The Lamp Doctor

so after daily or sometimes twice daily phone calls since my last post (this has drug on now for 7 weeks) I finally left a frustrated/​threatening message on the recorder indicating that we needed to pick our property and please call or I would be calling the attorney general, business bureaus etc and small claims court to get my property back
within an hour a male calls me with some excuses about being on vacation/​being sick/​not knowing what is going on/​trying to get the part which doesn’t seem to be available but then no one told me that
so I said– Ok I’ll come pick it– what TIME WORKS FOR YOU and he says
11:30 so I say – GREAT I’ll send my son out at NOON to give you time to find it etc
my son gets there at noon— the repair dude is no where to be seen, the other people in the office (who apparently fix pin ball machines as their other line of business) try to call him and he can’t be reached so my son waits for 15 minutes THEN the repair guy calls the office back and tells my son how to rewire the lamp!!! which he does and it works and he can bring the lamp home—
this is ridiculous as a business— never ever go here. this is not at all worth any time and unfortunately this place of business is some distance from my house but to invest all this time into a lamp repair— no way…

Could have been talked into paying a lot more but they easily just replaced the switch and were honest. Maybe it is hard to reach them, but… it is a one man shop and I did get the lamp back in a reasonable time.

The Lamp Doctor appears to be a one-​man shop that started after a larger lamp supply business closed last year in Beaverton. I brought a repair job to this business over a month ago and have been struggling to get anyone on the phone during their normal business hours. Initially I was told that the work would take «a couple of days» but that was 5 weeks ago. Not sure of their quality since I can’t get an update on my repair job. I’d avoid this business.