Academy Marble & Granite

I personally went to see the jobI still disagree with his complaints but I sent a crew to replace the island and got things fixed for him.He should be all setI haven't heard from him since RegardsSinan

The defect in the stone does not come out months after the installationIt is produced by nature in thousands of yearsIt comes out day There is no written or verbal warranty for that much of a timePlease do not waste my time anymore otherwise I will have to go to court for my lost sales

Complaint: [redacted] I am rejecting this response because:As the owner of Academy Marble & Granite has correctly indicated, the stone was created over thousands of years, and the existence of the vein (which is considered to be a defect) did not happen after months As the owner has implied (and as an independent stone expert who has viewed the stone countertop has articulated to me), as stone is created over thousands of years the vein defect had to have existed on the day that the stone was installed Unfortunately, unlike the owner, I am not, and have never been a stone expert Accordingly the existence of a vein would never have cought my attention or be something I would have known to be concerned about on the day the stone was installed It was only once the vein defect began to crack that I sought out an explanation for what was happening (including reaching out to both the owner of Academy Marble & Granite, as well as the independent stone expert) Once I sought an explanation for what was happening I learned that a piece of stone with a vein defect, which had to have existed on the day the stone countertop was installed (which the owner has also just acknowledged), is a piece of stone that should never have been installedAs the owner of Academy Marble & Granite is an expert in stone - and not me - I believe that he should have known better than to have installed a piece of stone with a vein in it This vein has now cracked, and the owner, as the expert in stone (not me), should accept responsibility for having installed a defective piece of stone All I have ever asked for is for the owner to replace the defective piece of stone with a new piece of the same stone without defects (which is what I paid for - but still have not received) This is not an unreasonable request - So please ask the owner to stop insulting and threatening me (Note: His latest reply closes by indicating that I am wasting his time and that if I keep wasting his time he will sue me Threatening a customer who is trying to be reasonable is unproductive - and unprofessional) Sincerely, [redacted]

Complaint: [redacted] I am rejecting this response because: As the owner of Academy Marble & Granite has correctly indicated, the stone was created over thousands of years, and the existence of the vein (which is considered to be a defect) did not happen after months As the owner has implied (and as an independent stone expert who has viewed the stone countertop has articulated to me), as stone is created over thousands of years the vein defect had to have existed on the day that the stone was installed Unfortunately, unlike the owner, I am not, and have never been a stone expert Accordingly the existence of a vein would never have cought my attention or be something I would have known to be concerned about on the day the stone was installed It was only once the vein defect began to crack that I sought out an explanation for what was happening (including reaching out to both the owner of Academy Marble & Granite, as well as the independent stone expert) Once I sought an explanation for what was happening I learned that a piece of stone with a vein defect, which had to have existed on the day the stone countertop was installed (which the owner has also just acknowledged), is a piece of stone that should never have been installed.As the owner of Academy Marble & Granite is an expert in stone - and not me - I believe that he should have known better than to have installed a piece of stone with a vein in it This vein has now cracked, and the owner, as the expert in stone (not me), should accept responsibility for having installed a defective piece of stone All I have ever asked for is for the owner to replace the defective piece of stone with a new piece of the same stone without defects (which is what I paid for - but still have not received) This is not an unreasonable request - So please ask the owner to stop insulting and threatening me (Note: His latest reply closes by indicating that I am wasting his time and that if I keep wasting his time he will sue me Threatening a customer who is trying to be reasonable is unproductive - and unprofessional) Sincerely, [redacted]

