Buyers beware. I do not recommend anyone do business with Watts Heating and Cooling. I'm not sure if they are just unorganized and careless or if they are genuinely trying to rip people off with a Bait and Switch. In 2009 I bought a new home and ordered a new Gas Furnace and AprilAir Heppa Air filter to be installed by Watts. When the technicians installed my new furnace, they had forgotten about the Heppa Air Filter. They had to come back to my house later and had to cut apart my new furnace unit to install the special Heppa filter.
This month, I called Watts for a regular maintenance call and ordered 3 air filters for my unit. The sales associate quoted me a price of $50 per filter. When the technician arrived at my home, he brought the wrong sized filters. He had to leave and come back, but was only able to find 1 correct size. However, he billed me for three filters (at $50) and I paid in full that day. He promised to deliver the other two filters the next week. The next week, the sales associate called me and claimed to have quoted me the wrong price for my filters. They were actually $80 each and she asked me to pay more before they would deliver my other filters. The sales associate claimed that $50 was below their cost and they could not give them to me at that cost. (I now know that this is untrue, as I have done some research online and found the product on Amazon for as low as $23. http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0040VOEKW/ref=sr_1_1_olp?ie=UTF8&qid=1460334568&sr=8-1&keywords=aprilaire+filter+413&condition=new.)
Watts has only delivered two of the three filters I paid for and they refuse to do anything to correct their many many mistakes. Again; not sure if this is just from carelessness or blatant fraud, but I will not be doing business with this company anymore.
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An update on my situation. The owner of the company has reached out to me and has consented to send me the 3rd filter, which is the resolution I was hoping for. Here is a copy of the message the owner sent me.
Elizabeth,
I really apologize for you feeling that the one time in the 7 plus years we have done business your filter order got messed up and you felt the need to tell everyone "buyers Beware"...
We are a good honest company that misquoted over the phone from a fairly new dispatcher, I have invoices that go back to 2010 where you paid $80 for this filter and in 2011 when the filter prices spiked up to $98. We have always been there and provided a good service. I see you got my son on this call and he may have got some communication mixed up and caused some issues with needing to return and wrong sizes. All these numbers are so close from a 201 to a 413 and every size in the middle new and old style and old style that was converted, it is actually easier to do then you think. He has grown up in the industry with me and is finally out doing maintenance as second generation and 22 years old, he will be devastated to know that you will not be doing business with us ever again over a filter and that this type of review just came especially with all the hard work we do to try and prevent this, we are growing and sometimes this happens.
I have gone back and checked the pricing and see that the prices have dropped again on these in the past 6 months and the new price is $68.00 each, they used to cost me$60 each, you can always find things cheaper online and that may be a better option for you on these filters, our HVAC products here in Oregon are about 30% higher than other area's in the US and I have to mark up enough to stock them, put them on the trucks and have them available in our warehouse, this all takes money and resources, but I am sure you understand that we are not going to be able to beat Amazon's price's, nor are we here to compete with them, we provide a service along with our filters.
I will send you another filter so that you get what we quoted you as long as you give us one more chance to make things right, we strive to get better and I will take this opportunity to help us improve. I am sorry for the incontinence and sorry you felt like you had to warn the world about us. I would have no problem if you purchased the filter from Amazon and we installed it when we were there for maintenance, that works for some people and may work best for you..
Please don't hesitate to call me if you need or want to, I left you a VM already.
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