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Great Customer Service at SVS

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Honestly, just tired of seeing the misleading post about terrible customer service bumped over and over again.   Until it disappears I figured I would simply get a more truthful post going along side of it.

 

My PB2000 arrived.  I used it for a day and it quit working.  Called SVS and they had me pull the amp to check for loose connections.  Wiggling the circuit board caused the sub to come on and off.  They sent a new amp which arrived the next day.  Everything working fine since then.  Looking forward to doing some more REW testing starting probably wednesday, along with some EQ attempts and possibly even testing dual subs.
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Know ones perfect including SVS(although never opened that thread). SVS IMHO and most others would agree set the standards in customer service....


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SVS has great customer service.  They are fast to respond, and are quite helpful with reasonable requests.  And they make a great product, at a great price.  If they continue as they have, I will never recommend any other brand of subwoofer, or buy any other brand myself.  Sure, there are other good subwoofers, but you cannot go wrong with SVS.
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Originally Posted by bear123  /t/1519382/great-customer-service-at-svs#post_24396840


Honestly, just tired of seeing the misleading post about terrible customer service bumped over and over again.   Until it disappears I figured I would simply get a more truthful post going along side of it.


My PB2000 arrived.  I used it for a day and it quit working.  Called SVS and they had me pull the amp to check for loose connections.  Wiggling the circuit board caused the sub to come on and off.  They sent a new amp which arrived the next day.  Everything working fine since then.  Looking forward to doing some more REW testing starting probably wednesday, along with some EQ attempts and possibly even testing dual subs.


OP, until you can guarantee their customer service is 100% for each and every transaction, I don't think you can judge against what someone else's experience might be. There are great companies out there but they have at least one customer that they did not please. It's not possible to please everyone all the time. I'm glad you had a good experience, even though I would never associate getting a product that's DOA as a good experience, that doesn't diminish what happened to someone else.

I disagree.  The other thread's title implied terrible customer service from a company known for great customer service, when in reality, his issue was with the shipping company. Also, great customer service is not defined by one customers experience as compared to 99 others, but rather is better defined by the experience of 99 out of 100.

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Originally Posted by bear123  /t/1519382/great-customer-service-at-svs#post_24398239


I disagree.  The other thread's title implied terrible customer service from a company known for great customer service, when in reality, his issue was with the shipping company. Also, great customer service is not defined by one customers experience as compared to 99 others, but rather is better defined by the experience of 99 out of 100.

I'm not defending that other thread in any way but I would definitely disagree with your definition of good customer service. If your product is worth any at all, most will be ok with it. It's what you do when there' s a problem that defines you as a company. As long as everything fine, it's smooth sailing and no one really knows who you are as a company. You show your true face under extreme adversity. Not necessarily just shipping out a part to a customer. What do you do when you ship that part and it doesn't arrive or that customer has no idea what in the world to do with it?


I'm glad you're happy with your experience but as I said, had I bought a brand new sub from Dr. Hsu and it stopped working after the first use, I would have been sure to let people know about it. Sure, if it had happened 6 months down the road, I could understand but not right out the box. That's acceptable for you so that's cool. I'm not for or against SvS..never owned anything from them but don't just jump to the point of saying what someone else is saying isn't true just because you have had a different experience. Again, this is just in general. I don't support anything being said in that other thread. I believe I posted in it a few times and decided it was all pointless and left it be.
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Originally Posted by Prime316  /t/1519382/great-customer-service-at-svs#post_24398229


I'm glad you had a good experience, even though I would never associate getting a product that's DOA as a good experience . . .

Then don't buy any subwoofers off the Internet. Shipping can cause damage. There's just no way around that for the manufacturers. SVS double boxes their subs with good padding, and that's the best that they can do.

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Originally Posted by Prime316  /t/1519382/great-customer-service-at-svs#post_24398229


I'm glad you had a good experience, even though I would never associate getting a product that's DOA as a good experience . . .

Then don't buy any subwoofers off the Internet. Shipping can cause damage. There's just no way around that for the manufacturers. SVS double boxes their subs with good padding, and that's the best that they can do.
 

He better not buy one in a store, either, as they are shipped to the store, and it could have gotten damaged on the way there, too.

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Originally Posted by cel4145  /t/1519382/great-customer-service-at-svs#post_24398286


Then don't buy any subwoofers off the Internet. Shipping can cause damage. There's just no way around that for the manufacturers. SVS double boxes their subs with good padding, and that's the best that they can do.

Great job picking out a line without context and giving a response not even relevant to what's being said.



