Joya Colucci L.
AJ Madison . . . Still using COVID as an excuse
I ordered an LG gas range in July 2020 and received it in September 2020. The range never worked properly, and when we tried to schedule service (in October) were told that the quickest we could have someone "look at it" was in FEBRUARY 2021. We made the decision to order a replacement (Bosch) range, ordered in December 2020. It is September 9, 2021 and the range was delivered yesterday. I don't fault AJ Madison for the long lead time. What I do fault them for is that we paid $250 for professional installation of the dual-fuel appliance. The delivery company gave us less than 24 hours' notice of delivery. We had to scramble to have an electrician install a new outlet so that the installation could happen. We did that. When the delivery crew showed up, they had no order for installation. The guys on the crew spoke almost no English and there was no way to get an explanation from them. To make it worse, AJ Madison was shut down for Rosh Hashanah and there was no way to get customer support, because even the call center was closed. Today, when I finally got a human from AJ Madison on the phone, I was told that "the installers don't install gas." THE GAS IS INSTALLED. They were supposed to hook it up, put the propane conversion kit in, and be on their way. Someone from AJ Madison is supposed to call me back. Still waiting. We are on DAY TWO of no way to cook in our house and I have a $4000 (yes, four thousand dollar) paperweight sitting in the middle of my kitchen. I will never . . . NEVER . . . order from AJ Madison again. This is the SECOND botched delivery (the first time, the non-English-speaking delivery people breached a "residents only" gate at my community and cost me a $50 fine because they didn't understand my instructions well enough to go to the correct gate). Never. Never. Never. If I could give them ZERO stars, I would. And No, I don't recommend them, as if there were any question.


