Ericksen Infiniti Edmonton screwing me.

shumby

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Here is the e-mail i sent the GM and Infiniti Canada after what I have beeen dealing with for the last few days. take a read and tell me what you think.:mad:



RE: fx50‏
From:View attachment 173314 Stephen Humby (stephenhumby@hotmail.com) Sent:July 9, 2009 2:01:05 PMTo: Brad Burgess (bburgess@ericksennissan.com); melissasperry@hotmail.comBcc: littleguy99@hotmail.com
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Glad to hear from you and I hope you had a good few days off. I am going to send you the e-mails in order I got from my wife and then the follow up I got from Dwayne Service manager.


To start I will give you what was this issue with the paint. The front door and fender a-piller and mirror were damaged from the shipping film coming loose. I took this into service and talked to Dwayne about it. It was attempted to be buffed out by your shop while I watched. This had very little effect. At this point I waited 1 hr for Alberts to open up and I drove the
FX over to him myself. We dissuced that it would need to be painted because power buffing a black car with the new clear will just leave swrils and scratches. We made an appointment at that time for the 6th or june to drop the car off. As I am in Russia my wife dropes the car off and is suprised to here that it is ready the next day. (e-mails below)


Wifes e-mail to me;



(No Subject)‏
From:View attachment 173315 melissa sperry (melissasperry@hotmail.com) Sent:July 7, 2009 1:22:49 PMTo: Stephen Humby (stephenhumby@hotmail.com)
.ExternalClass .EC_hmmessage P{padding:0px;}.ExternalClass body.EC_hmmessage{font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;}Not good...I got the car back today. It was raining cats and doggs out so I could not tell what kind of work was done. Brought it home washed it in the garage so I could see what was done. Basically nothing. did not paint anything. They tried to buff it out. Now the whole corner panel is swirled cratches and dull because the clear coat has been buffed off. I am pissed. Called the service manager. He basically said that is what was agreed upon. I said no it wasn;t . Said it was out of his hands and was gonna get the sales guy to talk to me later. Cluster fuck! Nothing like trying to scam the fucking customer. You are gonna have to try to call from Russia. They obviously are not taking me seriously and are trying to fuck me over. Oh they didn't have any paper work for me to sign so we are good on that end. I should have known that only having the car for one day meant they did not paint it. They only removed the piller 3M. The corner panel was left on as well as the mirror. Oh and the marks are still on the mirror too.

Sorry for the bad news.



I got this e-mail as soon as I arrived offshore on the rig. I was upset enough to stay up until 12 midnight to call the service dept at 7 am your time whice is when I got ahold of Dwayne. I explaned that this repair was not good enough and that me and Tony said it would need to be repainted. He informed me that Tony told him that we only aggreed on a power polish and that I was calling Tony a liar. He said the matter was out of his hands and it would have to wait for me to return to deal with. I said my wife is 50% owner of the car and that it will not have to wait. I also said that if this was the best we could do I will stop payments on the FX and it will be parked in the lot and you can have it back. At this point he sid he will call my wife tomorrow to see what he can do. I asked for your e-mail and infiniti canada consumers affares # and he said he did not have them but if I e-mail him he would get it for me.



My e-mail to him;

FX50S pain issues‏
From:View attachment 173314 Stephen Humby (stephenhumby@hotmail.com) Sent:July 8, 2009 5:02:52 AMTo: info@erickseninfiniti.com; melissasperry@hotmail.com
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Dwayne;


My wife dropped our new FX50S off to get the paint issue taken care of on the front quatre pannel door and mirror. She said that the pannels were not repainted and looks worse then before. She also informes me that you told her that all we agreed on was a polish. This is a lie and I do not accept the work that was done to repar this car. I am currently in Russia and feel that you are trying to take advantage of this issue with my wife. I will issue a stop payment from my bank on the FX and you can have it back. I bought this truck over other dealers as you service in the past has been a+. This incident however is unacceptable. Tony at alberts agreeed that it needed to be painted. I did not feel you were going to be a dealership that would try to pull the wool over my eyes but now it appeares so. I will wait to hear back from you via e-mail in the next 2 working days, as my working houres on the rig are opposite from working houres in Canada. This issue will now be brought up with infinii canada as well. I will not accept a $75K car with a abviously flawed paint job.



After this e-mail I received this back from my wife;


RE: ‏
From:View attachment 173315 melissa sperry (melissasperry@hotmail.com) Sent:July 8, 2009 1:49:02 PMTo: Stephen Humby (stephenhumby@hotmail.com)
.ExternalClass .EC_hmmessage P{padding:0px;}.ExternalClass body.EC_hmmessage{font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;}I went into infiniti. they were only nice to me because you had called. Gonna get the car in for the 20th of July. Could have been right away but they did not have a car for me. They are painting the front fender, door, mirror, A piller and they scatched the shinny plastic by the window on the door when i had it in the last time, so I asked for that to be replaced too. Then i double checked about the 3M and that will be done after the paint sets. You may want to get things double checked and mention the plastics piece by the window on the door so they do not forget. I even took the vehicle in to show them. Took me into his office, I guess so I woould not make a scene who knows.






I then got this reply back from Dwayne; (in all caps so I assume he is yelling)



RE: Ericksen Infiniti Nissan - 2009 Infiniti FX50‏
From:View attachment 173315 Dwayne Dyck (ddyck@ericksennissan.com) Sent:July 8, 2009 5:52:56 PMTo: 'Stephen Humby' (stephenhumby@hotmail.com)
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I had still not gotten your e-mail or infiniti canadas # from him as requested so I replied yet again;

RE: Ericksen Infiniti Nissan - 2009 Infiniti FX50‏
From:View attachment 173314 Stephen Humby (stephenhumby@hotmail.com) Sent:July 8, 2009 7:25:57 PMTo: ddyck@ericksennissan.com
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Dwayne;

Thank you for dealing with this. However I am a little upset that my wife had to come in and see you and had not received phone call the following day as you said she would. I would still like to know what Tony had to say about the job. I would still also like to receive the GM's and sales managers e-mail from you as well as infiniti canada's consumers affairs number.

