3PD - 3 Painful Deliveries
After botching delivery twice, we finally got our washing machine that we ordered 18 days ago. What a nightmare!
My wife called the Dedham store specifically to order a washing machine from a human rather on online....ya know, should there be any customer service related questions or helpful hints. The woman she spoke with did not ask any questions when taking the order for our new front-loading washing (I see you're ordering a front-loading machine and would like us to remove the old unit. Is there a dryer stacked on top of your current washer? Does that dryer happen to be gas? If so, you will need a plumber to disconnect the gas as it is illegal (we later found out) for our delivery team to do it. Those would have been the right questions to ask! But alas, the 3PD delivery team from Lowe's shows up with the new washer and can't install it. They graciously offered to put it back on the truck where it potentially could be sold out from underneath us....even though we already paid for it? No thanks. Put it in the basement for now.
Flash forward a week. The gas dryer has now been disconnected and it's time to reschedule that washer installation. I call 3PD toll-free hell hotline and after holding for 5 minutes get a woman who can't wait to get me off the phone. I attempt to explain the circumstances of our failed delivery/installation, but she keeps cutting me off. I finally have to interrupt her and say, "I am trying to explain this to you, will you please let me finish my sentence!" She doesn't, really. But I end the conversation feeling mildly confident she understands the washer has been delivered, but not installed. Boy was I wrong...
My wife leaves early for work to be available for the afternoon delivery....and no one shows up. She calls 3PD to find out that "Well, no one came by, because there wasn't a washer on the truck." You've got to be F'n kidding me! I can't wait for the day when they invent phones portable enough to carry them around in your pocket should situations arise where you might need to call a customer and ask a question!
So at this point, I call Lowe's appliance dept. where I get connected to German, the Manager. Great guy. Smart, courteous, very apologetic, and does everything he can to help rectify the situation. I feel for this guy. Surrounded by incompetence, probably has to either do most things himself or end up fixing everyone else's mistakes. Anyway, he and I figure out a way to retro-fit the current dryer stacking kit that's on the existing washer to the new machine so that the dryer will stack securely. Not rocket science, but he even went so far as to call Frigidaire for compatibility and email me pictures of parts. Great. Now back in the arthritic hands of 3PD.
Schedule a 3rd delivery attempt (I now know where they get their name) for Tues 6/17 between 2-4pm. 2pm rolls around, not here. No biggie, probably aren't gonna be early. 3pm, still nothing, but they have an hour. 4pm....and they blew it again! Call 3PD again to find out that they are on their way. Thank God!
Installation goes pretty smoothly. The lead guy forgot that he put his paperwork in the machine so that got a good wash when he tested it out, but other than that all is good.
Now the coup de grace....3PD's number (which I now know by heart, by the way) pops up on my phone. Its a customer satisfaction survey! "Press 5 for Completely Satisfied, Press 1 if Not Satisfied At All. Again 5 being Completely Satisfied, 1 being......"
Call ended.
3PD - so incompetent, we can't even get our automated satisfaction survey right!
Botom line, would I shop at Lowe's again....probably. But you better be damn sure it'll be for something I can pick up myself!!! read more