I've been using this dry cleaners for about six months, early on I got some shirts back that weren't mine, marked with my name but not mine. The shirts I brought in were missing, fortunately they were found, they had not been marked at all. Okay, mistakes happen.
Recently, i took in a pair of slacks that had been stained at my Christmas party. They had a large food stain (white) against black slacks, I brought them in pointed out the stain, they were marked for special attention. When I got them back the stain had not been removed. I was not told they couldn't remove the stain when I picked them up, I didnt discover that till I tried to wear them. The large stain was still there. I was able to remove some of it just by scraping at it. I brought them back and asked that they be cleaned again, as i believed no one had actualy tried to remove the stain.
The girl wrote up a ticket for $6.50. I askd, "you're going to charge me when you didn't clean them?" The owner then joined the conversation saying they had been cleaned because they had been run through the machine. Great just what I needed an argument about semantics. I pointed out that special attention had been marked, no one had pointed out the cleaning had failed and if you just examined the stain you could tell no one had really tried.
He did finally agree to clean them again for free but it was less than cordial and I felt like I had to pull teeth to get the service. The pants, by the way, did get clean the second time around.
Now, most recently I brought in four shirts, three for laundry and one dry clean. When I went to pic them up the bill was $22.50. Really? for four shirts? I was told one of the shirts that I had requested laundered actually had to be dry cleaned because it was too heavy. This is a shirt that is well over 10 years old that I have laundered many many times before. The woman serving me explained that the girl who took them in didnt know they were too heavy but when the people in back found a shirt they felt wasn't okay to launder they dry cleaned it.
There was no sense of apology from the owner, no sense the girl up front should have been trained, no admission that I should have been notified that the shirt would cost much more to clean. Sorry, but it just seems rude to me. Its an old knock around short, not worth dry cleaning.
Because the owners don't feel they have to actually take responsibility for their actions they will never train their personnel properly. They will never do a good job and they will act as if you are a jerk for wanting good servive.
I'm done with this business, there are other dry cleaners out there. read more