I'm the property manager for one community in a fairly sizable corporation. Every year we throw a summer party for our residents- this is my first year managing this particular property so I decided we'd rent a bounce house and snow cone machine to make it extra fun and draw out a larger crowd than we normally do. I sure did get my crowd, but I also got no bounce house or snow cone machine. You can imagine how well this went over. Our event was scheduled from 2:00p and 6:00p. I did not receive a call 48 hours prior to my event, so I took matters into my own hands and emailed Liz. Liz had to locate the checks we mailed them 5 days prior (our corporate office mailed them to the Beaverton address)- at first she didn't even bother to check and see if anyone received them, she just told me right off the bat that they never got payment from us. I received an email about 30 mins later stating that they'd received them and marked our quote as paid. I asked if there was anything additional that they would need from me. Liz assured me that we were good to go. Forward to the day of the party (today) - it's 2:00p and the bounce house/snow cone machine are no where in sight. I called bouncin bins and the phone rang over 30 times before Liz picked up. I explained the situation- she asked for the name the order was under. I gave her my name and she said she had no record of me. Confused, I pulled up all of our emails. I told her I had emails confirming that I had spoken with her previously- I offered to forward them to her. Suddenly she found my order. She said that we never paid the deposit. Again I referred to our emails. She suddenly remembered again. I gave her the quote number and she said "oh... I don't know why this happened but you're not on the schedule for today! I marked you as paid, but it wasn't marked anymore in the system!". She apologized a million times and said that they could send it out to arrive at 4:00pm and we'd have to keep it until 8:00pm. I'm a very nice and calm person, so at this point I wasn't upset, even with the 20 or so people outside who were all getting very impatient with this whole ordeal. I agreed, even though that meant I would have to stay 2 hours past our closing time... I wanted to keep the residents happy and follow through with what I promised. 4:00 rolled around and still nothing. I called again and spoke with a nice lady named Debbie. Debbie informed me that our order was never pushed through in the system and that they were just getting it on the truck and wouldn't be there for 45 mins (5:00p!!), but that we could keep the rental until 10:00pm or overnight. I decided to cancel and asked for a full refund. They asked if I wanted a "rain check" instead. I declined.
Now I wouldn't have went through the trouble of writing this review, as I know how bad it feels to be on the receiving end of one of these, but this whole time no one even apologized to me or offered me any sort of compensation for the trouble. In fact, they were extremely nonchalant about it. If I were to take the same approach to my job, I would be fired. It's just insane that it seems that this business has no concern for it's money- had things went well, every property in my company throws an annual summer party and I would have recommended them to my peers (we have about 20 large properties in PDX and a few in Washington). At this time, I just want to save someone else the headache and disappointment. We ended up turning on the sprinkler system for the kids who showed up and luckily they were pretty understanding. I also made sure to explain the situation to all of our residents; a lot of them asked what company I booked through, and I told them - more potential customers that probably won't give bouncin bins the time of day. read more