Thousands of transactions take place on the Internet, over the phone and through e-mail. Mostly you hear about when things go wrong. Here’s a synopsis of how ICE CAP handled an order gone wrong.

Around June 1st I ordered 2 - 4’ - 4 bulb T5 retrofit fixtures and bulbs. A day later I got an invoice saying the whole order was “back ordered”. OK, this should be temporary, a few days at best, a week or two at the worst. When a month went by, about July 1st, I called and talked to Laura. She informed me that they were having trouble with a parts shipment being held by Customs. She expected it to be released shortly. Another couple of weeks went by, nothing. I called, got Melodie, she checked and informed me that the parts weren’t in yet. After venting/expressing my frustration with Ice Cap’s inability to deliver on a product that should be in inventory. Molodie said she would try to round up a couple of fixtures and the bulbs for me. On August 6th I received an e-mail invoice for the full amount plus shipping (a little over $600). The bulbs, shipped from NJ, arrived a few days later. By August 24th, 18 days later, the fixtures being shipped from CA had not arrive. Called and got Laura, she did a track and found nothing. I was really frustrated at this point because these fixtures were going into the aquaculture facility as an upgrade to replace two 4’ PCs. I was having to shift corals around every couple of days to keep them in color and health.

Well, Laura and ICE CAP came through in a BIG way. They shipped out two 4’ - 6 bulb T5s with 2 additional 4’ LED tubes inside a housing. Remember my original order was for retrofit. This at NO CHARGE plus free shipping. They arrived yesterday and I’ve got to tell you they, the light fixtures AND Ice Cap are freaking AWESOME!!!

Where are the original shipment of fixtures??? Don’t know. Bouncing around from terminal to terminal, truck to truck searching for FL.

I cannot speak highly enough for this kind of service. It is rare in todays world!!! Ice Cap gets an A+++ in customer service. Look for their products at your LFS or better yet, order them from us and get your TR discount.

By the way, both Laura and Melodie were very polite through this whole affair.

I don’t think I was too hard on them (those of you that know me, know even in anger, I’m a pretty gentle guy).

Thank you Laura, Melodie and Chris from ICE CAP!!! You guys rock!!!

Dick