To whom it may concern,The issue at hand is that Academy Marble and Granite installed a granite countertop that was defective from day one As per both (a) the installation technicians from Academy Marble and Granite who came to see the cracked granite countertop as well as (b) a separate expert that I had come look at the countertop, the defect is that the piece of granite that was installed had a "vein" in it and veins are highly susceptible to cracking In short, the piece of granite installed by Academy Marble and Granite should never have been installed I paid Academy Marble and Granite for a non-defective granite countertop to be installed and all I ever asked from the owner of Academy Marble and Granite is for him to install the non-defective granite countertop I paid to be installed I'm sorry to see that the owner is focused on the fact that the time-frame in which he was notified of the defect was longer than he would have liked Having said that, the bottom line is that the particular piece of granite he installed should Never have been installed in the first place - as per both his very own technicians and a separate expert, it is only a matter of time before a piece of granite with a "vein" in it will crack Furthermore, per both the technicians at Academy Marble and Granite and the separate expert, veins do not develop over time, they are embedded in certain cuts of larger pieces of stone right from the beginning, and normally the areas of stone with veins are discarded due to the fact that they are highly susceptible to cracking.In short, given that we are talking about a granite countertop that had a defect in it that could only have existed from the day it was installed, I have asked the owner of Academy Marble and Granite to make things right and install a new piece of non-defective granite The owner of Academy Marble and Granite has refused to make things right, and has repeatedly berated me (in e-mail messages I have saved) in hopes that I will go away This approach to customer service, under any circumstances, is utterly unprofessional Complaint: [redacted] I am rejecting this response because: Sincerely, [redacted]

Revdex.com: I have reviewed the response made by the business in reference to complaint ID [redacted] , and find that this resolution is satisfactory to me Sincerely, [redacted]

We recommend Academy Marble and would be happy to do business with them again, even though we had some problems with our new kitchen counters Some mistakes were made in fabrication, and we had some issues with the stone, but Sinan and his stone supplier made it right for us without hesitation They certaintly did not make any money on our job, but they put our satisfaction first!

Dear ***Below I did a copy paste of the part of the complainedJust the part when the product was sold and when the problem occurred.
Complaint Background:
Verdana, sans-serif">Product/Service: *** *** *** ***rPurchase Date: 1/21/2013Problem Occurred: 7/31/2014Model: Account Number: Order Number: Talked to Company: 7/31/2014Talked to Company (2nd): 8/29/2014Talked to Company (3rd): 11/17/A YEAR AND A HALF !!!!!
I guess only that is enough to remove the complaint from your databaseRegards
***

To whom it may concern,
The issue at hand is that Academy Marble and Granite installed a granite countertop that was defective from day one As per both (a) the installation technicians from Academy Marble and Granite who came to see the cracked granite countertop as well as (b) a separate expert that I had come look at the countertop, the defect is that the piece of granite that was installed had a "vein" in it and veins are highly susceptible to cracking In short, the piece of granite installed by Academy Marble and Granite should never have been installed I paid Academy Marble and Granite for a non-defective granite countertop to be installed and all I ever asked from the owner of Academy Marble and Granite is for him to install the non-defective granite countertop I paid to be installed I'm sorry to see that the owner is focused on the fact that the time-frame in which he was notified of the defect was longer than he would have liked Having said that, the bottom line is that the particular piece of granite he installed should Never have been installed in the first place - as per both his very own technicians and a separate expert, it is only a matter of time before a piece of granite with a "vein" in it will crack Furthermore, per both the technicians at Academy Marble and Granite and the separate expert, veins do not develop over time, they are embedded in certain cuts of larger pieces of stone right from the beginning, and normally the areas of stone with veins are discarded due to the fact that they are highly susceptible to crackingIn short, given that we are talking about a granite countertop that had a defect in it that could only have existed from the day it was installed, I have asked the owner of Academy Marble and Granite to make things right and install a new piece of non-defective granite The owner of Academy Marble and Granite has refused to make things right, and has repeatedly berated me (in e-mail messages I have saved) in hopes that I will go away This approach to customer service, under any circumstances, is utterly unprofessional
Complaint: ***
I am rejecting this response because:
Sincerely,*** ***

The defect in the stone does not come out months after the installationIt is produced by nature in thousands of years.It comes out day 1.There is no written or verbal warranty for that much of a time.Please do not waste my time anymore otherwise I will have to go to court for my lost sales

Dear ***Below I did a copy paste of the part of the complainedJust the part when the product was sold and when the problem occurred. Complaint Background:Product/Service: *** *** *** ***rPurchase Date: 1/21/2013Problem
Occurred: 7/31/2014Model: Account Number: Order Number: Talked to Company: 7/31/2014Talked to Company (2nd): 8/29/2014Talked to Company (3rd): 11/17/2014A YEAR AND A HALF !!!!!I guess only that is enough to remove the complaint from your database.Regards***

The defect in the stone does not come out 18 months after the installation. It is produced by nature in thousands of years.
It comes out day 1.
There is no written or verbal warranty for that much of a time.
Please do not waste my time anymore otherwise I will have to go to court for my lost sales.

