Dry Cleaners Liability

[KaiserSose]

I don't think laundering a shirt one time really impacts the "quality" of the shirt, unless something goes wrong. It's more of a cumulative process. Shirts are going to wear out eventually, so while you want to exercise some reasonable care don't paralyze yourself by overthinking it, either. Cold-washing and drip-drying at home and then having them pressed is a reasonable option if you don't want to do your own ironing. You should use a place that will hand-iron them. (Some places will do this for free, some will charge a relatively modest premium.) If they're not hand-ironing them, they're putting them on one of those machines that blow the shirt up like a big balloon. That's going to be much harder on the shirt than normal hand-ironing.

This answer provided me with some clarity. When you say "cold-washing" do you mean by hand or on gentle & cold by machine?

 

[Material Boy]

$54 million, Chung vs. Pearson

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/12/18/...uit/index.html

 

[bigbris1]

Some of you dudes need to htfu.

I mean shirts rank damn near with underwear in a man's wardrobe. They are the most expendable. Sure you can ruin a shirt faster than necessary depending on your laundering technique, but really, if you're wearing $3-500 shirts & then start a laundering/dry cleaning thread your slip is showing.

 

[SkinnyGoomba]

Originally Posted by Dakota rube

An acquaintance of mine actually "sued" a cleaner in small claims court over the ruination of several dress shirts. He asked for $100+ per shirt. He was "” essentially "” laughed out of the hearing room by the referee.

did he provide receipts, or prices of similar shirts?

Thats like saying that a man crashes into a mazerati, but only pays for a Kia, because the insurance company thinks that the price was too high.

 

[ChicagoJohn]

Just my .02, but if you've got the money to purchase $200+ shirts, you should be able to afford lose a couple of them.

If not, you're buying way out of your league.

 

[SkinnyGoomba]

anyways, i wash and fold my own shirts, i have no interest in paying someone $4 a shirt for it, since it fills my sunday night.

I have experience with 3 local dry cleaners.....one doesnt get spots out, but does a nice press.....one does get spots out but practically murders whatever peice of clothing in the pressing.

I brought a pair of Hugo boss pants to them, they did a wonderful job of removing the spots, but did a hell of a job killing the pants by pressing them to death.

Luckily they were only hugo boss.

 

[AintDatRite]

Originally Posted by Material Boy

$54 million, Chung vs. Pearson

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/12/18/...uit/index.html

That lawsuit was for FOUND pants. The pants were lost - and the judge told the dry cleaners to pay him $1000 - which he claimed was the price of the suit. A week later, the dry cleaners found the pants and, rather than pay him the $1000, tried to return them to the judge. Thats when he filed suit. The initial lawsuit filed was for $65 million which was then increased to $67 million, after the judge added some 'fraud' claims. Because he didnt want to use his neighborhood dry cleaners anymore, part of his lawsuit was for $15,000 "” the price to rent a car every weekend for 10 years to drive to another dry cleaner.

During the course of the trial, the Chunges actually offered this idiot judge settlement offers of $3,000, then $4,600, then $12,000. He refused all of the offers.

The 'judge' still has one lawsuit pending: the lawsuit to get his job back. He was removed from the bench for extremely poor judgement (filing such an outrageous lawsuit). Would you want this man to hear any case with which you were involved?