Terrible! Add me to the list of unhappy customers of PS! Never had service this poor in my life!
Saturday started fine enough, delivery man calls me tells me he's on the way. Gets to my place at 1:00 p.m. and tells me I need a 5/8" gas shut off valve installed before they can put in my stove/range. Immediately I call a plumber (as he suggested) who says he can come in an hour. I run out to tell the delivery guy this and ask if they can come back in an hour. He says no and I'll have to reschedule.
Plumber shows up at 2:15 and I call PS to make sure I get the right part. Speak to Jean (who sold me the range), who passes me off to Mike, who tells the plumber all I need is a half inch gas line installed (which I'd already paid $29.99 for as part of their "installation kit."), not a shut off valve. So the plumber installs the line as instructed because he didn't want to waste a trip and charges me $50.00 since it's a weekend.
Mike tells me there are no more "emergency" deliverymen available to come back because he tried 3 hours ago and none were free. 3 hours ago?! I tell him why don't you check now and get back to me because I do not want to wait until WEDNESDAY. He never calls me back, so I call Jean who tells me she'll check and call me back. She calls back at 6 p.m. to tell me Mike (I guess he was afraid to call me himself since I was so irate.) did try, but Wednesday is still the earliest delivery date. Wonderful...
So, let's recap...
1) Wasted a Saturday waiting for delivery. And now I have to take time off from work on Wednesday so they can do the job.
2) Paid $50 for a gas line that I'd already paid $30 for, so I'm out an extra $20.
3) Neither Mike, Jean nor Pacific Sales offered any compensation for my time or money spent.
4) Only dealing with them because my wife really liked the stove/range. After Wednesday never again!
5) If they send the same delivery guy on Wednesday I will be sure the tear him a new one!
Oh, yeah, I'm in a townhouse of 7 units so I called my neighbor who had a stove put in from PS a few months ago. He tells me he did not need to replace his shut off valve and everything went fine. I guess he was one of the lucky ones, because I sure wasn't.
Follow up: Delivery man shows up at 7:40 a.m. (so I leave work to meet him) and tells me why I need a 5/8" shut off valve put in, it's because my stove has a 5/8" connection. I tell him that Mike at the office said a half inch would be fine and Jean said to call her if there are any problems. One big problem, store isn't open until 10 a.m.!
Delivery man tells me half inch will work (just not as strong a flame obviously), but he can't/won't install it. I ask if he can at least help me so I can do the install.
I get behind the stove to make the connections and ask if he can push it closer so I can connect the line. He pushes it toward me, pesters me to sign some papers and leaves. In the meantime I am still wedged behind the stove and have to move it out myself to get out! Oh, and he leaves my front door and front gate open all the time I'm stuck behind the stove. (Glad I put my dog was outside and my 2-year old wasn't running around.) Great customer service, huh?
To add insult to injury, I get a call at work asking to do a survey about the install. I start to tell the lady about what happened, but she keeps cutting me off and puts me on hold! Incredible! I did call back later and left a message saying if they wanted to continue the survey. Never heard back. Guess they don't want to know how they can improve.
NOTE: I forwarded my concerns to their corporate and they extended my warranty and the Pasadena manager did include a 5/8" line for free yesterday for all my trouble, so they did try to make things right. Oh, and in case anyone was wondering, the half inch line is working just fine for us. read more