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Daun Kauffman
May 10, 2026
Thank you Andrew Powell:
Lowe’s Home Improvement, Downingtown, PA
I was experiencing frustratingly rapid loss of tension on my EGO chain saw’s chain, very very soon after adjusting the chain for more tension. The chain saw was guaranteed for 5 years by EGO, but the guarantee required one little thing I didn’t possess: I needed “proof of purchase” (normally a paper receipt) from the specific store, Lowe’s for the specific EGO saw. I did have a charge receipt and a charge statement from VISA confirming the purchase date and the specific store location, and an online Registration Confirmation from EGO, and the chain saw and the box that the saw was sold in. But they were all independent pieces. I needed proof connecting them all.
The Catch-22 was that all the records for the purchase were from February 2024, and it was currently April 2026. In other words my purchase was 2 years and 3 months old. The problem was that Lowe’s record keeping cycles are only 2 years long -- shorter than the guarantee period of 5 years.
So, with easy access gone to “proof of purchase” to allow the free repair to my chain saw by EGO, which I was due under the EGO guarantee, I drove to Lowe’s to see what could be done?
While I was trying to explain the issues to Customer Care folks at the desk, Andrew Powell passed by within earshot and the other agents motioned Andrew over to the desk. Andrew grasped the complexity immediately and the others’ “normal”, logical response of hopelessness. Fortunately, Andrew did not accept the language of hopelessness.
Andrew went to work searching database after database, ultimately pulling an archival “hard copy” report from physical storage: “Balancing Report by Sales Type” (by individual day!). The Report shows individual invoice numbers for their Lowe’s store #1729 for that individual day, identified only by sales dollars per invoice. One catch was that the Invoices are stored Net of Tax. Andrew was able to determine that for the day of my purchase (based on my Charge Statement) that only a single invoice (with tax added back in) matched my purchase amount. He then took the Invoice number on a search through other data files (with many frustrating dead ends), because the data files had the same original “black hole” at the 2 year mark.
Continuing on, refusing to give up and quit, Andrew was able to eventually use the invoice number in a “faux return”, then (after a few more twists and turns ) on another screen connect the (my) invoice number to the product description (I am simplifying greatly) . BINGO we had enough for Lowe’s to re-create a proof of purchase link connecting my VISA charge statement date to the store number to the invoice number to the product description -- but ONLY after the very creative, very relentless, long, long frustrating process Andrew had developed! That’s Not all! Andrew had more ideas in reserve if EGO rejected this particular chain of proof”!
This was the very definition of wonderful Customer Care, at its very finest! Not simply in Andrew’s creativity and relentless passion, but in TRUE Care for me, The Customer! EGO was satisfied and I was ecstatic. A forever-grateful customer. This is the kind of care worth “writing home” about!
My EGO chainsaw from Lowe’s #1729 saw is presently, finally, being repaired by EGO (for free)!
If you need customer care at Lowe’s Home Improvement in Downingtown, search out Andrew Powell. You’ll be very glad you did!
Daun Kauffman
