Incompetent, bumbling, inept. (TLDR)
This review is more than a few weeks overdue- I debated leaving it, as I don't usually like to review places poorly. However, I see that many have had similar experiences, and honestly, if this saves someone the trouble, then I am happy to write it. I've been going to Georges for a little while now, hoping to support a "local business" as I prefer to do. There are always little missteps (losing laundry, quoting me incorrect prices, not wearing masks during C19), but until the most recent event, I'd usually look over it.
On the most recent visit, I'd dropped off a few very simple pieces for repair. One was jeans I needed trimmed for leg width, one was a skirt, which I wanted the waist let out on, and one was a sweater that I needed stitched together. They told me the pieces would be ready within a week and a half- cool, no problem. I showed up on the day they should've been ready, right at 5pm, only to have the woman at the front inform me that nothing was ready.
Me: Oh. Ok then- no problem, I understand things happen. Why didn't I receive a call?"
Her: "ohhhhhhhhhh we meant to callllll youuu, I'm not sureeeee" (glances around at nothing) you'd need to speak with the managerrrrrr, not sureeeeee"
Me: "Okie doke, can you tell me why they aren't done, at least? Did you get busy? When WILL they be ready?"
Her: "Ohhhhhhh I don't knowwwwww, you'd need to speak with the managerrrrrr."
Me: "Ok then, may I speak with him or her?"
Her: "He's not herrrreeeeee right nowwww."
At this point, I'm starting to get a bit frustrated, but I understand that it's not the front desk girl's total fault- she is there to check in clothes and assist with front of the house. So, I asked her when he would be in next, got his hours/number, and left. I spent the next two days calling when he was supposed to be in, to no avail. He was either never around or "at a different location". Called the other location, they would say they hadn't seen him that day. Finally, I connected with him. He was coughing and hacking like a 60 year smoker- almost to the point of vomiting on the phone. He excused himself, which was fine, but it continued. He was finally able to get out that he needed to speak with me to confirm that letting the waist out on my skirt would be $40, which, at any tailoring place, is fairly steep- let alone good ole Lancaster.
I told him that was perfectly fine, and asked when the skirt would be ready. He stated it would be done the next afternoon, at 12pm. Cool.
I show up the next day at 5pm (giving them several extra hours) and the same girl is there. I ask for my skirt, which should've been done. The same girl starts waffling about how the manager needed to speak to me. I gently told her that had happened. She disappears to look for it, and cannot find it. Cannot find my skirt. She's gone for several minutes, and comes back looking sheepish saying that she can't find my items. At this point, I peek around, and can clearly see my skirt hanging right behind the wall. I tell her I see my skirt, and ask if I can take it. She checks it, and...it's not done. I am mad at this point.
By now, the seamstress also wanders out to talk to me. Brings my skirt out, crumpiling it in her fist as she speaks and says that it will be $40 to alter it, and that the manager needs to speak with me about it. I tell her I have already spoken with him, and that I would just like to take my skirt, at this point. She argues back with me a bit more, and finally at my insistence, goes to hand it over. She goes to lay it IN THE DIRTY RECEIVING BIN that has clothing in it that smells VERY strongly, and is covered in dog hair and presumably, waste (that is how bad it smells) from the previous customer. I quickly ask her not to lay it in that basket while simultaneously snatching it out of her hand. Again, the front desk had no info on why my skirt wasn't complete. And as a final slap in the face, they charged me for everything still (save for the skirt).
I WILL NOT BE BACK. read more