Update on this: Just discovered another pair of pants that they supposedly altered and charged me for had never been altered! Was part of a group of clothing I brought in to have done. I will never go to this place again.
I have been a customer for eight years at this dry cleaners ever since moving to Belmont Heights, and this is the third set of owners or franchisees now to operate this cleaners since I've been coming here, and I definitely like them the least.
Since their taking over, my initial problem was that the prices seem to have been jacked up. This cleaners was always a little on the pricey side, but they really seem to have become overpriced.
The second problem, and why I began to distrust them, was that they handed me back an incomplete order without checking that the number of items was correct, and the missing item was a beautiful brand new dress. It seemed a little suspicious that the dress had been separated from the other items and that if I had not caught it, I might never have gotten it back. They said it would have been linked to my phone number, but what if I had forgotten about it?
So I stopped using them and went to a much less expensive cleaners for awhile, but because they're the only cleaners within walking distance of my house and I needed some alterations done, I drifted back. Big mistake.
My latest experience is I had numerous pairs of new pants hemmed. I had these done recently right after Christmas. They were brought in in two different groups. On one I gave my cell number, and the person must have entered it incorrectly. When I brought one of the pairs back for a re-do because they were WAY too long to wear with flats (I had tried them on for fitting at the shop!), they first tried to tell me that they had never done the work for me because the order wasn't in the computer. A person named Angel kept accusing me of apparently trying to be dishonest. I have money. I don't need to work up a story to get a free pants hemming.
Then when the seamstress looked at it and admitted she had done the work, she scolded me and said, "You know, when you bring clothes back two or three months later and say make them an inch shorter and you haven't had them fitted at the store, we have a problem with that," Well, neither of those things were true. Their attitude was rude when I had spent a lot of money there, and it really annoyed me. On top of that, they charge -- get this -- $45.00 to take up sleeves at the armholes!
I have been reading reviews on Yelp for the most popular dry cleaners and tailors in the area, and I will definitely be checking those out. I think I've had it with this place. Too bad, because they're so convenient to me. read more