The word Scam is a bit much for this company. I worked for them for a couple years in the sales area. If you wrote them a check and never heard from them again, that is a scam. Now, is the ""promotional home program"" a complete lie...yes. Is this Alside window special made for Apex Energy Solutions..no other companies rename it too. Is it the best window ever created...no.\r
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The marketing is less than truthful, because they dont target homes and give one or two a deal to use as a promo home. Id venture to say there hasnt been a return visit by any salesman to ""take before and after pictures"" ever. They try to set appointments with every house on the street and will sell at the same price range with the same pitch to every single one of them.\r
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The company owners buy the windows from alside....mark them up on a par sheet the sales guys use to get a ""cost"" which has already been inflated to make sure the owners profit and then the sales guy can simply write in as much money as he feels he can get out of the deal on the estimate. Then the sales guy shows the homeowners photo shopped ads from other companies showing thousand $ windows :lol and then plays hardball over his discounted 600$ windows. Any price negotiations is really over how much the sales guy is going to walk out making. The windows are already inflated on the par sheet so the owners get theirs no matter what.\r
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There is a sucker born every day. I have sold windows to educated homeowners and only walked out of there making a 100$. But I have also walked out of deals making 4-5 thousand. If I price the windows at 900 bucks and the homeowner agrees....so be it.\r
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Not a scam, you get the windows, which are good, you might overpay for not doing homework and ""believing"" the sales guy.
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