I received a text from Best Buy stating there was an issue with one of my three large orders.
Two of the orders included multiple TVs, mounts, hardware, and installation services.
The third order included two refrigerators and a set of individually colored panels, totaling around 12 line items.
When I logged into my account, there was no indication that anything was wrong with any of the orders. I chatted with support, but all they could provide were the scheduled delivery dates — no real answers.
I decided to leave it alone and checked again about a week later. Everything still showed as "good."
Since I needed to reschedule the delivery dates anyway, I was able to reschedule the first two orders without issue. However, when trying to move the third order (the refrigerators), I found I could not reschedule it at all.
I contacted support again.
The first rep once again could only tell me the scheduled delivery dates — no explanation.
I requested a transfer to someone else.
The second rep, when trying to move the fridge order, discovered the order had already been canceled, even though nothing in my account showed any sign of it being canceled. No email, no notice, nothing.
The agent then had to manually cancel each individual line item from the order, which took over 20 minutes. (The system was running extremely slow — for example, when I tried rescheduling, each time I clicked to change a month it took 25+ seconds to load.)
After over an hour online:
We successfully rescheduled two orders.
One order (the refrigerators) was confirmed canceled — but only because I intervened.
Otherwise, I would have sat around waiting for expensive appliances I paid for that were never coming, with no communication or warning from Best Buy.
Today, I went back into my account to double-check everything — and now it's showing part of my orders scheduled for the correct new date, and other parts still stuck on the old, wrong date we just changed.
Now I’m forced to go into the store to try to fix this in person — and based on past experience, that's usually even worse.
You typically get young kids who barely know the system, looking at you like you’re crazy for expecting them to actually make an effort to fix anything.
For a global company, this is a completely inadequate system. It's unacceptable that a customer has to dig, chase, escalate, and physically go to a store just to get basic information and support.
Best Buy seriously needs to fix their customer communication, their system performance, and the attitude in their stores.