I would also like to receive an e-mail from you detailing what repairs you will be doing to the car. ( ie what will be painted assurance the the infiniti self healing clear will be used and the scratches on the trim my wife pointed out to you ) as well as confirmation that you will pay to replace the 3M at Clear Choice Auto. In the past I would not feel the need to get this in writing but now I do as once it is in writing there should be no one calling anyone a liar. I feel we should have tried to get this "right the first time". NOw it will take another 3 weeks to get done and in the mean time my wife is driving around a fairly poor advertisement for Ericksen Infiniti and the whole Go Auto group. Not to mention a poor reflection on me and how i usually take care of my cars.


Regards;

Stephen Humby





And now this morning I get up and have this rather nasty e-mail back from Dwayne which I find unacceptable from a service Manager.


RE: Ericksen Infiniti Nissan - 2009 Infiniti FX50‏
From:View attachment 173315 Dwayne Dyck (ddyck@ericksennissan.com) Sent:July 9, 2009 6:31:00 AMTo: 'Stephen Humby' (stephenhumby@hotmail.com)
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I realize that I am not you only customer and that it does take time for things to happen. My wife did her best to deal with the situation and Dwayne blew her off. It took a phone call from me from russia to get action. And during this action I have been called a lier and treated as if I am trying to scam your compaine. I donot think that my request to have the work that is to be done put in writting as out of line. I am now simply dealing with Ericksen as I would anyother business transaction. I am still requesting Infiniti Canada'number and to have the work that will be preformed supplied to me in writting. I also would not like to have my wife deal with Dwayne anymore as I feel my dealings with him may have an affect on his dealings with her. Looking forward to hearing back from you as soon as you get a chance. I feel sorry that this transaction has made me feal I can no longer treat ericksen as a enjoyable experiance when I visit, and that now it needs to be delt with strictly as bussiness.



Regards;

Stephen Humby
 
holy Sh*t!! wtf what is going on with dealerships now days.... customer service suck ass... anyway man i hope everything get solved... good luck
 
ya I cannot post on driver as i am blocked out here for some reason so I had to get someone to post it for me. Feel free to copy this and update that thread too. I would apprciate that.
 
ya I cannot post on driver as i am blocked out here for some reason so I had to get someone to post it for me. Feel free to copy this and update that thread too. I would apprciate that.
There is a link on driver to the g37 board so they can read all your emails Shumby.
 
Your wife has the summer off and comes in before I am prepared and you think I am not following up. Give me a break.

I don't get it. I thought he said he did what was agreed between you and Sales, and that it was now out of his hands. What was he not prepared for? :dontknow:
 
I don't get it. I thought he said he did what was agreed between you and Sales, and that it was now out of his hands. What was he not prepared for? :dontknow:


Ya funny it was out of his hands when speaking with my wife but after I call it seems he is back on the case. lol Next time I go in I am bringing him a kitkat so he can have a break. What a way to talk to a customer though. I never expected it. I think all my e-mails were calm and professtional. But what do you guys think were any parts of my e-mails out of line? There is some language in my wifes e-mails but those were only to me and not to the dealer.
 
I have bought Nissans and the FX from Ericksen. They were very customer driven back in the the mid to late 90's and that's why I've recommended so many people to buy from them. Their service dept was awesome from 97 to about 2005, then there was a decline to an all time low in 2006-07. It got to a point where I was on the verge of never returning back to them, including the purchase of any future Nissan or Infiniti. Believe it or not, the service dept has improved since last spring. Still needs a ton of improvements though.

It's too bad your FX experience has been less than stellar so far.
 
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yeah man, i don't think you were out of line at all. You could tell your wife was just a tad pissed off though. lol! However, the service manager sounded annoyed and irritated that you were still not happy..

in the end, I hope your repaint turns out well.

Im going in tomorrow morning for service as well, and it seems my dealer was just acquired by the Sewell group.. hope the service dept hasnt changed...
 
You were definitely not out of line in any of the emails. This problem is the dealerships fault and responsibility, not yours. If anything the GM was out of line, deceitful, and acted immaturely. I'm sorry this happened to you, hopefully everything works out so you and your wife can enjoy your awsome 50s!!
 
Well. No e-mail from the GM last week even though I sent him a reminder on thursday.


Reminder:


From: stephenhumby@hotmail.com
To: bburgess@ericksennissan.com
CC: melissasperry@hotmail.com
Subject:
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12View attachment 17332113 -0600

Brad;


As per my wife's e-mail I am looking forward to getting a reply from you on the issue with my FX50s' paint and my dealings with the service manager. My wife is do to drop the truck off on Monday. I hope she will get the work that is to be preformed in writing. Including type of paint used assurance infiniti self healing clear will be used and that the mirror and other trim scratches that were caused by the initial "repair" will be fixed and how they will be fixed.


Regards
Stephen Humby



Well I let that slid as they can be busy people. Well my wife dropped the car off about 1-2 hours ago and she tells me that they gave her nothing in writing. So she called back and now they said they will e-mail it to me today. I hope they get it right this time. I used to stick up for the dealership telling them I never had any issues. If they can make it right this time I will still keep doing it.


And if anyone from the dealership is readingView attachment 173322 We should try to get these things right the first time. Comunication is key. I am in Russia 70 miles off shore and still can find ways to comunicate. Information and comunication are key to good customer relations. And you never know howmeny people read these forms.








Update coming later today
 
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