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| - the only thing this place is good for is speed and convenience. If you have a simply constructed item made of a durable fabric with MINIMAL OR NO STAINS, take it here. They'll give it back to you the next day. This is a drive-through style operation, it's fast, sloppy and with no attention to detail - but they sure charge like a premium cleaner!
I recently took 3 pieces there to get them . These included a cotton dress, a thin wool fall coat, and a pair of wool pants. The dry clean cost just a bit over $58, which I find a bit high, even considering the two wool pieces.
But the price is not my biggest gripe with this place. It's the crappy cleaning service! The jacket had some cake batter on it (not stains) and the pants I brought in had some light beige stains on it from tea. I asked the woman at the shop to take special care to remove the stains and batter, and that I'd be willing to wait a little longer or go elsewhere if they don't offer that kind of service.
Without taking a look at the garments or the kind of stains, the woman told me they can do those things no problem, but that it'd take longer. I asked whether she wanted me to point out the stains on the pants, as some of them were small and quite light. She gave me big pieces of post-its and asked me to mark the stains. So I did, after the 3rd poster, she sighed of impatience (it was a slow time of day and there was nobody waiting in line) and told me to forget the post-its, and that they would see the stains and remove them anyway.
I come back and pick up my pieces 3 days after. NONE OF THE STAINS ON THE WHITE PANTS WERE REMOVED. NOT EVEN THE BIGGEST ONE ON THE RIGHT AT THE FRONT AND CENTRE OF THE PANT LEG! The jacket appeared to have been cleaned, until I took it home, unbuttoned the buttons to try it on, only to find there's still cake batter in the button holes. I was easily able to pry off the butter with my fingers, so difficulty wasn't the problem, they just simply didn't bother to unbotton the jacket when cleaning it.
When she was in town last time, my mom took my wool pants to another random dry cleaner on Queen West along with the rest of her stuff, and the pants came back with all the stains removed. Now that I think about it, I wonder if Preeners had simply forgotten to clean the wool pants. I will never go back there again.
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