The entire point here again is that just because you think you had a great experience with something, doesn't mean that next person is lying or going overboard about their experience because it wasn't a positive one for them. I don't see how anyone can dispute that. That's just common sense.

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Originally Posted by bear123  /t/1519382/great-customer-service-at-svs#post_24396840


Honestly, just tired of seeing the misleading post about terrible customer service bumped over and over again.   Until it disappears I figured I would simply get a more truthful post going along side of it.


My PB2000 arrived.  I used it for a day and it quit working.  Called SVS and they had me pull the amp to check for loose connections.  Wiggling the circuit board caused the sub to come on and off.  They sent a new amp which arrived the next day.  Everything working fine since then.  Looking forward to doing some more REW testing starting probably wednesday, along with some EQ attempts and possibly even testing dual subs.


OP, until you can guarantee their customer service is 100% for each and every transaction, I don't think you can judge against what someone else's experience might be. There are great companies out there but they have at least one customer that they did not please. It's not possible to please everyone all the time. I'm glad you had a good experience, even though I would never associate getting a product that's DOA as a good experience, that doesn't diminish what happened to someone else.
 

No, the OP does not have to guarantee that everything is great for everyone always to their satisfaction.  If you read the thread to which the OP is referring, the complainer indicates that he has a problem with SVS trying to find out what happened to the missing subwoofers, and just wants them to trust him and send him another pair and just suck up the loss, without a proper investigation.  SVS wants to know what happened in the delivery process, and the customer refuses to help them do so.  Then he posts online that their customer service sucks, when, in fact, if one reads what he claims they have done, demonstrates the opposite.

 

So, the OP is absolutely right that the other thread is giving a very misleading impression with its title, and I can certainly understand a dislike for such a false impression.

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Originally Posted by Jack D Ripper  /t/1519382/great-customer-service-at-svs#post_24398378


No, he does not have to guarantee that everything is great for everyone always to their satisfaction.  If you read the thread to which he is referring, the complainer indicates that he has a problem with SVS trying to find out what happened to the missing subwoofers, and just wants them to trust him and send him another pair and just suck up the loss, without a proper investigation.  SVS wants to know what happened in the delivery process, and the customer refuses to help them do so.  Then he posts online that their customer service sucks, when, in fact, if one reads what he claims they have done, demonstrates the opposite.


So, the OP is absolutely right that the other thread is giving a very misleading impression with its title, and I can certainly understand a dislike for such a false impression.


I am familiar with the other thread. I wasn't speaking towards the meat of that thread so much as this thread tries to prove that SVS can do no wrong. Without even doing business with them, I can tell you that this isn't true. I can say this because no company does all it should do for all customers each and every time out. I speak from many years of experience.
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Originally Posted by Prime316  /t/1519382/great-customer-service-at-svs#post_24398401


I am familiar with the other thread. I wasn't speaking towards the meat of that thread so much as this thread tries to prove that SVS can do no wrong. Without even doing business with them, I can tell you that this isn't true. I can say this because no company does all it should do for all customers each and every time out. I speak from many years of experience.


If you have never owned one of their subs, and never had any experience with their customer service, what are you doing posting in this SVS thread?
Of course there are exceptions to every rule, but SVS all things considered has one of the best customer service reputations out there, so I don't understand your devils advocate type posts unless you are just flat out bored and have nothing better to do on this fine Sunday.


I have owned (and still own) 4 SVS subs in the last almost 10 years and have had to deal with warranty issues a few times in all those years. I would put my experience with SVS customer service right at the top of all companies I have dealt with over the years (would also put one or two other companies in that same class such as Carada). The few issues I have had over the years were dealt with VERY promptly, kindly and met or exceeded my expectations. Bottom line is SVS is absolutely first rate to deal with are very deserving of their fantastic reputation.
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Originally Posted by Jack D Ripper  /t/1519382/great-customer-service-at-svs#post_24398378


No, he does not have to guarantee that everything is great for everyone always to their satisfaction.  If you read the thread to which he is referring, the complainer indicates that he has a problem with SVS trying to find out what happened to the missing subwoofers, and just wants them to trust him and send him another pair and just suck up the loss, without a proper investigation.  SVS wants to know what happened in the delivery process, and the customer refuses to help them do so.  Then he posts online that their customer service sucks, when, in fact, if one reads what he claims they have done, demonstrates the opposite.


So, the OP is absolutely right that the other thread is giving a very misleading impression with its title, and I can certainly understand a dislike for such a false impression.


I am familiar with the other thread. I wasn't speaking towards the meat of that thread so much as this thread tries to prove that SVS can do no wrong. Without even doing business with them, I can tell you that this isn't true. I can say this because no company does all it should do for all customers each and every time out. I speak from many years of experience.
 

