Seattle Coffee Gear レビュー 

Sent my Philips 3200 Espresso Coffee maker into SeattleCoffeeGear for repair. I told them that the machine was leaking water at the rear if the machine. They sent me an estimate to repair of $401. A new one is $399 form Amazon. So, I paid the inspection fee and had them return our machine. I decided to do a little detective work to see if I could find the leak. I took the back of the machine and put water in the tank and surprise surprise there was the leak. Turns out that the leak was on a $10 hose connection. The parts they said needed replacement are all working fine and do not leak. After that, I checked their rating and it is very poor. Not one 5-star review, why am I not surprised.

Has the worst customer service out there. Ordered an expensive grinder 3 weeks ago as a gift and it’s still not shipped. They lied and told me I was informed of a back order issue. I was not. I purposely purchased one that was listed as available. I’ve been given the runaround by reps and the issue is still not resolved. Never again

Very poor experience with Lavazza qualita' rossa coffee bricks. I was sent damaged coffee bricks, as per the Lavazza site air should not come out of those bricks but Seattle Coffee Gear are saying "all is fine" and they will not replace. Amazing that people at company that specializes in selling coffee and coffee products, know so little about coffee :-) I am going to stay away and suggest you do the same. This is from the Lavazza site. (lavazzausa com en faq): "All bricks of Lavazza coffee are fully sealed when shipped by our warehouse. If you squeeze the brick and no air exits, the seal is fully intact and the brick of coffee is fully sealed and there is no impact on freshness or preservation")

Seattle Gear is the worst company you could do business with. Especially if you return a product. You'll have to pay for shipping and a 5% restocking fee. They don't tell you this at the time of purchase.

I ordered a LUCCA 3oz pitcher and the one I received was a knock off of the original product. The one I received looks like ones they sell on Amazon with a large lip and holding more than 3 ounces. I contacted support to ask for an exchange or a refund and they told me all I could do is a return where I would have to pay for shipping because they claimed what I received was what was in the photo. I asked several times for an exchange because what I have was clearly not what was in the photo and they refused. The item was $10 and I paid $6 for shipping and in total it was around $17. As much as I would like to return it because it is not what I ordered. I’m not interested in paying shipping twice so unfortunately I have to accept the abuse and swallow the cost. This whole experience felt cheap and dirty.

Update: I received a phone call from a customer service rep that apologized for my experience and offered a refund with no return. I tried to return it, but the gentleman said it was considered a low cost item and wasn’t worth returning. So I am receiving a refund and keeping the pitcher. He also said adamantly that he would message the production team to look and see if all of the pitchers they’re selling look like the one I received or if they are an actual reflection of the one in the picture. He said the customer service rep that told me what I had was what was in the picture and refused an exchange because of this, was because the product specialist told him that the picture is an accurate representation of what is in the boxes. I changed my rating from one star to four stars because of this phone call.

If I could give a negative number of stars, I would. I bought a coffee grinder. It came without a gasket necessary to attach the hopper to the grinder. After numerous attempts to reach customer service they told me they didn’t stock the part and I would need to contact the manufacturer myself. They offered nothing in the way of service or support. I was forced to file a dispute with my credit card company. I wish I had seen the negative reviews before purchasing. Never again from this company.

Horrible service....Fedex still has not delivered the package(15 days) and SCG has not lifted a finger to resolve the situation. I will never do business with these people ever again. I write about this to warn others.

very difficult company to do business with is they're very polite when you order experience machine but is soon they don with the sale they don't like to assist you with problem or complain, and worst part if your shipment got lost bad luck for you because they don't car,i will never buy anything even with a discount,

I ordered the diletta mio. Got email few days later saying they are out of stock and won't be in until 3 months so I called and asked the lady if they can just send a different one which was a hundred dollars more and see if they can price match it since they didn't list the last machine as out of stock and wasting my time. She refused outright with a bad attitude and said that it was listed as back order on the website which was a lie. I was staring at the website, as she was talking and there is no note of it saying that. I ended up buying the breville oracle off of williams Somona website.

I have bought 3 machines from SCG over 10 years - two Jura and a Saeco. The first Jura was a refurb and was totally amazing, but superautomatic espresso technology kept advancing, so I bought the Saeco for milk drink automation.

The Saeco never worked right, pouring more coffee into the drip tray than into the cup. Saeco wouldn't support it because it was a special SCG serial number (what!?), so I sold it and bought the most amazing Jura E8.

Back to the bait and switch. I signed up for SCG's texts and every week I got a new one with a sale on superautomatic espresso machines. However, even though the Jura and Breville machines I was interested in were displayed on the sale page, the "terms and conditions" of every sale exempted those two brands from the sale. What!?

