Gill's Landscaping, Inc. Has many bad business practices. Cheating their customers is the first and foremost. They do not hesitate to accept an overpayment and hide it. One of their largest accounts paid an invoice twice at the beggining of last year in the amount of $ 30,000.00 and instead fo returning the overpayment or crediting the account the owner Brian Gill had a dummy invoice created to apply the money and deposit it to his account.
They charge for seven applications of a lawn fertilization program and you are lucky if you get four or five. During snowstorms they love to inflate the amount of salt applied and bags of calcium used since they bill on a per bag and ton price.
Man hours for labor are always billed at more than the job actually required. Product prices are doubled and then a profit percentage is added to all work quotations.
They will half finish your job and once all money is collected they will not return your phone calls or finish your job unles threatened by a lawyer or taken to court.
As if cheating their customers isn't enough they find loopholes to cheat everyone they come in contact with. The owner cheats on his personal taxes by trying to hide his and his wifes elaborate spending as a business expense usually disguised at something other than what it really was.
For example, a business check used at Ethan Allen for furniture for their childrens bedroom in the amount of $ 3,600.00 was posted as office furniture, which is ridiculous considering the office is about 600 square feet and has no more room to move let alone place additional furniture. This is just one of many, many examples. The business financed the owners wife's breast augmentation surgery through money transfers to personal accounts disguised as many different business expenses.
They took the opportunity to commit insurance fraud when a company vehicle loaded with a trailer and equipment was involved in an accident. The insurance company asked for invoices for the original equipment which Gill's could not provide. So Gill's had one of it's suppliers fax a quotation for the new equipment. When it cam time to fax it to the insurance company to recieve the check to purchase new equipment Gill's had their supplier create a bill with serial numbers from the original quotation and inflate the costs of the equipment for a total of close to $ 4,000.00 more. And no questions asked the insurance company prodused a check the same day for the amount on the re-created bill.
These are just some of the many things that make me ill about this business, trust me when I tell you there are many more that could go on for probably days. A book could be written. I just think it is so wrong since there are so many honest and hardworking people and businesses out there, that Gill's should continue to profit and support the greediness of Brian and Lori Gill.
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