This place screwed me twice & attempted to screw me a third time (thankfully I was able to stop them). I moved a pool table from the Detroit suburbs to Arizona & Allstate Home Leisure did the disassembly, crating of the slate, & loading into the truck in Detroit. My folks have retired & are downsizing; they no longer wanted their pool table so they gave it to me and this endeavor was how I got it to my place. I choose this place because they were the only place I could find that was willing to do crating of the slate.
Strike 1:
I wanted this move to occur before the Christmas holiday. I had several conversations with Allstate Home Leisure before they finally dropped that they wouldn't be able to help me until after Christmas. This would have been nice to know the first time I talked to them instead of the fourth. With the monkey wrench thrown in, I reschedule.
Strike 2:
After Christmas, I get everything scheduled and explain to them my situation that I'm going to be transporting the pool table across country. I also tell them that I need the first time slot that day because of my schedule. Flash forward to the day before the work is to be done (when they finally figured out that days schedule) and I'm informed that I was given the afternoon time slot instead. When discussing this with the scheduler, she was unaware that I was waiting on them loading the truck before driving across country. She was also unwilling to accommodate me in any way. I spoke to the manager & same story... she was apathetic and said there was nothing she could do.
Strike 3:
When the workers showed up, they were confused by the empty house they were in. No one had told them about my situation or that they would be loading my truck. They even tried to weasel out of crating the slate twice. First they said it wasn't necessary fir a short move; to which I replied we're driving to Arizona. Then they came back a while later and said it should be okay without crating. I told them in no uncertain terms that the reason I hired them was to crate the slate & that I expected them to do the crating. They didn't have the supplies for crating, so they had to call another truck in with the supplies & tools needed.
Conclusion:
Based on my experience, I do not recommend this store because they treat customers badly and only care about doing what's easiest and/or best for themselves. To be fair, they did do good work overall. The truck was loaded very well. The slate was crated & secured to the truck sides very well. The rest of the disassembly was done very professionally. My concerns are with the communication problems encountered (communication with the customer, internally at their storefront, and with their own workers), their refusal to accommodate their customers, and their workers attempting to get out of agreed upon work. read more