Home Depot is such a nightmare, it's taken many cluster f's but I've finally determined that while many of the employees are nice, it's a mess I'm not dealing with anymore.
We ordered a tub and tub surround mid January that was to be delivered 1/31. First, the tracking info online was never available. 1/30 rolls around and I called to inquire how this tub was going to travel overnight from whatever mysterious place it was beginning its journey (because the system wouldn't even provide that tracking info) to Cedar Rapids so we could pick it up by 1/31. The employee I talked to was friendly and assured me it would likely come with the 4 am delivery the morning of 1/31 and she'd leave a note letting receiving know we were eager to get it. Next morning, 1/31 rolls around. We even gave them hours to unload, I call at 11, it's there but it's not unloaded. It might not be unloaded until tomorrow, or tonight at the earliest, but he assures me he's going to let them know we are waiting for it. I call again at 4, to see if we can pick it up. The phone gets passed around and finally I'm told it's not there. Which was weird because as far as we knew, it was there this morning and bathtubs rarely vanish into thin air these days. She finally she agreed to go check with receiving (brilliant, radical idea that maybe could've happened 5 hours ago?) After fifteen minutes on hold, someone hung up on me. I tried calling back for the next hour, to find out if we need to find a different tub in stock at 6 PM. I finally get ahold of someone at the pro desk (shout out to Don, the only person at Home Depot that gave a crap) who had to walk to the customer service counter and find out what in the apocalyptic hell happened to prevent EVERYONE from answering the phone. Never pressed him for answers because he was nice and doing someone else's job for them. He confirms that the tub was not there (he even checked with receiving AND, get this, was offering to UNLOAD it from the trailer if it was there two problem-solving thoughts that had never dawned on the other two employees.)
So finally my husband goes to find a new tub at 7 PM, which we unfortunately bought from the Crap Depot , as well. He tried to use a 15% off coupon they sent us, (probably for swiping our cards there more than any other idiot at their store this year ) and they refused to let us use this pathetic coupon, because it had eXpiReD one day ago. You'd think after making things 500x more complicated than it should've been they would have honored it anyways just for wasting our time and money. The "sorry for your troubles" was much better though we'll treasure that insincere apology for years. read more