Last night, we decided to order in and catch up on some shows, so I did what I often do when I'm out of town--order from GrubHub. I ordered nice and early (yes, we're early risers, so we're early diners, too), on the theory that the food might take more than an hour to arrive. I got a confirmation number with my "yes, you've made an order" notice (below). After more than an hour had passed without getting the food, I called the restaurant, which told me that I had no such order on file. I started to order directly from the restaurant, because we like the food there a lot, and then decided that I'd order elsewhere instead (which we did). I told the restaurant that we didn't want to order, after all. I tried to contact GrubHub, but the website was down, the phone was busy, etc. So I tweeted my problem to +GrubHub Seamless. Radio silence.
Three hours later, the restaurant's delivery person showed up w/our order. Apparently, GrubHub put the order through once its website was back up. We told the delivery person that we'd canceled the order three hours earlier.
I got back on Twitter and on Facebook. The Facebook site indicates that the same thing was happening to more people. I posted another tweet, and once I finally got the GrubHub email that "my order was in the works" (three hours too late), I replied and explained my problem--and asked that I not be charged.
STILL radio silence. Let's see how long it takes for GrubHub to get back to me and others affected by yesterday's webfail.
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