Response from Royal Majestic Dry Clean & Laundry
Every customer's complete satisfaction is of paramount importance to us. Daily, we strive to provide a garment and textile cleaning service which cannot be exceeded! Obviously, a company does not receive the Angie’s List Super Service Award for 2014 without credibility, accountability, and documentation! Further, the “A Honor Roll” rating that we enjoy from them carries significant testimony from members and non-member customers alike. Over 1150 regular satisfied clients cannot be wrong! We are sorry to have disappointed this customer's expectations. Unfortunately, customer service, quality, and mutual co-operation must go hand-in-hand; on both sides of the business relationship. Otherwise, there is no relationship. Our combined total of over 90 years of customer service in a very competitive, unforgiving industry testifies to a lifestyle (not merely a job) based upon serving the public honestly, faithfully, and going beyond the call. That is our reputation! We ask you to try us, and see for yourself! First time promotions are available on our website. Please do not let social media become the bludgeon to batter a hard earned and well-deserved reputation just because it can be. I am confused; and apparently so is this customer. His first review said he would hire us again; now he changed it to say that he would not hire us again; which happened when I spoke to him and pointed out the source of my confusion. Further, I am confused as to what he wants to say. I have been inspecting his shirts the last 1 1/2 months personally; they were folded every time per his instructions. This is not a “first time customer”. This has been an ongoing issue with this customer over the last 2-3 years at least; and only now has it become a formal issue. It has been explained to both husband and wife at separate times, that our satisfaction guarantee involves returning the item(s) to be re-processed (or further processed) at no additional charge to satisfy their wishes. It is not a "money back guarantee". The shirts were rarely sent back; a credit was assumed by them because of the way a previous owner and manager decided to handle this customer to reduce management's stress and aggravation! Management’s customer service resolution was that it was easier to give it to them for free. The customer got used to this obviously. The order of shirts that set him off this time was obviously an older order that was not sent back to us to rectify. We would have gladly folded the shirts, no matter how long ago they were processed by Royal Majestic; even to the point of it being under a previous ownership (of which there have been three). No other cleaners would have gone that far to rectify the complaint. That is what "Super Service" entails to us. The complaint was that the soil "was not picked up"! Delivery arrangements changed without any customer notice given. Sometimes, nothing was at the appointed place, at the appointed time, when the driver made his usual stop; and yet, we went back later in the day, or the next day and pushed the soil through the system to get them back on their usual delivery day. This entailed extra cost of processing and labor. This occurred repeatedly! I have dozens of other folded shirt customer who have not had this problem. I cannot believe that this customer was singled out for neglect!