Appliance repair parts have no stock ETA, leaving defects unfixed for months
A customer's refrigerator arrived with a cracked shelf and a bent freezer door from transit; repeated service visits failed to fix it because the first technician never ordered the replacement part, and the retailer cannot provide any restock timeline months later.
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