Paul Bunyan Trees AKA Paul Lisa Trees, Solar Home and Garden Did not deliver as promised Tampa Florida
I located this guy through OfferUp. Unfortunately, this was my first use of OfferUp. Let's just say there won't be another one. He asked me to call him. We discussed what I wanted. He brought the Christmas Palm out that afternoon. He promised to deliver 5 other shrub/plants the following day. We paid him that same day for all items. (Our mistake, never again!) He takes cash or check. We did not have that amount of cash so we gave him a check. He asked us detailed information about our bank and 'who is it.' We felt that was weird but dismissed it. Within 2 hours we were both getting multiple calls from an Atlanta number but no messages were left. We then got a text and phone call from the owner of the tree place asking if we had received calls. I told him maybe but no messages were left. Ultimately they got through to us and verified that this check was 'good' and that there were no 'holds' on it. That seemed odd to us but we let it go. Upon research this guy has a forgery charge from a year ago 'altering' and also grand theft. Had I of done research I never would have done business with this place. So this is to warn you. Do not use this place.
2 weeks later at 8 PM 2 guys in a truck show up with our shrubs. Most of them. They only had 4 and they didn't have the Pigmy Palm we wanted to buy because the 'nursery was closed.' They planted the shrubs quickly. They were friendly. The difference was it wasn't the owner, it was his nephew and his friend.
I texted the owner that they did not deliver all of the items we purchased. He still owes us $50 or one shrub and he hasn't bothered to get back to us. At this point I am just happy we got some of the plants. I learned a huge lesson about Florida landscapers. Beware and do your research and certainly do not pay anyone before they deliver the items you want.
Never again would I use this guy for plants. It isn't worth the 'cheap' prices because ultimately it caused so much stress that those plants are now worth a million dollars to us.