- Report: #998883
Complaint Review: The Well Guru
| The Well Guru 531 83 RD Avenue N
St. Petersburg, Florida United States of America |
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The Well Guru Eric Watson Sold me a Water Treatment System that has been more problematic then others St. Petersburg, Florida
*REBUTTAL Owner of company: Well Guru owner
*Author of original report: www.thewellguru I have replaced your System
*REBUTTAL Owner of company: Well Guru owner
*Author of original report: Well Guru System Failures
*REBUTTAL Owner of company: Answer to complaint by The Well Guru
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Search Tips#1 REBUTTAL Owner of company
Well Guru owner
AUTHOR: TheWellGuru - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Thursday, January 31, 2013
Today I had no choice but to give him a no trespassing warning and gave him a final warning Not to harass us any further . ( first and only customer in 33 years )
Im not going to put anyone in jeopardy to go out and do work at someone's home when they Are Irrational and extremely abusive .. No one would listen to his choice of curse words ! No one here that's for sure .
There will always be customers that forget to maintain Their "system(s) and well-heads " - Regardless how much information I include,.... or how easy I make it with the engineering of my WellGuru"s Technology ,. We are never to busy or is to late to support our valued customers.
There is no other service where you can regardless of where you live on The planet own a Well Guru system,. The latest in technology by forty years, the easiest to maintain And nothing makes better water ,..filtering further into the Dalton scale then any technology ,.engineered To last a lifetime nothing makes better water , .
Eric Watson Owner
#2 Author of original report
www.thewellguru I have replaced your System
AUTHOR: C. r. florida - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Wednesday, January 30, 2013
#3 REBUTTAL Owner of company
Well Guru owner
AUTHOR: TheWellGuru - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Thursday, January 24, 2013
His exact words to him not adding salt for three years to my 24 yr old Son whom would not lie to me ( he is college educated quiet and reserved and non confrontational ) was " Customer yelled as I was walking to me " --- " I did not add salt because I don't like soft water !!! " ----no salt in 90 days with iron well water alone would cause gray water because now it will hold iron and then soon after release color ----------
Line 2 --Now he's afraid to touch the system? Come on
Everyone can see what the problem here is -I feel blessed that my customer list of thousands of customers respond to reason and logic and there all easy going .
Anyone want to see what I have had to deal with just give him a call anytime after 11 am on the weekend that's all I have to say on this matter ,.
Eric Watson Owner
#4 Author of original report
Well Guru System Failures
AUTHOR: C. r. florida - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Wednesday, January 23, 2013
#5 REBUTTAL Owner of company
Answer to complaint by The Well Guru
AUTHOR: TheWellGuru - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Wednesday, January 23, 2013
This Customer in three years of ownership has neglected to perform even the basics in maintenance,..only contacting us after He had driven all over town looking for parts and
answers from others who do not have any experience with Filtration platforms. Just as owning an automobile not taking care of the recommended -results in mechanical failure ,. and virtually nothing was done ,.The pump he had that burned up was the result of plumbing failure and him leaving the home for long periods and not shutting off the water (recommend) by all dealers. *I include a well water CD loaded with tips all customers receive with their systems ,. its a product of decades of collected service information --its there to "save" the consumer from service calls ,. He never read it or looked at any pictures.. read on for the complete story !
This is the only whole home system that can operate for a decade on 95% of the wells with out any Dealer service calls, if there is unscheduled work ?...the system(s) are engineered to be remedied and returned to service in minutes with the included comprehensive CD ,. or there is a text support line that can be used to walk the consumer through the repair to return full service.. The warranty is second to none and so is the system being decades (four in 4 in 5 competing brands) ,. ahead of the alternative systems makes it the best choice for anyone with well water .
This Customer like all customers,.. IF they have a problem (not likely- even on problem well water) being the owner operator with more then three decades of heavy service experience can quickly assess the problem no matter what it is (even outside my scope of business "Filtration" as I am a Plumber),.. and at no additional charge or monthly contract offer easy to follow steps to return proper service even when its not related to the filtration system - thousands of customers enjoy this service.
