green gurl said:
We have a competitor in our area "A&A Organic" who posted these! We know this because one of our techs used to work for these guys and told us what they were doing. If you check this company out on City Search you will find they miraculously have 1500 five star reviews. They use the absorbant
compound method blowme !! If you check out our reviews on Service Magic where our clients post you will see the exact opposite.
http://www.servicemagic.com/servlet/SPR ... allRatings
Actually I believe the reviews are probably bogus & just the competitor slamming them .
1) We operated in the Raleigh area for about two years and I'm familiar with that "competitor" / predator.
They are famous for doing exactly what she is claiming to other operators. They have employees posting good reviews on themselves constantly & poor reviews on the competition.
They operate under multiple names in the same market.
2) Very seldom does a customer post such a detailed & lengthy review, good or bad it just doesn't happen that often. People have more to do then review carpet cleaners.
The Raleigh market is extremely competitive. The area has some of the worst unemployment figures in the nation. The tobacco & textile industries have been destroyed and those were the state's main industries. The tech belt there is also suffering big time, lots of lay offs. Things were getting really dirty competition wise even a couple of years ago.
There was this one idiot that was posting bogus ads on craig's list that showed a competitor standing by his truck. One of the offers was to clean in the NUDE for an extra $25 per room. Another poster was claiming that a certain cleaner stole his x-box "last week". That craigslist post ran for nearly a year, always the same general theme. Occasionally he would claim the cleaner was caught stealing his wife's underwear instead of the x-box.
There are cleaners that are total wackjobs when times are good, add a bit of recession shake them around with a few maxed out credit cards, and you have a dangerous psyco that is willing to do just about anything to beat a competitor.
The gloves are off in the Triangle, and there are some real weirdos down there.
In fact one guy from that market area once called Mikey's wife and had a little chat. Last I heard she was still looking to wash his mouth out with Ultra-pac.