Guardian Pest Solutions Nightmare
Out of all my experiences with companies over the 30 plus years of my life, I have never experienced a situation quite like this. This tops it for me, as the worst customer experience, I have ever had. I wish I could go back in time, and slap myself for ever googling for pest control in my area and picking this local company in Superior, Wisconsin. Maybe you had good service with them, and I guess, great for you, but I did not. I understand they may be understaffed, but pick up the damn phone and call your customers. I understand it may be difficult to hire techs, but it shouldn't be hard to hire more customer care folks to call customers who are not getting any service when they hire you.
As background, I work in the software IT business. I am a high level engineer who works tickets with my company, submitted by our customers. I work customer service, every single day. It is what I excel at, outside of my technical skills, and I know how 1. you should deal with upset customers and 2. how important it is to communicate clearly and finally 3. how utterly important it is to do what you say you are going to do, and follow through. This does not take a college degree to understand. This is simple, very simple, stuff.
I would have to say I simply cannot (and I tried to be nice and remove my original 1 star review here when they attempted to make up for the first half of this issue) recommend this company to anyone.
Because of character limit, I have to cut to the chase on what I experienced:
Basically, hired a company to provide me pest control for outside my house (May). Did not show up for over a month after hiring them. Called in to complain/cancel part of service (July). No show. Called back in to cancel service entirely, and requested my account be deleted (Mid July). They apologize and say they want to do service for free now. Okay. Guy finally comes out (July 26th), does some stuff, idk, doesn't talk to me. Leaves $400 plus bill in door. Call in. Supervisor swears to me I won't be charged, says there will be a note on my account. 14 days later (Aug 9th), still get charged. Card declines at dinner because of it. Have to call back in next day to try and get a refund. Rep says they don't see my cancelling, I get raise my voice, threatens to hang up on me (I am not cursing, or attacking her verbally). Speak with another rep, finally get memories jogged. Get a call back that the charge will be refunded. (Aug 10th)
Actors:
Adrian - Office Supervisor who promised I wouldn't be charged
Nicole - Needs to learn that telling an upset customer who got charged over $400 for something they didn't ask for, is not grounds to threaten to hang up on them. Get customer service training.
Julie - Probably only innocent person here, not her fault in my opinion that any of this happened. Actually showed that she cared about my situation. Good on Julie, someone give her a raise.
Over Night Dude (did not get name, called and got him at 7:30 PM) - I don't know what you exactly do for guardian, but good on you for getting a job where you can sit back and literally say to a customer that you can't even look up their account "I just work the night shift. Sorry". Right. Sweet gig you got here.
Owners of this company - Implore you to review this situation with the above and learn from it. If you can't hire more techs to make commitments, then maybe have customer reps call proactively to customers to explain why they aren't getting service. This is common sense business stuff. Come on. Sorry, you get the review you deserve.