Wow, after 5 years of using Topsy Turvy rentals, this was the last straw.
Background, we have 6 kids and we started renting from Topsy Turvy before Covid at first for just our kids and eventually for their birthday parties. They've always been great with communication and prompt with drop off/pick up. Usually within an hour of our reserved start and end time. This rental experience was very different. We rented a bouncy house from 4-8pm. It was dropped off at 3pm and the delivery person confirmed our end time and said they'd be back then. 8pm came and went. By 11:30pm, my husband and 4 neighbors had to deflate it and rolled it into our garage since we couldn't just leave it out all night on our driveway - HOA rules and all that. I called at 7am the next morning to find out when they would be picking up - left a message since no one answered. Called again at 11am since I wasn't able to just hang around at home the whole day waiting on this pickup and I wanted to confirm some sort of pickup time - mind you the company communicated ZERO with us up to this point aside from saying they'd be back around 8pm the day of our reservation to pick up. This time someone answered and said they were really busy the night before with X # of pickups and only pick up until midnight. He said they'll get there when they get there. 10 minutes later the same person who dropped off our rental was there to pick up. He apologized and said he was told someone else was picking up our rental last night so sorry it was missed. (He was very nice about it - this was a different person than who I communicated with on the phone) When it was time to pay, I asked if there could be any type of discount since nothing about pickup was communicated to us (aside from "I'll be back around 8pm tonight") and we were left just waiting all night for the pickup. He called the owner, Tyler, and the owner called me back immediately. To say Tyler was RUDE would be the understatement of the century. He asked why I would want a discount and I just mentioned I was wondering if it was a possibility given we had to deflate and move the bounce house on our own last night and were waiting hours for them to show up - and they didn't communicate with us and we've just been waiting in limbo. He said I clearly didn't read the contract (he was demeaning to me about it). I asked what I missed in the contract and he said they have 24 hours and they'll get there when they get there. In their contract it says "delivery and pickup may occur up to 24 hours before and 24 hours after event start time and end time. LESSOR WILL NOTIFY THE LESSEE OF ESTIMATED TIME OF DROP-OFF AND PICK-UP PRIOR TO EVENT START TIME." I told him I was told 8pm pickup time at drop off and he didn't care. I was left in shock. If I'm at fault for missing that section in the contract, then so be it - he could have kindly or even matter-of-factly told me this. Instead, he was so short and rude and borderline aggressive. I mentioned we've been renting from them for years and this was the first time we've ever had any issues but if this was how they (he as the owner) reacted I don't think we'd be able to rent from them in the future. He loudly said "Thank GOD" and hung up on me.
So, there's that. Bounce house was fun for my kids, but in my opinion not worth the non-communication and subsequent aggressive communication from the owner, Tyler. Will NOT ever be renting from again. Would NOT recommend to others. Owner should rethink his business if he can get so riled up and aggressive over a simple question and not handle customer service. read more