A&E Factory Services
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Category: Home & Garden
Contact Information United States
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A&E Factory Services Reviews
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vine188
July 17, 2011
No Show
I was scheduled for a home service and i called 5 minutes before 5pm to see if they were running late. I called A&E Factory Services TWICE to see if the technician would still be able to make it. They told me that they will tell the technician to call me for an ETA. He/She never called or came. I called the next day to complain just for them to say that there was a cancellation yesterday (the day of the appointment). I had called 5 minutes before 5pm on the day of appointment and they said they they were still on their way. They were totally bullshitting with a nonsense excuse. What horrendous customer service, and overall company commitment to their customers. I hope this is not how they want to run their business in the long run. What a horrible experience.
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Steve Watson
April 4, 2011
Terrible Service
A copy of my email sent via their website:
I will NEVER use you folks again and I will tell all my friends what a bad experience I had with you last week. My technician was supposed to be at my house between 1 and 5. So, I take a half day vacation to be home waiting for someone to show up. 5 o’clock rolls around and still no tech and no call. I call the customer NO service line and was told they would contact tech and have him call me. 5:30 comes up and still NO call. I call back and am told the tech, who is in the same city I am located, will be at my house at 6:30. 6:30 rolls around and still NO tech. I then get a phone call from you folks saying that your computers were down and they, and the tech, had no idea that I wasn’t serviced yet and we needed to reschedule. I say NO he will be here tonight to service my stove. She says no we have to reschedule. I am PISSED by this point. First – the tech NEVER made contact with me; Secondly – I was told he would be there by 6:30; Thirdly – the lady lied to me saying they didn’t know wasn’t serviced yet. That is BS!!! I wasted a half day vacation, my evening plans, and my time with you folks. I called HAS Home Warranty to complain about you folks and demanded that they never send you again. I will be posting everywhere I can to inform my contacts of your customer NO service in trying to reach customer satisfaction – in which there was none – just a rude lady telling me basically tough luck! I just called your info line to have your automated machine quit calling me to reschedule and hope that I never hear from you folks again.
An unsatisfied and disappointed past customer,
Steve Watson
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Dan in Virginia
July 9, 2010
No show, no accountability, no luck
Where do I start?
This company should be investigated for outright fraud. The major appliance companies that contract their work with A&E Factory Services need to be made aware of the horrible nature of this company. We were lied to, told conflicting information by each person who answered the phone, stood up, taken for fools, and blown off. Below is a timeline summary of what happened. From the looks of things, it seems that our story is not unque and that there is a pattern of lies and fraud involved with the way A&E does business.
1. Whirlpool refrigerator fan goes out after 9 months. Whirlpool assigns A&E Factory Services to the case.
2. A&E schedules for an early Friday AM block from 8-12. No show by 1pm.
3. Called A&E who says "Truck broke down, be there by 3pm". No show by 4pm
4. Called A&E who says, "you're next on list. Tech will be there by 5pm". Tech shows up close to 6pm.
5. Tech opens refrigerator and, without testing anything, declares "Your fan motor is dead".
6. Tech orders a new motor, and despite my suggestion to visually inspect the fan, says he doesn't need to because "he just knows".
7. Because of 4th July weekend, part doesn't arrive until Wednesday.
8. A&E says they will come Thursday to install part.
9. We wait ALL DAY for tech to come. We make 6 calls to A&E inquiring on status. Each time, operator says that the tech is en route.
10. At 6pm, tech still isn't there. So, we speak to manager at call center. He informs us that our order for service was never processed. The tech was never en route. We were lied to.
11. Manager finally has tech show up at 8am the next day, Friday. It's a new tech, and he opens up the fridge to install the new fan motor and finds that the original is not broken. It had something lodged in the blades, and once removed, works perfectly.
The moral of this story: If the first tech had showed up on time, and actually looked at the problem instead of using clairvoyance to diagnose the problem, it could have been fixed on day 1. Also, don't trust a single word that comes out of the mouth of anyone that answers the phone at A&E.
