Hook, line, and Sinker (and a few grand!)
vettish
I live in a secluded circle in suburban Philadelphia (new hunting
lands for Navy Paving). All of my neighbors are friends. A guy comes
to my door, tells me, by name, my neighbor is having work done. the
old I'm in the area...discount.... Sure, give me a quote!
I needed work done. I wasn't actively looking to have it done then...
January isn't driveway time. He assured me that he could do the work,
that the plant was close enough to get the asphalt here hot (less then
a 2 miles) He also played off of my sympathy that times are hard and
he needed the work to keep his men busy. I saw it as an opportunity
to get the driveway done, and help out a good local man in need. One
who has been in the business along with his father for years. This
wasn't charity. If I were going to be charitable, I would have sent
the money to the homeless children in India, a friend of ours is
working with.
So, we "contracted" with John to do the work.. He spent the next few
weeks making excuses as to why he couldn't get there... then asked me
for a deposit to purchase the asphalt. The next day he asked my wife
for the same thing.
Finally he showed up with equipment, no asphalt yet, and had a crew of
2or 3 guys move a frozen pile of modified stone from one side of my
driveway to the other by hand (8 hours) next day the cut the areas
where the new driveway would meet the existing one. That's all we have
gotten for close to $4000.
Nine months later, I am now playing phone tag with the Stevens.. Out
of the goodness of his christian heart, he's agreed to give back $1000
of the monies we gave him. We had an agreement to get $150 a week for
6 weeks. that was 2 months ago.. and we got 1 check! I call at least
once a week.. to get my weekly promise it's going out today..
He actually did do work for our neighbor. Work they are now in the
process of having done correctly for twice what they already payed him
to do it (because they have to remove the abortion of paving what he
did). Our neighbors are, now, not on speaking terms due to the time it
has taken and the quality of the work, to repair the damaged
driveway.
RUN AWAY!
CLOSE THE DOOR!
Don't fall for the "Blessed" rhetoric. John Stevens and Navy Paving
are unreliable and dishonest. I don't believe they mean to be this
way, they are just poor business people.
Exton, Downingtown, Coatesville, Chester County, Pennsylvania, Navy
Paving, Regina Stevens, John Stevens, 410-878-5817, 610-383-8859