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Lowes Home Improvement Store Refuses Manufacturer's Request - Appliance Warranty Service/Repair

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Posted By: ConsumerAffairs on 4/26/2008

Location: Edwardsville, PA

Lowes Home Improvement Stores – 50 West Side Mall - Edwardsville. PA 18704 – (570) 285-6000

Last July I bought a Frigidaire refrigerator from the Lowes Home Improvement Store in the West Side Mall, Edwardsville, PA.

I purchased a Frigidaire because of customer loyalty to Frigidaire based on generations of family members who purchased nothing but Frigidaire appliances.

My decision to purchase my new Frigidaire from the Lowes Home Improvement Store appliance department based on price and availability.

On April 3rd of this year I called Lowes appliances in Edwardsville to report that my Frigidaire refrigerator was not properly cooling.

Lowes instructed me to contact the Lowes Appliance warranty repair service to schedule repair.

April 4th – Lowes Appliances sent their repair person to assess the situation. Their repair person said that the problem was due to a defective evaporator and that it leaked the coolant causing the refrigerator to fail. He also told me that he did not have the part but that he refilled the coolant and would be back within the week to replace the part.

I waited 3 weeks for the repair man to return before calling Lowes appliances on April 23rd and I spoke to Michael, who said that Lowes had already paid the repair person for the service and it would be up to me to contact the repair person. He said that he was sorry but it was not a Lowes Appliance issue. I told him that this was now the second time that my food had spoiled and he said “I’m sorry but that is not a Lowe’s problem but they would provide compensation for the spoiled food.”

He then gave me the telephone number of their Lowes Appliance repair man to contact directly and schedule a return service call to finish the job. I called and was told to call back the next day between 11am and 7pm.

When I said that I would be out of town the next day I was told that he was out in the truck checking on the part and that he would call me back later that day.

He never called that day and he did not call or leave a message on Thursday so I called Lowes again on Thursday evening and after being told that my problem was not a Lowes problem and that I had to contact their repair person I explained that I was unable to reach him or get a satisfactory answer from him.


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    ConsumerAffairs (04/27/2008)      
    Lowes - 50 West Side Mall - Edwardsville, PA is of the opinion that when you do business at their store and you use one of their installers or repairmen that their responsibility to the customer is over as soon as the register goes KA'CHING!

    You may thing that is a rather bold statement however if you search Google for the term "Lowes Installer Complaints" and you will find over 25,000 pages filled with pages relating to Lowes installer complaints.

    You do business with Lowes and they supply the installer/service person - You pay Lowes, they profit but when you have a problem with whatever the work the Lowes installer did or did not do L ... more >>

    PScott (04/28/2008)      
    ConsumerAffairs, thanks for the info! Pretty amazing. Glad I didn't push their 'installation' program when I worked there.

    WWYD (11/27/2008)      
    ConsumerAffairs,

    Do you believe what you posted? Are you professing surprise that a company that has been in business for over 60 years, and currently does business with more than 14 million consumers EACH WEEK will have plenty of people complaining online?

    Do you have any idea what the employee wage & hour lawsuit was actually about? I do (and I'm not a party to it).

    Lowe's doesn't deceive anyone on the identity of its installers, nor does it deceive anyone with its credit card advertisements. You have to be able to read. You have to have some interest in detail. If you're going to spend your life reading headlines and no detai ... more >>


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