Unethical, threatening business practices by the owner of Wayside Furniture My Mom ordered a chair from Allen Wayside Furniture on 8/12, put $850 on her credit card on the order, got home realized the color ordered was incorrect and went back next day to cancel order. She asked to speak with order as she was told no exchanges/no refunds. Owner was rude threatening and told my mom he would not cancel the order and that the distributor where the chair was ordered would not accept a cancel at this point. My mother asked for the name of the distributor so she could call herself and he refused to give it to her. Told her to go look it up online. My mom is 72 so i am assuming he would think she had no idea how to do this. He then said that he would credit her $650 back but keep $200 and she would need to come back and buy the chair by Oct. What makes this worse is my mom had bought the exact same chair one year before from this very store and was buying another because she loved the chair so much so clearly she intended to by the chair she just needed to wait on the color choice as they are in the midst of selling thier home of 43yrs and moving to a new town house in Hampton. She at this point was not comfortable with his offer due to his behavior towards her and had no interest in shopping at this store in the future due to how she was being treated. He told her this was his only offer and if she did not like it she could take her paperwork and leave. My mom felt threatened and that this was the best she was going to get from this man. She went home Googled the distributor after looking at the tag on her current chair, called them direct and they told her that they had not even received her order yet from the store and that their policy is that they accept cancels up to 24hrs of the chair being shipped and told my mom that the owner of Allan Wayside Furniture William Abrams was choosing to not cancel the order. The woman my mom talked to at the distributor was pretty horrified.
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