 Warm During Harsh Iowa Winters |
| Date Of Review: December 10, 2009 |
| Reviewed by: Jandi Gatewood, Iowa |
| I've had this blanket for 1 winter now and am still using it during this cold, winter season. It heats up nicely and is very comfortable. I have had no problems whatsoever with the quality of this sunbeam blanket or any other sunbeam products that I have purchased in the past. I am planning on buying my grandmother one as a gift for Christmas. |
Waste of money!
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| Date Of Review: November 22, 2009 |
| Reviewed by: Suzanne D. Hall, Le Claire, IA USA |
This blanket was nice for one winter, then didn't work at all when I plugged it in this year. Sunbeam requires you to send it to them, mines a King to the tune of $40 shipping so they can Repair it and send it back. HMMM $40.00 plus the $100.00 I paid for it....will it "break again" and will I have to send it back AGAIN? I have three years left on the warranty!!! How many times will I buy this blanket in 5 years? I'm not sure whether I WANT to FIX IT, and they won't just replace it, nor will the store take it back.
Don't waste your money on a Sunbeam Product is my advice.
Google Why Doesn't My Electric Blanket Work! Sunbeam products are Bad News!
ADDENDUM
There definitely seems to be a problem with Sunbeam blankets.
I purchased mine (another model) a year ago, it worked that winter, and when I pulled it out this year it was just plain Dead.
Considering I spent a hundred dollars on it, and I really loved the blanket last winter, I was sorely disappointed by this event.
I emailed customer service three times and received three useless replies.
They wanted me to mail my King Sized, Dead blanket to Mississippi to be "Repaired"; shipping it at MY expense....can you say $45.00?
Now...I had a 50/50 chance of this blanket going in to be fixed (I am only in year two of my five year warranty)only to have it happen again after it was "fixed". If I had to send it again to be "fixed" to the tune of $45.00, I'd have nearly bought a new one. I really did not want this blanket back, it is obviously defective in some way, or just bad by design...of which, I do not know. Somehow this just didn't make sense to me and the odds felt very against my favor.
I truly had tried to get this blanket to work six times, as did my husband. I orginally bought it for him as we have sub-zero weather and it's nice when he gets off at 6 a.m. to crawl into a heated bed after he's half frozen. So you see, this was important to me to find a resolution to this problem. I even looked at other brands of blankets, but there are not many out there, it would seem Sunbeam has a cornered this market quite well, and what is out there, is three times as expensive. I...happen to think $100 for a blanket is exhorbitant, but with heat...well worth it. IF it works.
So I offered to spend ANOTHER $100 on a $200.00 Sunbeam blanket for a NEW one. And they said they didn't do Exchanges...apparently the extra $100 wasn't worth pleasing Me. Odd, I thought. So this time I emailed customer service and I asked to have my message forwarded to a Supervisor as the Customer Service responses were unacceptable at best. I informed them that I had posted EIGHT bad reviews on the internet and if they did not wish to accomodate me in some way, that I had all week to write Bad Reviews on their blankets. I also told them I was contacting Jarden, the parent company about this. One lovely Customer Service lady had the gall to tell me their products were excellent...really? Because MINE ISN'T and then I copied all the reviews from Amazon and sent them to her to prove that..no, they are NOT excellent! Here's your proof on 75 reviews! After that email, I looked up the President of Jarden and got his phone number, I was prepared to call him on Monday morning.
Believe me...in this age, reviews are important!! If you buy something...leave a review! Even if you aren't buying from Amazon, leave a review here! It makes a difference!!
Now for the good part...
DON'T ACCEPT NO FOR AN ANSWER!! I'm glad I didn't!
While I was shopping on Saturday, a very nice lady from Sunbeam called me to say she was going to assist me with my problem.
I was shopping after Thanksgiving and was standing in Best Buy at the time, and she offered to call me Tuesday.
Today is Tuesday, and she did as promised, she called.
She had all my information and emails, she asked for some numbers off of my blanket, and promised to send me shipping tags to mail my blanket back to them at their cost!! Yay, finally someone helpful!!
AND she ordered me a new blanket!!!!
I could NOT BE MORE PLEASED at this point! And I'm praying my new blanket will not have any problems.
But very happy that Sunbeam addressed my problem and made me happy! Now THAT is Customer Service!!!
So...IF you have a problem with YOUR blanket, contact Sunbeam. Don't just eat the money you spent, your money is as good as mine is, and your product SHOULD WORK. I feel that Sunbeam did what was right by their product and as consumers we have a right to be happy with our purchases. A blanket with a five year warranty SHOULD WORK FOR FIVE YEARS right? If it doesn't, they need to honor our purchase with a product that will work.
Anyway...Happy with SUNBEAM!!! |
Didn't even work 1 year
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| Date Of Review: October 6, 2009 |
| Reviewed by: Willy, Lakewood, CO USA |
I got this in Oct 2008. I pulled it out this year, and it doesn't work. Sometimes one half gets a little warm, that's it. Such a dissappointment!! This is my second Sunbeam, and they both stopped working. I will never get a Sunbeam again!
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Dual controls
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| Date Of Review: June 21, 2009 |
| Reviewed by: Michele Nunnally, |
| I like the dual controls for both sides of the bed. The blanket does snag easily and one of the dials on the controls sticks. |
junk
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| Date Of Review: February 24, 2009 |
| Reviewed by: J. J. Romano, Pennsylvania |
| Dials on controls don't work, since the day I put it on the bed. They move, then drift by themselves, or don't change the setting at all, even if you turn the dial! One side is ok at one setting (I don't dare touch it or it either won't change or you get stuck with a setting that won't move), the other moves around even if not touched. Called sunbeam about the warranty and they want me to mail the entire thing back for service (I got it as a gift)! Hardly worth the shipping on such heavy item, especially if they can't fix them or it breaks again, plus they say it will take 3-4 weeks to repair. |
Stay away from sunbeam electric blankets
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| Date Of Review: February 11, 2009 |
| Reviewed by: anonymous, |
| I have purchased 4 sunbeam electric blankets, both queen and twin size, in the past 4 years. In all cases the blankets worked for approximately 6 mos before failing to heat. I returned the defective blankets, which were repaired and again worked for approximately 6 mos before failing again. I kept hoping that each new purchased blanket would have a longer working life, but my hopes were dashed. I have learned my lesson and advise going elsewhere for electric blankets. |
Worked one season only
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| Date Of Review: February 3, 2009 |
| Reviewed by: Section 101, Chesterfield, MO USA |
| The blanket started off like a charm. Great warming, pre-heat was also very nice. That was last winter. It did seem that at the end of last winter the blanket was not as warm following pre-heat as when it was brand new, but we didn't need the warmth that much as spring approached. This winter it is not working at all. Nothing. The controls show pre-heat then the warming setting, but the blanket is just not getting warm at all. Yes did check the connector. It was firmly seated. I took it apart and reconnected it, no change. Looking at the other comments, it appears that Sunbeam only makes a blanket that lasts one year. |
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