Ferguson's has a beautiful showroom and they carry a good selection of high-end kitchen appliances including Viking, Wolf, etc.
That was the good news.
The bad news:
This is one of the most disorganized businesses from which I've purchased merchandise. In addition, an understanding of good customer service is missing.
In early December my husband and I bought a $6,000 Viking range from them. It was received in their warehouse by December 11, 2015. When we paid for it, I asked if it could be installed by Christmas.
The MAJOR pushback started immediately: "We've had turnover with our installer, don't know what I can do, we're understaffed, there's only me and one other person manning this whole showroom "
We didn't hear from our salesman for a week ... two weeks.
We called and left voicemails asking for an update. No response.
Christmas came and went. The week after Christmas, I called again, left a voicemail, got no response. I called the back office and spoke with a man who was CLEARLY still on Christmas vacation. He was extremely sloppy in both his thinking and his communication. I began to get mad. He said he'd research my order and try to find out what was going on. He assured me I would get a call later that day.
I did. From Danielle, who is one of the two people "manning the showroom". She said the other person, David Bryant, was still on holiday and wouldn't be back untill the following week. She could not get into his computer to determine what he did with our order. She gave the same litany of excuses we heard from David weeks earlier about why they could not get our new range installed in a timely and efficient manner.
Apparently Ferguson's does not have a centralized automated CRM system that includes orders; thus, there is no real communication between those who are trying to provide customer service.
There was no alternative but to wait ... and wait ... and wait.
On January 3, 2016, I got a call from David. He was very excited and said a rare and unexpected opening had occurred with their installer for Wednesday afternoon, January 5. David said he could have our new stove delivered sometime Wednesday morning. He said the installer would call that day (Monday, January 3) to let us know when he could be at our house.
We did not receive a call from the installer. (As it turned out David's story was apparently bogus because he did not call the installer until the morning of Wednesday, January 5 to schedule the installation.)
I was awakened at 7:50AM by the doorbell. Standing on our front porch was a very nice deliveryman who said he had a stove to deliver from Ferguson's. He seemed surprised that we didn't know he'd be delivering it before 8AM.
How could we? David did not communicate that.
I called David to let him know we had the stove but that we had not heard from the installer the afternoon before as he had said we would. For the FIRST time, David actually answered his direct line and I did not need to leave a voice mail.
I asked David for the installer's name and phone number. He seemed flustered, but gave me the name of Todd Giger. He didn't give me a cell phone number saying he only communicated with him by email. Odd, in today's world ...
In very short order I got a call from Todd, who is an excellent communicator: Clear, to-the-point, factual, organized. He said he'd just gotten a call from Ferguson's asking him to install our range that afternoon and that he'd be there between 2PM and 4PM. Todd called twice during his day to give us an update on his actual arrival time. Todd and his co-worker arrived when they promised. They were obviously expert at installing Viking ranges. They went right to work only to discover there was no power cord and one burner cap was missing.
This is now January 6, 2016. Todd used the power cord from our outgoing range so the stove was installed. We have been on the phone with no less than FOUR people this morning trying to get the missing parts.
They wanted us to wait another 5 to 7 days. My husband explained they needed to get the missing parts for us today. He is driving over there to pick them up.
Can you BELIEVE this????
It gets better, folks. Fast forward to June, 2016:
Our $6,000 Viking stove stopped working. Well, to be precise the oven stopped working THREE WEEKS AGO. It's a faulty motherboard. Apparently, even though this is a common occurrence, no one keeps an inventory of motherboards.
I am very disappointed in Ferguson's and with Viking.
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