We scheduled an appointment with Sears Appliance Service to come out and check out our Kenmore gas range. The appointment was scheduled for August 11, Wednesday between 1:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m.

On the preceding Tuesday, we received a call from Sears to confirm the date and time. We confirmed it.

On the day of the appointment, the Sears repair person called at approximately 3:00 p.m. to tell us he would be at our house within fifteen to twenty minutes. Five minutes later we received a call from the Sears dispatcher. He said he had an emergency and needed to pull our scheduled repair person off of our job. He said if we would agree to this, he would absolutely promise to have a repair person at our house the following morning at 8:00 a.m. We agreed.

About thirty minutes later we called Sears back and asked if they could verify that the repair person would definitely be at our house at 8:00 a.m. the following day because we had to both be at work at noon the following day. The person at the phone said she would make a notation as such and there would definitely be a repair person at our house at 8:00 a.m.

The following day, by 8:30 a.m. we had heard nothing from Sears – no repair person. We called the Service department to see what happened. That person talked with their dispatcher and he indicated that their people were running late and would not be able to come to our house until after noon – more than four hours beyond the promised time.

We expressed some frustration at this and were told that they would not have promised anyone by a specific time because they did not make promises such as this.

After hanging up we called back and talked with a Customer Service person. She refused to let us finish a sentence and kept talking over us every time we tried to talk. She finally did agree to credit us fifty dollars toward the service call and they still could NOT be there until some time after noon.

We expressed deep frustration at this but she still would not let us finish a sentence as she kept talking over us. We finally hung up out of frustration and despair.

Then, twenty minutes later at approximately 9:20 a.m., their service man called to say he would be at our house within fifteen minutes.

He did, in fact, arrive as he had promised but he knew nothing about any credit. We paid him the full bill and did not argue further because we just wanted to be done with Sears.

We own five Kenmore appliances. Nevermore. Stay away if you ever think service might be needed from them.