It is now the afternoon of the day before my current scheduled delivery date. I called a little earlier and no one will will tell me the estimated time of the delivery tomorrow. I mentioned that this delivery has had a troubled history and customer relations phones have "escalated" this ticket and issued apologies, etc. I asked if there's any possible way for them to just confirm the delivery time now. They said no. One guy from a call center said they'll contact me at around 6 pm to 9 pm... I'm pretty sure if no one calls by that time I won't be able to reach anyone to find out why...
I read the other reviews on this site and felt extremely uneasy about the chances the delivery and installation being successful tomorrow.
I wrote the following e-mail to consumerrelations@pacificsales.com:
Dear Pacific Sales Consumer Relations:
I am writing to sincerely plead that you take a moment to make sure that your team successfully deliver and install my dishwasher tomorrow. I really do not want anymore sincere apologies. In fact, I hope that I would be the one who sincerely apologizes to you for complaining after you've shamed me with your impeccable and timely dishwasher installation. I humbly beg that you make one final effort to make sure that my ticket is cleared so you can get me out of your hair for good.
My phone number is XXX-XXX-XXXX if you need to look up my order number. It is scheduled to be delivered tomorrow, Wednesday November 11, 2015. I just got off the phone with your installation team and with XPO, both confirming that it is scheduled for delivery and installation tomorrow, but who both will not give me a specific time. They said I will be given a time this evening, when no one can be reached to correct any scheduling errors that may have been made.
This is my 4th re-scheduled date. I believe the troubled history of this purchase is well documented at this point. Despite the numerous "escalations" of this matter to rectify the various scheduling errors, I am still met with the same apathy and lack of accountability from the numerous departments in charge of delivery and installation. Despite various open tickets on this issue, you still refuse to give me a delivery time until the evening before the scheduled date.
Please, please make sure that the dishwasher is delivered and installed successfully tomorrow. I have wasted too much of my time already accommodating your scheduling failures. Please make sure the dishwasher is picked up and ready for delivery tomorrow. Please make sure that they call me today as soon as possible on the time frame of delivery. In fact, it'd be great if they would just schedule it now and call me right now. Please make sure that the installers have all the necessary parts to complete the install. I beg of you to please make an effort now to inform your legion of different departments to ensure that this 4th scheduled date finally goes off without a hitch.
At this point I have no faith in your company, your contractors, partners, and whoever comprise of your business. I expect that someone in your chain will make a mistake of some sort that will cause more frustrations tomorrow. I fully expect the wrong dishwasher was picked up, or if it was damaged in some way en route, or the installer left his screw driver at home, etc. I can totally see me posting this email on facebook/twitter/yelp and bragging about how I can see the future.
Please prove me wrong and make me look like a jackass for writing this email. Please make sure the installation goes off so flawlessly that I'll be shamed into deleting all my Yelp reviews. Please, please just get this thing done so we can all move on with our lives. It would be a consumer relations victory if you take a proactive step to assuage my concerns and just completely nail this one installation. You can even write me back later after your installation victory to claim that no extra effort was taken on my case because every Pacific Sales gives 110% effort to every customer. I'd admit that I was wrong and you've been right all along. Please, please just get this done.
Sincerely,
Daniel
So, Joel L., what's it going to be? Are you going to make me eat crow? read more