One bad apple can sure spoil the entire experience. Unfortunately, Pierce RV Great Falls has such a person, apparently the person at the top (unless they have two Weses and one isn't listed on their website or on the employee photos on the wall).
The service advisors, Brian and Rebecca, are wonderful. The techs seem friendly and relatively competent. I have been to Pierce multiple times for an ongoing warranty issue, often spending the entire day while they tried diagnosing and fixing the problem.
However, on my last visit, Wes--who is apparently the manager of the entire location--was aggressively rude and even abusive to me. As a result, they've lost a $100,000-plus sale as I have been looking at a newer model RV and was considering one in their lot (they weren't aware I was potentially interested in it) but in no way will I ever purchase from Pierce, period, after Wes' very inappropriate manner.
Specifically, he crabbed at me that the area where they'd have to work was too dirty. I agreed I hadn't had time to clean as I'd just returned from a long trip in the RV with a number of passengers. I very calmly and nicely said I'd gladly clean it out right then and there, what areas in particular did the techs need? He bitched at me I had to take it to a professional detailer! It was already afternoon, I had a half day's drive to the dealer, and that was beyond a bizarre statement in the first place. I went to the service advisor and asked him what specifically needed to be cleared and he told me--just the floor and counter right around the part they'd be working on. I then easily did some sweeping and wiping down and all was fine. Wes then came out and bitched at me again because I had swept some dirt onto "my pavement." I calmly said I was going to sweep that up, I just needed to get a dust pan. He was not happy.
I went back to the service advisor to ask him to look and see if it was clean/clear enough. He said he'd have to ask Wes. Wes refused to come out and look at it. (I was parked maybe ten steps from his office, at most.) He clearly wanted me gone. (Was the issue that the RV manufacturer who was paying for all the warranty work wasn't reimbursing the dealer enough to Wes' satisfaction? I wonder... Or is that just his personality, shiver!) Wes crabbed to have the tech who was going to work on it look at it. A very nice tech came out and said it was all perfect and took the keys, took it into the shop to work on it. The techs again did satisfactory work, but in no way can I recommend that dealership, period.
Wes is a huge liability for the Pierce set of RV dealerships. Avoid, avoid, avoid! read more