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missyann7707
June 28, 2010
Scheduling/No Show
My two year old Whirlpool refrigerator stopped keeping the fridge and the freezer cold. We called Whirlpool who then scheduled an appointment with A&E Factory Services for 4 days later. Meanwhile we had moved everything to coolers to try and save our grocercies. When the man showed up, we assumed he would have the parts he need to fix the fridge or at least within a couple of days. He orders the part from their factory that is a two hour drive from my home yet took 5 days to be sent to us. Once we received the part we called A&E again to have them install the part, again assuming that they'd be there the next day. They told us they could send someone out in 4 days. By this time we have lost all of the groceries that we weren't able to cook up. I take the entire day off work because of course their window of arrival is 4 hours (1-5). They call me at noon the day they were to come and tell me that they have no technicians in the area for today and I need to reschedule for...get this...11 days out. I pitched a fit on the phone for having taken the day off work only for them to call an hour before scheduled arrival and it now being 13 days after our original call for service...add in the other 11 and we'd be at 24 days since I first called. Because I was upset, they said they could send someone out the next day (I'd have to miss another day of work for this). They are scheduled to be here tomorrow, but I'm not holding my breath. I will NEVER buy another whirlpool if they insist on sending A&E. This company fails at customer service!!!
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Send Em Packing
March 30, 2010
Trip Chrge $160.00!!
I bought all kitchen aid products for our new home in 4/2005. The microwave oven combo model number KEHC309JSS05 interior glass shattered.
On 3/29/10 I was warming bread and when the microwave finished (ONE MINUTE) I opened the door …. I heard a pop and the glass shattered and poured through the vent.
I called Midway Appliances. Midway in turn told me to call Kitchen aid direct because Kitchen Aid will listen to their customers more than they will to the dealer ship! I called the Kitchen Aid service number 800-422-1230. A&E factory service came out. The Tech name was Jesse. Thier number is 800-771-3029. I later deducted that this is a sub company servicing KitchenAid Appliances. I thought they came out to assess the manufacturer defect on 3/30/10. I figured that Microwave door glass should never shatter and it is common sense that this is a manufacturer defect. Of course the manufacturer would take care of it.
The appliance tech Jesse from A&E Factory Services rudely informed us that the product is no longer under warrantee and that KitchenAid is not held responsible.
Worse the Technician Jesse said the repair would be $220 dollars. If I refused to repair the unit then his trip is 169 dollars. I told him that I did not agree to a trip fee. He said I was informed of this on the phone. I told him that I was not told of any trip fee because KitchenAid called him out. He said if I allowed him to repair it he would only collect $220.00 for the repair. I felt coerced into doing business with him and sent him packing.
He said it will be billed and it will go on my credit report!
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On Hold
November 6, 2009
rudeness, lies, incompetence
You cannot trust anything this company says. Here is a sample of the lies they tell you:
Lie 1. A technician will be there between 8-12 (this happened 3 times and he was never there even by 3 PM)
Lie 2. A technician will be there between 4:30-7 (this was said and then at 8 PM, after spending hours I was told the assignment had been cancelled hours before and that noone would be coming)
Lie 3. The people at the service center (the 800 number) cannot call the technician dispatcher (many people told me this, and then all the sudden on my tenth exasperated call a new person said of course they can call the dispatcher, and did twice)
Lie 4. The technician is familiar with your machine and can fix it (this was untrue, he had never worked on the brand, and it was worse after he left)
Lie 5. The call center will message the dispatcher and the dispatcher will call the customer (this would only be an inefficient system if it worked. Instead, the dispatcher simply never calls the customer. This happened five times.)
Oh, and the machine is still broken.
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S. E.
June 16, 2009
Whirlpool Duet Washer
Do not hire A&E Factory Service for your Appliance Repair;
I had the worst time with having there employes come to try to fix my Whirlpool
washing Mach front loader duet, which is just one year old we started having
problems with it after We started getting temps down in the 30's and lower in
mid Jan-Feb,
I called Whirlpool who informed me that I have to cover the washing mach it can
not handle anything colder, so I did but after that we started having the the
washer not come on unless it was up to at least 70 degrees and after that the
power button not at all and only when it wants to, it seems.
