The customer service from this company reaches a new low. We purchased a new washing machine from their Nuneaton store, collecting it ourselves and fitting it two days later only to find it didn't work. It wouldn't even switch on, we checked our plug socket and the fuse in the plug, all OK. A call to their "knowhow" help line proved to be nearly an hour of wasted time (most of which was on hold). I asked if I could take the machine back to the store for an exchange or refund, nope, seems you're not allowed to do that! They can sell you a faulty product and you cannot return it? I got transferred (after 35 min) to a rather unhelpful chap, who informed me I needed to book a visit from a Hoover engineer, but he couldn't do that as I shouldn't have been put through to him! Strange, because I never actually asked to speak to him, the first CS person just transferred me. Anyway, it seemed I had to be transferred again to Hoover to book in an engineer to fix a brand new washing machine that never worked in the first place. I hung up deciding to take the machine back to the store anyway. When I began to pull the machine out our kitchen fuse tripped, once the machine was out I noticed the power cable that went into the top corner of machine was loose and the cable came out! It seems it was never clamped in or even connected as the clamping screw was missing, meaning when the machine was plugged in there was a bare live wire free to move around, it obviously touched the case of the machine and tripped our MCB. Atfer isolating the supply, removing the top of the machine (3 screws 2 of which were loose!) plugging the spade connectors on the power cable to the correct terminals inside the machine, it worked. It seems Hoover's quality control system failed, which could have resulted in someone (me) being electrocuted! It's shocking to know just how unhelpful and obstructive Curry's CS system is with what could have been a life threatening situation.