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January 2024 by Charlie P
There is GOOD REASON why Schmidys Machinery has such low ratings. Jason Deerwester is a not a good business man. We were hired to haul a load, load was picked up and delivered. However Jason decided to do a charge back for $700 claiming we were committing fraud. The load was delivered to him, we have a SIGNED BOL. I WOULD ADVISE YOU TO COLLECT PAYMENT BEFORE DELIVERING ANYTHING TO THIS PERSON OR AVOID WORKING WITH JASON DEERWESTER ALL TOGETHER.
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January 2024 by Charlie P.
There is GOOD REASON why Schmidys Machinery has such low ratings. Jason Deerwester is a not a good business man. We were hired to haul a load, load was picked up and delivered. However Jason decided to do a charge back for $700 claiming we were committing fraud. The load was delivered to him, we have a SIGNED BOL. I WOULD ADVISE YOU TO COLLECT PAYMENT BEFORE DELIVERING ANYTHING TO THIS PERSON OR AVOID WORKING WITH JASON DEERWESTER ALL TOGETHER.
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September 2023 by John Baber
I needed a bucket truck and went to see what they had. Was very impressed with the selection. Jason showed me what he had in my specs. He was very nice, without trying to push one truck over the others to me like other dealershipshave in the past. I found the best truck for me and was surprised when he followed up a few weeks later to see how my truck was doing. By far the best experience Ive had in the 30years ive bought equipment. They got a customer for life!
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April 2023 by Steve N.
I purchased at 2018 Freightliner Business Class M2, with a 6.7 Cummins diesel motor with only 43,779 miles. According to all of my research this is one of the best Forestry trucks put together. I was assured all the proper checks and balances were in place and they delivered the truck to me in Florida. Within a thousand miles of driving the engine is gone, the hydraulics are shot, not to mention it looks like the vehicle had major damage to the front end. It was purchased in Nov. '22 and has been in the shop since Jan. '23. I accepted the risk of buying a used vehicle but no one should be defrauded this much. I made one phone call and put them in touch with our mechanic here in Florida but since then there has been no contact. My mechanic said that after talking to Jason he hadn't a clue what he was selling and didn't care if it was safe or even worked as long as they got paid. I'm out almost $150k and have lost at least that much in business because i can't afford to buy another truck. At this point I'm lost and feel like a fool. I don't know how they live with themselves. I can't find one good review on this company; I should have done more research. I run a small landscape business in Florida and this might just be the end of it. Steve N.
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February 2023 by Earl Carlson
Before driving 1400 miles with a 5th wheel trailer, I had agreed with Jason over the phone to buy two chippers for a set price. When I was two hours away from his shop I called to make sure he was ready for me. Jason proceeded to tell me there was a bit of a hiccup. He had sold one of the two chippers the night before because it was too good of a deal for him to pass up. He was at least willing to knock money off the other chipper when I got there, but I came for two chippers pulling a heavy trailer. Don’t waste your time with this business.
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January 2023 by Ken Dunn
I bought a nice 75 ft elevator bucket truck from Schmidys Machinery it is a great truck, they offered free delivery to our shop.I can only brag on how good of a company they are to deal with, even after I took delivery and found a hydraulic leak, they offered to pay all expenses to repair truck.you can feel assured that you are dealing with reputable people.Thank you all for a great deal and super follow up service.At Your Service Tree Co LLCBristol, TN
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January 2023 by Janette Harshman
We are a small family owned visit that is being taken advantage of. We were told we had 100% financing through their on-site finance service. The suddenly it changed to 50%!? Jason told Doug that if he put money toward the purchase they could begin reconditioning while we worked with our bank. He said it would be refunded if our financing didn't get approved. Well it didn't work and now we are told that it's too bad, but they aren't refunding the $5,000.00 we wired them. This is bad business! I unfortunately will need to contact my lawyer.
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January 2023 by Jason Richardson
I bought a chipper truck from them 2 years ago, paid the asking price, $35,000 for a 2005 f650. It has been nothing but problems. Brake lights were on and check engine light from when it arrived. EGR needed replaced, brakes, fuse box under hood had no cover and was corroded. So after about $10.000 we are still having issues. The truck only "supposedly" had 55K for miles..... Come to find out the motor was replaced with an industrial motor not even licensed or registered for onroad.... The only positive remark I can say about the truck and schmidys is the new upholstered seat is nice and tires were new. Be VERY careful buying from these guys and go look at the truck in person, and get a real mechanic to look at it.