I started to wonder if we had gotten a lemon.
I finely got to calling Whirlpool a week before our warntany ended, and they
told me that A&E Factory Service would send out someone after I called and made
a apointment, so I called them .. at this point I'm down with a head cold and
chest cold, I asked when they would send someone out they told me it would be
from 8am to 5pm I told them I was sick and I needed to beable to sleep in the
afternoon after not getting much sleep the night before there Custmer service
person I talked to would not give me a time. just that the man would be out
between 8am and 5pm so I put Dog the Bounty Hunter on real low .. and naped
sitting up in my husbands winged back chair and woke up every half-hour untill
my husband got home one hour before the guy showed up, wouldn't you know it he
showed up at 5pm ...
Anyhow I stayed up and watched what he did the first guy that they sent out ..
was a nice person but then he bent the washers hing and put in the wrong part
than whirlpool told him too, he went with what he felt was the right part, and
after he left the power button refused to come on, so Called A&E back .. they
made another apointment for me two days later not the next day and I was not
going to get the same person as had been here.
Okay so then another 8am to 12 noon time this time,
I can handle that but with a chest cold nothings good, anyhow this second guy
seemed to know a lot more than the first did and ordered a new hing that the
first guy had messed up and a power core, then I had to call to make another
appointment with another guy to put the parts in once I receved them, I got them
that next day and they told me they could not get anyone that evening being it
was just after 4pm so I said fine so again 8am to 12 noon, and I call this last
guy "The Kid" he felt that the first guy had put in a part that had been sitting
around in the truck for a while and was not making connection with the other
part as well as he was ordering the first part as well as the one right next to
it he did put in the power pak but refused to put on the new door hing and left
the ring around the door and the diel area lose as well as did not put the
screws back in the top .. I can tell you I was not happy about that we get a lot
of dust from the main street we are near in the house... and he told me he would
make sure that he was the one that would come back because I told him I was
tired of different people coming all the time he told me he would take care of
it .. but a day later on the way home from shopping I got a automated call from
"A&E Factory Service" for me to make a new appointment for a service call ..
that was enough this had been going on now for about 2 weeks so I called
whirlpool Service and they transfered me to someone a bit higher up I told them
the whole story and... they did get a better company to come out and they did
end up ordering the same two parts that the last guy had but I have not ever had
so much problems with a company to be so uncaring about people for service I was
told that A&E Factory Service is really Sears.. I do not know if this is true
but whatever you do .. don't Hire them ... all I can say is .. "Thank God that
we were still under waranty.. or this would have cost us a lot of money .. all I
can see this company doing is keep finding falt with things so they can get paid
by Whirlpool ... all I want is to be able to wash my familys clothes .. and
being sick at the sametime this has been going on has not been fun at all ...
all I can tell you is do not hire them ... P.S. Please forgive any misspelled
words.
