I started using Jason's pool service this Sept. MY pool looked almost perfect, had a tiny drop of discoloration starting on one wall as the pool guy I had was flaky and not showing up regularly.
He cleaned the filter, threw in some of my own chlorine tablets poured some other chemicals & charged me an additional 65.00 plus cost of chemicals for that first time he was there, this was on top of the 85.00 monthly fee he quoted me due to the tree's that need trimming . He said it would be 75.00 a month with tree's cut back.
I got the bill the same day I met him and paid it in full with a email asking him to inform me of any additional charges before doing procedure to incur that cost in the future.
3rd week the pool was not looking so good,wasn't sure if he showed up or not. By Tuesday of the 4th week it was looking pretty bad & he was due that Thursday at which time he texted me late in the afternoon, on his day he was to come clean the pool that he couldn't make it but would show up the next day Friday. I said O.k. but come tomorrow for sure as pool is looking really, really bad , he blamed it on the wind.
Friday came & went, Saturday, Sunday no call no service, by Monday morning my pool was starting to look like a swamp.
I called, no answer, I texted, no reply. I again texted & called still no reply. I then texted asking if he was going to show up or not & if I needed to get someone else as my pool was looking really bad. He replied saying"you calling & texting me a bunch of times isn't going to make me reply to you any faster. I was going to come do your pool now, but I'm now going to lunch instead."
I wrote him back, apologizing & explaining I was stressing out as pools go south so fast & are expensive to bring back once they're at that point. He didn't reply.
He went there after lunch & texted me saying "your tree is your problem, you're going to have to find someone else".
I told him this was crazy, he couldn't just treat people like this, I went over how he not only saw the trees but the deal he made was based on them being overgrown and that I have full documentation of all our emails and text messages that confirms everything.
I again asked him to please come fix the problem his negligence created as someone else would now charge me way more money now, due to the condition is was in and told him I would stop my credit card charge if he didn't, still no reply.
I got a new person after not having use of the pool for over a week in weather that was over 90 degrees every almost every day, paid more to bring it back to normal & I stopped my charge just like I told him I would.
That got his attention, he finally called me, now threatening to put a lien on my house. I yelled at him telling him I have all my paperwork in order to prove my case & he cannot do this to people and just get away with & that I was calling my lawyer!
My new pool company sent out a very nice clean ut guy, super [professional and when I told him what happened and why the pool looked so horrible he told me he's heard of Jason's pool service & that what he heard was he's known to go to other pool companies yelp accounts & he writes bad reviews! Crazy!!
So wish I would have checked him out in yelp 1st. Big lesson for me.
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