Then I ask her «well who grounded off the DND stamp off of the key» And she tells me «the guy that made me the new copy of it» Now I’m thinking «Great, here I spend close to a hundred bucks having the locks rekeyed to my house and some knucklehead is out there with absolutely no regard for the DND stamp on the key and making additional copies of it. I ask her «what’s this all about» and she tells me that she needed to have another key made for our house, for God only knows why now. Approximately six months later I notice my daughters keys on the kitchen table, and at the same time I also notice that the «Do Not Duplicate» stamp had been ground off of her house key. I told him that was fine I was just trying to avoid this problem again in the future. He told me it would cost an dollar extra for each key that he stamped. I had already given it some thought, and in an attempt to avoid having to go through all of this again, I told him to make me five keys and to stamp «Do Not Duplicate» on to three of them. After the locksmith had finished with the door locks he asked me how many keys I’d like to have cut for the new locks. 5 stars to Leonard for his expediency, honesty and effective craftsmanship.Ībout two years ago, after finding out how many times, without my knowledge, my daughter had copies made of our house key, I decided to have my door locks rekeyed, and ended up dealing with this local yocal. To wrap this review up, I went home, stuck the key in the lock, and PRESTO, the door unlocked. However, he believed the key that I handed him had a clean break so it should work. He was so honest that he mentioned that sometimes the key duplication may not work with broken keys. I decided to also buy a colored top for the key so I could easily identify it. In less than two minutes, he handed me the new key. The moment I handed him the key, he was instantly carving away at a new key. What a great choice I made! I went inside and asked him if he could fix or replace my key. I noticed that they had extremely positive reviews so I decided to use their services. So this leads me to Leonard’s Lock and Key. Anyway, I tried to bend it back to its straight position, and when I did, the metal became so weak that the bottom portion snapped right off. I guess I should always pay attention to the lock when I am turning the key. When I looked back at the key, I noticed that it was nearly bent off. I was looking at my one year old daughter in the back yard while I was locking the side door to our garage. Seems like the owner’s shady dealings are a common theme. By the way, look at the other bad reviews for this locksmith. Sad, because it looks like he knows what he’s doing but the shady sales tactic is something I’ll avoid from here on out. This was a detail that he left out during our conversation and had me pissed off as to the type of BS tactic he uses to get an extra few dollars from his customers. After tax, I paid around $ 155 for the duplicate key. I said, that includes the tax right because you said $ 135 before the work began? He replied, no, the $ 135 price was for cash, since you are going to use your card, it is $ 145. After the work was done, he charged me $ 145. I spoke with one of the locksmith and he said it would cost me $ 135 to duplicate the key. Apparently, there is a chip in my car key that makes it more expensive to duplicate. Saw the good reviews on Unilocal and went in to this place yesterday to have a car key replaced.
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