We purchased an RV from the company in 2019 and at the time it was called Blue Dog RV. Our salesman was great, our experience with the service department for maintenance was great, and we were overall pleased with the customer service. We have taken our 5th Wheel in for required maintenance annually since then, as well as for a few issues we had with our rig, and things were taken care of pretty honestly and timely.
Enter BLUE COMPASS RV..the name of the company changed and the whole company went corporate or something, around 2023. Since this change over, customer service has been lost somewhere. We have STILL taken our rig for required maintenance to meet the requirements of our warranty, and for greasing the slides, and fixing the refrigerator and other cosmetic fixes. Our last two experiences with the service department have been rediculous because of a SERIOUS lack of communication on the part of the staff and techs This most recent experience was a SCHEDULED maintenance appointment. We brought our 5th wheel in as scheduled. Week one went by, no acknowledgement that the rig was in the service bay, how many rigs were ahead of ours to be looked at, or time estimates. Week two comes and goes, STILL no phone call or status notification. Week three comes to an end without any contact. As Week four gets underway, I contacted the service department, reaching out to see what was happening and WHY we haven't heard from them. The service department representative indicated they would find out and call me 'right back'. I had to call AGAIN after an hour, and find out from the rep that "the technician has been 'dragging his feet' to get to our rig" and that he'd get right to it". It took three more conversations by phone to get ANY information. Finally, my husband and I went down IN PERSON to the store two days later. Standing in front of the service desk, the rep was on a landline phonecall, but no eye contact was even made that someone was standing at the desk. When the rep got off the phone, they seemed to already know our name, (my husband comes there most of the time with other issues, so he may have been a familiar face) so still said nothing, even as they were on the company mobile phone, apparently letting the technician know we (my husband and myself) were there. We were walked to the service bay area, still in silence, rep was looking for the technician (who was at lunch). All the rep said was that the technician was ALMOST done checking things and that we could pick the rig up the next day. Lots of excuses, and no acknowledgement of our dissatisfaction.
It took almost one full month to do a few hours of maintenance checking, WITH an appointment?? And because WE had to call to get the technician to start the job??
My BIGGEST complaint is COMMUNICATION! There was none! If a department has only one person working in it, I understand a big work load, but then, management should be hiring more people to share the load. Because of this, the carryover to customers is real! Changes need to be made!
We purchased a "Forever Warranty" from this company, so it is only honored here. We did inquire at another RV company to see if we could bring our rig to them for service, but unless we want to pay the difference for the same service, we are stuck. Just in that inquiry, we saw quite a difference in customer service.
I hope Blue Compass reads this review, and will look into some changes in their customer care. read more