Brett H.
Traeger Pellet Smoker Warranty is Poor Quality
I had the Traeger Pellet Smoker for less than a year. It started showing an error at 170 -190 degrees and would shut down. It wouldn't reach full temp. I cleaned and did all the required maintenance to the letter and still no help. I called customer service and they kept me on the phone forever having me take the grill apart, disconnect wires, get on video calls for them to verify what I was doing, they determined that they couldn't determine the problem so the man told me that he was sending the entire assembly on the side of the grill (Hopper, controller, auger motor, etc) that way it would cure the issue. Two weeks later, I get a piece of wire in the mail. I called back 6 times on hold for an hour and a half... Finally got through and the new guy tells me there was no such order put in to replace all the assemble and that the part I received was the igniter. I was to replace the igniter even though the guy on the phone two week prior determined that the pellets was igniting and burning fine. The dude on the phone now wants me to go back through the entire diagnostics with him and waste two more hours waiting on them to stand behind their warranty while I am the one missing work and losing time with a product I purchased to cook on. Anyway, the guy said he couldn't send me anything else without me going through the diagnostics debacle again and I told him that if he wanted that done to send someone qualified to fix the warranted product... Obviously that's not in their wheelhouse. Traeger is a serious waste of time and money. They work good when they work, but obviously, when they don't work, they want to be as cheap as possible, no matter how long it takes, and no matter how long you go without a working grill... I don't advise anyone to buy these products because if you do have problems, their warranty is the bottom of the barrel.
