It is with a heavy heart that I write this review. I began using Keys last Spring and have had slip covers made for several sofas. My delivery today was 2 hard cased goods that had been lacquered. Although the owner sometimes seems flighty, she is generally good-natured and does an adequate job for the price. There are 2 sides to every story and I can admit that this morning I raised my voice in chorus to match hers. It boils down to this: 3 weeks ago on a Wednesday, Nikki called to say my lacquered pieces were done and ready for delivery. I told her I could take delivery W,T,F,S or any day up until Th. of the following week when I was headed out of town. She called that next Monday and we scheduled for Tuesday morning. Tuesday mid-morning (remember now, I stayed home for delivery) she called to say her delivery guy hadn't shown, she needed to reschedule. I wasn't in in a hurry for the pieces, so I didn't have a problem with that. Reminding her that I was out of town Th and F, she said she'd call next week to schedule. Fast forward to this morning, Thursday, she called me to see if I could take delivery tomorrow. I couldn't, as I'm again leaving town for the weekend, but told her I could head home today for delivery or we could do it next week. At this point I got a snippy comment about me NEVER being able to take delivery and how she needed the money today. (You should know readers, that Keys doesn't take all forms of payments, so I always pay in cash. I offered to pay in full at drop off, which was refused and during the first delivery conversation I offered to bring cash to her that day...both times I was told payment could wait until delivery.) She complained that I hadn't bothered to return her call from yesterday (I hadn't gotten it yet as I was at a client's loading furniture until 12:45am) and that my window for delivery is too tight, and oh yes, she needs the money. The whole time I am thinking:
1. I am the client
2. You're the one who cancelled the original delivery
3. It's none of your business if I leave town two Friday's in a row
4. If you needed to unload it prior to the weekend, perhaps you should have called to schedule last week or the beginning of this week
5. If your cash flow is that tenuous, perhaps you should have taken me up on payment the first two times I offered.
We agreed to do the delivery today, I told her I thought it best that we not work together again, the items were just delivered. As usual, the delivery guys are as good as gold and even though both of the pieces had chipped paint on them, one of the guys touched it up for me. Knowing our business relationship was coming to an end, don't you think that Keys would have also included any extra fabric that I have at their workroom? They didn't. Add insult to injury, now I have to drive over there next week to retrieve it. read more