This company does poor quality work, the owner is a rude, narcissistic, and condescending prick…read more He also admitted to committing FRAUD on my phone call with him
My AC unit was installed by Metro 7ish yrs ago (before I bought the place), the compressor died this week, so I had a couple companies come look at it, including Metro. The service guy was nice and answered my questions and then he came back about an hour later with a quote.
He said you're in luck the compressor is under warranty, but we need to charge you $2500-$2800 for installation. I asked what installation entailed and he told me about 3.5-4 hours of work and I said ok that seems like a lot and he says it's "for our expertise"
The unit is supposed to last roughly 15 years per the service tech so it made it less than half, which is obviously frustrating for me
I call the owner and say that labor rate seems high, he basically starts yelling at me right away and telling me I don't know anything, etc... I said, "look I'm just trying to have a discussion here. Your tech said the total cost is based on labor (which I assume is marked up to cover overhead), he says "you're an idiot you don't know what you're talking about, it's expensive to run a business etc.... If you don't like it go elsewhere, you don't know anything about quality work"
Mind you this is after they installed an AC unit at my condo that failed at less than half the life they expected.
I said, "look you guys have this under warranty so I don't want to go elsewhere, but I want to end up at a reasonable labor number"
This is where he admits to fraud "it's not under warranty, I just know how to fudge the numbers to the manufacturer to make it look like it's under warranty, if you don't like the price then go elsewhere"
He clearly is trying to jack up his price because he knows he has the leverage and I can't get it for less due to the warranty fraud, but whatever at that point I just say "fine can you guys do it at the quoted amount" and he goes off and tells me "no, you're not worthy of our services. We're not doing any business with fucking idiots like you"
At this point I'm obviously pissed off and I'm sure I said some not nice things and he hangs up on me. I call back after cooling off because at this point I just want my AC to work. I say look things got heated, I haven't had AC for 4 days, can you guys please come and fix the unit at the quoted price and then he lies and says they don't have anyone available.
Do not do business with this company. They deserve to go under. They do shoddy work, abuse leverage in negotiations with their customers, they're rude, arrogant, condescending, and commit fraud.
And as I've already said, they aren't even good at what they do based purely off the results of said work that I experienced
I ended up paying more to just put in a new AC with a different company because by the end of it, I had lost all confidence in their previous work and wanted to make sure that my AC would work for years to come
If I was a supplier/OEM that deals with Metro I would have them investigated for fraud. I will be reaching out to the OEMs and reporting the fraud to their Executive Teams.