William M McGlugritch

He didn’t show up, didn’t call, text or email. There is only one number provided by Angie’s List, Home Advisor and Erie Coat Painting’s website. The number rings and rings with no answer and finally dumps to a voicemail box that is full and accepting no new messages. The vm message is automated and provides only the phone number dialed (no customized message from the company or even a recoded name so you know who you’d be leaving a message for, if you could). You cannot text this number and no matter how many times you (or Home Advisor) call, no one answers. I have never heard of anything so unprofessional. This guy Mike contacted me asking for the job then ghosts me. After attempting to reach him all day, he finally emails me claiming it’s the first he’s heard of it and promises to fire “Rob” in the morning. Mike is the only contact for Erie Coast listed anywhere on any site. He is the person who called me. He told me he’d be doing the painting himself. His personal gmail is the only email associated with the company. I have every reason to believe this is a one-man operation, who, at best, brings a buddy if and when he lands a job requiring more than one pair of hands. He jumped on the Angie’s List job request literally the same second I submitted it, then he can’t pick up the phone the whole next day? Do not hire this man! I could get into just how much this cost me - it’s a long story having to do with the sale of my home and a photographer coming thr next day - but none of that is important. No matter how urgent or big or small or consequential a job is, if you take on a contract, you honor it. The fact that Angie’s List/Home Advisor vouched for this man, claiming to have vetted him is laughable. So I’ll vet him for you. He’s a fraud. DO NOT HIRE OR GIVE THIS SO-CALLED “COMPANY” YOUR BUSINESS OR YOUR DEPOSIT!!!