Review of Rove Concepts


Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Furniture good, but delivery process can be improved...

I made an order on March 28th for a breakfast table and two small stools. The quality of the pieces is good, and I do not have any issues with the product.

A small note - during the initial stage of adding items to your shopping cart, a delivery charge was quoted, but upon checkout, the actual delivery charge increased. It would have been nice for the delivery charge amount to remain consistent throughout the entire purchase process.

The reason for the 3-star review had to do with the delivery of the furniture. The outsourced delivery company called on Wednesday to set up a delivery window of 8AM to 3PM for the following day (Thursday). No problem. I take Thursday off work to stay at home.

Come Thursday, at 12PM, I called the delivery company again to confirm that someone will be arriving on that day, and they assured me that someone will be there. No one showed up. I followed up again at 4PM but the representative had already left the office.

On Friday morning at 8AM, I received a call that the delivery will happen on Friday instead. No explanations were given as to why I never received any updates on Thursday. The delivery finally happened at 10AM.

I understand that things change and things get missed, but proper communication, especially with someone who had to take a day off work to accept a delivery, is a common courtesy.

April 26, 2018
Unprompted review

Reply from Rove Concepts

Hi John Lo,

We're sorry to hear that your delivery experience was not to your expectations, and a missed delivery window is certainly not something we want for our customers. When working with third-party carriers, we do not have as tight control on delivery as we would wish, but we have reached out to our carrier regards to your case to ensure that this will not happen again. We understand that taking the time to be ready for your shipment and not having the shipment arrive in that time frame is very frustrating.

In regards to our estimated shipping charges, they do fluctuate depending on your shipping address (some rural addresses have additional costs) and depending on the volume of your order. We appreciate your feedback on this issue and as we have heard this previously, we are working on making our checkout more transparent about the costs of shipping and more accurate from when you first put your products in the cart.

All the best,

Rove Concepts