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MdlMkr 7.62
04-25-2009, 09:03 AM
6 weeks ago I bought a Glock 19 pistol with night sights. I took it home and that evening noticed that the front night sight was dead. I returned the unfired pistol to the gunshop the next day. The shop offered to swap it out for a different pistol. The 2 other pistols they had were equiped with dead sights too. The shop took my pistol in to be sent back for repairs.

I waited 3 weeks and inquired as to the status of my pistol. I was told that They were waiting on sights from Glock and that Glock told them that Glock didn't want the pistols sent back for repair - they'd send sights to the shop & have the shop arrange fixing them.

Now it's 6 weeks into this thing and I still have no pistol. I called Glock - (as they have no email??) and told my story to 4 different people before talking to "Fred" in their repair dept. Fred told me he'd send me a sight and I could have it installed and then send them the old sight back(at my expense). I asked him for a couple of extra magazines and maybe a t-shirt for my trouble and for having my $650 for purchasing the pistol tied up for 6 weeks without having ever used the pistol or a repair date.

Fred laughed - yes he laughed and said "I'm not going to send you $50 worth of magazines and even I can't get a Glock t-shirt so the answer to that is NO" I reiterated that I had $650 tied up and no pistol and that I was going to facilitate the repair. He told me he'd give me 1 magazine and I was lucky to get that. I replied if I was lucky I have a Glock that was factory-perfect and in my posession not the gunshop's safe for 6 weeks waiting on parts and I am going to pay for return shipping of the sight!. He replied "take it or leave it"

I kept my voice level and civil while we talked.

Having purchased a dud is one thing but being laughed and talked rudely at is the icing on the cake.

I called back 2 times and talked with 7 more people who couldn't / wouldn't help. I left 2 voice mails over 2 days whith customer service which weren't returned.

Glock was famous for great customer service but apparently that has changed. At this point I just want my money / credit from the shop to buy a S&W M&P pistol.

I'm really dissappointed in Glock. I most likely will not purchase another one ever

7.62

Beprepared
07-03-2009, 03:21 AM
Mdlmkr I'm sorry you have had such a terrible experience. Perhaps it was the postage waiting game...

Being lucky enough to live close to ATL and having an excuse to drive through every month or so I'm able to swing by the Smyrna headquarters when I have a problem with my G21 or G30.

I have posted a rather lengthy post on another forum about my personal dealings with Glock, you can find here (http://www.neardeathexperiments.com/smf/index.php?topic=2389.0) that detail excellent customer service.

Granted the fact that I was at the US HQ might have had something to do with it.