I was with pro disposal for many years. What I liked about them the most was that they collected the trash in the back of my house, abutting the alley way. This is where trash should be picked up, not in your front yard. For years everything was ok. There were a few occasions that they did not collect it even though I paid. I didn't take the time to complain.
Recently they succeeded in rubbing me the wrong way.
I want to qualify this complaint by admitting, to their benefit, that I was on many occasions late in paying. This was not because of lack of funds, but because of my extremely busy life style. When I was late they wouldn't collect the trash. I would immediately contact them and pay up. On many occasions, my roommate would remind me. I never complained about a late fee or anything. When late, it was only for a few days, and, there was never any payment made with insufficient funds. They were always paid in full.
Over a week ago I contacted them and complained about the trash not being picked up. The woman I talked to said they were having problems and were doing late collections, but I shouldn't have had an interruption in service. When I told her there was interruption, she said she would look into it. I made a payment and she assured me of collection the next day. The fact is, they had not collected the trash for 3 weeks.
The next day came and went with no trash removal. I didn't realize this until the weekend. Today, was my collection day and I noticed at 1 PM it was still there with the beginning of a fowl odor. I called them.
After the standard 15 to 20 minutes on hold, a woman responded. I told her that this was the fifth week of no trash service. Her immediate response was, "did you put it in the front." No. She immediately dug in and was ready to go toe to toe with me. "You are suppose to, we sent out notice to your area on such and such a date that on July something or other it had to be picked up in the front." I told her I didn't know that. "Well we sent you notice." "We were there to collect it and even took a picture of the front of your house." My anger took over so that I couldn't explain that I didn't get the notice and I had developed over the years a rather forceful habit of putting my refuse in the alley. I demanded a refund.
She made no attempt whatsoever to amicably settle the issue. She said "so, you want a refund and terminate service." I acknowledged and had to throw the last punch by threatening a law suit if she didn't refund my last payment. For some reason, she told me to wait and put me on hold. I waited about 5 minutes and hung up.
It would seem to me that any reasonable person, let alone a "pro" would have figured it out and thought that someone should call this guy and tell him to put the trash in the front. Instead they took pictures of the front of my house.
Finally, for your information, I checked out 2 of their competitors and for the same service the "pro's" were rendering, they were going to perform trash collection for slightly over one-half what I was paying.
I do not recommend them. Gary Pareja read more