Though I don't often write customer reviews, I feel I'm obligated by my poor experience with JMG Ventures LLC (Michaels Nursery) to share a fair warning with future potential customers of this 'business' from becoming victims themselves. We ordered 8 shrubs as listed on their website as being from 2'-3' tall... we paid twice as much for this size shrub ($30) than the 1' shrubs he also had available (for $20.) When the trees arrived (a few days later than originally stated none-the-less) they were only 1' tall. Having our garden project as far along as was possible prior to the arrival of our order, and because the shrubs had just endured a long delivery journey, we decided to proceed with their planting and reach out to the 'business' to find out where things went wrong.
We placed a few phone calls to Michael's Nursery, left messages with voicemail, as well as a woman who answered one time... nobody from Michael's Nursery ever returned our cal. So we sent an e-mail asking for an explanation and a possible refund resolution to account for the price difference of 1' shrubs as delivered, rather than the 2'-3' we had actually paid for. An e-mail reply finally appeared claiming that the shrubs shipped were 2'-3' but were 'trimmed' down to 1' for shipping and no refund would be offered. We were also told they would "...grow back quickly."
Having already planted the shrubs, thinking it unreasonable to pay to ship them back, and accepting that it will just have to take that much longer for the shrubs to reach our final goal, we decided to e-mail one final request for refund and make a few suggestions. We suggested they change their website to reflect the 'trimming prior to shipment' to make it clear to customers and asked again for an appropriate refund. Days went by without any reply and another voicemail was left requesting reply.
Without any other options, we decided it was time to begin mitigation via PayPal. Just prior to filing our dispute with PayPal, we looked at the Michael's Nursery website to see if they had made any changes in their product description; they had not. So we submitted our objections to PayPal... now is when we finally got the 'business' attention. Within 8 minutes they replied to our dispute on PayPal, but not before they modified their website to include my recommendations.
This is the kind of 'business' Michaels Nursery wants to run... if potential customers want to entertain that kind of journey, then by all means they will proceed at their own risk.
I wouldn't recommend this company, even to a dog. read more