I was a customer of Alpine's, not a disgruntled employee, and I too was charged more than what I was originally told. I had backwash charges applied to my invoice and charged to my credit card before they ever discussed the situation with me. In fact, I had to call them myself to inquire upon noticing the overcharge. I was very adamant in telling them a few times to please call me if there are ANY issues. Yet, nobody called. I had an appointment scheduled for three weeks and they couldn't even give me an actual appointment time so that I could make sure I was there. Instead they called me the day before and insisted they needed to reschedule my appointment. I refused to reschedule as I had made my appointment three weeks back. They said they would get it taken care of but still couldn't give me an appointment time. Then when they overcharge me they say, Well, you should have been there.. and that I'm basically SOL. What kind of customer service is that?? They said I was told about potential backwash charges but I had called around the valley getting quotes and I took very good notes. Backwash charges were not discussed with me by anyone!
My main complaint is that they placed unauthorized charges on my credit card for a higher amount than I was aware of and they did so without even the courtesy of a phone call. They should be ashamed as I would call this dishonest business practice.
In the end they completely refused to work with me in resolving our disagreement and Tom, the owner, hung up on me.