Although quick to respond to after-hours phone call, it took the guy (Scotty) far too long to find…read moremy plumbing problem. He did finally locate and remove obstruction after fiddling with things for several hours.
He specifically said on the phone that I would not be charged anything extra for after-hours, and the fee would be $100 per hour. So I hired him based on trusting his statement. However, when he arrived, driving a You Haul rental truck instead of a company vehicle, he did a "bait-and-switch" on me and said the boss lady said no, he had to charge $125 per hour instead of their "usual" $100 per hour, billed in 30-min. increments. But they were giving me a break by only adding $25 an hour more.
I called at 8:30 p.m., and two hours later, he arrived. I specifically said, "It's 10:30 p.m. now. How long do you think this will take?"
He said, "Should be way less than an hour, but we have a minimum one-hour charge." Believing the cost would be no more than a total of $125, I agreed to let him try to find the issue.
Additionally, I was never told that the time started when he left the shop, and that would be $62.50 for him driving an estimated 30 mins., from Pearl to Madison. When I got the invoice, however, on top of already charging me $62.50 for the trip, he then tacked on another $20 + sales tax as a "gas and mileage charge." I considered that to be double-dipping and gouging me for more money.
When I questioned the padded bill, he said that he "helped me out" by stopping the clock a little early or it would have been even more than $422.65 to find and remove a chewed-up washcloth and chewed-up remnants of a garment, both assumed to have gotten into the washing machine drain somehow.
Truth is, he spent a lot of time talking, scratching his head of what to do, searching for a clean-out plug instead of quickly finding the issue as he said he could do (on the phone and again when he arrived, reassuring me that it would likely take far less than one hour).
Even though he did find and remove the obstruction, for which I was grateful, I say that "we helped HIM out" by having the toilet already removed for much quicker access and also taking care of reinstalling the toilet ourselves after he left. Us doing that saved him a lot of work and time.
No, I DO NOT recommend this company based on what I believe were false and misleading representations and price gouging me as a customer!
Linda Wilson
Madison, MS