If the unlikely event occurred where the owner had to make a repair,.. my systems are engineered so as everything is "Snap on " or off,. unscrew or screw on,. no tools needed 99% of the time,.. again in the highly unlikely event of repair,.. compared to other systems that need $1000 to $2000 or more annual service from only the dealer ,.. and my system(s) have solved well issues where others have failed,.. it is truly engineered for the owners benefit ,.. and not for generating service revenue.
ADDRESSING THIS COMPLAINT ; I have had only a hand full of complaints since 1980 -all dealers get complaints ,.. comparing the amount of volume and sales of complete systems shipped daily out of our reach one or two is not significant ,. however I am committed to resolving them personally . This customer regrettably is not.
1) Jay called us and said he had no water because of a cracked PVC nut - which i have only seen two of (its made by others)- and he would have had to go to a hardware for the five minute repair I offered to send my Son (who has now 11 years on the job) since he is only 30 min away ,. Jeff repaired it . We were there within the hour with no notice.
2)Jay began to get irate and demand a Total Refund with My Son ( i called Jay and asked him what his reasoning was ?? ) He claimed the system does not work and complained about all the service it needs ,.. I spent a half hour explaining that he has had no service ,.. His complaint was He had a cracked Dome cap --- however Jay has never Replaced the gasket and just as it says on the CD -replace if it is dry rotted or hardened from oxidation (chlorine ) He kept cutting me off and demanding a full refund .
3) I began to argue and would not let me explain the "what little maintenance" there was he overlooked (He had never read the Cd at all .) I had to tell Jeff to leave the job immediately as the customer is not responding to logic or reason and was irate and began using profanity,. I told Jeff to leave immediately . Jay told me he has never done anything with the system except add chlorine tablets once in a while -- He said hes always on trips and his Wife refuse to even look in the shed .
4) Jeff reported the following : Jay said to him He has never added salt since the first initial Fill ran out years ago ! (on well water with high iron this can result in multiple failures with any system over time - even mine ) He also from looking at his storage tank it has never been purged which is your 90 day maintenance on all full platform systems -- his gauge was broken -- in short Jay and his Wife did not do the minimal maintenance ,. and ...
5) as far as Referrals go ? its true we get them,.. His friend has not contacted me since the installations three years ago ,.. so I cannot comment if hes happy or not,. just like Cars ,.. only half the owners maintain them,.. even fewer use the original dealer for multiple reasons being they don't know to go back, or they use someone they met closer,. cold calls from salesman etc etc.
certainly if a customer had any problems with their system you would think they would first contact the company they purchased from ? I have not received any contact so we can only assume Jay is looking to inflict as maximum damage . This is the first complaint I have ever answered online.
I later talked to Jay after his water was restored ,..He has paid no service call.. He would not allow me to explain what customer maintenance he had neglected --He was even more difficult to understand then the previous hour ,. He kept going on about wanting his refund and the old system re installed ( He did not buy a new $4400 system because the old was working so well ) He began to communicate in a "un-gentlemanly manor" so his complementary service was discontinued .
It only takes about 10 min every three months to maintain the most sophisticated -up-to date well filtration system on the planet and Jay refused to do even the minimum required home maintenance or even read the quick start guide on the CD ,.. now with his problem water the system is in need of multiple repairs ,. however even ruined The system I engineer can be recovered even without Dealer in-home service - regrettably I can not with all of my customer experience communicate with him with multiple attempts.
CONTINUED MISSION : I operate this business with my two Sons -it is a family owned business and over three decades we have developed the only system that is the easiest to maintain of all brands (ones that actually perform) -- it filters deeper into the Dalton scale ,..it uses hard puck chlorine -no heavy liquid jugs to lug home each month,.. its engineered to be maintained without the annoyance of waiting for a mechanic to show up or not show up,. to be reliable and is not designed to generate endless steams of service calls "each getting more costly" ,.. and you can expect to be the last system you purchase., anything else your going to be in the market a year later .
We ship for FREE to any of the lower 48 States and for a nominal fee into Canada and other parts of the globe,. it arrives boxed and assembled and programmed with a free connect kit and free support if its ever needed,...I don't have a fleet of service trucks because I engineer the most reliable filter systems money can buy,..all at "middle of the road" pricing .
Owning a home on well water really can be
different then what you have ever experienced !
TheWellGuru.com
Eric Watson , owner

