Before addressing the member's concerns and complaint. I, Eric Wright, would like to take this opportunity to express to all Angie’s List members that Wrightway Moving Company still has a 99% customer satisfaction rating with Angie’s List. We have won Angie’s List Super Service Award for two consecutive years in a row since joining Angie’s List in 2009. You can count on Wrightway Moving Company to be reliable, reputable, professional, accountable, and offers an excellent value for the service we provide. We strive, our hardest to resolve all conflicts and complaints. Every prestigious or successful business in our society has its share of complaints and accidents do happen. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to resolve a conflict when a customer is unwilling to come to a fair or rational settlement resolving the conflict or complaint. We have offered to repair the damage floor with our own wood floor specialist and the member has declined our offer. We have even offered to write her a check of $500, which is the maximum amount that I would have to pay my wood floor specialist for completing the job. She has declined our offer. Honesty, I truly believe in my heart that she is uncooperative because she is conspiring a way to get me to pay her a check for some type of compensation for her move cost. She even told me that she really wants to leave a positive review on Angie’s List regarding my company performance but would only do so if I write her a check. I was very shocked to hear her say this and felt I was being bribed or blackmailed. Now!!! I would like to address the member's comments. Most of her comments are not factually true and are derogatory in nature. We moved her on May 22nd, and 23rd 2010. Also we moved her again on July, 17th 2010. After completion of all her moves she filled out a customer / mover evaluation form to rate the satisfaction of service. On a scale of 1 being poor and 10 being excellent she gave a score of 10 on all forms. She even noted that she was very satisfied regarding courtesy and how cooperative my movers were. She even replied that she would use are service again and would recommend our service to others. She believed the work performance was deserving of a tip and did so on all three move dates. My moving company and crew work way beyond the customer expectations. We moved over 10,000 articles. We loaded and unloading a total of six, twenty six foot trucks estimated total of 9,000 to 10,000 cubic feet of house hold good items. It short terms enough house hold items to fill up a 9,000 to 10,000 square foot house. Please note that all of these items went into a 2,200 square foot house. The member filed a damage claim form approximately a month after her last move date. She listed several items that were damage in addition to the scratch on her hardwood floor. I address the concerns and damages to the moving crew. They were unaware of any damages. Therefore, I and my moving crew came out to the customer house to inspect the allege damages not to intimidate her in any way like she reported. Also it is true my crews are responsible and accountable for there mistakes. As a business owner I would not have it any other way. Therefore, my crews perform their own simple repairs or pay for professional repairman to perform more complicated repairs. Several items she claimed we damage were bogus. One, being a file cabinet that was in her garage was completely falling apart due to rust, corrosion, and the age of the piece of furniture. The corrosion / oxidation literally have eaten the whole bottom of the cabinet away creating a hole large enough to put your hand through it. Furthermore, all the brackets that were suppose to hold the drawers in place were stripped out due the excessive weight of the paperwork stored in the drawers. The second bogus claim was she claimed we broke a hinge off an antique cabinet. While inspecting the hinge on the inside of the drawer the screws were missing. I offer to use one of our wood screws to re-attach the hinge and she explained that my black screws were not the same color as the cooper screws that were originally there. It really didn’t matter what color the screws were because the hinge was on the inside and not visible. She was not cooperative. The next item she claimed was and antique dresser that was very old and in dyer need of restoration. It originally already had several scratches, nicks, chips, and dents on the furniture prior to moving it. The original protective stain and polyurethane was no longer protecting the furniture. As a result the wood was deteriorating, peeling off, and splintering. The damage occurred when my mover took off the protective pad covering this piece of furniture. The moving pad / fabric caught hold of the lower side where it was splintered and as a result peeled the wood off. I repaired the dresser with wood filler and stain to match. The repair was successfully done in my opinion. However, this uncooperative, very analytical and very picky customer got a flash light and proceeded to get on their knees and point out how bad it looked. It was not noticeable under regular lighting conditions. The customer was being very vain. PAY VERY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THE NEXT POINT I MAKE. I explained to the customer that I would send my furniture repairman out to refinish the damage area and not the whole piece of furniture that already had previous imperfections. The