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Dewalt DWS 780 Mitre Saw, not so great warranty service
I'm a DIY and bought a DeWalt dws780 mitre saw 9 months ago. I use it sporadically, and love the performance and the cut line feature. However, the cut line feature stopped working last week. My issue is with the DeWalt warranty service. Beyond atrocious. I live in Calgary, Canada, so called the 1-800 number which I think routes calls to the US. They had no clue where any city in Canada is located. Calgary has over a million people, Home Depots and Lowe's and other power tool stores all over the place. DeWalt is a very popular brand but DeWalt has no factory service here. They suggested I call their nearest factory service, in Edmonton, which is 200 miles away. They did not know if there were any authorized DeWalt service centres in Calgary. I called Edmonton. They offered to give me a shipping label to ship the saw to Edmonton. Once it arrived they thought 4-6 weeks to repair, and then they would ship it back to me. You have to question DeWalt's sanity in offering to ship a 68 pound mitre saw 200 miles and back to fix a light. I didn't want to be without the saw for the 6+ weeks it would take on it's round trip journey, so I quickly sleuthed the there were two authorized service shops is Calgary. The news was slightly better. I could drop the saw off, which I am happy to do, and it would be 4-6 weeks at one shop, or 3-4 weeks at the other. I dropped it off at the latter shop, and suppose I should be happy that I'll be without the saw for only 3-4 weeks. If I was a contractor dependent on my expensive mitre saw for a month, I'd be livid. As a DIY, I'm only p*ssed.

