NO WAY! *vent*
05-06-2010, 04:50 AM
#16
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Outside St. Louis
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Good for you Charlee, Sorry to say lots of repairmen don't know what they are doing, we've had a furnace repairman tell me because I was able to get the furnace to come on, I had wiped the problem out of the computer and he couldn't tell what was wrong with it. He still charged me $90.00 for the service call, didn't even know how to get the door back on it. You can bet he won't be called again. Had a bad experience with an authorized Juki sewing machine dealer also.
05-06-2010, 05:12 AM
#17
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 6,689
Boy, you have to be careful, don't you? I just got a beautiful Singer treadle at an auction for $15.00!!! Now I need to find someone to carry up to my sewing room! Wish Billy lived closer so I could have him look at it!! They also had a white treadle, but the cabinet and machine were so beat up that no one even bid on it. Will post pix later.
05-06-2010, 05:57 AM
#18
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: South Carolina
Posts: 3,155
Bless you taking your machine from this nut.
I ask a so called certified Pfaff dealer just to look at one thread tension on my machine. I told him NOT to do any repairs.
The idiot said no problem. He BROKE my machine. It cost me over $800 to get what he did repaired. Another Pfaff dealer that knew what he was doing. Now I tell every person I see don't let "Sewing in the Carolinas' touch your machine.
My friend went there they sold her a broke machine.
They would not take the machine back. Thank goodness she had paid by credit card. This was before we new each other.
I ask a so called certified Pfaff dealer just to look at one thread tension on my machine. I told him NOT to do any repairs.
The idiot said no problem. He BROKE my machine. It cost me over $800 to get what he did repaired. Another Pfaff dealer that knew what he was doing. Now I tell every person I see don't let "Sewing in the Carolinas' touch your machine.
My friend went there they sold her a broke machine.
They would not take the machine back. Thank goodness she had paid by credit card. This was before we new each other.
05-06-2010, 06:11 AM
#19
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: North Central Texas
Posts: 656
I've certainly had my share of so called repairmen who supposedly knew their stuff. There is a certain dealership in Wichita FAlls TX that I refuse to darken their door for this very reason. Instead, I will drive the extra distance to Denton Sewing Center where they know what they're doing.
05-06-2010, 06:50 AM
#20
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: La Pine Oregon, USA
Posts: 5,907
Charlee -- hopefully that was someone in Redmond and not Bend, right???????
My mother had a Singer.....the repairman was an idiot (I think he's dead now, so it's not the same guy). Mom couldn't sew more than 5 stitches before the thread would break. FINALLY, after 10-15 times taking it to the shop, after a new repairman came to town, the new one discovered a piece of sharp metal down in the machine where the needle goes in. I'm sorry to see repairmen haven't improved any over the years!!!!
My mother had a Singer.....the repairman was an idiot (I think he's dead now, so it's not the same guy). Mom couldn't sew more than 5 stitches before the thread would break. FINALLY, after 10-15 times taking it to the shop, after a new repairman came to town, the new one discovered a piece of sharp metal down in the machine where the needle goes in. I'm sorry to see repairmen haven't improved any over the years!!!!
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