I am one dissatisfied customer out of many positive reviews, so clearly my review is inconsistent with this company's track record; however, review sites only work to help consumers and businesses alike when all types of experiences are shared, so here's my experience.
I started by searching on Yelp for a highly rated company. Ace has so many excellent reviews that I didn't request a bunch of quotes - I was sure this was the right choice. In hindsight, from our first exchange, I should have recognized that I was unhappy with the lack of response and constantly needing to follow up. The first response was a request for a phone number, which I provided. I waited two days before responding that I hadn't received a call, received a response that Gregg would call me that day, and finally received a call after the weekend...so initial response took 5 or 6 days just for a quote.
I finally talked to Gregg, we talked about the complexities of my particular property (being rural), and he said he needed to investigate options most especially for my internet service since I needed to be able to work from home. It was reiterated to me over and over again how complex my job would be, though no one could give me any numbers.
I felt anxious often in the days prior to the implementation because I didn't have a quote and I wasn't receiving any final information, but I had a lot of trust for this company based on others' great reviews. I didn't receive a quote until the day of the install, the quote was for almost $2000 just to run wire to five ports - in fairness, my house is 4000 sq ft and had never had cable wires run - and that didn't include the startup costs for new Dish service, CenturyLink internet, and HughesNet internet.
They also waited until the last minute to set up the Internet installations, they ran one of the five ports specifically for the HughesNet, and they ran it to the wrong location, so I had to move my office from my original desired location to the room where they mistakenly ran the port.
On Saturday, as I was waiting for the HughesNet installer - he was an hour late - I reached out to Eric to find out what was going on, and I was told the installer had to cancel. I told him that I would have appreciated being called rather than having to reach out to get this information.
Come to find out the following week, HughesNet couldn't be installed. So one of the ports, the one that was run to the wrong room, wasn't even necessary; they would have known had they planned better and not waited until the last minute to schedule and finalize the install. When I received my bill, I argued that I shouldn't have to pay the $300 for that port since they should have known in advance that it couldn't be used - the response was a $100 discount.
Finally, CenturyLink was supposed to be on beginning Thursday, it didn't work for five days and took a lot of me following up to get it taken care of. I never felt as if they were proactive - I always felt like I had to follow up to get any information.
My complicated install didn't appear to be so complicated after all; my internet needs have been met with the CenturyLink DSL, and I'm able to work from home without the expensive HughesNet install Ace thought I would need.
I was very honest with Eric that I was disappointed, I explained that I felt like their communication left a lot to be desired, and that I believe I would have saved myself a lot of money had I gone to Dish and CenturyLink directly.
I will not be recommending them based on my own experiences. read more