Bridal Bait and Switch.

amazonx42 · August 2010

I spent the last few days shopping for my gown. My way to approach this was to do a lot of research first, and then start. So - I had a really good idea of my body type, and of exactly what kind of dress I wanted and did not want. There were several specific dresses I wanted to try on.

2 different upper-mid scale salons lied to my mother and I on the phone. We called ahead. We asked "Do you have Maggie Sottero - Pamela? Do you have Demetrios 3147? Do you have ruffle-high-neck dresses? They said they did. Even one on the phone said "we have something similar." "No, I don't want something similar, I want that dress."

And then, when I got to the salon - they didn't have it at all. They tried to get me into something else. One consultant specifically did not listen and tried to get me into dresses I did not want. She tried to get me to have one specifically designed. I had to say "Look, I am really not interested in something I cannot see before I buy it. I WILL have nightmares for 4 months." The same store finally found one of the ones I wanted, but then didn't have it pressed and seemed to be surprised (or whoever answered the phone did not tell them) that I wanted to try on "Pamela."

Suprisingly, David's bridal did not do this. They were awesome, and let me walk when I wanted to walk and I almost bought their dress. The upper scale stores gave a high pressure pitch with an entitlement attitude and it pissed me off! Ugh! THIS WAS A LOT LIKE BUYING CAR!

But I found one I wanted. The person who sold it to me was a Macy's clerk who wasn't supposed to sell dresses anyway - was just there to answer the phone - and she was low pressure and wonderful. If I had bought it from her, she wouldn't have got a commission for helping me into the dress anyway - and then I called and ordered my Demetrios dress for $550 cheaper than retail from Pearl's place! Mwuhahahaha! TAKE THAT high-pressure snobby salons!

Pearl's place - I love you. I bought: http://www.frossweddingcollections.co.uk/images/wedding/demetrios/large/demetrios_3148b.jpg

budvar1012 · August 2010

Oh I love the top and the way the waist looks nipped in--very sleek and lovely, congrats! WHat a lovely dress.

K Byte · August 2010

That sucks that they lied to you about what dresses they have but at least you got a pretty dress in the end!

raynes · August 2010

I don't know. You sound a bit controlling. Most of the girls from my club board ended up getting things they tried on in the store, not something they'd picked out before hand. With wedding dresses its tough.

IMO, you should have been a little more open minded.

[Deleted User] · August 2010

What is Pearl's Place? Is that where you bought the dress or did you buy it from David's? I'm confused.

betrothed123 · August 2010

I'm going to have to ditto Raynes. It really doesn't sound like you had that terrible of an experience in general, and you got a dress you like.

I mean yeah it sucks that they didn't all tell you the truth, but you seem to even be taking issue with the one place that told you no they don't have it, but they do have something similar. Would you rather they lie to you too? Of course they're going to try selling you on a dress they have if it's similar to what you're looking for. They are in the business to make money.

opalsky007 · August 2010

Cew, Pearl's is a wholesaler. She tried on a Demetrios dress at Macy's, and then bought it wholesale.

I'm sorry you were misled, OP, but it's impossible for a shop to carry every dress, and miscommunications do happen. And I can't blame the salons once and a while for applying pressure to buy when so many brides just use them to try on gowns and then purchase elsewhere.

vegasgroom · August 2010

Sounds like the "upper-mid scale salons" you tried just sucked. My FI also had a few ideas of what she wanted from reading the stack of wedding magazines, called around to local boutiques, none of them had the specific dresses and all were honest about that fact on the phone, but they did say they would have something similar and wanted her to come in. She did and found something she liked better than what was in the magazines.

amazonx42 · August 2010

This is Amazon's Mom, CMGr. I'm using her laptop (ack!) and this is a learning experience for me. We put miles on her car between Maryland and Virginiatrying to find a dress that was NOT strapless! You cannot truly say that a strapless dress is something like a ruffled halter top dress. One shop told me 4 times on the phone that they had her dress in the shop. They lied. I was fully prepared to buy her dress retail, but not from a shop tha lied to me to get me in the door, and then say they had "something like it". We were also told that some of the dresses one her list were too expensive. "You cannot afford that." Actually, we could, but I'm not giving my money to a shop that lies to us and insults us. Wonder why we go to online shopping? Keep up the attitude, and you will be out of business. The dress we finally bought was not on on her list, but same designer and NOT strapless. Consultants kept trying to put us in strapless dresses. Is it controlling of us to want something else?

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