Wednesday, June 24, 2009

ARTBEADS Experience

OK so I promised I would Help everyone out by letting people know about the different companies I deal with in regards to buying my supplies for my jewelry designs. Well when I got a request for a custom pendant! I decided to do some checking around. So I found Artbeads website a little while back through Facebook and Twitter and they're great. I started out by checking out there prices to my fallback sites. Better prices equal better prices for my customers right!

Well I got my order done and got a message from my client I was doing the custom work for, basically letting me know she changed her mind on color. Ok lets test reaction time of this new company right! I told her I already made the order but let me see if I can change it!?. If not I would just make another order, no big deal. So I wrote the company right away and asked if I could basically cancel my order so i could reorder. Well normal turnaround I know is roughly 24-42 hrs (usually). They called me a few hrs later. A nice girl ( I'm terribly sorry I wanna say it was a Carrie but I'm not sure!) called and asked what exactly I wanted to do and we changed the order together. It was great. She verified everything with me and then she explained the shipping changes (basically- orders go out in the morning she called in the afternoon so my order would be pulled and shipped the next morning, I believe it was the 14th or 15th of June. Well later that day I got a few email verifications from them. One was an invoice with the changes we made. The next was to let me know the original invoice shipment # went out (which she told me to ignore), then the next email I get is that the corrected order went out. I figure SWEET I will get it in a couple of weeks!

NO WAY!! order shipped out on a Monday! (I chose regular mail -for Canadians, shipping is only $1 -Americans it's free) I got the package the following Monday! Man did it feel like Christmas! LOL or at least my birthday :D. I had ordered copper chain, 4 swarovski 4mm bicone crystals (that's actually what needed to originally be changed- my client wanted a different color of purple) a beautiful lobster claw, some nice copper jump rings i believe inner diameter of those are 4mm as well, and for a treat for myself ( If I can when doing online orders I buy a "treat" for my studio, usually it's a new tool or gadget). This time I chose a nicely designed heavy duty cutter (for when I go back to my chainmaille vest for my hubby). The packaging was amazing so creative yet sooo professional, love the little info card they send to, it's so vibrant and colorful. I thought from now on when i do an expose on a new store I would show what I got and how it comes for you. Purely because of Artbeads.


So here it is folks!!

Isn't the packaging soo cute!?


I definitely give Artbeads a

2 comments:

  1. Elizabeth, thanks for sharing your positive experience with Artbeads.com with others through your blog. I'm always excited to hear when our customer service team is able to have a real impact on our customer's experience. They work very hard. I'll share your blog post with all of them today.

    Cheers,
    Steve
    VP Customer Service at Artbeads

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  2. I'm so Glad to hear that Steve. Coming from a customer service background myself I know on both ends how much GOOD customer service can be forgotten sometimes. I understand metrics and goals and time constraints, but I also know that a good CSR can get all of that done and help a customer without making the customer feel rushed or unwanted. That's why I was so impressed with your staff member. I also know as an agent how good it feels to know that a customer was satisfied with the service I gave them. So for you to let them know, (even though unfortunately I couldn't remember the name of the girl), makes me ecstatic because I believe that's the true leverage to keep employees doing the best they can! I will definitely be back for more :D

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