We have been a long time customer at Orchard Cleaners, even before the current owner took over. Since then, we remained as loyal customers. I have never made any complaint about anything there until recently. I've been respectful and kind toward the staff throughout the years. Recently, I brought in two trousers to be hemmed. When I got there, the lady rushed through the measurements and I had a bad feeling it wasn't going to come out right. She reassured me about the alterations. When I picked it up and tried it on the next day, the cut was too high. I went back to have them fix it, but as I was explaining the issue with Tina, I felt she was giving me a hard time about it. I believe wholeheartedly it was because I had refused to help her by loaning $800 she requested in June. I thought it was weird that she would text a customer and ask to borrow money like that. It was quite bothersome and it made me uncomfortable. But even so, I continued to take my dry cleaning business there. I believe because of that incident that Tina was (Valentina) treating me differently, and in a bad way. I finally wanted to bring it to her attention. That day, I asked her if I could speak to her privately so that her sister didn't have to hear (out of respect for her privacy). She replied, "She can listen to whatever I have to say" so I expressed to her that the private text she sent me about borrowing money made me feel very uncomfortable and I believed that was the reason she changed her tone with me. When I left the place after picking up my two trousers, I wanted to talk about the conversation that didn't set right with me. She had the audacity to say how uncomfortable she felt and that I need to respect her boundaries. Can you believe that? I replied to let her know she was the one who made me uncomfortable and she crossed the boundaries when she decided to text me by asking money from a customer. She also lied and told me it was meant for another person. It was clear she knew who she was texting because of the context. She had her cousin (or auntie) take over the issue. Her name is Sera. Apparently she is the general manager. We spent almost an hour discussing my concerns. In that conversation, at the end of the phone call, she said she would provide a full refund of the cost of the two trousers plus the hemming I paid for, and I did not have to return the trousers. I even expressed the importance of not changing her mind and back peddling. She reassured me repeatedly that no matter what, she wouldn't change her mind and make sure she honored it. The following day, I get a call when I was leaving town. Sera started back peddling and broke her word! She continued to talk over me and did not let me speak. She accused me of disrespecting her because I was so frustrated with the whole situation I couldn't get a word in. Then she hung up on me. So all the communication was done through text. She began to accuse me of harassing them. Can you believe that?! I made it very clear that I did not want to have a serious conversation through text, but this so-called general manager Sera thought this was the way to handle customer service. She ignored my husband in the text as if he isn't a customer himself. It's our joint account at the dry cleaner. That's how unprofessional she is. Since she wasn't communicating, we sought to reach out to the business. All of them made up lies about being hanging up on my husband and said their batteries were low. We didn't know what the truth was anymore because of the constant lies. I believe that the family and Sera are not telling the truth to the parents, who are the owners. They obviously prefer to lose our business over policy. Their excuse is a video of me trying to be nice so I can go out of there fast because I was so uncomfortable. They also lied about the hemming because the lady who measured me didn't do it right and she did it fast. Tina even accused me not measuring it right and my response was it's not my job to measure it when I'm not the professional. The amount of inconvenience and bad customer service that put me in such a stress over the lies and disrespect. This business is run by a family and they are more concern to protect themselves than what they just put a customer through. Don't be deceived by the way they pretend to be nice. They are not about keeping their word and they are not truthful. Don't rely on what they are translating to their family members. They are not what they appeared to be. They are very good at manipulating people and pretending they care about customer service. The level of disrespect they had with a loyal customer is not worth returning back to that place. read more