Steven Townsend Review of Euro-Tech, Inc.
Let me start by saying that this company is not in...
Let me start by saying that this company is not in my local phone book. One of their people knocked on my door one day and asked if they could schedule me for a free estimate for my house and garage roof. I accepted and the estimate person came a few days later. Instead of showing up with a truck and ladder, he showed up in a car with luggage full of presentation materials. The person spent 2 hours giving a presentation on how their materials, and work crew are supposedly superior to what any other roofer could get you. Instead of the "salesman" measuring my roof, he pulled out his smartphone and looked at a Google Earth picture of my house and said he could tell that i needed 16 squares of roofing. After the 2 hour presentation he told me the price would be about $17,000 but right now there is a discount that would knock it down to $10,900 but he would need an answer today or else the price would go up to the normal rate. That sounded extreme to me, but he had financing ready through a bank for about $125 a month for 10 years. And said the shingle roof came with a full 30 year warranty for parts and labor. The guy had charisma and pressured and convinced me it was a good deal and he told me i had a 3 day, no questions asked cancellation period. So i figured i would lock in the supposed discount rate, and spend the next three days thinking about it, and maybe get another estimate in the meantime. Next i called the biggest roofing company in my phone book which was Boss roofing. Boss showed up with a truck and ladder. Boss physically measured my house and even climbed on my roof to check the condition of my back roof. In less than 15 minutes of checking my roof Boss handed me an estimate of $4,500 for both house and garage in shingles. Boss handed me a folder that showed the quality materials they use and told me to call them if i make a decision. The experience with BOSS was so much easier than what EUROTech put me through and the price difference was huge! I called Eurotech and told them it has been less than 3 days and i wanted to cancel. They told me they couldn't cancel without their regional manager coming to my house to have me sign a cancellation letter. They told me it would take 5 minutes. It ended up lasting almost 90 minutes. In the end before the guy walked out the door the Eurotech guy asked if i would agree to $6,000 for my roof if his manager agreed! It was a last ditch effort that he claimed he would loose money on, but he was willing to do. But what it really showed me was how much they were trying to rip me off. I would highly recommend people stay away from Eurotech.
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