Horrible customer service
If you order from this company, you better pray you don’t have to deal with any customer service issues. It appears the owner, Daniel, has anger issues and has no respect at all for his customers. I can’t imagine how he treats his staff.
On February 2, 2021, I placed on order for two 6ft outdoor kitchen island frames and several cut out kits. About 10 days later my order arrived with several parts missing including 2 frame braces. On February 13, 2021 I sent an email to DIYBBQ informing them of the missing parts and requesting replacement parts. I received no reply, no confirmation of receipt. I then called their 800 number and spoke to a very nice you lady who told me that the email on the website goes directly to the owner and he hardly looks at the emails so she asked me to send the email directly to her and she would get the parts out to me. And so I waited. After not receiving replies to my various emails and not receiving the missing parts, I again emailed DIYBBQ requesting the missing parts and even offering to pay for expedited shipment. In the last email I sent, I used the email chain that started with my original order and continued through all the requests for the missing parts. This time I finally received a response from what I know understand was the Owner, Daniel. His response? “What 2 braces are you referring to?” I was shocked. First of all, all the information was right there in the email chain, from the original order, to the pictures of the frame that arrived, to the missing parts. I replied, “Excuse me? The 2 braces that were missing from my order. The ones I called about and was told they were mailed out and I should have them in 2 days. That was last Monday and they still haven’t arrived.” Again, I received no reply so I sent an email threating to file a dispute through my payment company. The next day I called about my parts again and a very nice lady was attempting to help me when Daniel took the phone and in an extremely angry torn told me, “You know what? You want to file disputes, then send me back my frames. You want to be a tough guy and file disputes? You could have had a beautiful kitchen at a great price but now you can pay someone $20k to build it for you, how does that sound tough guy?” I was shocked and speechless. I could not believe he was speaking to a customer this way and upset because of an issue they created and made worse by not following through and making it right. I won’t go into everything that Daniel said to me but I grew up in New York and he reminded me of some the characters in knew in Brooklyn, it was truly surreal. In short, Daniel is making me send back the frame kits I ordered, and at my request, he cancelled another pending order I had placed with them. The sad part of all this is that their frames are a really great solution to a DIY outdoor kitchen and actually a lot of fun to put together. The the customer service and the owner are totally on another level horrible. I can’t image working for this man. Since my phone call with Daniel I have since researched his company and found a string of bad reviews, mostly all related to Daniel himself and/or the customer service DIYBBQ provides.
Bottom line, great product but you better hope everything arrives as it should because if you have to deal with any customer service issues, your experience will go south very, very quickly.
P.S. There were other parts missing from my shipment, specifically, 3 metal studs but I discovered these missing after I had already requested the missing braces so I was going to buy these parts locally to not deal with DIYBBQ. Also, I had sent DIYBBQ my outdoor kitchen configuration and equipment list for them to recommend the frames I would need. They recommended two 2 ft frames modules, WRONG? You can’t fit a 40ft Lion Grill and a Lion 2 burner drop in on a 6ft frame. Like is said, products are good, company is very bad. They really don’t know what they are doing.
February 24, 2021
Unprompted review