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Corey Sanford LLC has 2 locations, listed below.

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    • Corey Sanford LLC

      Plainfield, IL 60586-2563

    • Corey Sanford LLC

      111 W. Jackson Blvd Chicago, IL 60604-3589

    Business ProfileforCorey Sanford LLC

    Wedding Photographers
    Multi Location Business

    At-a-glance

    Customer Reviews

    1/5stars

    Average of 3 Customer Reviews

    Customer Complaints

    2 complaints closed in last 3 years

    0 complaints closed in last 12 months

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    Reasons for BBB Rating

    Overview

    Talent City Artists is a full-service wedding entertainment company located in Chicago, IL. They offer a team talented DJs, musicians, videographers, and photographers.

    Business Details

    This is a multi-location business.

    Find a Location

    Corey Sanford LLC has 2 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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      • Corey Sanford LLC

        Plainfield, IL 60586-2563

      • Corey Sanford LLC

        111 W. Jackson Blvd Chicago, IL 60604-3589

      Location of This Business
      Plainfield, IL 60586-2563
      BBB File Opened:
      2/16/2018
      Years in Business:
      6
      Business Started:
      7/3/2018
      Business Incorporated:
      7/3/2018
      Type of Entity:
      Limited Liability Company (LLC)
      Alternate Business Name
      • Highland Preferred
      • Talent City Artists
      Related Businesses
      Hours of Operation

      Primary

      M:
      9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
      T:
      9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
      W:
      9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
      Th:
      9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
      F:
      9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
      Sa:
      Closed
      Su:
      Closed
      Business Management
      • Mr. Corey Sanford, Owner
      Contact Information

      Principal

      • Mr. Corey Sanford, Owner

      Customer Contact

      • Mr. Corey Sanford, Owner
      Additional Contact Information

      Website Addresses

      Customer Complaints

      2 Customer Complaints

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      Most Recent Customer Complaint

      12/18/2022

      Complaint Type:
      Order Issues
      Status:
      Unanswered
      We are requesting a full $1740 refund due to a breach of services as described and promised from *********************************************** and Corey Sanford following the *******/ Schuschel wedding on 9/3/2022 at the ****************************. We contacted Corey via email (Schedule B) in a good faith effort to amicably resolve our dissatisfaction with the quality of services provided prior to our BBB complaint. Corey refused and his response was hostile and aggressive.Although we prepared extensively for our 8/30/2022 planning session, Corey rushed through the call. At our wedding, despite our 100% payment prior to the event, Corey had neglected to focus the proper time, review and attention to our preparation meeting, documented timeline, list of songs, and thorough instructions. Critically important DJ moments like the Bouquet Toss, Wedding Party Introductions, First Dance, Cake Cutting, Mother/Groom dance and others were all ruined by embarrassing errors. In addition, Corey did not bring a DJ assistant and only brought two DJ stations instead of three as promised. Disregarding explicit instuctions, Corey played over 30 minutes of songs that were not on our set music list and took an obscure song request which was strictly forbidden. Corey was also rude and belligerant to our guests and vendors. When we politely asked Corey about all of this, he became confrontational, discontinuted services prematurely and left 20 minutes early thereby breaching our contract. Given the advertised level of experience, we expected Corey to perform professionally and he did not. A chronological summary of the errors, inconsistencies and omissions is attached (Schedules A-I). We also have videographer proof available.The false pretenses and promises that were advertised to us to sign an expensive contract with Highland Preferred and failure to provide contracted services are unacceptable, unprofessional, negligent and constitute a violation of verbal and written agreement.

      Customer Reviews

      3 Customer Reviews

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      Most Recent Customer Review

      Doug S

      1 star

      01/24/2024

      We contracted with Corey Sanford for our wedding in August to be our DJ and also provide videographer services. Throughout the lead up to the wedding, Corey was routinely either late to calls or had to reschedule them last second. That happened with every single call with him before the wedding to the point where I had to mention to him to prepare to be on time for the wedding. We went over all the songs we wanted him to play and what not to play and even had some laughs in that call.The day of the wedding, he said the 2nd videographer that was part of the contract we signed is not going to come so we just need to manage with one. Obviously not something you want to hear on your wedding day but we rolled with it. He also played the wrong walkout music for the wedding party, missed songs we put in his site to play and played the one song my wife specifically said not to play.In mid-November (3 months later) we followed up asking about the wedding video. We started hearing from the videographer he contracted with that she hadn't started anything yet, that she didn't get good audio from the wedding and didn't get the shots we wanted because she also thought there would be a 2nd videographer. She also mentioned that Corey hadn't paid her yet so that's why she hasn't worked on it yet. When I told Corey about this, he then tried to pivot to see if someone else can do the video but has since gone dark. Initially he at least responded but would never get on the phone with us and kept canceling calls last second but now he doesn't even respond to us.We still haven't received our wedding video over 5 months later and we already paid 2k for it. If you do your homework on Corey and look up reviews online, you'll see we're not the first couple this has happened to and won't be the last so it's up to you to use a different DJ, videographer, etc. for your wedding. He's gotten threatening and belligerent with people and breaches contracts regularly.

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