Buyer Beware - Do NOT Use
TLDR: I wouldn't buy the Groupon if you don't want to deal with additional, unauthorized charges on your credit card after the cleaning completes.
Context: I used this Groupon once as a gift in 2021, and once for myself in 2024. In the instances where I used the CozyMaid cleaning service in 2021 for the gift for my mother, the cleaners were not very fast and didn't clean much in the 2 hours. My mother's usual cleaning service can get the whole house done in an hour with 2 cleaners. With 2 hours for 1 cleaner using the highly-rated Cozy Maid cleaner(s) that arrived, we had to pick only the bathrooms and parts of the kitchen to do as the workers are paid hourly and they're incentivized to work super slowly so they can request payment for additional hours. Plus, they weren't super thorough and I had to keep telling them obvious spots that they missed.
In 2024, I had some Groupon credits and thought I would use it for a cleaning in a house I hadn't lived in a while due to hurricane damage. The bathrooms were very dirty, but also pretty small (1 is the size of a super small closet), so I figure 2 hours for 1 cleaner would be enough just to do 2 small bathrooms. Not at all.
The cleaner didn't do the outside of any of the fixtures, just cleaned the inside of the toilet and tub in one bathroom, and kept wanting to make conversation instead of getting down to cleaning. After the cleaner left, I got a text message from Cozy Maid that there was a problem with my payment information and if I didn't fix it, the cleaner who came wouldn't get paid. I thought this was weird as I booked the entire appointment using credit and there was to be no charge.
I did not take any action related to the payment message since everything was paid for before the cleaner even came but checked my credit card to make sure there was nothing funny going on. I then saw an unknown charge from "Homeaglow" on my credit card. I didn't know what this is but after some Internet sleuthing, it looks like it is another name for CozyMaid.
This unknown company/CozyMaid had charged me additional money on top of the original cleaning charge that was quoted to me as $79. When I logged into CozyMaid, I saw an additional amount billed as part of their "platform fee", which matched one of the charges on my credit card from "Homeaglow". I am not even sure how they got my current credit card information as the card on file was from 2021 and was no longer active.
Putting an unauthorized charge on my credit card post visit was unacceptable. When I tried to contact customer service, I found out CozyMaid doesn't even have that as an option on their web site - just a bunch of precanned articles. If I wanted to request a refund, you can only request a full refund - not a partial one for the amount of the overcharge on my credit card.
I looked up Homeaglow customer service and submitted a request to be contacted. It has been 5 days with no response. Ended up having to cancel the credit card and get a replacement one to make sure they don't keep charging my credit card as I saw there was a 2nd charge on my credit card from "Homeaglow" labeled as a transaction fee that appeared later.
12 de septiembre de 2024
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