Prescott Auto Body at 1635 Iron Springs Road in Prescott needs a lesson in communication. My daughter needed some repair for her car and Prescott Auto Body was recommended and she received a quote from them as well as several others. She asked if they would include a small area of touch up around the rear license plate and the estimator agreed to do it at no extra cost. The person who hit my daughter's car wanted to pay cash for the repairs and Prescott Auto was a little less cost than the other quotes and agreed to do the touch up so she selected Prescott Auto and to help the person paying. I was able to get a rental car at my work cheaper to help the person out as well.
We dropped the car off on a Wed and was told it would be about 5 days to repair. My daughter received a call two days later on Friday late in the afternoon between 4:00 - 5:00pm and was told her car was ready and to come in to pay for it. My daughter told the person calling that she and her family was in a wedding rehearsal about an hour away and would not be able to make it in that late in the day. The person was taken back and told her to pay for it and would arrange for the car to be picked up on Sat, otherwise the shop was closed on Sat and Sun. We wanted to see the car first before it was paid for and than would have to contact the person, who wanted to write a check, to come by the shop to pay for it. By the time we could do all this it would have been getting very late into Friday evening, not to mention having to leave our planned evening. My daughter said she would be in on Monday.
When we arrived Monday we noticed that the touch up paint was not completed and we asked about it and was told by the estimator that because we did not mention the touch up to the person we dropped the car off with is the reason they did not do it. (I did not think we were to do their scheduling for them). Than they said there was going to be a cost to do the touch up. OK , which one was it? At that point I knew this was going no where and let it go.
The party paying for it arrived and the first thing the person who was collecting the money said was that the car was ready on Friday and should not pay for the extra rental days.
I became upset (not yelling or screaming, just upset), and said it is not my fault for your lack of communication and they have no business saying that. I was than asked to leave the office.
Of course after the person paid and came out of the office, agreed with them and I ended up paying for a portion of the rental. Just a simple call early on Friday or even early afternoon that they were running ahead of schedule and that the car were be ready Friday evening, I could of made some kind of arrangements to get the car on Friday or Sat and could have avoided the drama.
I understand no business is perfect but it is how they handle issues and communicate to the customer that separates the fair from the great compamies. Prescott Auto Body comes in near the bottom on this one. read more