I never complain. I'm afraid of Karma. I'm a restaurant owner, I realize I am an open target if someone is dissatisfied, so it takes a lot for me to complain about someone else. But in this case, they deserve all the bad rap they get.
I bought sliding doors for my restaurant, and I even bought french doors for my home. I spent well over $20k. The amount I spent should not have any bearing on anything, but since they have no concern for customer satisfaction, I felt I needed to mention this.
READ ALL THESE REVIEWS!!! The complaints are valid, their ratings are extremely low, their customer service is virtually non existent. Everything you're reading is accurate. I even demanded talking to the owner, Avi, after I got ignored for a week straight on emails and texts and left messages to Jennyfer at the Panda company. Avi is a good talker, but cuts you off in the middle of a sentence and I got absolutely no where with him. He gave me his cell #. Within the week I had to call him 3 times. My last message to him, was "Why bother giving me your cell # if you never return my calls" He's never returned any! I don't see these guys staying in business too long. and YES, most of the employees I come in contact with share that same common thread... they all are looking for better opportunities.
AWFUL EXPERIENCE!!! I signed up on November 14, 2016 for french doors for my home. Today should be the last call these crooks make to finalize this NIGHTMARE of a project.
Wish I would have checked the reviews first.
So for starters: REALLY??? 5 months for french doors. Wish I would have gone to Weiland doors instead. I have had to deal with excuses, scheduling and basically I had to call George every Wednesday to see if he was going to come over to complete the job. George was my main contact (contractor) and communication throughout this whole episode. He was at the mercy of where Panda was scheduling him and most of the time they just pulled him off my job to send him out of town. This, in part, was why it took 5 months to install a french door.
A few months back I could not lock my door. The alarm was not reinstalled (because the construction was incomplete). So in order to leave the house I had to rig my door and push a table against the door so my wife and I could go to work. They sent a repair guy who took apart the entire door, glass, frame. As a result, the door was now scraping against the threshold and you could see the backside of the raw wood when you looked through the window. Now the lock was not aligned, so I couldn't put the (outside) key to the door to unlock it. They were going to give me a new door handle to resolve the issue, but after 5 WEEKS of calling every Wednesday, I finally lost it when I kept hearing, "it's not done yet with the powder coating"
This led to my final straw this past week, with Panda. For a 4 day period, I could not open up this french door no matter what I did. Keep in mind that my outside key still didn't work. Obviously the lack of urgency on replacing the door handle, led to this door falling apart.
I agressively had to chase Jennyfer Woods, so called VP of sales. Typical sales person,, once she sells you something, and collects your money, she's not interested in anything else at that point. Just move on to the next victim. door not open.She said she assumed everything was ok, as of a March email from one of her workers. As I told her, if she would've returned my calls or emails, she could've done better than an assumption off an email from someone else. She seemed receptive and told me her engineer Tad and someone else, would be coming by the next day to check all the issues. The next day quickly changed. George intercepted the visit from the engineer and he said he would be by in a few days. To me that was a huge slap in the face. Its like me, as a restaurant owner, getting a complaint about a server and I resolve the issue with the guest at the table, but renege on my promise and have the same server go back to the table. Then the server tells them they will take care of their issue, and there was no need to involve anyone else.
George did finally come through on this. He took both doors apart, glass, frame, handle.... and fixed all the but a few minor issues. He's expected back today to complete it all. YAY!! I've reached my 5 month episode with Alf and Ralph on Green Acres. (if you're younger than 50, its worth the You Tube search)
Hope no one goes through what I did. It's not worth it. This company is horrendous!!! read more