Big Salmon Resort in Neah Bay is a good place to avoid. Book a fishing trip with anyone else but them. Our website (Neah-Bay.com) does NOT recommend their services. This is just our opinion. We will not go into specifics for legal reasons but we STRONGLY recommend that you DO NOT do business with these people!

Rogers Upholstery (Vancouver, Washington)

DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME DEALING WITH THESE PEOPLE
Roger's Upholstery in Vancouver, Washington used to be a great place. They did all kinds of upholstery for cars, boats and furniture items. Well, times have changed. The original owner for the past several years and years and years died last year and it is under new ownership. The business that is next door to Roger's (Four Seasons Auto Body Collision Repair) runs it now ..... and in a completely different manner. For the past years all you had to do was go in and see Roger, tell him what you wanted and he'd tell you how much and how long it would take. The jobs were always done on time. He did GREAT work and the price was always as quoted. He was honest with his customers and knew how to treat people. didn't waste peoples' time jacking them around. didn't make up excuses for work not being finished on time. didn't give you the run-a-round. Just did business the old fashioned way. HONESTLY,

So, I was pretty disappointed last week when I found a new company was running the operation but they seemed nice and I gave them a try. I took in 4 bar stools to have them recovered. New barstools were about 100 to 200 each so I figured recovering small seat pads and back cushions would save me some money. Well, as these things tend to go, I thought I'd save some money in the beginning but in the end I got lied to and screwed and ended up paying almost as much as new bar stools would have cost. This is kind of how it came down:

• 1.  I brought the stools in for an estimate. She was all smiles and had her estimator come in and tell her how many labor hours and how much fabric it would take. She then got on the computer and did a lot of figuring this and that and then told me she had come up with a price of $523.00 total.

• 2. I told her I could get new ones for pretty close to that and that I couldn't pay that much.

• 3. She asked "well, how much could you pay?" I told her $75.00 per stool (these are med. size stools and have just a standard seat cushion and a back rest pad).

• 4. She did a bunch more figuring and came up with a total price of $406.00. She gave me a computer printout of everything all broke down and the total plus tax came to $406.00. This was a price quote, not an estimate.

• I gave her $200.00 cash deposit and 5 days later came in to pick up the bar stools but was told it cost more than she had originally agreed to charge me. She told me that the amount of sq. yards of material the employee quoted her was for just one stool and she thought that was the amount of material for all 4 stools so they hade to buy more material. She also said that they had to use more "fill" to make the cushions look full and padded the way I'd told her I wanted them. She also said they wanted to do a nice job so the job took longer than they thought it would take. She showed me a bunch of figures of additional amounts and she was talking about 300.00 plus or more than she originally agreed to do the job for.

• I told here I wouldn't pay that. As I told her in the beginning, "if it was too much I'd rather just buy new ones."

• She had she couldn't help that. I asked her how she could be so far off estimating the amount of fabric needed. I mean, I don't know the difference between 1 yard and 3.5 yards or whatever, but she does that for a living and she tries to tell me that she thought a tiny amount would cover all 4 stools but it was only enough for 1 stool??? That's all these people do every day, all day long is measure and install fabric and she is trying to tell me she was off 300% on 4 small bar stools.

• Anyway, we went back and forth and she finally said she'd accept $500.00 total cash (that's 20% more than she had agreed to do the job for) and I paid it in cash and I told her I'd never be back again. That type of threat never bothers businesses who operate like this. they'd rather rake you over the coals once and find new customers then treat you fair and get repeat business. Legally, I didn't even have to pay the $500.00. I already had a signed order for the $406.00. The bar stools were already in my car and I could have just told them to sue me and left. But, I don't want to ever have anything to do with these people again so I paid the money and told them I'd never be back and left.

DO NOT PATRONIZE ROGER'S UPHOLSTERY

Here's another complaint we just received:

Yes, Rodgers Upholstery is still up to no good.
Last Friday they quoted us over they phone a headliner install on a 71 Bug for $300. They stated they have done quite a few of them and it would only take about 4 hours to complete. And it was cheaper because we already had the headliner kit and seals in our possession.
We made the arrangements to drop the vehicle off this morning at Rodgers and my wife did so.
So after a few hours, my wife was running some errands in the locale and decided to drop by to see if there was any surprises in store.
They hadn't started because they had been trying to get in touch with her, it seems it is now a 7 hour task rather than 4 and now the quote is $543 rather than $300. Well my wife was quite miffed about this and canceled the task.

DO NOT PATRONIZE ROGER'S UPHOLSTERY

Shame on Forest Lawn * Sunnyside * Long Beach * John Llewellyn

Forest Lawn * Sunnyside * Long Beach * John Llewellyn
FOREST LAWN - ANOTHER VIEW
Mr. John Llewellyn - CEO
Forest Lawn Memorial Park
1712 South Glendale Avenue
Glendale, California 91205
Dear Mr. Llewellyn -
On December 2, 1998, my mother passed away at a nursing home in Palm Springs, California, at the age of 87, after suffering a massive stroke in 1992.  She had lived in Long Beach most of her life.
When she passed away, I used a mortuary in Palm Springs because we had been there since 1994, and the distance between Long Beach and Palm Springs made using your facilities in Long Beach out of the question.
Many years ago, I purchased three crypts in the mausoleum for my mother, father, and me.
When Rose Mortuary called to set up her funeral in the Cathedral Chapel, your counselor told us we would not be able to use the chapel "because we did not use your facilities."  Some months before Mother's passing, I had spoken to Mrs. Dolly Ogden, one of your staff in Long Beach.  She informed me that we could use the chapel by paying a fee of, I believe, $200.00, again, because we would not be using your mortuary.  By the time Mrs. Baskett passed away, apparently you were denying use of the chapel to everyone who did not use Forest Lawn for casket purchase, etc...
As a result of Forest Lawn's behavior, we had to have a closed-casket funeral in the hallway by the crypt.
Of course, you and I know that "it's all about the money."  To deny an elderly woman the right to a decent funeral in your chapel is outrageous, unconscionable, and despicable.
Therefore, I am including this story in my upcoming book, I LEAP OVER THEIR HEADS - STRAIGHT TO THE GUT (www.edwardbaskett.com).  I hope you enjoy the notoriety and embarrassment that will go with it.
Most sincerely yours,
Edward Eugene Baskett
 
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An email from Eric:

6 Attorneys???
Barry Bonds showed up in court to plead not guilty on Friday. He had 6 attorneys with him. Six attorneys is just about right because seven would have been ostentatious. And, as everyone knows, nothing cuts right through top the absolute truth like six attorneys.
Eric B.

The idea that Wickes can not help customers because of "POLICY" is a very poor way of doing business. Portland area consumers deserve better.

We recently bought a sofa from Wickes Furniture in Portland, Oregon. Two weeks later they advertised the same item for about $170.00 less. We were told when we bought the item not to worry about pricing because they had a "PRICE GUARANTY." Well, we contacted Wickes and were told that their price guaranty was only for 7 days! I emailed them and asked if they would honor the $170.00 difference and got a short rude response that indicated no humans could change anything that their policy demanded.

My email to Wickes:

The Wickes policy states , 7-days
Wickes Furniture