I would absolutely NOT recommend this organization as they false advertise their products and then do not make good when there are issues. The below was part of an email that I had sent to the owner, Tony, who said there was nothing he was willing to do to make good. Just poor customer service and follow through.
As a small business owner in a very competitive space, I thought I would share some open and honest feedback with you to be helpful. My wife and I came to your store where we met Bob and he took us through your product offerings. In fact, we had the opportunity to meet you that visit and I was pleased at what a professional organization you have built. We went through the process of picking out the cabinets, colors, types of inserts and layout with Bob and we were provided with a time frame on how long the cabinets would take once we signed the agreement. Per Bob's direction, we were told that anything standard from J&K Cabinetry would take approximately 2 weeks. We were told that anything custom from Countryside would take approximately 4 weeks (double the time frame). We used two different types of cabinets (standard white cabinets from J&K and custom color cabinets and hood from Countryside). The sequence of events were then as follows:
3/19 - We signed the agreement/contract on March 19, 2018 and will be happy to forward the documentation on that if needed.
5/14 - On May 14, 2018 we were sent an email that said they would give us a 48 hour update on May 21, 2018
5/21 - We were told on May 21, 2018 that the cabinets would be delivered on May 24, 2018.
5/24 - No cabinets were delivered
5/25 - Cabinets were delivered (with many damaged pieces as well as broken glass pieces)
5/30 - Cabinets were installed by carpenter
7/20 - Vent hood over range top still not installed due to no insert/blower
So, to recap, we were told 2 weeks for the J&K cabinets and 4 weeks for the Countryside cabinets/hood and the process ended up taking approximately 10 weeks (not to mention that the hood is still not installed due to the vent/blower issue).
I work in sales and run a rather large sales team for a major media organization, so, I am the first one to understand and agree that "shit happens" and sometimes things are late. In fairness, it is one thing to be a week or two late but to be more than 4-6 weeks late (double the projected time frame) is another and just not acceptable. I believe we were sold a product with an unrealistic time frame in order to secure the business. As I said earlier in the email, it is a very competitive space so we looked at a number of vendors before making this decision.
Then we have the issue of our hood/vent where I have a contractor, cabinet representative and an appliance person all pointing fingers at each other and I am left with no functioning hood/vent approaching almost 20 weeks now. Everyone wants to lay blame but no one is providing acceptable solutions to get this rectified in a timely manner. So, as I think you might agree, it is frustrating as the consumer who has spent well over $15K on this kitchen.
So, as I noted earlier, I am in sales and understand that issues can happen during the course of a project. In my profession, clients ask me for a make good when things go wrong as what they agreed to was not fulfilled. I certainly do my best to mitigate those make goods but reputations are at stake and in competitive environments, reputation is everything. I think we need to discuss what a make good could look like as a 4-6 week delay cost me a lot of money based on not having a kitchen in place for breakfast, lunch and dinner. For a family of five people, it gets very expensive to feed that many people with no kitchen (over $4K-$5K of expense at minimum). So, I would like to get an understanding from you on how you would like to resolve this situation so I can walk away a happy customer and share with my network how great of a process it was working with you and your team. read more