Customer accepted my proposal and said if my furniture repair guy did a good job then maybe they would get a quote on restoring the whole piece of furniture and many others throughout the house that were in dyer need of restoration. My furniture repairman performed the repair to the customer satisfaction. Take note that the customer did not attack the credentials or qualification of my furniture repairman and allowed him to do the repair. Furthermore, they did not go and get a high price repair estimate from companies explaining that in order to protect the integrity of the furniture you have to restore the whole piece. Now we get to the scratch on the hardwood floor. Keep in mind the home was built in 1958. The original floor is 52 years old. Keep in mind due to the natural state of wood it repeatedly needs to be restored and is subject to damage from foundation movement, warping, abuse, wear and tear, etc. The customer states they had the floors sanded and refinished prior to us moving the furniture in. There was no color stain on the floor. I repeat the floor color was the natural color of the wood. THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES ARE VERY IMPORTANT FACTS. My hardwood floor expert and I observed that the original hardwood floor already has several replacement boards through out the room. This is noticeable by the different lengths and cuts of many replacement planks that are not consistent with the original lengths and cuts of the original planks. Also you can see a huge variation of color between the older planks versus newer replacement ones. Keep in mind there is no color stain on the hardwood floor so you can clearly see the imperfections and which ones are the replacement boards. Furthermore, there are several areas throughout the floor that have gaps and spaces between joining planks, indicating there is no tongue and groove connection. Also, we observed the height or thickness of several wood planks that were inconsistent with the one lying next to. Honestly, in my opinion the hardwood floor in this room looked unfinished. There were too many imperfections throughout the floor. The polyurethane protective coat was very dull, thin, and looked worn. The customer states she had the floors refinished prior to moving in. The floor in the room that was damage did not look the same as the family room which had a better overall look in its shine or presence. I was suspicious to this observation and even requested the customer to show me the original receipt or work order of the previous hardwood restoration for specifically the room that had the damage. She declined. I explained that I am only responsible for repairing the damage area and not the entire room. Besides the damage is very minor and could easily be repaired by sanding, using wood filler and not requiring replacing any boards. My hardwood floor expert has over twenty years in the business. He has work for several reputable flooring companies and currently is employed by a local flooring company. I trust his workmanship and was personally referred to me by a close friend of mine who is a license general contractor. Besides it would be ignorant of me to hire someone who incompetent and not experience. Thus taking an inexpensive repair job and creating an enormous costly one. The customer is lying about my service repairman contact information. I have the same contact business card she received. I have proof that his email, phone number, on his card indeed is correct and works. We requested several times for this customer to provide us a copy of the work order from the previous hardwood flooring company she used. This work order should have listed the exact materials used in the previous restoration job. This way we could ensure the correct match of all materials to the existing floor. She decline to cooperate and instead made an excuse that she could not get in touch of my repairman. Furthermore, she wants to focus on attacking his credentials and integrity. To validate that my service repairman was giving me an accurate estimate I contacted a couple more hardwood floor experts. I instructed my other repairman to give her a call and set up an inspection date and gather an estimate for the repair job. She was not cooperative and explained to him that she was not interested on having anyone else come out from my choosing. She informed him to send his professional credentials over to her by email and she would get back to him if interested. I have a reasonable explanation of why I did not respond to her certified mail. She sent it to the wrong business address. I personally gave her my business card with the correct mailing address, which is in Frisco. Furthermore, on top of all three household contracts that she has copies of has are correct mailing address in Frisco. We also have the correct address in Frisco on our website. I was not notified of her sending a certified letter. I challenge her to show proof of signature on certified return receipt, of mine or a representative who works for Wrightway Moving Company. I became aware of the certified letter on December, 10th when I received her complaint from Angie’s List. In closing my offer still stands of allowing me to choose a hardwood floor specialist of my liking to repair her floor or I would be willing to offer her a check for $500 which should be the maximum it would cost to do the repair. Sincerely, Eric Wright 214-549-6968 eric@wrightwaymovingco.com