Marineland Stealth Heaters

#1
For anybody out of the loop, there is a mandatory recall on these heaters. Lucky me I had 2 of them. You're supposed to be able to take them back to Petco or Petsmart to exchange them for a heater of your choice or a refund.

I made the big mistake of going to Petco first to exchange mine and it was the most frustrating experience ever. I honestly don't know where they hire people to work at Petco. After standing around waiting and waiting a person finally comes and tells me that they've never heard of this and she called corporate and they don't know anything about this recall either. Bull**** because other people have exchanged theirs at different Petco's and a Petco employee posted that they got a recall notice.

Off to Petsmart where the employees all knew about the recall, apologized to us for having to deal with this and even let me get a higher wattage heater than the one I returned without a problem.

Ghetco will never see me again.
 

spstimie

Nurse Shark
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#2
I had to call marineland. They are having them shipped to them now from the sounds of it. Still debating if it is worth paying to send back for $22 refund check.
 

Cake_Boss

Blue Whale
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#3
WrasseAttack;92354 said:
For anybody out of the loop, there is a mandatory recall on these heaters. Lucky me I had 2 of them. You're supposed to be able to take them back to Petco or Petsmart to exchange them for a heater of your choice or a refund.

I made the big mistake of going to Petco first to exchange mine and it was the most frustrating experience ever. I honestly don't know where they hire people to work at Petco. After standing around waiting and waiting a person finally comes and tells me that they've never heard of this and she called corporate and they don't know anything about this recall either. Bull**** because other people have exchanged theirs at different Petco's and a Petco employee posted that they got a recall notice.

Off to Petsmart where the employees all knew about the recall, apologized to us for having to deal with this and even let me get a higher wattage heater than the one I returned without a problem.

Ghetco will never see me again.
Too bad petco is terrible, I was thinking of getting a summer job at the one across the street. Greeley petco is getting SW back.

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#4
If you got a job there Rocky, you'll be corporate manager in a month. Do it. You might get some good fish discounts too, who knows and they order corals and anemones in.

I believe you can get a refund or at least store credit at Petsmart spstimie. The people there were super helpfull and accomodating.
 

spstimie

Nurse Shark
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#5
I have a stealth 50 and Pet3smart didn't carry them was what I was told. I will call the one by my house since the full recall is new.
 
#7
kalgra;92394 said:
:mad:I had three went to pets mart but they would not give refund only store credit.
At least it's store credit and you can get a heater immediately instead of waiting for them to send you one. At Petco they looked at me like I was trying to pull a heater scam.
 

Cake_Boss

Blue Whale
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#8
WrasseAttack;92408 said:
At least it's store credit and you can get a heater immediately instead of waiting for them to send you one. At Petco they looked at me like I was trying to pull a heater scam.
Haha, scammer!

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Off The Deep End

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#10
Do you know why they were recalled? I have 4 brand new ones sitting here in the box and one in my tank right now.
 

Off The Deep End

Reef Shark
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#14
I contemplated it but it would have to do enough damage for the insurance to cover my whole house;)
 
#15
I deleted the e-mail I got already but I believe they caused 30 house fires and one eye injury. On RC there are pictures of heaters that exploded and blew out the tanks they were in.

I had a third one that stopped working and threw it out before the recall happened. Regrets.
 
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