Horrible customer service

jthog85

This is in regards to incident #200628-000062. I have owned a magnifi mini soundbar system for less than a year. It WAS a great sound system and I loved it, until recently, when my sound bar wouldn't power on. I immediately called polk, as it is still covered under warranty. After waiting hours on hold several days in a row without reaching anyone, I gave up and wrote an email. I received an automated email saying my product was on the way. What product I wondered, since I hadn't even spoke with anyone. I decided to call back, an hour and a half later I get a hold of someone who tells me a new soundbar is on the way. Well a week later a remote shows up in the mail. Weird I thought. So I decided to call back. 2 more hours on hold and I'm talking to someone who assures me they made a mistake and a new soundbar is on the way. 1 week goes by, then two, now 3 weeks and I am dreading calling back and wasting an afternoon but I give in. Finally another hour and a half on hold and I reach someone. Now he tells me the product is out of stock and it will be at least two more weeks before it is back in stock!!! I politely and calmly explained my situation to him and he said there was nothing he could do but transfer me to a supervisor. So 45 mins later the supervisor tells me all he can do for me is expedite the shipping when the product eventually arrives (2-3 weeks from now). I've been dealing with this relatively new soundbar issue for over a month already and I am still at square one. Not to mention the massive amount of time I have wasted on the phone and Polk can't even offer me an upgrade or even credit towards another purchase? Apparently their customers are not worth it to them because they just lost one. I'm just in huge disbelief at how atrocious the customer service is and I will be warning everyone I know that even though their product's might be good, Polk seems to have a really difficult time providing basic customer service to existing customers and they must also have a hard time fulfilling their warranty claims.

rooftop59

Sorry to hear this. Agree that it is not how you should respond to customer issues. It didn't use to be that way fwiw.

perhaps the retired Ken will help you out @KennethSwauger

BlueFox

This seems to be a theme with service. Over the last year or so there have been multiple posts like yours. Interestingly, they are always about soundbar issues. Good luck.

[Deleted User]

Hello,
I'm sorry for the frustration this has caused, I'll forward this on to Kim Jasper the head of Polk CS.