I tried calling this customer to discuss the matter, and he was supposed to call me back, but never did. Once the cleaning was done the homeowner did a walkthrough with our technician and didn't say anything about dissatisfaction with cleanup, but called immediately after the technician left, which just led us to tell the technician to turn around and go back. What isn't explicit in the homeowner's review is that it was only 1 specific area he was upset about. And the debris was cleaned to our standards, but the gutters have been neglected for a long time, and the debris had decayed to the point of a fine, powdery mush. When this happens, it's difficult to do an immaculate cleanup. In regards to the time, the average time actually doing the cleaning can take 15-30 minutes for us. It depends on how big the house is, how many gutters the house has, how wet or dry the debris is, how windy it is on the day we are working, if the temperatures went below freezing the night before, etc. That being said, the time alone it takes to load and unload all the equipment necessary to do the work takes 5-10 minutes. Once on the roof, going around and blowing out the gutters and downspouts is 5-15 minutes (for average to small house) depending on various factors, even longer, especially if we have to ladder up in a different area. Then, a good 10 minutes of doing the ground cleanup. The reason our time is faster than other companies is that everyone that comes and does the service is a seasoned professional. Most gutter cleaning "companies" are not real companies, but small 1-to-2 man outfits that advertise on Craigslist or hire day laborers who don't have specific specialized training for this work. Now about the 120 vs the 125-20 price. Simply put, homeowner should have bought this deal. It isn't meant for him. His home is smaller than what the deal is meant for. You see, if I buy a deal to get 3 bedrooms and a hallway carpet cleaned, and I only have 2 bedrooms and a hallway, I might be able to afford something better than the deal. To use another analogy, I could buy a foot long Subway sub cause it's only $1 more, but only eat half of it, meaning if I had simply bought the half sized sandwich, I would have saved $1. The point is, the homeowner bought a deal meant for a home larger than his home. That being said, our regular price for his home is $125, which is more than what he paid for the deal, and if he went with the other companies that take 30-45 minutes, he would have been paying anywhere from $125-$150 for a home his size. No matter what, he saved money, it's just that with the size of his house, it wasn't as much as he was expecting. So the lessons for homeowners to take from this is: 1. Before buying a deal, make sure that it's the right deal for you. Call the company and ask questions. We have a fully staffed professional office ready for your questions. 2. If you have gone a year or longer between cleanings, you must lower your assumptions of how immaculate the cleanup will be. You can't skip years of gutter cleaning, letting leaves decay into loose dirt, and expect that stuff when blown out to be pristinely cleaned off every surface. If you are fastidious about cleanup, the best thing to do is not skip gutter cleanings. Doing it every six months keeps the gutters health and the cleanup always looks amazing. 3. If you are someone who hasn't used a lot of professional, insured home services, you have to drop the, "Money=Time" view on things. When I pay a $50 copay and my insurance pays $100 so a doctor and nurse can see me for 5 minutes, I, and everyone else, don't question the costs versus the time. That's because people understand a doctor has a staff, a location, various insurance, equipment, and taxes that must be paid. When The doctor and nurse combined spends 10 minutes with you, you are not just paying for their time, but also for the office, for the receptionist, for the malpractice insurance, for the lights in the room when he does the examination, for part of the cost of all the equipment they use, for any advertisement that led you there, for the taxes on the money you are paying. Likewise, we have an office building, and office staff, expensive worker's compensation insurance, advertising (Angie's), phones, vans, blowers and other equipment, and other various line items that you are getting the benefit of in the 15-30 minutes we are at the home. And our policy is always you pay for the job, not the time. If it had taken the crew 2 hours to do the cleaning in full, it would have still just been the $120 from Angie's List. We ask that you not be mad at us because it didn't take as long as you wanted it to, and also to not be as made when other companies would have charged you even more to do the same work in the same amount of time.