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Complaint Review: General Electric

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  • Submitted: Wednesday, August 24, 2011
  • Last Posting: Monday, September 05, 2011
  • Reported By: Rizzo — Centennial Colorado United States of America
General Electric
Internet United States of America

General Electric GE Cares GE Cares - 5 year old frigerator DEAD, GE doesn't care! Internet

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 In Feb. 2006, we purchased a French Door, bottom freezer GE Profile refrigerator.     In the past few months at one time, the freezer started warming up.  We were drinking ice cream in a hurry.  The temp on the frigerator was warming up too. The lights went out on the adjustable indicator and were useless.  Then it worked for a couple of months….. 

In July 2011, it was practically dead.  Repairman charged 278.00 and said the main
board was out, labor 30 days and parts for 5 years.    It worked for a week, and died again. 
Repairman said it would cost 800.00 to fix and said it wasn’t worth fixing.  He also told us the reason the doors didn’t close tight was because of broken clips at the top??  Interesting, we were not aware of that! 

He phoned GE and was told we could have the 800.00 toward a new GE.  Fine, I was for
that.   Then, stories get changed with GE.  They would not offer 800 toward new
refrigerator, more like few hundred discount.  Insisted that we needed to pay up-front, balance would have been too high. 

We went through too many
hassles, spoke with enough “supervisors/reps” to start a softball team.  Discount was finally dwindled down and they still insisted we pay up front, to them, for a new GE. 

Everytime we spoke with someone their stories changed.  Frustrated, I said I do not want to buy a refrigerator from GE, ever again.   I finally demanded return of my “guaranteed” repairwork.  They refused to give that back, saying I would need to buy a GE from them. 

Holding my repair refund hostage!!????   
They say they could not return it and it would be applied to new frig.  

After much screaming, and making them realize that holding my repair refund was worse than the Mafioso tactics, I finally received a refund, minus the repairman’s trip charge. 

 This was a nightmare situation with GE CARES…..aka GE CARES ABOUT KEEPING YOUR MONEY.    We were told these refrigerators should last 10 years.  This one lasted 5 years and we paid nearly $1700.  Never again with GE!  They also lost my home/auto insurance business.

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#1 Consumer Comment

Take the offer

AUTHOR: coast - (USA)

You were offered an $800 credit even though you paid $278 for the repair. That's a great deal!
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#2 Consumer Comment

Gee

AUTHOR: mr rik - miami (USA)

These guys have really went downhill.
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100 certificate toward new GE? I refused

AUTHOR: Rizzo - Centennial (United States of America)

Sure.  they mentioned a 700.00 discount, but it got whittled down to $300, THEN nothing.  I did get a $100 certificate for the purchase of a new GE.  I refused it.  So, as I said, it started out with a good discount that went down the toilet.   I got my 208.00 repair bill back, less the $70.00 trip charge. 
Never again with GE. 
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AUTHOR: Joseph Brown - Spartanburg (USA)

I have never owned a GE product that didn't die shortly after the warranty ran out. Also the head of GE is a friend of the manchild in the WH. Go figure.
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