Complaint: [redacted]
I am rejecting this response because:
As the owner of Academy Marble & Granite has correctly indicated, the stone was created over thousands of years, and the existence of the vein (which is considered to be a defect) did not happen after 18 months.  As the owner has implied (and as an independent stone expert who has viewed the stone countertop has articulated to me), as stone is created over thousands of years the vein defect had to have existed on the day that the stone was installed.  Unfortunately, unlike the owner, I am not, and have never been a stone expert.  Accordingly the existence of a vein would never have cought my attention or be something I would have known to be concerned about on the day the stone was installed.  It was only once the vein defect began to crack that I sought out an explanation for what was happening (including reaching out to both the owner of Academy Marble & Granite, as well as the independent stone expert).  Once I sought an explanation for what was happening I learned that a piece of stone with a vein defect, which had to have existed on the day the stone countertop was installed (which the owner has also just acknowledged), is a piece of stone that should never have been installed.As the owner of Academy Marble & Granite is an expert in stone - and not me - I believe that he should have known better than to have installed a piece of stone with a vein in it.  This vein has now cracked, and the owner, as the expert in stone (not me), should accept responsibility for having installed a defective piece of stone.  All I have ever asked for is for the owner to replace the defective piece of stone with a new piece of the same stone without defects (which is what I paid for - but still have not received).  This is not an unreasonable request - So please ask the owner to stop insulting and threatening me (Note: His latest reply closes by indicating that I am wasting his time and that if I keep wasting his time he will sue me.  Threatening a customer who is trying to be reasonable is unproductive - and unprofessional).
Sincerely,
[redacted]

I personally went to see the job. I still disagree with his complaints but I sent a crew to replace the island and got things fixed for him.He should be all set. I haven't heard from him since RegardsSinan

Complaint: [redacted]
I am rejecting this response because:As the owner of Academy Marble & Granite has correctly indicated, the stone was created over thousands of years, and the existence of the vein (which is considered to be a defect) did not happen after 18 months.  As the owner has implied (and as an independent stone expert who has viewed the stone countertop has articulated to me), as stone is created over thousands of years the vein defect had to have existed on the day that the stone was installed.  Unfortunately, unlike the owner, I am not, and have never been a stone expert.  Accordingly the existence of a vein would never have cought my attention or be something I would have known to be concerned about on the day the stone was installed.  It was only once the vein defect began to crack that I sought out an explanation for what was happening (including reaching out to both the owner of Academy Marble & Granite, as well as the independent stone expert).  Once I sought an explanation for what was happening I learned that a piece of stone with a vein defect, which had to have existed on the day the stone countertop was installed (which the owner has also just acknowledged), is a piece of stone that should never have been installed.
As the owner of Academy Marble & Granite is an expert in stone - and not me - I believe that he should have known better than to have installed a piece of stone with a vein in it.  This vein has now cracked, and the owner, as the expert in stone (not me), should accept responsibility for having installed a defective piece of stone.  All I have ever asked for is for the owner to replace the defective piece of stone with a new piece of the same stone without defects (which is what I paid for - but still have not received).  This is not an unreasonable request - So please ask the owner to stop insulting and threatening me (Note: His latest reply closes by indicating that I am wasting his time and that if I keep wasting his time he will sue me.  Threatening a customer who is trying to be reasonable is unproductive - and unprofessional).
Sincerely,[redacted]

