I have been with this club as a valued member, yeah value for them not me, since many years now.  
 
I recently purchased a pair of shoes, ok, everything was ok, but I notice that less then a month later the shoes are reduced in there catalog, i call for a refund. Well quess what I missed the 60 days by 15 days, so no refund.  
 
Ok, then couldn't they give me a break, as a valued member, no, so I then asked to cancel my membership, well sure, but wouldn't you know I saved so much on my items, as a valued member, and I did spend a lot of money, they said that my cancellation refund on the remaining 7 months or so could not be refunded as it was covered on the savings I had made from being a "valued" member. LoL, you got to be joking Heartlessland.  
 
So much for being valued? i wrote them an email explaining that I will now save a lot more money searching on-line, and at other walk in stores.  
 
Thanks, but no thanks, and you should avoid too.

Dont buy from this store ever again they cancel orders with no reason given. They have poor customer service. Never ever buy from them

Worst customer service experience in years!  
I ordered an item then learned a family member had purchased a similar one as a gift. So before the Heartland order arrived, I called Customer Service to explain and asked how to return without incurring shipping. Was told to refuse at the door or take it to a UPS center if I missed the driver. Sure enough, I missed the driver. Next day, took the unopened package to a UPS center (Staples). Got a return tracking slip. Three days later, the same package arrived at my door, again while I was not home. Called Heartland. A person identifying themselves as a supervisor had no patience for the story. Attitude, attitude, attitude! Although a Heartland customer for over 17 years, no offer to help with the postage or simply to understand that I simply did what a Heartland rep. told me to do; and which should have been logged on my order screen. Bottom line: besides the aggravating interaction with a so-called supervisor whose impudence is trumped only by a company that has apparently lost 'heart' for its customers,it's costing me $8 dollars for shipping. And BTW: I learned and confirmed,that Buy.com has exactly the same item (refurb. GPS) at $45 dollars less. I urge you to be very careful with what the 'real' cost of dealing with Heartland America is. Other dissatisfied customer reviews are worth paying attention to. No wonder Heartland does not subscribe to customer review services like this one.

Received a refurbish DVD burner instead of new, fortunately it works. Item suppose to be new as posted. store not honestly shows item condition. Never gamble again.

Everything I ordered was made in China and not made in the "Heartland America". All junk. Nothing was a good value. My 1250 watt power inverter would not even power 850 Watts. I got around to test it a few days after the return date so they refused to take it back. I am out $80.99 plus shipping. I will never order from them again. Just one more that think it's OK to be a thief in the work place. Shame on you!

We received a special catalog pronouncing big savings and free shipping. I figured, what can you lose?  
 
As it turns out, you lose a big amount of time.  
 
We ordered an item and received a $10 off coupon in addition to free shipping. Fair enough. What they don't tell you is that they tack on a $2.99 charge for "processing," whatever that means.  
 
In addition, the item we ordered on 8/8/2008 has been back ordered till 9/12/08. And even then, we're not sure if it will make it. Consider that it will probably take another two weeks before they ship the item when it is finally in stock, I have decided that my first order with this firm will also be my last.  
 
Why order from a company that doesn't even keep its own stock available for buying?  
 
Avoid at all costs. My guess is that the company is a scam...they collect your money, put it in a high yield money market account while you wait forever or get substandard products.  
 
I think it's time that the Federal Trade Commission finds out about these crooks.

This review was modified by its author, Quaczar, on 9/2/08 10:28 PM.

My wife and I purchase a laptop from Heartland America to give to our Daughter I'm disable so we live on a set bugget the first one we got we had to send back because it didn't work and it took over two weeks before we were told to send it back to a company called GCM INC. who was the ones that fixs and goes over them after 7 weeks I had to call to get a laptop sent back this next laptop was over eight years old and would not read the internet card so you could not get on the internet plus keys stick and the cursor moves on it's own after working on it and updating the programs we were able to get on line but still had the other things wrong we tryed to go through Heartland to get us one that work right or give us a refund to this heartland told us it was not there problem and it was up to GCM I have writen to Heartland using the add as a go by telling them we did not buy the laptop from GMC and It was not GMC saleperson who we talk to all this to no help. I have even wrote to GCM and have heard nothing so much for Satisfaction Guarantee and if you can find it in writing you se it is only good for three day We lost over 400.00 don't make our mistake if you see it for sale here buy from someone else the best thing Heartland could do would be get a back bone and stand up for what thay sell.

I tried to order from Heartland America, order number above. First item was "no longer available". Second item was ordered and it took 3 days for the order to be confirmed. They said it takes that long to verify my credit card information. How'd you like to stand in line at Wal-Mart for 3 days to buy something with a credit card.  
 
So, the order goes through and it was immediately backordered until the 17th. Called on that day and they said it was backorderd until the 25th. I cancelled the order. This was all a result of receiving a catalog that said "we want you back". This is not the way to get get customers back.

