BEWARE vremi!!! Not Honoring Warranty
Purchased a vremi dehumidifier from a well known department store. The dehumidifier mechanically failed after 5 months. vremi customer service (made extremely difficult to contact) refused to honor the 1 year warranty. The excuse was that I purchased it from a store instead of directly from vremi online. I asked for clarification, because it didn't make sense that stores can sell their products, yet the customer gets no warranty??? vremi has refused to answer any questions OR EVEN RESPOND AT ALL in any way following their email stating that they would not honor their so-called warranty. I've emailed several requests for help and further explanation, however, based on the evidence, vremi has no intention of providing any assistance, or, information regarding this matter. They pretend to have a customer service phone number, but after 5 days of listening to a recording, stating that there are no agents available and to call back later, I decided email was my only hope of getting through. vremi supposedly has a "chat" option as one of the contact methods (found in user manual), but the link is a dead-end, providing no possibility of chat. I've dealt with a few shady companies over the years, but I've never run into anything quite as scummy as this. They try to come off as interested and friendly when you look at one of their owner's manuals, or browse their website. In fact, they outright encourage you to give them a call, or "drop us a line." How hypocritical does vremi have to be to slobber all over themselves inviting customers to contact them, when they intentionally make contacting them virtually impossible? As far as I can tell, vremi is where professionalism and friendliness went to die. At this point, I'm less concerned about the malfunctioning dehumidifier I bought from them than I am vremi's slippery avoidance behavior. I would have been fine with a simple back and forth conversation. Instead, vremi chose to dissappear like a fart in the wind. SCAMMY BEHAVIOR.
I will update, or even remove this review, pending vremi's willingness to honor their warranty, or come out of hiding to have a two-way discussion.
October 11, 2023
Unprompted review