Great Neck Estates Electrician

May 2023

These guys are apparently nothing but middlemen. I had them send someone to give me an estimate for running a new 220V line. The electrician they sent, who doesn’t actually work for them, estimated it would cost $800-900. The quote from the office came back at $1,665. That’s quite a business model: hand off the job to someone else, then charge double the price. Why would I go through them when I could just hire the subcontractor directly?Unsurprisingly, the service proposal was riddled with spelling and grammatical errors. They even managed to get my email address wrong on the form, despite managing to send it to the correct address. It seems the only things...read full review

Jan 2023

These guys are apparently nothing but middlemen. I had them send someone to give me an estimate for running a new 220V line. The electrician they sent, who doesn't actually work for them, estimated it would cost $800-900. The quote from the office came back at $1,665. That's quite a business model: hand off the job to someone else, then charge double the price. Why would I go through them when I could just hire the subcontractor directly? Unsurprisingly, the service proposal was riddled with spelling and grammatical errors. They even managed to get my email address wrong on the form, despite managing to send it to the correct address. It seems the only things they're good at are ripping people off and hounding them with follow-up calls.

Jun 2022

I will start by saying that I was foolish and fell for it, so have no one to blame but myself, but if this review can help anyone else avoid making the same mistake - at least something good will have come of it. This company is very, very, very misleading, with very, very, very questionable ethics. I had two electric outlets that weren't working, so we called them for help since we were in a bind as this is a small one-bedroom apartment with very few outlets. We were told that the service charge to come was $85, and then they would give us the quote to fix it. If we chose to go ahead with their quote, then the $85 would be applied to the job. I agreed, and they sent an electrician (who didn't appear to even work for them - he was wearing a "Watts-Up Electrical Contractor, LLC" t-shirt and it felt more like Great Neck Estates Electricians is just an agent that gets a cut of whatever the electrician they send takes - since payment was made to him directly and not the company and Watts-Up is a NJ company and we're in Long Island, so he probably was doing this as a side-hustle job on his way home after work), who I explained the problem to when he arrived. Here was my first mistake - I then became distracted with something in the other room and stepped away for a moment while he checked both outlets and confirmed that they were both dead (which we already knew). He then called his office. They called me back and told me it would be $360 to open the circuit breaker box and the outlets and fix the problem, however, the electrician would do it for $300. They did say that if any additional parts were needed it would affect the price. I was totally in a bind and know nothing about electrical work so I agreed, not knowing that "opening the circuit breaker box and outlets" literally meant just opening the circuit breaker box, flipping the switches and seeing that they worked, taking off the wall plates and touching his tester tool to the actual wires, telling me the wiring was entirely shot, and saying I needed to have him rip open the walls and install all new wiring and outlets for an additional cost in the thousands of dollars. I told him I wasn't prepared to spend that kind of money, he then told me it was $300 for what he had just done, and like a fool, I paid him, and he left - having done absolutely nothing. So I am still stuck with two non-working outlets, and got taken for $300. When he told me that he needed to take the wall plates off for $300, I assumed he already knew the problem and would be able to fix it. I had no idea it was just to do the same exact test he had probably just done previously, only this time by touching his testing tool to the wire instead of just on the wall plate. Again, this is my fault for agreeing to it - but I assumed he had already tested it before giving me the quote, as an honest company would have. Another big mistake I made was not literally looking over his shoulder when he did the initial check of the problem. Instead, I allowed myself to be distracted with something in the other room and trusted that he was doing an honest assessment of the issue rather than merely doing the equivalent of just flipping a light switch on and off and saying "oh yeah, you're right, it doesn't work." Anyway, the big takeaways from this review are: I was completely wrong and foolish for trusting him/them that they knew what they were doing and could fix the problem. I was wrong and foolish for agreeing to their $300 without having him show me exactly what the problem was that he was going to be fixing, I assumed he knew. I was wrong and foolish for assuming he had actually diagnosed the problem before giving me the quote, rather than just using the $85 to get in the door and then charging me an additional $215 to then actually tell me what was wrong once he knew I was screwed if I let him leave and had to pay to bring someone else in. However, I will not say that I was wrong to have given him the money for doing absolutely nothing, even though I l