After several go-arounds with customer service, I finally got the sale price on the E8 -- and what an amazing machine it is. Customer service was apologetic, but someone needs to let marketing know to NOT display sale machines that are not part of the sale.

I had a bad experience with the customer service of this store. Despite emailing four times and waiting for a promised follow-up call from Edgar, I never received a response. Their phone line had long wait times of at least 10 minutes. The website's purchasing process was also confusing, leading to my package being sent to the wrong address. Despite contacting them on the same day of the order, they were unable to assist me in resolving the issue and did not take responsibility. I recommend avoiding this store for online purchases.

Purchased a case of whole bean espresso. Got a confirmation email, but no follow up. A week later, still no information. I've been on hold for hours. Each time I get a voice saying where I am in the queue. After a while they simply hang up. I go through the sequence again, and of course each time I call, I'm further back in the queue. I will not ever buy from them again.

Update: after my 5th call someone answered. She disclosed that it was out of stock for the next several weeks. Offered me a refund which I gladly accepted. Pretty terrible communication and customer service.

I give this company 1 star for poor customer service. I accidentally entered my email incorrectly during the order. Called to have it corrected and the girl said she would fix it and resend the order information. That never happened. Had to call back and was told by another person that emails can’t be changed. In addition, items that were shown as available actually were not. Not impressed with overall experience. I’ll buy coffee locally from now on.

The sales team was great. I bought a Miele super automated espresso machine. Unfortunately, the plastic tab on the water reservoir broke and I can no longer lift it out of the machine.

This is where I'm really disappointed. I contacted Seattle Coffee Gear several times. Each time, they take weeks to answer, and they tell me they don't have the part in stock. Even at my request, they don't offer to accept an order, but instead point me to a generic link on the Miele website and suggest I order it from there.

After some searching, I found the actual link for my part and it says I can't order it directly, I need to contact my dealer. After immediately responding to Conor Lorenz the order manager, I've received no reply in two weeks. All total, by machine has been broken for more than a month and there isn't even a part on back order.

I purchased an open-box item that came with missing parts. The page for the open-box product did not specify that there will be missing parts. However, the customer service noted there's a separate page stating as such that it was expected. The disclaimer for the product should be on every page or if the missing parts are such that may create issues in maintaining the product in a good condition, it should be clearly communicated.
The customer service had an attitude and was reading a web page instead of understanding the issue of disclaimer on the product web page.
I believe as long as you are expecting some issues while buying an open-box, it would be fine. However, the parts that were missing weren't even something I could have bought separately and only sold as a set with the unit.

Bought an open box coffee machine from seattle coffee gear. On webpage states that machine is tested and guaranteed to work. Machine arrived and did not work. Water would just come out of bottom of machine. Contacted customer support and sent a video and they said it was broken but they didn’t have another open box to send so they would refund my money provided I box up the coffee maker and bring it to fed ex. I advised them this was unacceptable and they sold me a broken coffee maker that was guaranteed to work. Customer service manager said when you buy open box you take a risk the machine may not work. Which is an unacceptable statement on its own but also tell me they purposely sell broken machines. Long story short they don’t care I was inconvenienced and told me post my story wherever I want. BUYER BEWARE!!! They don’t care about customers.

I tried buying an ek43, they didn’t contact me once outside of automated messages, about a week later they cancelled the order. I had to call them, they didn’t take the time to call or even email me, and the person on the phone said the same thing over and over, like a broken record: “Our automated security system cancelled your order”. No attempt to help or remedy the situation, nor a single attempt to contact me and confirm, not even a reason for cancellation. I finally asked, “Okay, how do I actually buy the product?” person literally said, “You could try using PayPal, that might work…” it’s like their business is not in their own hands. Whether or not you receive your product is just random chance.
Really, you just cancel a $3,000 order without even attempting to confirm? It’s hard for me to wrap my head around. This must be the laziest business in the world. Is it so hard to just give me a call and ask about the order? The funds were already cleared and they simply refunded the whole sum. Absent any warning, I had to check on their website to find out it got cancelled at all, because I was thinking, “what’s taking so long?” What kind of retailer is that? If this is how they treat someone buying an ek43, I’d hate to be buying a home machine or grinder.

Wasted over a week because this company is too lazy to perform the basic courtesy of reaching out when they cancel someone’s order. Avoid this place unless you want to waste your time.

Purchased a $2,000, super automatic Saeco machine that started sputtering very early on. Spent $75.00 to mail it back for warranty repair and the store claimed they could not "replicate" the issue. Two months later a second issue appears when we decide we want to use the ground coffee dispenser in this unit. It worked only once! Sadly, it isn't worth the expense or 3 weeks involved in sending it back for a repair that may or may not be performed.