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Product was brought in for service on Tues April 5th. Products are serviced in the order in which they come in so timelines are 7-10 working days prior to a product being looked at. If parts are required they are then ordered and placed into the unit. While a supplier may have parts "in stock" purchase orders are not alway placed immediately as shipping costs are incurred on small orders that will sometimes exceed the cost of the part being ordered or in many cases manufacturers have minimum dollar amounts that can be ordered.
In this case the product was examined and parts ere ordered the 19th of April which is 10 working days from when the unit came in. The parts arrived on April 27 at 12:35 pm and were installed on April 27 at 5:28pm. Cust called on April 28 to inquire if unit was ready and was told it was. There had been no call made by CSR's to customer as it had only been repaired the night before.
To this point everthing was done correctly. Where we did fall down was that when the unit was brought up it had not been cleaned properly by the techician. The CSR apologized and brought the unit back down for cleaning. Cust then complained that the sole plate (the bottom of the iron) had not been cleaned but as that is not an area that was serviced and is a consumer cleanable item with a proper sole plate cleaning material it was not done by the tech. There was NO crack on the unit as the customer complained. There is one small scratch below a handle that measures less than 1/4" and is barely visible. At customers insistence we have ordered a housing to correct this at no cost to the customer. We have no way of ascertaining if this happened while in shop but as a courtesy a new cover was ordered. That part coincidentaly has arrived today and will be installed today.
Chadwick's and Hack's receives awards each year for customer service and we pride ourselves on doing the best job we possibly can. While we do our best you cannot please all the people all the time. The best you can do is try. In this case staff bent over backwards to accomodate this consumer, in the face of a customer yelling in the store, threats to write newspaper articles, etc.
When I tried to contact the customer personally on my return from vacation the customer refused to listen and cut me off stating that she did not like my attitude and wanted to "interview me for an article" as she is a freelance writer and wanted to write about her experience.
In this case with the exception of the cleaning not being done properly, and keeping in mind that there was no crack this consumer was taken care of extremely well. Understanding sometimes needs to go both ways and people need to take the time to listen to all sides not just their own.
Thanks very much for your kind words. Our team works very hard to make sure that your experience is a good one! Enjoy your grill.