Where do I begin? I was excited to use Bounce House Boise because their rates were way below other companies and who doesn't like to save a buck? The customer service was great when I inquired about their rentals.
So I go ahead and book a bounce house for my granddaughters 7th birthday party. Nothing fancy, just a "Happy Birthday" bounce house. After I order, they send me a notice asking if they can drop the bounce house off an hour later. Heck yea! The kids will be excited.
They come and deliver the bounce house. They ask if I have an extension cord. Wait, doesn't their website specify that they bring their own? No big deal. I just happen to have one in my backyard that I use for my lights. Then they inflate the bouncer. It says "Congratulations". I tell the gentleman, ummm, our bouncer was supposed to say Happy Birthday. He said, oh, well let me call the office and see what they say. I went ahead and phoned them myself. The lady who answered said "well can you just keep that one"? I said, well I would prefer to have the one that I ordered, but if it's going to take too much time away from your deliveries, I will keep it. She then said, let me call you right back. She calls me back about 5 minutes later and says, "yes, it's going to take too much time to get it switched out. Can you just keep that one?" Well, what choice do I have? I either send it back or deal with it. I tell her, ok fine, I don't have a choice, I'll just keep it. We hang up. No apology, no nothing. We then go outside to let the kids bounce and the inside of the bouncer was full of grass and popped balloons!! Filthy!! Not only was it not cleaned, it wasn't definitely not sanitized, as their website specifically states!! Ok, chalk it up to another failure on their part.
We have the bounce house until 7 p.m. Seven o'clock comes and goes. Nine, ten, eleven. Nobody shows up to collect their equipment. I figure they just let us have it a little longer for their mistake, but a phone call letting me know would have been great.
The next day, still nobody. I then call them at around 10:30 a.m., no answer. As soon as I hang up, I get a text. Hello. How can I help you? I ask when they are going to get their equipment. Oh we will be there later today to get it. I ask for a specific time, they can't give me one. I then tell them, no, I am going out of town until the next evening, you need to get it within the next hour before I leave and lock my gates. A little bit of back and forth about how they need to get their equipment, there is a specified time for pick up. I say, yes, the pick up time was last night and nobody showed up. Now you either pick up within the hour our wait until I get home. They finally agreed to pick up Tuesday morning. They said they would be at my house around 10 a.m. to pick up. They FINALLY showed up at 10:50 this morning to get their stuff.
The biggest thing that I look for in a company is their customer service, no matter what the price. Even if they made a gazillion mistakes, a sincere apology goes a long way. I didn't even get that after all of this hassle! No apology, nothing!
Thanks but no thanks to Bounce House Boise.
Let me comment on your response below.
First I have disproved your false statement of the scheduled pick up time with the attached photo. Your First lie. With that being said, I would also like to ask you why, if the happy birthday banner was ruined, wasn't I notified and told that and given the opportunity to select my own alternative banner? Your Second lie. That was not told to me at all until this post.
And are you saying that WE are the ones that made the mess in the bounce house with the grass and balloons? Your Third lie. I can assure you it was not us. We didn't have balloons at the party. You did not clean or sanitize your bounce house so consumers beware!
In conclusion, I think it would be in the best interest to your company if you were to accept that your company screwed up and just apologized instead of lying about the mistakes you made.
This kind of business will surely run your business to the ground.
OK ONE MORE THING...notice how after this person gets a bad review, suddenly a 5 star review comes up to boost his ratings up again? But he never responds to them to thank them for the great review, only to try to justify his horrible service to the bad reviews.
You are a phony and a fraud and anyone who does business with this person and his company, beware! If he is this shady, I sure wouldn't let him or his staff on your property!! read more