First meeting was in Jan. Spent an hour picking out floor tile, backsp and counters. We realized that Holly had lost our info (WE followed up). She didn't have the order, needed to be reminded. We reiterated we needed samples. When the samples came, she only ordered 2/3. Samples of the backsp did not match what we thought we ordered. I took a photo of it when onsite, and sent to her to prove it. She asked the manuf. to send her pics. We looked at the pics and picked new tiles from those. Holly got sick (which I do not fault her) and it seemed like she only communicated at 4:45 on Friday to ask a critical question (they close at 5), and then we'd not hear back. Were convinced she only worked Friday from 4-5. Understood you are limited when ill. When ill, people should source a backup to take care of their customers and fill the min amount of duties to keep going. Most people when coming back from being sick and have a backlog will put in extra time to catch up, because it's right. Harkey will let work get several weeks behind without follow up, not their problem. I continued to check in, and magically she realized that the warehouse did not have the full qty we ordered of this 2nd tile. At that point, we declined to do that part of the backsp due to the hassle. We switched to a similar version at the Tile Shop. They had the product in 2 days. The floor tile was next. When the order came in, it was 2 boxes short. Installers realized it. Not certain if this was because the contractor miss measured. Once again, our problem as we had installers ready to finish the floor. Ended up having to take off work and run around to find a distributor that had it. I'm not even sure if Harkey was aware, we took it out of their hands because it wouldn't get dealt with due to responsiveness. Side note - when we picked up the floor tile, they told us to come back the next day to get the pencil tile (a diff part of backsplash). I took off lunch to go to Harkey to get that tile, but when I got there they had to ask Holly about this (who was not on the phone), and she at no point got up from her desk. She sent someone to tell me to come back, tile wasn't in. At that point we also cancelled the pencil and switched it to the Tile Shop. Now countertops. The originals came in, and to their credit (fabrication), they noted swirling in the stone. They asked me to come down and take a peek, and I saw that it looked bad. We used that trip to pick out new ones. Ordered that afternoon. They called and wanted to discuss the cuts. The stone they sold us the 2nd time was not available in the correct size. They sold a quartzite stone that comes in a size under 63" (rare) and we needed 63" to have barstools under it. They called to confirm it was OK to cut off 3" of the island. This would then make the island not barstool depth. I told them I needed to discuss with my husband, and we want the island look strange when we had planned for seating, we decided to go elsewhere to find stone. 3rd time is the charm - went to AGM. The last thing that Harkey was responsible for is still in progress. We ordered painted tiles (also a part of the original backsp and the only thing not moved over to the Tile Shop). Contractor picks them up. Harkey says they checked them. We checked the first box and confirmed. The 2nd box was opened by the installer, and confirmed 2 were chipped. The 2nd box appeared to be in original shipping, unchecked. These tiles run $80 each. They are made on demand, hence they have no stock (not explained earlier). Instead of re-ordering to moving, they went back and forth with the manuf. to prove the damage. Sorry, but that's your supplier. You can take the damage up with the manuf., especially when you did not check the box. This cost us 4 days of getting this resolved and new tiles shipped, and when it was agreed to that the manuf would ship new, it would be 10 days min. There is a good chance of one of those getting broken again. They say now that they won't stand behind the tile if we cut a hole for a pot filler so if they don't stand behind tiles that ship or cut well? Before all this happened we referred a few people to Harkey and they have decided to do business elsewhere with similar stories. MGMT: If you are not into selling tile or being educ on the process/products, then I would stick to fabrication where you have a good rep. Don't sell tile if you hire people that are incompetent. When you go home to your clean house, your customers are living in dust waiting for you to follow up on mistakes. Others go the extra mile, especially when they are causing mistakes. With fabrication we had no issues once we finally got a stone. Harkey was flexible in dates for install, but I don't think I'd use them again. We've spent money with them on other projects, but we've also met a lot of great resources in the Charlotte area on this project that want the business more. read more