Received two broken security cameras from Heartland America. The return process is involved and difficult. When I called the company to discuss it the customer service rep was short and nasty with me. When I mentioned how inconvenient this was for me she hung up on me. I called again and the next person did the same thing. So I cancelled all further contact with the company over the process of several more calls and drove to the post office and returned the cameras at my expense and also tracked them. The cameras arrived two days later back at Heartland America. I called and confirmed it with them and asked when I would be credited for the returned merchandise. They said in a couple of days. I called back this evening and found I still have not been credited for the return, but instead they have shipped out two more cameras. I could not believe it and again the customer service rep refused to apologize and acted put off that I was upset I was getting more defective merchandise from Heartland America. She was extremely rude and not the least bit contrite at putting me through further hassles. I called my credit card company who again contacted Heartland America and the woman was again nasty and short with me. It's not my fault they sent broken merchandise, nor is it my fault they sent out more cameras when I told them no less than ten times I didn't want anything else from them. I will never do business with this company again. EVER! And I would highly recommend others avoid them as well. They are horrible.

I ordered a Cuisinart toaster oven from Heartland because they had the lowest price on the web. After I submitted my credit card information and clicked confirm purchase, a $2.99 processing fee was added as was $9.99 for an extended service agreement which I did not order. The oven is supposed to be in a large box with styrofoam packing (as in the oven I later bought). The oven from Heartland arrived minus Cuisinart's packaging in a box just large enough for the oven to fit in, with the oven wrapped in a single layer of thin bubble wrap. It seemed as if it were packed to assure damage in shipping. And the oven was indeed damaged- the door was completely off the oven and the glass was broken. The company agreed to refund the purchase price minus shipping, could/would not refund the cost of the extended service agreement, would not pay for return shipping and demanded that I insure the package (for an already broken item). I don't know as yet if there is a restocking fee. I have filed a charge dispute with my credit card company. I surmise that the oven was already damaged when shipped (why else would it have been removed from it's original packaging) and my guess is that someone else will be getting this same oven in a future transaction with Heartland.

This review was modified by its author, reweaver, on 1/17/08 8:27 AM.

I have dealt with Heartland America twice now (directly and indirectly) and have two stories to share. Roughly one year ago a friend of mine who isn't very technically inclined saw and ordered a VERY outdated, refurbished computer at the price of $300 and then $100 for shipping and handling. I won't give the specs of the computer system, but lets say he got ripped off about $360. Enough of that, it was his decision. But the true complaint comes from the fact that after the computer arrived, we heard something rattling inside of it when we moved it. Turns out that computer fell out of a truck apparantly BEFORE Heartland America shipped it off to my friend, and they never mentioned it until we contacted them after receiving it. Lucky thing the only damage was a tab broke off the case and it didn't ever latch, nothing too serious. But still, the fact that the company sold such an outdated computer for $400 (it was good back in the 1992-93 era) and then didn't mention that it fell off a truck really gets to me. And the ad for the computer made it seem like a top-of-the-line system to any non-computer person.  
 
Story number two is what my most recent encounter with teh company was about. This time I was sent an Emerson DVD/VCR combo 19" television set as an early Christmas gift. I had no idea what was coming until it arrived, and then I noticed it came from Heartland America. On their site, they advertise this product as "Factory serviced to meet original QUALITY standards. May have slight cosmetic blemishes." After taking the set out of the box and setting it all up, I turned it on. At first the picture just seemed grainy and the colors were bleeding. I read through the manual, and adjusted every color setting on the thing. Try as I could, I couldn't get the picture to come in nearly as clear as my previous color television from 1993. Well, after leaving it run for around an hour, I looked and noticed now it was washed out in a blue color, off on the right and bottom by about three inches, and wavy lines / splotches were moving all around it. At that point I couldn't even look at it without getting a headache. So, this 'like-new' television set ended up having a bad picture tube within an hour after I got it. Also, the DVD player would NOT play a retail DVD, until the third attempt.  
 
Did I mention the fact that they claim this particular item (quite a few years old by the looks of it) is $350 retail, and they sell it for $230. Well, according to Walmart.COM a brand new version of this set is just a few bucks more than what they sell it for, and its new!  
 
They do offer a warranty of type which I still have yet to fill out, but I can either exchange it for other (old, low-quality) products from their store or I have to try and get a refund, which won't work out to well as this was a gift.  
 
Bottom line: Out of two experiences with them, none have been desired. If you are looking for the technology of yester-year, for prices that aren't too competitive, good luck with these folks.

I order May 13th with a $10 off coupon code that went through when i made my order.  
 
I then did not get an email with my receipt, however 5 days later, i got an email saying that my order was shipped without a price by the way. When i receive the grill, the receipt says full price!! I called customer service and they told me that the coupon is only good for order over $25. However my order did go through with the $10 off coupon.  
 
NEVER ORDER FROM HEARTLAND AMERICA AGAIN!!!