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November 3, 2008
Charged for no services done; arrived late as well; technician lied stating I declined estimate
I had a scheduled appointment for a technician to fix or at least attempt to fix my refrigerator today, 11/3/08 and they were scheduled to arrive at my home between the hours of 1:00-5:00p.m. When I scheduled my appointment, I gave the phone rep my cell phone number and asked to have the technician call me when he was on his way to my home. I called twice today with the latest being 4:30p.m. to make sure he was still coming. The rep told me that he was at job#7 and that I was job#8. At 5:12p.m. this evening, I received a telephone call from the technician stating that he was running late and wanted to know if I still wanted him to come out to my home. I told him yes, that I was only off on Mondays and that I needed my refrigerator fixed. The technician arrived after 5:30p.m. and needless to say, Phillip the technician could not tell me what was wrong with my refrigerator (not cooling properly is the problem) and asked for the $65 fee for coming out. I was upset stating to him that not only did he arrive at my home late, but he was charging me $65 and could not tell me what was wrong. I told him that if he wasn't going to at least see what the problem was, he should have told me over the telephone that due to him arriving late, that he would not be able to do ANYTHING and I would have rescheduled rather than to have him come to my home and do nothing and still charge me $65. When I asked for his supervisor's contact information, he would not give it to me. When I asked him for his worker number or at least his last name, he would not give that to me either. Phillip the technician or whatever his real name was printed out a ticket and asked me to sign it. After reading it, I refused to sign it because he had typed in Customer Declines Estimate. I asked him why would he type in such, knowing full well that I never declined an estimate. Because he arrived at my home so late, he said he wasn't able to do a dye test to determine whether or not I had a leak . So virtually am out of $65 and not only did he show up late, but he was unable to tell me what was wrong with my refrigerator. I contacted A&E and spoke to Sandra, a manager at the National Call Center. Sandra was of no help to me and there was no customer satisfaction at all. Sandra stated that she understood and agree why I was upset, but that I still had to pay the $65. Sandra stated that if I allow another technician to come out to my home again, then I would not have to pay another $65 service fee (no help now, considering late and nothing done?). Sandra stated that if I did not allow a technician to come out again, then she would see about getting my $65 refunded. I stated to Sandra not to kid ourselves. If she did not tell this technician who was still standing in my living room this evening while I was on the phone with her, not to charge me $65 because he had done NOTHING but show up late, getting $65 at a later time was inevitable. I wrote a check for $65 to A&E and wrote in the memo "showed up late, no diagnostic done". I can bet you anything that those money hungry people will still cash that check which endorsing it means that they agree to what was in that memo. But most of all what upsetted me the most was how that technican lied to my face stating on the ticket that I had declined an estimate. I refused to sign and he did not go into his computer to change it either. When I asked him why did he lie, he just stood in my kitchen looking at me stupidly and did not say anything. It is obvious that I got cheated out of $65 tonight and would like something done so that this does not happen to good people by very underminded and untrustworthy individuals.
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October 7, 2008
feel ripped off incompatant workers
Description: On 8/13/2008 your representative technician # 0806893 came to the house to diagnose the problem with the machine as it stopped mid cycle leaving water in the bottom. He said it was a touchpad failure. I paid $158.00 and was told the part would be sent to me in 3 to 5 days. Well after several backorder phone calls. A call to your company after 2 weeks to complain that mold was growing inside the machine and a call to whirlpool I recieved no solutions other than to wait. Finally my husband called and whirlpool overnight the parts, now two because they said your tech ordered the wrong part the first time. A different tech came to pick up the parts. We informed him he needed to fix it. This man 0057769 a Ben McPowell, opened the panel and determined it was a fuse. A FUSE he had on his truck. I waited almost two months for a fuse! To say the least we are very upset. Also your tech said he was to take the parts and send them back to whirlpool. Well that wa!
sn't what whirlpool said when we called them after he left. They were to contact you regarding the parts. I feel cheated. You left me without a dishwasher for over 50 days when the part was on the techs truck the first day he arrived. I am a victim of an incompetent repairman. My water and electric bill increased due to washing the dishes by hand as we both know dishwashers are more economical. Not to mention the mold that grew in my machine. After calling your company to complain they told me to drain the water. I paid YOU to fix it. If I had to drain the water why did I pay you? It should have been taken care of by your overpriced incompetent technician. Besides the over inflated price you charged me to repair my machine. If your tech would have told me it was a fuse the first time I could have paid him the $75 to diagnose the problem and got the part on line for $12.00 and replaced it myself!
I would have saved at least $70.00 and had the machine right away. Instead I went through almost two months of waiting for parts I didn't even need. There is no way I would recommend you company to anyone else. And believe me I will report this to whirlpool as high up as I can go. I feel I have been unfairly overcharged as well. I could have had any local repair guy come and fix the problem for $60.00 plus the parts. I am very dissatisfied.
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March 15, 2008
Scam and fraud!
