J & J Cleaners

Coming from a land where dry cleaning blouses and pants were only $ 1.50 to $ 1.75 a piece (yea, I had it good), finding that the average here is $ 2.50 to $ 2.85 just blew my mind. So being the ‘find the best deal Asian’ that I am, I decided to find the cheapest cleaners I could find and try them out. So I found myself at J & J Cleaners in of course Chinatown, where it’s only $ 2.25 per piece.
The moment I walked in, I honestly wanted to step out. It almost looks like you’re walking through the back door of a cleaners rather than the front. To the right you see an ironing board with some spray cans and to the left you see a ratchet old hanging machine. And the back, well it just seemed messy and sketchy. VERY unimpressive. Well, I’m already there, I might as well try it out right? So I turned in a couple blazers and some pants. They charge an additional $ 1 for every trip and claims it is for ‘chemical fee’? I don’t know, whatever. To be honest, I felt a little uneasy leaving my clothes there.
I believe the pick up time was 3 – 4 days, and when I received my clothes everything seemed to look okay, HOWEVER I did find a spot on one of my white blazers that was not removed nor do I remember even putting it there myself. So I showed it to the lady and her response was, «Oh that’s blood.» Alright fellas I’m about to get all kinds of disturbing here, but HELLO I’m a girl, I see blood about 12 times a year, once every month. Please ma’am do not tell me what a blood stain is, cuz I have seen blood stains and THAT is not a blood stain. I would go into details on the different colorations between that spot and an actual blood stain, but I’ll spare you ;]
I didn’t get all cray cray like that on her comment though, I just simply said, there is no way that could be one because in the spot that it was in, there is just no way I or anyone else could’ve bled on it. She was nice enough to take it back without any further argument and I picked it up the next day. The spot was still there but it was lighter. Whatever, there’s not much else they could do and I really didn’t want to go through that all over again.
So to sum it up, I wouldn’t go back. The place itself scares me with its presentation, and I honestly feel I am getting what I pay for. a $ 2.25 service.

Also known as One Price Cleaners located in a largely Asian business strip mall between Spring Mountain and Desert Inn– $ 2.50 each garment plus the $ 1.00 environmental fee (one charge per order). Prepay/​Cash only. Closed sundays. Also does Alterations– small fitting room on the right side. Busy place– been coming here for years. Telephone numbers stored in database. Usually takes a couple days. Great for those on a budget.