Don't use Magic Grooming in North Bay Village..
My thought for today;
We are imperfect creatures living in an imperfect world getting on each other's nerves..
In December 2020, I took my babies (my dogs) to the groomer. Same groomer I've taken 4 generations of my dogs to for almost two decades.. The owner was friends with my late mom, He went to the same church as her, the owner even went to my moms funeral.
Well, over the years they've done okay jobs but mostly marginal to bad jobs, but never such bad jobs as they did in December; their prices have risen steeply but we stayed loyal.. So for Christmas we took our "children" to get groomed, they did the worst job I've ever seen, and even though they get the same cut always, I had told them what I wanted, like I always do.. But this time they left uneven cuts (more than usual), and gave them poodle tails.. (my dogs are super passive so they can't blame the dogs, especially for the poodle tails) I complained and the young lady said next time she'd give us a free grooming, but that didn't satisfy Lotte, because she went in there as well totally and rightfully upset about the horrible job and they told her the same thing as well, the next one was on them; and so today I took them for a spring grooming and the one lady who was there today had no clue, and I saw the owner walking in the next room (day activity room for boarded cats and dogs), closing the door making no eye contact with me; then the lady who said it was supposed to be free came out from the back to tell me that she said no such thing and that it would come out of her pay, so I asked to talk to the owner, and they both told me he was not available, I insisted and then they came up with (out of the blue) that he was in a meeting.. (with who..? Other dogs in the back?) The first lady started to talk to the other lady in Spanish as if I wasn't there and I was some dead beat, she didn't think I understood or talked Spanish (which in it of itself is just rude anyway) granted, it's not my first language but I interjected in Spanish which caught her off guard.. They refused to honor the offer to groom our dogs at no cost due to their negligence, and I asked; (mind you, almost 20 years a loyal customer) I asked, what would you do if all this happened to you, and with a straight face she said, she'd never come there again... I'm very happy they are making such good money there that they can turn a good loyal and paying customer away, someone who has supported them through ups and downs of the economy. (especially now in these times of COVID and slow business for everyone, when businesses everywhere are closing down) so today, they lost two dogs, not just that but a loyal customer who will go elsewhere from now on.. I can deal with them not wanting to do free work, no one should work for free. I had expected some kind of compromise or discount; anything for the shabby work they did in December, but they refused to honor their promised to make their ugly screw up right and then blatantly lied about it.. funny she recalled the incident very well, but not that she offered a freebie, if she was not in a position to have offered it, she shouldn't have.. I will never go there again.. and I will never recommend anyone to go there.. if they are okay about losing me as a customer, they can do without other customers as well. It turns out they are not honest people and they were never really all that good in the first place, I was just supporting local businesses, and until today I liked them, and their prices are too high for the kind of work they do anyway..
I was a supporter of theirs until today, recommended many people to go there over the years, as I have been with all north bay village businesses, but as that lady told me, she wouldn't go there if she was me, so I won't go there again..
And lady, if you're reading this, I know you'll deny it. I hope your conscience is clear, and you can live with yourself.. read more