Two Stars Uphlstrng

First off, I want to say the man does know what he’s doing but just cause one knows what he’s doing doesn’t mean that the customer is stupid. I bought a sofa and it didn’t fit into my home so I called an upholsterer who had great reviews, but when I got the quote of $ 360 for the job, I figured I’d get someone locally because I thought they’d be reasonable. By the way, the job was to take apart the sofa, bring it in and put it back together. This guy (John Sr.) Was very friendly, an older man (in his 60’s) and seemed to be on the up and up. He came over to my home on thursday, measured the doorways, measured the sofa and said he would come on Friday at 3pm. Then the aggrivation starts. He called me to tell me he «hopes» I didn’t take off for «just him» because he was not going to be able to bring it Friday, I told him it’s ok so we re-​scheduled for 1pm Saturday. At 20 minutes to 1pm, he calls me and tells me his helper had to go to work and he wouldn’t be able to make it till about 5pm. I had things to do so I told him I would have my cousin there to wait for him so he can take care of stuff. He NEVER showed up, didn’t call, nothing. My cousin sat there and waited. I gave him my cousin’s cell # and he already had mine. I called his business and left him a message telling him how disappointed I was. He calls me sunday morning and leaves me a message telling me that when are we going to do this, he said someone can steal the van with my sofa in it and he didn’t want to be «responsible» for that. I called him sunday late afternoon and he told me he was calling all day saturday and he mentioned to me he even called my home. I never gave him the landline number. The agreement for sat. 5pm was he would show up, ring the bell and if no ans. he would call. He of course didn’t do that. So we rescheduled for 4:30pm Monday. He wanted to come Monday morning and I told him I worked and he tried pushing Monday morning. I couldn’t be there till 6:30pm so I had a friend of mine go to my apartment and open up for the man. He showed up at 5pm and did the job. He made a scratch in the hallway bringing in the sofa. I show up at 6:30pm and he tells me that I’m killing him, it was very hard and bullshit. He even told my friend to «help» him bring it in cause he was recovering from ‘heart surgery’. This is the killer: After he left and I paid him what he asked ($ 350)my friend tells me the old fart is «cool» that they were talking for a while. He told my friend that he’s in great shape, he has a 20 year old girlfriend who he has relations with and is more than apt to keep up. Then he also told my buddy that he made $ 6,000 a couple of days ago making a sofa for a diplomat. Here’s the thing. He put me off for 3 more days because he had «problems»? He needed help because he was recouperating? This man charged me a total of $ 10 less than the company from manhattan and his business is five minutes from my home. I totally tell you if you need to do business with and upholsterer, don’t call Two Stars Upholstering Co. you will regret it.