DO NOT BUY FROM THIS COMPANY! THE WORST BUYING EXPERIENCE I HAVE EVER HAD.
Order placed December 29th:
After shopping around for a few days for a Sony Wega 42" Rear Projection LCD TV I found that Inoax.com had the cheapest price including shipping $1399 + $169. The next day got a call on my cell phone to verify the order and they offered a HDMI cable & 4 year warranty which included 3 bulbs for the TV. For TV\Shipping\Warranty\HDMI to HDMI cable I was charged $2018.98, a great deal in my estimation. I recieved the TV via UPS on January 4th.
That is where the hell of dealing with this company begins...
The packaging was terrible. It was the stock Sony box packaged BUT inside an unmarked box with the Packing slip and label on what would be the side of the TV. No "this side up" or "fragile" stickers.
The TV was completely damaged, whe whole screen shattered. I immediately called Customer Service, they said they would arrange for UPS to pickup and a replacement would be sent when UPS verified pickup. They said UPS would be in touch to arrange. Easy enough right?
January 12th rolls around and still no word from UPS. I call them and they have the pickup order, only Inoax provided them THEIR claims department as the customer contact. UPS said they left 3 messages at the number provided and were never contacted, that is why pickup had not yet been arranged. We straightened than out and scheduled pickup, which took place on January 16th.
I called Inoax to ask for a shipping refund, they refused, when I asked to speak to a manager, they refused. I mentioned how they provided UPS the wrong information and they told me that UPS lied to me. I mentioned the poor packaging and they again blamed UPS. (the outside box had damage but the inside, stock sony box had none which made me question if the shipment was sent broken) I told them I just wanted a replacement shipped. They said they can not until they get verification of pickup. It was going on 3 weeks and I still didn't have my TV, I was getting fed up.
When the TV was picked up I kept calling asking if my replacement was sent, their story kept changing. 3 times I was told a replacement was sent out. I finally ask for a tracking number and what they gave me was for the ORIGINAL SHIPMENT! I told them UPS said tracking numbers were never duplicated and they had no record of anything coming back to my address. Inoax's Customer Service told me UPS was LYING and that I had to work it out with UPS because the replacement is in their hands. It seemed I had to do all the communication between the shipper and the shipping company.
I contacted UPS and they informed me that they were in the process of inspecting the damages of the original, which they would ship back to Inoax after. When I got back to Inoax to tell them to ship the replacement out they again said they could not (finally admitting they they never did ship a replacement), this time because they need the return back to their location before sending a replacement. I asked them to cancel the order and they told me they can't until they got the shipment back. When UPS's tracking system said it was delivered back to INOAX I called and they still would NOT refund because it was "not in our system yet". They left it at making the refund once "it gets in our system". I don't trust it will happen as all I have been given is lies.
I filed a complaint with the BBB and also a dispute with my credit card company just incase.
Over the time from scheduling pickup with UPS and now (February 3rd) I have been in touch with INOAX several times. I was lied to, hung up on, and misled. I was told I'd be called back for information at least 4 times and was never contacted.
This place should be shut down.
This review was modified by its author, jimmac24, on
2/7/06 3:57 PM.