Stick to appliances with them. I'm giving two stars for the two good experiences I had using them for Miele vacuum overhauls at work. I'm really unhappy with how they handled my recent stereo repair, and my receiver still has the same problem I brought it in with $80 later.
The volume knob has been turning down by itself for years now. It's the only thing wrong with it and I don't want to replace it just for that, plus I'm sentimentally attached. Called Expert Center, was assured they can repair stereo parts.
Lug the thing in from my house (it's big, it's heavy, I am neither.) Only when I get there do they tell me that "it might take two weeks." Okay, no problem, I am not in a hurry.
Two weeks later, I call to check. "Our guy had personal problem. Next week he come in. I call you." No call back.
Call the following week. "He's looking at it today. I call you." No call back.
Call the following week after that, this is a full month after I have dropped it off with them. I'm ready to take it off their hands, get my $20 assessment fee back and bring it to the Gowanus Fixers Collective which happens to be meeting that night! But no, "the guy" has apparently been in that very day, all it needs is a new belt, do I approve the repair? Yes I do. When will it be ready? "I call you." No call back.
Another week later, I call, the repair is supposedly complete. I go, pay the remaining $50, lug the amp home. When I get around to hooking it back up to the stereo system, the knob turns itself right back down! Not fixed! I call Expert Center, the guy will not refund my money without looking at the machine, I lug it all the way back to the store and show him a video I made on my ipod touch of the knob still turning itself down. "We fix it, I call you." No call back.
A week later, I call, the re-repair is supposedly complete. The new belt was not threaded properly and slipped off somehow. They have offered to deliver it to my apartment, which is a nice offer, we schedule a time in the evening after I get home from work. I leave work early and rush home, I call them, now suddenly they are unable to bring it to me that night, we must reschedule for the following Monday.
I call the following Monday and we schedule the delivery. I then am told the following statement, which I consider highly suspect:
"I looked at it myself, it worked perfectly. If it does it again when you set it up at home, the guy said it is a problem with your system, like a short in one of the wires or something like that."
I asked if they had reproduced the problem in the shop when I brought it in the first time, and he said yes. So how is that a problem with my system?
Of course when I hooked it back up the volume knob turned itself right back down.
Even if the problem is a short in my wire somewhere, I think it's pretty crappy that I never got a call back in the whole two months it took them to not do my repair. read more