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Shawn Altbaum
Oct 15, 2025
UPDATE 2: Last Friday, the Store Manager, Gaurav, called me. He was polite, apologetic, and asked me to come in to speak with him directly. Out of curiosity, I did. Upon arriving at the store, he immediately came out to greet me with a smile and invited me into his office. I retold the story and he again apologized, telling me this is not how he wants he store to be run.
Throughout the entire meeting, he was genuinely apologetic, and, more importantly, took accountability for the error. He did ask if I had already purchased a new freezer (which I had - along with a new mattress). As I did not need anything at the moment, he offered me further compensation for the trouble and told me that if I ever do choose to shop there again to speak with him directly. I thanked him for understanding and let him know the only reason I came in to speak with him was he apologized to me (instead of about the situation) and took accountability.
While I am not sure when the next time I will need new furniture, I am sure that I will at least look at what Leon's has to offer.
UPDATE: Love the generic response from the manager. If I mattered enough as a customer, he would have taken the time to email or call me (They have my name, number and email on file which they needed for the purchase). This, as much as the customer service I received, shows exactly they type of place the Leon's is.
They are as lazy as they are incompetent.
Seriously, shop elsewhere.
I waited to write this so I would not write it angry.
August 24, 2025 - Purchased a chest freezer for delivery in approximately 6 weeks.
September 16th - I called the store for an update on the delivery. The service rep said "First week of October."
October 4th, I received a call from the store informing me that the Freezer was discontinued. I asked "when". They answered August 24th.
Needless to say I got a bit frustrated and upset.
I wanted, nay demanded, to speak to a manager. The lady I was speaking to, after denying there was a manager at the store, said one manager was on the phone and the other was with a customer. After a bit of loud (from my end) back and forth, she put me on hold so I could speak to one of them.
While waiting, I drove to the store.
After 15 minutes, she picked up the phone again saying "Thank you for calling Leon's how can I help you?"
This angered me a bit more. I responded "I am still waiting to speak to the manager."
The Salesperson who sold me the freezer eventually picked up the phone and I said flat out I did not want to speak with her, I wanted to speak to a manager.
I was speaking loudly enough that the Sales Manager eventually came by to assist. ...he said he was the store manager, I corrected him based on his name tag.
I asked the Sales Manager if he was on the phone, he said no. I asked if he had recently been with a customer, he said no. I told him either he is lying or the secretary is incompetent.
The Sales Manager lied, and I called him out on them. He vehemently stated he was not lying and what would lying gain him.
He told me that they had 100 to 120 freezers sold and they delivered what they could. I asked how many customers still needed to be called, he said 0. He was not able to explain why it took 2 weeks to call and inform me.
They offered me a different product as a replacement which I had to explain 3 times would not fit in the space I had.
Eventually, after an hour on the phone and at the store, they gave me a full refund plus $50.
They never apologized.
They lied multiple times.
They denied lying after being called out on the lies
They never explained why it took 2 weeks to inform me the freezer was discontinued.
They also didn't know I spent more than a few years working in manufacturing and imports/exports. So they were not aware than when you order a product, like a shipment of freezers, you do it months in advance...you place the order for a full shipping container, a factory produces the product (6 weeks on average), the product gets shipped to Canada (3 weeks by boat - FTR