Sent: Friday, October 27, 2017 1:46 PM
To: info@sunnyislandrv.com
Subject: Jeff: Kudos to Kevin and Anna!!
Jeff: I am not sure if you are aware of the trials and tribulations that Kevin has been going through to obtain a replacement window for our Livin Lite 13QBB that we purchased from you early this spring.
If you are I just want to give praise where praise is due and that is with Kevin and Anna who have done an exemplary job of customer service in resolving the window problem for us. If you are not read the email below and you will get the gist of the problem they have been working on. They have been absolutely stellar in taking responsibility for "getting this fixed right".
I posted one comment to the Sunny Island website shortly after purchasing the trailer on how pleased we were with the purchase and delivery process. I would really like to post another regarding the exemplary customer service, and going the extra mile, no, 100 miles, for your customers, but it seems I cannot. Can you override that or let me know what I have to do?
Lastly, I cannot express how much Cathy and I have enjoyed our Livin Lite 13QBB. We have logged about 6,000 miles on it this year. We have had a number of people stop and ask us about it and we always point them to Sunny Island RV.
Best regards,
RGB
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2017 2:04 PM
To: dometic.com
Cc: parts@sunnyislandrv.com
Subject: Four window shipments, four damaged windows
Tony:
Thanks for taking my call today. As you are aware the effort to purchase a replacement for a Dometic Seitz C Series window, broken through no fault but my own, has resulted in a continuous effort on the part of my Dometic dealer, Sunny Island RV / Kevin Johnson, and myself since 14 August.
This has resulted in four windows being shipped from Dometic's distribution center, two to Sunny Island RV who then arranged to have the windows forwarded to my home in Southbury Connecticut, and two directly drop shipped from the Dometic distribution center to my home. All four have arrived with damage to the very thin exterior acrylic flange that runs around the circumference of the window pane. Photos attached.
Kevin at Sunny Island RV has been nothing short of upstanding in attempting to resolve this repeated issue and I understand from conversations with him that he been in contact with you over the last two weeks to aid in resolving this problem. This resulted in two replacement windows being dropped shipped directly from Dometic to me, one which was delivered to my home on Friday of last week, 20 October, and the most recent, yesterday, Thursday 27 October.
As you are aware both of these two shipments arrived exhibiting the same damage as the first two shipments received from Sunny Island RV, with the flange broken in one or more places around the circumference of the window pane unit.
Unfortunately, it appears with the arrival of fourth shipment yesterday the Goshen distribution center staff still has no comprehension of the problem nor how easy the fix. It seems that they would rather repeatedly; four times over, replicate the shipping/packaging process that is the problem, at considerable end expense to Dometic, Sunny Island RV, and myself in time and money, instead of taking ten minutes and a few packing material to fix the problem!
The window units appear to be being shipped in the same cardboard box and inner wrapping as they are warehoused in with no additional protective packaging. Therein lays the problem, the warehouse packaging offers no protection to the thin and obviously easily damaged flange area.
Simply stated the distribution center staff need to take the window assembly, in its original packaging, and strap/secure the original packaging to a stiff "backer" that will prevent the flange from being impacted and broken. From our conversation of today it appears that the idea of securing the box to a pallet and use the pallet as protective backer may be being considered Be that as it may our only wish is to receive a clear (not tinted) window assembly that is not broken so that we may secure our trailer from the ravages of the coming winter weather.
Lastly, I would like to mention that you have great dealer in Sunny Island RV. Kevin and Anna have been nothing short of incredibly helpful in attempting to get a replacement window to us that is in one piece.
Regards,
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