Note: We decided to not go with them - they were unprofessional, rescheduled our initial appointment then showed up at the wrong time and without any preparation or materials/samples and wasted our time, then we thought they flaked to the follow-up appointment, but they ended up calling after they were 20min late and said they were going to be 45min later (2pm instead of 1:15pm) and someone else would be coming. We don't have any confidence in them to be on time or to do a good job.
I reached out on 8/18 on Yelp. Amina replied and we scheduled an in-home consult on 8/29. On 8/28, they messaged on Yelp and texted to say their sales manager had an urgent family matter and needed to reschedule. That was fine with me, we rescheduled for 9/3 at 10am.
On 9/3 at 9:28am I missed a call and got a voicemail from Andy at Shutter & Shade saying he was there "a little early" and even though we're scheduled for 10:30 (note: it was for 10am), could we see him early? I texted the number back that we couldn't be ready by 9:30 but we could do 10 and shared some local coffee shops. I then got a text from Cindy at Shutter & Shade at 9:31 saying: "This is Cindy with Shade Service. Andy is asking if he can be there slightly earlier maybe 10am?" Ugh, why are two people reaching out to me earlier than the appointment? I replied that I had just texted with him. At 10am I texted and he rang the doorbell a few minutes later. Andy brought only a tape measure with him and a card, he's the General Manager for both Shutter & Shade and Shade Service. We talked a bit about what we wanted and showed him the spaces. We went back to sit around our table and sat in silence as he looked on his phone. We asked what are we doing now? He said he was looking up photos but "the system was slow". It looked like he was just on the Hunter Douglas website. He did not bring any samples or a laptop. It was a joke of an appointment and a total waste of our time - nothing at all was accomplished.
We said what's the next step - he recommended coming to their showroom and we asked if instead, they could come back with samples. He said it was better to go to the showroom because you can see more. We said sure, as long as we could bring samples home to look at in the rooms. He said we couldn't so we set a follow up appointment on 9/6 at 1:15pm.
Today is 9/6. Andy called me at 1:40pm and said he's running late but his other guy will be there in 20 minutes and he would be there later, then said actually his other guy could do the appointment and he won't be there at all. Initially we said fine, we'll still be home at 2pm, but then realized we just don't have any confidence in them and ultimately wouldn't choose them anyway. We let them know we wouldn't be working with them and there was no need to send their other guy. Andy asked why and I said because they're late and it's unprofessional. He said he thought the appointment was for 1:30pm. I said even if it was, he should've called us before the appointment, not after they were late.
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Update: Shortly after posting this review, Andy began harassing me and called me 3x and I declined each time. I finally answered and asked why I gave him a 1-star review. I told him he could read it and asked him to stop calling me and let him know I'd be blocking his number. read more