My experience with 'Mr A Taylor' the tailor. I would not trust him with my wedding.
On 03/01/24, I paid Andrew Taylor, trading as Mr A Taylor, $2,655 for two custom jackets. He delivered no jackets and did not give my money back.
What followed was a 2.5 year dispute involving repeated refund promises that did not materialise, tribunals and courts in two states, and a court-supervised payment plan before repayment. This ran through my wedding planning, wedding, and honeymoon.
For anyone considering Mr A Taylor for a wedding or important event, this was my experience.
03/01/24: I paid Andrew $2,655.
21/04/24: The date Andrew said he would deliver the jackets. The jackets were not delivered. I followed up multiple times with no response.
16/06/24: Having received no communication from Andrew, no jackets, and no refund, I lodged the matter with Queensland’s small claims tribunal, QCAT.
19/06/24: Once the legal documents were issued, Andrew emailed to admit the jackets had never been made. He offered a refund, but none followed.
04/12/25: QCAT mediation took place. Andrew did not attend.
By this stage, Andrew was telling me he did not have the means to repay my money. In the same month, on 30/12/24, public Instagram posts showed Andrew in California proposing to his girlfriend.
24/04/25: Following the mediation attempt, QCAT held a hearing while I was on my honeymoon in Europe. I tried to move the date but could not. I spent one day preparing, then woke up at 4am the next day to attend by phone and argue my case. Andrew did not attend. I lost two days of my honeymoon to this dispute.
QCAT made a decision in my favour for $3,098.42, which was converted into an official court order in both QLD and NSW so I could start legal enforcement action.
During enforcement, Andrew would not provide an address for service of the legal docs despite 4 requests. I had to pay process servers to find and serve him. One attempted service 7 times and reported: “if the subject lives at this address he is avoiding service.”
His court-mandated financial statement arrived late and incomplete. In a sworn affidavit, he said he made no money from tailoring, promised supporting documents by email, these were never received. A sworn affidavit is written evidence given to the court as a statement of truth.
That was odd, because his public Instagram showed 10+ client-related tailoring posts during the dispute period. I raised these inconsistencies with the court. Andrew did not explain them or provide updated financial info. Instead, he blocked me on Instagram, despite me never contacting him there.
09/12/25: More than 2 years of waiting for my refund, another customer posted a negative Google review because of Andrew’s poor communication and late delivery of a wedding suit. Andrew responded publicly and offered that customer a refund within 24 hours. It was hard to reconcile this with Andrew still not refunding me despite 2 court orders.
Over the dispute, Andrew offered me a full refund or proposed a payment plan several times. Each time, the money did not arrive as promised. This became a repeated pattern: promise payment, miss the deadline, then only engage again after further pressure or legal steps.
24/10/25: A court date was set requiring Andrew to attend and provide complete financial information. Failure to attend this type of hearing can result in an arrest warrant being issued.
Conveniently, less than 24 hrs before the hearing, Andrew requested a court-supervised payment plan. As a result, the hearing was cancelled. Attached to that payment plan was another sworn affidavit stating that he made no money from tailoring.
It then took Andrew 6 months to pay the money owed to me under the court-managed payment plan.
30/06/26: Final payment, ending a dispute that had taken 2.5 exhausting and frustrating years.
Business delays happen. This was different. Andrew took payment, delivered no jackets, did not pay the refund he offered, missed QCAT mediation, missed the QCAT hearing, and only repaid me after court-managed enforcement. I would not trust him with a wedding, a deadline, or a refund.
Mr A Taylor is currently based in Sydney, NSW (Paddington, Woollahra), but lists his other trading locations as Brisbane, California, and remote.