It has taken me a very long time to write this review, and if you follow me you know I rarely leave bad reviews but what happened to me is so completely unacceptable that I have to so it doesn't happen to others.
For 12 years I have used this dry cleaner usually to clean my coats, I don't have many things that require dry cleaning.
A few months ago I took my living room curtains in to be cleaned. They are satin with embroidery, and cotton lined, nothing too special, not insulated drapes. When I went to pick them up they wanted a fortune. I complained about the price and he did reduce the price a little to $79, way too much to clean those curtains. I get them home and hang them. I noticed immediately that they aren't pressed well but decided that the satin likely required a lower iron temperature and may have been difficult to iron. I was rationalizing, I know, but giving them the benefit of the doubt I hoped with a little time they would be flat again. Later that evening I sat down and noticed that the bottom edges of my curtains were not equal, and they no longer touched the floor. Again I rationalized that they needed to hang and the wrinkles would fall out and all would be good. Unfortunately that never happened. I finally couldn't stand looking at them any longer and replaced them. But even this expensive mistake that most would give a one star review for is not why I am writing this.
After having thoroughly rationalized that the wrinkled, shrunken curtains must have somehow caused their own demise, I returned with a coat to be cleaned. They had after all done a marvelous job on my down parka 3 times this season. The coat that I brought in was an LL Bean wool pea coat with thinsulate, not a cheap coat. I noticed that in several places the lining had torn and asked if they could repair the tears. They stated that they could but would need to contact the seamstress for a quote. Within the hour they called to let me know that the repairs would be $15 and asked if I wanted to proceed and I did. The reply was It will be ready on Tuesday. Great! $15 was an expensive repair price, but I love the coat and didn't want to make the repairs myself.
On Tuesday I go to pick up my coat and I look at the repairs made and I am immediately disappointed in the quality of the stitching, then I noticed that they have tagged several holes that were not repaired. The seamstress did not use the proper method to make the repairs, instead, from the outside of the lining the repairs were made with poor quality hand stitching that looks to be sewn by a beginner, not a professional. I did, however, request that the remainder of the holes be repaired. They apologized, said it would be taken care of, and ready on Tuesday. We returned to pickup the coat, I was on a call so my husband went in. He looked at the lining and still all the holes were not repaired...see you Tuesday. I didn't go on Tuesday, it was several days before I returned and they actually called me to tell me that the coat was ready, which is something they have never done before. I thought the phone call was odd but rationalized that they were trying to make me happy after screwing up so many times. A few days later I did return to pick up the coat. I opened it there to check the repairs and found holes. The young lady behind the counter was exasperated, and took the coat back, it will be ready on Tuesday. I controlled my temper, hoping that finally they would get it right this time. I was out running errands and received a phone call from the young lady saying they weren't going to make the repairs. She stated that they had tried to make the repairs and that I wasn't ever satisfied. Now mind you, not once did I complain, I only pointed out the holes that had not been repaired. It was the owner's contention that I had only paid to have "some of the holes repaired." I asked him which holes I had paid to have repaired and which ones I hadn't, he simply shrugged his shoulders. He said he had to pay the seamstress every time I sent the coat back and he wasn't making any money because I had refused the coat 4 times. At that point I asked him why he kept paying for an incomplete job. Again he shrugged his shoulders. The conversation deteriorated and he said he didn't know who I had spoken to originally but... I interrupted him at that point and pointed to him and the young lady and said "I have only dealt with the two of you, no one else." Again he shrugged his shoulders.
What amazed me the most is that he tried to present illogical arguments for a job that never got completed, the job is either complete or it isn't. In this case the job was never completed. I never took possession of the coat the entire time and he tried to act like it was somehow my fault that the job wasn't completed and that somehow I was being unreasonable by expecting them to complete the job. I am still baffled by the entire ordeal and am looking for a dry cleaner in the area. read more
