This store doesn't even deserve one star.
My husband and I purchased two faux stove heaters for our boat from this store 3 weeks ago. It didn't kick out the heat like we had hoped for. We recently found two small heaters from West Marine that made the boat 10 degrees warmer and that's all it took and it made a huge difference. So today, Feb 13, 2014 we returned the heaters with the receipt. We were told they wouldn't return the heaters without the original boxes. My husband told them he's pretty sure the boxes were stored in the fly bridge of the boat and we would be right back since the marina was only 5 minutes away. The cashier said she is 52 yrs old and lived in the area all her life and in all her years never knew any place that would return an item without the original packaging. My husband replied, "I can tell". She proceeded to call my husband the f word and said, "what, you're 5'5?" So if you are less than 5'8 ft, you may be made fun of for your height. Call my husband something that he is, but not something that he isn't. Her comment was completely ignorant. Really? Wow, calling someone the f word whether you are gay or not is beyond words, especially for a retailer. Still, my husband didn't call her one bad word. He just told her he could tell she lived in the area all her life and she needed to get out. This is when the clerk threatened to get her boyfriend next door to kick my husband's ass.
My husband asked her if her boss knew that she treated customers like this. She replied, "My boss loves me." -------- WOW....
We came back to the store the 2nd time with the original boxes that are STILL in perfect condition, the heaters are STILL in perfect condition and we had the receipt. It only said no refunds are granted without the receipt. So what was the problem? The store clerks said they couldn't give us a refund because the guy who approves the returns was not there. Did he purposely leave so we couldn't get our refund? He knew we were coming right back.
We ended up calling the sheriff about pressing charges for the clerk's threats, but was told there was nothing we could do. The sheriff met us back at the store. When we arrived, the sheriff said the clerk claimed that my husband threatened to shoot them and that's why she treated to have her boyfriend kick my husband's ass. My husband and I looked at each other with such disbelief. One task should have been simple. I worked in retail before and being on both sides of the situation, NO ONE SHOULD EVER HAVE TO GO THROUGH THIS. The sheriff was kind enough to mediate the situation and the store agreed to return our heaters.
HOOOOOLY--- HELL. We will stick with Home Depot and the nice folks at DO IT BEST hardware store down the street. read more