Andrea
Sale's team awesome, service department... needs a lot of work
This was a tough one. Pro's: The sale's staff was amazing to work with, friendly and very professional. Cons: The service department has been a nightmare to work with. We bought a brand new, 2017 Forest River Salem and it had a few things wrong from the factory... Which happens. Trying to make an appointment to get things fixed was a pain, trying to get through to the service desk, leaving messages, not getting called back. I had to have it in there 3 times within the first several months and each time I had to deal with a very, very rude service agent that always got assigned to my file. I'm huge on customer service and always try to be super nice to anyone that has to deal with the public. This guy always talked down to me, treated me like I was stupid and like I was personally insulting him each time I said something was wrong. It's a trailer, I know he didn't build it. Each thing I said was wrong he would argue with me, then once a tech investigated and validated my concerns, then he would be somewhat nice. Every time I went in he argued with me. It made it even more frustrating that I had to leave my trailer for up to two weeks at a time, it's a 3 hour round trip for me to take it in and I had to miss work two of the times to take it. On the third time I tried to call ahead to say I was bringing it a day early so I wouldn't have to miss work again, but couldn't reach anyone, so I just brought it. They flipped out on me for bringing it a day early. Bottom line, it's not hard to be nice. If someone who just spent a ton of money buying a brand new trailer has to bring it in, be nice. If they say something is wrong just say "I'm sorry to hear that, we'll take a look at it and see what we can find." See? Easy. Don't instantly turn it into an argument on how the customer must be mistaken or too dumb to use the trailer. The black water flush out valve: It wasn't working, no water would go in. He argued about it, treated me like I was stupid.... Turns out there was construction debris blocking the line, the line had to be replaced. The usb charge ports: half weren't working. He didn't believe me. Tech found that half had been wired backwards or not completely. There were a bunch more of these things, but those are a good example. It's so easy to create a positive experience, they need to take some lessons on how to treat people from the sale's staff... Also, if a person who just bought a trailer, especially a new one, has problems, try to get them in right away, don't make them wait weeks to bring it in, get them taken care of right away. Pad the service schedule a little bit to make it happen. It's frustrating to buy a new trailer and then not be able to use it.
Response from Broadmoor RV SuperStore Inc.Oct 18, 2017
Andrea your response is being forwarded to the appropriate manager, thank you for taking the time to review us.


