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I am a small business owner who works with oils and Shea Butters, so having good air conditioning to keep them from melting is super important.
Last year we went by the reviews we had read, which seemed good, and hired A All to fix our commercial AC. Tyler told me that the internal blower motor had broken and it cost $1800 to fix. It was a 98-degree week so I said yes, and had it fixed. The reason I bring this up now is that I think I was ripped off last year.
This is why I believe this to be true:
Our AC relay was tripped because the fire marshall was here at our building, which is commercial and residential, and had to shut things off before his tests. I called A All and they said it could only be fixed manually so they came, spent 5 minutes, and charged me $398. That was 2 weeks ago. Bad enough.
The next day the AC went off again, and when A All came back, they said that the relay switch was burning out, and although they bypassed it we needed a new one and they would order it.
Then this past Saturday the AC would not kick on for 2 hours and we had a call in. It went back on so we cancelled the call. Then Monday AM, there was no air conditioning. I put a call in and 4 hours later no one had shown up yet. I called back and I was told that one of the vans had broken and the other guy had an emergency so the tech was going to come on Tues morning. Seriously, we felt like we were shoved to the side.
Robert shows up on Tues. morning and tells us that the AC compressor is shot and we need a new one. We didn't even ask if we still needed a new switch. We told them to get us an estimate. We had not heard a word by Wednesday afternoon which I found strange.
Meanwhile, we called 2 other HVAC companies to come give estimates for a
Last year we went by the reviews we had read, which seemed good, and hired A All to fix our commercial AC. Tyler told me that the internal blower motor had broken and it cost $1800 to fix. It was a 98-degree week so I said yes, and had it fixed. The reason I bring this up now is that I think I was ripped off last year.
This is why I believe this to be true:
Our AC relay was tripped because the fire marshall was here at our building, which is commercial and residential, and had to shut things off before his tests. I called A All and they said it could only be fixed manually so they came, spent 5 minutes, and charged me $398. That was 2 weeks ago. Bad enough.
The next day the AC went off again, and when A All came back, they said that the relay switch was burning out, and although they bypassed it we needed a new one and they would order it.
Then this past Saturday the AC would not kick on for 2 hours and we had a call in. It went back on so we cancelled the call. Then Monday AM, there was no air conditioning. I put a call in and 4 hours later no one had shown up yet. I called back and I was told that one of the vans had broken and the other guy had an emergency so the tech was going to come on Tues morning. Seriously, we felt like we were shoved to the side.
Robert shows up on Tues. morning and tells us that the AC compressor is shot and we need a new one. We didn't even ask if we still needed a new switch. We told them to get us an estimate. We had not heard a word by Wednesday afternoon which I found strange.
Meanwhile, we called 2 other HVAC companies to come give estimates for a new compressor. I figured it would be thousands so I had to get more than one. When the first company told me that I did not need a new compressor, I was shocked and thought that maybe he didn't catch the problem.
So I let the other company show up as well. He confirmed what the other guy said, but went further to tell us that the unit looked sabotaged. That was his word, not ours. The air filters had been removed and the strapping on the installation had been removed so that the piece would be sucked up against the unit and most likely burn the entire thing out.
We were livid needless to say. He then told us that it is unfortunately a common thing, especially when it involves a commercial unit where the tenant (me) most likely is not going up on the roof to inspect. He fixed what had been broken and charged me $369.33!
Before I let A All know what I had been told, let alone that it had been fixed, I called to get the estimated price for the new unit. I had to wait an hour and that I would get a callback with the price. No call. So I called back and waited to speak with Tyler. Neither he nor Robert would get on the phone after the assistant told me the price. She said it was going to be $4800 for a new compressor, labor, and installation.
So knowing that the compressor is perfectly fine as per 2 other HVAC companies, I now believe they were going to take my money and not even replace the "broken" one. They would have just restrapped, refiltered, and rewired like the other guy and pretended they did a whole new one.
STAY AWAY FROM THIS RIPOFF!!