DO NOT work with Tyrone! I would have given this review ZERO stars except that Jose and his son, Chris of Factor Appliance ultimately saved the day and got the work done for me. Thank you Guys!
Tyron is untrustworthy, unreliable and unresponsive. He took my money, never did the job and after offering a refund after dicking me around for over two months, I STILL don't have my money (it's been 7 weeks now). While he comes across as respectful and honest, he continues to force me to chase him down at every turn.
Facts: 3/24/22 he came and diagnosed a broken door seal, was nice and personable, charged me $80 for the service call and told me I had to pay up front for the part and that he would come back when the part arrived (7-14 days). I paid an additional $373.24 via Square on my AmEx and never heard from him again until I had to follow up with him on April 11.
Tyrone responded and indicated to me that he was on vacation and that he would check on the part. I did not hear back from him so I contacted him again a week later on April 18 to try and schedule the work. He said he would call me to schedule but he did not.
After more follow up, I finally got him to commit to doing the work on April 22 and I made arrangements to miss work to meet him. I never heard from him until I followed up again to reconfirm the appointment and that very morning he said he had to reschedule for personal reasons. We rescheduled for April 25 (I made arrangements again to miss work) and again that morning he said he had to reschedule for personal reasons. I was as supportive and respectful and as kind as I could possibly be regarding the personal reason (but was starting to become concerned, PLUS I'd been without a washer for over a month). After more back and forth, he offered me a refund and I accepted and had the work completed by another. Incidentally, Tyrone MISDIAGNOSED the entire problem and the part I paid for wasn't needed. He also BROKE a part on my washer during the assessment process and removed screws and couldn't get one back in place so left it on the floor.
He claims he submitted the refund on 4/26 and I waited for it to show up on my AmEX. I followed up on 5/3 and he said the refund was just processed (sent me a screenshot of the request from that morning). And I waited some more. I followed up again on 5/17 and he said he'd check on it. I had also just submitted a dispute claim with my credit card company. On 5/19 he texted "I received a dispute regarding the charge for your washer repair. I looked into this and found that we attempted to refund you on May 3 but for some reason it failed. We want to get our credit to you as soon as possible. Filing a dispute adds another 7-10 days to the process".
On 5/20 he asked me to cancel my dispute "As soon as we get notification that the dispute is canceled, then your refund will process". I called AmEx to make sure this was a legitimate suggestion, then cancelled the dispute. I sent him a copy of the letter from AmEx indicating the dispute was closed and asked to please process the refund. He said, "I will make sure the refund is released when I return to work on Monday". I followed up that Monday, 5/23 to make sure he processed the refund and he said, "Yes it was." And I waited again!
On Friday, 6/3/22 I followed up again:
"Dear Tyrone, I wanted to let you know that I STILL have not received the refund you originally promised on April 25, then again on May 3 and again on May 23. Each time I have continued to give my credit card company ample time to receive your credit and each time it has failed. Just a heads up that if I do not receive my refund by June 6, I will be filing another dispute claim. I would appreciate you getting this sorted out today. You can PayPal the money back to me if that's easier ($374.23)."
He called me immediately and apologized, then asked for a Venmo contact so he could pay me back. I NEVER heard from him after that.
I reopened my dispute claim, I don't recommend hiring Tyrone. read more