BUYER BEWARE !!! Don’t be fooled by the pretty pictures ! This is one of the worst companies to deal with. One major mistake after the other and they could care less about customer satisfaction. It was required that we use their ”certified“ installer and he basically skipped town after receiving our deposit. I have spent the last 4 weeks calling corporate trying to get my money back while addressing all the errors with our order. They sent incorrect material and delayed our job… the list of screw ups goes on and on. I keep hoping management will step up and do the right thing but after 4 weeks its not looking likely…
Hey Len Morris (CEO) if you reading this please call me theres so much more I’d like to tell you. You should be concerned if this is the way your company does business.
I was looking to add a glass and metal rail system to my small home project of duplexing my apartment with the basement. Called up Viewrail based on a friend’s recommendation. Good response time to request a quote. I gave Damon my dimensions and what I was looking for. He got back to me with a quote a bit higher than I was thinking it should cost. I asked him a couple questions via text and that’s where it ended. No “I’ll get back to you” or “let me work on that”. Just no response. After 3 days of no contact, I called another company, that came back with, not only a lower quote, drove a rep to my home to discuss my options with installation as well vs. Viewrail’s install it yourself cost.
I am providing this rating on two factors: (1) how long it takes them to actually fabricate and (2) how pathetic their delivery process is.
1.) Design / Fabrication
They provide a template with design data you must submit. My team did and they got the orientation backwards ("a software problem" which would have been mine if I didn't point it out). It took over a month of back and forth before they 'finished the design' and we could 'schedule' productions. Despite requesting expediting my order (it was placed a long time ago), I was told Black Friday Deals were pushing things out. It took a MONTH before they finished.
2.) Delivery was horrible (check out the photos)
a.) I repeatedly tried to reach my project manager to get the delivery ETA. He didn't respond by SMS, email or phone (I tried them all, multiple times). Finally he provided a vague "it should already be on its way" after few weeks.
b.) There was NO programmatic update telling my order was out for delivery. Are you kidding me? This is a $25k+ order!!!!
c.) the shipper calls the night before and demands I be prepared to receive 5 pallets the next day! Really? I asked for more time to ensure I had a crew and excavator only to be told I could have one extra day or be charged storage. Seriously???
d.) when the shipments arrived, they were mislabeled:
- still reflecting an original contact and company that placed the order a year prior and was no longer involved. I had asked ViewRail to update the contact to me multiple times but they failed to the end.
e.) the shipper had packages strewn throughout the truck and no clue where things were. I actually had to get on the truck and search. Further I had to move things WITH THE DRIVER!
f.) View Rail did a terrible job packaging an expensive shipment. Clearly there is no concern for getting me the product in good shape.
I would never order from them and will never do so ever again!!!!!