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October 2022 by Janette H.
This rating should be lower than this. As a small family owned business I would have expected better. We were told they could go through their financing services and were pre approved for a loan to cover a bucket truck in full. My husband stayed the night to do paperwork the next day. Boy, did the story change. Now they wanted to only finance 50% of the truck. My husband then decided he'd have to get a loan back home. They said they would start getting.thw truck reconditioned if he put money down. He was concerned with doing this as we didn't know what our bank would say for a higher priced truck. We had been pre approved for a lesser amount. Jason said no big deal, they'd refund the money if it didn't go through. We wired $5,000 to him the next day. Well, loan fell through and now they refuse to refund the money. Further more they won't let me speak to anyone but Jason. He was rude and short with me without even trying to listen to me. Very arguementive and he even hung up on me when I asked to speak to the owner. I will be contacting my lawyer!
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January 2021 by Office Lincoln Tree Guys
Purchased bucket truck. Continual delay in receiving it, LOTS of issues once received. Nothing as promised or represented. We are not naive as have been in business 28 years. WOULD NOT RECOMMEND!!
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January 2021 by Levi Duncan
Drove three hours to look at their trucks. At first sight I was impressed then I started to really look at the trucks up close. I will give it to them they do a good job at painting and spraying bed liner on the trucks but it stops there. A lot of the trucks looked good but when you look into things you find they buy these trucks cheap at auction and just paint them and make some repairs to get them to at least function. One of the trucks I got into had wires hanging down on passenger side under glove box. I touched the wire and it started to spark under the dash. I believe you can get a good truck from them but make sure you do a thorough inspection and run things though their paces. They do have a lot of trucks with just lipstick on them.
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January 2021 by Jeremiah Ray
They have not delivered my bucket truck I bought a week ago after several empty promises of having it there every day of the week suddenly a brake issue pops up on a truck that was perfect and ready to go. It has cost me 2 jobs and several hours of lost sleep do not recommend!! The owner always says in a meeting call you in 10 min and NEVER returns your call its a stall tactic. Also be sure you look at your truck the one they tried to deliver is not the one I purchased. Different wheels different paint job and different color rearview mirrors am proceeding with litigation.
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January 2020 by Rob Reynolds
I bought 3 trucks from here and one was unacceptable when delivered i did not sign off on it but after the manager promised me 2k refund to take care of the issues i took the truck. Unfortunately they only gave me 1k now won’t answer me back. I would NEVER recommend them. If your looking for a bucket look somewhere else the integrity is very low here.
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January 2020 by Jason Davis
Dishonest company , I bought a used bucket truck there and we had more problems than I can list . Save yourself a lot of head aches and down time a buy some where’s else . The owner is dishonest and I wouldn’t trust him to sell me a wheel barrel . The truck I bought I spent more than 15k in repairs plus down time . Buyer beware!!!
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January 2020 by Laree C
******DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY!!!!******If I could give them negative stars I would. This company is awful and dishonest and after you agree to buying the truck and send them money,they are nearly impossible to get ahold of. Even though you are supposed to get your 1000 dollar deposit back,its a fight to get it.We were lied to multiple times about when the truck would be arriving and didn't get the truck for over a month and when they finally dropped it off,it was pitch black outside so that hindered giving it a full and thorough look over. The truck was originally bought after being told it was in great shape,ran like new,and had zero problems. But when we were asking about delivery dates they said it was in the shop. Then they said it was being painted. Then they "tried to attempt delivery" and the truck started acting weird and couldnt Make it. So when we finally said,"I think I just want a refund so we can get something new" the truck came the next day. And do you know where the truck is now as I write this? It's in the shop,not being used but we still have to make payments on it on time. I read reviews too late and did not realize how awful the company was. If you are being smart and reading ahead of time,please don't use this company!!!!!!!! I avoid writing reviews but this was important and I wanted to share my input and experience. You will be out a bunch of money and having nothing but problems. If you look it up you can see they already have lawsuits against them.
