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Site Experience FeedbackApr 8, 2026
Received an e-mail promotion that I wanted to take advantage of. Needed to redeem loyalty points. This required a separate action that had to take place away from the purchasing transaction - stupid. Stupid because it should be directly connected and applied to my current - in process transaction and integrated seamlessly. What came next was not made clear on the site... that I would receive a e-mail with this 'code' and that I would need to enter it before credit would be applied. I saw no credits and nothing had changed in the status of my invoice, but my loyalty points had been diminished... I called customer service for help.
First person, while polite and tried to be helpful, she was not able to resolve the issue, despite looking at the order screen with me. Needed to be transferred to a 'specialist'. (Why? Another failure in the functionality of the site and knock on effect of having to get a live person involved.
Second person helped me by letting me know that I needed this special 'code' that I would have received by a separate e-mail. Additional steps like this makes it seem I was trying to get into a safety deposit box or crack a top secrete vault. A separate number had to be generated and then I had to transfer it onto my order 'form'. Which it was not being excepted. Very clumsy and inefficient as well as frustrating enough that I almost canceled my entire order... but realized I would probably not been able to recover my 'loyalty' points.
We worked through it, but the site was not responsive, nor set up to clearly indicate what I would and should do at this point. The customer service person had to apply the code from her side. This, all after having to wait 13 minutes, according to my phone's clock. It is not about being impatient... I am grateful of the personal help and being able to speak to a live person, but really?!? What a total waste of everyone's time and effort and money(wages) to have to go through all of that.
The personal help and effort by the agents was what kept me for this transaction. However, a corporate attitude that does not do a lot more to provide a standard of service a great deal higher that what I experienced - specially in the 'on-line arena' does not deserve my business. This especially true when dealing with a company owned and operated by an entity such as Estée Lauder.