I ordered two Dell mini notebooks for my kids from samsclub.com for Christmas, and the whole experience was horrible.

First, I placed the order on December 8 with samsclub.com. I received an order confirmation for both laptops showing that Sam’s had charged me for both laptops. I tried several times to check my order status online, but only to the message that the order was in the initial stages. When I called Sam’s club, they told me that they had no way to check the status because DELL had not given them DELL order numbers which are not the same as the ones that Sam's uses. Sam’s did not issue corresponding DELL order numbers or tracking numbers for the computers I ordered until after I received the first computer on December 23.

When I called Sam's club to ask why and to try to get information on my order, they told me I would have to contact DELL directly even though I had no way to obtain ANY information because Sam's could not provide me with DELL order numbers so that I could check on the status. When Sam's club FINALLY updated the information for my order on their website, they showed that my order had shipped...I had only gotten one laptop but had paid for two. AGAIN, no one at Sam's club could give me any answers, but they promised to get to the bottom of the situation and contact me. No one ever contacted me via phone or email.

When I used the order number that was on the shipping information for the ONE laptop I did receive, I was able to see all of the orders that were purchased by Sam’s Club. I was even able to see the addresses to which the computers were being shipped, the date they were supposed to arrive, and even the security gate codes for the addresses!!!

Four calls later and after being assured that they would fill my order and deliver the computer I paid for...it was now January 17. Remember, I placed the original order on December 8, they told me that they had "refunded my money" even though I had been promised over the phone multiple times that they would fill the order for the price that I had paid.

When I explained to them the error had been theirs, and they should honor my order, they told me that was not company policy because I had never received the computer. When I pointed out that I had ordered that computer at a reduced price, and that I thought they should honor that order since the error was theirs. They offered to place a second order for me for the same computer at a much higher price. I told them I would never place another order with them, and I was curtly told to "have a good day" and then disconnected.

How long should it take to resolve an order problem? More than a month? I am most upset because on January 17th my son still had no Christmas present. It would have been nice to know that they had no intention of filling my order before this much time passed and before I spent valuable time calling and trying to track down my order.

Please think twice before ordering ANYTHING from Samsclub.com, and if you do, don't expect much.

I was working with my business partner who had the Sam's Club membership and I ordered a pop-up canopy for our outdoor expos. I input my credit card information and the billing address was declined. I called the national call center and they told me it was because their online ordering system only uses the first five digits of the zip code, and NOT the zip + 4. They actually instructed me to call my credit card company and remove the zip + 4 from my billing address! I told them that the Zip + 4 insured that any statements and new cards would be delivered to me and not elsewhere in town. There are mailboxes across town with the same numbers but have a different zip + 4 address. I told them that such misdelivered mail could lead to identity theft and credit card theft, and that they were instructing their shoppers to make their bank and credit accounts less secure. I asked to speak to a supervisor and never got a call back. When I called their call center again, they claimed they could not open the account to view or add any notes even though I had an open incident. When I asked to speak to the person I worked with before, they claimed that person was not in their call center and they had no way of getting a message to him. In this day of global networking, a company that cannot communicate from one office to another and refuses to use zip + 4 in their ordering system is way behind the times. I will never get a club membership and will not be ordering from their online system..