Handicare

I bought this chair for my dad and started malfunctions since more than 7 months ago. Long story short, no one could find cause of malfunction. Chair is useless and not working. My dad is stock in his room and can not go anywhere. They stopped returning our calls. We are desperate of what to do. My father can not go anywhere without that chair.

We bought a $3,995 home chairlift for our disabled elderly mother from Handcare in Dec 2017 (receipt attached). We have had the chair lift for less than 4.5 years before the motor broke (Dec 2017 purchase, and April 2022 first reported malfunction). Handicare has a very clear warranty policy that is posted on their website that explicitly covers "motor and gearbox will be free from defects...for the lifetime of the product" (see attached official Handicare warranty document from their website; first paragraph is clear). Please verify the official warranty policy at this website: https://www.handicareusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Handicare-Stairlift-Limited-Lifetime-Warranty-2018.pdf

My husband and I are both handicapped. We had an Acorn stairlift to the second floor but was very unhappy with the company and their service department. We had asked them to come out and look at our cellar stairs but they never showed up. We saw your review on stairlifts and picked Handicare. They came out and viewed the area and in no time they were here to install. Did one heck of a job and before you knew it we were able to use our basement. The lift is superior to Acorn and we know because we have one. The service is great.

Purchased my Simplicity 950+ 6/2019. 10/05/2020: Unit started making weird, expensive sounding noises. Contact Ability Center in Springfield (seller). Technician ordered parts & rendered unit inoperative. 10/15/2020: Hip replacement surgery. 10/26/2020: New parts installed. More weird noises. Technician said unit belongs in a landfill, gave me a labor bill for $1K+ and strongly suggested I buy another brand.

I bought a Handicare 1000 xxl stairlift from the Sarasota, Florida distributor. My experience has been a nightmare. Buyer Beware! These stairlifts are junk! The seat is made of cheap plastic. The chair pads are like the cheap garden knee pads that can be bought anywhere for a few bucks. I was charged $4800 just for the equipment. The installation was an additional $425. They claim the stairlift will support 440 pounds. Don’t believe it. When I sat on the chair it tilted forward making me feel I would fall forward and out of the chair. The second time I sat in the chair, a bolt broke and I don’t weigh anywhere near 440 pounds. My installer never could get the automatic swivel chair to work.

Updated on 11/22/2021: The company replied to my previous review saying that this issue was resolved. The company did contact me but, a year and a half later, the remotes for our stairlift still do not work. Apparently, there is a known fix for this problem but it has not been installed in our device.

As I had to have foot surgery and I was non-weight bearing, I pulled my shoulders out from trying to get up and down the steps. I got the straight Handicare stairlift for the back stairs and the installers were in and out without a problem. This stairlift keeps me from being confined to the upstairs and if I had a problem, I would feel very free to call the people who sold it to me and installed it for me.

We purchased the stairlift in 2016. It malfunctioned in Sept. 2018. We had difficulty in finding someone at Orlando Tech Services to help. An authorized dealer was assigned to us in Nov. 2018. The remote control arm was replaced 11/29/2018. The chair's computer was replaced the week before Christmas. Remotes were not in the box. We are still waiting for the remotes. The authorized dealer has advised us that the Orlando office called them yesterday, 2/12/2019, to say the remotes were on back order with no estimated delivery date. I had called the Orlando office earlier that day to complain. The Orlando office refused to talk to me. Handicare USA can send me an account statement with a balance on it but the tech services office cannot talk to me. I am frustrated beyond words.

My husband's handicapped so I got a Handicare stairlift. Other stairlifts has weight limitations. They didn't go as high as Handicare. The sales visit from their dealer was fine. It's just that they sent somebody that probably wasn't trained enough to install one. They folded the rail at the edge of my stuff and made a dent the metal stripping that I had across my tile. They made a dent in there from falling. They need to watch who's selling their product because I wasn't real happy about that either. It could give them a bad name because of the experience. It took me close to a year to get it running, and then I've had it approximately four years. But when I was in need of battery, I went to contact them and they were out of business. They put me in contact to one of their authorized repair people, and that's where I got my battery.

Handicare makes beautiful lifts and for the most part they are made well. If you ever have a problem with any of their products be prepared to wait for weeks to get a part and pray that they ship the right part. Their customer service is just horrible. No response and major attitude. The company culture is really bad across the board no matter who you speak with. I wish we knew this before we bought a Handicare Stairlift.