We have an ongoing contract to stamp concrete our backyard. An Impressions staff member measured our backyard on July 2022 and we paid the down payment of $4240. The agreement was that the installation would start late fall 2022 or early spring 2023.
After paying the deposit, some changes have happened in between that would cause us to change the scope of the project. When we wanted to discuss that with the impressions staff member, he surprised us with "the minimum mobilization and materials costs for any project of $10,500.00 + HST", which was never brought to our attention before signing the contract and paying the deposit. Also it is not stated in the contract. We are in the process of selling the house that is the subject of the contract. Hence, we have been trying to reach you multiple times with no success. Only once somebody (maybe the receptionist) took our call and promised that he would let somebody from your team contact us, but this of course hasn't happened.
We then tried to find the founder of this company and we found it. So we escalated the matter to him. Surprisingly he responded and promised to follow up and get back to us. This was about 3 weeks ago. We sent him a friendly reminder, but then nothing happened. This is why, we feel that we were taken advantage of. They are using our personal circumstances to confiscate our deposit without even clarifying the situation or providing any kind of work or resolution.
Our request is that we would like to have a change of the scope that wouldn't limit us to this minimum mobilization amount in our new house.
This experience made us doubt that company's customer service as well as its business in general. We are really disappointed by the service that we have received from them so far. It is ridiculous how they were responsive when they wanted our project and wanted to collect the deposit, but after that nothing. We already found that several complaints have been filed against them in BBB that are similar to ours, which made us feel that it was a huge mistake working with them.
We feel that we got scammed by a Canadian company. This is why, we are submitting this review to help others not fall through the same trap. read more