We contracted with, and paid, Lowe's to have Brandon, their blinds installer, measure our house for blinds approximately two weeks ago. After more than a week and three messages after our payment, Brandon had yet to contact us. (We had been told it would be 24-36 hours so we sort of expected this.)
Again, after a week, he had not contacted us. I left a text asking him when he could come and to please call 610-733-7691, which is my husband's telephone number. No response.
I sent another (5th) communication and said I was getting frustrated, did Lowe's want to do our job. This was as forceful as I ever was with Brandon (just saying I was frustrated.) I then received a very belligerent reply from Brandon saying he just wouldn't do the job if we weren't happy with him. I ignored this as I did
Not wish to get into an altercation with him and again asked him to contact my husband and not me. I had requested at Lowe's when we paid for this service that my husband would be contacted and it was in our contract. Although he had it, he asked for my husband's number. I gave it to him in a text.
Next he calls me again but I didn't get the call (again, he should have called my husband) and gave the info to my husband that Brandon had called and he immediately contacted him and left a message. Within 15 minutes of Brandon's of the call to me, rather than my husband.
Next I get another call from Brandon that he had called me and I did not answer. (To me, please note, not my husband.). Yes, I did not answer because I as unavailable -- he was told I would be unable to take calls and he was to call my husband for that reason. In this text, I again gave him my husband's number although he had just recently been given it yet again.
When my husband immediately returned the call, Brandon was unavailable. Brandon then texted me that we had not called back (we had and our phone records reflect same). He asked again for my husband's number. I again gave him the number.
Finally he called my husband for the first time. They set up time. He came and we were very cordial to him although he was very unfriendly. He told us when he left that the measurements would be in the system that night by midnight and we would hear from Lowe's the next day. We told him thank you. He did not respond.
A week goes by and finally the central processing office told us today that Brandon refused to do our job because we were belligerent. My husband assured the representative of your company that this just was not so. He was told that Brandon said we were and they believed him. This is a slap in the face. My husband has never had any company treat him with such disrespect. He was a senior partner with Stradley, Ronan law firm in Philadelphia and has treated all people with respect and have always been treated this way, until now by Lowe's.
I never spoke to Brandon (only via text) so it could not be me. I heard all of the interactions between Brandon and my husband and my husband was very professional with him, even offering him the measurements from the last time Lowe's did these blinds for us. We are very amazed that Lowe's has informed my husband that they were taking Brandon's word over ours. I guess the customer is not always right! There was never, not even once, an unkind word spoken to Brandon by us. We never said anything that we would not want our mothers to hear. We are just stunned.
We have informed Marvin Ellison, the CEO of Lowe's, about this and are awaiting his reply. read more