Our salesperson guaranteed a timeline and confirmed that to us twice more during the final paper work before our deposit. The timeline definitely swayed us to use Zel as it was fairly quick (~10days from deposit to install).
1) there was missed appointments and deadlines that were promised to gain our sale. This was followed by extremely poor communication. The salesperson was extremely condescending and interrupted me multiple times during our phone call as to why the deadline was going to be missed. After speaking with a manager, our install date was pushed back one day and the installers were going to come on Saturday instead of Friday, so that was a reasonable compromise.
2) Installers came on Saturday, were extremely rude and
clearly had more important places to be as they rushed the install. Edwin (granite cutter and installer) was very rude and made me feel like I was inconveniencing them by getting them to complete the job. I was told the cabinets were not level for the island, but to the best of my knowledge they were when I put the level on them. After an argument over this, Edwin added 1/2" shim to right side and 3/8" shim to left side which inevitably led to the island being 1/2" out of level on 5 feet. They ended up coming back a few days later with the owner of the company to repair the pathetic attempt at an install and were there for longer than the initial install. They fixed gaps between the countertops and the walls, countertops and appliances, and leveled the island.
3) Prior to the install, it was discussed that they could back their truck up onto our grass and unload the granite so they didn't have to lift and move it so much (thought that was a considerate thing to do). They ended up backing the truck up on our paving stone walkway and mangled it. It is extremely out of level, also stones are gouged and broken.
- This is where the majority of our issue comes from. It was discussed with the manager that they would ensure the damage they did is made right and back to the way it was.
Now we have damaged property that is our problem, they aren't paying for something that we were told they would reimburse us for, and they aren't standing behind their word.
For the transcripts of the messages, the first shows the company representative agreeing with everything in the google review above. The green box is me getting frustrated with the individual after a lot of back and forth. I reminded her that "if I hold you to your word", which implies I wasn't intending to, but I could ask to receive these for free. She admits to saying that she would give them for free in the second sentence "I said that meaning you wouldn't have to pay the rest".
I never wanted anything for free, I just wanted our walkway fixed that their representatives damaged and for them to hold up their end of the agreement we both thought was fair. This agreement is shown in the last picture "We will not collect the remainder and we will pay for the pathway to be put back in its original state".