I dropped off my mother's comforter to be dry cleaned. It is a light use comforter, used for three or so months a year, dry cleaned, and then stored away in a plastic storage bag. I dropped it off, paid for it, and was given a receipt that said it would be ready for pick up a few days later. No problem. Being a king size comforter, I assumed several days to a week.
The day before we were to pick it up, someone called my mother to let her know the comforter wasn't ready, but she was super rude about it. She told my mother the comforter was extremely dirty and they had to ship it off to be washed because "it is so dirty we can't clean it." My mother was very taken aback because, as I said, the comforter is lightly used and washed regularly. It wasn't abnormally dirty at all, it just needed a cursory end of season cleaning. On top of that, the woman was overflowing with attitude about it, as is it was the disgusting thing she had ever handled and she was disgusted by my mother. She was given a new date to pick it up.
My mom went to get it yesterday, a day after it was due back. She had not received any more phone calls about the comforter. When she arrived, no one knew where the comforter was. They made her go through all the comforters in the place, only to not find it. The woman there came out and again rudely told her to comforter was extremely dirty and she had to send it off to be deep cleaned, overflowing with the same amount of fake disgust and attitude she'd had on the phone. At this point, my mother told the woman the comforter was cleaned regularly and used lightly, so if it was that dirty, they obviously did something to it and wouldn't tell her. She told them at that point that, clean or not, she wanted her comforter back now. She was told it would be in today, Saturday.
I went with my mother to get it. Surprise! The comforter wasn't there!!!!! AGAIN! Another woman helped us this time, and she was very apologetic about the whole thing, but the other woman stood there talking to her angrily in another language. I'm not sure what me or my mother did to this woman, but she obviously had some kind of an issue with us which I do not appreciate. We are paying customers - who had to pay in advance - and had done nothing to this woman. This woman should not be working directly with the general public.
My mother was extremely angry at this point. This comforter was over a week passed when it should have been done, she has been insulted repeatedly and treated very rudely, and this is the third time she was told to come get it only to find out it wasn't there. Now, my mother is a very understanding person and very patient. She was willing to wait for the comforter as she won't be using it again until January. But after having this woman insult her the way she did and act so rude, my mother was out of patience and just wanted the comforter back, clean or not. So I told them to give me the address for the place they sent it to because I was going to go get it.
It was over in Raleigh, so we drove all the way out there to get it. It was done, rolled, and in a bag, ready to go. We took it and left. When we got home, my mother was convinced that they had done something to it for it to be as dirty as this woman said it was, so she pulled it out and unrolled it. It was clean... but it was still wet. They rolled it and bagged it wet, which means when we put it away, had we not unrolled it, it would have gotten moldy.
I will never set foot into this place ever again. read more