Three Months, a Damaged Chair, and a Company That Told Us to "Celebrate" the Damage
We paid a significant sum of money for a custom leather chair from ABC Carpet & Home. It arrived damaged — with eight large, raised black marks across the cushions. The delivery team offered to take it back immediately. An ABC rep convinced us to keep it with a promise that everything would be made right. It never was.
Over the following three months, ABC's response evolved from "that's normal" to sending us replacement cushion covers in completely the wrong color and texture, to finally telling us that the marks are "healed scars" that are "a signature of the leather's authenticity" — designed to be "celebrated as each scar is a diary of the cattle's life." A laughable response!
The most telling detail: the replacement cushion covers ABC sent us were completely free of these so-called celebrated scars. And you won't find markings like these displayed anywhere on the vendor's website. The so-called "authentic feature" only showed up on the chair they sold us.
ABC presents itself as a luxury retailer. But luxury means nothing if a company won't stand behind its products. When something goes wrong, you'll find that the beautiful showroom and the premium price tag come with zero accountability. We've now been forced to pursue legal action and file formal consumer complaints — something no customer should ever have to do over a chair.
Do yourself a favor: if you're spending serious money on furniture, go somewhere that takes responsibility when things go wrong. ABC Carpet & Home is not that place.








