I took me and my wife's clothes to this spot last week for the 1st time ever thinking we may have found a more convenient spot enroute to our home for dry cleaning.
After realizing there was no signage showing how much their cleaning cost per piece or per type of garment, I asked. The lady working there at the time shared with me after dropping off "11 pieces" of clothing that I would receive a call to know how much everything would be once she tags everything.
I wanted to know how much everything would cost before any services done, but I didn't get that opportunity. I finally received a call from the cleaners but from another rep sharing that my clothes were ready for pickup. My initial response was that I was suppose to have received a call to understand the cost of everything first, and I don't even know what the charges were. He responded with the price, and I was floored!
See, all the lady told me before I left dropping the clothes off was that they charged around $6.75 per piece, around $7 something for special items, and that I had 11 pieces in total with the statement that she would call me once she tags everything to give me the amount.
This guy that I was on the phone with shared that my wife had "2 party dresses" (they are not) which is why our charges were over $100 for dry cleaning. I feel taken advantage of and played!
I finally had a chance to pickup my clothing yesterday (Monday 11/14), but the interaction wasn't anywhere close to pleasant. While entering, I told the guy working there who I was, and he recalled being the one I spoke to. I told him I don't understand why the price for my dry cleaning is so high, and 2ndly, why didn't I receive a call being notified first of the price of the dry cleaning as the other rep shared she would do? He started breaking down the prices for the cleaning and shared that ONE dress my wife had was a $30 charge for cleaning. I turned around and called me wife in front of him heated because I KNOW I've never experienced paying for ANY garment no higher than $15! Even alterations done like zipper repairs and the such I've never been charged that much, and work like that seems much more tedious.
My wife even shared with the guy over the phone that she has never been charged that much for that particular dress to be dry cleaned. I told the man that this is outrageous, that I didn't get notification of these prices, and that I wasn't going to pay that amount. We're now in full heated argument and it's to where he's threatening to call the police on me while I'm threatening to report them to the BBB, but all I wanted to know is why did this cleaning company take our clothing and provided a service we didn't agree to them doing because we were still waiting to understand how much we would be charged 1st before anything would be done.
It took my wife to intervene while on the phone to talk to the man while I could calm down. I felt disrespected, devalued, and undermined. He claimed to have understood and apologized to me personally and my wife over the phone, but it didn't seem genuine because while she was explaining the series events for him to be fully aware of our disgruntlement, he was looking around and noticing other customers pulling up and wanting to cater to them....now that he got paid.
Now looking back in retrospect, the lady asked me 1st where did I get my clothes cleaned before coming to them. And the guy asked the same thing multiple times too - which is still so weird to me. To me, the observation is the possibility of them taking the comparative price of the cleaners I would have mentioned so that they could gauge on how to charge me. I understand this could be a statement of speculation, but the experience I had with this particular cleaners has never been the case for me at any other cleaners I've ever been too. To me questions like that aren't anyone's business but my own. And the fact that there's no where in their store the price amounts for garments or the such is definitely suspect.
The cleaners I'm used to going to (and am gladly going back to) have their price amounts displayed....and I actually would know the amount before leaving because I would prepay for my clothes to be cleaned. Another cleaners I've been to in the area would provide the similar information and an understanding of cost, but I would also have the option of paying either before leaving or once I come by to pick up my clothes.
The only reasons of picking this cleaners recently was to try someone different since their overall rating I noticed was decent, and the route in dropping off and picking up my clothes seemed to be a better convenience for us since I've had a recent change in work locations. What a mistake that was! read more