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Bachmann Service Very Good

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Bachmann Service Very Good
Posted by superbe on Wednesday, October 26, 2016 4:41 PM

I mailed a loco on Friday the 21st to Bachmann. Last night thinking I mailed it on the 14th I e-mailed Bachmann's Service Dept. asking if they had received it. In the morning I received a reply saying it was on its way back.

This afternoon it was on my front porch.

Unbelievable. AND there was no charge.

Bob

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Posted by richg1998 on Wednesday, October 26, 2016 4:57 PM

Very nice.

I have had good service from Bachmann in the past. They have a nice loco replacement policy.

I have read in the Bachmann forums, not all have.

Rich

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Posted by Trainman440 on Thursday, October 27, 2016 3:10 PM

I've had 2 encounters with their service...

I bought a Spectrum 4-6-0....tbh, I broke it. It wasn't really broken, I was bored back then and disassembled it when I was only 10 yrs old, so I didnt know how to reassemble it. I sent it in, and they said that they couldn't fix it....

So they said that they could either replace it with a Spec 2-8-0 or a Spec modernized 4-4-0. Being an idiot back then, I chose the 4-4-0....The replcing took 1 month before I got the engine back. 

Then, that 4-4-0 broke again, this time from running it, one of the pistons broke off. They REPLACED that one again, with yet another 4-4-0. 

I learned that hard way to never send anything back to Bachmann.... because they will probably just replace it... That's why when my k4s PRR broke I decided to save it for the future to fix. And whatdoyaknow, now its running like new on my layout with lots of superdetailing added!

 

Charles

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Posted by joe323 on Thursday, October 27, 2016 3:41 PM

I actually have 2 locomotives to send to Bachmann for repair but its not a prority as the SIW has 7 other locos in service.

Joe Staten Island West 

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