On Saturday, March 8, 2008 I made a call to A & E Services to repair my Maytag Dryer. I was told I would be charged a $59.00 fee just for sending out a repair man and that they could only come next Saturday, March 15 between the hours of 8 & 12. I accepted this regretfully as I was at a loss on how to fix my dryer and when I called the 1-800 number on my machine this is where I had been transferred so I assumed this company was a referral of Maytag.
Saturday, the repair man showed up around 11am. He took one look at my dryer, found out it needed a thermal fuse and it would cost me a total of $187.74 for parts, labor, and the initial service call. Out of desperation, I told him just go ahead an d fix it and I wrote him the check on the spot. He turned on the dryer. It seemed to work, and he went on his way. I put a load in and before the cycle was even 1/4 the way through it was not working again. Not even 30 minutes had past so I called the service center again, explained the situation and was assured the technician would be out after he finished this next call he had already started on. After no one had showed up by almost 2 pm I called the service center again. I was told the service tech would be paged and he would give us a call back. By 4:12 pm we still had not received a call back not did anyone show so I called the call center again. This time I was told the service tech was going to be paged again and be notified of the situation but he would not be able to come until he had finished his other tickets. Knowing there were other people out there who also needed this service and should not be inconvenienced like I had been I happily agreed to sit the rest of the afternoon waiting for the tech to finish his other service tickets and then come back to finish what he had attempted to proved me with the first time around. At 6:10pm still no tech and I called and was told that he was off for the rest of the day and I would have to wait until Tuesday, March 18th for him to come back. I told the "customer service" agent that this was unacceptable, that I had been waiting all day for this tech to show up and fix whatever it was he had done and I was assured each time I had contacted them that he would be out that day. The result was an entire Saturday waisted waiting for someone who was not coming and no one even had the courtesy to call me back and tell me he was not coming. After I asked her(Linda the "customer service"agent) to contact the service tech and ask him to come out she refused. I asked to speak with her supervisor and after she refused to let me speak with her supervisor at least 6 times I was finally transferred to a "manager", Tanesha. I explained the situation to Tanesha and asked her to contact her tech and ask him to come out and finish the job, after all we had already rendered payment for services we did not receive and it was only courteous to do so. She refused to contact anyone after hours and explained that she just could do it and we would have to wait until Tuesday until he would come back. After I explained again to her the severity of the situation, (I was schedule to go on a business trip and needed my clothes to be washed and dried before Monday and why would I spend money needlessly at the laundromat when I had already paid her company to perform this service to my dryer so I could take care of my clothes at home with my own appliance) she again refused to help me. I was not in any way rude, condescending, obnoxious, or threatening in anyway to this woman or the agent I spoke to before. I never raised my voice and was actually cordial to both of them while pleading my case and just requesting the service I had been promised and already paid for. She told me the part was faulty not the service and since I had already paid that it was my fault that the dryer did not work again because it was working fine when the tech left. I thanked her for her time, explained to her that I would be stopping payment on the check and I would be happy to submit payment after the job was complete and she threatened me with their collection agency. I asked her for corporate office information and at first she refused to give it to me but finally did. Tanesha gave me the name Dale Reader and the address is 1300 Louis Henna Round Rock, TX 78664. I thanked her for time and told her I would be contacting the CEO of the company on Monday morning during my business trip and let him know how bad the "customer service" is in Houston and that I would be naming her and Linda exclusively, and the technician, Sonny Sa, who would not return the pages to the company following my phone calls of inquiry. She said there was no reason to do that and I should contact someone locally to resolve the situation. I had to actually remind her that I had called the Houston "customer service" line to try and "resolve" the issue to begin with several times throughout the day and I ended up speaking to her after all was said and done. I again, thanked her for her time, explained to her I am not upset with her or the previous agent, Linda, and that I just wanted my dryer fixed and then I ended the conversation. After looking on my phone, I was able to obtain the cell phone number of the technician that was sent out because he called me before he came to make sure I was home. I called him 2 times and left a message for him to please call me back. I still have not heard from him or anyone else at the company and my dryer is still not fixed.
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