SCHUMACHER ELECTRIC SELLS DAMAGED AND DEFECTIVE BATTERY CHARGERS, LIES TO CUSTOMERS, AND DEFAULTS ON THEIR WARRANTY, DO NOT BUY, STAY AWAY!!!

We have been customers of Schumacher for 59 years since 1952. We have noticed the depreciation in quality of Schumacher products from the old original chargers to your current models. They are very easy to find, any hardware store or auto parts store will sell you one. The ratings are generally inflated by quite a bit. This is a problem with the new low-cost inverters available from Taiwan, too. It might SAY 1000 watts on the case, but that's not what you are getting. Shame on them! Usually what you really have is a 30-amp charger in a big case that's mostly empty space.

Let WEIGHT be your guide as to the true amp rating of this sort of charger--big ones should be extremely heavy because of the transformer inside. Also, this transformer tapers the charging current into your batteries. When the batteries are nearly empty, the charger will put out nearly its full current, which will gradually get lower and lower as the batteries fill.

Schumacher quality is not there. For example the sheet metal used in construction has dropped from 10 gauge to 16 gauge, the battery clamps on the consumer chargers are very thin, bent easily, and are of very poor quality. The consumer wheeled chargers are an empty sheet metal box, with a circuit board with an inverter switching power supply. There is no transformer, and the battery chargers we have received were all damaged from the factory floor and not from the shipping. Schumacher is a treasonous corporation, trying to boost profits and save money by shipping manufacturing offshore to foreign sweatshops. Instead Schumacher is losing, customers, American jobs, and the excellent quality reputation of Donald Schumacher. Remember, MADE IN U.S.A. ???

We ordered a SE-4022 consumer grade big box wheeled charger and got an empty flimsy sheet metal box with a circuit board. The worthless battery clips were of a soft thin metal that bent when clamped to a battery. We returned the junk box and ordered the Professional Series PSW-2550, 250 amp charger. We received the PSW-2550 in a crisp perfect box but the charger was completely crushed and smashed inside.

We contacted customer service and they offered us an upgrade to a Professional Series PSW-3060, 300 amp charger. We did not ask for the upgrade, but Luella and Bob in customer service, graciously offered it to us. They said we were loyal long time customers, and wanted to keep us as satisfied customers. They wanted to compensate us for Schumacher’s mistake. We graciously accepted.

However we had been promised an upgrade of our damaged PSW-2550 by Schumacher 3 weeks ago on April, 7. We were promised again that Schumacher was shipping the PSW-3060 immediately on April 15. Luella in customer service was sending us a tracking number on the pickup of the damaged PSW- 2550 and the delivery of the PSW-3060.

Then I received a voicemail from this verbose junior manager trainee O’Donnell, that he had lobbied John Waldron, President to default on Schumacher’s verbal contract, to send us the replacement PSW-3060. O’Donnell was more concerned about policy, process and procedure than customer support. Customer support and customer satisfaction are the life blood of any business as illustrated by Sam Walton, by the success of Wal-Mart and Sams Club. Any reputable business has customer satisfaction as their primary incorporated goal.

1. Schumacher made a verbal contract to send us the PSW-3060. Instead Schumacher sent us another damaged PSW-2550.
2. Schumacher President, John Waldron, and his company have sold us 2 damaged and defective PSW-2550 chargers.
3. Schumacher has lied to us about the upgrade to the PSW-3060 charger.
4. Schumacher sent us another damaged PSW-2550.
5. Schumacher now refuses to replace the damaged unit
6. Schumacher has now defaulted on their 3 year product warranty.
7. We expect Schumacher to honor and fulfill their warranty contract and pickup the damaged PSW-2550 and send the PSW-3060 as promised

As of April 20, 2011 John Waldron, has not returned any of 3 telephone calls or any of 2 e-mails. John Waldron is a narcissistic, egocentric, dishonest gutless wimp. He is hiding behind his lying motor mouth, juvenile, manager trainee, O’Donnell.

With these 2 incompetent idiots in charge of the company, it is truly a formula for disaster for Schumacher.


John Sions II