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    Phantom Fireworks of Youngstown

    2.8 (4 reviews)
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    Phantom Fireworks of Boardman

    Phantom Fireworks of Boardman

    2.7(9 reviews)
    10.6 mi
    $$$

    Prices are good. Many people there to answer questions. They do need to order a few more tee shirts…read morethey were out of everything but the xl

    I used to LOVE Phantom fireworks when I lived in Maine. In fact, the picture I am associating with…read morethis review is from the best 4th of July ever, 2019 in Downeast Maine. I had a fantastic time and an amazing bonding experience with my son and my neighbor in Maine. Then I moved to Pittsburgh PA and planned to go get fireworks for 2020.... or so I thought.Note, I sent 3 emails to corporate and one to the store, asking for at least an acknowledgement of wrongdoing or an apology, and never got one. That's the reason for this review. The day was June 5, 2020. The week leading up to that had been the most awful week. Since we had just moved to PA, my son had not had the opportunity to make friends with people, and because of lockdown, he got in with this Discord group that at first seemed to be a bunch of computer geeks, but they ended up encouraging him to do bad things - things that he would never do had the lockdown not occurred just a few months after we had moved here. He's a good kid, but I think it felt good to him to be liked, even if what he was being liked for was not good and antithetical to his personality. That's how the week STARTED.. Between that and a horrible week for me in the stock market, I chose to take Friday off. I decided to go to the Boardman, OH showroom because I wanted to get out of the state, and PA loves to tax fireworks heavily. So, I hopped in my 1993 Honda Del Sol, took down the targa top, and headed to OH to buy a bunch of fireworks as I did the previous year. It was the first day of the "Green" phase in PA and OH, since the COVID lockdown had begun. People were out in full force in Boardman, crowding restaurants maskless as if COVID-19 had never happened. As I pulled into the parking lot, my friend Kirstin returned my call as earlier, I had left her a message about my shitty week. I am loud and I cuss a lot. I didn't need everyone walking past me to know my business, and I'm sure people bringing their small children didn't want to expose them to my potty mouth, so I backed in to a spot at the rear of the parking lot near the main road, and continued my conversation with Kirstin. About 20 minutes later, the police showed up. The officer who approached me, officer Tracy Polak, who was very nice as far as police go, told me that the people inside thought I was flipping them off from the back of the parking lot (because I talk with my hands, I guess?) I'm like "who calls the cops on someone for that?" I explained to the officer that I had come to buy fireworks, but my friend called and I drove to the back of the parking lot for privacy. I had planned to enter the store when I was done. She told me that the people inside had seen me there for about a half hour (it was less than that) without a front plate on my car (DUH! OH borders PA where nobody has a front plate, not to mention, that 27 days from that date, Ohio was doing away with front plates!) so they called the police. I had ended the conversation with Kirstin to talk to the police officer, another one showed up and they determined that I was harmless. They spoke to the store manager and left. I pulled into a spot near the store and prepared to walk in.Calling the police on a customer who wasn't doing anything wrong is one mistake, but once the officer told the store manager that I was Kosher, an apology would have satisfied me. Instead, the store manager approached me as I got out of my car, and continued to regard me with suspicion and hostility. Not exactly how you treat someone who you just wronged. I myself was on the fence about saying, "Hey, fuckstick, you just called the cops on me, am I gonna get a goddam apology for that?" But I didn't. I figured if I went about my business in being a customer, someone eventually would address the fact that they just screwed up. But nobody did. While I looked around the store for fireworks, I assessed the humanity in the store to try and figure out how and why things happened as they did. In the front of the store, near the cash registers, I saw about a dozen young adults, probably in late teens or very early 20s, sitting around talking, with nothing else to do. I'm sure when you have a group of teenagers in a place like Bored-man, Ohio with nothing better to do, calling the cops on me was probably the most excitement they've had in a while. The manager guy seemed to feel no remorse or regret, and as I walked around the store I grew increasingly irate, and I thought to myself, after all I've had to endure this week, why on earth would I give my money to a business that treats people like this? So I didn't. I left. And I didn't buy ANY fireworks for the 4th that year. At all.It was one of those irreparable moments between a customer and business. An apology on the spot, or at least an apologetic reply to my email from corporate might have mended that fence. Lesson learned, along with an additional observation - people from Ohio are weird.

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