James C Jan 5, 2011
On March 18, 2010 I purchased a Brother MFC-225W and the salesperson was quite pleasant. After some thought I took out a four year extended warranty because myself and a friend were informed by doing so, the four year warranty would start immediately, and it would override the manufactures warranty. In the case of any problems with the printer all I had to do was take it back to the store and they would exchange it if it was too much to fix it.
I called and spoke with a service technician, and he informed me to bring it into the store and they would send it to their repair shop, and if it's not fixable an
exhange would take place. So I went to Best Buy right away, and what I am about to say has been of a poor experience.
However, yesterday Jan 4, 2011, I took the printer in for repairs, as the black inkwell would not work unless if I put it through a manual cleaning when ever I wanted to print a page or two.
While standing at customer service I was informed it was still under the manufacturers warranty and the warranty I paid for was uselss. A total different story than what I was told upon purchasing the printer. After speaking with some friends, they too have been told the same story as I was when they purchased a product there in regards to the warranties.
After about a good 1/2 hour debating this, with girl, she finally called Brother in Montreal and was put on hold for at least another 15'.
Brother's did not want to be honourable and stand behind their warranty.
After a period of time, I took the phone and spoke to this individual who was not a people person to deal with such issues.
After some negotiations over the phone, and giving the guy my personal information over the phone he agreed to exchange this printer with a MFCJ465W. We repeated this number four times back and forth after the girl wrote it down. Then he requested that I send him a copy of my receipt and an agreement that I would accept this new printer, by faxing it so the shipments of exchange would be activated immediately. He also stated that Brothers would cover all shipping costs.
I ask the girl if she was going to fax him the copy, and she said she would do the search via Brothers site to get the fax number and follow through faxing as promised. Now all this took place over one hour of my time, and I was late for my appointed that I had.
He informed me he would call UPS to call me this morning to set up a time to pick this old printer up. So in the afternoon I called UPS to inquire and see if an order for a shipment was initiated, of course, there was none put in. Furthermore, when I got home I thought I would go into Brothers site and check up on this new printer he said he would send, well folks there was nothing in the internet about this machine, so I guess it is a machine that is a ghost somewhere, but where. There is no printer under the numbers he gave me.
So WARNING TO ALL CUSTOMERS, be aware that selling promises are very deceptive, and the warranties mean nothing. If the warranty would of started, as promised, the day I purchased this machine, there would of been no problem, but I became a victim of deception through this stores manipulative ways in selling warranties.
I asked the girl if my warranty that I paid for will carry on after this episode and she said it would, but time will tell.
Now I am out of a printer that is needed badly.
Very disappointed. read more