page online. Tried to purchase and no free shipping. Surcharge was only $10 each, so I moved on with the purchase. I looked at my confirmation and it was $33.80 for shipping, plus the surcharge of $20. Probably something I missed, so I'll just cancel the order. I then spent the next hour on the phone trying to get customer service so I could back out the purchase. The first person said that I needed PB Teen customer service and transferred me. The next person said the same thing! That was a little annoying, but whatever, how long can it take?... an additional hour passes and no answer. While I'm listening to that phone, I'm calling the local store which is walking distance from where I work, and I'm told they don't have those two bags in stock and she abruptly moves on to the next customer. Hello, hello... dial tone, what the heck Pottery Barn!?!? I'm standing there with two phones in my hand and getting absolutely nowhere. The following morning I walk to the PB Teen store from work, where I'm told that the free shipping doesn't count because I ordered the beanbag covers and the inserts together. The manager tells me they don't have the two I ordered in stock, because she just checked for someone yesterday (Yep, that's me). She goes on to tell me that I should have called, because someone at the store would have told me you could buy the covers online, not pay for shipping and just purchase the inserts at the store. So I'm not thrilled that the same person I spoke with the day before and rushed me off the phone is now full of helpful information on how to avoid paying $53.80 plus tax in shipping fees, but at leased I finally have someone cornered that will speak to me and it sounds like we have a solution. I'm told that to cancel the order, all I need to do is to call customer service. Since I was unable to get anyone at customer service to answer the phone and admit they were handling calls for PB Teen the day before, I have her call. Shocker, she gets right through. She talks to them for a minute and hangs up. She then tells me "The order has already been processed. What would you like to do?".
I can't write what I was thinking.
Most of the things in my house were purchased through the PB store or PB Kids, including living, dining and bedroom sets. I've had great service in the past years, both at the retail store and online. Is this just an issue with PB Teen or is this all of Pottery Barn now? The more I type, the more angry I get at the total disconnect the store has with their customer. I can't give you a review of the beanbags, because they were just ordered, but I can tell you it will be my last time purchasing here. The indifferent attitude when I was able to speak to someone and the fact that I didn't need to spend the extra money in the first place has earned my first ever negative review!
Pottery Barn Teen offers everything your teen will need to make their bedroom or dorm room uniquely their own as well as functional. They can choose from a large variety of bedroom furniture, office items, media storage, rugs, bathroom items, window coverings, lighting and decorative items. They carry collections from Beadboard, Hampton, Oxford, Locker, Lilac, Chic, Parker and many more.