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Complaint Review: Cheap John $50 Any Sewer Or Drain - Elmhurst New York

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  • Cheap John $50 Any Sewer Or Drain Elmhurst, Springfield Gardens, Woodside, Whitestone, College Point, Howard Beach, Jamaica, Richmond Hill, Ozone Park, Bayside, Flushing, Astoria, Fore Elmhurst, New York U.S.A.
  • Phone: 347-329-8823
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  • Category: Plumbing

Cheap John $50 Any Sewer Or Drain Cleaning scammed me into paying $250 for sewer cleaning which was never done Elmhurst, Springfield Gardens, Woodside, Whitestone, College Point, Howard Beach, Jamaica, Richmond Hill, Ozone Park, Bayside, Flushing, Astoria, Forest Hills, Rosedale, Floral Park, Queens Village, Elmhurst New York

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I had an emergency late in the night. I found this company ($50 cheap john any sewer or drain) online. Now what i should have noticed in the beginning was that this company was listed in multiple cities under categories of sewer cleaning and drain cleaning. I found it to be in Elmhurst, Springfield Gardens, Woodside, Whitestone, College Point, Howard Beach, Jamaica, Richmond Hill, Ozone Park, Bayside, Flushing, Astoria, Forest Hills, Rosedale, Floral Park, Queens Village, Ridgewood, Glendale, Maspeth, Middle Village, Sunnyside, Rego park, College Point, Cambria Heights just in county of Queens, New York. It was also listed in Brooklyn, Bronx and Long Island in New York. In other words i couldn't find any proper address for it and that should have been my first clue that it's a scamming company. In lot of cities it is just listed as PO Box without even the po box number.
Anyway coming back to the scam they ran. I called this company in the night and an old guy named John Evangelista ( i guess he was the owner) answered as if i just woke him up from his sleep. I explained to him how my main sewer was backing up and i needed him for an urgent service. Oh by the way when i was explaining him the problem he cut me off numerous times saying yeah yeah i know .... Anyway after i explained to him the whole problem he said ok i will send someone in he morning. I said no your ad(s) say 24 hours service and i need service now( my basement was flooding). Bottom line, he made 10 thousand excuses why he couldn't come in the night. I had no choice so i said ok, send someone as early as possible in the morning. Next day a guy in jeans and hood showed up and said he is from $50 cheap john sewer or drain. He came in white non-lettered truck (i couldn't even tell if it was from that company). Nevertheless i had no choice. He started snaking the main sewer with a really old machine which made so much noise that i was even afraid my neighbors would call the cops. He snaked the drain for like 8-10 minutes but couldn't unclog it. Then he went outside leaving his machine there with cable still inside the sewer line to call someone. Came back after 5 minutes and said I have to use a big machine here and it would be $800 for it. I nearly had a heart attack hearing this. I asked him what do you mean. He said you have a heavy sewer clog and my machine is not working on it. I said so how is it my fault if your machine is a piece of crap, why would i have to pay for it. He looked at me and said listen that's the only way i can do it. Now if you pay me I'll do it otherwise just give me $250 for my time which i already spent here. I was in a state of shock. It took me a minute to come back to my senses. I asked him to provide me with his name and employee number so i can talk to his boss about this issue. On this he told me an unbelievable thing. He said i don't have any boss, he works as an independent contractor and $50 cheap john any sewer or drain is just one old guy who works from his house and uses these independent handyman and contractors for service calls. I couldn't digest this information. I told him to take his snake machine and leave my house immediately. He said if i dont pay him $250 he wouldn't be responsible for damages his snaking could cause while he rolls his snake back from sewer line into his machine. I asked him what does that mean. He said well i cant guarantee anything if i don't get paid. I am 48 years old woman who lives alone in this house in other words i had no choice but to pay so he can leave my house. What a nightmare this whole blackmailing experience was. My advice to everyone please call a proper reliable company instead of these cheap john sewer drain sort of companies with no proper address or employees.

Mfuller
Elmhurst, New York
U.S.A.

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