Otto's Appliance Service, Inc
About us
Otto's Appliance Service offers prompt, reliable and knowledgeable repair service to the Bay Area. Since 1957, our business has been providing efficient, fair and quality service, valuing customer satisfaction above all. We specialize in Bosch, Thermador, Insinkerator, Whirlpool, GE, Maytag, Kitchen Aid, Sears and Kenmore.
Business highlights
Services we offer
Kitchen Aid, Maytag, Thermador, We service Bosch, Whirlpool, and ISE under warranty. We also service some GE, and Sears Kenmore. We service ranges, compactors, cooktops, dishwashers, disposals, hoods, washers and dryers out of warranty.
Accepted Payment Methods
- CreditCard
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This experience reminds me the sales skill that charges you significantly up front to lock you in. In economic term this is called sale-with-sunk-cost. The itemized estimation is crazy. The part costs $125 and labor costs $241. The service guy himself commented with a shrug that I should go get a new one. What Otto's Appliance Service ends with is either $105 for 5 minutes work or $366 for simply replacing a spark module. They are in such an advanced situation than their customers that they'll make money either way.
Customers are basically trapped from the minute they called them. I tried to contact back and it's not helping. With the new generation of online service provider, I couldn't believe such business model is still running at ground level. No wonder people are investing in new business model to renovate the industry.
I'm not happy and hope anyone reading this could get an idea of how their business run and think if you will like that yourself.
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