u/sanagnos

Customer Service ghosting

Hi,

I have a ton of Ecoflow products, along with SHP2 + 2 DPU + 5 batteries. One returned an error and through process of elimination I figured it was a bad battery (basically, everything stops working if you connect it and returns an error, and starts working fine if you disconnect it). Around May 1 I emailed Ecoflow and after some back and forth on May 5 they agreed it needed service and said "we will provide after sales service." OK, in a previous breakdown last year, the next day I got an email from someone else asking if I wanted a refurb replacement or repair, and after a couple of weeks I completed an exchange, no problems.
This time, two weeks have passed and they have totally ghosted me. I basically get an auto-reply saying nothing in particular. I know this experience is common right now (I saw a post where a guy has been waiting two months), either because Ecoflow is growing too fast or some other kind of process failure. Has anyone figured out how to escalate it? I do have the PLUS but the express replacement thing never seems to even come up and seems to be a myth. Since Ecoflow has a location here in California both in SF and Walnut, I am thinking of a complaint to the AG's office. That will at least get it escalated (basically, the AG sends a copy of your complaint to their lawyers and this usually escalates it since some exec intervenes), but it seems like overkill right now. I.e., does anyone have some less extreme secret route to escalation? Does the phone work better (I am thinking no, since there is no way to prove anything)?
TIA

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u/sanagnos — 2 days ago

I have what seems to be a bad battery.

My setup is SHP2 + DPU (3 DPU batteries) + DPU2 (2 DPU batteries). Everything has worked fine for about a year now. All firmware is up to date.

Suddenly my SHP3 showed an error 1633 on the app. One DPU inverter showed an error 633, both on the app and on the display. The system doesn't do anything when this error is present. I noticed one battery hadn't fully charged (out of the 3 hooked up to this DPU), so I disconnected that one, and everything works fine and error goes away. Reconnecting it immediately causes the error 633 to appear again and everything stops working. I tried resetting everything (disconnect cables and hold power button down for 15 sec,both from on and from off state), to no effect.

So, I am pretty sure it is just a bad battery. Anyone had experience with error 633? I don't seem to find it anywhere. I emailed support already, but just looking to see if anyone had the same problem

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u/sanagnos — 18 days ago