This was my first experience with MG Glass and I f...
This was my first experience with MG Glass and I feel it is import for people to know how I was treated by them.
I ordered a 32"x32"x1/4" tempered glass table top from MG Glass. After getting it home and while cleaning it I noticed a cluster of small pits in one surface of the glass. That was disappointing, but since the pits could only be seen very close up, I let it go. Then my wife noticed that the glass had wavy distortions in it. At that point I was concerned that the glass was not properly tempered or heat treated. Not being an expert on glass, my intention was to address this concern with MG Glass after the weekend. We have tempered glass in other parts of our house and that tempered glass does not have any distortions we can discern.
Before the end of the weekend we noticed one of the edges of the glass developed a 2 inch crack perpendicular to the edge. Nothing had hit the glass that would cause such a failure. In addition, it is my understanding from the MG Glass salesperson I purchased the glass from that tempered glass does not crack in straight lines like this glass did. She told me tempered glass is much stronger than normal glass and it disintegrates into tiny pieces of glass if it does break so as to avoid serious injury. The salesperson's assurance of this safety factor is the reason I went with tempered glass instead of the less expensive regular glass.
After seeing the crack develop, I took a picture of the crack and wrote an email to MG Glass about this defect, with the picture attached, and asked them to advise us on how this would be handled. I was and I am concerned if I try to pick the glass up it will break into large sharp pieces that could cause serious injury.
Their president wrote us back disclaiming any responsibility for the defect and included this statement in his email "Without taking this to a level that is unpleasant for both of us, ...". I never said anything in my email that would indicate that I wanted to make anything unpleasant for anyone, nor was I angry, and I had made no demands in my email. I was simply concerned about the glass, relayed the facts, and was hoping that MG Glass would take responsibility for it. The president's uncalled for statement makes me wonder if I am not the first person to have this problem. In any case, I believe the glass is defective and dangerous and I am extremely disappointed that MG Glass and its president do not seem concerned that they may be selling defective tempered glass to their customers.
UPDATE
The president of MG Glass has now implied in an email that I have lied about someone striking the glass. In his words "This chip would have had to have a substantial impact for it to occur. Why not just accept the probability that someone on your end damaged it and stop making it my fault?" We live alone and there was no slight impact let alone a "substantial impact". There is also the issue of the wavy distortion in the glass that MG Glass has so far ignored.
UPDATE 1/10/2018
In response to the owner's claim that the crack is a scratch (statement now removed from comment below) ... I inspected the defect in the glass after it appeared and it was a slightly less than two inch crack that has no width at the surface and extends deep into the glass. In MG Glass's response to my Better Business Bureau complaint they stated "Now it has a 3 inch long scratch ..." Somehow the "scratch" grew from less than two inches to three inches. Scratches can't grow, cracks can.
I received a letter from MG Glass's lawyer threatening to sue me unless I delete this review and get the BBB to retract my complaint. These are a true account of what happened, so I will not be removing anything.
Update 1/24/2018
The BBB doesn't takes sides (see comment below). They simply told me there was nothing else they could do to help me.
I then disputed the credit card charge and and the credit card company found in my favor and refunded me.