TLDR: Insisted on unnecessary, over $200 repair that they were unable to carry out and instead broke my dishwasher so that it now leaks and the door pops open during the cycle. Acted all proud of themselves for refunding me the repair costs while costing me additional hundreds of dollars on a dishwasher that was working perfectly well before they showed up (except for a loose screw in the bottom panel at the floor) and now has to be replaced. Refused to stay to observe the problem, promising to come right back if called, then didn't. Appear to have lied to receive personal banking information.
Full review: A screw just plain fell out of a panel they removed to replace the door springs on my dishwasher a couple of years ago, so I thought I better call them to make sure there wasn't a bigger problem. They came out, said the problem was just the screw and screwed it back in, then insisted that my gasket was too old and if I didn't replace it immediately (for over $200), my dishwasher would start leaking soon, and I needed to do the repair to prolong my dishwasher's longevity. After they replaced the gasket, the door started popping open during the dishwasher cycle. So they sent a guy out to fix it (who said he had been spending all day fixing the other guy's mistakes), and after he "fixed" it, the door didn't pop open but the dishwasher leaked all over the floor. When he came back to "fix" it again, he didn't start the dishwasher to observe the leak before adjusting the gasket and didn't check to see if the leak was fixed when he was done. Instead, he started the dishwasher then said he had to leave to do other things, but if it started to leak again, we should call him and he'd come back. It started to leak about 10 minutes after he left, and we called him, but he did not come back that day. After he left, not only did it still leak, but the door started popping open during the cycle again and wouldn't stay closed, so I had to stand there for the entire second half of the cycle pushing against the door so it could stay closed and finish the cycle. The next time he came out, he acted like it was our fault the dishwasher was broken because we believed the first guy and went ahead with the recommended repair. He said that he would never recommend replacing a gasket because he could never get dishwashers to work right afterwards. Again, he adjusted the gasket without running the dishwasher and then did not stay to see whether the leak was resolved, saying we should call and he'd come back if there was a leak again, and again blew us off when we called him because it started leaking worse than it had before.
The office refunded me the money for the repair after the third time, and when we called them to tell them that we needed the leak repaired and the repair guy kept refusing to stay to see the leak, they acted all annoyed with us like we were inconveniencing them because they had had to go through the trouble of sending their guy out multiple times and told us that, since they had refunded our money, they were done with us. I was not impressed that they didn't charge me for breaking my dishwasher, which now will cost me hundreds of dollars to replace.
Another disturbing thing about our experience was that the first guy who came out tried to insist I give him a paper check. When I said that I remembered paying them with a credit card before, he told me his card reader was broken. I was getting a weird vibe off the interaction that made me not want to give him a check with my account number on it, so I told him that I would give him my credit card number and he could run it when he got back to the office. Lo and behold, out comes the card reader, he says he'll give it another try, and my card goes through on the first try - it was working fine. The next time he came out, he tried to insist I give him a check again because he said his card reader was out of power. I told him he was welcome to plug it in to recharge it. He gave me a hangdog look and said, "But it's in my truck," and then just stared at me. I looked back at him and said, "okay." He stared at me for a while before he said, "I'll go get it?" I said, "great," and when he came back a couple of minutes later, he said he couldn't charge it because he couldn't plug it in because he didn't have a plug adapter. I gave him one to borrow. When he plugged it in, there was no delay for the machine to charge up - it worked immediately and he read my card, which is not generally what happens when a device is out of power. I'm not sure why he kept trying to get access to my paper check, but it's concerning. read more