To whom it may concern,The issue at hand is that Academy Marble and Granite installed a granite countertop that was defective from day one.  As per both (a) the installation technicians from Academy Marble and Granite who came to see the cracked granite countertop as well as (b) a separate expert that I had come look at the countertop, the defect is that the piece of granite that was installed had a "vein" in it and veins are highly susceptible to cracking.  In short, the piece of granite installed by Academy Marble and Granite should never have been installed.  I paid Academy Marble and Granite for a non-defective granite countertop to be installed and all I ever asked from the owner of Academy Marble and Granite is for him to install the non-defective granite countertop I paid to be installed.  I'm sorry to see that the owner is focused on the fact that the time-frame in which he was notified of the defect was longer than he would have liked.  Having said that, the bottom line is that the particular piece of granite he installed should Never have been installed in the first place - as per both his very own technicians and a separate expert, it is only a matter of time before a piece of granite with a "vein" in it will crack.  Furthermore, per both the technicians at Academy Marble and Granite and the separate expert, veins do not develop over time, they are embedded in certain cuts of larger pieces of stone right from the beginning, and normally the areas of stone with veins are discarded due to the fact that they are highly susceptible to cracking.In short, given that we are talking about a granite countertop that had a defect in it that could only have existed from the day it was installed, I have asked the owner of Academy Marble and Granite to make things right and install a new piece of non-defective granite.  The owner of Academy Marble and Granite has refused to make things right, and has repeatedly berated me (in e-mail messages I have saved) in hopes that I will go away.  This approach to customer service, under any circumstances, is utterly unprofessional.
Complaint: [redacted]
I am rejecting this response because:
Sincerely,
[redacted]

Revdex.com:
I have reviewed the response made by the business in reference to complaint ID [redacted], and find that this resolution is satisfactory to me.
Sincerely,
[redacted]

We recommend Academy Marble and would be happy to do business with them again, even though we had some problems with our new kitchen counters. Some mistakes were made in fabrication, and we had some issues with the stone, but Sinan and his stone supplier made it right for us without hesitation. They certaintly did not make any money on our job, but they put our satisfaction first!

Review: Academy Marble & Granite in [redacted] came out to my home where they measured, prepared, and a couple of weeks later installed a granite countertop for an outdoor countertop. Within a very short period of time the granite cracked. I contacted [redacted] the owner of Academy Marble & Granite and asked him to come take a look to see what could be done. He sent out his repair team, who took a look and then indicated that the granite had a "vein" in it where the crack was forming, accordingly it was defective and could not be repaired. [redacted], the owner, then sent me a bill for repairs. I advised him that his team indicated that the granite was defective and I asked him to replace the defective granite. He agreed that I did not need to pay the invoice since his repair team did not do anything, but he refused to replace the defective granite (Note: I find it odd that he sent me a repair bill to begin with given that his repair team did not do any repairs). [redacted] then turned around and blamed the cracked granite on me saying that the surface must have not been flat, or perhaps the exposure of the granite to extreme temperature changes was the cause, or perhaps I caused the crack in the granite, and then he indicated that for an outdoor countertop you should never use granite. I advised him that he was the expert and that he and his team came to my house to template-out and then install the granite countertop, accordingly he and his team (a) knew that the granite was going to be installed outdoors and (b) knew of and approved the surface that the granite was being installed on - and if either the granite was not an acceptable stone to use for an outdoor countertop, or the surface the granite was to be installed on was not acceptable, then as the experts in this field they should have said something to me at that time as I am not an expert in granite. I further advised [redacted], the owner, that his team informed me that the crack in the granite was taking place along a vein in the granite and that given the existence of the vein, this piece of granite was defective and should never have been used - He then re-blamed the crack on me indicating that it was my fault. I asked him a final time to please make this right and replace the granite. I indicated that I am not looking for anything but what I paid for and that if he did not make things right I (a) had an opinion from an expert in the field of stone countertops who looked at the granite and indicated that it was defective, and (b) had received multiple quotes to replace the granite, so if I had to I would pursue this legally. [redacted] then told me that it wasn't about the money, he advised me on how to find a real expert, and then he indicated "let's see what the judge has to say."Desired Settlement: All I have ever asked for is what I paid for. I paid for a granite countertop that was free of defects - all I want is for [redacted], the owner of Academy Marble and Granite in [redacted] to come take out the defective granite countertop his company installed and replace it with an identical defect free piece of granite.

Business

Response:

Dear [redacted]Below I did a copy paste of the part of the complained. Just the part when the product was sold and when the problem occurred.