No one said that SVS can do no wrong.  That is not implied by saying that they have great customer service.  The simple fact is, they do have great customer service. And if you are right that "no company does all it should do for all customers each and every time out", I have not seen any evidence of that for SVS.  I have never read or heard of anyone ever having anything other than a proper response from them.  Including people who complain about them, such as in the thread to which this one is a response.  Now that I have written that, I expect someone to write up some BS story to point out to me.  But even if someone pointed to a true story in which they did not do everything they should have done in some particular case, it would not mean that they do not have great customer service.  "Great" does not mean "invariably perfect."

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Originally Posted by Toe  /t/1519382/great-customer-service-at-svs#post_24398462


If you have never owned one of their subs, and never had any experience with their customer service, what are you doing posting in this SVS thread?
Of course there are exceptions to every rule, but SVS all things considered has one of the best customer service reputations out there, so I don't understand your devils advocate type posts unless you are just flat out bored and have nothing better to do on this fine Sunday.


I have owned (and still own) 4 SVS subs in the last almost 10 years and have had to deal with warranty issues a few times in all those years. I would put my experience with SVS customer service right at the top of all companies I have dealt with over the years (would also put one or two other companies in that same class such as Carada). The few issues I have had over the years were dealt with VERY promptly, kindly and met or exceeded my expectations. Bottom line is SVS is absolutely first rate to deal with are very deserving of their fantastic reputation.

I am here because I am a member of these forums and can pretty much post where I please. I chose to respond to this thread because this thread was created not because the OP wanted to let everyone know about his great experience, it was created just because another thread is in existence. If the OP had a point, he could have probably put it there.

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Originally Posted by Prime316  /t/1519382/great-customer-service-at-svs#post_24398495


I am here because I am a member of these forums and can pretty much post where I please. I chose to respond to this thread because this thread was created not because the OP wanted to let everyone know about his great experience, it was created just because another thread is in existence. If the OP had a point, he could have probably put it there.


Of course you can post where you want
, I just don't get the mentality of doing so with a company/product you have never owned. Wish I had your kind of free time and I have quite a bit these days unfortunately! That other thread is ridiculous as the OP is being unreasonable to say the least. I get the motivation of starting this thread which is why as a customer of SVS and someone who HAS dealt with them in the past with warranty issues, I wanted to share my experience as that other thread is creating unfair negative exposure.
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I ordered the 12 that was on sale.

after 2 days I get an email my order was cancelled becuase I'm in Canada, I have to order from a distributor here.

So I contact them, they are sold out.

So I contact the US again, since I have an address there too, but they could not re-activate my order and I missed out.


What are you going to do? Sometimes **** happens.


Everyone I dealt with was professional and understanding, but just couldn't do anything for me so I moved on.




Life is not perfect. I still want one, but will just wait for another sale. Now I know the rules. It's all good. No harm no foul. Wife is happy I saved $700
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I ordered the 12 that was on sale.

after 2 days I get an email my order was cancelled becuase I'm in Canada, I have to order from a distributor here.

So I contact them, they are sold out.

So I contact the US again, since I have an address there too, but they could not re-activate my order and I missed out.


What are you going to do? Sometimes **** happens.


Everyone I dealt with was professional and understanding, but just couldn't do anything for me so I moved on.




Life is not perfect. I still want one, but will just wait for another sale. Now I know the rules. It's all good. No harm no foul. Wife is happy I saved $700

Yeah, great way to save $700.
Sometimes outside forces have to protect us from ourselves.



I hope you are able to get one at some point. That's a bad feeling to get over for at least the first few days...wanting something and can't get it.
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Originally Posted by Jack D Ripper  /t/1519382/great-customer-service-at-svs#post_24398084


SVS has great customer service.  They are fast to respond, and are quite helpful with reasonable requests.  And they make a great product, at a great price.  If they continue as they have, I will never recommend any other brand of subwoofer, or buy any other brand myself.  Sure, there are other good subwoofers, but you cannot go wrong with SVS.

my thoughts exactly....+1

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Originally Posted by Prime316  /t/1519382/great-customer-service-at-svs#post_24398347


Great job picking out a line without context and giving a response not even relevant to what's being said.

It's extremely relevant. You said you wouldn't call bear123's experience a good one. Most of us accept that shipping can cause problems subs with parts coming loose or getting broken. Bear123s experience with SVS taking care of his problem immediately is what I would call a sign of good customer service, and it's important to have. We want to know that when a sub doesn't work that the Internet direct companies take care of us, because you can't take it back to the store.
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