Nicola Henry
Nightmare! Had no cooker for 8 days over Easter! X4 Kids at home as half-term! We had to buy takeaways for our dinners as we were eating soup, cereal & sandwiches for breakfast and lunches. AO decided to disconnect & remove my old cooker, refused to reinstall it, which left us with no cooker to use for 8 days! BEWARE the ACTUAL size of the Smeg Dual Fuel Range Cookers depth is 65mm due to the oven door HANDLES but it's not STATED ANYWHERE under the specs. AO confirmed with me on an initial phone call that the dimensions were 60mm x 89.7mm and correct size for my kitchen space. AO Please go find & listen to that recording! No agent bothered to say that those dimensions given on the websites product pages aren't always accurate because the manufacturers sizing does not always include or account for things such as handled protruding! RIDICULOUS! This LACK OF CRUCIAL INFORMATION caused THE FIRST failed attempted delivery. As far as we knew, the old and new cookers were like for like size wise. My old cooker was TAKEN OUT just fine. The delivery team was asked to put back in the old cooker when they couldn't get the new cooker through the kitchen door. THEY REFUSED! This left a household including a disabled child & vulnerable people without any means of cooking meals!CRUEL! When I called up to complain AO were non chalant, blasé & their excuse was that the manufacturer provides spec dimensions, they said "we don't go round with a measuring tape checking the dimensions of all our appliances". How rude! Because of this lack of VITAL INFORMATION on SIZE we went without a cooker for much longer than was necessary. Had the new cooker made it through the kitchen doorway, they would have discovered the hot zone issue EARLIER, on the 25th not 31st March! We would have had the chance to resolve the problems BEFORE it RUINED our Easter bank Holiday weekend! Another lesson learned is that if you pay for premium installation, AO delivery team/gas safe engineers are extremely strict about cooker hood distance, mine was just 5mm off. YEAH for safety! If you have ANYTHING less than perfect gas pipework they'll ABORT & ABANDON you without completing your cooker installation! We were left high and dry, had to source & pay our own private gas engineer to install the cooker! Keiran at AO customer service was supportive when I explained the turmoil, he asked me to email them our receipts as proof of out of pocket expenditure. He said we would likely be reimbursed under these circumstances. We have spent £400>on takeaway food, evidenced by receipts, that's x3 meals per day for x6 people over 8 days. Money that we WOULDN'T HAVE HAD to spend if we had any means of making a hot meal! AO didn't care about how this affects us financially during a cost of living crisis. They refused to reimburse us but offered £30 goodwill gesture! We accepted the gesture but still expected at least £300 reimbursed for the inconvenience caused by THEIR FAILURES (delivery guys taking away our cooker and false dimensions on the product spec). The whole experience has been awful, extremely distressing not to mention disappointing. AO need to do way better by their customers. The very least AO can do now is to help us recover from our terrible experience by offering a reimbursement of our forced expenses. Can't comment on the Smeg cooker as it's STILL not been installed yet. If AO choose to leave us customers like this, without any further offer of compensation, we will never recommend AO to anyone & will share our awful experiences and opinions everywhere we can to warn others.
3 weeks ago
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