PurePowerAPS Canada concern


I've had a new PurePower APS 2000+ unit for just over 5 months and recently the battery will not charge. After Damian of PurePowerAPS helped diagnose the problem they said they would do a call pick-up to send back to the factory in Canada for repair. Here is his reply...

Hi Steve,

If you get no voltage reading from the Regenerator unit's Power Pack connector when it is plugged in and the breaker is in the on postion, it will almost certainly be a charger issue or charger interconnect wire contact problem inside the Regenerator unit.

I can supply a prepaid UPS waybill for a return trip and have it checked, corrected, tested, and back out the door in 24 hours. When you receive it you can re-attach the Power Pack and it will fully re-charge the batteries over a 12 hour period.

Let me know if I should use the address information we have on file and when to schedule pickup. If you prefer we can also just send the prepaid waybill to your email and you can either arrange a pickup at your convenience or drop the package off at any UPS location.

Thanks,
Damian.

So this was late October and ever since PP now does not return emails or phone calls. Very disappointed in how they treat customers and would made sure everyone knows before buying a PP unit. Maybe they are out of business but I had many emails back and forth until it was ready to be shipped back for repair.

If this situation changes I will post an update.

Steve
SOS
sksos1
You lucky dog! So how come yours got repaired before mine? Mine went in sometime in July. I think I need to make a call again on Monday.

FrankC
I think the trick for the quickest customer service is to start an Audiogon thread complaining about PurePower's customer service when handling a repair.
But, Sksos1 has not actually recieved his unit, has he? And when/if he does, will it work for the long run???

I tell you I was seriously considering one of Purepower units but after reading all of the bad news associated with that company I think I am going to buy the new Audience Teflon units instead.
Ozzy....it has been shipped back and will be delivered this Wednesday. Will keep all posted but I'm looking forward to it's return.
Sksos1, have you received your unit?

I called PP again yesterday, and it sounded like they are way over their head trying to line up new suppliers so they can build and ship new units out to "paying" customers. And it appears that they won't be getting any replacement parts any time soon from their old OEM partner in Taiwan who had been building the old units for them previously. Apparently the OEM partner had "conspired" with that sales guy in California to form the other company. Even though the Canadian company has won the judgement and that US Customs will seize any counterfeit products coming into the country, I seriously doubt PP has any resource right now to deal with us "non-revenue-generating" customers. The guy told me that they can pretty much fix most of the issues on the older models, but they don't have any replacement parts to fix units that require them. So most likely we won't be getting them back unless, by some miracle, that US Customs seize a big batch of the counterfeits and PP can cannibalize the parts to fix our broken units. The guy said that they will most likely send me a brand new unit of the new model. Yeah right. I'll believe it when I see it.

FrankC