Please do yourself a favor and stay away. My husband convinced me to go with Sargents, he felt he would get small business reciprocity, we would give our business and they would deliver customer service. We are coming up on a year and it couldn't be further from the truth.
We purchased a Kitchenaid Suite, Refr, Dwh, Double Oven, Down Draft Fan, Beverage Cooler, and Induction Cooktop. The Sales guy William was great. That's where the customer service ends.
Fast forward 7 months and my downdraft is not working, I call Sargents to understand steps to make an appointment and the office girl Patty says she will handle and have someone call me. 2 weeks pass and no call, so I call Patty back she attempts to track down and then tells me that kitchenaid doesn't have anyone to come to my home in Leonard (20 min north of the store) she then tells me to find a service provider and the manufacturer will reimburse me for the labor and upto $100 in parts. ( for a downdraft fan i bought from them that is still under 1 yr manufacturers warranty).
she the pulls in her manager, and fast forward 2 months they have a guy at my home to install a new unit. But he is not comfortable doing that so he leaves it with me. I have my remodeler install the new unit, and i go to sargents for reimbursement, they offer to reimburse me for part of the reinstall ( still waiting on the check). they also would send someone out to pick it up, i had to take the down draft to them and in the process reinjured my back. ( still waiting on the check).
in the meantime, my dishwasher rack has becoming very noisy and i reached out to sargents, again i had to make 2 calls to get them to set up an appointment with their TV and appliance repair guy, the guy comes out for 5 minutes, confirms the issue, and tells me since they did not install it, we will need to uninstall it so he can put in a new rack mechanism. when i talk to Patti, the manager at sargents she offers to check on it, and call me the next day, she also mentions that the downdraft i just returned in 2/2020 - their records show them returning to inventory in 11/2019, and i wonder if the "2019 loss" translated into raised prices. Patti never called the day she could she called the day after and really had no answer, told me she talked to the service manager and he had thoughts around why the technician would need me to uninstall my dishwasher, why they could not, I asked, did he talk to the tech, her response was no.. he had not, followed by more rhetoric. and self hubris, telling me that she was doing me a service. and that I should call the service company. I challenged her on that since she provided no real answer, her response, its a service, i asked her is telling me to pay for repairs on my downdraft that was under warranty a service, if so, I would be looking elsewhere for appliances i need for a second home, she responded with ok thank you and hung up on me. Its been a few hours and I have tracked down someone at kitchenaid/whirlpool who has told me Nicki never should have told me to contact the service providers without talking to them, they had no record of my issue with my dishwasher, and in pulling out my paperwork, my warranty expires tomorrow.. Something a real customer service manager should have shared, by indicating that if i choose a different provider, be cognizant of my warranty date.
She is not interested in a return customer/revenue. But rather her self importance of what she feels is good customer service, what she fails to understand is that if shes not aligned with her customers as other reviews here suggest.. she will be losing many of them.
Shes more concerned to tell you that she makes enough money now as a manager to pay for things that she needs and all she has to do is baby sit her staff
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