I'll start by saying that I've been a customer for 6 years. I had 3 Cavalier King Charles (now only two...more on that later), I was new to town, didn't know anyone and it was kind of the first place I stumbled across. I was never super impressed with the cleanliness or the staff, and once or twice one of my dogs acted out of sorts when he came home, like he got injured there. But when I inquired they always assured me everything was fine and nothing happened during the appointment. I just trusted them and assumed he got himself worked up.
They have a punch card system which I initially thought was nice, but then I realized the owner will do whatever he can to get out of giving away that 1/2 off groom after 8 full price visits. They refuse to keep the cards on site and will not combine the cards. So say you drop off and your husband picks up, if he doesn't have the cards you are shit out of luck and don't get punches for that time. Surely that makes no sense right? You paid for the groom, why would it matter if it was two separate cards?
I didn't believe that someone, especially a business owner, could be so illogical, so I tested it out. During COVID, we cleaned out both of our cars and several of my purses and found 5 different punch cards all about half punched. In total it was more than 16 stamps which would be two half off visits. I arrived at the groomer, explained that I did some cleaning and showed them the cards, none of which had a particular pets name on them. I also explained that bc I work long hours sometimes I pick them up, my husband does, or even my mother in law so that's likely how we ended up with multiple cards.
They informed me that they weren't sure if they could combine them, which again makes no sense but they agreed to call the owner and discuss. When I went to pick up the dogs, not only did they not give me half off either dog, THEY STOLE HALF THE CARDS and wouldn't give them back. They claimed that some of them were for my dead dog and couldn't be used towards these dogs. Keep in mind they are all the same breed and size and none of the cards had names on them. My sweet girl died young and tragically and for a business whose livelihood depends on loving pet owners I couldn't believe the insensitivity of these people.
If you go to a restaurant that gives you your 10th salad free, do they ask you who ate the damn salad? NO!! Because it doesn't matter, you paid for it. The same applies here.
While I was discussing it with them, they were completely rude about it, bringing up my dead dog yet again and defending this outrageous position. I've given it some thought and based on rough numbers I've spent well over $5000 there.... and this greedy, insensitive, short sided idiot was willing to give up $1000 annually in perpetuity over $50 freaking dollars.
I don't know about you, but I cannot and will not support business owners who do not value their customers. If he is that cheap about a punch card system, imagine where else he might be cutting corners. Keep your fur babies safe and go elsewhere. read more