More than Happy to refund David’s Money

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Well its Jason Munson here and my face is a bit red from embarrassment over this situation. Let me take accountability for a few things. Number one it looks like the wrong part was sent out. Regardless of why, it’s my responsibility to make sure my customers get the right stuff.

Number two it looks like this didn’t get handled as quickly as it needed to for your satisfaction. Yes, we emailed you the form to send it back and yes you had a printer problem. Then we tried faxing it to you and we kept getting an error message saying your fax machine wouldn’t accept our fax. We could have just mailed it to you but Loraine went ahead and just arrange for you to send it back and we would deal with it on our end.

The form is very helpful for me to fix this stuff asap which is why I try to have you send it. It’s not meant to complicate anything. The intention is to get this fixed as quickly as possible. I’m sorry it turned out to be so frustrating.

I have setup this business so that I can service as many customers as possible. My assistant Loraine is a 31 year old single mom who works from her home. I have another company that supplies and ships all of my parts for me. I focus on answering the phone calls and technical support questions. The advertised phone number (530)-409-5051 is my personal cell phone number and yes I do answer it all the time even when it’s not convenient for me. In this instance a call took place as I was pulling into the parking lot at the gym. It would be really easy to just not take calls like that and let them go to voicemail. It would be even easier to have someone else answer the phone. How many stove shop owners give you their cell phone numbers? How many CEO’s of small businesses like mine advertise their cell numbers so the customers can talk to them directly rather than an employee?

The truth is I really do care about all of you out there and I want things to go right for you. I heat my house with a pellet stove too and I realize that a mistake on my end means your family could be going cold. I really try to think of how I would want to be treated if I were in your position and do my best to make sure you get the best possible service from me.

I wish I could say I have the process perfected but I don’t. When stuff like this happens the best I can do is to take care of it as quickly as possible and in the best way possible. I have team members to help me out as there is way too much for me to do and these people can make mistakes too which has made the problem worse in this instance.
David, this is my public apology to you for the trouble you have experienced. Forgive me for neglecting this situation to the extent that it has gone. I’m more than happy to refund your money or send you the correct part for free. If you would please respond on this forum or send me an email or call me with what you would like I’ll be more than happy to do it.

Best Wishes,

Jason Munson
 
I think that many of us here on the forum will have NO idea what this is all about.
 
Hello Jason,

I just wanted to say I can understand how you feel. My father in law used to do plumbing and heating and it was a very stressful job. From all types of calls coming in at all times and weather to unhappy customers. You cant keep them all happy but not knowing you and seeing you were able to come on the forum and take responsibility speaks volumes. Ok thats all lol.
 
I applaud your willingness to take responsibility for the situation and your very kind offer to compensate David as he sees fit. What more could one ask? Probably lessons were learned on both sides of the fence!

Welcome to the forum and, since you are a pellet stove owner, we hope you stick around and help out where you can. What brand stove do you have and what brand of pellets do you like?
 
Pelletfisky said:
Hello Jason,

I just wanted to say I can understand how you feel. My father in law used to do plumbing and heating and it was a very stressful job. From all types of calls coming in at all times and weather to unhappy customers. You cant keep them all happy but not knowing you and seeing you were able to come on the forum and take responsibility speaks volumes. Ok thats all lol.

X2. Some may call it CYA but you sound sincere to me and the explanation is plausible with an appropriate solution on your end. Not easy to stand in the middle of a fire but you seem willing. Integrity is rare lately. Glad to see it still exists and your reputation is more important to you than your pride. I applaud your efforts to rectify the situation and hopefully the other member involved will give you another chance.
 
@ Jason. Maybe you could try sending him a private message........ :roll:
 
Wi Thundercat said:
@ Jason. Maybe you could try sending him a private message........ :roll:

Yes, the customer was very private about the situation wasn't he? :roll:
 
I have sent him a private message and both Loraine and I have been in regular contact with him through email. This is making me check over our entire system. It just seems that there is a better way to take care of some of these issues. I keep records of everything and I'm going to look through all of our returns and any complaints we've had and see if there is something in common with them and see if there is something I can setup to reduce these situations.

I'm sending out about 20 orders a day or more right now which is a lot more than last year so I'm learning as we go where we can improve the system.

I appreciate those of you who are responding to this with understanding and I'm totally open to feedback. If you have suggestions, bring em on. I'd love to hear what you think.
 
Think your on the right track... Find the bumps and iron them out! ;-)
 
It's good to hear some business owners genuinely care about their reputation and their customers needs.
Thanks for trying to right a wrong .
 
Jason,

As far as I'm concerned, it takes quite a bit of intestinal fortitude to do what you are doing now. We don't know you, but as another poster said, you sound sincere. That thread was kicking the crap out of you. Hopefully, you can work out the details with him and quite frankly, how you do that is none of our business.

As a word of caution, there is a fine line between posting here and posting an advertisement here and the Moderators take that seriously. Be careful about posting too much about your business. A little bit is allowed as we have several stove shop owners, service guys and pellet suppliers as members here. There is a tremendous wealth of knowledge here and hopefully you will stick around and participate in that.
Knowing that you are a fellow pellet stove owner is great. You know what we go through! Welcome!
 
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