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    Business ProfileforBig Berkey Water Filters

    Water Cooler Supplies

    At-a-glance

    Customer Reviews

    1.8/5stars

    Average of 5 Customer Reviews

    Customer Complaints

    4 complaints closed in last 3 years

    0 complaints closed in last 12 months

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    Business Details

    Location of This Business
    PO Box 87, Poncha Springs, CO 81242
    BBB File Opened:
    5/27/2020
    Business Management
    • Mr. Dan Devaun, Owner
    Contact Information

    Principal

    • Mr. Dan Devaun, Owner

    Customer Contact

    • Mr. Dan Devaun, Owner

    Customer Complaints

    4 Customer Complaints

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    Most Recent Customer Complaint

    12/02/2022

    Complaint Type:
    Delivery Issues
    Status:
    Answered
    On November 22, 2022, I ordered a Big Berkey Water Filter and a stainless steel spigot for a total of ****** plus shipping of *****. Though the shipper took a photo of the box in front of my outside door on November 25th I never received the package. Either the shipper took the box with him after he snapped the photo or someone else did.I however blame Big Berkey because they KNOWINGLY used a one star rated shipper to deliver this package! The shipper Laser Ship is below par as shippers go and Big Berkey is aware of this. There are complaints against this shipper all over the internet about undelivered merchandise , yet Big Berkey decided to use them to deliver my expensive order. Had they chose ***** or **** either one of these would have rang my doorbell and would have sent me a direct email alerting me that the package was outside. Instead I was sent an update to my order email which I never opened on the 25th because the updated email never came through as a normal highlighted email that everyone would expect. Therefore, I wasn't even aware that the product had been delivered until I decided to look at the original email for the order on the 28th.Also, I don't know who TreeHawk Health LLC, as my purchase was made through Big Berkey Water Filters and I was not notified that I was making a purchase from ******** Health. Yet the listed vendor connected to the purchase is ******** as per my bank. This LLC was likely established just for situations like this and for all I know they are both working together with Laser Ship thru kick backs to cheat consumers out of their money.Though Big Berkey offered today to sell me the merchandise again at 50% off the non sale price, this is not recovering my loss, but making more money for the company. I feel that they should replace the entire order. This is a simple loss write off for the company and what a reputable would do. It's called integrity!
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    Most Recent Customer Review

    Valerie C

    1 star

    10/28/2023

    I've had black Berkey filters over the years and primed and used them with no problem and no white residue or cloudy water. My new travel Berkey and set of 2 black filters are producing a white layer of milky residue in the bottom chamber and cloudy water. I've repeated priming and used three methods of priming them. I've gone through 10 + cycles of priming and filtering a full chamber. I have also let the filters dry and reprimed them. The water is not less cloudy. There is a large amount of whte film in the bottom chamber. I don't understand how I was able to prime and get clear water easily with past Berkey filters from the same water source. The red dye test shows clear water when detached from the bottom chamber and then cloudiness and the white milky substance on the bottom chamber returns when the bottom chamber is reattached. Bigberkeywaterfilters.com said they cannot except a full return because the black filters have been primed. How do you find this obvious defect in the filters if you don't prime them? This is a persistent problem with these black berkey filters and distributors and Berkey are aware. There have been numerous reviews on Reddit with customers stating the same claim. I would like this resolved with a full refund for the entire system. Bigberkeywaterfilters.com state they won't refund the black filters even though they are defective but will send more (defective filters) filters to you. Customer reviews state more ********************** from the same company did not resolve the cloudy water and white film. This company wants a 15% restocking fee and delivery charges for the container only and refuse to refund the expensive defective filters too. It may be for different reasons but I understand why ********** and other states have banned Berkey sales, something isn't right and Berkey doesn't stand by their products. Shipment and Order number on request.

    Big Berkey Water Filters Response

    10/30/2023

    Hi ******* -The ** ban is not due to filter performance but rather due to classification as indoor systems require high payment fees to the state to allow the ability to sell them there.Most customers who experience cloudy water is due to the ***2 filters. Others are due to using softening water, or the source of their water. Some details here: "Cloudy water coming out of Black Berkey Elements is very rare. The reported rate of Black Berkey Elements producing cloudiness in their water is extremely small at approximately *****% (far less than 1%). Given that NMCL was not able to replicate the reported issues, which occurred in an extremely limited number of geographic areas, we can only conclude that the issues are related to something found in the individual water supplies serving those area."Given that you have used the filters before and cloudiness was not the case (assuming you ere using the same source water in the past), then the filters may simply require more system flushes as they are passing the red food coloring test. If you are not wanting to go that route, the warranty will replace these filters free of charge, Out of our customers sales in the past year we have not heard of any similar customer issues so we know this is not a filter issue and that you can be confident that replacement filters would solve your problem.

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