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serendipitous reflections

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

OK, I was too positive about Maytag too quickly

We are on our third Maytag dryer. The first one, the selector dial didn't turn right, so they sent out a new dryer. The second dryer the delivery guys scratched the door, which we didn't notice until we did the first load of laundry and the interior light refracted off of the scratches. So I called, they were very quick to respond, but with the wrong response. They sent over a repairman who was going to have to half-dismantle the dryer to fix it. Unacceptable. So Jeni spent six hours on the phone to get them to send us a new dryer. Apparently Maytag allows you 48 hours to discover any problem with the appliance. Well, we got the third dryer delivered on Saturday. We've been busy with the theatre and Cinderella getting ready to open so I didn't get to do any laundry until last night (60 hours post delivery) only to find out that the dryer runs for two minutes, then trips our breaker. So the runaround begins again. Jeni has already given me a head's up that "Sears Dean" might have to come out because I don't want to have a repair on a brand new dryer that has yet to even run its first cycle. They can bring us a properly functioning, non-battered dryer, or they can take this one back and I'll drive across their parking lot to the appliance store and buy it from them. This is just getting ridiculous. And the sad thing is if I had bought some piece of junk, no frills dryer it would probably be working fine. Frustrating.

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(I thought I could link to Sears Dean, but basically when we moved into our house in 2006 we ended up with three refrigerators on our Sears card because they wouldn't credit the card back until the refused fridge made it back to their warehouse (first one was too big, they dented the second fridge bringing it into the house). I basically had to have it out with the appliance manager in the middle of Sears to get a third refrigerator. I just hate feeling taken advantage of and that's what they do because it doesn't affect their daily routine one bit.)

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Thursday, June 23, 2011

Give Maytag credit...

We got new appliances and we need to give Maytag credit ... they are all wonderful. A new gas stove and microwave and dishwasher in the kitchen, and a new front-loading washer and dryer upstairs. The only issue we've had is that the selector dial on the first dryer didn't click properly -- it squeaked instead. We didn't realize initially, but called as soon as it happened. There was no hesitation -- they immediately set up an exchange to get us a new one. The new one works great, but there's a pair of deep scratched on the door to the dryer that Jeni couldn't see at first but jumped out at me because of my height. I called them today, unsure of what their response would be since we had accepted them as they were. But there was no hemming or hawing. They set up a date to come out and fix it. Now that's a week off, so let's see how the guy is who comes out. It works, and a scratch isn't the end of the world, but if it can be right, we want it to be right.

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