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Find a Location

Gold Star Cleaners, Inc. has 8 locations, listed below.

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    • Gold Star Cleaners, Inc.

      200 Wilson St Brewer, ME 04412-2028

    • Gold Star Cleaners, Inc.

      Wilson Street Brewer, ME 04412

    • Gold Star Cleaners, Inc.

      329 Main St Bangor, ME 04401-6211

    • Gold Star Cleaners, Inc.

      193 State St Bangor, ME 04401-5410

    • Gold Star Cleaners, Inc.

      168 Main Street Bucksport, ME 04416

    Business ProfileforGold Star Cleaners, Inc.

    Dry Cleaners
    Multi Location Business

    At-a-glance

    Customer Reviews

    1/5stars

    Average of 2 Customer Reviews

    Customer Complaints

    This business has 0 complaints

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    Reasons for BBB Rating

    Overview

    Gold Star Cleaners, Inc. is a professional dry cleaning company that also offers coin-operated laundry services. The company was established 1905 and incorporated in Maine in 1968. The company employs 49 people. Mr. Eric Pooler is President of the company. Any questions or problems may be directed to the attention of Mr. Pooler. This company states they are Certified Professional Dry Cleaners and Certified Environmental Dry Cleaners, by the International Fabric Care Institute.

    Business Details

    This is a multi-location business.

    Find a Location

    Gold Star Cleaners, Inc. has 8 locations, listed below.

    *This company may be headquartered in or have additional locations in another country. Please click on the country abbreviation in the search box below to change to a different country location.

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      • Gold Star Cleaners, Inc.

        200 Wilson St Brewer, ME 04412-2028

      • Gold Star Cleaners, Inc.

        Wilson Street Brewer, ME 04412

      • Gold Star Cleaners, Inc.

        329 Main St Bangor, ME 04401-6211

      • Gold Star Cleaners, Inc.

        193 State St Bangor, ME 04401-5410

      • Gold Star Cleaners, Inc.

        168 Main Street Bucksport, ME 04416

      Location of This Business
      200 Wilson St, Brewer, ME 04412-2028
      BBB File Opened:
      4/20/2001
      Years in Business:
      119
      Business Started:
      1/1/1905
      Business Incorporated:
      1/1/1968
      Type of Entity:
      Corporation
      Number of Employees:
      49
      Business Management
      • Mr. Eric Pooler, President
      Contact Information

      Principal

      • Mr. Eric Pooler, President

      Customer Contact

      • Mr. Eric Pooler, President
      Additional Contact Information

      Fax Numbers

      • (207) 989-8683
        Primary Fax

      Phone Numbers

      Customer Complaints

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      Customer Reviews

      2 Customer Reviews

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      Most Recent Customer Review

      Ian B

      1 star

      05/04/2023

      I doubt you could get worst service from gold star cleaners in old town ***** than I received today. I dropped off my academic robes earlier in the week with a promise they would be ready today. Instead, when I called into the outlet tonight I was told there was no sign of them, and they did not know where they were. A bit of a worry, to say the least. So their poorly trained but delightfully polite member of staff called their manager, who told them he was going to call all the shops to try and find it. Luckily they did find it still at the depot shortly afterward. When. I spoke to the manager they were not prepared to do anything to help me. I was told that they could get it to the old town outlet by 6 pm, giving the impression this would be a massive problem for them and for them to be offering such an amazing service I should really be thankful for this compromise (remember I been told it would be available first thing in the morning today) and he would not change his timing to held a distressed customer. By this time I had already been at the shop for 40 minutes and the manager suggest I simply wait another hour and 15 minutes until they could be bothered to drive the 15 minutes from ****** to old town to fix their mistake was simply ludicrous. Talk about a lack of customer service. During our conversation I offered several compromises to get my robes to me only to be told they WERE not *** post office or *** which is clearly true as they have thinks like tracking numbers and helpful employees to help customers find out about the service they have bought.I can only hope my robes are there tomorrow, but sadly I fear the worst. So here are my rankings **************** 0 Helpfulness of management 0 Problem resolution 0 Concern 0 Courtesy in shop staff very good, the management 0 Do not use, go anywhere else but Gold Star Dry cleaning

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