I am so disappointed in their customer service lately! Especially with their "management". We just started the first project of a 2-home, $45k home renovation, and I am taking our future business to Lowe's or Menard's. I've been a life-long Home Depot customer, since growing up in California and loving their stores there. Not anymore though!
It's an on-going nightmare that started with an online order we placed, based on store inventory. We ordered 42 boxes of laminate that we needed the following week, so our contractor could lay flooring while we were out of town. Again, we based our decision on what they had in stock and ordered in plenty of time. A day before delivery, they told us they didn't have enough. (This should have been caught the prior week, upon order being placed.) We scrambled to the store, hoping to find something in stock, as we could not afford to delay the contractor or re-plan being out of town. We waited over an hour to talk to the assistant MOD, Steven, who never came back to talk to us. I asked the (helpful) employee, Roger, 3 times that we'd really rather wait for a manger of some sort, but Steven never came. The assistant flooring manager, Allison, who seemed to be "on break" for over an hour, and appeared as we were leaving - was neither kind or helpful. I called Customer Care that evening, and they were able to help with the partial order fulfillment, and Steven called me back to offer a 10% discount. (Also, Steven hung up on me after Customer Care first transferred me to him. He said it was an accident, but it completely added to the frustration of the night.) I thought the discount was fair, and though we were beyond frustrated and disappointed with the ordeal, we were satisfied with the partial order and the promise to get the rest delivered *as soon as it came in.*
The following day, the partial order was delivered to our front sidewalk. We had 3 people quickly bring them to a closed interior closet. (Thus, I personally did not count the boxes.) The email we received stated 20 boxes were delivered.
It has been two weeks, and we had not heard a single word about the second delivery. My husband was in yesterday, and happened to ask (we were still spending money there, but that is going to stop!) about an update. The employee (one we hadn't talked to before) could not find anything to tell us. That is crazy to me, we could not get a status update from an employee on the spot. This tells me, records must horrible and unorganized. The employee did try to get the bottom of it, and called back, and brought it Steven's attention. Steven called today, and said only _ 8 _ boxes were still owed to us, and he based that number on a picture from the DELIVERY DRIVER. I cannot believe management is comfortable with basically telling a customer "their computer system is worthless, and it doesn't matter what you have on record on email from Home Depot; this blurry cell picture looks like you had more than 20 delivered".
Steven seemed to be more understanding today, and was helpful when he conceded, after a little back and forth, that we will be getting our remaining 22 boxes. Except, he called back a little while after, and said "my manager, John Bradford, said we will only be delivering 8 boxes". Oh, by the way, they are in stock and can deliver tomorrow.
Seriously, if they're in stock, and IF it was only 8 - which it's not - why weren't they in touch this whole time? Why did we have to initiate the inquiry? I am both disgusted and livid! To add injury to insult, when I call the 800 number to "check on the status of my order". It states all 42 have already been delivered. There is an embarrassing computer system failure if the employees cannot read the system or properly update it to reflect accurate inventory. (Or I can assume, employees or
delivery drivers are stealing inventory and "satisfying" the delivery in the system.) Furthermore, there is total lack of customer service on management's part - to right their mistakes, to honor Home Depot's paperwork, and to make the customer happy. Sad indeed! read more