Unfortunately, there are more than a few treadmill manufacturers that are difficult to get an answer from, and reaching them can entail waiting on hold for 20-30 minutes, only then to be given the option to leave a message in hopes of getting a call back from that treadmill manufacturer. Sometimes they will not call back for days or weeks, (if they call back at all. Some never do, sometimes the only way to get through to the manufacturers tech support or parts department is to repeatedly call them and wait on hold at less busy times until we reach someone) and when they do, may or may not have researched the information given on the recorded message, necessitating us digging out that information and repeating it, only to have the representative of that treadmill company say they'll look into it and get back to us, starting a new round of waiting (or hounding). Sometimes we have placed the order for your parts, have paid for it, and it simply doesn't come, necessitating us starting the whole process again to ascertain what went wrong to prevent them shipping the part. It's very unfortunate for both the customer and our reputation that this is so, but we have finite resources and cannot devote hours out of our day every day to attempting to reach these companies, and instead must do a kind of triage, devoting a reasonable amount of time to each customer so that we can successfully help as many people as possible and earn enough money to stay in business so that we may help even more, and must rely upon the manufacturers to do their part. And when we say we will call you back, it is with the honest hope that we can call you back with good news or at least more information. If we're waiting for the manufacturer to call us back, and we don't have ANY news OR information, it doesn't make sense and we simply can't call you repeatedly just to inform you that they haven't called yet, if that means neglecting other customers. It is both good and bad that we are a small company- good, in that we are able to usually quickly respond to requests for help in servicing and repairing customers' equipment, and bad in that we don't have unlimited time and resources to hound unresponsive treadmill manufacturers relentlessly for hours every day in order to get answers or parts for you. We do honestly like helping people, and do our best to do so as quickly and efficiently as possible. But if we can't get a part for you, there's little we can do, if macgyvering a solution is not possible. Some treadmill manufacturers apparently feel that their attention is better spent on selling new units rather than supporting repairing older models. We have had our share of problems with treadmill manufacturers ourselves, including paying thousands of dollars for parts that took forever to be shipped, being billed twice for orders, etc. We do manage to get these situations straightened out eventually, since fixing things is what we do, whether that be situations or malfunctions. Member, if we were unable to get your treadmill fixed in a timely fashion, I hereby apologize, and further apologize if our response to your decision was lacking or if you feel it was inadequate. It is certainly not our wish to have to spend that much time and effort in order to repair something as it is not profitable for us, and bad for our reputation to boot. We do our best to help as many as we can, as quickly as we can, and the many testimonials on our website reflect that. You were one of the unlucky few whose treadmill manufacturers are uncooperative, which is completely out of our control. Even so, I sympathize with you and how you probably felt at being delayed, and ask that you try and see it from our perspective as well, that there is no point, and no profit in us delaying, and it is frustrating for us as well to have spent all that time trying to help you, stopped by forces out of our control, and held responsible for it, and receiving not only no reward at the end of the whole process, but rather a bad review. I understand you feel justified in writing it, but hopefully this will help you see a little bit of our world and understand that it is never our intention to delay any repair, why it was delayed, and why it is better for everyone, in every way, to have it done as quickly as possible, and that if it were up to us, it would have been. And for the vast majority of our clients, repairs are done as quickly as possible, ranging from on-the-spot permanent repairs with parts on hand, or if parts are needed, as quickly as 1-3 days to having the repair completed (if parts are available locally) to the average of about 1-2 weeks until the repair is completed if parts are needed that are not available locally and must be shipped from the United States or even outside of the U.S.. Unfortunately, it is an imperfect world. If it were not, our services would not be needed, and so we have come to accept that even as we work every day to make it operate as smoothly and effectively as possible. Best, Eric Robello, Owner of Expert Gym Service