Where do I begin? We needed new appliances because everything decided to go bad all at once, so I…read morewent to the only place in town, Elko, Nevada, with a decent selection of major appliances. The young lady in the appliance department was very helpful and placed my orders for delivery and haul away.
Good, so far. She even recommended a couple of brands that seemed to be more reliable than others.
When she put in my order for delivery, she asked if I preferred morning or afternoon delivery. I opted for afternoon, as I have other important obligations in the mornings.
Again, good so far. I was told delivery of my major appliances was set for June 5th in the AFTERNOON.
Delivery day rolled around and I was on my way to town to keep a morning appointment, when what should I hear on my phone but an alert from my security system that someone had rung my doorbell. At 10:56am. In the morning.
Guess who it was! You guessed it. It was the delivery team!
I had to keep my appointment and I tried to communicate this with the guy who rang my doorbell, but he had trouble understanding me. Then, in the background, in a thick accent, I could hear another voice ask if they could just leave my delivery (four heavy major appliances) in the garage of my TWO LEVEL HOUSE!
Um, no. How am I, a 64 year old man with a bad leg, supposed to get a stove and a dishwasher up to the kitchen of my SPLIT LEVEL HOUSE?
I told them that would not be possible and I was then informed they would return later that day.
Great.
After my appointment was completed, I contacted the Elko, Nevada Home Depot service department, where I was given a number to call for the delivery department WHICH IS LOCATED IN WEST VALLEY CITY, UTAH!
I was told the re-delivery would be delayed because one of the workers had to be taken to the ER here because of an injury he had sustained on another deliver but that the crew would still make the delivery that day.
Okay, then.
Or, is it?
However, not half an hour after talking to the agent of Home Depot's delivery center, I get a call from some guy with a heavy Spanish accent who said (I think) that they were at my house again.
Bro! I'm still in town, 18 miles away! It's going to take me a half hour at least to get there due to city traffic, road construction, and neighborhood speed limits!
Then, the call just disconnected!
I got home in 29 minutes, exactly, aaaaaaaaaand no truck, no crew, and no appliances.
A bit irate, I contacted the Home Depot delivery center number again and spoke to a different agent who told me that the crew was already on their way back to West Valley City, UTAH and that I would have to reschedule the delivery.
So, he then advised the next day available would be June 9th.
Fine. Just do it. June 9th, any time.
Okay, fast forward to June 9th, the scheduled day of the delivery. I'm home all morning and all afternoon, aaaaaaaaaand...............no truck, no crew, no appliances. At just before 2pm PDT, I called the Home Depot Delivery Center, again, and asked, irately, "Where are my appliances?"
The agent on the other end, after confirming that I had, indeed, ordered four major appliances, said that I was actually scheduled for delivery on June 10th, and not June 9th as I had been informed five days earlier by another one of their agents. She added she had no idea why I was told that my expensive, heavy, and very necessary appliances were to be delivered on the 9th day of June, 2025.
Um, maybe that was because the agent I talked to five days ago had said to me, in plain English, "June 9th?"
Wow. Just...........wow.
I have no idea what is wrong with these people, and apparently, neither do they! I'm not even sure if they are self-aware!
Here's the best part! When I was told one of the workers had injured himself and had to be taken to the ER, I was told the injury had occurred on another delivery. However, what should I find when I got home that day, the 5th day of June, 2025, but a blood-soaked paper napkin lying in a substantial trail of dried blood RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE MY DRIVEWAY!
What is wrong with these people? Is this the best we can do?